I hate the new AVS :( - Page 9

Does anyone know how to reduce the number of posts per forum page?  I've changed that setting under:

 

My Profile/Edit Account Details/Post Per Page =10

 

And, I still see something like 50 posts per page.  That setting has no actual affect on the forum when I'm logged in.  Is that feature broken or is there another setting that controls this?

It worked for me when I changed it from thirty to fifty.  I had made that same change under the old software, found it had reverted to the default of thirty when the new software came in, reset it for myself to fifty, and have been seeing fifty per page ever since.

Maybe there's a minimum, and ten is too low a setting, so it rejects it.

If this site constantly requires nannying by the mods/owner because it never seems to work properly for so many people, is there really a lot of time and money to be saved by moving to Huddler?

Has it been worth the hassle so far?

Not criticizing, it just seems like there have been so many unanticipated problems moving AVS to the "perfect" platform.

It seems to go higher, not lower than 30.  It doesnt matter how many times I try it or wait.  It simply doesn't work.

I just logged in as you...

Not only do you have it set for 20, it's showing exactly 20.

How many does this look like? :)

 

 

 

You can't adjust the POSTS per page and then expect it to change the amount of THREADS per page.

Okay... so how do I reduce the number of threads per page?  I don't remember it ever being that bad.

 

Not sure you looked, but Backyard Chickens (http://www.backyardchickens.com/f/) is not small is very active for such a place. Another is Overclock (http://www.overclock.net/f/) again, very large and active.


Hi Jeff...

"I'm spending significantly less time at AVS with the new layout being the only reason "

Might I ask what part is turning you away? I know a number of things have been mentioned, but just kind of wondering on what is keeping you from posting or using the site like you have in the layout.

Thanks

Threads per page isn't adjustable. It wasn't before either.

I didn't mean to imply that there was a setting to adjust number of threads per page before.

 

In the old AVS forum, I didn't have to worry about adjust this kind of setting since it was already set at a reasonable setting.  It certainly was THAT many threads per page.  It's not common for a an Internet forum to try and stuff THAT many threads into one page.  It certainly doesnt help the current information overload/clutter issues.

 

 

I actually wish it were more. I'd much rather scroll down than wait for a new page to load.

BTW...It is the same number of threads listed as before for what I can see. Do you think their were less?

Thanks.

All 23 forums that I belong to, none of them even come even close to THAT many threads per page.  There's is a very good reason for that.  There's just way too much information to digest for the common person.  If it was that great of an idea, you would see all other forums doing this too.

 

Just because it's there, I'm not forced to read it...I just appreciate that it's quickly available.

 

Your Profile page has selections from 10-100 in the Forum Preferences section.

 

30 is the default.

I for one strongly disagree with you. I'd much rather have more threads than less.

I've read a number of the comments here, and while I'm not posting less - I am enjoying it less.

One thing I find VERY annoying - I just checked to see if I could disable it, apparently not - are all the pop up boxes that seem to be everywhere on the page when I roll my mouse across it. I think it's part of the overall "too busy" look the site now has.

Don't get me started on searching, it appears to be a lot art with the new site. I wanted to add a post to an old thread on "The Closer", could I find it -- no. After 5 pages of search results I gave up. Before the old software would list similar topics and I could simply select one of them rather that posting a new thread- which I ultimately did. Everything seems overly complicated. The site now seems more about bells and whistles and less about content. I know that's not really the case, but content is harder to find, the pages are scrunched up part way down the screen for an unneeded bar on the right side and I have no use for things like tags and other gimmicks.

The one and only thing I will praise is the fact that if I go to a certain thread it no longer resets all the other threads I view to that point in time.

If I had to rate it 6+ weeks in I'd give the site a C- or a D+, sorry...

+1

Especially the GIANT popup that appears whenever you accidentally roll over the main site menu bar . . .

I love that thing. I can go directly to any sub-section without ever leaving the top of the page or using my scroll wheel.

I like it too. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

To me the absolute best feature is the ability from the top of the page under Forums to go to the "I've Posted" section.

That alone to me has been a nice summary and time saver to me to check in quickly to see if any conversations I've been in have been updated. That's much easier to me now than under the old platform.

I am visiting far less often due to the new layout. Far too busy. I use Tapatalk now primarily.

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Among the several things I find annoying about the new system this particular one is just plain obnoxious. When a post has been deleted or removed for what ever reason, and you have a received an email notification of that post, instead of just loading the thread and displaying the last available posting, the email notification link just gives you a page that says that something along the lines that there appears to be an error in our system and to use the feedback system to notify the admins that there is a problem, and that's it. No thread at all. To add insult to injury, you see the thread loading but once it's all done the thread is no longer there and just that banner about reporting the issue.

Why not just load the thread as it is without the missing post? Why ask for it to be reported when what has really happened is that the post was removed by a moderator and there is no need to report it?

Another one is dead pages or links. I see that the Platform Launch Help and Discussion forum has been moved to the Forum Operations area. That's fine, but why leave the original leak in the drop down at the top, a leak that sends you to a dead page? It's nice that the page tells you what happened, but how about providing a link to the new location?

It's half-done measures like this that make this place much more annoying to navigate than the old system, the old system had some logic to it, this new system seem to have a severe deficiency of it.
Edited by keenan - 7/16/12 at 2:35pm

^ Far more posts are removed by users than staff, but either way they're working on a new message to inform you that the post you're linking to has been removed.

Hey now, that's a drop down, not a pop up! :-)

That's great, but why not just load the thread with the last valid post? Going to a dead page and then having to hunt down the thread is what gets annoying, just load the thread as is, without the missing post.

Subscription emails contains links to both the thread and the post so there's no need for "having to hunt down the thread".



If you choose the thread link, well...you're there.
If you choose the post link, we want you to know that it's been removed.

Okay, that works, but without a reason as to why the post was removed or missing you're still sending people to a dead, useless page, why not simply re-direct to the most recent available post? I won't know the post is not there until I get to the site, and then I die there, with no link to the first available post.

It may seem like nit-picking, but it seems like stupid logic to me to have it perform the way it does. Do you plan to implement a system to explain why the post is no longer there? If so, then I can understand the system working this way, otherwise it seems an illogical way of doing things with the result being a wasting of people's time.

They may do something like that in the future, but the immediate plan is for a post deleted message vs. the error you'll see now.
I'm curious, how often do you find yourself at a deleted post?

Maybe a few times per week at most. But when it does happen it's just an annoyance, an unnecessary annoyance to have the system work that way when the old way worked just perfectly. At the very least provide a link back to the thread in question, as to end up at a page with useless information(deleted, missing, what ever) is just plain sloppy.