what is this login shit

[TagMor]

I will miss your insightful and intelligent replies.


So how many days/weeks of 0 new player registrations until you can stop annoying hte fuck out of the forum community?

[Foreign]

Sorry in advance for the long post, but I think you guys ought to learn a few things about proper design principles. Consider this my donation to trench wars for the moment.

I was frustrated by this change to the site. It took me about 5 times shrugging and logging in before I, as a typical user, realized what this screen was trying to tell me. Here's why:

1. People really don't read much of anything besides the content they're looking for (for proof, observe how many people respond to this post with something along the lines of TL;DR).
2. People especially don't read big blocks of text they didn't expect to see. Most will look for the OK button and, when it isn't there, panic (go ahead, try this screen out on 4-5 of your friends).
3. If it was unexpected AND you didn't give me an easy way out by clicking a button somewhere (not even a log in button), congratulations on the bug you have in your product because your program model no longer matches the user model.

So when I visit my 3rd thread (oh yeah, it doesn't happen right away, complete sucker-punch) and this strange dialog that I'm sure someone spent several hours wording "just so" appears on my screen, with the closest things that looks like buttons being the page theme and language selectors, I now have a problem. Now I (as someone who is both intelligent and determined) get to read this giant blob that I care little about just to figure out what I need to do to see the thread I'm trying to view. The user you're targeting with your gimmick is going to lose interest way quicker.

I understand what you're trying to accomplish with the new screen, but you're not even leading me to the links you've sparingly added to the paragraph. That's because they look just like the text in the rest of the paragraph unless I mouse over them.

So, you've basically accomplished two things you never intended to do:
1. Annoying most of your actual users
2. Driving away all the genuine guests with a screen that doesn't reach coherence within the first 10 seconds.

[Jason]

the system was implemented long before i ever came into the picture. i can talk it over with dez and m_m and see what they think about removing it.

not really my cup of tea to be so involved in all this policy decision-making, ugh.

[Downfall]

The forums aren't gaining posts by the minute, and it sucks to login just to read 1 or 2 posts, which likely are not of much value.

[Jerome Scuggs]

um i just skimmed over this but i feel like some of the ppl in this thread might benefit from using the .net instead of .org domain. i have always noticed a peculiarity in TWForums and logging in/cookies, andsomeone pointed out the .org/.net difference in another thread and ever since ive become aware basically havn't had to login.

sometimes i type in "for" and hit enter and my browser automatically takes me to forums.trenchwars.org where i am not logged in, but then i always click "new posts" and as soon as i do i goto the results page and i am logged in.

[Supreme]

Yeah I do that too, have no idea what youre talking ab'ut

[Bioture]

Let's build a giant electrified fence along our border to keep the mexicans out.

[Money]

im hard

[the_paul]

yeah theres something wrongn with .org, don't use it. .net works perfectly though

[Mobey]

posting from .org server via convo app for android, looks like its working perfectly. I'm always logged in via .net elsewhere though.

[Soup du Jour]

There are currently 2 users browsing this thread. (1 members and 1 guests)

How come guests can still view threads?

[Jason]

there is an add-on currently enabled called "limited guest viewing" and it's set to a stupidly low threshold of 3 threads. that means a guest can view 3 threads before they'll get the message you encountered, pd.

i would like to just go ahead and disable the add-on, but whenever i do things like that (just take care of business) i always get flak for not checking with others first. so i'm gonna see if i can get consensus from other forum admins.

[Pressure Drop]

other ppl have pretty much summed up what actually annoys me about it

it's the concious change trying to force a positive impact but actually likely being negative

that if you are forced to register you'll post and become part of the game and better forums, i dont see it like that, if you want to post you'll register and if you dont you should be able to just browse otherwise you are putting ppl off reading them

if you are just mildly curious about the forums many ppl browse them before deciding they want to join in and voice their opinions, you can link to things in game chat and ppl who've never signed into the forums instead of being put off by having to register.

for me personally it's not a big deal i can set my browser to remember me, but i dont get why bother changing it to this

if we were being attacked by spam bots fair enough, or now it's a private forum can we finally swap torrent links :P

[Ilya]

yeah its fine pdrop

[Pressure Drop]

Will this be of help?

https://lastpass.com/

hmm i'm too paranoid for that

yet not to paranoid to save my passwords in an encrypted file , decrypt it totaly forget about leave it as a txt file and then see it and go meh