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Post by Duke Pikachu on Mar 10, 2015 17:39:23 GMT -5
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Post by Ziporen on Mar 10, 2015 17:44:13 GMT -5
Oh dear... That news isn't even finished, and I don't just mean the broken images. The AG and BC winners aren't even listed. The Gelert clothes are missing, too, and who knows what else. Edit: The colors aren't active. Just checked with my FFQ. ): |
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Post by Shinko on Mar 10, 2015 18:21:23 GMT -5
Something we were talking about on skype, but the whole post just comes off kinda uncanny valley. Like they're trying valiantly to capture that jokey, informal tone TNT uses but not quite carrying it off.
Also I'm scratching my head at the fact that the big app release they've been building up to for so long doesn't have any promotional art with it's news post. It's really easy to just skim past it.
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Post by Herdy on Mar 10, 2015 18:33:28 GMT -5
Much exit. So update.
I mean, there was no way this news post was going to be received well, so I do feel for whoever wrote it. But their time would have been better spent writing a post about what we can expect in terms of new features now.
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Post by PFA on Mar 10, 2015 18:36:21 GMT -5
Now that I've temporarily regained any and all words that would NOT end up being censored on this site... I can at least write actual ROMANCE in my stories if the NT is going the way of the dino. PG-rated romance, but still, I won't have any reason to avoid it without the NT disallowing it :/ If the NT does go the way of the dino, I can post that series I never finished without having to dance around the violence 8D Ahaha For real though, I definitely don't think this is the end of Neopets, but I'm holding off for now on judgment until we see what exactly JumpStart intends to do with it. If nothing else, I foresee standalone games like the new mobile app becoming more common. |
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Post by Komori on Mar 10, 2015 19:23:26 GMT -5
Tch, I can't even get onto the site to read the news. I don't even know if it's lag anymore, because it'll try for a while, then return a broken page. :/
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Post by Herdy on Mar 10, 2015 19:26:03 GMT -5
It's can't be lag - since they fixed the lag by taking away lookups. Totally not a made up excuse.  |
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Post by Lord Hayati on Mar 10, 2015 19:35:45 GMT -5
At this point, it seems more like sabotage, as in, they're intentionally lagging the site, rather than server issues.
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Post by Shinko on Mar 10, 2015 19:51:38 GMT -5
I think them intentionally lagging the site is a bit of an extreme- that's a lot of money to spend to intentionally sabotage themselves.
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Post by Lord Hayati on Mar 10, 2015 19:57:23 GMT -5
I think them intentionally lagging the site is a bit of an extreme- that's a lot of money to spend to intentionally sabotage themselves. True, true, but with the way things have been, either their servers were like A rat's nest, or theres something we don't know still. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 19:57:23 GMT -5
At this point, it seems more like sabotage, as in, they're intentionally lagging the site, rather than server issues. I'm pretty sure you're just being paranoid. We only have a skeleton crew of programmers who are probably working even harder to fix the lag then they were before. That said, it IS a pretty tall order to task a much smaller group of people with a workload that many other people weren't able to fix. |
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Post by Tiger on Mar 10, 2015 20:16:17 GMT -5
At this point, it seems more like sabotage, as in, they're intentionally lagging the site, rather than server issues. I highly doubt that - more likely there just aren't enough servers to handle the load. Neopets has a huge amount of users, visitors, data, and content - that puts a huge strain on the system to handle all of the site requests - page code, stylesheets, images, data like usernames, petnames, NP, etc., and changes to those values (meaning it has to validate that the change is good to make, find the item in the database, replace the item in the database, return an update that it's made the change/that it failed, update any other values that might be associated with that change - and some of those steps require making checks to other parts of the database, so it starts more resembling one of those Russian nesting dolls...). And from a purely business standpoint - if JumpStart purposely lags the site, that means fewer people are going to see the advertisements, and fewer people are going to risk making money transactions to buy Neocash or Premium - so they're almost definitely losing money right now. And that's exactly the opposite of what JumpStart wants; and heck, them laying off TNT and reducing to a skeleton crew on an already troubled site suggests they are indeed having financial issues already. |
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Mar 10, 2015 20:43:21 GMT -5
Oh my gosh... this News Features post made me realize how much skill it takes to do even a little bit of writing. This does NOT make me want to download Ghoul Catchers. In fact it makes me feel offended, like I haven't already heard about the "FIRST-EVER mobile game." This on the other hand was also a marketing-related post, but didn't sound half as annoying. It even sounded fun: Especially since it came after a whole bunch of lively updates about things happening in the community. I am really going to miss the friendly-sounding News Features.  |
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Post by Komori on Mar 10, 2015 21:07:25 GMT -5
Not to mention, it isn't EVEN their first ever mobile game! Or did they forget about Neopets Mobile, with Lutari Island-- why, of course they didn't forget, they NEVER KNEW. Because this site is run by all new people who probably never played Neopets before.
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Post by Geodude 🌻 on Mar 10, 2015 21:18:58 GMT -5
First smartphone mobile game is what they were aiming for, I believe. Neopets Mobile was for feature phones (which, depending on if you use a smartphone now, can seem like a long time ago). It's probably because JumpStart themselves didn't make any mobile apps until the smartphone generation.
That said, I doubt they even took a look at any of the work, any progress made while TNT was making the smartphone app. You don't throw away creative works like that so casually, you just don't.
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