Virily the good, the bad and the ugly

doandersen

The Good the Bad and the Ugly for those who have never seen it is a great Clint Eastwood movie.

Good:

Things we asked for:

  • Ability to edit posts was grated.
  • The ability to block specific Virily users was granted.
  • Notifications were fixed!
  • Maximum posts per day limit

New interesting things added beyond what we asked for:

  • New look and feel

The Bad:

  • Who knows the impact of blocking users.
  • Notifications are a big change (fixed the amount, but now you have to do a little more work). Overall this one is very interesting.
  • The site is slower overall
  • Views are down
  • Profile views don’t always match, Virils are the same but harder to see what is trending. (when someone comments 12 times instead of one, it inflates the comment list without increasing the views of the post). I would love to see them swap the most commented for most viewed. Viewed is a much more important and critical measure than tracking comments (some users comment multiple times, some users only comment once in a longer comment)
  • There is now a maximum number of posts allowed in a day.
  • Everyone appears to have been reset to Newbie for Virily 2.0

The Ugly:

  • When you edit a post, it appears as if a brand new post. That makes it easy to abuse the system.

There are some things that still aren’t working as projected. The site is slower, and honestly, views are down because it is harder to do what you used to do; people are struggling. Let’s see where we are in a couple of days! I think, as a community, we need to watch the impact of editing posts. If you consider that there are things that bother you in a post, go ahead and edit it. But if it is something you can live with, consider not editing the post for now.

To block a user go to their profile page.

Thanks all!!!!

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