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This was not anything I had any control over, but feel free to heap profanity on me as needed. There is a plus side to LiveFyre; it wasn't done just to infuriate you. The new abilities include:
• SocialSync
When conversation is happening about an article on Facebook or Twitter, you can now see that conversation within the commenting thread. You can also tag and import your friends from Twitter and Facebook within the comment stream yourself.
• True Real Time
You can see who is listening to a conversation and read comments in real time, making it easier to jump right into the discussion.
• Notifications
You can choose to be alerted via email when someone replies to or likes your comment.
• Follow Your Friends
You'll be able to see what your friends are saying and doing on our publications and Voice Places now with this one account.
Of course, this presumes LiveFyre is going to work like it's supposed to. If you say any problems or wackiness this weekend, I'd appreciate you dropping me a line. Again, use as much profanity as you feel necessary; I can handle it. And again, my apologies for any inconvenience. I'm really hoping this will be worth it in the long run. And if not, TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT.
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Well just like the other one it will take some getting used to but we will be back to hating things swearing profusely and all other lollygagging we do normally
I, for one, remain indifferent. Disqus was better than the original system, but it had it's problems
But... I don't want my friends to know I go here! They'll think I look at robot porn or something. (Whether I do or don't is moot, I just don't want 'em to know!)
Also, how I do get avatar- by making a MyVoice account whackadoodle? Fuck that noise...
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How do you spell comment system upgrade fail? VOICE. Get an edit button. Paragraph breaks. Proper replies. It's not that difficult, I've seen it done flawlessly before, on this very site. Not stoked. But again, it's obviously not Rob #47's fault (or are we 48, 49 or 50 now?). It's obvious the people who make TR possible need a comment system that masturbates their ego. My voice indeed. Rob is definitely not to blame (for once :) ) But his corporate overlords? Yeah. Fuck those guys with a rusty dildo. Your stupid comment system blows. Bring back Disqus or fix your shit.
testing testing talk about fast for registered so i could not be left out of all the fun here at topless robot . for after all new things like this deserve a try and rob only did what the signers of his paycheck here made him do.
I almost never post or read the comments, but this change affects my life in ways that can't be explained with any form of communication known to men.
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Alas, poor old TR commenting system! I knew him, Topless Roboteers; A fellow of infinite discussions; he hath borne me likes a thousand times; and now, how gone from this virtual plane of existence it is!
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Bit late to the party here, but INCOHERENT RAGE. First I tried to set up an account with my main email address when it almost immediately derped out, but still created an account, so there's an account floating round here with my real name but no password, so I can't even get into to delete it.Secondly, no edit button? You're fucking kidding me, right?I know this isn't Rob's fault, but surely his overlords must realise a site like this lives and dies on its community, and if a community can't communicate effectively, it will move on, and take all its juicy ad revenue with it.
@Lady-Rainicorn This happened to me, and it took close to an hour to deal with, including a tech support request that went unanswered. Great introduction to their sub-par system that in no way makes me angry that Disqus and everything I invested in it is gone. Oh wait, yes it does.
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@Lady-Rainicorn And you're fucking with my paragraph breaks now? RIGHT, THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR.
Oh, and while looking at their website to try and get them to delete my account, I noticed that one of their questions on their FAQS was 'Why would I want to join?'Why indeed.
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Hey, I an't Rob's fault! It's the higher ups. If you want to be angry with any one, be angry with them. I won't deny that I'm a little miffed at how it's being explained to us. But they pay Rob, and he HAS to do what they want.
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@Timely-Tardis-Lego Well he could stop saying its livefyre, I have used livefyre before without all this spamcrap and bulking signup system, this is Village Voice media´s own fuckup of a overbuilding.
AND NO I DONT WANT TO TAG MY FRIENDS INTO THIS! FUCK YOU VILLAGE VOICE AND FUCK YOUR ADS
@Timely-Tardis-Lego I know, I'm more miffed at the explanation as well. I'm kind of just hoping Rob actually DOES pass along our opinions along & help stand up for us. Not in the "F*** YOU VOICE NATION!!!" way, of course.
But yeah, if it sounds like I'm overreacting...Well, I hate to beat a dead horse, but having something so similar happen after this deviantART bulls*** definitely did not help.
That being said, every comment I make until this is resolved will have slur against Voice Nation & how it sucks in it somehow.
@Timely-Tardis-Lego "...have A slur..." SERIOUSLY WE WANT OUR DAMN EDIT FUNCTION BACK. SOME OF US DO CARE ABOUT LOOKING VAGUELY PROFESSIONAL DESPITE THIS BEING THE INTERNET, DAMMIT.
@Timely-Tardis-Lego ^This. Village Voice Media is who people should be complaining about and to. Contacting them is what should be done.
@DrAbraxas Well, that makes two doctors that agree that the new system is crap.
(I used to be Beppo, but I changed when I set up my stupid fucking Voice Nation account).
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@DrAbraxas I agree, I say we mail Village Voice Media explaining this is shit. If they get get as many e-mails as this thread has comments, I figure someone is bound to listen.
Soooo, this is ridiculous. I must also voice my displeasure at this change, and not only because I had just made a Disqus account. Oh well, I guess the best we can do is hope for the best.
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@Enigma_2099 It's not his fault though, it's the higher ups that are forcing this.
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Here's the unfortunate truth: This isn't like Disqus, which was a system used by many different sites owned by multiple companies. This is VVM's baby--no amount of whinging on our part is going to convince them to change back, or even adopt a totally different system. They've invested too much time and money into this thing (however irritating and glitchy it may be). ONLY if Voice Nation leads to a signifigant decrease in revenue over a long period of time will VVM change it. They're not gonna jump just because a single niche site they own is making a fuss.....It most certainly sucks, but is a mildly annoying comment system REALLY worth quitting or boycotting TR over? Remember: More than a few of us were similarly miffed when TR first started using Disqus (myself included)--now those same readers are screaming for its return....Think about that before you do anything rash.
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@scooteratreides NO. I already went through this bulls*** with deviantART refusing to go back on their thumbnail change that the clear majority of the site hated because they "stand by it", & I am NOT going to just sit by while they hope we just get bored & stop complaining.
I'm sorry they put a whole lot of work into this, but they made a friggin' mistake, & as such, THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. I'd italicize that instead of putting it in all caps, BUT I CAN'T, DAMMIT.
And for the record, I actually liked Disqus from day one, best as I can remember.
@slydante @scooteratreides Well, um, gee, slydante, more power to you. Good luck with that, though, since I can't imagine things are going to change by a simple non-stop complaint.
I mean, it's like a devianART works produced by resident artists, you know? Sure, you can have an open mind and take in suggestions, and maybe change your art a little bit to suit the suggestions. But goddammit, IT'S YOUR BABY! It's THE most BEAUTIFUL thing in the world, and be DAMNED anyone else who says otherwise!
Indeed, I very much liked Disqus from the moment I signed up. Fuck social networking. And fuck Zuckerburg. That goddamn cunt. He's almost as bad as Micheal Bay, making money off of stupidity. The stupid should be kill, and only the smart should survive, I believe. If you can't contribute to society then what use are you?
Oooh, I didn't know the name of the website address header! HOW WRONG OF ME! Pathetic. Twist my words or rub my falseties all you want. I don't care.
@Umbra_di_Angelo @slydante that's a pretty fucking ironic belief system coming from someone who's solution to this problem is for Rob to just "buy his own html".
Oh, & guess what I just discovered about those Notifications? For one, it's apparently already active by default. And second, unlike Disqus, it sends you a notification for EVERY GODDAMN REPLY AND LIKE RELATED TO YOUR COMMENT. Not just people directly replying to you, but every other friggin' reply within a reply as well. I opened up Hotmail, & had OVER TWENTY-FIVE GODDAMN MESSAGES staring me in the face.
Christ, it won't even let me change my name to "SlyDante", because that version is apparently unavailable. And it won't even let me upload my profile pic right now, because it keeps saying "Failed to save file" whenever I select an area.
Rob, I agree with 5318008: Voice Nation is a worse enemy to TR than Michael Bay. Because while bay may be one of our sworn enemies, at he doesn't PERSONALLY F*** WITH OUR OPINIONS ABOUT HIM.
Normally, I'd just put that in Bold, but I can't. Tell your bosses they'll be expecting a lynch mob.
@slydante Try editing your file to 200x200 pixels, save, and upload that instead of selecting an area within the original file. I was able to pad my graphic with whitespace to make the 200-square minimum, so that might be another route.
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Oh for fuck sake, when I hit "Reply" the screen jumps about ten screens up from the comment I want to reply to. What the fuck is this?
Also, no EDIT button is unforgivable.
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Oh look at that on the bottom of the site:
a link called "PROBLEMS WITH SITE"
http://www.villagevoice.com/bugs/
Oh, YES! VillageVoiceMedia, I HAVE A PROBLEM! well actually i have several but all of them with new commenting system.Taken from Lyfefires FB PAge: "Basically, we think conversation online is broken, and we want to do everything we can to make it better."Well then put your sleeves up an get to work, your system ain't better, faster, reliable or comfortable then disquss. i know disquss had some flaws and the commenting system we had before was even worse.
If you want to know whats wrong takes some cues from this comment section. I will test lyfefyre or whatever you crazy addguys call it to the bone and send you a detailed bug list soon.
keep in mind that the community of TR is pissed and not only in a "eeek a new thing"-manner. just ignoring us and waiting for the dust will settle will not work.
I'm not saying we should "take down" the site, PLEASE NOBODY SHOULD ATTACK TOPLESSROBOT. But i think a demonstration, like not visiting TR next Monday to show Village Voice Media that messing with us leads to viewing drops.What we want:
1. Edit button
2. Light edit option on Text (bold, crossed out...)
3. Replies separated by columns, (this @username shit won't work)4. An easy sign process (username or email adress, password = ready), alienating non Americans with the zip code thing is bad. if you want to collect our data so bad then do it without us noticing.
5. NO SPAMMING, so unchecking the notify if someone responds to me is fine, but it would be better if the option is off by default and don't sign me up for your newsletter i don't want that.
6. Profilpics should be hosted on your side. i don't want to upload a profilpic everytime i use a different pc.
7. Oh, and LIKES of course, they influenced the general tone to the better and gave this fuzzy warm feeling ;)
... more critic to come as soon as i have tested your system thoroughly. in the meantime, just put disquss again, we will give you work for months.
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@MAD-CDJ Some of us are having problems with paragraph breaks, too. I can't make them. At all. And this facebook integration thing is super creepy---log in with your facebook account, sure. But being able to add facebook friends into a conversation here? Crossposting your facebook links to TR? That is seriously invasive. I'm not totally against a new commenting system, but it has to /work/.
@general_apathy yes, i couldn't replicate the problems paragraph breaks so i didn't include it. but feel free to add ever bug or improvement suggestion.another one from me, the pointer, where your text should be disappaers :/
