Forum Spy and what i hate

[dukebound85]

I dunno about you, but i live on forum spy when im on mr. however, since this forum is sooooo busy when i try to click a link, i get the next one as forum spy updates on me.

i think my record is 3 times in a row lol.

anyone else have this happen to them? haha

[MacDawg]

Absolutely!
It can be quick sometimes!

What's funny is when you don't realize it right away and you think "where am I?"

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[sananda]

anyone else have this happen to them?

always!

[andreab35]

Wow you totally read my mind today!
I get the same thing all the time!

Here I am in the Forum Spy wanting to post something on a thread to the iPhone. I attempt to click the link, and then bam! It updates and then I'm in a thread about the iMac.

:D

[Jaffa Cake]

Of course, you do realise that by posting about this gripe all you're actually doing is making even more new posts appear on the Spy, thus speeding it up even more? ;)

[Gray-Wolf]

All it is, is a listing of currently active threads. Different name than other sites I go to has.

[MacDawg]

Of course, you do realise that by posting about this gripe all you're actually doing is making even more new posts appear on the Spy, thus speeding it up even more? ;)

It is the Circle of Life™

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[dukebound85]

Absolutely!
It can be quick sometimes!

What's funny is when you don't realize it right away and you think "where am I?"

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

no kidding, takes me like a while of thinking "wait a second...this makes no sense!" before i click out and have it happen again right afterwards lol

[Cassie]

This is the EXACT reason I don't use the Forum Spy. It has happened to me so many times it's not even worth trying anymore.

I bet it's even worse in the past few months, you couldn't pay to use it now, probably.:(

[WildCowboy]

There seems to be a minimum delay between new entries appearing at the top of the list, so I generally wait until just after a new entry has appeared before clicking on the link I want. Seems to work pretty well for me.

[iBlue]

It's given me quite a workout in the clicker finger, that's for sure. But I love the spy, it's the cat's pajamas! :D

[SpaceMagic]

It's happened to me once or twice, but it's quite rare! I just suppose I'm lightening quick reflex man ;)

[davidjearly]

I only find this a problem on the iPod touch/iPhone. When I'm on my Mac, I never click on the wrong link in FS.

[edesignuk]

Block out the spammy forums (*cough* iPhone *cough*). Slows it right down.

[iJohnHenry]

I have 50 blocked.

Works fine for me. ;)

[Eidorian]

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=528322

I thought I went a bit overboard with my 15 forums excluded. :rolleyes:

[TBi]

It might be nice if it scrolled at a constant speed rather than jumping when new threads appear.

[GGJstudios]

I use the filters on Forum Spy, but there's one feature I'd love to see: the ability to filter out a specific thread, not a whole forum. This would come in handy, for example, if I want to see iTunes-related threads in Forum Spy, but I don't want it cluttered with very active threads about iPods. Or I want to see MacBook Pro posts, but block another redundant, repetitive thread on the NVIDIA issue.

I realize blocking by thread probably isn't possible with the current forum software, but it would be nice!