My lovely language is in 3rd position in Avax...! ( spanish ) and 4th in the wordl...!...Anyway the Internet language is English ( like it or not ...haha ).
I vote for chinese language Avax website....! ( nahh...! )
With all the respect, how about less porn adds?...especially the ones that pop up to your face when trying to connect or change pages...that would be a good start in my opinion. Thank you for consider.
Hi, AvaxHome Users! AvaxHome is the Best! Привет, АваксХоум Юзеры! ЛЕПОТА! مرحبا بمستخدمي أفاكس هوم Хай Живе АваксХоум та его Юзiри! Shalom! Akol Biseder!
A strange result so far. 2 % Russian users on a RUSSIAN site???
Seems AvaxHome is losing more and more its roots.
Should remind us that the russian version of the FAQ is still missing and should remind our technical team - which works so hard to bring back the Russian GUI, which was "lost" on February 28th 2006 - to not stretch the "Be patient" too far :-)
To our Dutch members: Sorry :-)
@ Pasha: 66% French? I warned you how easy such an external voting can be manipulated :-) But I guess your daily work at AvaxHome quick confirms you that not 2/3 of AvaxHome is French :-))
@ ALL
Everyone can use this voting - access is in no way limited to our members and the (current) result is far away from the real distribution of our registered members.
Besides, as a quick test confirmed, the site used for the voting does not even filter multiple votes from same user. So, please remove 6 Chinese users from the final results - they are all named Bully and do not speak Chinese at all :-)
the new "perfect love calculator" ad is deeply annoying. It's preventing me from actually perusing the site in a timely manner. I'm so annoyed right now that I have to write this down and walk away. Seriously... get rid of it.
One thing that would be nice to improve is the overall speed of the site. I guess because it's so popular the server is really slow. I find it frustrating to post material because it takes 5 or 10 minutes to accept a submission. Other than that, it's the one place of choice to find what you need. Congratulations to those who keep it running.
I have seen a lot worse sites than this one. So I shall refrain from complaining. Ads are necessary for revenue people! If you are not paying the server costs...who do you think is?!?!? Great job guys! Thanks a bunch!
As explained many times before, we only link to an advertising feed (check source of any AvaxHome page) - but we have NO CONTROL what they feed us. This feed is the main financing to be able to cover the high costs of such a large system and to offer AvaxHome to you for free.
For people still seeing popups: Check your browser config. If your browser really can't handle popups, please use a newer version or a better browser. Hint: Both Opera and Firefox are FREE. Or install adblocker software. Or edit your HOSTS file.
More about ads you can still find by browsing the AH News pages:
Yep, everything which cannot be delivered from the AvaxHome caching system (avoidng access to database server) is f*cking slow most times because the database server is under much to heavy load by high increased number of new users. We try to find solution, but this takes a bit time.
All this, in much more detail, including the "permission denied" and login problem, you can of course find in much more detail already full explained on our AH Talks (mini forum) pages:
It really does not make ense to answer the same questions again and again in publications which have nothing to do with the question. We regular check AH Talks for questions, but we cannot regular check all AvaxHome publications :-)
The problems which facing me in this site..
+ Sometimes when i go to open the page of "Private Messages" .. .. it gives "permission denied" ... .. and i don't know why
+ Suddenly slow in the speed browsing the website pages
i hope Avaxhome will be the best in everything in the future..
Not so difficult if NO html code at all is allowed in comments ;-)
To avoid that some users might copy your example to try at other sites - and even one day might understand for what it can be used :-) - I removed your comment with your try.
@ flb4flb
About problems like permission errors and speed of not cacheable tasks: Please have a look what I wrote just 2 comments above your one :-)
@ fishmarket
"please cahnge your web interface..."
And to wHAT shall we change? :-)
Hint: Why don't you just create and load your own stylesheet which better fits your wishes?
@ Alp22
"I have seen a lot worse sites than this one."
TNX! I bet TDz will be very proud reading this ;-)
@ Pasha
Yep, since new start results look a bit better :-)
Meanwhile we have even more as double amount of Russian users, but I still doubt the current reading of 5 %
Comes almost close to our Chinese users with 6 % :-)))
Eh, yes, I also did a quick beta test after your restart - you need to remove 13 Chinese users from final result.
"English is very recommended"
"English, keep english!"
...
No fear, we will not switch to Chinese or Arabic GUI :-)
Russian & English are and will be the 2 official AvaxHome languages for support and announces.
But we know well that not everyone speaks russian and/or english good enough to understand our "Rules & FAQ", some even have problems to udnerstand their english menu on left side for handling mails etc.
For our visitors (not registered users): Don't seek for this menu - it does not exist on the pages you see. There is no technical way to handle mail for you or publications from you if you have no account and no storage at our server network.:-)
Visitors can fully PASSIVE use AvaxHome for info and downloads without any restrictions - we do not force anyone to register . :-)
If you register an own account - which is still free of charge :-) - you will have additional features for ACTIVE taking part in the AvaxHome community. As registered user you have your own blog under your own name hosted on our servers, can create publications, can write comments and talk in private with other members. These additional functions are presented in the personal menu on left side of each page as soon as you logged in.
OK, but back to main topic. KNOWING the distribution of languages will show us which translations of the "Rules & FAQ are really needed.
Next step is the AvaxHome GUI itself. Our software is already designed for switchable user interface, means, that YOU can SELECT the language yourself which you prefer. Currently, only English template is available. Knowing the language distribution helps to decide which language template should be done next.
In short: It's about adding additional language support for FAQ and GUI - but English of course will stay. So, no matter of your native language, if you prefer, you can still use English FQQ and GUI.
Posted By: happy_bhinda007
Date: 08 Nov 2007 12:55
Every thing is great but except posting a news. It is very toughest work.. Please make it as simple as possible. I have try many times but it shows error that
"Permission Denied
Sorry you have no rights to access this page."
or if i try again then it shows the error "malformed uri name". please try to make it simple.
Except this everything is very great amongest all the firms.
i'm arabic, but i understand english, and i'd rather use french language here at avax!
Avax is great, but there are "wellknown" people who put trojans in the files they upload! this is the only negative point i see, may be putting a "thankyou" button and/or a "blame" button to rank posts so users can know if they can trust the concerned post or not!
thanx for listening
Avax est le deuxiéme meilleur site que je connais!
Avax is the second best site that i know! ...continue
"then it shows the error "malformed uri name". please try to make it simple."
Why is almost no-one reading our FAQ?
OK, here is a copy of the text I wrote myself which is inside the FAQ since over 20 months:
“
News uri-name" - The topmost field is URI.
The URI is a unique string tied to your publication. It is part of the URL to call your publication. All users will see it on screen and in stored booksmarks. Make sure the URI you chose makes sense. For technical reasons you acn only use the characters “a” to “z”, “0” to 9”, “_” and “-“. Blanks (“ “) and capital letters (“A” to “Z”) are not allowed in URIs!
Or in short: Limitations same as with any URL on the web :-)
About "Permission denied": _If_ you would have asked your questions at the place they really fit, at AH Talks, you woud have already seen the text I wrote there about this topic. For links, please look for the blue colored links a few comments above.
It really helps to READ comments BEFORE asking same topics again and again :-)
Sorry if my words in this comment are perhaps a bit less friendly as usual. It's not personal against you. But is is now the 6th time I today tell people that a summary about "Permission denied" and similar problems is already available at AH Talks since about 1 week. The only QUICK solution to avoid these performance problems would mean to ban 20.000 new registered users and forbid all access by visitors :-) Hope you agree that we do not like this solution. With a bit of luck our technical team can perhaps find a solution of changing the load balance between our servers, but it looks more as the next additional server is needed for the cluster. This means a lot of money, so no at once solution.
@ Our (current or former) FAQ Keeper:
Was a GREAT idea to update the old examples to include capital letters, but to not fix my old words direct above the examples that capital letters are forbidden :-))
Hi all! I'm spanish speaking, but english is ok for me. But PLEASE, be kind to non Russian speakers and post some kind of info/translation of russian text. Otherwise we miss lots of things (OK, we annot read russian books, but we can see the pictures, can't we?)
"Avax is great, but there are "wellknown" people who put trojans in the files they upload! this is the only negative point i see, may be putting a "thankyou" button and/or a "blame" button to rank posts so users can know if they can trust the concerned post or not!"
Since over 8 months I had not any complaint about a trojan or virus in my mailbox. _IF_ a publication really would be infected, you can be sure that MANY different people will add comments with warning. And, if the claim is correct, you can be sure that we will delete such a publication at once and have a deeper talk with the publisher.
Yes, there are always 1 or 2 comments talking about infected uploads in the softwaresection. But all these comments are created by 1 single person. You can quick recognize him, because ALL his usernames contain some childish words about sex. Yes, he HAD many usernames :-) Whenever I ban him and delete all these foolish comments, I can be sure that he will be back one day later with new usersname. And the game of deleting and banning starts again ... Let's see how long he will play this game. Creating all these foolish commnts each day is much much more work for him as the one mouseclick (to delete ALL his comments) is for me :-)
You see, on such an open system like AvaxHome, you always will find some idiots, some trolls, some offending people, many get-rich-without-working spammers and so on. How long their shit will be online just depends on you, our members. As soon as you tell us (anyone of the AvaxHome Team) about these guys (please include 1 URL so that we can quick check), we will take care to get rid of such comments.
You can make the site more popular and attractive by doing these things:
+ allow anonymous users to post comments
+ improve database access speed
+ provide gtranslate links for your website, to fit in needs of other users
+ try to implement faster search techniques
We guys are here to support you, best of luck AVAX team.
Every one of our registered members is fully anonym - as you know from your registration, we do not ask for real name, address etc - all you need is a self selected username / nickname and an email address. Even this does not need to be a personal address - using an address from a free mailer or anonym mailer is fully OK. But, opposite to a visitor, the registration informs our database server to provide space for you to store comments, publications, mails, personal blog etc.
Only solution would be to create a special account like Visitor and publish the password on top of each page :-) But what sense would it make when tons of visitors work on the same account, reading mails written to others :-)
Yep, spammers would be happy about such a solution, as we could not delete their spam without deleting comments from other visitors :-)) Nah, sorry, we already have more than enough bans each day even with registration.
Registration is such quick and simple that I think every visitor who wnts to jump to active member for writing a comment etc. can handle it without problems.
"+ improve database access speed"
The software is already very high optimized for speed. All not really needed DB accesses are handled by a prefetch / caching system. We already work with a cluster with load balancing.
"+ provide gtranslate links for your website, to fit in needs of other users"
Personally I have very bad experience with machine translation software - often the results are either confusing or make you laugh as native reader. But if some of our publishers would like to test, they can include such a link inside their publication.
But for GUI and rules inside the FAQ it is too risky to trust machine translation.
"+ try to implement faster search techniques"
As far as I'm informed, we already have a special pre-built search index instead of doing a fulltext search over the currently around 140.000 publications stored in the database. :-)
Each user can further speed up the search time by selecting a fitting category instead of searching over full AvaxHome. If someonesearches for example an ebook, it really makes no sense to search also over the large music section, movies or games. It'sstrange, but most of our users ever do a search over full AvaxHome ad worry about the slow speed :-)
Using phrase searches (using " " around the text) in most cases also gives much faster response.
Filler words are already filtered out to avoid creating lists with 100.000 or more hits :-)
But, as AvaxHome itself changes in realtime - at all time users can create new publications or edit existing ones - we also need to keep the search engine constantly updated, so high optimized algorithms which need hours to build the needed pseudo data cannot be used.
"We guys are here to support you, best of luck AVAX team."TNX!
From Spain congratulations for your excellent site.
English language is good for all, since it makes us feel like just one global comunity, sharing exactly the same experience. And that's something not so easy to find elsewhere.
You wrote,
"Each user can further speed up the search time by selecting a fitting category instead of searching over full AvaxHome. If someonesearches for example an ebook, it really makes no sense to search also over the large music section, movies or games. It'sstrange, but most of our users ever do a search over full AvaxHome ad worry about the slow speed :-)"
I would select subcategories if I could, but on my computer there is no option to do so (on category and listing pages). So I have to search everything until I get to the search results page, where I *can* select a subcategory.
On the subject of searching, please change the default to "reverse date" because the "relevance" option is garbage.
About 20 percent of the time I can't login anyway because the box that asks for username and password isn't there. This is an improvement, it used to be 80 percent of the time I could not login.
I appreciate that the coders are putting more "intelligence" into the page structure so a login does not require painting a new screen and all the database access that that requires. But this code is still pretty fragile and not very robust. So pat TDz and the coders on back, say "Good Job! -- So far", dangle a carrot in front of them and hold a cattle prod behind them! ;-)
I'm from BG but live in lathin america. This site is the best ever. I wish for less sex adds and better server that can hold the traffic. Many times the server is overloaded and can not perform a basic search, nor is able to pool older posts. Other than this it is just the best. Keep up the excellent work!
Just one comment to best site ever - the post comment sometimes doesnt react and therefore people click on it again and again and therefore theres repeated comments - can this be avoided?
AdBrite Stats avaxhome: Pageviews per day : Over 1,300,000 / Unique users per day : Over 65,000 / Alexa rank: 67,982
What language were talking about ? ;-)
it was a russian place initially (several years ago) but gradually it became a real international site. so what is this poll about? we can freely communicate with guys/gals from china or arab countries or latin america (or you name it) only in english. let it be english.
Just one thing wants from yours. Protect children from porn content!
To be honest about native language, it's not necessary. We can't use interface regularly, just Next-Previous-Post :)
"I would select subcategories if I could, but on my computer there is no option to do so (on category and listing pages). So I have to search everything until I get to the search results page, where I *can* select a subcategory."
The little search box on left side of each page does not have any special options, but at same moment you see the real search engine, you will see the options.
On left you have the edit to type your search, on right you have the dropdown list to select the order (you mention this yourself) and between these 2 you have a dropdown list for selection WHICH main category you want to search. Default is "Everywhere", but when you click on it you can change to any main category you like, like "in Music"
Best solution for regular users of our search engine is of course to store in your bookmarks a direct link to the search engine:
http://avaxhome.info/search
IF you use Opera or Firefox, you even can add our search engine to the list of search engines direct supported by the browser, so you do not even need a bookmark.
"On the subject of searching, please change the default to "reverse date" because the "relevance" option is garbage."
Personally I also ever use "reverse date" :-) but the leaderof our technical team sees it different and after 15 months I finally gave ip to persuade Tdz :-)
Best do it yourself by including this option in the bookmark you save:
http://avaxhome.info/search?sort=date_desc
People normally only searching one main category like ebooks or music can even include the category in the stored bookmark:
To search ebooks , with newest publications on top:
These special search do only show albums _IF_ the publisher did set correct flags. You acnnot find albums if the publisher did set no other flags as "music" - yep, sad but true, this still happens.
About login problems: Please see my words at AH Talks
"I appreciate that the coders are putting more "intelligence" into the page structure so a login does not require painting a new screen and all the database access that that requires."
Even I'm not one of the AvaxHome coders I can confirm you that they have some level of intelligence :-)
If you do not want page repaints etc. when you login, than do not login from a page like main page :-)
"AdBrite Stats avaxhome: Pageviews per day : Over 1,300,000 / Unique users per day : Over 65,000 / Alexa rank: 67,982
What language were talking about ? ;-)"
Like all statistics, including this poll :-) it's important to know details about HOW the data are collected.
To give just one simple example:
www.avaxhome.info even in google gives different results and counts as avaxhome.info, no matter that both are the same :-)
But even without deeper details such pageview counts might tell our users what "little" traffic our servers have to handle, special at peak times, and why we again have performance problems.
You wrote "A strange result so far. 2 % Russian users on a RUSSIAN site???"
I'm curious. Why was Avaxhome, a site invented by Russians, made in English instead of Russian?
”
At the time Avax & Torai founded AvaxHome (end of 2001) it was a Russian site, for Russian users, both the userinterface and all content was in Russian language only.
In 2005 someone decided that this fine site should be pushed a little bit to more attention outside Russia. At this time AvaxHome was very strong in ebooks, while for music albums almost everyone visited a different site. But music is the best choice to break language barriers, and at same speed the AvaxHome music section did grow, more and more international users joined AvaxHome.
The drawback of the higher popularity resulted in big performance problems. One botlleneck was the standard blog software used, so on February 28th 2006 AvaxHome finally launched it's own software, taking care for the special performance needs. The english user interface was done first, the Russian user interface somhow is still missing.
Or in short: The original AvaxHome of course was in Russian language, but with increasing amount of non-russian members it switched to English language as a common base.
"Just one thing wants from yours. Protect children from porn content!"
Our rules (see FAQ) strictly forbid adult content like porno and our moderators are well trained to smell porno even if the publisher did not make clear what content he wants to publish :-)
You MIGHT SOMETIME see adult popups from advertizing. As written many times, even on this page, e do not have control about the constantly changing ads from the adfeeds.
In your case I strongly recommend to configure your system to avoud such popups - even if Avaxhome would be able to filter them, what would this help you if you again see them when you connect to any other site as AvaxHome?
Please see my comment above about hints for filtering adult popups.
like everyone, I would like to congratulate AVAX team for bringing this wonderful site.
One feature that would be interesting , is to keep track of dead links.
For instance, when sby posts a link for an ebook, if the link does not work anymore, it would be helpful that this pops a message to the kind member who initially posted the document.
my 2 cents , and keep up the good work!
As for searching, thanks for the URL parameters to search with. Although, I still think it would be a good idea to include a drop-down seach-where box next to the search-text box on regular pages, because I'm sure that's where most searches begin.
Yeah, I thought Tdz might not like "date descending" as a default. He must have a relev-ant crawling up his backside!! :-))
The poll shouldn't have asked about the users' native languages. Instead, it should ask about their language of preference for this site, in my opinion. They are different for me.
DB access might be improved by using SQLite.
The site can be improved much by improving the set of topics. There aren't enough of them, and stuff gets put in inappropriate sections. For example, some self-development stuff gets put in the classical music section, the personality section contains stuff on diet, accupuncture, "Talks about AvaxHome" is under Music section, etc.
Русский - родной язык. Знаю английский - для восприятия текста на этом сайте достаточно.
Делаю посты и для русско- и для англоговорящих посетителей. Так как, в основном, публикую видео, то язык имеет значение и его обязательно указываю.
Интерфейс - меня устраивает.
Думаю, да и "тест" тут проводил недавно, что надо делать многоязычный интерфейс. Людей, не владеющих русским языком и не бывавших на сайте раньше, английский язык в меню вводит в ступор.
What do you miss most @AVAX ?
-mailing list to be aware of pb encountered @servers, failures and the like
-offline composer to speed publication creation up a bit
-buttons as a quick way to say 'thanks'
-nude photos of admins
-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..]
-Some poll asking what your native language is...
- "others"...
- Other things that don't fit in "others"...
COMMING SOON...maybe...so STAY TUNED !
/code{ if the list was 50#language bigger, I couldn't find mine anyway..}
Users with a bit of patience, who do not send out same comment 10 times when they see that our database server already has much to high load ...
If you do not receive an error message, your last task (like adding a comment) is still in the processing queue and will be handle - as soon as the tasks from other users also still waiting are handled.
The problem here is simple when you understand the technical workflow behind it. The send button does nothing else as to send a command to add a new comment and the text you want inside this comment. These data are transfered to ONE of many processing queues on multiple servers. Adding a comment needs direct access to the database server because your data need to be stored. If the database server is still busy, and / or many other users waiting in same queue already, it takes time.
When you click the send button again, you send the same info again and you can bet that this time the load balancing will assign you to a fully different processing queue, perhaps even on a different server. And both queues will process your command. Adding a comment is a task without any existing ID at the time you call it (edit comment for example includes an ID, the comment ID). And yes, the database has to provide a new ID for your new comment - as soon as the database server has free time for you. So, both quese will ask for an ID and both will receive a different one, so your comment is finally stored twice in the database.
OK, this was for 2 queues. If you hammer the send button 10 times, up to 10 processing queues will do the same what I described for 2.
And, that is the real fun behind, by doing 10 clicks you do not even get handled faster - you just do the opposite - you 9 times keep the system more busy as needed, slowing it down even more. And you slow it down not only for you, but for all users.
Comparing your comment to each other of the around 500.000 already stored comments is not possible. The needed time is ways toooo high :-) It even would need to also take care for what publication each comment belongs, because comments like "Tnank you" you might have written many times before.
Last way would be to compare the many processing queues against each other. Besides technical problems doing this, it also would need much more time for each single task as handling it instead of comparing it against thousands of other waiting tasks.
We currently again have a problem of "Too many users". The current number of servers and the speed of the database server does no longer fit to the number of users / amount of requests which could be handled at real time.
The processing queues grows, and the more they grow, the longer time you have to wait for you reuquest / task to be handled.
The WORST our users can do is sending out the same requests or tasks again and again and again - the only result of this: The system gets even slower, for ALL users.
OK, and now I hope the system is not under such heavy load that I will have to wait 5 minutes for each the 9 of your repeated comments to delete from the database. Yes, we have to wait same time as any user - somehow our coders did forget to take care that admin tasks are handled at higher priority :-(
"What do you miss most @AVAX ?
-mailing list to be aware of pb encountered @servers, failures "
If we would have just 50.000 or 100.000 users, such a list would be possible :-))
"-offline composer to speed publication creation up a bit"
It _IS_ offline. We do not even see a single byte of what you do in the editor. You can play with the editor as much as you like and if you just close the page without clicking on send button, AvaxHome does not know what you did.
If you want to spare the load time, have a look inside the browser cache of your machine. You will find the complete editor code on your local harddisk.
"-buttons as a quick way to say 'thanks'"
No. Never. If you cannot spend a few seconds to write some nice words to a publisher who spent perhaps hours to perpare his stuf for you. forget it.
AvaxHome is a community, not a leecher site.
"-nude photos of admins"
We do not want to make you feel bad next time you look into your bathroom mirror ;-)
"-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..]"
I guess we both know WHY they left us. If not, look into their last publications. It was the way other users treated them, special leechers, not willing to spend one additional mouseclick because of the link protector nagiants did use to avoid too quick deletes of his uploads.
The behavior of our users did change much during the last year. It is sad, but true:
About 80 % of comments are so called "mirrors" - almost all of them created by business guys trying to fill their pockets with "eas money"
About 10 % are complaints or asking the publisher for additional work
Just 10 % are at least short "Thank you" comments or sometimes even some nice words to the publisher.
In the music section you do not seee much of the "mirror" problem - the music albums are very large, the business guys can make their money much easier by re-upping a 2 or 4 MB sized ebook or software program ...
Yes, I miss Nagi and Spinato too - same as I miss many other old friends from the music section who left us all at December 2006.
" - less than 5 % of all new comments are ot to talks with the publisher about the offered stuff, "
Eh, yes, I touched same topic already direct abobe theis line :-)
"-Some poll asking what your native language is...
- "others"..."
You can almost translate "other" with "Dutch" :-)))))
There's one thing we all should keep in mind:
AvaxHome is a community, not a leecher site and not a home for warez-kiddies. It also should not be the place where business guys let us pay the costs of hosting poor stuff o only offered to fill their greedy pockets.
We give you the technical base, we give rules to keep the chaos at a reasonable level :-) and we TRY to make our members and visitors happy. We invite everyone to join and feel HOME at AvaxHome.
But what happens inside our little :-) home also depends on the people inside our home. What they do, how they behave, how they
handle other people and so on.
Many of the problems we have at AvaxHome could be easy solved when our members would take some activity themselves instead of trusting that the AvaxHome Team would do all work for them.
Hey, you did not pay big money which would ensure you the service of a 5-star-hotel. Instead, see AvaxHome more as your own home. If you do not spend a bit time to CLEAN your home, you more and more will sink into the dust :-) If you do not take any care to make your home comfortable, don't blame others that they not do it for you :-)
AvaxHome can only be as good as our members are!
If you think that there is too much shit published, tell it the publishers. If you want more quality stuff from first-level releasers, create an atmosphere where such people will feel well - if you do not even respond to the few HQ publishers we have, you do not need to cry that we have so much business publishers who publish any shit, no matter what it is, just to raise the money in their pockets.
If you see spam or offensive behavior, take the short time to inform the admins.
The more you take part in keeping your home clean and comfortable, the more you will enjoy it.
I'll do this in a separate comment where it fits better
"-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..] "
About Spinato I have no real information, sorry.
But about Nagi :-)
For people who missed the great year 2005 at AvaxHome music, let me say in short:
- Nagiants39 was one of the first members who helped to bring AvaxHome Music to life and to international attention.
- We often called him the "Blues-Archive-on-legs" :-)
- His home is filled with almost any Blues album ever released on either vinyl or CD.
- Somehow he was the "leader" of our "Brazil gang" ;-)
- He was - eh, I'm sure he still is - perhaps the most crazy guy I ever met at AvaxHome. He still keeps the record of being the AvaxHome member I had most fun with.
- He is an important part of AvaxHome Music history:
Most Dutch people I know, and I am one, speak English quite well.
Most Dutch people I know, and I am one, speak English quite well.
But the question is other ...
What is your NATIVE language?
not if you ( anyone ) speak english well or not ...
I vote for chinese language Avax website....! ( nahh...! )
Making AvaxHome better...??? It already rocks... keep up the good work...
I am from Greece, English interface is ok.
avx have mnay ads included !!
and need new design !!!
i check it 40 or 50 times in day !!!
overal it`s fantastic !!
tnx avax
И что-то голосовалка криво считает соотношения проценты:голоса.
واحد من افضل المواقع علي شبكة الويب
VIVA AVAX, de Portugal
Salut! ;)
Salute!
Hi, AvaxHome Users! AvaxHome is the Best!
Привет, АваксХоум Юзеры! ЛЕПОТА!
مرحبا بمستخدمي أفاكس هوم
Хай Живе АваксХоум та его Юзiри!
Shalom! Akol Biseder!
By the way (кстати), see my Arabic Virtual Keyboard
I am a bit suspicious of the large French input.
VIVA CHILE!!!
Total Votes: 2072
French 66% (1360votes)
Russian 2% (50 votes)
A strange result so far. 2 % Russian users on a RUSSIAN site???
Seems AvaxHome is losing more and more its roots.
Should remind us that the russian version of the FAQ is still missing and should remind our technical team - which works so hard to bring back the Russian GUI, which was "lost" on February 28th 2006 - to not stretch the "Be patient" too far :-)
To our Dutch members: Sorry :-)
@ Pasha: 66% French? I warned you how easy such an external voting can be manipulated :-) But I guess your daily work at AvaxHome quick confirms you that not 2/3 of AvaxHome is French :-))
@ ALL
Everyone can use this voting - access is in no way limited to our members and the (current) result is far away from the real distribution of our registered members.
Besides, as a quick test confirmed, the site used for the voting does not even filter multiple votes from same user. So, please remove 6 Chinese users from the final results - they are all named Bully and do not speak Chinese at all :-)
@ ALL
About the advertizing:
As explained many times before, we only link to an advertising feed (check source of any AvaxHome page) - but we have NO CONTROL what they feed us. This feed is the main financing to be able to cover the high costs of such a large system and to offer AvaxHome to you for free.
For people still seeing popups: Check your browser config. If your browser really can't handle popups, please use a newer version or a better browser. Hint: Both Opera and Firefox are FREE. Or install adblocker software. Or edit your HOSTS file.
More about ads you can still find by browsing the AH News pages:
AH News
About server speed problems:
Yep, everything which cannot be delivered from the AvaxHome caching system (avoidng access to database server) is f*cking slow most times because the database server is under much to heavy load by high increased number of new users. We try to find solution, but this takes a bit time.
All this, in much more detail, including the "permission denied" and login problem, you can of course find in much more detail already full explained on our AH Talks (mini forum) pages:
AH Talks 1 (about AvaxHome)
It really does not make ense to answer the same questions again and again in publications which have nothing to do with the question. We regular check AH Talks for questions, but we cannot regular check all AvaxHome publications :-)
How're you doing! Good to see you here!
The problems which facing me in this site..
+ Sometimes when i go to open the page of "Private Messages" .. .. it gives "permission denied" ... .. and i don't know why
+ Suddenly slow in the speed browsing the website pages
i hope Avaxhome will be the best in everything in the future..
Have a nice time .. Bless U
Porn pop ups, 2 words, Firefox & Adblock, no problems
thanx...
apapun bahasanya, yang penting isinya
"XSS proof, well done :) "
Not so difficult if NO html code at all is allowed in comments ;-)
To avoid that some users might copy your example to try at other sites - and even one day might understand for what it can be used :-) - I removed your comment with your try.
@ flb4flb
About problems like permission errors and speed of not cacheable tasks: Please have a look what I wrote just 2 comments above your one :-)
@ fishmarket
"please cahnge your web interface..."
And to wHAT shall we change? :-)
Hint: Why don't you just create and load your own stylesheet which better fits your wishes?
@ Alp22
"I have seen a lot worse sites than this one."
TNX! I bet TDz will be very proud reading this ;-)
@ Pasha
Yep, since new start results look a bit better :-)
Meanwhile we have even more as double amount of Russian users, but I still doubt the current reading of 5 %
Comes almost close to our Chinese users with 6 % :-)))
Eh, yes, I also did a quick beta test after your restart - you need to remove 13 Chinese users from final result.
Work in firefox OK and GUI is fine.
POZDRAV iz MARA$KA PARK kvarta u Zadru, Hrvatska (CROATIA)ex.Yugoslavia
Best wishes from Natal, RN, Brazil!!!!
frindly
om avax
THAILAND
english is good
http://www.tat.or.th/
BUT NOW THE SPAMMERS ARE EVERYWHERE POSTING IRRELEVANT THINGS..................
MODERATORS ---------------DO SOME THING TO TAKE THEM DOWN
Viva AvaxHome! I love you :x
"English, keep english!"
...
No fear, we will not switch to Chinese or Arabic GUI :-)
Russian & English are and will be the 2 official AvaxHome languages for support and announces.
But we know well that not everyone speaks russian and/or english good enough to understand our "Rules & FAQ", some even have problems to udnerstand their english menu on left side for handling mails etc.
For our visitors (not registered users): Don't seek for this menu - it does not exist on the pages you see. There is no technical way to handle mail for you or publications from you if you have no account and no storage at our server network.:-)
Visitors can fully PASSIVE use AvaxHome for info and downloads without any restrictions - we do not force anyone to register . :-)
If you register an own account - which is still free of charge :-) - you will have additional features for ACTIVE taking part in the AvaxHome community. As registered user you have your own blog under your own name hosted on our servers, can create publications, can write comments and talk in private with other members. These additional functions are presented in the personal menu on left side of each page as soon as you logged in.
OK, but back to main topic. KNOWING the distribution of languages will show us which translations of the "Rules & FAQ are really needed.
Next step is the AvaxHome GUI itself. Our software is already designed for switchable user interface, means, that YOU can SELECT the language yourself which you prefer. Currently, only English template is available. Knowing the language distribution helps to decide which language template should be done next.
In short: It's about adding additional language support for FAQ and GUI - but English of course will stay. So, no matter of your native language, if you prefer, you can still use English FQQ and GUI.
avax is a good site but i think it not collection with small files the large file is needed.
thanx for your top site. i like it very much it's my home page.
Canada here and we will go along with anything, keep up the good work
Believe me. That is my "day by day" natural born language... :D
:P
"Permission Denied
Sorry you have no rights to access this page."
or if i try again then it shows the error "malformed uri name". please try to make it simple.
Except this everything is very great amongest all the firms.
Thanx !!
Avax is great, but there are "wellknown" people who put trojans in the files they upload! this is the only negative point i see, may be putting a "thankyou" button and/or a "blame" button to rank posts so users can know if they can trust the concerned post or not!
thanx for listening
Avax est le deuxiéme meilleur site que je connais!
Avax is the second best site that i know! ...continue
"then it shows the error "malformed uri name". please try to make it simple."
Why is almost no-one reading our FAQ?
OK, here is a copy of the text I wrote myself which is inside the FAQ since over 20 months:
News uri-name" - The topmost field is URI.
The URI is a unique string tied to your publication. It is part of the URL to call your publication. All users will see it on screen and in stored booksmarks. Make sure the URI you chose makes sense. For technical reasons you acn only use the characters “a” to “z”, “0” to 9”, “_” and “-“. Blanks (“ “) and capital letters (“A” to “Z”) are not allowed in URIs!
Examples:
Black_Uhuru_Mystical_Truth
Introduction_to_Protein_Structure
41_Pictures_by_Bosch
Or in short: Limitations same as with any URL on the web :-)
About "Permission denied": _If_ you would have asked your questions at the place they really fit, at AH Talks, you woud have already seen the text I wrote there about this topic. For links, please look for the blue colored links a few comments above.
It really helps to READ comments BEFORE asking same topics again and again :-)
Sorry if my words in this comment are perhaps a bit less friendly as usual. It's not personal against you. But is is now the 6th time I today tell people that a summary about "Permission denied" and similar problems is already available at AH Talks since about 1 week. The only QUICK solution to avoid these performance problems would mean to ban 20.000 new registered users and forbid all access by visitors :-) Hope you agree that we do not like this solution. With a bit of luck our technical team can perhaps find a solution of changing the load balance between our servers, but it looks more as the next additional server is needed for the cluster. This means a lot of money, so no at once solution.
@ Our (current or former) FAQ Keeper:
Was a GREAT idea to update the old examples to include capital letters, but to not fix my old words direct above the examples that capital letters are forbidden :-))
:-)
الموقع كويس
بش مشكله الاعلانات الوسخة
وكمان بغلب شوية في البحث
سلام
على فكرة
في غش فيالتصويت
انا بعرف طريقة تخلى الواحد يصوت اكثر من مرة بس الظاهر انهم مثبتين التصويت ضد العرب
Thanks to all
"Avax is great, but there are "wellknown" people who put trojans in the files they upload! this is the only negative point i see, may be putting a "thankyou" button and/or a "blame" button to rank posts so users can know if they can trust the concerned post or not!"
Since over 8 months I had not any complaint about a trojan or virus in my mailbox. _IF_ a publication really would be infected, you can be sure that MANY different people will add comments with warning. And, if the claim is correct, you can be sure that we will delete such a publication at once and have a deeper talk with the publisher.
Yes, there are always 1 or 2 comments talking about infected uploads in the softwaresection. But all these comments are created by 1 single person. You can quick recognize him, because ALL his usernames contain some childish words about sex. Yes, he HAD many usernames :-) Whenever I ban him and delete all these foolish comments, I can be sure that he will be back one day later with new usersname. And the game of deleting and banning starts again ... Let's see how long he will play this game. Creating all these foolish commnts each day is much much more work for him as the one mouseclick (to delete ALL his comments) is for me :-)
You see, on such an open system like AvaxHome, you always will find some idiots, some trolls, some offending people, many get-rich-without-working spammers and so on. How long their shit will be online just depends on you, our members. As soon as you tell us (anyone of the AvaxHome Team) about these guys (please include 1 URL so that we can quick check), we will take care to get rid of such comments.
VIVA AVAX!
You can make the site more popular and attractive by doing these things:
+ allow anonymous users to post comments
+ improve database access speed
+ provide gtranslate links for your website, to fit in needs of other users
+ try to implement faster search techniques
We guys are here to support you, best of luck AVAX team.
"+ allow anonymous users to post comments"
Every one of our registered members is fully anonym - as you know from your registration, we do not ask for real name, address etc - all you need is a self selected username / nickname and an email address. Even this does not need to be a personal address - using an address from a free mailer or anonym mailer is fully OK. But, opposite to a visitor, the registration informs our database server to provide space for you to store comments, publications, mails, personal blog etc.
Only solution would be to create a special account like Visitor and publish the password on top of each page :-) But what sense would it make when tons of visitors work on the same account, reading mails written to others :-)
Yep, spammers would be happy about such a solution, as we could not delete their spam without deleting comments from other visitors :-)) Nah, sorry, we already have more than enough bans each day even with registration.
Registration is such quick and simple that I think every visitor who wnts to jump to active member for writing a comment etc. can handle it without problems.
"+ improve database access speed"
The software is already very high optimized for speed. All not really needed DB accesses are handled by a prefetch / caching system. We already work with a cluster with load balancing.
"+ provide gtranslate links for your website, to fit in needs of other users"
Personally I have very bad experience with machine translation software - often the results are either confusing or make you laugh as native reader. But if some of our publishers would like to test, they can include such a link inside their publication.
But for GUI and rules inside the FAQ it is too risky to trust machine translation.
"+ try to implement faster search techniques"
As far as I'm informed, we already have a special pre-built search index instead of doing a fulltext search over the currently around 140.000 publications stored in the database. :-)
Each user can further speed up the search time by selecting a fitting category instead of searching over full AvaxHome. If someonesearches for example an ebook, it really makes no sense to search also over the large music section, movies or games. It'sstrange, but most of our users ever do a search over full AvaxHome ad worry about the slow speed :-)
Using phrase searches (using " " around the text) in most cases also gives much faster response.
Filler words are already filtered out to avoid creating lists with 100.000 or more hits :-)
But, as AvaxHome itself changes in realtime - at all time users can create new publications or edit existing ones - we also need to keep the search engine constantly updated, so high optimized algorithms which need hours to build the needed pseudo data cannot be used.
"We guys are here to support you, best of luck AVAX team."TNX!
I'll remind you about your kind offer ;-)
whatever you came from...but english is must...please ;)
AVAXHOME is GREAT!!
Well, i don't answer to ignorants!
... GET LOST!
English language is good for all, since it makes us feel like just one global comunity, sharing exactly the same experience. And that's something not so easy to find elsewhere.
You wrote,
"Each user can further speed up the search time by selecting a fitting category instead of searching over full AvaxHome. If someonesearches for example an ebook, it really makes no sense to search also over the large music section, movies or games. It'sstrange, but most of our users ever do a search over full AvaxHome ad worry about the slow speed :-)"
I would select subcategories if I could, but on my computer there is no option to do so (on category and listing pages). So I have to search everything until I get to the search results page, where I *can* select a subcategory.
On the subject of searching, please change the default to "reverse date" because the "relevance" option is garbage.
About 20 percent of the time I can't login anyway because the box that asks for username and password isn't there. This is an improvement, it used to be 80 percent of the time I could not login.
I appreciate that the coders are putting more "intelligence" into the page structure so a login does not require painting a new screen and all the database access that that requires. But this code is still pretty fragile and not very robust. So pat TDz and the coders on back, say "Good Job! -- So far", dangle a carrot in front of them and hold a cattle prod behind them! ;-)
What language were talking about ? ;-)
"Traue keiner Statistik, die Du nicht selbst gefälscht hast!" :-)
Western Europe strikes back - revenge for the European Song Contest :-)))
You wrote "A strange result so far. 2 % Russian users on a RUSSIAN site???"
I'm curious. Why was Avaxhome, a site invented by Russians, made in English instead of Russian?
To be honest about native language, it's not necessary. We can't use interface regularly, just Next-Previous-Post :)
Actually I don't mind other languages at all. It merely reflects the mighty metropolitan nature of this excellent service!
Merci, Gracias, Grazie, Dank dir, Amesegunalhun, Ashoge, Barak llahu fik, Meda w'asé, Hway, Sayol, Baraka, Sa-aun, Chezu ba, Dziakuju, M goi, Zikomo, Tatenda, Hvala, Tak, Dank je, Imbuya mono, Tángeyoo, Mudo, Mamnoon, Kiitti, Ogiwadong, Mahd-lobt, Efcharisto, Dxanyaa'baad, Mahalo, Toda, Shukriya, Köszi, Takk, Salamat, Go raibh maith agaibh, Arigato gozaimasu, Vandane, Danawad, Atto, Komawoyo, Kulo, Gratia, Xie xie, Dziekuje, Spasibo, Giitus, Tack, Sagol, Dyakooyu, Siyabonga, Dankon, Thanks!
@ sunsponge
"I would select subcategories if I could, but on my computer there is no option to do so (on category and listing pages). So I have to search everything until I get to the search results page, where I *can* select a subcategory."
The little search box on left side of each page does not have any special options, but at same moment you see the real search engine, you will see the options.
On left you have the edit to type your search, on right you have the dropdown list to select the order (you mention this yourself) and between these 2 you have a dropdown list for selection WHICH main category you want to search. Default is "Everywhere", but when you click on it you can change to any main category you like, like "in Music"
Best solution for regular users of our search engine is of course to store in your bookmarks a direct link to the search engine:
http://avaxhome.info/search
IF you use Opera or Firefox, you even can add our search engine to the list of search engines direct supported by the browser, so you do not even need a bookmark.
"On the subject of searching, please change the default to "reverse date" because the "relevance" option is garbage."
Personally I also ever use "reverse date" :-) but the leaderof our technical team sees it different and after 15 months I finally gave ip to persuade Tdz :-)
Best do it yourself by including this option in the bookmark you save:
http://avaxhome.info/search?sort=date_desc
People normally only searching one main category like ebooks or music can even include the category in the stored bookmark:
To search ebooks , with newest publications on top:
http://avaxhome.info/search?category_id=5&sort=date_desc
To search music albums, with newest publications on top:
http://avaxhome.info/search?category_id=2&sort=date_desc
and so on.
And here's an early Christmas gift :-)
(you can't select it from search engine options,so please use below urls:
To only search CLASSICAL music albums:
http://avaxhome.info/search?sort=date_desc&category_id=104
To only search ROCK music albums:
http://avaxhome.info/search?sort=date_desc&category_id=111
To only search music albums in highest quality (lossless):
http://avaxhome.info/search?sort=date_desc&category_id=96
These special search do only show albums _IF_ the publisher did set correct flags. You acnnot find albums if the publisher did set no other flags as "music" - yep, sad but true, this still happens.
About login problems: Please see my words at AH Talks
"I appreciate that the coders are putting more "intelligence" into the page structure so a login does not require painting a new screen and all the database access that that requires."
Even I'm not one of the AvaxHome coders I can confirm you that they have some level of intelligence :-)
If you do not want page repaints etc. when you login, than do not login from a page like main page :-)
http://avaxhome.info/login
might be the friend you missed so far :-)
"AdBrite Stats avaxhome: Pageviews per day : Over 1,300,000 / Unique users per day : Over 65,000 / Alexa rank: 67,982
What language were talking about ? ;-)"
Like all statistics, including this poll :-) it's important to know details about HOW the data are collected.
To give just one simple example:
www.avaxhome.info even in google gives different results and counts as avaxhome.info, no matter that both are the same :-)
But even without deeper details such pageview counts might tell our users what "little" traffic our servers have to handle, special at peak times, and why we again have performance problems.
@ fine
"Traue keiner Statistik, die Du nicht selbst gefälscht hast!" :-)
Western Europe strikes back - revenge for the European Song Contest :-))) "
Yep, hehe, it's amazing how quick the German count increased to 26 % - soon after you found this page :-))
@ Bully
You wrote "A strange result so far. 2 % Russian users on a RUSSIAN site???"
I'm curious. Why was Avaxhome, a site invented by Russians, made in English instead of Russian?
At the time Avax & Torai founded AvaxHome (end of 2001) it was a Russian site, for Russian users, both the userinterface and all content was in Russian language only.
In 2005 someone decided that this fine site should be pushed a little bit to more attention outside Russia. At this time AvaxHome was very strong in ebooks, while for music albums almost everyone visited a different site. But music is the best choice to break language barriers, and at same speed the AvaxHome music section did grow, more and more international users joined AvaxHome.
The drawback of the higher popularity resulted in big performance problems. One botlleneck was the standard blog software used, so on February 28th 2006 AvaxHome finally launched it's own software, taking care for the special performance needs. The english user interface was done first, the Russian user interface somhow is still missing.
Or in short: The original AvaxHome of course was in Russian language, but with increasing amount of non-russian members it switched to English language as a common base.
@ AkeB0N0
"Just one thing wants from yours. Protect children from porn content!"
Our rules (see FAQ) strictly forbid adult content like porno and our moderators are well trained to smell porno even if the publisher did not make clear what content he wants to publish :-)
You MIGHT SOMETIME see adult popups from advertizing. As written many times, even on this page, e do not have control about the constantly changing ads from the adfeeds.
In your case I strongly recommend to configure your system to avoud such popups - even if Avaxhome would be able to filter them, what would this help you if you again see them when you connect to any other site as AvaxHome?
Please see my comment above about hints for filtering adult popups.
One feature that would be interesting , is to keep track of dead links.
For instance, when sby posts a link for an ebook, if the link does not work anymore, it would be helpful that this pops a message to the kind member who initially posted the document.
my 2 cents , and keep up the good work!
Avaxhome is No.1, Best E-book site in my mind.
Avaxhome Addict Man
ขอบคุณมากครับ
Thank you.
Thanks for the link to a direct login page.
As for searching, thanks for the URL parameters to search with. Although, I still think it would be a good idea to include a drop-down seach-where box next to the search-text box on regular pages, because I'm sure that's where most searches begin.
Yeah, I thought Tdz might not like "date descending" as a default. He must have a relev-ant crawling up his backside!! :-))
if I write in hindi no one would understand a word :P
have a great day guys
DB access might be improved by using SQLite.
The site can be improved much by improving the set of topics. There aren't enough of them, and stuff gets put in inappropriate sections. For example, some self-development stuff gets put in the classical music section, the personality section contains stuff on diet, accupuncture, "Talks about AvaxHome" is under Music section, etc.
Делаю посты и для русско- и для англоговорящих посетителей. Так как, в основном, публикую видео, то язык имеет значение и его обязательно указываю.
Интерфейс - меня устраивает.
Думаю, да и "тест" тут проводил недавно, что надо делать многоязычный интерфейс. Людей, не владеющих русским языком и не бывавших на сайте раньше, английский язык в меню вводит в ступор.
Next poll, be prepared !
What do you miss most @AVAX ?
-mailing list to be aware of pb encountered @servers, failures and the like
-offline composer to speed publication creation up a bit
-buttons as a quick way to say 'thanks'
-nude photos of admins
-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..]
-Some poll asking what your native language is...
- "others"...
- Other things that don't fit in "others"...
COMMING SOON...maybe...so STAY TUNED !
/code{ if the list was 50#language bigger, I couldn't find mine anyway..}
...Forgot to mention in the list :
Buttons that don't click twice or thrice for you...
/code, /code, /code :-]
"What do you miss most @AVAX ? "
Users with a bit of patience, who do not send out same comment 10 times when they see that our database server already has much to high load ...
If you do not receive an error message, your last task (like adding a comment) is still in the processing queue and will be handle - as soon as the tasks from other users also still waiting are handled.
The problem here is simple when you understand the technical workflow behind it. The send button does nothing else as to send a command to add a new comment and the text you want inside this comment. These data are transfered to ONE of many processing queues on multiple servers. Adding a comment needs direct access to the database server because your data need to be stored. If the database server is still busy, and / or many other users waiting in same queue already, it takes time.
When you click the send button again, you send the same info again and you can bet that this time the load balancing will assign you to a fully different processing queue, perhaps even on a different server. And both queues will process your command. Adding a comment is a task without any existing ID at the time you call it (edit comment for example includes an ID, the comment ID). And yes, the database has to provide a new ID for your new comment - as soon as the database server has free time for you. So, both quese will ask for an ID and both will receive a different one, so your comment is finally stored twice in the database.
OK, this was for 2 queues. If you hammer the send button 10 times, up to 10 processing queues will do the same what I described for 2.
And, that is the real fun behind, by doing 10 clicks you do not even get handled faster - you just do the opposite - you 9 times keep the system more busy as needed, slowing it down even more. And you slow it down not only for you, but for all users.
Comparing your comment to each other of the around 500.000 already stored comments is not possible. The needed time is ways toooo high :-) It even would need to also take care for what publication each comment belongs, because comments like "Tnank you" you might have written many times before.
Last way would be to compare the many processing queues against each other. Besides technical problems doing this, it also would need much more time for each single task as handling it instead of comparing it against thousands of other waiting tasks.
We currently again have a problem of "Too many users". The current number of servers and the speed of the database server does no longer fit to the number of users / amount of requests which could be handled at real time.
The processing queues grows, and the more they grow, the longer time you have to wait for you reuquest / task to be handled.
The WORST our users can do is sending out the same requests or tasks again and again and again - the only result of this: The system gets even slower, for ALL users.
OK, and now I hope the system is not under such heavy load that I will have to wait 5 minutes for each the 9 of your repeated comments to delete from the database. Yes, we have to wait same time as any user - somehow our coders did forget to take care that admin tasks are handled at higher priority :-(
Users with a bit of patience, who do not send out same comment 10 times when they see that our database server already has much to high load ...
And what about modorators :-))))))
sorry ;-)
@ codechisel and ALL
"What do you miss most @AVAX ?
-mailing list to be aware of pb encountered @servers, failures "
If we would have just 50.000 or 100.000 users, such a list would be possible :-))
"-offline composer to speed publication creation up a bit"
It _IS_ offline. We do not even see a single byte of what you do in the editor. You can play with the editor as much as you like and if you just close the page without clicking on send button, AvaxHome does not know what you did.
If you want to spare the load time, have a look inside the browser cache of your machine. You will find the complete editor code on your local harddisk.
"-buttons as a quick way to say 'thanks'"
No. Never. If you cannot spend a few seconds to write some nice words to a publisher who spent perhaps hours to perpare his stuf for you. forget it.
AvaxHome is a community, not a leecher site.
"-nude photos of admins"
We do not want to make you feel bad next time you look into your bathroom mirror ;-)
"-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..]"
I guess we both know WHY they left us. If not, look into their last publications. It was the way other users treated them, special leechers, not willing to spend one additional mouseclick because of the link protector nagiants did use to avoid too quick deletes of his uploads.
The behavior of our users did change much during the last year. It is sad, but true:
About 80 % of comments are so called "mirrors" - almost all of them created by business guys trying to fill their pockets with "eas money"
About 10 % are complaints or asking the publisher for additional work
Just 10 % are at least short "Thank you" comments or sometimes even some nice words to the publisher.
In the music section you do not seee much of the "mirror" problem - the music albums are very large, the business guys can make their money much easier by re-upping a 2 or 4 MB sized ebook or software program ...
Yes, I miss Nagi and Spinato too - same as I miss many other old friends from the music section who left us all at December 2006.
" - less than 5 % of all new comments are ot to talks with the publisher about the offered stuff, "
Eh, yes, I touched same topic already direct abobe theis line :-)
"-Some poll asking what your native language is...
- "others"..."
You can almost translate "other" with "Dutch" :-)))))
There's one thing we all should keep in mind:
AvaxHome is a community, not a leecher site and not a home for warez-kiddies. It also should not be the place where business guys let us pay the costs of hosting poor stuff o only offered to fill their greedy pockets.
We give you the technical base, we give rules to keep the chaos at a reasonable level :-) and we TRY to make our members and visitors happy. We invite everyone to join and feel HOME at AvaxHome.
But what happens inside our little :-) home also depends on the people inside our home. What they do, how they behave, how they
handle other people and so on.
Many of the problems we have at AvaxHome could be easy solved when our members would take some activity themselves instead of trusting that the AvaxHome Team would do all work for them.
Hey, you did not pay big money which would ensure you the service of a 5-star-hotel. Instead, see AvaxHome more as your own home. If you do not spend a bit time to CLEAN your home, you more and more will sink into the dust :-) If you do not take any care to make your home comfortable, don't blame others that they not do it for you :-)
AvaxHome can only be as good as our members are!
If you think that there is too much shit published, tell it the publishers. If you want more quality stuff from first-level releasers, create an atmosphere where such people will feel well - if you do not even respond to the few HQ publishers we have, you do not need to cry that we have so much business publishers who publish any shit, no matter what it is, just to raise the money in their pockets.
If you see spam or offensive behavior, take the short time to inform the admins.
The more you take part in keeping your home clean and comfortable, the more you will enjoy it.
@ codechisel and ALL
I'll do this in a separate comment where it fits better
"-have some members back [Nagian, spinato..] "
About Spinato I have no real information, sorry.
But about Nagi :-)
For people who missed the great year 2005 at AvaxHome music, let me say in short:
- Nagiants39 was one of the first members who helped to bring AvaxHome Music to life and to international attention.
- We often called him the "Blues-Archive-on-legs" :-)
- His home is filled with almost any Blues album ever released on either vinyl or CD.
- Somehow he was the "leader" of our "Brazil gang" ;-)
- He was - eh, I'm sure he still is - perhaps the most crazy guy I ever met at AvaxHome. He still keeps the record of being the AvaxHome member I had most fun with.
- He is an important part of AvaxHome Music history:
Nagiants old blog at AvaxHome
(If you look into the old publications from 2005 you might see a good example what comments can be used for)
And, I'm very glad that Nagi is still alive, outside AvaxHome, and if you like Blues, you really should visit his blog:
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues)
and tell him a loud "huahuahuahuahuahuahuahuahua" from Bully.
@ jantine
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