Feedback Why Fix Dp When Nit Was Never Broken?????????????

Seems to me things are normal, I'm assuming this was nearly the same before the switch as well.

 

They force and move all BTS to marketplace which one they can take their share (20% if I'm not wrong) on sales. That is good for me if they can do the marketing good, I mean clear and nice design, some where for support member, give good traffic on that place etc... But i dont like the marketplace design, no goods cover image. And see, just a small link on the top of forum, nobody know it.

 

He's telling you to close your browser lmao.

 

Finally!!!
Some one else sees it tooooooo !

I was really about to come to the conclusion that I was the only member of the old DP who thought that a lot was lost in the transition to the new setup.

I must admit that now that I examine the new forum, some good ideas have been added to it.
But surely these good ideas could have also been added to the original DP without causing such a trauma to the members used to the original DP.

 

Different log in times will give you different traffic results. I don't think you could fairly compare say a Sunday evening to a peak traffic time and expect the same numbers.

 

Have to agree with the issues. In the past, all the sub-forums or whatever you call it are also visible on the home page. It is now hidden. It requires a lot more clicks to get to where you want.

It looks squashed and overall doesn't feel as nice.

 

That is true!
I have 9 of my clients who are also DP members of long standing and without exception, all of them have expressed similar sentiments.

 

Yeah, I am sure. After reading this thread I can't imagine anyone admitting to being your client. What a total ass you've shown yourself to be. That fact that people pay you to advise them or help them is pretty sad.

 

Please do relax browntwn.
I have to say what is important for me and my clients resulting from the changes in the new and improved DP.
Rather than getting upset like this, as a "prominent member" do you not think that you should respond logically to the points made in the posts.

I say this because of the Quote that you have in your post"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

Hmmm "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely...."
Really Browntwn, was that all pretense?
Did you just add that to your post because it looks good?

 

Trauma? Mate, it was just a script! Easy to PM someone and ask them to relist it, if they hadn't already. That's not much of a trauma to warrant throwing your toys out of the pram (explanation). Sure, some people don't cope well with change. Maybe take some time to calm down a bit and then think over the situation again? It's not like you got ran over by a car or logged into your bank account and found all your money gone. Without hysterics, your feedback might have been taken a bit more seriously by other members.

 

Thank you for noticing the quote which has been my signature here for years. It is a gem, from the speech/book Areopagitica written by John Milton. I do cherish my right to speak freely pretty much everywhere and do express my mind here. I don't mind that you do the same, in fact, I welcome it. What I despise is the nasty attitude you have displayed, in this thread and others while expressing your views, and so I have no qualms calling you out for it.

As for responding to your points, I leave that to DP since I have no say in the decision. I can tell you though that I disagree with most everything you have complained about and find no real problems. I know that I previously tried to help you find what you were looking for in your other complaint thread.
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/why-remove-the-location-of-member.2630628/ You were a bit obnoxious in that one too. You went on and on about how the user's location was gone, well it isn't. Then you complained it was a whole click away. Seriously, you can't be troubled to click? All this bitching serves what purpose exactly? Have you found that obnoxiousness has worked well for you in the past? I can only assume you lost any prospective clients who observed your behavior in these threads.

 

Yes, Shawn, please stop improving DP!! I can't cope any more.

 

I think this is about the 4th time I've "permanently caused the utter destruction of Digital Point"...

That is true. May be you do have some thing that many of us can not see.

Time will tell.

 

I do cherish my right to speak freely pretty much everywhere and do express my mind here. I don't mind that you do the same, in fact, I welcome it.

That is so kind.

So it is the way that I have expressed the very valid points that is the problem.

Well I am sorry about that but if you should go deeper in to Milton, you may find that the views expressed by those who oppose your views must be allowed in all forms and what you may think of as attitude could well be deep and true concern.

Frankly it is not at all good to "despise" anything, because that emotion originates from within you, for various reasons and almost never has much to do with what you think that you despise

In any case I am glad that you "cherish my right to speak freely pretty much everywhere and do express my mind here."

 

Your words are kind of funny, considering your recent (over) reactions to many silly, petty things.

 

You missed out this: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/thread-sort-order.1441011/

There has been visible deterioration since that happened^^

Earlier when threads were sorted by last post and DP ran on VB 3 there were easily 500-600 members online at anytime, with 300+ in BST alone. Service subsection used to have a good 100+ members online at any time.

Right now there are 159 members online in the entire forum!

I'm sure the traffic would have increased, since the site only became better from an SEO standpoint. Content has increased in the last 3 years, DP would have acquired more links, gained authority with age but most traffic increase has been organic.

Active members at any time during the day has reduced by as much as 2/3rd and almost 90% in BST!

BST was what differentiated DP from all other IM forums and it has gone downhill.

I'm sure Shawn will say that BST is not the most important think in this forum but the fact is that BST still has 12 times more threads than the next biggest forum (google) and 60% of the total threads on DP and its just 1 forum out of 35.

34 forums: 40% threads (~1%/forum)
BST: 60%