cloudxcrash (12-09-2015),Corliss (12-10-2015)
<_> I'm glad to see more people standing up for JS cuz honestly.. I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than everyone thinks. These "they don't care about ___" threads just make me grind my teeth xD I don't participate in NC but I def would not even come close to thinking they pay more attention to that area than the rest of it. Sure they gotta make a buck to keep everything running. Labor isn't cheap. But their NC releases have come down SO MUCH just as much as the NP side of everything. So I just don't think it's fair to say that xD
cloudxcrash (12-09-2015),Corliss (12-10-2015)
They don't, there's NC issues all over the place. They care about nothing lol
Aly (12-08-2015)
I think I share the same sentiments as some of you.
Jumpstart bought NP from a money-hungry company that either did good, but the times shifted, or ran the site into the ground (depending on how you look at it).
To me, it feels as if JS bought NP on face value, with little real knowledge of how the site works and what is wrong. I imagine Viacom wouldn't have been overly helpful in this regard, potentially because: If they sell NP to JS and it dies, it's "Look what JS did!" as apposed to "Viacom fucked the site so hard that even JS couldn't help it.". But this is all speculation.
JS has improved in leaps and bounds since they first started off. I personally don't agree with a lot of their actions, but A, I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes and B, I don't have experience running a company.
I feel like JS' NP is just as NC centered as Viacom's was, and many other sites are. I do notice that NP items seems to be somewhat lacking in some instances, but I imagine at this point they'd be shoving all their resources into either turning a profit or maintaining it in order to not lose money.
I don't personally feel overly concerned about the NC focus, anything to keep the site afloat is okay with me. Though I do hope that if the site situation improves and the money becomes available, that they will some day put more resources back into NP items.
Sorry about my potentially arrogant rant, I get carried away!
cloudxcrash (12-09-2015)
Viacom was a massive conglamerate that had the resources to keep the site running somewhat smoothly. Jumpstart is and will never be more than a small to medium sized business...therefore less resources available and less upkeep. Neo grew too big during it's hayday and now it's a bloated mammoth of a site that has too many features and not enough users. Neopets is basically the online equivalent of Detroit.
I'm not defending JS nor Viacom in any sense however. I think both companies are cheap asses who screw people and do a shitty job at running the site.
CaptainNight (12-11-2015)
That's about the size of it. A huge bloated mammoth amount of code. Updates, new items, and plots aside. I couldn't imagine moving that amount of code to a new hosting server and expecting any of it execute appropriately out of the box. With a SIGNIFICANTLY smaller staff, most of whom unfamiliar with the source and how everything works behind the scenes, that seems almost an insurmountable task by itself; let alone adding new content.
Fixing the stuff I write is one thing, but fixing someone else code, especially on that scale is something completely different.
I say just give them some more time, and kudos to them for getting NP to even work (mostly) in the first place.
Corliss (12-10-2015)
Honestly I give them props for the fact that I can type in neopets.com and not get a blank page
For a while there (lag hell and dupestorm) I thought the site was going to die. Im not going to breath a word of negativity because the fact that they managed to kick that old bitch into even running again is a miracle. The site is still glitchy as fuck but I presume they only have a few programmers and its probably hellish working with 2002 era code patched on and patched on a hundred times.
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There's a lawsuit? What? Care to give me a rundown? Haven't been around much.
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That?
Last edited by Sociopath; 12-12-2015 at 11:44 PM.
@(you need an account to see links) nice name
We've known this for like a month now I think.
All we know is the same as that article, for a long time they've charged people for a extra year of premium and such and that's basically why that is a thing.
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