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Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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Zeropoint1
19-11-2016
Yep, turn off your ad blocker and enjoy the experience of the page bouncing around as it attempts to load at dial up speeds. Gaze in wonder as numerous audio and video adverts all load together and finally sit through a shut down and reboot as it crashes your system.
TelevisionUser
19-11-2016
With the news that DS will be downsizing it might be pertinent to ask "Where did it all go wrong?"

There's the whole, huge external factor of the rise of social media options like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. and they've all been sucking the life out of discussion forums.

I suspect that some general forums and quite a few specialist forums will continue to survive. I have seen it myself with some forums dying and others having a very low level of activity so that they're not worth bothering with any more.
St Dabeoc
19-11-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“Yep, turn off your ad blocker and enjoy the experience of the page bouncing around as it attempts to load at dial up speeds. Gaze in wonder as numerous audio and video adverts all load together and finally sit through a shut down and reboot as it crashes your system.”

that's better than nothing, surely?
Zeropoint1
19-11-2016
Originally Posted by St Dabeoc:
“that's better than nothing, surely?”

Not really. I'd rather have nothing than a site that's near unusable which makes typing impossible as the key strokes don't register, so you type again and finally the same thing appears three times.

I honestly thought my computer was infested with virsus or the harddrive was about to fail. I actually almost brought a new computer based on the serious system problems I was having until I noticed it didn't happen on the day I hadn't gotten around to using DS.


I installed an ad blocker and the system ran perfectly, then I uninstalled it and the system became unusable again. I rebooted and did the same again (I did this three times to be sure) and it was clear where the issue was.
TheEricPollard
20-11-2016
maybe when they banned crazychris and his hamster. The hamster's probably dead now though.
HenryGarten
20-11-2016
One of the problems is that DS does not have a named host, only anonymous mods.
CappySpectrum
20-11-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“With the news that DS will be downsizing it might be pertinent to ask "Where did it all go wrong?"

There's the whole, huge external factor of the rise of social media options like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. and they've all been sucking the life out of discussion forums.

I suspect that some general forums and quite a few specialist forums will continue to survive. I have seen it myself with some forums dying and others having a very low level of activity so that they're not worth bothering with any more.”

It is pitiful.
HenryGarten
20-11-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“With the news that DS will be downsizing it might be pertinent to ask "Where did it all go wrong?"

There's the whole, huge external factor of the rise of social media options like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. and they've all been sucking the life out of discussion forums.
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I think you are right there.
Billy_Value
20-11-2016
It's a hot mass on its arse to mars
mikey1701
03-01-2017
Where did it all go wrong? Let's see....

- It's descent in a sub-par buzzfeed
- The "humour".
- The ads
- The fact that some articles appear to be advertisements for shows
- The stupid list articles
- The obsession with Friends & Little Mix
- The obsession with reporting on non-entities like "Lewis Blood" and "Megan McKenna".
- The endless stream of animated gifs
- Lazy copy & paste twitter articles.
HenryGarten
03-01-2017
I thought this thread had been deleted.
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