Is CE-Conference disabled??

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Yes it's been disabled. First - to check the load on server with and without the CE Conference and also see whether disabling the shoutbox aka Conference boosts forum activity.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  Yes it's been disabled. First - to check the load on server with and without the CE Conference and also see whether disabling the shoutbox aka Conference boosts forum activity.

  When will it be enabled? There's no other chat stuff in my office right now... Its boring to the hell... 😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  praveenscience

  When will it be enabled? There's no other chat stuff in my office right now... Its boring to the hell... 😔

  Well, it might be. Will know in 2-3 days.
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  Ankita Katdare

  Wow! I am very happy with the decision.
  If it's very important to discuss something, we have the Loooooong thread. 😀
  
  We can now hope to see our regular members focusing on the Forum! 👍
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Hoi!!! What's the matter with 2 - 3 days??? Consider my situation of no social stuff other than CE for 3 days... 😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  praveenscience

  Hoi!!! What's the matter with 2 - 3 days??? Consider my situation of no social stuff other than CE for 3 days... 😔

  If the forum activity goes up because of shutting down the shoutbox - it makes sense to keep it disabled. Many logged in members (especially the new ones) would spend hours in shoutbox making no contribution to the forum. I don't like it, but let's find out how this experiment performs.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  If the forum activity goes up because of shutting down the shoutbox - it makes sense to keep it disabled. Many logged in members (especially the new ones) would spend hours in shoutbox making no contribution to the forum. I don't like it, but let's find out how this experiment performs.

  What about the idea, like adding sounds and stuff??? Plus, Google / Facebook style AJAX chat in which each page, the chat is displayed. This was the one which I was about to propose! 😛
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Also there is a problem of refreshing the page as well as 30 seconds spam gap! These are not there in chat na! We miss those... 😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  praveenscience

  What about the idea, like adding sounds and stuff??? Plus, Google / Facebook style AJAX chat in which each page, the chat is displayed. This was the one which I was about to propose! 😛

  We want people to spend more time on forum than chatting in shoutbox. That said, it's just an experiment that we'll run for next 2-3 days.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  We want people to spend more time on forum than chatting in shoutbox. That said, it's just an experiment that we'll run for next 2-3 days.

  Biggie, agreed with the experiment stuff... The features to be incorporated in chat, I am speaking about that! 😛
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  praveenscience

  Biggie, agreed with the experiment stuff... The features to be incorporated in chat, I am speaking about that! 😛

  I've no issues with features as long as they don't counter productivity on the forum 😀
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  ISHAN TOPRE

  Yeah Biggie.It is a good decision.It will take people to get accustomed (i.e; not to use it) to it.
  Go ahead.Anyways,Hello good Afternoon. 😀
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  ishutopre

  Yeah Biggie.It is a good decision.It will take people to get accustomed (i.e; not to use it) to it.
  Go ahead.Anyways,Hello good Afternoon. 😀

  Good Afternoon Ishu! Nice to see you! 😛
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  Ankita Katdare

  I am bumping this thread, so that you don't miss it.
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  Neema Ambhurkar

  I think that it's better that the CE-conference is disabled for some time! 😛
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  Neema Ambhurkar

  BTW, I never realized that the CE-conference was disabled until I bumped into this thread! 😛😁
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  We'll enable it, but CE Conference shouldn't be the reason for lesser forum activity. By the way, I guess today we've record breaking number of posts on CE! We're currently at 302 posts today and 49 threads! This IS the way to build an active community, folks! Great going! In June 2009, we set had maximum number of posts contributed, totaling 7347.
  
  This month, we're at 1300+ posts. Can we really break the record?
  
  PS: Spam less 😛
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  ISHAN TOPRE

  Well It is well going Biggie.Keep up your decision for 2 more days at least.😀
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Some interesting data I digged out from our logs -
  
  The highest number of posts made by CEans in a single day is 684 on September 28, 2009!
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  PS: Spam less 😛

  The problem starts here... 😔
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  maria flor

  Good decision Biggie!!!
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  narayana murthy

  hey biggie and friends we are discussing about increasing threads but how can we
  at starting there is nothing and lot to be placed but now it contains all we needed so how can we increase
  by the way if any one comes with new ideas we increase them by giving suggestions and helping them to implement
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  So So Happy With the Decision 😁 😁
  Definitely It boosts the forum activity 😀
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  sahithi pallavi

  So So Happy With the Decision 😁 😁
  Definitely It boosts the forum activity 😀

  But when we discuss something, sometimes it might account into spam, which would not be tolerated by the forum!
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  praveenscience

  But when we discuss something, sometimes it might account into spam, which would not be tolerated by the forum!

  Why can't we use VMs or PMs then?
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  sahithi pallavi

  Why can't we use VMs or PMs then?

  What's VM? By the way, all our PMs are filled up with messages... Message limits exceeded! 😔
  
  Visitor message... Got it... 😀
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Let me first make it clear. We may introduce the Conference again, however it's only a place for casual discussions.
  
  @NM: Starting a new discussion topic is not at all tough. You can start a discussion about anything! For example, you may want to understand a topic better - so start a thread about it. Let's say you wish to understand PCB designing, then start a thread about what you know about PCB design and ask others questions to help you. It will motivate new members to join and participate in discussions.
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  Mr.Don

  ok.CE conference disabled and only one person online now and thats me.Great.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  dileep k

  ok.CE conference disabled and only one person online now and thats me.Great.

  Excuse Me! We are all here... 😀 You can see the online status of the members in the home page... 😀
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  Mr.Don

  praveenscience

  Excuse Me! We are all here... 😀 You can see the online status of the members in the home page... 😀

  When I am in.It showed only my name Mr.Science.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  dileep k

  When I am in.It showed only my name Mr.Science.

  These boards use sessions to track the online users. So, it cannot be that accurate. It surely shows those who are logged in. 😀
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  Mr.Don

  praveenscience

  These boards use sessions to track the online users. So, it cannot be that accurate. It surely shows those who are logged in. 😀

  Yes it will show correct always.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  dileep k

  Yes it will show correct always.

  Dude, it WONT SHOW! 😔 You mistook what I said. It shows only the user logged in for some reason...
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  dileep k

  ok.CE conference disabled and only one person online now and thats me.Great.

  That's because we are troublshooting databases. Few of the members were logged out automatically as the server went down.
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  Harshad Italiya

  Looooong thread is good option of ShoutBox.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  But we cannot expect all the online users to be watching that thread!
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  Ankita Katdare

  Conference is disabled again (for our own good).
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Yes, it's been disabled. We wish to evolve from chat-site to an engineering resource site.
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  Farjand

  Yes biggie. After 21 days days I will start 21 new threads. LEt us see what response we get. As suggested by ishutopre. 😀
  Else I will give him topics to write about.
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  durga ch

  excessive abuse of a facility lead to its ban 😔, now I cant shout " Yo! whgats up people"
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I'd not call it an abuse. But it certainly added to lowering forum activity. I'd notice many CEans only killing time in shoutbox and sometimes even discussing matter that should otherwise be added to the forum for the benefit of larger audience.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  The_Big_K

  I'd not call it an abuse. But it certainly added to lowering forum activity. I'd notice many CEans only killing time in shoutbox and sometimes even discussing matter that should otherwise be added to the forum for the benefit of larger audience.

  At the same time, now we cannot find who is online right now and there's no kinda chit-chat available... Thats bad! 😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  praveenscience

  At the same time, now we cannot find who is online right now and there's no kinda chit-chat available... Thats bad! 😔

  Go to forum Index page by clicking on the 'Forum' link and scroll down to the bottom of page. You'll see "Currently Active Engineers" which will show you who's online and forum stats.
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  ISHAN TOPRE

  @Biggie: It was quite weired when the shout box was closed a few days back earlier than now. But I think it is a good decision overall. Keep your decision biggie. The reason you suggested is valid. Mostly we are discussing things in chatting room than to post threads and replies.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  ishutopre

  @Biggie: It was quite weired when the shout box was closed a few days back earlier than now. But I think it is a good decision overall. Keep your decision biggie. The reason you suggested is valid. Mostly we are discussing things in chatting room than to post threads and replies.

  Agreed but still, something is missing...
  
  

  The_Big_K

  Go to forum Index page by clicking on the 'Forum' link and scroll down to the bottom of page. You'll see "Currently Active Engineers" which will show you who's online and forum stats.

  Hey but what about the quick replies? And moreover, in chat, we can get a larger audience. Like all the users who are online will be able to see the message but not in the forums. Only those who have subscribed or those who see the message can see. Well, am not against this idea, please note that! 😛
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  maria flor

  It's a good decision once again Biggie to disable CE-Conference so that we can concentrate on posting more threads in every section.
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  narayana murthy

  @praveen: Hmmm you are saying same with me but biggie idea is to make all to check forums and get replied
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Shoutbox is what it is ' shoutbox '. The feature, did not add any value to the community. It's actually step in the direction of establishing ourselves as a 'resource' community than a pass-time site. There are thousands of social networks out there where anyone can chat online with friends. We additing that facility makes no sense.
  
  We'd love engineers to come to CE for their self improvement. Our aim is making CE such a place that any visitor spending a minute on CE should leave the site with more useful knowledge than what he/she arrived with.
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  narayana murthy

  But biggie in my view ideas and doubts will be generated while chatting i am saying because i had experienced so i am asking like that
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  sachleen

  well that's a good idea....big k...
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  The idea behind introducing the CE Conference was just the casual interaction between CEans. At certain point, it became apparent that CE Conference killed overall productivity on CrazyEngineers. That's why it's been killed. I'm not 100% confident that it's a good decision to close down the conference, but closing it has definitely had a positive impact on the forum activity. As I said, chat facility is provided on almost all social networking sites. We'd rather focus on creating more value for every visitor of CrazyEngineers.
  
  I've received requests from at least 2 CEans to close down the conference as few of the members would log in only to chat in Conference.
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  narayana murthy

  but biggie won't you noticed the problem of giving about new posts
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  ISHAN TOPRE

  Hey Biggie if you can do it, please bring conference from 2:30pm onwards.
  
  Until the match ends. I want to watch it with all ceans. 😀
  
  Sorry for trouble. No pressure on you.