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Misty Fuzzy-
Christmas crackers and Partyhats cannot be searched for on the GE website, although it is possible to look them up on the "Most Valuable Trades" part. It is certainly possible to buy/sell those items on the GE, even though most of them are traded directly between players for item/cash combinations. There may be other items that are similar, but those are the ones for which I tested & received negative search results.
I feel that if an item can be sold on the GE, then we should be able to search for it on the GE website.
Thanks!
Member on 5-June-2015 after 10 years & 8 months f2p.
Christmas crackers and Partyhats cannot be searched for on the GE website, although it is possible to look them up on the "Most Valuable Trades" part. It is certainly possible to buy/sell those items on the GE, even though most of them are traded directly between players for item/cash combinations. There may be other items that are similar, but those are the ones for which I tested & received negative search results.
I feel that if an item can be sold on the GE, then we should be able to search for it on the GE website.
Thanks!
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Member on 5-June-2015 after 10 years & 8 months f2p.
02-Sep-2014 01:42:42 - Last edited on 02-Sep-2014 01:44:57 by Sassychassis
Sliskay:
It's JAGeX's concern how everything happens here. What are we doing here? I'm suggesting a change to something that is JAGeX's concern. Are other people not doing that?
You should tell the people in the https channel that this site loads fine.
I have 45 cookies right now. That is being sent on every request. Every image, every player count update, everything. The https thread has someone raising complaints that this site is slow. He used to have dialup apparently. It's good to make the site faster not just for dialup users but also for mobile users.
I'm not suggesting any change to session tracking. I'm suggesting that those bits of information don't need to be sent for requests to things like the images of our character's faces.
A session expiry dialog is not the only way to solve the issue. Sassychassis suggested increasing the time a session is valid. Why is that not a solution to the problem? IMO a dialog box every 15 minutes would make this website far worse.
Misty Fuzzy:
What is the criteria for inclusion in the list at the beginning of this thread? Why are Sliskay suggestions adopted day one without discussion and mine are not? I can put on my world guardian title too.
It's JAGeX's concern how everything happens here. What are we doing here? I'm suggesting a change to something that is JAGeX's concern. Are other people not doing that?
You should tell the people in the https channel that this site loads fine.
I have 45 cookies right now. That is being sent on every request. Every image, every player count update, everything. The https thread has someone raising complaints that this site is slow. He used to have dialup apparently. It's good to make the site faster not just for dialup users but also for mobile users.
I'm not suggesting any change to session tracking. I'm suggesting that those bits of information don't need to be sent for requests to things like the images of our character's faces.
A session expiry dialog is not the only way to solve the issue. Sassychassis suggested increasing the time a session is valid. Why is that not a solution to the problem? IMO a dialog box every 15 minutes would make this website far worse.
Misty Fuzzy:
What is the criteria for inclusion in the list at the beginning of this thread? Why are Sliskay suggestions adopted day one without discussion and mine are not? I can put on my world guardian title too.
03-Sep-2014 21:19:44
Hi sixcorners,
I recall saying that I 'DO' agree with you to some extent. But, from a developer's perspective, they HAVE to make this change to make the website look more, say, good-looking and user friendly? There are plenty of websites which run only with cookies enabled.
For the people with slow internet speeds, if you notice there is a teeny tiny link on the footer, directed to this very same issue called 'change cookie settings'. You can go read up, and they I believe they have listed 3 alternatives to cookies.
On a personal note, things in IT change at a very rapid pace, and as the world moves towards high internet speeds, you have to let go of some things. For example, 90+% of sites on internet now do not support IE5. Windows stopped supporting XP. So on and so forth. Would you like them to keep supporting the older versions of those browsers? It is hectic enough for peeps to support 5-6 widely used browsers around the globe. They HAVE to keep up with the new stuff.
Coming to the session tracking, the current system logs you off without any warning, so in that case, I think pop-ups are the best solution. Increasing the session time comes with a security risk - [and even with increased session time, the issue remains, you won't know exactly WHEN you were logged off - hence lose edited forum posts and things like that]
P.S. My suggestions are insta-accepted because I'm a god.
P.P.S. just kidding.
I recall saying that I 'DO' agree with you to some extent. But, from a developer's perspective, they HAVE to make this change to make the website look more, say, good-looking and user friendly? There are plenty of websites which run only with cookies enabled.
For the people with slow internet speeds, if you notice there is a teeny tiny link on the footer, directed to this very same issue called 'change cookie settings'. You can go read up, and they I believe they have listed 3 alternatives to cookies.
On a personal note, things in IT change at a very rapid pace, and as the world moves towards high internet speeds, you have to let go of some things. For example, 90+% of sites on internet now do not support IE5. Windows stopped supporting XP. So on and so forth. Would you like them to keep supporting the older versions of those browsers? It is hectic enough for peeps to support 5-6 widely used browsers around the globe. They HAVE to keep up with the new stuff.
Coming to the session tracking, the current system logs you off without any warning, so in that case, I think pop-ups are the best solution. Increasing the session time comes with a security risk - [and even with increased session time, the issue remains, you won't know exactly WHEN you were logged off - hence lose edited forum posts and things like that]
P.S. My suggestions are insta-accepted because I'm a god.
P.P.S. just kidding.
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04-Sep-2014 20:58:39
Sassychassis
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Misty Fuzzy-
Christmas crackers and Partyhats cannot be searched for on the GE website, although it is possible to look them up on the "Most Valuable Trades" part. It is certainly possible to buy/sell those items on the GE, even though most of them are traded directly between players for item/cash combinations. There may be other items that are similar, but those are the ones for which I tested & received negative search results.
I feel that if an item can be sold on the GE, then we should be able to search for it on the GE website.
Thanks!
Thanks for getting back to me, sassychassis! I just went onto the Grand Exchange section and you can search for party hats now, but not the crackers. I am not entirely sure whether this is an improvement or something that was overlooked at all. I won't add it as a suggestion right now but I am going to try to get hold of someone to try and find what this is about! Look out for a response in the future! ....
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Misty Fuzzy-
Christmas crackers and Partyhats cannot be searched for on the GE website, although it is possible to look them up on the "Most Valuable Trades" part. It is certainly possible to buy/sell those items on the GE, even though most of them are traded directly between players for item/cash combinations. There may be other items that are similar, but those are the ones for which I tested & received negative search results.
I feel that if an item can be sold on the GE, then we should be able to search for it on the GE website.
Thanks!
Thanks for getting back to me, sassychassis! I just went onto the Grand Exchange section and you can search for party hats now, but not the crackers. I am not entirely sure whether this is an improvement or something that was overlooked at all. I won't add it as a suggestion right now but I am going to try to get hold of someone to try and find what this is about! Look out for a response in the future! ....
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Miss Misty
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Owner - Montys Crusaders
08-Sep-2014 11:40:03
sixcorners
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Sliskay:
It's JAGeX's concern how everything happens here. What are we doing here? I'm suggesting a change to something that is JAGeX's concern. Are other people not doing that?
You should tell the people in the https channel that this site loads fine.
I have 45 cookies right now. That is being sent on every request. Every image, every player count update, everything. The https thread has someone raising complaints that this site is slow. He used to have dialup apparently. It's good to make the site faster not just for dialup users but also for mobile users.
I'm not suggesting any change to session tracking. I'm suggesting that those bits of information don't need to be sent for requests to things like the images of our character's faces.
A session expiry dialog is not the only way to solve the issue. Sassychassis suggested increasing the time a session is valid. Why is that not a solution to the problem? IMO a dialog box every 15 minutes would make this website far worse.
Misty Fuzzy:
What is the criteria for inclusion in the list at the beginning of this thread? Why are Sliskay suggestions adopted day one without discussion and mine are not? I can put on my world guardian title too.
sixcorners,
There is no real criteria other than being a realistic and supported idea that is aiming to improve the site. Yours certainly does this but Sliskay is our technical guy for the thread so I let him take any of the technical cases because in all honesty, it is a foreign language for me! It isn't that your idea didn't meet the criteria, it is just that Sliskay is taking your suggestion and hopefully can write it up for us. I don't really understand how it works.
P.S He is also my god
Please please please can you write up sixcorner's suggestion in a way that explains it both technically and simply! Pros and cons etc - exactly same format as the other posts? Tanks
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Sliskay:
It's JAGeX's concern how everything happens here. What are we doing here? I'm suggesting a change to something that is JAGeX's concern. Are other people not doing that?
You should tell the people in the https channel that this site loads fine.
I have 45 cookies right now. That is being sent on every request. Every image, every player count update, everything. The https thread has someone raising complaints that this site is slow. He used to have dialup apparently. It's good to make the site faster not just for dialup users but also for mobile users.
I'm not suggesting any change to session tracking. I'm suggesting that those bits of information don't need to be sent for requests to things like the images of our character's faces.
A session expiry dialog is not the only way to solve the issue. Sassychassis suggested increasing the time a session is valid. Why is that not a solution to the problem? IMO a dialog box every 15 minutes would make this website far worse.
Misty Fuzzy:
What is the criteria for inclusion in the list at the beginning of this thread? Why are Sliskay suggestions adopted day one without discussion and mine are not? I can put on my world guardian title too.
sixcorners,
There is no real criteria other than being a realistic and supported idea that is aiming to improve the site. Yours certainly does this but Sliskay is our technical guy for the thread so I let him take any of the technical cases because in all honesty, it is a foreign language for me! It isn't that your idea didn't meet the criteria, it is just that Sliskay is taking your suggestion and hopefully can write it up for us. I don't really understand how it works.
P.S He is also my god
SLISKAY
Please please please can you write up sixcorner's suggestion in a way that explains it both technically and simply! Pros and cons etc - exactly same format as the other posts? Tanks
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Miss Misty
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Owner - Montys Crusaders
08-Sep-2014 11:49:34
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