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Posted By tdrapeau 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyI wanted to apologize for the poor stretches in performance on Propeller.com that our loyal members have had to endure over the past months. I have seen a number of members mention bad performance when submitting stories, comments, etc in comment threads for other stories, and I wanted to mention that we are grateful for the feedback, and...
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Tom Drapeau is the Director of Propeller social news. Although it is the job he always dreamed he'd have, he's had a pretty ...
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aceofspades11 year, 3 months ago
Tom - thanks for the response, any improvements would be none too soon. Given the thousands of people who are signed on to this site there are very few who actually post comments.
I think any performance upgrade will make it more inviting for more people to post, thereby expanding the influx of ideas & making the Propeller experience more fulfilling
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jordan111 year, 3 months ago
I've had many problems. SC sent a link two days ago that I've yet to get through to. I click on many links and am unable to get through.
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berkeley1 year, 2 months ago
thursday and friday and saturday of this week were also terrible.
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TheRealizer1 year, 3 months ago
It has gotten discouraging at times, post a comment and it does not appear, I hope the new system will be an improvment. However even with the shortcomings it is still a super good site......
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ETproductions1 year, 3 months ago
Thanks for acknowledging the hiccups, Tom. I'm delighted to hear that you're working on both better performance and a new, improved user interface. Looking forward to the V2 rollout.
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pagey1 year, 3 months ago
The new Propeller is amazing guys, all this frustration will be well worth it. Like I said in the past, it's like renovations, for things to look better they sometimes have to look worse first.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 3 months ago
The promise of an "improved site" has been made so often, with absolutely no discernible performance, that it is no longer credible.
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Bkumm1 year, 3 months ago
I must say I've gotten quite good at solitaire while waiting for Propeller to do its thing, but that's okay. If this new Propeller is as good as people I trust tell me it is it's going to be worth it.
I would also like to note that while it has been frustrating at times, I know that the ladies and gentlemen involved in making Propeller a place where we all can play, are doing the very best they can to correct any problems.
I am confident that Propeller will continue to be at the cutting edge of social media and with the coming upgrades will be even better than before.
Thanks for the update, Tom. It's nice to know somebody is paying attention (although most of us know you do!).
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Mdiar1 year, 3 months ago
So, working on your solitaire game, eh? I worked on that in virtually every class I've ever been in involving computers!
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 3 months ago
You missed the point, child.
I am fully in control of myself. It is the site and staff of Propeller who seem incapable of performing.
They have repeatedly promised improvements (and not simply "improvements," but a "bigger, stronger and more impactful" Propeller). After months of such promises, it is normal to begin to disbelieve. You are free, of course, to continue to extend your good faith for however long the Propeller staff is willing to abuse it.
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Francisca1 year, 3 months ago
I am very glad to know that I am not the only one!!Since a few weeks, I didn't understand why I couldn't see anymore if there were friends of mine on line...It was frustrating!
I thought that I broke something...LOL, or I made something wrong and I was punished...LOL. Courage to the organizer: we love Propeller!!
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 3 months ago
I thought the Trilateral Commission was screwing with me.
Or maybe it was the NSA.
Sigh::: I guess I am just insignificant afterall.
Oh well: I am getting to be a better speller.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 3 months ago
It may sound strange, but I don't really mind when the Propeller spins slowly.
I actualy get some work done.
I am usually alone in my woodshop with a really slow computer and Propeller is not the only thing I let it grind away at while I go about my grind.
I do wonder though: if it is more expediant to restart or just wait patiently.
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Goppy1 year, 3 months ago
You TELL em ninny!
ALL media is a vast array of duplicity ... all designed to extract the essential fluids necessary for America to remain a Far Right Wing nation!!
You tell em!!!
Of course, dont mention that all media is owned by far right corporations ... each with self servin legislation in Congress, requrin goverment handouts ... which they got from Republican legislators!
THAT, my friend, will be our secret.
PARANOIA LIVES!!!! ITS ALIVE!!!!
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Bkumm1 year, 3 months ago
It's only propaganda when you disagree with it. If you agree with what is being said it's "news". Cuts both ways.
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Beau78901 year, 3 months ago
It's a vast left-wing conspiracy, isn't it, ningyo?
Seriously...you might think much of what I post is propaganda too. But I'm just patient. I imagine those you call the "hard left loonies," as well as Alpha Gnosis and BoBo in Texas, who also appear to get quite a few stories to the top of the home page, are also patient enough for their submissions to go through.
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TOD3961 year, 3 months ago
"I wanted to apologize for the poor stretches in performance on Propeller.com that our loyal members have had to endure over the past months. I have seen a number of members mention bad performance when submitting stories, comments, etc in comment threads for other stories, and I wanted to mention that we are grateful for the feedback,"
"Poor stretches in performance" to describe propeller is sugarcoating the situation. Poor performance means that the right thing will happen, sooner or later. With Propeller, it is a crap shoot as to whether your post will appear, and if it does, it is a minor miracle if it shows up where you want it to. These are not descriptions of "poor performance", but of a website that doesn't function. Another user suggested the removal of all associated with running Propeller and replacing them with new staff. Why, that might just be the cure.
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gamahuche1 year, 3 months ago
100% wrong, imo.
That would be equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The scouts and anchors, in my experience, are unfailingly polite, helpful and positive and are not shy to express, as they have here on this thread that they suffer the same frustrations as the rest of us.
It would have been good to have heard directly from TD before now on this topic - especially perhaps in the darkest period a few weeks ago.
Good that he's here today and that we know that he's aware of people's feelings on this.
Overall I have only one regret and that is that a number of people whose opinions and style I particularly enjoyed have not been visible for a long time and I suspect may be gone forever. But of course the site problems may have nothing to do with individual decisions to leave the scene.
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Dicax_Maximus1 year, 3 months ago
Tom - Thanks for the courtesy of informing us as to your aims at rectifying the problems. Always nice to know our "moans" are NOT being ignored.......
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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago
Thanks for your hard work. The improvements in performance will be greatly appreciated.
Although, the current long connect times do help the performance of my other projects by allowing me to actually work on them rather than Propeller!!
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THOMNH621 year, 3 months ago
would it possible to get the pro democrat posts to stay up on the front page a little longer, the normal 2 days is not enough for me. Also any of the bad press you can dig up on McCain should stay out front for a min 3 days that would be most helpful, like complaining that his wife is a millionaire or he has a bad temper because we never really knew this.
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Goppy1 year, 3 months ago
RIGHT ON!!
As a Christian Conservative, I, like Thommy, really resent any bad coverage of McCain.
We prefer the en masse stories submitted by our loyal righties bout Obama bein a Muslim! Shure, they're lies, but thats all we conservatives got now.
Conservatives are at a disadvantage with McCain. I mean , we already rejected him in 2000.
So, like in every other instance in American lief, we demand 'SPECIAL' treatment from Popieller.
For every ONE story from libbies, we DEMAND 3 stories from our Christian Conservative bretheren and sistern.
Thanks Thommy! Thanks for usin our SQUEEKY WHEEL strategy. YOu know, the one where we complain loudly and often that everbody is against us - thereby forcin the powers that be to give us EXTRA SPECIAL favors.
OmegaGnosis, BoboinTexas, pc25, etal
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bonaroo1 year, 3 months ago
I like improvements, especially if they're free, although I spend a bajillion dollars a month to my cable provider to go Fast. Now that I know that it's not an insidious plot to limit my participation, I can switch to a more pleasant scenario like waiting in a bread line in the old Soviet Union. I usually associate construction with sound effects, like the beeping of a dump truck in reverse or hammers and saws. Maybe you could put up some of those flourescent orange cones to indicate when we're going to be stuck in traffic.
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bluetexasvalley1 year, 2 months ago
LOL, Bonaroo! Not so sure I want orange cones all over my screen, though.
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mamasan1 year, 2 months ago
just to let you technecks know: the last comment I posted took 15 seconds to load.
way to long.
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