Server Errors again

Cornersteady replied on 19/11/2023 11:39

Posted on 19/11/2023 10:49 by peedee

I don't have a problem with social areas, you don't have to read them but they should not dominate the front pages of a forum. There are folk who do nothing else but post there and have contributed nothing else. It would lbe better if alerts of new post on these pages were removed from the Club Together front page. As far as I am concerned it clutters up the latest activity pages of the site.

peedee

Posted on 19/11/2023 11:39

I'm lost here, how do they dominate the front pages of the forum? Do you mean latest activity? 

If you do mean that well they only dominate or rather be the the top if you select LA so if you don't want that don't look at LA.

And of course they are not always at the top as LA just reflects what is the latest activity at that particular moment.

Are you suggesting that social area posts not be included in LA?

 As for contributions, personally every post made is a valuable contribution and to be given equal respect.

 

SteveL replied on 19/11/2023 11:53

Posted on 19/11/2023 11:39 by Cornersteady

I'm lost here, how do they dominate the front pages of the forum? Do you mean latest activity? 

If you do mean that well they only dominate or rather be the the top if you select LA so if you don't want that don't look at LA.

And of course they are not always at the top as LA just reflects what is the latest activity at that particular moment.

Are you suggesting that social area posts not be included in LA?

 As for contributions, personally every post made is a valuable contribution and to be given equal respect.

 

Posted on 19/11/2023 11:53

It would be OK if latest activity was stable, but very often you page down and reach the end of the list, or get a repeat of what you have just looked at. I tend to agree with Peedee. Certainly in its current state it would be much more usable if it didn’t show the social room posts and more importantly didn’t show likes. In an ideal world it would contain filters and you would be able to structure it to your requirements. Unfortunately on CT that is very unlikely to happen.

Takethedogalong replied on 19/11/2023 12:15

Posted on 19/11/2023 12:15

Well, I missed CT this last couple of days.

Sorry if it may sound a bit sad to some folks, but I enjoy online chatting to a few users down in the social area, and enjoy sharing nice places to visit, interesting and unusual things to see, and it’s a good quick catch up with online friends, away from longer emails where a proper catch up can be done, but needs more time devoted to it. Some of us share hobbies and interests as well, so if someone doesn’t share, don’t feel obliged to take part. No one is forced to read any thread, all they have to do is pass over if it’s of no interest, and move onto something else they have more interest in. Could be technical help, could be sharing nice places to stay. Could be commenting on what’s going off with the Club. All have their users and followers. 🙂

Tinwheeler replied on 19/11/2023 12:17

Posted on 19/11/2023 12:17

Surely if Latest Activity doesn’t suit one's needs, the simplest way is to access the threads from the 'normal' front page? I see LA as an add on, not as the main means of reading the forum.

Anyway, no server errors on LA so far today 🤞

Cornersteady replied on 19/11/2023 12:22

Posted on 19/11/2023 11:53 by SteveL

It would be OK if latest activity was stable, but very often you page down and reach the end of the list, or get a repeat of what you have just looked at. I tend to agree with Peedee. Certainly in its current state it would be much more usable if it didn’t show the social room posts and more importantly didn’t show likes. In an ideal world it would contain filters and you would be able to structure it to your requirements. Unfortunately on CT that is very unlikely to happen.

Posted on 19/11/2023 12:22

Agree about the stability, it's very annoying only to be able to see a few posts sometimes and not showing likes as well, but for me all posts are 'created equal' and while I may have no interest in certain posts/threads/areas they are posted by, and of interest to, someone who may want to follow that particular thread. That is their contribution to CT. 

If LA is mainly about the social areas then isn't that what the majority of CT users are doing on CT and are using CT for? If that is the case when why try and stop LA for what the majority of its users are using it for? Again I said if.

I'm not bothered if this happened but it just gives the idea that certain threads/posters are much more important, or should be given more prominence (as in technical Van issues) than other threads and some should not cause clutter (as PD suggests) than others. What is clutter to one person may not be to another.

As I said if someone takes the time and effort to post something that's all that count.

Takethedogalong replied on 19/11/2023 12:23

Posted on 19/11/2023 12:17 by Tinwheeler

Surely if Latest Activity doesn’t suit one's needs, the simplest way is to access the threads from the 'normal' front page? I see LA as an add on, not as the main means of reading the forum.

Anyway, no server errors on LA so far today 🤞

Posted on 19/11/2023 12:23

Agree. You cannot cherry pick your interests via Latest Activity, only via the individual threads or topics. I skip over items like Trailer tents, rallies every day in the main, purely because they have limited appeal for me, but I happily accept that they might be of a lot of interest to others. 🤷‍♀️

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