DocAndersen
As promised yesterday I sent the data to the admin team. I will add a couple of poll questions to the listing today and will forward those tomorrow.
- Polls: today, you can now create polls without having to create (add picture) and refresh before continuing. That is good! The bad news the yes/yes/no issue remains. The issue where you type a question, and it doesn’t appear in the list, also remains. So one bug fixed two remaining.
- Site Navigation: The submission and moving between features of the site are slower than before. For example, if you move from notifications to the new posts from other authors it moves quickly. But if you go from a post to your notifications things move slow.
- Notifications: The views and notification screen has been fixed. We no longer get the other notifications, although in checking this morning we do still get virils as before that the notifications informed us of.
- The posts off of your profile appear to have a bug. It does not list the posts you have submitted over the last two weeks in chronological order. You can go back to the older post listings by selecting the more tab in your profile and from there selecting posts. You get the older, smaller thumbnail view, which shows more than the last two days post.
- The rate to 100 and 200 views has slowed, but that is expected people are working through the new site.
- The Doc bug – I know I am probably the only person that does this but just in case. I read posts and then leave comments. I don’t, however, submit the comments right away. So I have 5, 6, or posts with comments written, but I haven’t clicked the button yet. I then tend to post a comment and close that author’s post — the time allotted for commenting as decreased (the timeout used to be about 15 seconds between comments on posts it is now closer to about 5 seconds). I got the (you are making that too fast error) four times today. Again I am probably the only one that will see this bug.
At this point, those are the only things I know for sure. I continue to look for and use the site. I will continue to send information to the admin team. I know a number of you have reached to me, and others via private messaging, don’t worry, things will stabilize. The good news is, there is much we can do today that we couldn’t do before.
Hopefully, we all have a better day.
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Question of
I would rather be able to delete comments by users, than block users?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
I am frustrated by the current slowness of the site?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
a banner telling us what is going on would be nice?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
By not commenting are you sending a message to the author?
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Yes
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No
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I have seen the commenting to fast message when I thank people who have commented on my posts. I guess I am not very creative when it comes to thanking people.
However, I disagree that not commenting is necessarily a message towards the author. In fact, a lack of comment can be better than a spam comment, in my opinion. I don’t always comment on every post I see, because sometimes I simply don’t know what to say. A lack of comment may mean that the post is so great that it left us speachless! 🙂
I suspect you are right but I would point out that there are authors who seldom comment on any post even if you comment on theirs.
if I comment on someone’s post I don’t expect they will return that.
but If i do make the effort many times and comment, and they never even bother to comment I will be less likely to read more of their stuff.
By them not commenting, do you mean they read your posts but just don’t write comments, or do you mean they don’t come back to you at all?
I agree completely with your last sentence, lack of reciprocity can be very discouraging.
i mean they never comment, no matter how many of their posts you read they do not comment. Honestly if I like their posts I don’t care, I read them anyway. 🙂
Same here, if I like the posts, I read them. Sometimes it sucks when someone with whom you have interacted actively, stops showing up and is still active on the site, but you can’t force people to do something they don’t want. Let’s focus on the people who always make time for us, and show them our gratitude! 🙂
that is true, you cannot force people to change for the good or the bad.
I’m telling you, Doc. You should be a chief negotiator for world peace or something since you are able to receive responses from Virily. These posts are awesome.
thanks Pal! that was very kind of you to say. Not often but I do get the occasional reply
I believe you and I can’t edit a post to save my life.
i know it is possible Norman and Carol have been able to do so.
I would like to see a means of marking more than one page at a time as having been read in comments. I assume that when the change was made, the comments were reindexed. As a result, I now have several hundred pages of comments that I’ve already seen and responded to, going through one page at a time to mark them read is really time-consuming.
i think that would be a great addition to the list, will add it on the next run. Thanks Rex!
Good thing we have ppl like you here Doc. Thank you for everything. I have got the you are commenting too fast thingy, but that was last year. Hasnt happened since they raised the count on message size. I also haven’t noticed a slow down. But I have had problems leaving comments the first two days. Some I can comment on, others I cannot. There were quite a few posts I tried to comment on yesterday and nothing happens.
Anyway, I had to vote no on the first two. If we were able to delete comments then that opens up a problem as well. Have you ever been reading a post on FB and get to the comments and it looks like someone is talking to themselves? Very odd. I don’t think we should be able to delete comments.
A banner wouldve been nice, they can do that. Seen it before… Who knows why they haven’t but we all know communication is not their strong point. I clicked yes to the last one. The message it sends to me is that you liked the post, but were too busy to comment. Again, thank you for all you do!
I will respectfully disagree on deleting comments.
Not sure why you haven’t been able to comments on some posts.
Q: I would rather be able to delete comments by users, than block users?
Yes (11 votes) – 79%
No (3 votes) – 21%
Q: I am frustrated by the current slowness of the site?
Yes (3 votes) – 30%
No (7 votes) – 70%
Q: a banner telling us what is going on would be nice?
Yes (10 votes) – 91%
No (1 votes) – 9%
Q: By not commenting are you sending a message to the author?
Yes (3 votes) – 27%
No (8 votes) – 73%
i will send these along to the admin team thanks to everyone that voted!
At least we know they are working on the issues.
That is a great way to look at the change thank you!!!!
my outstanding issue remains the mystery of the vanishing content because it undermines the integrity of the site…
i haven’t had time to look yet, it is still an issue?
worse than ever. some posts got stripped out that weren’t even a week old…
in your profile go to menu
go to posts
are they still gone? you get the old site thumbnail view. I found all of my posts from last week there.
this is kinda new, they kept one image and lost all the rest
https://virily.com/art/coming-together-wip/
and this was yesterday’s post
that is an odd issue, i wonder if they have a DB config issue.
it would almost have to be
that makes me wonder. The good news is many of the new features work really well!!
yeah, it is a pretty decent upgrade
i often wonder
I once upgraded a companies email system. We sent out an email the day before the upgrade with a mandatory reply.
We got 10 back of the 11 sent. So I called the country manager.
“We haven’t gotten an email in a week,” he said.
I checked, their network was up.
They had a 100 meg file on their server that was saturating the network segment.
I laughed. Called the IT manager, “you know company policy files no bigger than 10 meg, you have a 100 meg file that is saturating your network.
just give a link to that file on an internal server
that was back in 2005 people hadn’t quite learned that little trick yet. 🙂 we had to delete the file, burn it to a CD and ship the CD.
guess they hadn’t heard of sneakernet. or was this offsite?
it was actually in a small European country. They (the office there) had a national holiday and closed for 4 days. They didn’t notice they weren’t getting mail.
Remember Groupwise>?
wasn’t he the Hobbit who went to Mordor with Frodo?
wow you did it again.
I almost fell off my chair laughing!
Tolkien based humor is a specialty of the house
i thought the house specialty was scaring people?
got a lot of specialties. notice the use of A and not THE…
i read the, my apologies. A is so much scarier in the end. We are going to stick with the.
stick to Tolkien humor and that’s it?
yes. Tolkien only humor!
🙂 The other side of dad jokes, yanking chains!
winding up the kids is a dad perk
it is how I start every day!!!!
it’s the most important meal of the day!
I am slowly discovering change. I’m happy with everything I use right now. I will slowly learn all the features. However, it is true that the site is working slowly.
it is very slow, I am glad things are working for you. After the create crisis, you deserve a site that just works!
Thank you very much. I’m happy too, but I have one problem again. “Gone” is my earnings for September and that’s why I didn’t get paid this month. I hope they at least answer me. As we know, communication is very poor. ?
that is a problem but you are not the only one in that situation. Lado has the same issue.
I hope I can resolve this issue. I already sent a message to the support
please let me know say Tuesday (same as I told Lado) I will happily send them a follow up message.
Thank you again. I’ll let you know.
please do – your comments and posts are really an important part of my day!
Thanks for sharing. Been navigating the new features but still trying to comprehend.
i know and understand that feeling. I am still trying to figure things out.
I by no means can get to the green branch … I keep getting behind … I can’t get anywhere in order
i am so sorry. I know this summer when we asked to have notification reduced (which they did in this release – yay) it would because of the fixed notifications help all of us.
It isn’t it hasn’t and honestly it is frustrating.
I just lost a little bit of willpower and have not received a payment this month when I should get one
i didn’t get paid when everyone else did (that is why I always tell people to not post the I got paid posts).
Support@virily.com send them an email and explain you were not paid but had enough in your account to be paid.
I already wrote to them … I should get paid for September and October together … September is just gone … it’s not even on the dashboard …. I got my last payment in September for August
this is why i do not like the posts about getting paid.
I am so sorry my friend, if you would like me to reach out to the admins I would be happy to do so.
Thank you so much, dear friend … I’ll wait to see if I ever get an answer … if I don’t get an answer I’ll really ask if you have more success
if you don’t get an answer by monday/tuesday next week let me know and I will email them
OK, dear friend … you really are a wonderful man
it seems Vidocka has the same issue as you!
Vidocka also has the same problem, dear friend
yes you both and a couple of other writers do
The changes were not so apparent to me because I’ve only been posting for around a week so hadn’t encountered many problems. I haven’t found it particularly slow though.
it is really slow and cumbersome.
Thanks for the update on the new site design, I would want to be able to make the print darker than always in grey. In some light the grey is hard to see.
i agree the type can be very hard to see!
Thanks for your observations. Haven’t spend as much time here today as usual and probably won’t except to post a few things and comment on some of my favorites. Yes, deleting comments might be as good as blocking users. And yes, not commenting, in my opinion, should send a message. 🙂
🙂 sounds like you are in the same boat I am. I did end up reading a lot of posts today. It was slow and frustrating!
I have other things going on, a big football game. Alabama vs Auburn. And realized I am on here way too much.
so am I! i picked bama over Auburn in our work pool this week
Thank you for the support Doc!
i cannot tell you how much that hurt! 🙂