I sure hope you are right about a newbie finding a closed forum. I guess I am a minority, I found the forums pretty quickly, but I think I stumbled across them.
I keep thinking there has to be other ways to cut down on the bandwith used, rather then shutting down the forums. I know there's been conversations about this in the past, until everyone is blue in the face, so I won't start it again. But..honestly abrupt shut downs like this are a bit annoying. I don't mind buying wings when *I* want to buy them. Thanks for the link regarding the restrictions. I didn't even see that. --- ecrust2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, there *is* a news item about the restrictions > on the site's main > page ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/newscontent/378 > ), so people can > see it without forum access. It's true that this > happened without > warning, but that's because the site was suffering > increasing timeouts > on essential operations such as book-registration > and journaling, and > as a short-term way of making more site resources > available to those > features the forum-limitation was imposed. (I > believe that Ron's been > out of town and thus can't do much beyond a few > remote-access tweaks > to the site, which probably explains why there > hasn't been more of a > response yet.) > > Re newbies and the forums: while it would be a shame > if new members > were put off of the site because of the forum > limitation, I suspect > that the vast majority of new BCers don't even know > that there *are* > forums; most of them find a book and journal it, and > sometimes decide > to register a few books of their own, without ever > going any deeper > into the site... And if someone found a book and > came to the site and > got a timeout message trying to journal the book, I > think that'd be > more likely to put them off of BC than not being > able to see the > forums. So, for the time being, I think it's a valid > tradeoff - but of > course I hope that the site's performance can be > improved and the > forum-restriction lifted as soon as possible! > > -GoryDetails > > Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: > http://bookcrossing.com/friend/GoryDetails > > --- In [email protected], Jen in NE > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > The worst part is that this happened totally out > of > > the blue, without any warning. In the past we've > at > > least gotten a heads up. Not even a mention of > the > > forums being down on the homepage or even a little > > hint of an estimation of when it'll be restored. > > > > BC needs to work on notification and user > awareness > > skills. Im glad Im not a newbie just finding BC > now > > and walk into this mess, I am guessing at least > 90% of > > newbies who find the site today, then realize they > > can't get in the forums, won't come back. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
