Michael_Morris said:
What really gets under my skin are direct attacks I've received in private email over this linked directly to folks who combine a hatred for change with severe ignorance on how servers work.
Mike, no offense, but your general attitude about this whole thing is getting under my skin, and--I'd imagine from all those e-mails--under the skin of other people as well.
Let me bring you up to speed: over the past two years, there have been at least three major "changes." Changes of software, changes of servers, changes of administrators. Some of those changes undoubtedly worked out for the better. But without variation, those changes have meant two things:
slowdowns and
outages.
Now those same slowdowns and outages are happening again, except this time it's because of (or a corollary to, or coincidentally happening at the same time as...I'm one one of those Server Eejits you mentioned)
cosmetic changes. Not critical or necessary, but cosmetic.
People who are, say, seeking gamers for their next get-together, or desperately need to know how a rule works right now, or need some feedback on how to handle a problem player, or are organizing a Game Day, or playing by post, or reading story hours, or a hundred other things that go on in here, don't want to wait a couple extra days becuase because somebody out there thinks EN World can't go on without drop-down menus and a host of color schemes. Some people take the utilitarian view that the boards' basic functionality is more important than their appearance.
So please keep that in mind before you lash out with that acerbic keyboard of yours. People are going to get uppity when you mess with their functionality, and telling them to upgrade or calling them eejits isn't going to help that, at all. If you're going to pursue this course, you need to test it before you implement it.
The boards are like molasses today, for me, and I'm running IE6 on a Pentium 4 with a cable modem.
I don't think the problem is on my end.
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