RE:Reply to post - feature switched off

[Lela]

I was wondering why I wasn't getting subscription emails...until I found this thread. Apparently I, too, did not get the email.

I've actually found that I more and more rely on my subscription page in the CP and less and less on the subscription email that is sent. However, I understand the convenience of having the email, especially for pbp and such. So I guess I'm fairly neutral on making this permanent or not.

Which makes me wonder why I bothered posting this message in the first place...

For one thing, I always find that avatar fascinating. So I'm happy you posted.

 

[dpdx]

The good news is we're transitioning to a newer and better server, neh?

If that will cure the lag that cripples this board about 60% of the time (even after the measures re:notifications, to tell the truth), and if there's some kind of meeting halfway we can reach about the instant notification on subscribed threads, I'd be a happy ENWorlder.

I'd add that the notifications don't need to contain the body of the latest post. One notification with a list of all my subscriptions that had been posted to in the last 24 hours, with the links, would work just fine, if it helps ease the load on the sendmail client.

But I didn't get the email, either, and I'll also admit that I haven't been a big fan of Cyberstreet as this board's ISP all these years, so take all this how you will. I'm off to blow out all my old, dead subscriptions.

 

[Dimwhit]

For one thing, I always find that avatar fascinating. So I'm happy you posted.

Really? Cool! Glad someone has noticed it. It's one of the best portraits I've ever seen from a photographer. The fact that it's my son is merely a cooincidence. I was kind of hoping EN World would bump up to 100x100 avatars so I could put more of the portrait in. Oh well...

Back to the topic at hand...

 

[Lela]

Yes, I've noticed the boards have been very slow today. Is there anything else we can do while waiting for the new server? Turn off the avatars maybe?*

Is there a thread about the new server around somewhere?

Cutting the e-mails down sounds like a good comprimise. Even taking out the message that has been posted could make a serious dent in server issues long term. Especially for some of the Story Hour posts (P-kitty anyone?).


*Sorry Dimwhit! I do really like it, it's amazing. I'm tempted to ask for a copy.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Well, since no one has made this point, I will.

You can just as easily bookmark (or whatever your browser does to save URLs) a thread and go to it with a single click. This is most useful for the PbP games, IMO... just bookmark and click, and check. Sure, you can only check one thread at a time, and that sucks, but it's not the end-all-be-all of the PbP board that some would make it out to be. You could even make a bookmark to go to the last thread in a post, with a little clever cut-and-paste.

Also, I didn't get an e-mail about the change either...

 

[AGGEMAM]

You could even make a bookmark to go to the last thread in a post, with a little clever cut-and-paste.

You can also change display mode so that it always display the last post first, which is what I have.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

You can just as easily bookmark (or whatever your browser does to save URLs) a thread and go to it with a single click.

I have something close to this at home, but I truly doubt the navy wants me to have bookmarks like that at work...

And I never said it was the end all of PBP gaming it's just going to make all of the games proceed much slower than before.

 

[dpdx]

We've got plenty of resources to work on play money and 'petz', but we still can't find a compromise that works for everyone re: notification on subscriptions? :\

For real, though, a lot of people didn't (and will not) get the alleged 'email,' we have no idea why, but unless they suspect something's gone wrong, they won't bother to check to see if their threads have in fact been posted in. This is gonna wreak havoc on PbP, if not outright kill a lot of the games.

I'm lucky I play in a PbP that approaches Academy of Drell in its posting frequency, if not longevity, or I'd have never known myself. And whether I can now turn it on again, or not, doesn't much matter, because everyone else has to figure this out, too, for there to still be a game. And once again, they didn't get the email. And noone knows (or seems to care) why.

I still love this board, but I'm gonna remember this at the next pledge drive, and talk about it then, too.

This ain't right.

 

[Morrus]

We've got plenty of resources to work on play money and 'petz', but we still can't find a compromise that works for everyone re: notification on subscriptions? :\

For real, though, a lot of people didn't (and will not) get the alleged 'email,' we have no idea why, but unless they suspect something's gone wrong, they won't bother to check to see if their threads have in fact been posted in. This is gonna wreak havoc on PbP, if not outright kill a lot of the games.

I'm lucky I play in a PbP that approaches Academy of Drell in its posting frequency, if not longevity, or I'd have never known myself. And whether I can now turn it on again, or not, doesn't much matter, because everyone else has to figure this out, too, for there to still be a game. And once again, they didn't get the email. And noone knows (or seems to care) why.

I still love this board, but I'm gonna remember this at the next pledge drive, and talk about it then, too.

This ain't right.

1) Petz is, theoretically, a very tiny drain on resources (if at all). Looking at a Petz page is no different to looking at a thread. If, somehow, it turns out that Petz is using important resources, it will be switched off.

2) The "compromises" suggested are not as easy as you appear to believe. They would require changes to the way vBulletin works. I've been trying to find resources on the subject, but no luck yet. Or do you have some information that I don't, in which case perhaps it would be helpful to share it?

And noone knows (or seems to care) why.

Don't be ridiculous.

I'm gonna remember this at the next pledge drive, and talk about it then, too.

Fine.

 

[dpdx]

1) Petz is, theoretically, a very tiny drain on resources (if at all). Looking at a Petz page is no different to looking at a thread. If, somehow, it turns out that Petz is using important resources, it will be switched off.

What about your time, and that of the other admins, Morrus? Those are resources, too.

2) The "compromises" suggested are not as easy as you appear to believe. They would require changes to the way vBulletin works. I've been trying to find resources on the subject, but no luck yet. Or do you have some information that I don't, in which case perhaps it would be helpful to share it?

No, I'm not a VBulletin guru, either, and don't have access to the documentation for it, but I can brainstorm a solution as well as anyone else. I'd be happy to start, if it does in fact help.

Don't be ridiculous.

I honestly didn't see a lot of concern about this. I still haven't seen a sticky announcement thread about it from admins, which has been true of other board changes like this, and which I think would help.

Fine.

Well, like I said, I love this board...

I do respect the situation you're in with a tradeoff between this feature and the bandwidth it's using, and I'll repeat my offer to help with it however I can. But the petz thing made it seem like you were moving on, and I disagreed with it for the reasons I posted.