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

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[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

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

 

[SkyBell]

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!

 

[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]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/528322/

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

 

[TBi]

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

 

[GGJstudios]

Forum Spy and what I'd like to see added.... I don't hate any of it!

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!