Can you keep up with the forum?

[Ryan Foley]

I keep up with some of the new posts/ threads; the ones that look interesting at least. The only thing I really like doing on CD during build season (when I'm not competing) is look at new pictures of people's ideas, prototypes and robots.

[pakrat]

This is the only forum i use, besides our new team forum, and it seems really fast to me. sometimes threads get too big too fast though. but i guess its ok

[Ken Leung]

Looking at the poll results, seems like most people could barely keep up (2) with the pace of the forum, while some can keep up ok (3).

Seems like as long as people can keep up with the discussions they are involved in, then they are happy.

I can only imagine there will be more and more traffic as the website grow every year. But so far, we've gotten through the bottleneck period immediately after kickoff. Good job everyone!

[Steve W]

Seeing that I just saw this thread I guess that I am not doing as well as I thought. It is hard to read everthing but I try.

[Mike Betts]

I think I would do better if that Ken guy stopped creating new polls!

[Chris Hibner]

This is a great thread.

No, I can't keep up. In fact, I just noticed this thread today (three days after it was started). I used to post here a lot, but there are so many posts now that I can hardly find the time to read them and respond.

[Arefin Bari]

The forum isnt moving that fast or that slow. I think if we all could make the thread title a bit more specific, it would help all of us (for example, there are bunch of threads right now which title relates to "2005 arm design")

-Arefin.

[MrAmazing]

I think that it is fine to keep up with. You just have to know where to look...

[Aignam]

I read the portal titles and skip anything where I know my input is of no use, then scavenge through the rest.

And wow, look at that nice bell curve. sexy-kinda..

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

Looking at the amount of new posts/threads everyday, I am wondering how well people are keeping up with all the new messages. So, here is a simple poll everyone can participate in:

On a scale of 1 to 5, how well are you keeping up with the pace of the forum?

Cast your votes now!

Unfortunately, I have not been able to keep up with the numerous postings so I have been selective on the topics that are most important to me.
The new feature on the "Recent Activity" window that shows the sub-topics help a lot. (Thanks Brandon)

[Ken Leung]

For me personally, I had to config my portal page to display the 100 most recent posts. Otherwise the new threads flood the entire portal page and I can't tell where I left off the last time.

Ever since the dramatic increase of posts since kickoff, I was only able to read 1 in 10 threads... Most of the other threads I only read the thread title and move on. Good thing I don't have a robot to build, or I would've be stressed out/falling asleep by now ;-).

[Dorienne]

I honestly can't. During build season I'm hardly on here, so it's quite difficult for me to keep up. I'm trying to reply to threads I can help with, and the ones that're more important to the forum (rather than the "Game: Person Above Me" and "Word Association" threads). It's difficult because whenever I get on to help someone with any questions, the threads already have like 5-10 posts in it. *shrug*

[ebmonon36]

I do an ok job keeping up with the forums....it's all the stuff that I could do instead that I don't do a good job keeping up with.
Eric

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

For me personally, I had to config my portal page to display the 100 most recent posts. Otherwise the new threads flood the entire portal page and I can't tell where I left off the last time.

You can configure the portal page like that?

I was doing just fine, until I moved back to school and my computer decided to stop booting. Driver errors with my improperly installed video card.

Wetzel

[greencactus3]

i try. but as i frequent quite a couple forums on various topics i tend to skip quite a few threads