Lighten the load

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May 1, 2009
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The top participants in the testing sub-forum just now:

Yesterday I was allegedly the top participant, which is definitely not so. Hover over someone's profile and you see recent threads - but they are rarely the most recent. 'More like this' is wildly inaccurate.

I just get the feeling of wheels somewhere grinding and groaning, trying to calculate all this stuff and keep it up to date. I think we need to strip this system down considerably to where the software can cope. I'm not seeing much in the way of slowness but a number of people are - can't we put the extraneous fluff out of its misery and concentrate on the essential functions?

Eg the current 'More like this' by this post:

It just doesn't work and must waste 'fuel' somewhere in the effort to come up with sensible entries.

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Anonymous

From my observations it appears that Top Participants is based on getting points in that particular forum. Not your total points, but recent points.

But just a guess from what I have seen. Would be interesting to see how Jive has it programmed.

Kath-HAuthor

Inspiring

Popular Discussions as well - I've noticed in a few forums I've visited, this means 'recently active discussions', not the ones with the most posts. Well, we can see that from the list, can't we? Let's have these time-wasting, pointless twiddly bits abolished, gone - balayés (Piaf fan here).

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

Kath-H wrote:

balayés (Piaf fan here).

Why would anyone need to be a Piaf fan to know how to use a broom? I'm a Piaf fan too, but I wouldn't want to identify her with a broom.

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Anonymous

When can we have the old reliable forums back?

Claudio González

Braniac

Kath, as a non native English speaker, I can't even understand what is meant here by "top" participants. At first, I thought it meant those with the largest number of posts, but no, they aren't. Then I thought they were those with the most useful answers, but no, it's not that either (blatantly obvious in some cases!). Then I said to myself, they must be the most recent posters, but no: I have never seen my name in any of those lists, not even in the forums in Spanish where sometimes there are no new posts for a couple of days. So I'm completely baffled: my reason tells me those names must be at the top of some list, but I am unable to find any logical list that fits the names I get.

As to the "More like this", in many cases the list seems like a bad joke.

I vote for eliminating both lists.