G_B_ Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 @G_B_ the site has potential. But you guys allow openly racist posts towards Pakistani's (the amount of times I have seen the P word used with no mod interference is shocking). I was warned over a bit of banter by a mod which is ridiculous. Overall...ICF has a bad reputation due to some poster's way of thinking. The problem is as i said, mods really dont have any powers to take corrective steps. At most we can delete threads but we cant really ban anybody. I dont think the admins are active. If i remove some messages I get an shit load of PM's with people complaining about it.It raises a crucial point that, admins are just not active on this site to make some calls. With regards to the P word, its offensive in the UK. But outside i think most of the world its used as shorthand. As most of our posters are USA and India based I think its unfair that they should be labelled as being racist to that regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 If past admins are not active, they should give admin access to one of the active Mods? G_B_ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book_Worm Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I visit this site everyday mostly chit chat. I was under the assumption that cricket threads are active and chit chat is slow. I really don't know what to post here. I even thought of making a new thread about indian celebrities and bollywood gals just so that chit chat get's active .. !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I visit this site everyday mostly chit chat. I was under the assumption that cricket threads are active and chit chat is slow. I really don't know what to post here. I even thought of making a new thread about indian celebrities and bollywood gals just so that chit chat get's active .. !! Pls post abt Shruti Hassan, we can get Tex out of his hiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jusarrived Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I dint like the new layout that much the first few days , but now its fine . Takes time getting used to . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 The long gap is one reason. Some are still getting used to it. Also Debutant's point is valid. Pictures on page could be an issue if you work in office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 ^are you still a mod in any section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New guy Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Don't think the slowness is because of the site layout. The upvote-downvote system is good to drive good conversations instead of trolling. Some of the common troll spammers are not liking that obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 The long gap is one reason. Some are still getting used to it. Also Debutant's point is valid. Pictures on page could be an issue if you work in office. Pics also slow down loading. Remove all pics on side banner and top banner, and make it a clean and fast site, then easier for people to browse at work. doccricket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Pics also slow down loading. Remove all pics on side banner and top banner, and make it a clean and fast site, then easier for people to browse at work.yes it is a bit slow. Also navigation between forums is not straightforward like before. I won't say that is a reason for one to abandon the site. one more thing http://i.imgur.com/bqW1ejS.png If you look at this pic You have far too many details like times online/ joined, And what is that 5 dots. Because this takes up so many lines even one line message looks too big with lot of empty space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Also the line spacing should be smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debutant Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Side pics can be removed by changing the theme. Yeah site is slower. doccricket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I think break we took scattered many users. Unlike me most of the members visit other forums as well.Once ICF was down they switched their "allegiance" to those forums lol that is one theory. BlueBee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Realist Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) To be fair the site was not attracting as many users before it was upgraded. There had been a noticeable decline in posts which only seemed to change when there was an actual match taking place.Since the site being down and then it coming back online though the number of posters and post has reduced considerably and it’s probably due to a combination of factors as to why people are not returning.The look of the site, the slowness of loading times and the length of time it was offline have not helped. It is worrying though that new look site has been live for a while now and numbers are still low. Difficult to know what the solutions are to resolve this. Edited November 12, 2015 by The Realist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varun Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 The look of the site, the slowness of loading times Tried to speed it up a bit. Will re-look into it again later. Thanks for the feedback everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Until I used default background, I couldn't use the new site at work. It is too jarring. I think we should go easy on the imagery and also line spacing is too much as some ppl have already said. Is there a personal setting to reduce that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 facebook style notification, upvote/downvote feature.. two of my favorite additions. Adi_91 and doccricket 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detonator Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I think the mods should be lenient for some time.. just open a lot of opinion threads in cricket talk for discussion and spam the chitchat with good topics for debate.. something which made sites like reddit and quora a big success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh bling Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 2-4 , Paki ID create kar ke , unse Indians ko gaaliyan dilwa do , fir dekho Internet patriots kaise Jung larne aayenge sourab10forever, Adi_91 and randomGuy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amiret Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 2-4 , Paki ID create kar ke , unse Indians ko gaaliyan dilwa do , fir dekho Internet patriots kaise Jung larne aayenge I am willing to volunteer for this patriotic task . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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