Any word on what's going on with this site? Slow forums for nearly 3 months and broken profiles

[Alayaes]

6 minutes ago, MikeCheck-- said:

 

There was a day where he had passion for this site. Obviously that's why he created it. However, the fact that he just sits and collects money and does nothing with this site other than adding a tag for new consoles is insane. People waste money on premium and get no updates from the sites owner. The only people keeping this site worthwhile are the staff and HusKy. 

 

I have ZERO clue why Sly doesn't hire HusKy at this point, or anyone really, to assist with updates and communication with the community. The major issues that need fixing STILL haven't been fixed and there hasn't been an update from the ONE person who can fix it. Absolutely insane. No one hates Sly, we HATE the fact he won't provide any update on issues and fails to update / upgrade the site. 

 

@Sly Ripper, care to elaborate or give insight on to why you wont' employ anyone or give us an update? (Massive reach here, I know)

Because that would cost money. Perhaps the budget just isn't there to hire employees and offer them a compensation/benefits package. We won't know because there is no communication.

 

I would also like to know why the website has been so slow and why communication is sparse. This is the third profile I've paid for and although it's a minuscule amount of money, I still feel somewhat entitled to at least an acknowledgment or update.

[Deadly_Ha_Ha]

6 minutes ago, CptToffer said:

 

Do I think it's fair to start criticising folk prior to them responding? No. 

 

Not been on the site long but I'm confident that much like everyone else, Sly is a person and might be juggling just as much crap as the average individual. ?

My only response to this is that while I agree with this generally, these threads have come up many times, and almost never receives that response from Sly. At that point, why not just vent out the frustrations if there's almost no expectation of him to respond.

Edited January 24, 2022 by Deadly_Ha_Ha

[CptToffer]

2 minutes ago, Deadly_Ha_Ha said:

My only response to this is that while I agree with this generally, these threads have come up many times, and almost never receives that response from Sly. At that point, why not just vent out the frustrations if there's almost no expectation of him to respond.

 

No that's totally fair and understandable. I think I'm coming from it from a "fresher" perspective so I'm like "Whoa, why are we all jumping on the site owner". 

 

I also think I'm coming from the perspective of being a very passionate trophy hunter but certainly not the sort of person who is doing nothing but trophy hunting and certainly, yes, you'd want the site to evolve and change to make things more streamlined. 

 

Equally, I live and work by the mantra of "getting more bees with honey" and it works. But if folk aren't engaging, I can understand the frustrations

[HoorayForTyler]

11 minutes ago, kdogg_gamer_ said:

Especially since this is the Feedback section of the site.

Ironic, isn’t it? I think everyone has a right to voice their concerns for the site in the forums, whether or not someone wants to take that feedback as “dog-piling” the site owner, that’s a personal issue.
 

Feedback is important and should always be considered if the same topics are getting brought up regularly. And it doesn’t help when mods act as Sly’s voice constantly, things probably get lost in translation or thrown to the side more times than not I’d imagine.

 

[Deluziion90]

If @Sly Ripper can’t fix the issues fair enough. But atleast give us a message and let us know. 

[Alayaes]

1 hour ago, CptToffer said:

Equally, I live and work by the mantra of "getting more bees with honey" and it works. But if folk aren't engaging, I can understand the frustrations

While I generally fully agree and adopt this, over the last 15 years in my career I've also come to understand that there's a fine line between being permissive and being understanding.

 

When it comes to business, at some point you have to put your foot down and be real. We can sympathize all day long about someone's private affairs affecting their productivity, but in the end, that's not our problem. These are essentially "customers" asking a business for clarification and transparency. As long as you're offering a product to customers, your personal issues are of nobody's concern but yours. If these personal issues start to affect the product you provide, the problem cannot and should not be transferred to the customer.

 

This is why oftentimes you'll hear the phrase "that sounds like a personal problem" in a dismissive way. Because, well, that's the harsh truth.

[El Duderino]

5 hours ago, DaivRules said:

 

That's not accurate.

If you're the only admin and refuse to answer any sort of question, yes, you have effectively abandoned the website that you've created a company for. I've been highly critical of Sly's style of leadership since the very beginning, but now his lack of passion actually started to affect this site in a very negative way.

Edited January 24, 2022 by R4M Razr

[pinkrobot_pb]

I am fine with not getting a lot of new features, or even any new features at all. I liked this website the way it was when I joined and paid for premiuim, so no complaints from me there. Especially now that Husky has been doing a fantastic job with PSNP+. However, I do think that the slow forums should have been fixed in the first week that it started happening.

 

I'm sure this website won't make Sly rich but once you start charging for memberships you have an even bigger responsibility to make sure it keeps running smoothly. Having to wait up to 10 seconds for a page to load is unacceptable.

 

(Especially since a sudden slowdown of a server is often just a symptom of a much bigger problem. It's not like a webserver all of a sudden decides to start delaying its responses with 10 seconds for the heck of it. So yes, the lack of action on this particular problem is worrying to say the least.)

[GothGirlMaxine]

The site is slower yes, and there's new people, new trophies, etc, every passing day. It's only gonna get worse unless something changes. 

[Guest]

this site is in absolute disrepair. I was considering buying Premium to better organize my trophy Cabinet, but due to the sheer amount of issues I don't see a reason to support it. I just feel sorry for new members who are coming now and posting in the Introductions section, my desire is to tell them not to waste their time here until things are ok, I only use this forum out of habit, but it's getting more and more difficult.

[kdogg_gamer_]

10 minutes ago, kevao97 said:

this site is in absolute disrepair. I was considering buying Premium to better organize my trophy Cabinet, but due to the sheer amount of issues I don't see a reason to support it. I just feel sorry for new members who are coming now and posting in the Introductions section, my desire is to tell them not to waste their time here until things are ok, I only use this forum out of habit, but it's getting more and more difficult.

Hey quit doing the dog pile on this thread! Lol

[CptToffer]

1 hour ago, Alayaes said:

While I generally fully agree and adopt this, over the last 15 years in my career I've also come to understand that there's a fine line between being permissive and being understanding.

 

When it comes to business, at some point you have to put your foot down and be real. We can sympathize all day long about someone's private affairs affecting their productivity, but in the end, that's not our problem. These are essentially "customers" asking a business for clarification and transparency. As long as you're offering a product to customers, your personal issues are of nobody's concern but yours. If these personal issues start to affect the product you provide, the problem cannot and should not be transferred to the customer.

 

This is why oftentimes you'll hear the phrase "that sounds like a personal problem" in a dismissive way. Because, well, that's the harsh truth.

Yeah I can't disagree with any of this. There is a fine balance between accepting when peoples personal issues are affecting productivity and supporting them and then when their personal issues result in them taking liberties. I've paid for premium so I certainly want the site to be the best it can be. Obviously the way to solve any particular personal problem is to have more redundancies in place than a single person.

[totallycrushed]

1 minute ago, kdogg_gamer_ said:

Hey quit doing the dog pile on this thread! Lol

man you complain about getting WPs but you’re just fishing for them at this point. 

[kdogg_gamer_]

10 minutes ago, totallycrushed said:

man you complain about getting WPs but you’re just fishing for them at this point. 

Lol my fiancé says I’m a troll but I don’t believe her. After the WP I’ve accepted it. Can’t change it. I’m not sure what happens after a certain amount though. I’ve also never been good at fishing either.

Edited January 24, 2022 by kdogg_gamer_

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, kdogg_gamer_ said:

Lol my fiancé says I’m a troll but I don’t believe her. After the WP I’ve accepted it. Can’t change it. I’m not sure what happens after a certain amount though. I’ve also never been good at fishing either.

if you have 5 concurrent WP, you are permaban.

WPs expire after 1 year.

[TrophyChief]

Love the site but hate to see the morale of the PSNP community impacted with a lack of communication and transparency. I’m sure there are others who are not voicing their feedback and opinions here in the forums just content on how things look and operate. I just appreciate those who can and are willing to engage here in making the site better and stronger.

[Eraezr]

I've noticed this too. It feels like the loading has gotten slower now for a bunch of the pages.

[Chaos_Culture]

Just coming by to laugh at people that need real problems in their life if they think waiting a few seconds for an internet page to load is the end of the world.
I'd ignore y'all to.

I also wish people would drop this "transparancy" nonsense.  Businesses arent your friend. They dont get have to come to you for approval on every move they make. If you dont like the service, stop paying for it. If enough people feel the same, the business will change.
But doing that actually requires self agency and you wouldnt be able to play victim and we cant have that. haha

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Chaos_Culture said:

Just coming by to laugh at people that need real problems in their life if they think waiting a few seconds for an internet page to load is the end of the world.
I'd ignore y'all to.

I also wish people would drop this "transparancy" nonsense.  Businesses arent your friend. They dont get have to come to you for approval on every move they make. If you dont like the service, stop paying for it. If enough people feel the same, the business will change.
But doing that actually requires self agency and you wouldnt be able to play victim and we cant have that. haha

although I partially agree with part of your comment (about people boycotting a service they are not happy with) there is a lot of arrogance in your speech that might put some people off.

there is no harm in demanding good service, especially when money is involved. there are people who use this website/forum daily, and you can see the difference between this website and any other. waiting 10 seconds for a page to load isn't the end of the world indeed, but it's also not the end of the world to complain about it in the appropriate section.

your comment is just a childish "haha how silly you are" starting the sentence by saying you're here to laugh at people who are complaining about something pertinent in an appropriate section for that. if you're not going to add anything to the discussion, just don't say anything, you can laugh at home without announcing it on an internet forum.

[Quink666]

If an Ultra Premium membership is what is required for this site to get regular QoL updates i'm all for that. I use the site often enough that i wouldn't mind. But i have a feeling it's all downhill from here on out. Unfortunately.

[Lord_Selrahc]

to be perfectly honest i thought forum being slow was on my end... i guess it makes sense that it's a site thing lol

 

also yeah sly really should at the very least be in touch with the community, even just to say "no new updates sorry" or whatever, yknow?

[steel6burgh]

In all honesty I Paid $12.00 or something along that line for a lifetime membership.  I can't complain about this site for that price as much as I use it.   I sure would hate to discourage ownership and end up looking at my profile on exophase or one of the other sites.  Sometimes its best to just be thankful for what you have or it be gone.  I'd much prefer the site a bit slower than not at all.  At any rate i'm not sure if the site is a major revenue generator for the owner but I'm assuming if it was it would be nurtured a bit more so I doubt it is.  The site is a sight better than most of the other sites so I'd refrain from complaining too much.  Of less of course it's about a rarity leaderboard then it's ok to give the owner as much shit as you like.  

[Rias Gremory]

7 hours ago, Chaos_Culture said:

Just coming by to laugh at people that need real problems in their life if they think waiting a few seconds for an internet page to load is the end of the world.
I'd ignore y'all to.

I also wish people would drop this "transparancy" nonsense.  Businesses arent your friend. They dont get have to come to you for approval on every move they make. If you dont like the service, stop paying for it. If enough people feel the same, the business will change.
But doing that actually requires self agency and you wouldnt be able to play victim and we cant have that. haha

I find your image "DO NOT COMPLY" really creepy lol.

[pinkrobot_pb]

9 hours ago, Chaos_Culture said:

Businesses arent your friend. They dont get have to come to you for approval on every move they make. If you dont like the service, stop paying for it. If enough people feel the same, the business will change.

 

This website is not a business like Coca-Cola is a business. It is a passion project that became a business to cover the costs associated with running a big and popular website like this. Appealing to Sly's monetary incentives will miss the mark. It's the passion that would need to be rekindled and I, like many others, feel that this simply will not happen.

 

I fear that if nothing changes the problems will start piling up until they are unfixable without a huge time investment. And that would be so unnecessary, because many very capable people have offered their services (for free) to keep this place at the top but they get ignored. All of the staff are already doing volunteer work to keep this place going. They're not hoping to make money. And you only need to look at the game guides to see the incredible amount of time and effort that the community itself has poured into this project as well.

 

Apart of some spiteful stuff by people who seemingly have an axe to grind, most of the concern I see here and in many other topics is from people who do not like seeing their favourite website slowly slip away when it feels so unneccesary. If voicing that concern to you sounds like "we're acting like it's the end of the world" then I respectfully disagree with that observation.

Edited January 25, 2022 by pinkrobot_pb

[Camokidd87]

Ive pointed out 3 wrong trophy lists and regions multiple times over the past 3 months and not one is fixed