LXer feed: Gone or busted?

Hangdog42 · 03-09-2006, 11:07 AM

My apologies if I've missed an announcement about this.... The LXer feed went silent at the start of March. Was that a decision to no longer use LXer or did something break?

acid_kewpie · 03-09-2006, 11:49 AM

Hmm, interesting that you ask... were you finding it useful? It's currently been suspended pending reviews on it's usage. If people are going to ask questions about it, it may be an idea to turn it's fate over to the baying public. Btw, whatever happens to it, it was my idea in the first place ;-)

Hangdog42 · 03-09-2006, 12:14 PM

I did like it, but I guess I kinda view it like heated car seats. Nice if you got the extra scratch but by no means a necessary feature.

rickh · 03-09-2006, 12:30 PM

I've bookmarked a lot of websites that LXer led me to.

rmakers · 03-09-2006, 12:34 PM

Every day when I turned on my puter I look at the new LQ threads, I am still fairly new so it is seldom that I can help someone, if I could I would spend a few minutes replying to threads, if they were all beyond my knowledge I would read the lxer articles, I liked um, but they weren't "needed" but if they aren't causing a problem, I'de like them back.

jeremy · 03-09-2006, 12:39 PM

We'd really like feedback on this topic - whether you liked the feature or disliked it, let us know. The beta trial is now over and we're deciding what to do moving forward. Thanks all.

--jeremy

phil.d.g · 03-09-2006, 01:51 PM

I didn't use them very often but every once in a while an article caught my interest and I would go off and read it.

If it weren't causing anyone any hastle then I would like it back

mjolnir · 03-09-2006, 05:07 PM

"If it weren't causing anyone any hastle then I would like it back."

Same here.

syg00 · 03-09-2006, 05:25 PM

Initially I found the volume a PITA and was amongst those who complained. Once I found out I could turn them off, I did so.
Hence I wasn't even aware Jeremy and the guys had canned it.

Do whatever folks - solutions exist for them that want to see them, and them what don't.

scuzzman · 03-09-2006, 06:33 PM

Personally, I liked the LXer feeds and read them fairly often. Was wondering this myself, but I haven't been online that much this week and just never had time to inquire about it.

alaskazimm · 03-09-2006, 06:37 PM

I liked them also. Of course I didn't read every one of them, just a few here and there that piqued my interest. Although, to be honest, I hadn't noticed they were gone.

Er . . . so take that as I wouldn't mind having them back, but if not it's not that big of a deal.

titanium_geek · 03-15-2006, 03:12 AM

HATE HATE HATE BAD BAD BAD

ok so my feelings were not that strong- oh yeah they were.

I really didn't appreciate the flood of threads- clogging the nil-replies feed.

anyway.

titanium_geek

acid_kewpie · 03-15-2006, 04:12 AM

well a few different ways were looked at in terms of what to do with zero replies searches. as general can be excluded maybe we should juat allow that to be exlcuded too on a per user basis?

jeremy · 03-19-2006, 10:36 AM

For members, any arbitrary forum can be excluded. It's likely we'll bring LXer back based on feedback, while excluding it from 0 reply.

--jeremy

phil.d.g · 03-22-2006, 03:31 AM

nevermind, my brain stopped working temporarily