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Dear Digital Spy,
You've had our feedback.
When is someone in authority going to respond?
You've had our feedback.
When is someone in authority going to respond?
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Patience.
ETA - as most people faced with fixing issues have said at some point "They'll be fixed much quicker if I didn't have to keep feckin' discussing them !!" :mad:
just a few 'other' website recommendations
Thank you. Where do I sign up.
The forums are only ever as good as the membership they attract that's why, without happy posters the ads mean nothing as no one will see them. So they keep us in the dark and unhappy at their own risk. People are already asking where else they can go when that starts it really can be the beginning of the end of a forum even one as big as this.
The various polls that have sprung up (I've found 5- there are probably more) all show real dislike running at over 80%
That isn't the sort of figure you can ignore in the hope it will all blow over in a few days time.
They could at least issue a holding statement saying something like 'We realise this hasn't been received as well as we expected, and improvements will be made shortly'
or even 'We don't know what all the fuss is about. It looks ok to us'.
The silence is deafening
And the forum is blinding!
..Because why bother running a site if you don't give squat about the people who subscribe/ contribute to it, paying customers or not? Why bother having a 'discussion' section if you can't express a dislike/ preference of something on that forum itself? No, I don't feel in a position to 'dictate' anything but I do feel that expressing an opinion is a perfectly valid response to a change- whether it's favourable or not. I hope that the format does get amended but am not counting on it.
Maybe the forum is like a piece of pepperoni on their 12" pizza in terms of importance.
My point is - the new look website looks fantastic. That is where their efforts are at the moment, not racing down here trying to serve you self-important "me me me" people as fast as possible.
You would have a point, if it wasn't for the fact that the entire forum user base is expressing their sheer dislike for the new style.
Even changing forum software doesn't generate a backlash like this has done - clearly suggesting that this new theme is, indeed, utterly pants and that the forum users are not prepared to tolerate it.
Management should have reverted the forum style last night, no messing about.
Whoever designed this new style is not to blame, they were tasked to create something which they probably liked themselves, and fitted with the design change parameters.
What is to blame is foolish site-wide implementation without consulting or even conducting a trial beforehand.
They may think that people will eventually stop complaining but that will be because they have all left the site in droves. Not a very smart move.
who did you quote? it`s not showing here.
The owners won't be able to give a forum where everyone is happy, all they can do is tweak and tinker over the next few weeks to try and improve things for the better. Unfortunately, they can't please everyone, nor should they have too. The masses have said that it's shite, hopefully the team aren't arrogant enough to not take that on board, but essentially they can do whatever the hell they like and are only answerable to themselves given as it's a private site.
They need to strike a balance however as the more active users there are, the more the advertisers will be drawn to the site. Unless there is a mass exodus of the forums, the only detriment is the adsense they are running as the sponsors will be more interested in the site content as opposed to a forum which is a bolt on.
'Twas me- re: posts #13 & #17
OK, gashead, btw. Fair do's. That's between you and another FM, then
"You people" is a bit "talk-downy" you know.
Are the forums important?
70 million posts in nearly two million threads suggests they are. However nice the main website looks, it has to compete with all the other entertainment sites and needs a USP - the busy forums are just that.
If it's "me-me-me" them multiply that by thousands of existing users - and potential future users - of both the rest of the site and the forums, who are having problems with it.
sorry, not that one, in that post he said he was aiming at the poster he quoted before but his post is showing no quote :amildlyconfusedlookingsmile:
edit: ah, 13. edit again: i mean in post 5.
more edit: ta gashead ↓↓↓↓
Oh yeah. I had the OP in mind, but didn't quote him. In that case, it was a comment to the group, taking into account the responses on the hundred other similar threads, not aimed at any FM in particular.
Everyone deserves a response..whats the matter with you?, DS survives by its members, any feedback should be forthcoming, not ignored. Its not a bloody "divine right"..its an accepted right to expect queries etc to be at least acknowledged. Have you visited Harrys shop recently...its called "I saw you coming!", you'll love it!