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Too many deadends
Posted by bbrowniii on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:03 PM

I understand that, since the change over, the staff at FSM has worked to improve the more onerous aspects of the site.  I've piped down the last couple of months in an effort to see how things went and to get a long term impression.

Here are my current issues with the site (primarily with navigation):

1) There are way too many 'deadends'.  I know the breadcrumbs were added, but there is no consistency with what breadcrumbs I will get.  For example, if I pop into 'My Forum Discussions', the only breadcrumbs I get are 'Home>>My Forums', so if there is no activity in any of my forums discussions (or nothing that I am interested in, I can't easily navigate out.  Everything requires an extra click or to go 'somewhere else' to get where I am going.  So, again, to this example.  I pop into 'My Forum Discussions' and find nothing I want to check out, but now I want to go somewhere else in the forum.  I glance up at the breadcrumbs.... no dice there... OK... now what... OH, wait, if I go to the 'Forum & Community' pulldown, I can get back to the 'Forums' page there.... what a PITA.

The same thing happens when you check to see who is on-line.  You get breadcrumbs that are a complete deadend...

2) Why, when I click on the 'My Friends' link, does it take me to the page for dealing with friends requests, thus requiring an additional select and click to actually get to my list of freinds?

There are several additional annoying little deadends like that throughout the forum.  It'd be great if they could be cleaned up a bit.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by Megan McChain on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:12 PM

Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look into these suggestions.

Megan, FSM

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Posted by bbrowniii on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:16 PM

I appreciate it Megan.  Thanks for getting back so soon.

Hey one other suggestion - you might consider making the Forum Rules and Regs thread a sticky.  Currently, since it is older than six months, it does not automatically show up.  Unless someone knows how to sort and filter, they'll never see it.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:19 PM

The Forum has rules??????  Dunce

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Posted by bbrowniii on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:21 PM

They're more like guidelines... Pirate

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by JMart on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:28 PM

One deadend I keep finding (no, not THAT thread! lol)... is when I get an email notification, then click on the link... click to respond but I am not logged in. Sometimes I am sent to the main Kalmback main page, with no way to get to the FSM main page once you log onto the Klambach page (basically your account information). Therefore, I have to login, close the page, go back to the email, click on linky, redo again.

 

 

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:45 PM

Manstein's revenge

The Forum has rules??????  Dunce

Alles in Ordnung, Hauptsturmführer Manny ! Captain

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Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:47 PM

Strange. I get my list of friends when I click the "your friends" link, and clicking on the thread link sends me to the thread.

I did have an earlier problem where I couldn't log in <was that ever scary!? I thought I got banned somehow!>, but it's working fine. Hope they get the issues worked out in time for the next big forum change! Geeked

So long folks!

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:51 PM

Bgrigg

Strange. I get my list of friends when I click the "your friends" link, and clicking on the thread link sends me to the thread.

I did have an earlier problem where I couldn't log in <was that ever scary!? I thought I got banned somehow!>, but it's working fine. Hope they get the issues worked out in time for the next big forum change! Geeked

Posts seem a bit slower to display after writing to the server. but posts are listed correctly as registered

Regarding being unable to log in: I noticed only one was logged in at a time, and not the same profile.

OMG....Who would we argue with  ! LOL

 

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  • From: 41 Degrees 52.4 minutes North; 72 Degrees 7.3 minutes West
Posted by bbrowniii on Monday, March 29, 2010 3:52 PM

Bgrigg

I did have an earlier problem where I couldn't log in <was that ever scary!?

Bill was that earlier today?  I had a similar issue...

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, March 29, 2010 4:09 PM

Yeah, started around 10:30 PST. The forums were there, and neither of me could log in to post!

The HORROR!

So long folks!

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Posted by padakr on Monday, March 29, 2010 5:38 PM

bbrowniii

They're more like guidelines... Pirate

LOL! Good one!

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Posted by soulcrusher on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:45 AM

bbrowniii

They're more like guidelines... Pirate

Any man that falls behind is left behind.

I feel sorry for the FSM staff. Whoever sold them this web format sold them a lemon. They can patch it up and try to fix certain things for us but in the end it is still just going to be a pig with lipstick on it. If there were not so many good people here it would be easier to just walk away so I guess we all just have to play the hand we are delt.

                                                                                                                     Soulcrusher:buttkick:

 

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