Anybody else having trouble with a certain site?

[gunhilltrain]

You would know the one. It has 500,00 members and only 60,000 stories, a more modern look than Lit, it's very popular with its chat rooms, and they actually have enough mods to proofread most stories.

Well, about four days ago, they moved to a new platform; the same type used by a sister site, so it already existed. After four days I, and a lot of other people can't log in, or can only partially access the site. I have been able to email with them, and they are banging away at the code.

I know programming is difficult, but this didn't seem to require a lot of innovation. So what do you think went wrong? Did I underestimate the size of the project?

Imagine if Lit tried something similar. I don't want to know what that would be like.

 

[NotWise]

Golly no. I've had no problem with any certain site.

 

[KeithD]

And if I was having trouble with a certain site, I don't think I'd come to a competing site to discuss it.

 

[Lady2020]

Porn sites. The last frontier.

 

[KeithD]

Porn sites. The last frontier.

Welcome to the frontier.

 

[RejectReality]

Yeah, it's terrible.

I'm going to give it a couple of weeks and see what happens. As it stands, pretty much everything I do there is broken and/or induces eye bleeding.

I like the notification bell. I guess that's something.

I've got to spend time this weekend writing a script to update my website story database because they've changed the story URL format.

Seriously leans way too hard into the social aspects which I have virtually zero interest in. The story part of the site feels as if it was an afterthought. Completely ass-backwards as far as I'm concerned.

As to logging in, as things stand, you need to complete the Tinder-esque portions of your profile in order to get off that screen to the rest of the site. Set your location to somewhere far away and sparsely populated, the distance to the minimum, and your preferences to the opposite gender's same sex orientation between ages of 99-100 to avoid your feed getting filled with "matches" and updates from them. ( If you're listed as male, say you're looking for lesbians 99-100 in Bum-fucked Wyoming, for example. )

 

[gunhilltrain]

And if I was having trouble with a certain site, I don't think I'd come to a competing site to discuss it.

Why not? I don't owe them anything. I am providing them with free content; they are not my employer. Let them come here and read it if they wish, although I suspect they are way too busy right now to do that.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Yeah, it's terrible.

I'm going to give it a couple of weeks and see what happens. As it stands, pretty much everything I do there is broken and/or induces eye bleeding.

I like the notification bell. I guess that's something.

I've got to spend time this weekend writing a script to update my website story database because they've changed the story URL format.

Seriously leans way too hard into the social aspects which I have virtually zero interest in. The story part of the site feels as if it was an afterthought. Completely ass-backwards as far as I'm concerned.

As to logging in, as things stand, you need to complete the Tinder-esque portions of your profile in order to get off that screen to the rest of the site. Set your location to somewhere far away and sparsely populated, the distance to the minimum, and your preferences to the opposite gender's same sex orientation between ages of 99-100 to avoid your feed getting filled with "matches" and updates from them. ( If you're listed as male, say you're looking for lesbians 99-100 in Bum-fucked Wyoming, for example. )

Thank you for your input. I don't always get the new profile page; often it's a 410 error (come back later) or 404 error (page not found). As for creating a new profile: the site already recognizes my avatar (it often appears in the menu bar) and my user name (which often, but not always, appears in the log-in box).

They promised that all we would have to do is remember our user names and passwords, and log in. If they want to concentrate on social networking, that's fine with me. I'm not very knowledgeable about programming or web sites (I've written a few lines of script and never want to do it again). It seemed like what they were trying to do was a big job but not bleeding-edge technology.

Sheer incompetence on the part of their programmers? At least it wasn't like the computers on the new version of the Boeing 737; that killed a lot of people.

 

[SyleusSnow]

They really screwed up the roll out, but what's worse is the layout and design. The typography for stories is appalling. Makes reading for more than a few seconds tiring.

Looks like the site now exists mainly to drive traffic to their swingers site.

I'll also give them a week or two then will yank my stories off there for good.

It's too bad. The audience there is much smaller that Lit but their response and comments are very different. A popular story here often got yawns there, and one low scoring story here got a huge reception over there. Gave a valuable second perspective.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't know what site you guys are talking about, but sounds like a good one not to post at.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I don't know what site you guys are talking about, but sounds like a good one not to post at.

I'll PM you if you wish; someone already did. (Lit discourages references to competing sites, and possibly to other sites of any kind.) I was there for over two years, and everything was going fine until this week. For some reason they had to switch to the same type of platform as a sister site. I doubt it was done for cost-saving reasons.

P.S.: Probably I'm wrong about just any site. I know I've posted links here to various places.

 

[gunhilltrain]

They really screwed up the roll out, but what's worse is the layout and design. The typography for stories is appalling. Makes reading for more than a few seconds tiring.

Looks like the site now exists mainly to drive traffic to their swingers site.

I'll also give them a week or two then will yank my stories off there for good.

It's too bad. The audience there is much smaller that Lit but their response and comments are very different. A popular story here often got yawns there, and one low scoring story here got a huge reception over there. Gave a valuable second perspective.

I agree with you, although I haven't really examined the typography yet. I had forty-nine stories there. Several were completely revised (as to plots) versions of older Lit stories.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'll PM you if you wish; someone already did. (Lit discourages references to competing sites, and possibly to other sites of any kind.) I was there for over two years, and everything was going fine until this week. For some reason they had to switch to the same type of platform as a sister site. I doubt it was done for cost-saving reasons.

P.S.: Probably I'm wrong about just any site. I know I've posted links here to various places.

Please do, I'm every so curious about the site now.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Please do, I'm every so curious about the site now.

Okay, I'll send it to you. I'm not sure how much you can see without actually joining. Sometimes I can see the home page, sometimes just the membership form.

 

[lovecraft68]

I like how everyone is going to pretend this site doesn't go haywire whenever they make a change.

 

[jsmiam]

Regarding glitches with something new, that’s not all that uncommon.

I would have to agree with the thought process of some here, that it feels a little wrong to (even with no names) hype up some where else (not the glitches, the other stuff). It’s less wrong to discuss sites where money is involved, but to be fair to Lit (speaking of bad programmers ) for head to head competitors, my personal view is dance with the one that brung ya, at least while dancing on their dance floor

 

[gunhilltrain]

I like how everyone is going to pretend this site doesn't go haywire whenever they make a change.

I don't think I've ever been involved with a site that did it. Of course, for the vast majority of sites of all kinds, I only read them; I only contribute to a few.

They did promise that it would go fine. They even delayed the change for at least two weeks. There was nothing I could do but wait for it to happen.

P.S: There is a site that did have a major overhaul recently. You have to log-in to make a comment, but I never bothered with that.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Regarding glitches with something new, that’s not all that uncommon.

I would have to agree with the thought process of some here, that it feels a little wrong to (even with no names) hype up some where else (not the glitches, the other stuff). It’s less wrong to discuss sites where money is involved, but to be fair to Lit (speaking of bad programmers ) for head to head competitors, my personal view is dance with the one that brung ya, at least while dancing on their dance floor

That's okay if they don't want other sites mentioned. And the programming at Lit may be a bit old, but it works well enough.

At the risk of digressing: speaking of glitches in something new, I like this scene in A Night to Remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpEdSPHybI&t=18s

Probably the dialogue was reimagined, since neither survived. In any case, neither one blames the other for the mistakes each made. Also, I think Smith actually went with Andrews to examine the damage.

 

[KeithD]

Why not? I don't owe them anything. I am providing them with free content; they are not my employer. Let them come here and read it if they wish, although I suspect they are way too busy right now to do that.

So, you own a diner and you'd be fine with a diner--not your employee and paying for his meal--pulling out posters for another restaurant and, using your facilities, walking around telling other diners what's going on at the competing restaurant down the street. Well, OK. Very bad form, but, hey, you gotta do you.

 

[SyleusSnow]

So, you own a diner and you'd be fine with a diner--not your employee and paying for his meal--pulling out posters for another restaurant and, using your facilities, walking around telling other diners what's going on at the competing restaurant down the street. Well, OK. Very bad form, but, hey, you gotta do you.

A more apt analogy would be the patron complaining to their friends at the same table that the competing restaurant that was never very good has now turned into a sleazy pick-up joint with terrible food and new eye-blistering interior design

 

[jaF0]

I dunno nuttin' 'bout no wheres.

 

[PBAnnie]

Porn sites. The last frontier.

I thought they were the first frontier and closely related to the oldest profession.

 

[gunhilltrain]

So, you own a diner and you'd be fine with a diner--not your employee and paying for his meal--pulling out posters for another restaurant and, using your facilities, walking around telling other diners what's going on at the competing restaurant down the street. Well, OK. Very bad form, but, hey, you gotta do you.

People write reviews on Yelp and other places all the time. You can go back to Consumer Reports and people would vote on various products. There are also whistle-blowers inside various companies and public agencies exposing things, and often they are correct.

Sales of the Yugo collapsed because it was such a terrible car and people talked about it. Too bad for the company that made them, Zastava. East Germany probably got away with the Trabant for so long because the press was censored.

This isn't East Germany or North Korea. A literature site has no claims to confidentiality like, say, national security. They boasted about themselves and how much better they were going to be, and then they couldn't deliver.

Speaking of diners, the reports of heath inspectors are are part of the public record and are published in some newspapers.

 

[SimonDoom]

So, you own a diner and you'd be fine with a diner--not your employee and paying for his meal--pulling out posters for another restaurant and, using your facilities, walking around telling other diners what's going on at the competing restaurant down the street. Well, OK. Very bad form, but, hey, you gotta do you.

I don't think the analogy quite holds. It's not like two restaurants, where if you eat at one you aren't going to eat at the other, at least for a while. Social media is totally different. It's more like a Facebook thread where people are complaining about TikTok. That's a totally kosher thing to do.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I don't think the analogy quite holds. It's not like two restaurants, where if you eat at one you aren't going to eat at the other, at least for a while. Social media is totally different. It's more like a Facebook thread where people are complaining about TikTok. That's a totally kosher thing to do.

It doesn't even hold for restaurants. If you are open to the public, then you have to accept that you are open to criticism.

Even if you are not technically open to the public - like the auto parts maker Dana Corporation - then your employees may expose unsafe conditions inside the plants. They seem to have documented it fairly well.