Is it possible to bring back category feature?

myLot
@vinay049 (1878)
India
June 25, 2020 1:14am CST
Hi everyone, I used to enjoy old myLot a lot especially displaying or filtering the posts / discussions by categories. It was getting displayed on top of profile and we can reply/post discussions based on categories by filtering. Is it possible to request the admins to bring that back? Also, is it possible to display active users like it was shown in the past? Is anyone else missing such features? Can you recall other old & good features?
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10 responses
@GoAskAlice (5828)
25 Jun 20
It's possible to request something, of course, but the answer to your request is that we don't propose to bring back the 'categories' or the 'interests' features. They were commonly abused and, in any case, were limiting, since many - if not most - discussions can belong to more than one 'category'. That is why we introduced tags. Used properly, they are much more flexible and useful than the old categories and interests features. myLot never showed active users. It displayed the number of registered members at thee bottom of the page and there was also a way of listing members from different countries (provided that they had chosen to show that information in their profiles) but it never showed which of them was active and which not OR who was online at any particular time. In general, the answer to whether there are any plans for new features is "no". myLot is run on a not-for-profit basis: any revenue not used for maintaining the website is paid out to members and there are no plans at present to invest any time or money in new or 'improved' features.
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@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
Thank you for providing clear response and future plans. I'm happy to read this from Admin.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
25 Jun 20
Thanks for this prompt answer,
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@LadyDuck (472114)
• Switzerland
25 Jun 20
To check who is active it is enough to go to Explore and check "Most Recent Activity", you see all those who are posting, commenting discussing.
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@vinay049 (1878)
• India
26 Jun 20
Thank you for suggestion. I will try to do that from now.
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@LadyDuck (472114)
• Switzerland
26 Jun 20
@vinay049 You are welcome.
@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Jun 20
I also like the category feature
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
29 Jun 20
Yes, I used to enjoy that feature a lot in the past. But as few people suggested above, it is better to have tags.
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• Germany
25 Jun 20
I do remember the categories. Now we have tags. Try finding interesting tags and hope for clever users who have tagged their discussions correctly :-)
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
Yes, I was trying to compare both. now, I will search for tags and can comment on discussion based on that. It will be new thing to do here and hopefully, I will find many interesting discussions.
@Janet357 (75646)
25 Jun 20
I don't know about the old features.
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
It was like that few years ago but as admin mentioned Tags have replaced categories now
@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
25 Jun 20
I am new fear, so don't know about like those features. But on reading your posts, those features really helps a lot I think.
• Philippines
25 Jun 20
i DON'T want it back, categories gets doubled by the day before.
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
I think you are right. And it's good to have TAGS now
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
25 Jun 20
i believe bubblews had that feature before. that site that stole much of the users' money for redemption.
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
I haven't heard about any other site except this.
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• India
25 Jun 20
I don't know about this feature. Yes you can contact admin
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
Thank you for suggestion. Admin has replied and said that Tags have replaced categories now
@Sathyabo (893)
25 Jun 20
I am new to this site. But it is nice idea. You can contact admin regarding this.
@vinay049 (1878)
• India
25 Jun 20
Thank you for suggestion. Admin has replied and said that Tags have replaced categories now