Is it just me, or has ATOT traffic gone down substantially...

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Quotes aren't that bad if you either: a) remove nested quotes b) fix the stupid quotes yourself, you lazy bum. Sure, it's a hassle, but if there's a valid work-around, do it.

Also, maybe the typical patrons of ATOT simply need to diversify and visit other sub-forums on here rather than sit there constantly refresh off-topic.

thats nice.

but it worked before. no reason that it shouldnt work now.

and why should someone go into other topics? i don't really care about yagt threads, or hardware, software etc unless i have a question. do hit FS/FT and hot deals daily though.

 

[thecrecarc]

I agree. I like the old forums better because i could go to one forum and find everything. Now i gotta manually go through each forum looking for posts.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: markgm
I wish there was a classic.forums.anandtech.com

That's all.

Thus splitting the forums even more?

 

[Safeway]

I wish the posts were more condensed. I think each post now takes up more vertical space.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Am I the only one that likes having the subforums?

 

[bcterps]

Originally posted by: Greenman
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: loup garou
lol...and now the trial of Fusetalk expired.</end quote></div>

You got that error as well? I was kind of surprised to see that, I would have thought this site generated enough revenue to be able to afford the full version of fusetalk. What are we talking about, maybe $20?

Is that a joke? Fusetalk is ridiculously expensive, and the AT Forums lose money, at least that was the case a few years ago when they introduced paid memberships. I imagine that the forums still are a considerable money sink. Regarding Fusetalk, AT has a relationship with them I think some of their former staff work for Fusetalk, so I dont think AT pays very much, if anything for FT. If AT was paying a lot for FT, I'd hope they demand their money back, considering it's performance.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Am I the only one that likes having the subforums?

I like them too.

 

[ballmode]

I HATE THE SUBFORUMS OT 4 life

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: benchiu
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Greenman
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: loup garou
lol...and now the trial of Fusetalk expired.</end quote></div>

You got that error as well? I was kind of surprised to see that, I would have thought this site generated enough revenue to be able to afford the full version of fusetalk. What are we talking about, maybe $20?</end quote></div>

Is that a joke? Fusetalk is ridiculously expensive, and the AT Forums lose money, at least that was the case a few years ago when they introduced paid memberships. I imagine that the forums still are a considerable money sink. Regarding Fusetalk, AT has a relationship with them I think some of their former staff work for Fusetalk, so I dont think AT pays very much, if anything for FT. If AT was paying a lot for FT, I'd hope they demand their money back, considering it's performance.

If Fusetalk is expensive, then Anandtech should demand a full refund.

As far as costing money goes, I flat out don't believe it. Those adds and google links you see all over the screen pay Anand money to be there. There is no doubt in my mind that Anand makes money off the forums, and a fair bit of it.
What he needs to do if hire someone to make it work right. It's obvious that whoever is in charge of the upgrade program doesn't understand how to plan, test and implement the changes. That or Fusetalk is total garbage and should be replaced with software that works.

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

Its because everyone is busy... Checking out the babe thread!

 

[Platypus]

Expensive to the tune of 4500USD.

FT has been and always will be subpar in coding and design, that much is given.. this is a whole new level.

 

[GeneValgene]

maybe time to move to tfnn?

 

[Accipiter22]

Slow load times, a bunch of errors (in FF longer threads just go blank halfway through), slow load times, slow load times. etc. I don't know why this new version is making everything load slower though, it doesn't seem to have much more overhead.

 

[ed21x]

yeah, with all these new subcategories, the OT section is certainly a lot less richer, and individual posts get less exposure when people don't consider themselves 'hardcore' enough to go out of their way into the other forum categories. it kind of makes you wonder what they were thinking when they spilt them off, eh? perhaps the intention was to reduce traffic to the off topic site to save bandwidth or something while still maintaining general hardware as the main point of AT.

 

[MrChad]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=42&threadid=2062967

Originally posted by: DerekWilson
In the past, our web developer has modified FuseTalk to suite our needs or fix our bugs. This voided our support contract with FuseTalk. In part, the move to FT 3.0 was to get us on FuseTalk supported code. We are unable to fix bugs ourselves at this point.

To more directly answer the question, "this" was an update that FuseTalk submitted to us as a patch. They are already working on a second patch to address a second set of less critical errors ... this first patch fixed a lot of behind the scenes issues and admin/mod tools.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: waggy
thats nice.

but it worked before. no reason that it shouldnt work now.

That isn't the point here... you can't fix it, I can't fix it... so either take the temp fix or shut up about it.

Originally posted by: waggy
and why should someone go into other topics? i don't really care about yagt threads, or hardware, software etc unless i have a question. do hit FS/FT and hot deals daily though.

Then shut up about less traffic if you didn't read the damn threads anyway.

My god, we should just rename OT the whine forum, because that's all people do!

EDIT: Also, what's with the rampant double-posting (and sometimes triple) by long-time members here? Does anyone know forum etiquette at all?

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Yzzim
I just found my way back. Thought the forums were down for a week. Decided to fire up IE and give it a shot. Cleared my cookies and it works for both browsers.

Same with me, and now I am agreeing with others that the forum layout is crap now. Found my self going over to TFNN and found it to be more enjoying than here since the switch.

 

[MrChad]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2062656&enterthread=y

Originally posted by: DerekWilson
I suppose I'm the one that did it ... and I'm glad you guys like the change. We had an internal issue that could only be resolved through increasing PM limits for everyone... Have I mentioned we are dissatisfied with the quailty of our forum software?

anyway, it'll be as permanent as fusetalk is ... which may be a very long time or not depending on the next few days.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Am I the only one that likes having the subforums?

I like the new subforums. I like seeing more serious responses to people's questions instead of crap like "pics?!?!?" or "did you change the blinker fluid?" The reason for the split up was that there were too many of a certain topic landing in OT, so it made it easier to keep track of threads by just making a separate forum for them. The Internet/World is a big place; plenty of stuff to keep everyone occupied.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

FT = Fail Totally.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
FT = Fail Totally.

F*cking Travesty?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
FT = Fail Totally.

F*cking Travesty?

:thumbsup:

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

I said a far better idea would have been to consolidate the forums we already had (turn the new hardware mega forum into a technical ATOT) and then add maybe 1-2 new broader categories.

 

[DaShen]

Well alot of people kept griping about the old forums. It got pretty annoying actually. They wanted stuff seperated out, but now that it is seperated out, they don't want it anymore. I think it is funny.

 

[Skacer]

Originally posted by: MrLee
Yeah, I will say one good thing is that I can post something, or reply to a topic, and not have to dig on page 4 of the OT section to find it 3 minutes later. Some of you guys are used to that speed, so I guess its no big deal. But its hard to keep up with things when you are at work. Sometimes work gets in the way.

That is what advanced searches are for. (Search for user MrLee, bam all your posts)

I find it funny that Hg has been able to correct a bunch of the issues all through Stylish. Meaning that we've gone from devastating issues such as jrun in the old days to just basically screwing up the css code.

And you know, I didn't think quote trees could get worse, but GIBBERISH trees seems to be the topper.