Woot forums changing -- better save those PM's
2I saw mention of it just now, here’s a post about it.
PM’s are going away.
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They do say the old posts are migrating, so that’s nice.
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Do we know if there will be a way to download all our PMs? Too many there to sift through to find what I need. Not to mention this is crazy short notice.
Whew I just copied all my pm’s before the cutoff…well the one I wanted to keep anyways. Jm’s gnocchi recipe
It all seems to be gone, i.e. the historical listing of prior offers, the discussions relating to the offers and the emails. Gonna particularly miss having access to the RPM Tour threads and the different winemaker threads. Progress! You can still pull up (perhaps at least for now) all of your purchases.
@jmdavidson1 From reading TT’s post (linked to in my first post here) and the comments, those old things will eventually migrate over. Hmm, I wonder if that link even works tonight. Let’s see…
Nope!
For better or worse, there won’t be avatars in the forums, though everyone will have a personal page and you can find your beloved avatar there.
I have to say, silly as they are, once I got used to them, I got to like them. I miss them here.
@jmdavidson1 Maybe things will come back; I’ll believe it when I see them. A real loss to the community. Complete loss of everything: threads, pms, order history.
@jmdavidson1 @rpm TT is still advising that the threads will show up.
I could swear I read that the avatars wouldn’t follow us into the forums, but I see that they’re there.
In addition to everything else, there’s really only two options here. Either laboriously go through the preferences on your user page, or ask them to delete your account. There’s a whole bunch of notifications set up, and it looks like they’re going to be REALLY annoying.
It’s a sad business.
Just looked over at the old site and I don’t see anything from the old days? Or am I just too stupid to figure it out?
@ScottW58
I can’t find anything there, except for my order history. I hate it there now.
@ScottW58 Front pages of deals still work if you Google 'em, but the forum for the deal is still missing.
@radiolysis Where it says “discuss this deal”, there’s no longer a number to tell you how many comments it has, or whether there even are any comments. And then underneath the discussion is the list of all the discussion topics.
On top of that, this morning it wasn’t even allowing comments, at least when I was looking. I think it had been disabled temporarily.
I find the whole thing confusing, and unsatisfying as a source of information.
In other news, congrats to WD for reviving the Woot Cellars label, if only for coffee!
@InFrom @radiolysis Your observations and thoughts pretty much mirror mine.
TT seems pretty up given the new forums, and perhaps others like them, but for me, navigating the new site is at least a magnitude worse than when we endured “the troubles”. Everything seems totally disconnected.
I still don’t care for the forum format here either, fwiw.
Grumpy Old Man I suppose.
@InFrom @radiolysis @rjquillin
Agree on all counts and although TT is a very nice person she is also a “company girl” who spouts the party line, no matter how bad Woot! FUBARs things.
The old forums appear to be slowly migrating to the new site as promised. I just scrolled down through 2016 deals and read a few of the posts. It takes a little getting used to but it works and there’s a search function, upper right of the screen to the left of your avatar, I typed Wellington and offers with the forum posts back to 2008 popped up.