I always seem to have plenty of suggestions about the "Everyone's A Critic" forum's Thread Archive, and surprise! ...I've got yet another:

The new format, while having fantastic sortability, is brutally slow and awkward to use.

Instead of one slow loading page with all the movie titles which could then be scrolled or Alt-F searched, we get seven slow loading pages, which each one having to be scrolled down to see if it goes far enough, and if not - - scroll back to the top and reload yet another slow page. Aiiiieeee!!!

After finally having great one-click links placed strategically around the forum for superb access, we now one-click our way into a big sticky pot of programming molasses.

I realize, this is the price of the amazing reconfigurations the user can do on the database, but it has turned the more common job of just quickly navigating to a specific review thread (without having to resort to KJ's dodgy hit & miss search function), into a tedious slog.

My suggestion on a workaround for this, is to have both front ends available on the database if possible. This new one is very enjoyable to sort and resort in various ways, but the old way got the primary function done right. If we could choose from both of these options, that would truly be the best of both worlds. But if I had to choose just one - - I'd take the old system back in a heartbeat!

Old one is still there, Bradley, we haven't moved it. Just don't have direct link to it.

Anyway, here it is: http://worldofkj.com/Krem/movies.php

It's in the first post of Threads for all Movies in Forum, stickied thread.

New one is still a work in progress, beta you could say.

Hooray!

Any chance we could have one convenient one-click link to it somewhere handy?

Eg.: right up at the top inside the "Everyone's A Critic" forum in that same separate area as the new link is, as an alternative second choice with a brief one line description of the difference.

Sure, it's done.

We'll prolly remove it when new archive becomes more user friendly and faster.

Thank-you, it is most appreciated!


Sincerely,

Bradley "Picky Pants" Witherberry

The reason the old one is so slow is because I wrote a complex SQL statement to combine phpbb 2.0 Polls and phpbb 3.0 Polls. The conversion from 2.0 to 3.0 messed up the polling system pretty bad, mainly because they changed the database schema to a quicker version. Unfortunatly, if we want to include 2.0 threads, we have to search BOTH ways, on multiple tables, with complex joins, which drastically slows things.

It's slower than I'd like, but it works for now. I'll work on improving the functionality in version 2.

I am very appreciative of all the work you do behind the KJ curtain!

I love the new sorting options, and Nebs' work around is solving all my speed searching needs...