We are working on a new feature that we'll be releasing in the coming months, and while I can't get into exact details about it yet, we actually couldn't release it while the old site was still around because there was no way to "hide" or "suppress" the feature on the old site, which would completely ruin the feature for both old site users and new site users. The "Chat" feature would be horrible, because you can't chat with people on the old site, and that would mean that some users wouldn't realize they're getting notifications - meaning people on the new site would not get replies, so it's a failed experience for all. When we introduced comment likes, there was issues with getting it to display on the old site. And we'll need to reprogram the old site to display it properly, link to the right places, or suppress it. Every new feature needs to be considered for both versions, otherwise things can break.įor example, if we add a new notification on the new site, it will appear on the old site too. The problem is that you can't "leave it alone." If you keep the old one around, not maintaining it is not really an option. Leave it the way it was and leave it alone. The bad feedback coming in at 1,000+ comments per hour, and all the negative feedback for the past 3 years should tell you something. You post all over Twitter "we listen to the users, we care about the users" If you did - this is what you would do. You have had two versions of the site up for nearly 2 years - doing it for the lifetime is no different. You can just forget about it and us that want the old DA to stay the way it was will be happy with it. Throw the old site's code on an old server rack that is laying around the office and let the people that want to use it keep using it as a legacy support with the stipulation that bugs and things will not be corrected. FA has it, and they have about 70% less budget than you do and their code has not been updated since 2005.ĭA net worth - $688,000,000 ($3,365,940 earned per month)įA net worth - $55,750,000 ($208,710 earned per month)ĭA: "it's not financially available to keep two versions of the site running" How about you make the old website design a setting people can choose. We removed banner ads across the site, so increase pageviews for what purpose? "Using it to increase pageviews" doesn't really make any sense because it isn't actually a pageview (it doesn't load another page). But the way it goes into your full browser history is a bit annoying though, but I'm not sure if that can be controlled. These updated URLs don't show in your current session history - like if you press and hold on your back button, it'll only show your last URL. Here's some more technical information about it: When you click on a reddit post, it loads the reddit post in a pop-up, and changes the URL, but your browser did not actually load a different URL - it just loaded the content inline and swapped out the URL in your browser. This is the same technique that many sites do. For example: if you're on a journal with 500 comments, and you scroll down to comment 100, then click someone's profile, then go back, it'll load that journal starting at comment #100 so you haven't lost your place. Your browser isn't "loading" a new page as you scroll, it's simply updating the URL in your URL bar so that if you reload, or if you click a link, then go back, DeviantArt will load exactly where you were. Heya - we implemented this to save the state of where you're browsing.
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