"How TMP well works in your opinion?" Topic

Wonder to know how the fellow members percieved, some time ago, the quality of the service when you will enter / post / comment / etc in the forums … I mean in a correct way or with some or many difficulties.

Let's put this under a rating number from 1 to 10 … where 1 is worse than lousy and 10 more than excellent …

My vote goes for 4…

And have to said that each day this number decrease…

But… Hey!… maybe I'm the only one… so your number is???

Amicalement
Armand

7

A lot of bug issues.

It can be hard to navigate.

It's okay, but not wonderful.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

It has its quirks, but I find them rather endearing, in a sort of "classic car" kind of way. The ones who seem to have the most problems with it post much more often than I do, so maybe it's just a matter of playing the odds.

In any case, Bill is certainly aware of its limitations or he wouldn't be publicly contemplating a 4.0 (which may or may not be vaporware). It does what I need it to do, so I'm going with a 7. Or maybe 8.

7. I frequently cannot post topics due to lockfile issues.

Tango:
It can be annoying but other fora have their own quirks as well. Best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best by backing up your content before you post. Rating is 6/10 for glitching.
Cheers and good luck amigo!
Rod Robertson.

Don't hear much about 4.0 these days. TMP is broken and increasingly technically unfit for the job it has to do – I'll go with about a 5.

Having started going through todays posts and seeing how active the bug is being that 5 looks very generous.

8

I post a lot from a variety of platforms and don't have many issues: 9.

7

The quirks keep out the riff-raff,
Wait, the quirks keep in the riff-raff.

For me it's a 9

The bug can be a pain.

There are too often, too many boards under various periods. Separate rules, scales, figure lines boards make things more tedious, not better.

But, overall, I prefer TMP's layout to every other site I visit. There is less clutter, fewer useless gizmos, and almost always fewer clicks to where I want to go.

With the bug and too many boards, 6.5

Without the bug, but too many boards, 7.5

With either, 9+

At least it's legible. I find some other forums unreadable against their backgrounds.

9.

8.
OK, lockfile bug slightly irtitating, but I like the fact that I can search back several years to find answers to my questions. Board organisation is generally sound.

6

Mostly because of that lockfile error continually interfering with a basic function of the site.

And the mandatory re-indexing every day.

The old girl is showing her age.

7 for the money, I'd like to see more nudity…(not you Bill and definitely not the OFM)

It's Classified …

8, good enough that I've kept coming back

5

I'm all sixes and sevens…

I'm a 9. Lot's of information if you know where to look or if you ask a question. TMP has caused me to up my painting game and the look of my table. The few minor technical issues are nothing compared to the value.

+1 GatorDave

Armand, considering the number of posts you make almost every day I would have thought that you would give it a higher number.

I like the classic car analogy. She may have some quirks but she's by far and away my favorite. I'll give her a 9 for my modest needs.

Bill,

The new title isn't any less awkward than the original. How about "How well TMP works . . . "

I wish it behaved more like Consimworld where you can subscribe to individual topics.

The search engine does seem to work fine, I've looked at few things up lately and do find them.

Up to this thread, the average is 6,75%… not bad!.

It's not only the bug problem … the statistics never work again… I cannot used the "delete" button nor the search for author… the mixed threads… etc.

I have the feeling that we are losing people with this … specially at night when the doom hour began… see how few threads are there…

Amicalement
Armand

9

9, it exists.

shows it limitations/age abit

Well… near two hours since the last new post

TMP link

And I still cannot post a single thread… so, till tomorrow…

I'm thinking now in 3. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

PD If you think: "How we can post this one?"… I "forced" it and obtein:

mivacommon/boards/topics.mv: Line 577: MvLOCKFILE: Runtime Error: Error creating lockfile 'boards/topics.dbf.lck': Timed out waiting for lock

Well. UK it's just coming up to 8am and I'm about to get the closed for maintenance bug – I've got 12 minutes before it hits, as it hits every day.

9. It is the center of my Internet existence.

Exactly at 9PM (TMP hour) began the "Doom hour"…

Why in the hell Bill cannot fixed this???? (smile)

You know exactly the hour … no new post from them… you can tried one or one and a half hour to post one new thread… and then… the site closed…

Maybe would be better directly to shot down the site at 9PM?

Or at least one big leyend saying: "Hey!… you can only read here… but not write!"… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

And at 10:30 PM seems that began to fixed… (?).

Four days ago… the same.

Amicalement
Armand

I give the BBS itself a 5 (software, organization, administration, etc.).

The community is a 9. There's a lot to read here, and a lot of good pointers to other places buried in the jungles of the Internet.

One thing I like about TMP above many other web BBSes is the flexibility in customizing my personal feed. That's a really good feature.

- Ix

Today… Doom hour again… for more than 2 hours!! (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

3

Again the "Doom hour"…

Amicalement
Armand

It's only me… or today is a "Doom Day"? with …

mivacommon/boards/newtopic.mv: Line 186: MvLOCKFILE: Runtime Error: Error creating lockfile 'boards/topics.dbf.lck': Timed out waiting for lock ?????????????????

Since 12PM (TMP Hour) it's impossible to post!!!!

Amicalement
Armand

Since 12PM (TMP Hour) it's impossible to post!!!!

…and yet, here you are.

Yes… after trying again and again for one hour!!… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I would say overall an 8.
Robert

Around 8 or so.

Oh! Yes?… why you don't tried after 9PM?… like now?
Then you told me!… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I would say between 7 and 8, works well enough for me and it must do for me to come back again and again.