Problems with member page

[LesLumens]

I have an easily verifiable history of running, coding, and moderating websites since the 90's under the name Darkniciad. I've actually rebuilt websites, web apps, and forum mods from the ground up several times.

There comes a point where you have to concentrate on the real fix and stop sticking bandaids over the bullet holes in the old stuff.

 

[sr71plt]

There comes a point where you have to concentrate on the real fix and stop sticking bandaids over the bullet holes in the old stuff.

Again, updating content is not the same thing as redoing the system structure, and in the eleven years I've been here, no bandaids have been applied to the content.

Systems changes are not required to answer your emails or to just drop the "Ask Whoever" feature or to either update or drop the news headlines (the latest of which is from June 2016) or stop pretending that the "Favorite" page is a sneak peek coming attraction or to drop references to a Web site anthology that hasn't been published for years or to either clean out the Voluntary Editor index or drive a stake through the heart of that "just pretend for the sponsors" program or to stop pretending you have a functioning chat service or to update your forum guidelines to actual practice or several other broken functions in the content.

Again you are ignoring my points--obviously on purpose because for the Web site to pretend that it has all of these marvelous content functions that it doesn't actually have makes it more attractive to advertisers or potential buyers.

And, again, for I hope the last time, there's no reason to continue telling you that you aren't addressing my points (and those made up the line by others) in the least.

 

[LesLumens]

No, you're ignoring the fact that this is one case where I have decades of experience in an area and you have none.

You continue to trot out this "ads and sponsors" thing as if it's relevant, when anyone who pays even the slightest attention knows that the same ads for a Literotica branded live chat portal and a Literotica branded adult toy store are the only ads on the site, and have been for years.

If they were shopping for advertisers, they could have them on their top 2000 Google ranking alone.

 

[sr71plt]

Why don't you take all of your experience and volunteer to clean up the content of the Web site? And/or volunteer to read and respond to the "contact" buttons. Maybe they can give you yet another name to post under.

Because you certainly don't know how to address my actual points. Bye.

 

[LesLumens]

That's another place where you're being disingenuous. There have been a significant number of changes to the FAQs and information pages over the years, clarifying and updating them. I did in fact suggest some of those changes.

I've also helped in tracking down bugs by providing information from across a wide variety of browsers, devices, and situations.

To paraphrase one of your favorite lines, there's nothing the people you're yammering at on the forum can do to fix anything. You need to take that to the source.

I've been doing that for years. Almost as long as I've been here.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, goody. You've fallen way behind then. Fern hasn't answered a question since 2006. Earn that fifth name. Get out there with your cleanup tools. Don't forget to take your pom poms too.

 

[NotWise]

Well, goody. You've fallen way behind then. Fern hasn't answered a question since 2006. Earn that fifth name. Get out there with your cleanup tools. Don't forget to take your pom poms too.

When was the last time you needed to ask Fern a question? Or is the one line on the story index page always in your way? Or what? You've brought that link up before and I don't understand how it became so important to you.

 

[sr71plt]

When was the last time you needed to ask Fern a question? Or is the one line on the story index page always in your way? Or what? You've brought that link up before and I don't understand how it became so important to you.

It's an easy function to point to as obsolete and failure to clean up the content. Sorry if that's too subtle for you. The failure to answer the "contact" buttons is, of course, more important and leans more heavily on those of us in the forum who have to constantly tell new users that the e-mails aren't read and they have to PM. But no one seems to care about that or to be able to see the failure to clean up content with that example like they can with the "Ask Aspasia and Fern" feature prominently displayed on the home page.

But back to my original post here. I can't get all that excited about a new look to the author control page or the constant promise for a decade that an overhaul is about to drop when there's no effort to clean up the content of the Web site.

 

[LesLumens]

Actually, Laurel gets site emails through that address every single day. She's said as much. I've also had one go through way back in the day.

It's not so much broken as it is behind a thick anti-spam wall that not everyone bothers to follow through on. Either that or they don't understand/miss the confirmation email.

It's far easier to direct people to the PM function here once they've actually shown up here, and therefore have an account to do so.

I also see what I think is groundwork being put in place to replace it with a form-based method that can be protected with more widely known and understood anti-spam methods. Can't say that for sure, but it's what certain development elements I've seen rolled out seem to be pointing to.