I don't spy iSpy!

[Big Shed]

Thought that a change would be as good as a holiday after seeing the new colours on the much maligned tabs on the main page, so I changed to the Wiki skin.

Cool Looks good, BUT where is iSpy????????

Most of the other skins have iSpy, including uBeaut, my standard one.

Oh well, back to my comfortable beige cardigan, can't live without iSpy

[joe greiner]

I hadn't found Ispy so useful. Although it's supposed to be current, there seems to be a delay of immediacy. "New Posts" has faster access, seconds almost, to update.

Joe

[Big Shed]

I hadn't found Ispy so useful. Although it's supposed to be current, there seems to be a delay of immediacy. "New Posts" has faster access, seconds almost, to update.

Joe

Joe, that is a bit like saying that you like blue better than red! Yes, they are both colours, but they are different.

Don't know how much you have looked at iSpy, but it gives very quick, if not immediate, updates for each post as it is posted, no matter which forum. As a new post is added to the top of the list, the last one scrolls off. It gives you an overview of what is happening on the forum right now. Never counted how many posts there are in the list, but probably about 25-30.

New Posts on the other hand will give you all posts added since since you were on last, within reason. Once you have those posts on your screen, the posts are not updated until you press New Posts again.

So, I am very comfortable with my iSpy, just as you seem to be with New Posts

I just had to go back to a skin looking like a comfortable beige cardigan with brown slippers to be able to use it, no biggie

Oh BTW, that doesn't mean I don't use New Posts, when I come back from the shed or after I have been out, I use it to catch up with what has been happening in my absence, after that it is back to iSpy.

Horses for courses so to speak.

[joe greiner]

No, no, no! Blue IS better than red.

OK, I haven't used Ispy since last year, but in a substantially side-by-side comparison, I found several minutes delay with Ispy (maybe more software number crunching?), whereas a new hit on New Posts was more immediate.

Yeah, one man's fish is another man's poisson. (bad linguistic pun)

Cheers,
Joe