We turned that bot off. Were people actually using it?
I read the stuff here all the time!!! Bring it back please! I use the Phandroid App but I get a really crappy signal at work so when I see something come through on the App, I would come to this site and read it. Not to mention, I appear to be screwing around less at work inconspicuously looking at a browser window on my PC as opposed to obviously staring at my phone screen
Please put the bot back for my sanity!
FYI - the bot was just posting articles from our main site (top left corner of screen=androidforums presented by phandroid) Android Phone
Also accessible by clicking the 'Home' button right below the AndroidForums logo top left of screen.
When in phandroid at anytime you can just click where it says forums middle of screen to get back here.
To those of you who have already chimed in, is there any reason you visit the news/talk forum instead of the Phandroid home page within the site nav? Was it just because the news was diplayed in a forum-like template? Did you not know Phandroid was connected?
I use it multiple times a day to keep up with Android news. Please turn the bot back on if you can. Thanks.We turned that bot off. Were people actually using it?
A bit off the main topic here, but Phases, is there any way to disable normal users from creating threads in that forum? I'd say 90% of the non-bot threads are questions (not news) or spam. Can we just make it a strictly bot-created thread but OK for users to post in those threads? (Assuming we are keeping this)
We did in fact remove this section a few weeks ago. From what we noticed, it was rarely used and was causing duplicate content penalties in the search engines. It's not a final decision- especially after hearing some feedback that a bunch of people actually LIKED it.
To those of you who have already chimed in, is there any reason you visit the news/talk forum instead of the Phandroid home page within the site nav? Was it just because the news was diplayed in a forum-like template? Did you not know Phandroid was connected?
As for removing or repurposing the news section, I'm not exactly sure what to do. We COULD just link the section to Phandroid's homepage but I'm not sure how much sense that makes. We could also just delete it. Also willing to hear other ideas/opinions.
Yup exactly. Someone that doesn't use Phandroid, can easily scan through that forum without having to worry about "excess threads" filling up that have nothing to do with Android News.I totally agree with that right there. It really was convenient to scan over the news quickly in the forum. +1 for bringing it back as a bot only forum with comments allowed in posts.
Phases, for the time being, can we just disable the new threads since it doesn't look like we making much use of the forum - and all the new threads being created are not news.Sure, if we keep it that can easily be done.
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