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- Jan 7, 2021
Xenforo's actual thread watch function just isn't very good. If you follow a large number of threads, you'll get a ton of notifs in the alerts section. Clicking this alerts section to check what you have will automatically clear all the notifs regardless of whether you actually open the updated threads or not, which either forces you to just let it sit and accumulate or to just open a billion tabs in new windows every time (Something Null actually complained at me for doing when the site was on really thin ice because it was straining the back end, lol). Furthermore, it'll just stop updating you on a thread every now and then, despite you having followed it. It's not even specific to kiwi farms but just xenforo in general and I don't know why it's so botched. The more "intuitive" option doesn't work, so of course people track by reactions.
In addition to that, forums are ultimately a social networking site and the point of those, as the name implies, is to be social. Why would I just post random shit into the void that nobody's going to see if I could do something more productive instead? I don't necessarily care to read a bunch of nonsense from very fast threads but if there's notifications of any kind to a message I posted, positive or negative, it indicates that there's some type of conversation around something I was involved in that I'm more likely to care about. Caring about how others respond to you when socializing isn't "counterintuitive" or "brain broken," it's just how human socialization works on a fundamental level and I don't know why it's being characterized as so weird to want to know what others think of something you posted for others to read.
As for navigating through subforums, that works great if you really love specific subforums or whatever but if you have varied interests it's not so great. There's a thread I follow in at least every forum, and I don't think there's any forum where I actively follow a large number of threads at a time. Under the @Lidl Drip model of forum navigation, am I supposed to just open the entire website at once to check for any activity every time I feel like using the site, given that notifications don't work very well? That seems far more neurotic than checking the tab that tells me whether people are engaged in a discussion I engaged in or not, and a far less intuitive way to use a social networking website such as this.
In addition to that, forums are ultimately a social networking site and the point of those, as the name implies, is to be social. Why would I just post random shit into the void that nobody's going to see if I could do something more productive instead? I don't necessarily care to read a bunch of nonsense from very fast threads but if there's notifications of any kind to a message I posted, positive or negative, it indicates that there's some type of conversation around something I was involved in that I'm more likely to care about. Caring about how others respond to you when socializing isn't "counterintuitive" or "brain broken," it's just how human socialization works on a fundamental level and I don't know why it's being characterized as so weird to want to know what others think of something you posted for others to read.
As for navigating through subforums, that works great if you really love specific subforums or whatever but if you have varied interests it's not so great. There's a thread I follow in at least every forum, and I don't think there's any forum where I actively follow a large number of threads at a time. Under the @Lidl Drip model of forum navigation, am I supposed to just open the entire website at once to check for any activity every time I feel like using the site, given that notifications don't work very well? That seems far more neurotic than checking the tab that tells me whether people are engaged in a discussion I engaged in or not, and a far less intuitive way to use a social networking website such as this.
. if we are using emojis might as well broaden the horizon
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edit: the intended reaction was "christian trackball watch clock," but in my haste i accidentally posted "level-slider trackball compass stopwatch". i apoligize for any confusion this may have caused