Welcome to Thinkdigit v3!

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Welcome to Thinkdigit v3!

Welcome to the new design for the Thinkdigit website!

Once again Digit puts you through the minor inconvenience of redefining your reality...

Has the website really changed? Or is just the Matrix telling you that it has? How can you really know that the website really HAS changed if everything you can see, smell, feel, touch and taste is suspect?

Does it really matter if the features are this cool?

* New layout with easier access to the information with related and popular stories.
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* Easier access to breaking news with Top Stories, Latest Headlines and Announcements!
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* New upgraded reviews mechanism, with clearly visible ratings, pros, cons, specifications...
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* Article thumbnails, so you can see before you touch, as you momma always told you!
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* Better forums integration with related forum topics for articles and categories
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* Image galleries for each article
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* New Video Reviews!
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* Agent 001 is now even more powerful.
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* Clearer article ratings.
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* Easier and faster commenting and rating emailing and sharing
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* 186% more awesome

The Thinkdigit has you...

We would love to get your feedback, and information about any Déjà vu... err... sorry bug you notice on the website.

To discuss, and leave feedback go to the forums, Welcome to Thinkdigit v3!

Re: Welcome to the new Thinkdigit!

* 186% more awesome

It would become 200% is the site doesn't go down for hours altogether w/o notice.

Here's a BUG, and a BIG one too.

* Easier and faster commenting and rating emailing and sharing

Everytime I use quick reply, I get this message.
"The following errors occurred with your submission"

Although the message does get submitted, sometimes it doesn't, and i'll have to refresh to find out!

Then it's no way different from the old "Post Reply."

Re: Welcome to the new Thinkdigit!

WOW !!
A new admin !

The site is down & going to dust. I can feel no improvements whatsoever. See I got the "Okay" bug again !

A new admin !

^^^ Merlin's Beard yes!

and a lipstick forum theme..!!

niaaaa

what does it mean?

^ a visitor message would have been a better way to ask and a better means for me to reply.

ROFL, I hope the quick reply bug is fixed.

EDIT: nope it isn't. :-x

@merlin: Are you kidding me?!? I can't see any change! Where the hell did you get that image from? I get the same old red page when I open the site. And there have been no improvements. Please don't behave like our politicians and overhype the achievements.

ahh well, what I feel is that it is the forum bugs which actually need to be rectified. Attachments, AJAX, Albums etc. nothing works actually and it is seriously a pity.

M

Sorry for the confusion!
The website upgrade is in underway, and you'll begin to start seeing changes soon.

You people like advance waves react before we can act

Lets hope for the good.

Thank you.

merlin said:
Sorry for the confusion!
The website upgrade is in underway, and you begin to start seeing changes soon.

You people like advance waves react before we can act

lol
good luck officer

@merlin

actually no one here cares much abt the website, but there are a whole lot of people struggling with the bugs in this forum. plz fix dat...giv at least our old forum back. we don't care whether u update it or not.

j1n M@tt said:
@merlin

actually no one here cares much abt the website, but there are a whole lot of people struggling with the bugs in this forum. plz fix dat...giv at least our old forum back. we don't care whether u update it or not.

+11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

How about fixing the forum for a change? And getting a better hosting provider? And actually listening to what the members say, for a change?

Hi Merlin,
Wow a new Admin for forum only!!! Thats cool and welcome. If don't know or none in Digit team had informed u that we were waiting for u(a dedicated FORUM Admin) for ages.
O.k. for ur convenience, here is something for u.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109375
(It reads, "Forum Improvement Suggestions", contributed by lots and lots of users and MODs too).

So, best of luck.
Please reply to at least either that thread or this thread.

Thanks and Regards,
Rhitwick

The only time that I look at thinkdigit.com is during last two days of month to check content of new magazine.

On the other hand, I use thinkdigit.com/forum for every day and I do it a lot.

I don't care what you do to thinkdigit.com but please fix the bugs that are creating headache here.

G

lets hope for forum to be stronger in future

You people like advance waves react before we can act

Sorry, I replied in 8 minutes.

Kl@w-24 said:
How about fixing the forum for a change? And getting a better hosting provider? And actually listening to what the members say, for a change?

That was mean! When have I not listened to the members?

Forum version upgraded 3.7.1 > 3.8.2 -- so hopefully that will solve a few of the problems. The rest to be solved within a week or two, I'm taking the downtimes very seriously.

Merlin = Ahmed Shaikh -- most of the older readers will remember him.

This post however, was NOT made by Ahmed... yes, I know who you are

Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, yes we have a new site coming soon, and I mean soon.

Please wait a little longer while we update the site and forum. Things will be a little iffy for a few hours today, but once it's done, you can start the feedback here again.

Raaabo

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You know what, most people don't give a damn to Digit's website. They just care about the forum. Our bookmarks point to www.thinkdigit.com/forum and not www.thinkdigit.com. I mean to say that there are 100s of good "daily dose" tech news sites which I must say, are waaaay better that Digit's home page. Where Digit's online presence scores is in the forums. So please, prioritise.

Raaabo said:
That was mean! When have I not listened to the members?

Forum version upgraded 3.7.1 > 3.8.2 -- so hopefully that will solve a few of the problems. The rest to be solved within a week or two, I'm taking the downtimes very seriously.

how about taking our request seriously and downgrade 3.8.2 to 1.0.0!!!!

we don't want eye candy. We want a forum that is fast and that doesn't think every post as a double post.

:BIG SIGH:
I just wrote a big post and believing d improvement I didn't take a backup of it.
And now it doesn't exist.

And, yesterday I adviced disc_junkie to backup b4 posting :-(

I can spot some changes!
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rhitwick said:
:BIG SIGH:
I just wrote a big post and believing d improvement I didn't take a backup of it.
And now it doesn't exist.

And, yesterday I adviced disc_junkie to backup b4 posting

You should have copied it!!! :idea:

Raaabo said:
That was mean! When have I not listened to the members?

Forum version upgraded 3.7.1 > 3.8.2 -- so hopefully that will solve a few of the problems. The rest to be solved within a week or two, I'm taking the downtimes very seriously.

Merlin = Ahmed Shaikh -- most of the older readers will remember him.

This post however, was NOT made by Ahmed... yes, I know who you are

Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, yes we have a new site coming soon, and I mean soon.

Please wait a little longer while we update the site and forum. Things will be a little iffy for a few hours today, but once it's done, you can start the feedback here again.

Raaabo

Well, at least it brought a reply from you, something which all of us have been waiting for!!

And Ahmad Shaikh is still with Digit??? :shock:

yes we have a new site coming soon, and I mean soon.

HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

desiibond said:
how about taking our request seriously and downgrade 3.8.2 to 1.0.0!!!!

we don't want eye candy. We want a forum that is fast and that doesn't think every post as a double post.

^^+1

who requested these updates?? v just asked to fix the forum, not to upgrade. Those updates r meant for people who knows hw to handle a forum properly, not for TDF guys I think

I hav seen 17yr old high-school kids who hav their own forums...hmm, TDF admins, this is pathetic...may be worst than dat.

btw thanx Admins for giving ur attention at least now. The words may seem hard, but its just dat....we don't want to see TDF die. :smile:

So gud luck...

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Raaabo said:
This post however, was NOT made by Ahmed... yes, I know who you are

hmm....a rat within the admins
that's interesting

any way i hope you guys will hear out everyone's complaints and fix all the bugs soon.

You should have copied it!!!

I do it with every post of mine, this one too, cuz it has a quote LOLZ

looks like the admins are actually serious about upgrading the forum... well, i'd like to see some bugs fixed...but more importantly, MORE MODS.

either remove the currently inactive ones or appoint more mods...i'm sure the admins have nothing to lose in appointing new mods..
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oh blah !! your 'thinkdigit v3' still has the "The following errors occurred with your submission" thingy...

Atlast users won the game over admins

Coool said:
Atlast users won the game over admins

so u guys and admins were playing a game??!!!! :shock:

seriously dude, u should hav told us earlier...we will never hav been this mad then :grin:

Time for new MODS.... or better, remove inactive ones and appoint more mods for each sub-forum, that way we can keep the pace up..!

I saw the v3 it was looking cool and classy in BLACK-RED combination.

but still it dun come near the old vanilla...

nyway its gr8 too see admins noticing the members requests. But its kinda late, many have already said bye bye.

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@Raaabo, good going, the forum has become very responsive.

Also if I may bring your attention, we are missing the feature to "delete other posts by user" while deleting posts as spam. This will result in hunting down every single post of the spambots as you may also know.

And also, can we have the forum jump box please?

C

Finally we're seeing some progress. Thank goodness.

Forum was down this evening, still can't see any improvements though. Hope you guys can fix all bugs with the forum ASAP.

EDIT: The forum does seem to be loading faster. The bugs still exist though.

lolz another stupid design! page width reduced & the ad bar still remians resutling in horrific reduction in forum content display space. #PHAIL!

i have it with width touchin my screen edges.....
@imav
u still have those adds on both sides?

it was like that for some time and now it looks good.

Thought not as fast as TE, it's better.

Nice to know the forum and website are receiving an upgrade. Hope the quick reply bug is fixed

j1n M@tt said:
so u guys and admins were playing a game??!!!! seriously dude, u should hav told us earlier...we will never hav been this mad then

will tell you when next game starts

this forum is became faster in my mobile too

dOm1naTOr said:
i have it with width touchin my screen edges.....
@imav
u still have those adds on both sides?

hmm .. the ads now seem to have gone, in the evening the new design had ads where they were previously & browsing was sh!t ... now its better.

nyway FF3+ ABP was gud. never knew there were adds.

now the forum is fast and the ads at the side hav gone. lets hope they will keep up the gud work.

rhitwick said:
:BIG SIGH:
I just wrote a big post and believing d improvement I didn't take a backup of it.
And now it doesn't exist.

And, yesterday I adviced disc_junkie to backup b4 posting

Use this: *userscripts.org/scripts/show/7671

kalpik said:
Use this: *userscripts.org/scripts/show/7671

Look how supportive these mods here.*img7.imageshack.us/img7/5899/66703392.gif

i have it with width touchin my screen edges.....
@imav
u still have those adds on both sides?

I have no ads!!!!!!! LOLz

comp@ddict said:
I have no ads!!!!!!! LOLz

No ads for me too.

What took you guys so long, at least the pages are loading faster. Hoping for some good changes soon.

now those damn ads are back...and the forum is again damn slow

^ Yup...

and it hangs
and it gives database errors

@Raaboo are you just listening or are you doing a sound signal passthrough from left ear to right ear

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PS: For god sake, please please please give us Thinkdigit v1!!!

The main causes are those ads which result in slow loading time...
I want v1....

Almost like download.com/cnet.com
But looks better than before.

G

Krazy Bluez said:
The main causes are those ads which result in slow loading time...
I want v1....

does that make any sense?going to v1 is no use to digit...they loose there income from ads...........and who is goin to provide u a free forum where no one gets income and maintain it at the same time for nothing...

^^ Magazine kis ke liye hai?

And how come TechEnclave is so much better when it doesn't even have magazine.

@gopi_vbboy - I agree with you. They are trying to improve their standard of website. They claim to be the #1 Technology magazine and therefore wants to bring in a quality website. And I don't think with such a standard Digit will like to go back in the past. :smile:

But on the other hand in the new version, if the errors still creep in, then I think the upgrade is of no use. :!:

P

the forums sucks big time... nd i am still addicted to it....
monopoly is always damaging...
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the forums sucks big time... nd i am still addicted to it....
monopoly is always damaging...

C

advertisements. lol. touche. stupid forum.

gopi_vbboy said:
does that make any sense?going to v1 is no use to digit...they loose there income from ads...........and who is goin to provide u a free forum where no one gets income and maintain it at the same time for nothing...

I'm not saying to totally remove the ads, they can do it in the home page itself, why on the sides of the forum ? So that we couldn't read the threads properly ?
And for your information, WinMatrix, TechEnclave, Neowin, they all make up from adds in their home pages and keep the forum clean...
And have you ever tried v1 ? It was so awesome and so fast, it didn't pain our eyes and the forum was so responsive...

v1 was THE best. I miss the old days of PHPbb

C

Stop bickering about ads. Use FF + ABP.

im going to wait and see how much the forum has improved after changing to v3...

D

Quick Links...Quick Links....I Miss you Quick Links.... :-x

^^ya me too

why am i still seeing the same homepage (with reduced page-width)? anyone saw the new homepage yet?

cant even open my PMs.
and it dun feel like old tdf w/o that quick links.

its better to put those adds in home page or ny other pages, coz no one among us are stupid ennuf to click those silly adds....
but i [maybe some other here too] promise to click those many times a week if its put in the home page :lol:

P

thinking of moving permanently to techenclave now after hearing you guys....

sekhar_xxx said:
Quick Links...Quick Links....I Miss you Quick Links....

+1

great... no drop down menu working....

its v3 beta???

C

Oh, I want to abuse.

Oh, I want to abuse.

there shud be a section for that :))

Taylor Swift - Fearless

^^I guess you posted in the wrong thread!

no probs, I still likie that song :))

hehe. And a perfect post

oh...wat a relief now!!, the Quick Links are working

C

Hey, yeah nice.

j1n [email said:
M@tt;1099380]oh...wat[/email] a relief now!!, the Quick Links are working

Where? I do not see any Quick Links/Forum Jump beneath the thread

Cool G5 said:
Where? I do not see any Quick Links/Forum Jump beneath the thread

He meant this:
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Ok.

But do get back the Forum Jump & fix the Quick Reply.

can anybdy tell me how to open the social groups

it always shows that there is a database error with thinkdigit server

is it so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:

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can anybdy tell me how to open the social groups

it always shows that there is a database error with thinkdigit server

is it so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it's broke.

so it does'nt work

tat's good

I am very pleased on hearing this

Raaboo,

The site can be made to look like softpedia.com site which contains all information in the homepage.
The forum is slow nowadays and sometimes reporting timed out.
Who is your webhost?
You can use ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight to make site more attractive if your host supports it. Silverlight is very intelligent..
Why not a Digit blog synonymous to Digit dairy? That will definitely click.

C

Yeah, I like the idea of an online Digit blog similar to the Digit Diary. That would be fun to read.

M

when is the new website gonna be up?

^^In A.D 2048, after "the Judgment Day" during the rise of the machines....

Macabre said:
when is the new website gonna be up?

On Doomsday!

Congrats for Anniversary!
but your DVD content is not good!