But will the contributors?
I think that the site may currently be enjoying higher visitor numbers and taking that as positive reinforcement. However the reality is that the site is now being ridiculed across several other sites and people are visiting out or morbid curiosity not so much to view the birth of a new format site but rather to witness the demise of a truly outstanding one that for years has been the site that others referenced.
That contributors who chain more than a tweet together in their replies are also being referred to as Ludites goes beyond belief.
I concur.
A few years ago the ACCA messed up their site but reacted to feedback and reverted the site whilst it was fixed properly.
I would say that they gained respect from their site users by showing that they were listening to feedback rather than such having an adverse effect upon them.
In the case of this site maybe it should be reverted back to what it was before but save on the expense of fixing it in the background as I have as yet read no comment from any net contributor to the site stating that they find it easy to work with this new format.
This site is only as good as the contributors to it. If the site loses them it has lost everything.
And just as an addendum to that, saying as the people here give their time for free for the selfless assistance of others do you not think that the site owes them the decency of respectfully listening when they are crying out that the site has got its "upgrade" very, very badly wrong.
As one final thought. The site changes seem geared towards mobile phone users. The question to ask yourselves though is how many of the long, well constructed answers that draw people to the site do you think are written on mobile phones?
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But will the contributors?
I think that the site may currently be enjoying higher visitor numbers and taking that as positive reinforcement. However the reality is that the site is now being ridiculed across several other sites and people are visiting out or morbid curiosity not so much to view the birth of a new format site but rather to witness the demise of a truly outstanding one that for years has been the site that others referenced.
That contributors who chain more than a tweet together in their replies are also being referred to as Ludites goes beyond belief.
I concur.
A few years ago the ACCA messed up their site but reacted to feedback and reverted the site whilst it was fixed properly.
I would say that they gained respect from their site users by showing that they were listening to feedback rather than such having an adverse effect upon them.
In the case of this site maybe it should be reverted back to what it was before but save on the expense of fixing it in the background as I have as yet read no comment from any net contributor to the site stating that they find it easy to work with this new format.
This site is only as good as the contributors to it. If the site loses them it has lost everything.
And just as an addendum to that, saying as the people here give their time for free for the selfless assistance of others do you not think that the site owes them the decency of respectfully listening when they are crying out that the site has got its "upgrade" very, very badly wrong.
As one final thought. The site changes seem geared towards mobile phone users. The question to ask yourselves though is how many of the long, well constructed answers that draw people to the site do you think are written on mobile phones?