400 Year old website

[LordFlathead]

Please Mr Haymarket can I note the following for the record...

• Like button - yes I know it's an old debate but it negates the reason just to post a comment if you can press the like button. I'm guessing that the Haymarket algorithms add all replies as meaningful statistics which is then fed back to perspective advertisers as response activities and thus boosts sales.. this makes the user experience out of date and non user friendly. We are in 2018 and it's not changed since 2001 when I first joined. Needs an update!

• Block User - Allows the user to decide what content they want to see and negates negative experiences created by users/kids that have zero life or car ownership experience yet post trolling comments "because they can". It makes for a better experience if you can block trolls like Twig the Wonder tt that don't actually list any of the cars they own and have no experience of them, yet feel compelled and educated enough to reply when they have 1.21 million posts against their profile. Does Haymarket think this is a cool feature by its negation? It looks to me like a clique rating system based on input favouritism. Quality not quantity gents; this is the business model you need to adopt.

• Kinky and Big Al need a Knighthood. Haymarket take note: It's not just the website and advertising that makes a site profitable or successful - it is mostly down to the foot soldiers that moderate the site. Without this you would have a huge bun fight 24/7 and these silent warriors need recognition

Yes I'm sober and no I don't participate in drug activities.

PS as the owner of an Electric Car for the commute (pius 36 cylinders and 15.7 litres of car engines not including 21 motorcycles which I cannot be bothered to sum) I am concerned that "PistonHeads" will be missing a trick and should therefore start to focus on "EV Performance Heads" or some such similar as going forwards your audience will dwindle

Here endeth the lecture.. comments most welcome here and via PM.

[LordGrover]

:like:

[PurpleMoonlight]

Can you remove the 'quote all' facility too please.

I'm sick of scrolling though pages and pages of the same posts because some have the memory of a goldfish!

[anonymous-user]

when people quote list of photos to add one word comment.

[silverfoxcc]

!00% agree with sll the sentiments mentioned so far and i expect some to follow,but watch out for the philistines

[craigjm]

And please update it to use phone emojis and not stupid words surrounded by colons or if not please prevent people using phone emojis so we don’t see ->?<~\}>\$^]$|!]$^\!\| etc in lines of text

[CAPP0]

Agree there is a to that could be done to make this site more useful, and indeed more palatable at times, but iirc haven't Haymarket declared that there won't be any further development at all and only break/fix input?

[johnwilliams77]

That probably includes keeping the phone safe scan alive

[thebraketester]

I think there is more chance of big al being given a knighthood than this forum being dragged into the 21st century with "fancy features"

[Vaud]

LordFlathead said:

Please Mr Haymarket can I note the following for the record...

1 / Like button -

2 / Block User -

3 / Kinky and Big Al need a Knighthood.

1 / No thanks. I don't care who or how many people like a post

2 / A nice idea but it would make reading some threads very hard when blocked users got quoted, etc. I just scroll past gibberish.

3 / At the minimum.

[snake_oil]

There is no dev budget. Zero. None. Zilch.

/thread

[So]

I would really like to see Pistonheads have an increasing number of adverts, and clickbait links.

It would be nice if the format and performance of the site became progressively worse.

If we could have the more fake virus redirects that would be good.

Under no circumstances should we be able to remain logged in.

In an ideal world, the site will become virtually unusable.

Once Haymarket has rung every last penny from the site, I'd like to see it sold to an ambitious but ultimately incompetent new owner, who will bravely try to keep it running until eventually the domain gets parked or redirected to a different car website or a holding page saying, "Go Daddy! This domain is for sale".


It's always best to align one's hopes with reality.

[miniman]

snake_oil said:

There is no dev budget. Zero. None. Zilch.

/thread

Given that even the classifieds don't work in Chrome, this is true.