Suggestion for a change here on myLot

United States
December 1, 2008 12:55pm CST
Although I have pretty fast internet generally, myLot loads every page a bit slowly, probably because it's such a popular site. I'm happy that there are so many members always online sharing their thoughts, opinions, and advie but it seems like myLot might be getting a bit overloaded. Each page takes me a few seconds to load on slow days. One simple change I can think of which would save everyone time is if that little Tag This Discussion box were on the same page as the text box where you write your discussion or response, so that they'd all get submitted together. This would mean that I wouldn't have to waste time waiting for yet another page to load after I write my responses. I also think I'd be more likely to tag discussions beause it would be easier to do this way, at least for me. I understand that mylot might have set it up this way to maximize the number of ads we see, but really I'd never click an ad on the tag page (how relevant could it be to my interests?), so there's not a lot of point. You'd probably save money taking it out because it would decrease load on the servers. So what does everyone else think of my little idea? I'm open to support or criticism, although if you take the criticism route remember that this suggestion isn't personal or even a very big change.
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4 responses
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
1 Dec 08
The only thing that I would like to see done is a way to see your earnings be updated after every time you make a post now if they can some one add that to mylot I would be extremely happy so I know how muh Ive earned in a day and dont have to wait till the next day.
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@EAStanley (2688)
• United States
1 Dec 08
Yes, I agree with this. It can sometimes be frustrating to spend a good, long day posting quality posts, and then have to wait until tomorrow to find out if you earned as much as you think that you should have earned. I realize that myLot may not be able to do this considering how many people post here. But, I agree with you. That would be a VERY nice change! :-)
• United States
1 Dec 08
That would be nice, but I guess it must take a long time to calculate because many sites work on a 24 hour turnaround system like this (I know Ciao does). They don't seem to shut down for a few minutes to calculate it though (the myLot 12 o'clock is about 10 am here), so I don't really know.
@EAStanley (2688)
• United States
1 Dec 08
I agree with you. Sometimes it takes so gosh darned LONG to wait for that tagging page to load that I just DON'T tag just because I'm irritated. Even though I know that it is better to tag, if I am already irritated by waiting for that page to load, then I am just not going to tag. *LOL* So, that is a VERY good idea. Thanks! :)
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• United States
1 Dec 08
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Once I get to the page I think "I'm not going to waste more of my time tagging this, I already spent x seconds waiting for the page to load". I wish more people would show interest on this discussion though, maybe I threw them off by writing up such a long introduction to it :).
1 Dec 08
What a great idea. I find mylot slower than any other site I go on. I thought it was just me. It would really speed things up having the two things up on the same page.
@luoke1 (377)
• China
1 Dec 08
I think my mylot open pretty ok like other websites,although you still got a nice idea there though.
• United States
1 Dec 08
I think it depends on the day, there seem to be certain "peak times" when it takes longer to load, and I can only guess it's because there are a bunch of folks online.