As some of you regular visitors may have noticed, we’ve been trying out a few new things with the site, hoping to crank things up a notch around here. Some changes are subtle, others are maybe a bit drastic. Some are here to stay; others we’re just trying out for now. We do, though, want to hear what you all have to say about some of these changes and about some ideas we’ve been thinking about for a while. Thanks for taking the time out to vote!
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Feb 08, 2011 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
Please please please no Disqus. I don’t comment often, but I do tend to read them. Disqus requires javascript and the amount of failure-to-load problems on all kinds of sites (I’m not using anything fancy). So please no Disqus.
On the running “critiques”, it would be great if more could been seen at one time. Sometimes I miss an oh so important comment! :)
I like the forum idea too. There should be a place where fans of TSCC and Firefly can go to whine on a regular basis.
And let it be said that I am one of those whiners!
I’m a huge whiner, too! In fact, I’m a professional. I’ll bring the cheese.
Also Caprica and SGU fans.
Oh, of course! It’s just that my little sister Summer Glau is on my mind, since The Cape can be added to her list of woe.
I noticed today that you added times to New TV Tonight….even though I live in CST, appreciate the addition. But if you add the option of picking time zone on subscription, that would be a nice touch.
More contests, I haven’t won anything in awhile. ;)
If Disqus uses Java then for the love of god don’t switch! I hate Java.
Please, just fix the rss and get rid of aryeh (his posts are rude and abnoxious with no thought or research) and I’ll be happy.
I also agree that disqus would be a step in the wrong direction. The site is sleek, simple and trim as it is. No need to bloat it out with js heavy disqus.
i second the getting rid of aryeh. often, when i see that a post is by him, i usually skip it. the times i don’t are when i’m reminded that he has no taste.
mind you, i’m happy with opinion pieces or even a snarky style, but when the writing is weak and the opinions are always negative, his columns should be retitled “geee…what good show does aryeh hate this week?”.
He likes Weeds, so sometimes he likes really bad shows. :-p
But who really is the negative ones now… sheeshhh….
Comments are just fine the way they are. DISQUS is overkill.
Not a fan of typing about a show while watching it. If I’m going to multitask, I’m going to do two different things at once, not the same thing twice at the same time.
Forums might be nice, but I’m affraid it’ll only be posts about BSG and Grace Park.
As for emails and RSS, I’d rather just come to the site; looks nicer and I can see the comments.
“Forums might be nice, but I’m affraid it’ll only be posts about BSG and Grace Park.”
You forgot “Firefly.” You’re welcome. :o)
Let me just add a couple of shows
– The Office
– Rules of Engagement
– The Good Wife
Just read all the comments and tick “agree/disagree” on a list and you’ll understand the general problem.
If he were to write car reviews I guess it would show more that the stuff he likes usually aren’t the things that make a car a good car and that the things he doesn’t like are the things that really don’t matter but are “nice to have”. I mean it’s nice that he likes to write about TV but why would you want to come to a site with TV reviews when the reviews don’t address the things that really matter?
@newmiyamoto– of course you don’t have to agree with what a person writes, and you can find someone’s posts rude and obnoxious if that’s how you feel, but I don’t think you can say that Aryeh’s posts are without thought or research. He always writes a substantive piece– not just a couple of lines– and you can tell his point of view after reading it. So there is thought. As to research, I’ve learned from reading his posts where I’ve seen an actor before, if they’ve popped up on the show before, etc. So aside from actually watching the show, what more research is required?
@Bubba– so skip his posts– if you only like reading what soemone has to say if they agree with you, fine. Plenty of newspapers and magazines have columnists that not everybody reads. And it seems like most of the criticism is about the “what’s this show about” piece– so don’t read it.
@Sebastian– I’m confused since Aryeh actually raves about the Good Wife on a regular basis. But again, just because people may disagree with what he likes or doesn’t like doesn’t make him a bad contributor. I always find it amusing that Entertainment Weekly and Time magazine, without fail, have completely different opinions on movies and shows–it all depends on whose doing the reviewing. And as to things that “really matter” on a TV show? It’s TV, not rocket science. People get what they get out of it, that’s all.
Personally, I’m disgusted that on a posting about how Cliqueclack can improve the site, people are saying to get rid of a writer. When someone takes time to contribute to the site– to watch shows in a timely manner and post on them, and receives and responds to comments, both positive and negative– then they don’t deserve this. Again, if you don’t like what he has to say–don’t read it. Plenty of people (me included) do like it.
“Personally, I’m disgusted that on a posting about how Cliqueclack can improve the site, people are saying to get rid of a writer. ”
I so agree! if you dont like what a writer is writing then dont read them! I could only imagine how badly he must feel right now.
I would like more time to edit a comment and a larger window to see more of the comment being edited. Plus I’ve found the comment window tends to ‘snap’ back to the top of the comment when I’m trying to edit and I have to use the down arrow key to get to where I want.
More regarding commenting: I’d like to see a deeper layer to the “Reply” system so we can get notifications of replies to our replies even when they’re several layers deep. Heck just add a couple more layers of reply-able comments even!
I still find the site loads slow on frequent occasions, but it’s better than it used to be. It’s still frequent enough to be a bother and sometimes I give up and go elsewhere.
More contests would be fun, but I don’t think that would necessarily make the site better, just attract cheap-assed morons like myself who want something for nothing. Did I win yet?
I don’t care for email lists as I have you in an RSS feed box on my Yahoo homepage, which is nicely customizable.
Maybe it’s just me, but forums would seem almost redundant since we have these comments sections to discuss within. This method usually helps keep discussions on topic better than forums might.
I never, ever, ever participate in LiveClacks because we never, ever, ever watch live TV. Even if I did I wouldn’t want to distract myself from my show.
More articles, more show coverage, especially BBC stuff (not just BBC America), spoilers would be nice, more interviews with actors, writers, producers (if that’s feasible), lots more science fiction coverage (hence my suggestion to cover BBC shows since Syfy seems to be in the initial stages of channel drift).
Pay people to read and comment on the site, especially whoever suggests it.
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I really do believe Tom and I were once joined at the hip.
Either at birth. Or last month sometime. I don’t know … maybe I’m completely off my nut and he was joined at the hip with Tara.
On the right side. I’m not certain.
Was I supposed to keep track of this?
“Tell him what he’s won, Bill …”
Well, I’m completely off my nut…and I have clinical documentation to prove it. I’ve also had several operations, so it’s not inconceivable that we were surgically separated.
Do you look anything like your avatar, because if you do I’m certain I’d remember you. Speaking of your avatar, where the hell did that thing come from? Glad you cleaned it up and figured out which way was up.
How could you confuse whether I was joined at the hip with you or Tara? Don’t you guys usually disagree on everything except the fact that water is wet?
You confusatated me like hell.
I’ll take door number two, Monty.
Hey! How did I get dragged into this? Oh, it’s Michael’s fault again. And really no, Tom we have agreed on some things. But we stay with our strengths usually, by doing the whole “Jane you ignorant slut thing” to let everyone on either side have their say.
Plus. He says water is not wet, and I say it is.
Can we work on paying the writers first?
*POST AUTHOR*
Thanks for the comments guys.
So, for those who commented “What email list?” it’s up at the top of this page, near the twitter and facebook buttons. The main purpose of the emails is to let you know what’s new on TV tonight. It’s sent out every morning (except Saturdays).
For RSS, it was definelty too long before the change, RSS feed are there to tease us to click on the link to visit the website if we want to know more (thats how money is made) but it could be a little bit longer.
Loved the highlight on Veronica Mars and the polls – do more of these highlights/polls on old, beloved shows and new ones also. These could have their own page and make it show clickable.
Love the Virgin series (esp Supernatural). I would like those to be on a separate page clickable by title. I often want to go back and reread the various episodes and they are hard to find.
I like show reviews but what I really enjoy is analysis of why shows work or do not work.
No Disqus and longer edit times – that clock ticking down drives me nuts.