Yes, my chonch. There, I said it.
I go there for the recaps. That’s it. The recaps are well-written and generally entertaining. A good time-killer. Fun for all ages. What’s not to love? I don’t dick around with the forums or whatever, I just read the recaps. And because MBTV, like almost every other website out there, is provided for free, I never felt the need to bitch about the unbelievably slow servers.
And then they decided, in an attempt to increase ad revenue, to split up the recaps. They used to be on like 3 or 4 pages. Now each recap is on about 12 pages. The longer ones can go over 20 pages. So that’s 20 times I have to click “Next” and 20 times I hit an ad banner on their site, and 20 times they get ad revenue. Bully for them.
Well, with all their newfound ad revenue from forcing me to click 20 times to read one frigging recap, do you think they could, oh, I don’t know, UPGRADE THEIR GODDAMN SERVER? About 90% of the time, when I click “Next” to go to the next page of a recap, I get a server timeout. That wouldn’t be so bad if there weren’t 20 fucking pages to click through. I tried to read the “Enterprise” recap earlier today for about four hours (switching to the browser window every so often and hitting “Refresh” again) before I finally gave up.
I realize that, as I said before, it’s a free service, if I don’t like it I don’t have to put up with it, etc. etc. etc. But Christ, if you’re going to have a site that is non-functional most of the time, can you at least take pity on your poor users and consolidate your content so that it doesn’t take 4+ hours to read one simple recap?
Shpedoinkal.