RE:Reply to post - feature switched off

[Lela]

Board loading times and posting have improved dramatically after the feature has been switched off.

I am curious though, has the actual number of posts/day gone up, down, or stayed steady? What about the number of visitors in general? Time they've spent on the boards?

Basically, have there been detrimental effects (such as less members/posts coming around) after that was put into place.

And to those cry babies that thinks it's harder to navigate without the feature, I must say that I've never used it, and I've had no problem in the past with navigating the board without it. Here's a tip for you btw: there's a scroll bar on the right. I suggest you use, and take note of the blue threads as those are the ones you've read before.

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I'm not going to go into what's wrong with that paragraph.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I'm not going to go into what's wrong with that paragraph.

I could probably find a slew of spelling and gramma errors, but it was all in good fun as you've probably guessed.

Seriously though, I don't see how e-mail notifications make surfing easier than logging in and checking your subscribed threads, you're on the internet in any case right? and you still have to open the page to see what's new, right?

On other boards where the feature is turned on to all posts you reply to by default, I just find it annoying (to say the least).

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

And to those cry babies that thinks it's harder to navigate without the feature, I must say that I've never used it, and I've had no problem in the past with navigating the board without it.

I'm going to ignore you trolling and ask a simple question:

Do you do PbP game..?

If not then yeah the emails are important as its not a normal forum where the hot topic stays up and everyone replies to it. People come in all day and post in it... There might be more of a turn over on game threads then your general discussion.

I can get by without them but imagine alot of others will have problems with this change.

 

[Piratecat]

As I said, it's not a change we'd like to make permanent. Stability until we have the new server is more important the notifications, though, assuming that we can't improve performance by adjusting settings.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Stability until we have the new server is more important the notifications.

You'll get no complaints from me and I agree whole-heartedly. When is the magic sever suppose to appear...?

I heard rumors that it was a +5 keen sever of virus bane but nothing really official.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I'm going to ignore you trolling

Who's trolling?

Anyways, you could achive the exact same result with subscribing as noted below (in my lastest post and others).

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Who's trolling?

let me bold it for you...

And to those cry babies that thinks it's harder to navigate without the feature/

If I need to change the size of the text please let me know...

Anyways, you could achive the exact same result with subscribing as noted below (in my lastest post and others).

I know how to subscribe to a thread and no I cannot do the same thing... The email notification is one stop shopping for me. The game is posted to and I get a straight link to it and there is no way to beat that convenience.

Just because you don't use it doesn't make it a worthless option... Obviously theirs enough people who use it that it its causing sever issues.

 

[AGGEMAM]

let me bold it for you...

Ah .. to boldly go where you shouldn't, eh?

I already said it was a jest, and I believe most people got it the first time around.

Anyways, I do use the feature, but not on this board. On another board where it sometimes takes weeks or even month between the relevant (for me) threads to be posted to. There I can see the point, but here .. no .. still can't .. and won't if it means the boards being as slow as they have been before.

I would be willing to bet you that those slowdowns and outages have taken their toll on members here. I know a few personally that have checked this board out and dismissed it because of it despite my best assurances that this board is one of the greatest around. During the outages period, I didn't even bother to check the boards, and have only returned to more frequent visits recently.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I already said it was a jest, and I believe most people got it the first time around.

I didn't find any good fun in it nor did I see a serious apology.

Anyways, I do use the feature, but not on this board. On another board where it sometimes takes weeks or even month between the relevant (for me) threads to be posted to. There I can see the point, but here .. no .. still can't .. and won't if it means the boards being as slow as they have been before.

Good, I'm glad you will realize that when I say I have games that get update once a week, its not a set schedule by the way, and with a max of about 8 people having email subscription to it, that its an important and invaluable feature.

I would be willing to bet you that those slowdowns and outages have taken their toll on members here.

The games too, I'm looking for a solution to the problem also but I don't see how having email subscriptions in the PbP forums is such a big deal... If it chucks an email it it’s only going to a handful of people.

 

[Seonaid]

Argh . . . Sorry, I know that it's been said this is temporary, but I want my voice heard: it's a BIG pain in my butt. I don't have the time to check the boards for interesting stuff any more, and like BS said above, I just click the link and go. The extra step of checking my subscribed threads (and then going back to get to the 8 other games I'm in, plus the OOC threads for all) *is* a big problem for me. If it's a big deal, perhaps make it a community supporter feature? That doesn't solve all the problems, but it would help a lot of people.