How is S2 working for everyone after the upgrade?

[L. Eilers]

Comments, questions, concerns?

Laura

[David Murphy]

In my experience S2 is certainly faster now, I'm very happy about
that. Other than that, it seems to function pretty much as before. My
only comments would be things that have been mentioned before in other
contexts: the number of apparently "dead" profiles

Thanks for your engagement & best regards,
-David.

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[L. Eilers]

I'm open to ideas on how to deal with "dead" profiles.

My initial idea is that I could email those profiles that seem to be defunct and see if I get a response, and if not, then clear the profile.  Does anyone have a better approach?  It needs to balance figuring out who's active and who isn't with not invading anyone's privacy over much.

Laura

[David Murphy]

on other "membership sites" I've seen, profiles are removed from
search results if they have not been active for X number of
days/weeks/months, but become automatically reactivated if the user
logs on again. Perhaps that's an idea, though I have no idea about
the programming effort involved.

-D.

2012/5/25 L. Eilers <lei...@gmail.com>:

[L. Eilers]

I'll ask the programmer I hired and see what he thinks would be required. 

What do you think a good amount of time would be?  Profile made inactive after 3 months of no logins?  Or is that too long/too short?

[David Murphy]

that sounds reasonable to me, though I'm just an end user

[L. Eilers]

It's all for the end users!  :)

[João Felipe Santos]

Hey,

Last time we've asked if people would be interested in such function, I remember we were talking about 6 months. What do you think? Is that too long?

[David Murphy]

indeed, but a system administrator or programmer will probably have a
more realistic perspective about such things

2012/5/25 L. Eilers <lei...@gmail.com>:

[L. Eilers]

6 months feels too long to me for some reason.  I honestly think that most people who haven't logged in for three months probably aren't coming back, or will come back and not remember their original profile information.

Laura

[L. Eilers]

I'll certainly get his opinion (and Joao's!) but in the end we need to pick a time period that will allow people to have real life interfere without them losing their profiles, AND will keep active users from becoming frustrated with dead addresses.  I feel like that's probably something end users would have more input on, since y'all actually use the site.

In the end, though, we can just pick a time period, try it out, and if it doesn't work out we'll change it!  Yay for flexibility!

Laura

[João Felipe Santos]

In the end, it will be just a number somewhere on the code :-)

The database should be ready for implementing this function. Just ask Augusto how he thinks this should be done. I think it will be quite easy!

[David Murphy]

I tend to agree with Laura, that six months is too long.
as far as I know though it should be possible to differentiate between
"deactivating" and "removing/losing/deleting" a profile.
By deactivate I mean something like "put into invisible hibernation"
after say 3 months of inactivity. That would mean that the profile is
still technically in the system, but doesn't show up in search results
or by clicking "random address". If the user had left a message on
someone else's profile and one clicked on the name, then instead of
the profile being displayed, a message like "user X has not logged on
for a while, so the profile has automatically been placed in
hiberation" or something similar. If the profile owner logged on
again after the three months, then the profile could be restored/woken
up automatically. Depending on whether hibernating profiles
eventually might become a problem, you could set a second "deadline"
whereby profiles which have been in hibernation for three months
(giving a total of 6 months of inactivity) would be deleted. But
that's step I think which would only be justified for technical
reasons, since for "live" end users there is almost no difference
between a hibernating profile and a deleted one.

[L. Eilers]

We're going to start off by hiding profiles that are inactive for more than three months.  If the person logs in after that three months, their profile will reactivate and become visible.  That should make finding good profiles a little easier.

I'll let everyone know when the change is done!

Laura