My relaxing weekend turned into a stressful one thanks to multiple technology failures. As many of you noticed (and thanks for the G+ alerts!), the site was down for a large chunk of the weekend. There were a few technical issues and several annoying skirmishes with tech support. The bad news is that a few old Intensedebate comments were lost. The good news (I think) is that I was forced to change the site and it should be faster than ever. Please let me know what your experience with RPad.TV 3.0 is like in the comments section.
Speaking of comments, I had to scrap Intensedebate because of performance and spam issues. Currently, the standard WordPress system is being used along with a simple spam checkbox. I’m considering switching over to Livefyre, but I wanted to get your feedback first. Please let me know.
Lastly, my TV died over the weekend. That…sucked.
Oh, so THAT’S why rpad.tv has been down for so long.
PS:
Computer: “Please confirm that you are a real boy or girl”
Pinnochio: “…Darn it.”
Sorry for the downtime! And yes, I changed the text because I’m anti-Pinocchio. Death to wooden puppets that lie!!! (Or at least make it difficult for them to leave blog comments. Ha!)
New site loads fast but the text input is a dull gray and difficult for me to see. Maybe I have vision/perception issues.
That’s totally an issue. I’m not sure about keeping the default comments system. Some of the features of Disqus 2012 and Livefyre are pretty sweet…and the text would be readable. Ha!
LiveFyre seems neat. Does it eschew the current gravatar/wordpress login method in lieu of LiveFyre and social network IDs? That won’t be a big deal for me. I’ll use my Twitter and become famous by ppl Googling this page and reading my genius.
Disqus 2012 is a known quantity and you prob can’t go wrong with it. If that is what IGN uses (I never comment there) then it renders slow on my iPhone and the replies are shoved to the far right side of my screen. BGR uses Disqus but not sure if it is 2012. More often than not their system doesn’t load well on iOS too.
Yes on your LiveFyre question. IGN uses Disqus 2012, but I think it’s a custom version. BGR uses Facebook comments, I believe.
I’m really enjoying the new look.
Also, sorry about your TV, man. I can’t pretend to know what you are going through…
I don’t like it, but then again, I don’t like change in general.
Seriously, though, it looks a little busy (probably from all the ads and all that stuff on the left). Also, the Disqus comments do not load (or load VERY slowly) on IE. I have to use Chrome for this site to be usable.
-M
The number of ads is actually the same. Interesting that it doesn’t work in IE. Chrome is better anyways. :P
I used to like Chrome more, and I’m not advocating IE use, but Chrome has pretty much lost me right now. It used to just work, now it slows down my computer way too much and has a lot of problems with basic navigation. Currently I’m back to Firefox.