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Anonymous

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Does the traffic seem down?

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
April 12, 2009
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Since the switch over it seems that less people are coming to these forums or at least less questions are getting asked. Has anyone else noticed this too?

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Anonymous

This is the quietest weekend since the change.

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

John Joslin wrote:
This is the quietest weekend since the change.

There either of three reasons.

1) there is decent enough weekend that folks are out and about rather than on the Computer.

2) bugs are finally being looked at now John C is on the air. And there is no reason for Fussing.

3) The people doing the majority of the fussing have given up. And they are just reading, going to forums they are interested in or they have checked out for good.

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Anonymous

PjonesCET wrote:

There either of three reasons.
1) there is decent enough weekend that folks are out and about rather than on the Computer.
2) bugs are finally being looked at now John C is on the air. And there is no reason for Fussing.
3) The people doing the majority of the fussing have given up. And they are just reading, going to forums they are interested in or they have checked out for good.

I suspect number 3 is the answer.

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

Traffic seems to be picking up substantially, fortunately.

An update to afplonk or a similar script is becoming increasingly urgent. If I could script my way out of a paper bag, I'd gladly invest the time in coming up with a solution.

Especially galling is a nut I had plonked successfully in the WebX forum who frequents the ACR forum, and the multitude of identities of the scourge of the forums who does not need to be identified now.

jimhere

Known Participant

About the original post (not the look and feel thing) It seems that there are only 3 or so new topics in Photoshop and Illustrator. I used to check in in the morning to many more than that...

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Anonymous

o.O

srsly.

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Anonymous

I'm just not seeing the traffic that was in these forums before the switch. Although I don't have any hard numbers.

I have been avoiding the forum because its such a PITA. I'm here now drinking my coffee trying to wake up.

joziG

Known Participant

Yea, well.......................

Got email notification of Buko's last post here. Clicked on the link. Got to website. Wasn't autologged in. Took this long to get logged in.

Heck, this is no pleasure nor do I have the time to do that!

Enjoy waking up, Buko.

Always enjoyed your posts and we had a few to's and fro's. Great!

Simply cannot see myself doing that much in the future.

Hardly ever, actually.

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D__McCahill

Known Participant

Well, we no longer have anyone coming here via NNTP, so that will cut out a lot of users.

And the fact that you can no longer get to the new postings in a thread in any meaningful way means a few more have stopped posting as much.

And when you get down to the bottom of a long thread there are no breadcrumbs, so you have to scroll all the way back to the top to go anywhere else.

And if you log on in the morning, then actually doing some work in your job, and you come back and find it has logged you out. So instead of posting more, many give up.

But gee, aren't the pretty colors nice?

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

I don't know about you but in SeaMonkey if you click at the very top of the vertical scroll bar. I bounce with one or two hops to the top.

If you use IE try it.

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D__McCahill

Known Participant

PjonesCET wrote:
I bounce with one or two hops to the top.

Perhaps, although I don't use IE. The point is that a set of breadcrumbs should be at the bottom of the page, where the reader generally winds up. A short bit of programming time to save thousands of users from wasting their time over and over again ... makes sense, doesn't it?

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Bob_Peters

Inspiring

Well, my contribution to the traffic on other U2U forums is down because the user interface is a PITA to use. Just trying to scroll through new contributions is very tedious. This improvement is a Great Leap in the wrong direction.

joziG

Known Participant

Hardly go to the forum any more. Used to be daily. Read. Ocasionally reply or ask.

Not any more.

Complexities

Complications

Annoyances

Hick ups

Illogical stuff

Log in hassles

Speed

and especially, no easy subscribing

and worse, not getting to last read post any more

I'll be a very occasional reader now

Used to be such a stunning forum

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Anonymous

what joziG said... :(

John T Smith

Community Expert

The thing I miss the most (from webx) is the automatic feature of collapsing a long message thread so I only saw what is new

I do find myself reading less, which of course means I don't post as much (I'm not a super-tech, but did sometimes have an answer to a question)

Since the back button is so slow, one thing I have found (works for me!) is that I right click anything I want to read, and then have it open in a new tab... closing the tab when I'm done

Doing that is a lot faster than just clicking a message link and then going back to the main panel

Next thing I have to do is go through my notes file and remove all of the old webx links

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D__McCahill

Known Participant

If it is, then Adobe have attained their goal of getting a web forums software that will not overburden their servers.

Oh wait. You mean that wasn't the goal?

MichaelKazlow

Legend

Personally, I thought traffic was down before the move. But then I thought it might be the forums I visit. I think John probably has access to traffic data. However, i do not know if the traffic data includes nttp (for the old system) or if it would include data from rss under the new system.

Mike

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

MikeKazlow wrote:
… I think John probably has access to traffic data.
Mike

It was a little better today, but with the slowness of these new forums I didn't actually do much reading and replying, compared to what I was able to accomplish in a comparable period of time in the old WebX forums. I did make liberal use of the Mark All Read function, though, which would have never been the case for me in the WebX forums.

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

by Buko wrote:
Since the switch over it seems that less people are coming to these forums or at least less questions are getting asked. Has anyone else noticed this too?

MASSIVELY!

Yet, even with the drastically reduced traffic, I haven't been able to read nearly the number of posts I used to in the WebX forums in the same amount of time, let alone respond to them, due to the clumsiness and slowness of these new forums. I used to read all new posts, now I leave considerably more than half of them unread.

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Anonymous

Congratulations on your 9000th Ramón!

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

9,000 what? Number of posts shown on the forum? I have that blocked for all users, so I'd have to take your word for it.

Who knows what those numbers represent anyway! During the aborted changeover a couple of years ago, it showed some 25,000 or some such insane number credit to my main account (Ramón G Castañeda) and another thousand or so under my variously mangled-name accounts (Ram?n G Casta?eda, Ramón G Castañeda, and Ram=?ISO-8859-1?B?8w==?=n G Casta=?ISO-8859-1?B?8Q==?=eda).

They should eliminate that onsensical running count as well as the silly point system.

EDIT: I bet you, dave milbut and Buko, as well as others, have a lot more than I do.

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