RE:Reply to post - feature switched off

[woodelf]

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?

Well, i'm pretty certain that TrekRPGNet and RPGNet and The Forge all use vBulletin, and they only send the notice of a new reply, not the content of the new reply. So that, at least, should be doable.

 

[thatdarncat]

but it might be a "hack", an option that doesn't come with vBulletin and needs to be found and installed seperately, and will not be supported by vBulletin.

 

[Eosin the Red]

How can you tell how many people are subscribed to a thread?

 

[Lela]

I think it's a mod option.

Morrus, I dig a little deeper and found one thing that might be doable to lower Quiries, though I doubt it'll have too much of an effect (and I'm betting a ton of complaints will flow through). Dropping the Forum Jump from the pages.

Shrug, I can't find the reference right now (dangit). Still, it might be worth a short test run.

Again, though, I'm wondering about the new server thing we've seen many references too. Any information would be great. Even a "Yes, we're looking into it" or a "No, we have no such plans" would ease our endless questions for an hour or so.

Maybe, if you're lucky, even two hours.

 

[James Heard]

Ok, I admit I know nothing about your database or how it works or what it can do BUT...

ENWorld already has a subscription page for every user right? Can't that just be placed somewhere even more easily accessed and maybe have a more unique icon or highlight that shows users which threads have new unread messages? That way people would at least have to visit to find their subscriptions, they'd more easily be able to look down a list and see which threads have new messages, maybe even bump the threads with new messages to the top of people's subscription page? No fault on the current flavor, but even a background change in the thread name for new messages would do wonders and I don't see how it could be terribly difficult to author?

Maybe for registered users the "Join ENWorld!" bar could vanish and be replaced with a "Subscription" page link that's not attached to the Control Panel? Not that the Control Panel is bad, but divorcing the Control Panel and the Subscribed page might be sort of cool. And you could put an ad in the sidebar instead, and stickies for people not to read

Just my suggestions for the suggestion box...

 

[MerakSpielman]

I'm sure part of the performance increase is due to less traffic on the boards - which is due to people not visiting each and every time they get an email notification.

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm sure part of the performance increase is due to less traffic on the boards - which is due to people not visiting each and every time they get an email notification.

I don't know...for the last week, I haven't noticed any improvements. Things seem to have regressed back to being slow most of the time.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I'm sure part of the performance increase is due to less traffic on the boards - which is due to people not visiting each and every time they get an email notification.

I agree with this for the most part... I think the boards are slower, I've seen allot less activity in the PBP forums, but I'm not seeing any increase in performance.

At work I can be watching a 300K streaming video, surfing a few message boards, watching a baseball game via applet and the only thing that is slow is ENworld...

Removing email notifications has done little except for hurt a few games and changes my browsing habits to setting in my account and clicking subscriptions every few minutes.