http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:01:17 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:01:17 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment120906 <p>Agree, with 2 additions.</p> <p>First, the "recent" pages are not much useful not only because of spam, but also because they don't reflect comments to the answers.</p> <p>Second, this site hasn't been much usable starting from its "upgrade" (which actually was a large "downgrade") to its 2nd version (about a year ago).</p> <p>The only (but big) improvement that I see in this 2nd version is the ability to edit our posts even after somebody replied to them. The problem is that you won't know that somebody replied until you check the thread, and if your post in that thread was not an answer, but a comment, it's not that easy to find that thread if it's more than one or two days old.</p> <p>It may be a little bit easier for people receiving email notifications. But who uses email nowadays? I don't. It's not as it used to be 15 years ago.</p> <p>This site used to be unique by being by far the best compared to other competing systems; and now it is unique by having the most problems, also by far.</p> <!--break--> <p>Alec</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 120906 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:04:58 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment120908 <p>I agree this forum is rapidly deteriorating.&nbsp; In my opinion mostly because of the recent ongoing spam.&nbsp; And even more so with almost no news feedbacks from site administrators (hence my post about a news section).&nbsp; I hope the administrators of this site can address these situations fairly soon.&nbsp; I almost wonder .. have&nbsp;the site admins&nbsp;gone on vacation?&nbsp;</p> <p>I have tolerated the new sites layout and I remain optomistic about future changes... for now, but the ongoing&nbsp;spam&nbsp;makes it that much harder to tolerate.</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 120908 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:14:48 Z Christopher2222 Christopher2222 http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment120921 <p>How odd, that this complaint received a 'thumb down' ...</p> <p>But at a 2nd thought ... certainly, because it repeats existing critics :-))</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 120921 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:29:58 Z Axel Vogt Axel Vogt http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment120922 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability#comment120921">@Axel Vogt</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>My guess, abraham voted it down.</p> <p>Alec</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 120922 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:06:23 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment120924 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability#comment120906">@Alec Mihailovs</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>I do use email and receive notifications (I am very old-fashioned!). Their behavior in primes 2 is odd in multiple ways. I have not reported on that as there are much more urgent unsolved problems. Email notifications were more useful in primes 1 (when they worked). So, in this area, there was also a downgrade, in my opinion.</p> <p>Feeds, introduced in primes 2, are the single feature that I consider an improvement.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 120924 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:24:50 Z Alejandro Jakubi Alejandro Jakubi http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/120904-This-Sites-Usability?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:this site's usability:Comments#comment121006 <p>There seems to be general agreement that certain things could be improved. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the site has become "unusable," that's perhaps a bit of an exageration (understandable under the circumstances). I think (I could be wrong, my memory's awful) spam started under the old mapleprimes (is that right?), I seem to remember something to the effect that the new mapleprimes was going to fix the spam issue, well it didn't fix it, but I don't think it's fair to blame spam on it either. Spam's a big problem all over the net.</p> <p>I think we can all agree that it would be great if 1) search could be improved (it should at least match google's ability to catch stuff within mapleprimes), if 2) messages could be ordered on the fly according to date (especially), users, etc.with some filters, and for this the "comments" should not be treated as some sub-standard message that doesn't get listed if 3) the voting and ranking system could be simplified and clarified, for instance by eliminating the down-voting that upsets nearly everyone, by allowing comments to be voted on, by clarifying the way the counters are incremented, if 4) the email notification could be improved (Alejandro, I use it too, but at times I get 5 or 6 notifications for the same update and sometimes none, not as "useable" as it should be, I agree). And a few other things too that I can't remember right now.</p> The latest comments added to the Post, this site's usability 121006 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:16:08 Z PatrickT PatrickT