such an annoying and SLOW site and probs with publishing ads

[Guest]

I have been using pistonheads for years, before it was bought out and when there was only a tiny number of users, I was probably one of the ones who helped spread the word as I used to always tell my mates about it. recently in the last year the site is appaling, firstly it is so damn slow and is constantly crashing. BUT THE MOST ANNOYING THING IS THIS: Every now and again when I try and place or update an existing advert I get the standard screen saying advert will be live shortly BUT it never does and if i've updated an existing advert it also gets deleted from the account. I have sent various emails and never had reply I even rang PH number a few months back and the person on other end told me that shouldnt be happening and assured me if i tried it again it should work, so i did this and still it didnt work. ITs becoming a real pain in the a@#% website so much so that i dont even bother looking at it anymore, infact ive found several alternative sites and forums that are alot better. If PH are not careful they are going to get overtaken by new sites popping up as people are forced to look elsewhere, just a small example I found a fairly new site(not very good i must admit, but atleast it didnt constantly crash) www.TorqueTEC.co.uk
I work in the software industry and I could probably teach the developers of PH a thing or two, firstly your site is written in ancient asp try rewriting it in asp.net, if you need a developer you can hire me full time for 50k a year
PH YOU REALLY NEED TO SORT THIS DIFFICULT SITE OUT FROM TALKING TO FRIENDS THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR PROBLEMS AND CONTACT PH TO NO AVAIL !!

Regards

Edited by Guest on Wednesday 30th April 09:00

[Guest]

coolio cheers petrolTed i'll check it out in a few days

[Guest]

torquetec is written is asp.net, increased performance as well as tonnes of other benefits like programmble with c# google asp.net vs asp its the must have asp is well outdated. plus im guessing pistonheads is not using stored procedures in there database and this could seriously slow down performance there are lots of things to consider when designing website. PH is well overdue for a total update

[Guest]

in my professional opinion as a software developer i would say both site PH and torqutec are pretty sh#$ in the way they are coded thats no disrespect to PH. I can recode yours for you put it all into asp.net and sql server(dont know what db your using at mo) any developer will tell you both sites are poorly coded.

[Guest]

petrolTed you are joking right? you dont know what c# is. c# asp.net its all the way forward, c# is a programming language within the .NET environment and asp.net is the web side of things beauty of it is asp.net can be combined with c# anither technology fairly recent is ajax also within the .net framework. come on guy you only need to google these things which century are you living in, anyone would thing PetrolTED sat and wrote PH on punchcards(well before my time)

[Guest]

its all good takin the p#&£ if you put more effort into getting the actual site up to speed with current technology you know damn well you've got a bloody good site here, point of this listing was users are hacked off with the slow speeds and constant errors, face facts and get the site sorted TED thats all there is to it. have a good evening

[Guest]

if you dont want users to voice there opinions then thats up2 u guys, all developers are mentally retarded 2 some extent thought u would know that buy now