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[Wystan]

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[SmokestackJones]

I dunno what hurts my brain worse - the math you guys are flinging around or all the non-CS ingrates bellyaching about features they seem to think it's their right to have here.

-SJ

 

[Nellisir]

I should be smart enough to keep my mouth shut, but I'm not.

I've been around here for a little while. I had a CS account. By the time of my renewal, a number of features were added or ramped up that I found disagreeable and/or unpleasant. And in a few threads similar to this one, I was more or less bluntly told that my opinion didn't matter.

It's hard to disagree with that. It is Morrus's site. But it really leaves a limited number of ways one can express one's dissatisfaction. If I buy a CS account, I'm expressing support for Morrus's policy and direction. If I don't buy a CS account, I'm forcing him to look for other sources of revenue. Neither makes my opinion welcome.

So at the moment, I don't have a CS account ( a decision I review periodically), and I don't use the site features I disagree with. ENW is really the only site like it on the internet, so going elsewhere isn't satisfactory either, though I'm gradually breaking away. It's not something I'm happy about doing.

The "new posts" feature on the front page is a minor point. I sure liked using it, but I can live without it.

 

[Dimwhit]

So at the moment, I don't have a CS account ( a decision I review periodically), and I don't use the site features I disagree with.

Out of curiosity, what site feature do you not disagree with? Advertising? The store?

Or does Morrus have a porn room no one has told me about yet...??

 

[Ilium]

I know I'm going to regret this, but...

Can we all just relax for a minute? I'm a big fan of the site and, if anybody cares, whole heartedly support Morrus' right to do what he thinks best with it.

But the vehemence of responses in this thread, on all sides, has really surprised me. It's a (very cool) web site. Let's keep a little perspective.

Oh, and to answer Dimwhit's question: That's right. No one has told you about it yet.

 

[Dimwhit]

Oh, and to answer Dimwhit's question: That's right. No one has told you about it yet.

Figures. No one tells me anything.

 

[Morrus]

I. If I buy a CS account, I'm expressing support for Morrus's policy and direction. If I don't buy a CS account, I'm forcing him to look for other sources of revenue.

And thus force me to have features you don't like.

Neither makes my opinion welcome.

Your opinion is welcome. It's things which come across as demands which tend to raise my hackles. If I acceded to just one demand for every $20 CS account sold (i.e. just one each), we'd have one hell of a mess of a site.

In the long run, I've got to do what I believe is best for the largest number of people. Part of that - and it's not the fun part - is the financial side. Unless the site draws revenue, I can't possibly afford to pay for it - thus, to an extent, its very success forces it to commercialise to an extent. I can't and won't apologise for that - the other option is to reduce its size, let just X number of people on at a time. And I guarantee that won't be popular!

Removing the heavy sideblock from the front page was a necessary decision. Not a decision I made where I thought "Actually, I don't like that there!". I really had no choice. So arguments to the contrary are somewhat wasted - you don't have to persuade me that it was better there: I agree! I put it there in the first place! If it could be put back without slowing the site down again, it'd go back in a heartbeat.

We're doing a big upgrade in the next few months, and redesigning some stuff. We can seriously look at it then. For now, though, I'm afraid it's something we'll all have to do without. Including me.

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

Slow sucks, faster is better, thanks Russ.

 

[Elephant]

Well you can always use the existing new posts page.

Doesn't work. I get a "you're not cool enough to see this page" type message

 

[Jdvn1]

Doesn't work. I get a "you're not cool enough to see this page" type message

It utilizes the Search feature. You have to have access to that feature to use that page.