Any Improvements?

[Howsie]

Bit more than a couple. I don't know what's worse. Bigfooty or PC.

Yea I tried coming on at around four and it wasn't working. Tried again at 8:30ish and it was still down.

 

[The_gas]

Please bring back Angry Pixel and creed. This forum needs creed.

 

[King Cricket]

Yea I tried coming on at around four and it wasn't working. Tried again at 8:30ish and it was still down.

Same here. I tried coming at 10:30 AM IST, then again around 2:00 PM/2:30 PM IST- same thing! It was one gigantic collapse.

 

[MaD]

Yeah I kept getting a database error about 12 hours ago

 

[KBC]

I'm always on the right time. When the soars ended, I was on PC.

 

[Biggy]

Well done WHM! Everything looking good.

 

[Sartaj]

I was wondering if something can be done (i'm sure you guys are trying your best) to prevent the server from going down.
This is happening very frequently nowadays much to everybody's disappointment.

 

[KBC]

It happened often the index page doesn't update. Takes up 30 mins to 1 hour at times.

 

[cnbd_novice]

What's the idea for non-English posts(or VM)? Straight to Report?

cnbd_novice added 9 Minutes and 17 Seconds later...

Shouldn't there be an announcement about the Cricket Revolution demo?

 

[MattW]

What's the idea for non-English posts(or VM)? Straight to Report?

Would be preferable.

Shouldn't there be an announcement about the Cricket Revolution demo?

There's a Cricket Revolution demo?

 

[Gurjot95]

There's a Cricket Revolution demo?

Download the Cricket Revolution Demo! - Page 4 - PlanetCricket Forums

 

[Themer]

Why has the layout been altered? I much prefered Cricket Coach and ICC where they were.

 

[Simbazz]

Why has the layout been altered? I much prefered Cricket Coach and ICC where they were.

Too much going on in the cricsim part. Can't Battrick become a sub-forum like the FTP thing? I know Battrick is quite active but it'd make sense. The forums need cutting down in my opinion. Bit unwilling to navigate them at the moment.

 

[MattW]

The forums need cutting down in my opinion.

Indeed they do, but really it has to be a matter of small steps.

In the survey we just ran, everyone on the face of it said, everything is fine as it is, don't change the layout. But afterward added in 'but you should do this...', and it left us with a lot of things to consider.

The main reason for this change was to have a more logical separation of the cricket games, it means that ICC is down 3 spots, and CC is down one on the original layout. But overall means every game is in a category that should make some sense. We didn't want to just move Cricket Revolution up and just keep making that section longer and longer.

There is a lot of longer term planning going on to try and increase discussion and attempt to resolve some of the issues with the forums as they are currently.

The huge amounts of different cricket leagues and fantasy competitions is something to work on, but that shouldn't be by picking one thing at the expense of others. The discussions on the future of the PCCL would have an impact here, and whether anything useful comes out of someone playing in 20 different leagues and stories at once. More to the point, whether anyone is able to navigate those areas and have any idea what they are doing.

Then of course there are important sections of the site that are really lagging in activity, or areas of the site that the PlanetCricket staff would like to see grow in activity.

There are also areas of the site that may well be killed off, NET&G I'm looking at you. But there are also other things like reevaluating the need for the Education forum, an option there I'd like to put out here is to turn it into a Yahoo Answers like section and just have question threads, on any matters (hopefully somewhat related to Cricket and Gaming). Moving the how are you doing at school stuff to General again.

Anyway, that's a huge lump of text for what could have been a simple answer of 'because I can' . But if you do read it, feel free to comment on it, the only way the forums can improve for users is to know what you want and for us to work out the best way to deliver it.

 

[Simbazz]

I go on a website called, "The Student Room," a little. And its a huge site, something like 7th most popular site in the UK, and they have a lot of stuff on there, but most of it works well. Maybe the guys in red could have a look around as see how huge forums do things?