GREATIGBOMAN:


not really lol.

there's one _africoders created by dhtml in 2018 or 2019 or so.... he was active here from 2013 or so when this secttion was alive lol... _Africoders is 70% dead.


seun helped killed _africoders... if you type _africoders without adding underscore, it changes to nairaland lol... jealous seun

Nairaland

I had to try this... Wow! I'm short of words.

qtguru:


Was this necessary?

I wasn't wrong tho was I?
If twitter stuck with their 2007 design would anyone be using it today? Why do you think nairaland members are reducing daily... Right now you can check, not up to 10k people both members and guests have logged in in the last five minutes, this website would have been dead like MySpace if Nigerian Devs had more funds
Smh

I think we should all move on to afri coders maybe Seun would then wake up and update this site

Think4Myself:

I wasn't wrong tho was I?
If twitter stuck with their 2007 design would anyone be using it today? Why do you think nairaland members are reducing daily... Right now you can check, not up to 10k people both members and guests have logged in in the last five minutes, this website would have been dead like MySpace if Nigerian Devs had more funds
Smh

"People like you will never grow in life" because of Nairaland's preference ?? the excuse is even silly, that is rude to tell another person just because he prefers a platform design. that is crass behaviour.

Africoder looks clean though than NL

qtguru:


"People like you will never grow in life" because of Nairaland's preference ?? the excuse is even silly, that is rude to tell another person just because he prefers a platform design. that is crass behaviour.

Ok, you're right. It was kind of wrong but I was still on to something, if that dude built twitter and stuck to it's 2007 look he'd have gone broke like 3 years later

qtguru:


"People like you will never grow in life" because of Nairaland's preference ?? the excuse is even silly, that is rude to tell another person just because he prefers a platform design. that is crass behaviour.

Tried signing up but didn't get the confirmation email

The people who matter on this website are Business, Politics, Career, Jobs and Travel sections. They aren't complaining.

No matter the opinion of anyone in programming section, It is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. People come to NL because of the information they derive. If you want a new forum, go and create one for yourself.

Think4Myself:

It won't be hard, the problem is lack of funds/investors

I agree! So it's up to those who see the opportunities that Seun is loosing to make a business case for an alternative. There was a time that Union Bank, First Bank and UBA were banking colossus in this country. They were highly inefficient and cared less about how their customers felt. The likes of Zenith Bank and GTBank saw a gap, mobilised investors and took over the market. They didn't moan and complain about how inefficient the old generation banks were. I agree that NL needs a massive revamp. But Seun is NOT INTERESTED in all of those. Loads of open source Forum software abound that meet most of the UI needs that people desire from NL. Why don't those complaining make a business case for using any of those solutions and outline how they plan to take market share of NL. A few years back, I considered setting up a forum for Nigeria healthcare practitioners. Solution was available. But I had absolutely NO IDEA how to drag the market with NL. I abandoned the idea because it would have struggled to survive.

I agree that NL needs a complete makeover. But I'm not going to moan if they choose not to. I can either float a rival and methodical push it. Or I stick with what NL has to offer. If there are a group of folks interested in floating some other forum with a solid business plan, count me in to put my money where my mouth is

truthsayer009:
The people who matter on this website are Business, Politics, Career, Jobs and Travel sections. They aren't complaining.

No matter the opinion of anyone in programming section, It is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. People come to NL because of the information they derive. If you want a new forum, go and create one for yourself.

Seun paid you shebi ?

BlaqFaze:
I prefer Nairaland to Reddit as per the design...even the old Reddit site is better than the new one, Nairaland is still one of the sites that works on button phones, the performance of this site is a huge plus and there's no need to change the design and make it "modern".

The only problem with this forum are the users (esp. the ones that practice tribalism) and ads...this one is actually a big problem, there was a time a went to education section and the all the topics on the first page were ads, even this section is riddled with ads topics.

I love reddit and NL for very different reasons. On reddit, I have some control over what I see and engage with. My home page only shows subreddit I follow. I rarely ever visit the News or Popular sections. The same tribalism you complain about is also tenable on reddit. You just aren't on those subreddits to see them. And they "tribalism" there on reddit is very American which you most likely will it relate with.

I like NL because it keeps me in touch with a lot of Nigerian happenings. I only visit the homepage and the programming sub forum. Homepage is very toxic but I try to ignore that. Programming section keeps me in touch with fellow geek heads resident in Naija. And from time to time you get a few monikers there that drive a lot of the conversations there.

NL is not the most ideal but I'm not going to scream myself hoarse that the owners should change it to suit me. There are people living in areas with very negligible Internet speeds. NL in this it's "ugly" form will still load on their phones despite the appalling speeds.

Today's websites are a terrible potpourri of Javascript nonsense that overload the websites. NL is pure, naked, light-weight

BlaqFaze:
I prefer Nairaland to Reddit as per the design...even the old Reddit site is better than the new one, Nairaland is still one of the sites that works on button phones, the performance of this site is a huge plus and there's no need to change the design and make it "modern".

The only problem with this forum are the users (esp. the ones that practice tribalism) and ads...this one is actually a big problem, there was a time a went to education section and the all the topics on the first page were ads, even this section is riddled with ads topics.

If I may ask what will you like to see in nairaland

Yeah nairaland never changes but we keep using it...

There must be a reason for this.

Think4Myself:

People like you will never grow in life, I wish the remaining 10k users can boycott this site so Seun can wake up smh

It's people that gets distracted with shiny things that won't go far in life... reasonable people understood what I wrote

3exe3:


If I may ask what will you like to see in nairaland

a working anti-spam bot, because they're so many topics that just promote ads...this is a forum for discussions not a market place

_africoder

_africoders
_Africoders

It works normally

airsaylongcome:


I love reddit and NL for very different reasons. On reddit, I have some control over what I see and engage with. My home page only shows subreddit I follow. I rarely ever visit the News or Popular sections. The same tribalism you complain about is also tenable on reddit. You just aren't on those subreddits to see them. And they "tribalism" there on reddit is very American which you most likely will it relate with.

I like NL because it keeps me in touch with a lot of Nigerian happenings. I only visit the homepage and the programming sub forum. Homepage is very toxic but I try to ignore that. Programming section keeps me in touch with fellow geek heads resident in Naija. And from time to time you get a few monikers there that drive a lot of the conversations there.

NL is not the most ideal but I'm not going to scream myself hoarse that the owners should change it to suit me. There are people living in areas with very negligible Internet speeds. NL in this it's "ugly" form will still load on their phones despite the appalling speeds.

Today's websites are a terrible potpourri of Javascript nonsense that overload the websites. NL is pure, naked, light-weight

Lol...Some websites these days hardly run on desktop

Africoder

Mhizcontempt:
you're just a siesta impoverished dunce who just despairingly seeks intentness and substantiation. Begone, you foul creature

Your heart is full of unwashed socks.your soul is full of gunk.... The three words that best describe you are as follows,and I quote "STINK,STANK,STUNK!"

Get LOST!!!

BlaqFaze:
It's people that gets distracted with shiny things that won't go far in life... reasonable people understood what I wrote

Be deceiving yourself

airsaylongcome:


I love reddit and NL for very different reasons. On reddit, I have some control over what I see and engage with. My home page only shows subreddit I follow. I rarely ever visit the News or Popular sections. The same tribalism you complain about is also tenable on reddit. You just aren't on those subreddits to see them. And they "tribalism" there on reddit is very American which you most likely will it relate with.

I like NL because it keeps me in touch with a lot of Nigerian happenings. I only visit the homepage and the programming sub forum. Homepage is very toxic but I try to ignore that. Programming section keeps me in touch with fellow geek heads resident in Naija. And from time to time you get a few monikers there that drive a lot of the conversations there.

NL is not the most ideal but I'm not going to scream myself hoarse that the owners should change it to suit me. There are people living in areas with very negligible Internet speeds. NL in this it's "ugly" form will still load on their phones despite the appalling speeds.

Today's websites are a terrible potpourri of Javascript nonsense that overload the websites. NL is pure, naked, light-weight

Nairaland could have a lite version like this and a normal version like Facebook does, so it being fast on button phones isn't an excuse

Think4Myself:

Nairaland could have a lite version like this and a normal version like Facebook does, so it being fast on button phones isn't an excuse

So that would require considerable extra costs and infrastructure because a handful of people want a fancy UI. Doesn't make economic sense to do that

airsaylongcome:


So that would require considerable extra costs and infrastructure because a handful of people want a fancy UI. Doesn't make economic sense to do that

Seun should be ready for nairaland to become obsolete in 10 years time then

Think4Myself:


Seun should be ready for nairaland to become obsolete in 10 years time then

When he gets there he will cross it.

U wey dey see potential,go build your own now

qtguru:
Africoder looks clean though than NL

truthsayer009:
The people who matter on this website are Business, Politics, Career, Jobs and Travel sections. They aren't complaining.

No matter the opinion of anyone in programming section, It is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. People come to NL because of the information they derive. If you want a new forum, go and create one for yourself.

no mind them. I too knw will not keè dem.

Dhtml awfar na

O dear, I was just checking something on google and came across this

Well, I will say that we have moved a long way since then -- you can try checking https://afrkd.ng (just a shortener really)