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Subject: Re: By the way, it's official: UIUC Newsgroups getting cancelled

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Akito

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Date Posted: 22:28:59 05/16/03 Fri
In reply to: Matt H. 's message, "Re: By the way, it's official: UIUC Newsgroups getting cancelled" on 19:38:43 05/12/03 Mon

Sometimes the forum is pretty slow, which means that I give up reading the forum whenever it takes too long to load. I don't know about other people, but bad response time can easily drive away new users. That could be why there are just a dozen regular posters and very few new faces here.

I think the biggest feature that's lacking in the forum is that there is no "View All" feature. The forum is very modem friendly, but for high-speed users, I'd perfer an option to display all the posts in a thread at the same time, so I don't have to click and wait for it to load every post individually. Yes... i'm lazy. :)

Now having said all that, I don't really have an alternative either. UBB is nice, but it's not free. Dena, didn't you mention a while back that the owner of anime.net might install some forum software?

>This forum seems to be working well, especially with
>the high amount of traffic. As an alumni, this forum
>is absolutely the best thing to still keep up with
>JAC. It's great to see how the club is going, and get
>opinions from the club whom I spent 3+ years with.
>
>Of course, there are more complicated forums out
>there, but for JAC's purposes and need to save
>resources and money, this is perfectly fine. I would
>guess that the memebers would rather spend more on the
>anime and the JAC experience itself than on the forums
>for minimal improvements/preferences. It probably
>isn't cost effective.
>
>The effectiveness of something can be looked at how
>much it is used. JAC could go to the most complicated
>forum, with personal information, etc. But if no one
>uses it (not saying that no one will, but just
>throwing out the possibility) then it would not be an
>effective decision. In this case as Dena pointed out,
>the forums are doing very well. Of course,
>improvements should be examined, but it's obvious that
>a large amount of research went into it, so why change
>something if it isn't broken and successful?
>
>Matt

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