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Kewpie

Felis Australis

Site Ideas

20 Mar 12

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 390151

20 Mar 12

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Something I'd like to see displayed when I arrive at my first RHP screen of the day (in my case, it's the MyGames page):
"please check the latest news in the Announcements Forum" (with a clickable link of course)

as a one-off for each player each time Russ places a new thread in the Announcements Forum.

It would mean the whole site would be aware of new happenings (such as the Android option) rather than just that minority of players who happen to frequent the forums.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 390151

23 Mar 12

Wow! Hadn't expected such a non-response. Doesn't anyone else get sick of having to explain stuff to people who never read forums?

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

25 Mar 12

Originally posted by Kewpie
Wow! Hadn't expected such a non-response. Doesn't anyone else get sick of having to explain stuff to people who never read forums?

How about the best solution? Just... don't. Refer them to the forum and let them work it out for themselves. They are, after all, chess players; they should have at least the minimal intelligence required to read a FAQ.

Richard

venda

Dave

S.Yorks.England

Joined: 18 Apr 10
Moves: 86154

25 Mar 12

Originally posted by Kewpie
Something I'd like to see displayed when I arrive at my first RHP screen of the day (in my case, it's the MyGames page):
"please check the latest news in the Announcements Forum" (with a clickable link of course)

as a one-off for each player each time Russ places a new thread in the Announcements Forum.

It would mean the whole site would be aware of ne ...[text shortened]... Android option) rather than just that minority of players who happen to frequent the forums.

I suspect a lot of people would simply leave such a message unread until it dissappeared.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 669867

27 Mar 12

Originally posted by Kewpie
Wow! Hadn't expected such a non-response. Doesn't anyone else get sick of having to explain stuff to people who never read forums?

Indeed it's a good idea and has collected 4 thumbs up, so no problem.

If people would react to such a message is a different debate

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

28 Mar 12

Originally posted by venda
I suspect a lot of people would simply leave such a message unread until it dissappeared.

Particularly the kind of people who don't read the forums to begin with. So the people it's supposed to reach, it is most likely not to.

Richard

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 669867

28 Mar 12

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Particularly the kind of people who don't read the forums to begin with. So the people it's supposed to reach, it is most likely not to.

Richard

In fact I think that many more people read their messages than the forum.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 390151

28 Mar 12

-1

Originally posted by Ponderable
In fact I think that many more people read their messages than the forum.

Perhaps that's what is needed then, a broadcast PM whenever there's something that everyone on the site needs to know. It'd hardly be "junk mail".

coquette

Already mated

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Joined: 04 Jul 06
Moves: 1121257

31 Mar 12

Originally posted by Kewpie
Wow! Hadn't expected such a non-response. Doesn't anyone else get sick of having to explain stuff to people who never read forums?

you got five thumbs up votes, that's not a "non-response"

you also posted a suggestion that has been made about a hundred times over the past five or more years and hasn't gone anywhere, sometimes we might just figure that if it wasn't meant to be then it probably isn't worth getting into it again or something like that