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Any feedback on slight design change on blogs/groups?
Any feedback on slight design change on blogs/groups? As you might have noticed, we tweaked the design of the blog and group pages a bit. We also worked a bit on speeding them up as well - this process is ongoing. We've also doubled the number of databases running blogs and groups. Our entire development team is currently working on site cleanup, bug fixes, and site speed. We will be pushing live these improvements during the next two weeks. Andrew |
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I've noticed d current change in setting of urpages... Bt plz,do rectify do old probs 1st before putting up new images for d site For example..... d chat page have been shrunk into half d size ofit's usual page. It's very irritating as we have to scroll down to check our messages.... Wet_p
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For dial up the member photo thumbnails next to Blogs and also group photos take time to download. Chat room message display is half the area in either the HTML or the Flash HTML (beta). Also, since the updates my points I had earned in my account has gone to 0.
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Another thing. There are now the symbols that represents male and female ( ♀♂ ) and on my profile it has the woman symbol ♀ and I happen to be a man ♂ and not a woman. I am sure that I am not the only man with the symbol of a woman ♀ on their profile. Nick
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in total agreement, all the chat rooms have severe lag now for two weeks,every one is complaining from flash to html, and yep html today seems to have a side of the page missing. As for pics,too busy and folk will now probably go for pic not title of post to see the blogs
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This is what the chat rooms are looking like for the members.
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Hi Andrew, As much as I use blogs and groups, I have to say I have not noticed any meaningful improvement. I have noticed changes on profile pages that shifted things around - but no meaningful improvement there either. I'm commenting on the topic, so my statements are sounding very negative. This blog entry isn't a list of the things I like, which are equally as many as the problems I list. I'd enjoy the aspects I like much more if things didn't exist which degrade my experience. Improvements in my view are those that you mentioned, faster, fixing bugs (all of them), plus enhanced or better functionality that goes to the heart of why people join a social site (find people, chat with people and/or view on cam, and contact people - real and physical is contact, virtual email and IM handles are remote exchange not contact but can be used for eventual contact). If anything the site is slower this week, more bugs in chat and less clean overall appearance. The new icon is often wrong, female for men and vice versa. It is so confusing, I tried to find a trend to see if it was for their interests or something. I find no trend in that new bug on an unessential new feature. As for cleaner, the drop downs are annoyingly popping up fast at times when they are not desired and won't go away. This annoying feature, while potentially could speed up navigation, is actually maximizing annoyance due to it's coding implementation. Answering pages, which show up in the "Incomming Pages" tab and on a banner across a person's cam, is now done with a delay so that one can be selected over the other. However, many people who send pages give up by the time they can be accepted and responded to ---- slightly better than before, but a new wrinkle was introduced that isn't intuitive. I have noticed a trend toward too much space for banner, borders, text that is never read, and pop-up notices that all combine to mean things that are not conducive to faster, cleaner, better. Yet, it seems that part is growing worse. "Enhancements" while being rolled to production are very disruptive - it seems that it isn't automated to reduce impact, and it seems to be done server by server, section of code by section of code, resulting in maximized impact. With that, there have been interruptions and a week of membership was offered. I sent the msg to the support staff as the email said to do, and I have had no extension yet, to any of my profiles on the different sites. Plus, I have not gotten any feedback. Regarding feedback, I have never ever gotten feedback for anything. This lack of feedback included reporting a death threat to the abuse dept. The man was only told to behave better in the future, but I had no feedback me. Oddly people are suspended for entering their IM info (which is posted on their profile page) in IMs or emails, but a death threat (illegal on several accounts) is essentially rewarded through it's being ignored. So, I guess that means it's not worse, but when it's zero, it can't get worse. I continually hear people ask for less bugs, better chat IM experience so that people are not "FORCED" to go to the M or Y! or A, client IMs. I continually hear people who want to find and msg and network, but even Gold members are given limits on networking (it seems to be about 45 or so per day). Yet, I cannot figure out how some members (maybe they are employees with test accounts) can network over over 10,000 people in a very short time. In short, the customer experience is degraded by limits on the basics, bugs everywhere including on the most critical interests, disruptions in service (promises of more time not quickly taken care of), slowness while being billed as faster, poor customer support (even worse now when called than months ago), and critical screen real estate taken up by banners, borders, and messages that don't enhance customer experience. Thanks for your interest in the blog, robust features, a good set of sites and interaction with your customers. I think you should have this blog on ALT, FF, Out.., and your other major sites. Will
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6/8/2007 1:38 pm |
I am glad that you sorted the mods groups at the top of the groups list, it makes it easier, visually if you are a member of alot of groups or if you moderate more than 3 groups. The chatrooms are slow, I was in there a little while ago and there was a lag went it went to refresh the body of chat page. In the groups members list (the top 20 members), sometimes the member's post counts are not correct, and sometimes they are. I dont mind the pics next to the blogs too much, it helps me to recognize people that I've seen or responded to before in blogs, although it is a little busy looking.
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6/8/2007 1:39 pm |
btw, it would also be nice to put a 'ban' link for the moderators inside their group chatrooms, if possible.
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My photo used to show up in it's entirety.... now all I have is the area between my eyes showing up... and maybe a nostril, LOL! While slighty humorous... my eyes are one of my best features... and it would be nice to have them back!!!! (The new format must have altered how some pics show up? hmmm.....) Your attention or suggestions will be appreciated Shazzy
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This is what the chat rooms are looking like for the members. The site is running sluggish when changing pages though (both in dial up and broadband) even a little more sluggish than before. My points issue was supposed to had been fixed several months back in order to balancing it out. I was showing more points spent then earned back then and now it is again showing the same. I had 9k earned points (majority earned from the contests) before this last update roll out and after it went live, my account reverted back to 0. Contacted CS by email and they apparently do not wish to resolve the issue. This is the second time I have email CS directly with no satisfactory results this year. One was for reporting members breaking TOU by promoting a competitor site to this one to members in groups (that was resolved by a PM that I contacted). Anyhow, if I come across any more little things going on with site performance I will let you know. Nick
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Almost forgot this one. When in the chat room clicking on the links above the navigational bar of Instant Messenger Sex Academy Magazine will not navigate out of the chat room (change page). The links are not broken; however, what is happening is that the page is actually opening up behind the chat room message board instead and is unseen to the members.
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6/8/2007 9:59 pm |
This has to do with the new thumbnail images next to groups. I uploaded a pic to my group's description last night and tonight when i navigate to my group's category, it shows that image as a broken link. Has the image not been approved yet?
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6/8/2007 11:18 pm |
it was in Big Tit Lovers, when you view it under the 'breast fetish' category, the small thumbnail shows as a broken image. and what I meant about the top 20 members in the group list, is that sometimes the numbers go down considerably and then back up to normal. I think it is correct right now, but periodically it gets messed up.
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Yes I was wondering why my profile pic was cropped. It only shows a certain area now? WebCam Vixen
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6/9/2007 6:22 pm |
can you tell me why a post like this can say up, even after I emailed abuse about it: [group_post 1550799], but people can post using certain words that werent meant in a 'violating' way get denied? I used the word 'ya' instead of 'you' in a post the other day and it got denied for inclusion of personal contact info, but of course there wasnt any personal contact info there.
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I have talked to several bloggers who don't like the new pictures on the main blog page. For myself, I would rather see the name of the most recent post by bloggers on my list rather than their picture. I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. - Winston Churchill
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I don't know where else to leave this, since your support blog shows hundreds of comments still pending ... There is a rumor circulating through the blogs that you are planning on restricting standard members' ability to read emails. If you cut off my ability to email standard members, and I think you'll agree most women are standard, or further restrict their ability to reply, I think you'll see a mass exodus. I've been on sites that pull that kind of crap, and I no longer pay for them. Blogging is fun, but it's and adjunct, and not the reason I pay. I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. - Winston Churchill
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Hi, Over the past 5 or 6 days the sites have degraded tremendously. It seems this could be related to installing new code or maybe while investigating the slowness. It went from fast to super slow to something less than fast during the past 5 or so days. Since about 5pm Easter Time on Monday a number of changes are restricting email, chat, IMs, webcams, particularly to standard members in the US and Canada. I've gone from email msgs per hour to one or two per day. This is the type of thing that forces members to other email and IM services to exchange info. But a mega sized banner filling up acres of real estate on profile pages warns of punishment for exchanging such email and IM info. The limits and bugs is what requires people by web application induced force, to seek the other IM and email services. Observed Cams in the past hour: At this very moment, no std members, who are male, and not minorities (yep, that's how it stats out) in the continental US or Canada, who are under 30yo, are on any cams in ALT or Local Sexy Swingers. I checked every one of the 99 male Alt members on cam, of all ages, and frankly, it appears that only those who don't list as "Caucasian" (maybe it's only illegal aliens who can get on) in the US and Canada are the only "standard" male members who can get on cam, with the lone exception of one 40yo man. I checked all of the 222 Local Sexy Swingers male members from 18 to 31, and the same held true. On Local Sexy Swingers, there were 295 males on cam in the 31 to 39 age group, and while checking most but not all, I found only two men in the US who list as Caucasian and who are standard members. I figure there was some other aspect that allowed them in, such as not currently physically in the US or Canada. Also, the day of last sign on is another obvious item that recently stopped working. The pages have changed in design, but service degradation and restrictions are noticed by everyone, with many who said to me, "this is boring now". Is this an implementation of new restrictions or is a combination of multiple new bugs? Will
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Hi, To add to this observation, the one ALT male white guy on cam last night just told me he is outside the Continental US (also not in Canada). Down to old paying men like myself, how exciting is that, NOT. lol Will
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6/17/2007 8:17 pm |
ty Luv I Feel Local Sexy Swingers needs a "Makeover" from the chat system's to the rooms ,Groups, as well as Local Sexy Swingers is a fun Virtual world for adults to go and play and have fun away fromthere current world in any situation we have people here world wide so mabe make a world Cyber world, woth new cyber tech, some what 3D or HD maybe or VR wich i doubt ya can do but updated Avatars for ur chat and back grounds, in ur chat rooms let the members make chats as well as you have ur own for example created chat bye members area for people to have chat rooms for the cyber world House of honey" being a example or House of Dolls? so it would be seperate kinda chats some you create and some we create as members on a sep Tab bye clicking the members chats catagory or even a virtual or 3D or HD under water world would be cool room to have just some suggestions!!!!!!!!! thought id share
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6/18/2007 10:13 pm |
I've noticed 'some' speed-up in the pages loading since you posted this..although every so often it does slow down again. that's the one thing that I see some improvement on.
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6/19/2007 12:10 pm |
As for harasment, I have one "testimonial" written by an angry member, which is actually a veiled threat/insult and have receiced harassing mail from another member. Despite a few phone calls and sevral emails to the "customer service" (oxymoron) department, nothing has been done to prohibit such behavior and protect members who are being hassled. On one occasion, I got a snippy operator barely able to speak coherent english. Other phone calls have gone ignored. My emails remain unanswered. What do you plan to do to protect security and make me your customers feel safe from harassment? I do not feel safe here. I'll bet if I was a hot looking woman, this problem would've been resolved ASAP. And, instead of telling me to write you and email, how about if you contact me here to show you're concernec about Local Sexy Swingers's onlinr security. ROCKoftheWESTIES
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What The heck. The reason I upgraded to a gold account was so that I could e-mail and make contact to whom I wanted. Recently, you took away the privileges for standards to OPEN e-mails; even e-mails from paying members. Now I understand not letting Standards view profiles, see pics, send e-mails ect....you are a business. But...... when I PAID for MY account standards could read my e-mails. That is why I up graded. I wanted the option to contact people. Now I can not contact ALL members (or at least they can not necessary read it if I do). So you are taking away Services from me, a gold member. Services that were offered when I PAID for my account. Furthermore....not even notifying us to the change So question.....I am paid through to September. I no longer see the point in being a paying member. My Pay member privileges are not what they were when I paid. Do I have the option of just finishing off the month and getting a return for the rest, losing my gold status?
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I have to agree with wildhardfree. What's the point in paying. Site support blog says that "new" standard members will eventually be able to read the e-mail sent to them (after 2 months). E-mail for standard members is auto deleted after 30 days. So, the e-mail we send will never be read. Add to this, members have the option of hiding their membership dates, so we as paying members have no way of knowing how long a standard member has been on site. That of course leads to a waste of time previewing a profile, making a decision, and sending an e-mail that will be deleted by the time they can answer it. Also, I might add, we are very active in our local groups and host Meet and Greets. One method we use is to e-mail local members who may not be members of our groups. If "new" standard members can't open the e-mail we send, not only are they missing out on the fun and possibly meeting that one special person, you are missing out on the opportunity to build your community thru our hard work. Other "Adult Dating Sites" cost half what you charge and even offer a lifetime membership for what you charge for a 1 year gold subscription. As well, most if not all services (with some limitations) are available to non paying members. My suggestion is, if you want to increase profits, cut your rates in half and quite possibly you will triple the number of paying members. Quite honestly, from a Marketing point of view, taking away services, such as this e-mail scam, from paying members will only drive paying members away. "Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."-William Shakespeare
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I would suggest you have your Customer Non Service people and your Site Non Support people thoroughly read customer comments, suggestions and feedback and respond appropriately. Enough with the canned remarks that just show us they don't really care what we think, this is only a job to them. I would also suggest that you have them post the comments, suggestions and feedback without editing the content. Recently in discussing e-mailing personal information without having exchanged 2 e-mails, my comment concerning the fact that as gold members, You offer the option of inclusion of these 2 IM's to all members. This statement was edited out of my discussion. Perchance they didn't want people to know this. As well, when I made comments about allowing bots in the chat rooms bringing in revenue, that comment was also edited out of the discussion. I, unlike a lot of people, keep copies of everything I send or comment on. So, when I review my post, if it doesn't look like what I sent, i compare with what I saved. I do know when it's been edited. Comments, suggestions and feedback should be posted as written by the customer, even if distasteful to you or isn't true. In such a case, it should be addressed by your people in their responses. But that would mean cutting out the canned responses they so like to use. just my 2 cents worth. "Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."-William Shakespeare
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