First Blow - A Few Years Ago, Several PCWORLD Sites Totally Dumped Their Forums - As My Very First Experience In Connecting Regularly With Other Folks In The Internet, I Was Not Happy, At All,
One More Blow ( ? ) - In The Last Few Days ( ? ), Comments To Articles Are Not Made In The Articles Pages Anymore - They Are Made In FB ( ? ) Or TWITTER ( ? ).
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It Appears Now There Is Not A Direct Link Between Articles Pages And Respective Comments ( And Vice Versa ).
My Interest In Articles Without Comments Is Almost Zero - Blunt Comments Are The Juicy Part Of Any Article, Period.
Do Sites Measure Their Readership Regularly, Before And After Making Big GUI Changes ? - Apparently Not.
Oh, Well...
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I agree with you that Articles without possibility to comment is ridiculous & without direct connection
(article-comments) is stupidity.
However, FYI, We considers some technical options to connect SCforum with Facebook
(maybe, even some other Social pages) and enable our visitors option to log-in on SCforum with using FB credentials and post replies
(on SCforum, of course) without registration process.
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For the end, one fact... just take a look on disproportion in the number of views and replies (on Topics) in just two important SCF's boards:
"Latest Security News & Alerts":
http://scforum.info/index.php?board=6.0&
"PC Help Center":
http://scforum.info/index.php?board=16.0It's common problem on Forums - visitors come (read Topic or/and resolve some problem) and disappear without any comment. :-/
Because of that, We're trying to figure out something with the goal to increase visitors activity on the Forum boards.cya around!