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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1525229" data-attributes="member: 10201">Well, first of all, i frequently am interested in a thread that gets intermittent posts. These threads are often bumped off the front page by the popular ones. So i'd have to go to the subscriptions page, which is one more step. Moreover, the interface to the forums, like to all web-based BBSes, sucks. So the less time i have to spend dealing with it, the better. I can much more easily get at a thread from my email client. Now, what i *really* want is like the Lego boards (well, one of them, anyway): a BBS with both web and NNTP interface, so i can point my newsreader at an address and read the forums that way. But that's an almost-completely-separate topic.Well, i don't want to check, at all. I want to be told. If there's nothing to catch up on, and i don't have time to just go poke around, i don't want to even have to log on to the board to find this out.Maybe. The lack of email notification completely dropped me off the boards for a few weeks--i just assumed nobody was posting in the threads i was interested in any more, and i was too busy to bother seeing if something new had popped up. Now that i know it's off, we'll see how my behavior changes. I'll probably just spend that much more time on RPGNet and The Forge. Personally, if i have to choose between slow-with-notification, and not-slow-without-notification, i'll take the former--i usually have half-a-dozen threads in separate tabs anyway, so i just read another one while it's loading.In short: outages drive me away, sure. But slowdowns generally don't. And lack of notification might mean it simply doesn't cross my mind as often to come here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1525229, member: 10201"] Well, first of all, i frequently am interested in a thread that gets intermittent posts. These threads are often bumped off the front page by the popular ones. So i'd have to go to the subscriptions page, which is one more step. Moreover, the interface to the forums, like to all web-based BBSes, sucks. So the less time i have to spend dealing with it, the better. I can much more easily get at a thread from my email client. Now, what i *really* want is like the Lego boards (well, one of them, anyway): a BBS with both web and NNTP interface, so i can point my newsreader at an address and read the forums that way. But that's an almost-completely-separate topic. Well, i don't want to check, at all. I want to be told. If there's nothing to catch up on, and i don't have time to just go poke around, i don't want to even have to log on to the board to find this out. Maybe. The lack of email notification completely dropped me off the boards for a few weeks--i just assumed nobody was posting in the threads i was interested in any more, and i was too busy to bother seeing if something new had popped up. Now that i know it's off, we'll see how my behavior changes. I'll probably just spend that much more time on RPGNet and The Forge. Personally, if i have to choose between slow-with-notification, and not-slow-without-notification, i'll take the former--i usually have half-a-dozen threads in separate tabs anyway, so i just read another one while it's loading. In short: outages drive me away, sure. But slowdowns generally don't. And lack of notification might mean it simply doesn't cross my mind as often to come here. [/QUOTE]

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