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Can you guys please test your code before rolling it out next time?
Rolling out a new web-based product or service should not, in any sort of professional production environment, break half of your web clients in the first 24 hours. It makes absolutely no sense that there was not sufficient testing done before rolling out the new forum software.
Now that I can see the new comments in IE, they're still a hopeless mess that takes whole minutes at a time to load. It's slow, buggy, and unattractive. This is not production-ready code. This is barely an alpha.
I am very, very disappointed, and yet completely unsurprised. Gawker code has been a mess for nearly a year now. It stopped being snappy and responsive sometime last summer, and the quality just went downhill from there.
I'm not a paying customer, and I'm sure it makes no difference to you whether or not I take my business elsewhere, and I doubt this will even be read by any of the Gawker Tech staff. All I can say is, I guess I should have known that the new commenting system would have been a massive mess.
Now that I can see the new comments in IE, they're still a hopeless mess that takes whole minutes at a time to load. It's slow, buggy, and unattractive. This is not production-ready code. This is barely an alpha.
I am very, very disappointed, and yet completely unsurprised. Gawker code has been a mess for nearly a year now. It stopped being snappy and responsive sometime last summer, and the quality just went downhill from there.
I'm not a paying customer, and I'm sure it makes no difference to you whether or not I take my business elsewhere, and I doubt this will even be read by any of the Gawker Tech staff. All I can say is, I guess I should have known that the new commenting system would have been a massive mess.
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Inappropriate?The new commenting system sucks. At first, it did not work. Now it makes my computer hang while it does not work. And now, at least on Jalopnik, there is a "my comments are superior to yours because I waste all day on your site" rating system that does not allow the average person to be heard unless they have a gold star thingy or are promoted by someone that wastes all day on the site. So now the site is becoming completely clique-ish and of one mind. No thanks, time to start looking elsewhere.
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Inappropriate?Bugs upon bugs aside, in addition to testing stuff like this before rolling it out, how about getting some user reviews/feedback? Maybe they would've realized rather quickly then, just how bitter of a taste it leaves in people's mouths to see that their comments will likely get completely ignored unless someone who previously won a popularity contest happens to read it and grace it with a response.
Maybe on some gawker sites, hiding/dimming non-star comments works well, but on Lifehacker particularly, the non-starred commenters sometimes have the most useful things to say. Now with comments 2.0, suddenly all gawker sites are elitist, catering to the snappy comebackers and trying their best to shun many people with something actually valuable to say. If you were looking for a way to kill lifehacker, well congratulations, you might've found it here.
I’m increasingly amazed at the level of fail of gawker developers.
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Inappropriate?Agreed wholeheartedly. I see that some people are posting comments but those comments are still not loading. In addition, certain threads shut down the site. I am uncertain if is it the non-starred commenters that are having the most issues or not since I can't see the comments. But it is frustrating that the one and only response sent out by ANYONE was that it was fixed when it clearly isn't. There is not one thread started that acknowledges the problem with a "We are working on it" type of generic message.
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Inappropriate?The new commenting system is just blah...if I post something, I know there is no way my comment is gonna be seen unless someone scrolls to the 1,000th page
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