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Will you Boycott DS if the forum design stays as is?
mike65
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Overwhelming reaction is negative (and not in a mild way either), but what websites rely on is inertia from the user base. They know that if they do nothing for long enough the majority will shrug their shoulders and carry on.
However if people are strong and act collectively we can kill this quickly - but it takes a large % to join in and Boycott for days, even a week before the get the message (and the advertisers start kicking up a fuss).
So will you shun this site? Can you stay away for a week?
However if people are strong and act collectively we can kill this quickly - but it takes a large % to join in and Boycott for days, even a week before the get the message (and the advertisers start kicking up a fuss).
So will you shun this site? Can you stay away for a week?
Will you stay away until the forum is good to use again? 277 votes
YES
51%
143 votes
NO
48%
134 votes
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Overreaction maybe ?
Jeez Louise
Jp
it's fundamentally broken. the forum is unusable as it is. but they will fix it.
It's making my eyes hurt, I's sure it looked like a great idea when demoed on the ipads in the DS office, but it just doesn't work on a desktop, not just the Forum but the news site too.
It will certainly affect my decision as to how much time I spend on DS.
So in context of the forum and site appearance I will not boycott the site. Only thing that would make me do that is reading the rubbish some people post.
So it's not just me being unable to find it!
Perhaps it will be there when they have finished the re-design (I'm just hoping that they haven't finished).
but i cant scroll across the screen
The same thing happen to me with other sites when they got a poorly thought out "makeover".
Although I have to say that eventually I just stopped using those other sites.
I would say that DS forum traffic will fall and then gradually decline more over time.
And if it is not finished, they why the hell roll it out? As it satands it is hardly a glowing testament to the decisions taken by the forum management team going by the number of usability issues that have been reported
Then they should never have released it in a broken form.
The proof of the pudding will be in the visitor stats. If they remain the same, then they'll laugh and ignore all your comments here. If they fall.... I'll laugh at their futile meddling