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| Stephen | Oct 18 2014, 05:15 PM Post #31 |
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Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall.
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The difference between then and now is this. When we started, the service was support board driven. It is now TICKET driven. When we started, certain forums required registration to view. They don't now. When we started, documentation was just beginning and was not as thorough. It is now. So for most board owners, they get what they need but it doesn't necessarily require registering on this board to get it. They come when there is a problem generally. So board owners are replaced. New blood does exist. Plenty of communities across this network are doing just fine. Some of our largest have nothing to do with forum services - sports, rpg etc. The servers. I am on an s11 board daily. It's one of the communities I am part of. So too are other support team members. While we are well aware of issues with servers, these are minimal. Especially from the point of view of someone who can recall the old server crashes and issues we've had. There is no loss of data. The down time is not hours on end. The problems are caught and resolved quickly. But this is the trade off for a free service. All we can continue to do is mitigate these issues, protect the data and reduce the downtime that occurs. As to your last comment, the fundamental flaw in this is that Zetaboards is NOT a standalone software. It was never designed with one single message board in mind. It was designed with thousands in mind. So to make that data valuable, it would actually have to be put into a structure that makes it useful for the owner. It would have to be dumped in a way that doesn't cause stress on the servers. And it would need to be done in an easier way. Because the cost is time. Time away from bettering this service. These are not conversations that I'm unfamiliar with. We've already mentioned that there are things going on behind the scenes- some you've already seen the results of and some you will see soon. That's why I argue the service is not only very much alive, but actually growing. |
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| Moonface | Oct 18 2014, 05:16 PM Post #32 |
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I agree on the surface, it can be off putting. This is why earlier I made mention of the fact two newly made boards, both on S11 which we all know has its fair share of problems nowadays with DDoS attacks, managed to create a community large and successful enough to place very well in a large site battle. While there are problems, it doesn't necessarily spell immediate doom to any board made on it, but at the same time, this isn't something very obvious to users of the service nor does it make the problems excusable. |
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| Billamen | Oct 19 2014, 07:11 PM Post #33 |
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By nature, this board will have a large amount of viewers that don't register. I would say that the activity on this board, although mostly guests, is alive and well. I have watched the online list and see lots of people viewing topics. This board can be a spectator sport, you can easily learn a whole lot just by reading and not registering. Registering for a lot of people takes longer than finding what they want to learn about. |
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| mickawall | Oct 19 2014, 08:11 PM Post #34 |
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This. Zeta/Invision failed to keep up with changing times re mobile apps etc. Brandon and the powers that be thought they had it made and failed to adapt. |
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| skyline. | Oct 22 2014, 04:03 PM Post #35 |
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Zetaboards is merely going through a phase, no big deal. |
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