I've been a user for a couple of years, but over the past few months Akiba has gone on a steep and steady decline. As far as I'm concerned this board is quickly becoming ancient history. Mainly for two or three reasons:
1. How many connections to you "enable" for places outside Japan? The reasons I ask is that I use Tab browsing, so if I'm going through a forum here and I see a post that I want to grab links for, I'll open it up in a new TAB.
But EVERY TIME I open in a new Tab, I get your two-bit "503 Service Unavailable" error page. EVERY SINGLE TIME!. You spent extra time developing this "special" page and you display it prominently, but you should be EMBARRASSED that it ever has to display. What do you offer, 5 or 6 connections? And it's not just during "evening time in Japan." It doesn't matter what time of day. The 503 Error Page ALWAYS happens. Even if I try to attach an image to a post, I get the 503 Error page. It's totally ridiculous. Like I said, it makes you look like a two-bit outfit; a joke. Do you know what that means? Are you in the process of folding up your tent?
2. The quality of the posts on Akiba has gone down dramatically. There's been a recent streak of watermarking files, and it has UTTERLY RUINED collecting. I don't know what it is, an asian thing? Why do those idiots watermark files? Mama didn't give them enough attention? Actually, I can't say it's only an asian thing, because there are some great asian JAV posters -- mottto, ichiban, japan-x, japgirlz, nukleotide, Conquistador and a few others -- that DON'T watermark files. They encode cleanly and will leave an .nfo file; that's it. But most of these guys, you don't find their excellent posts on Akiba. That should tell you something.
Incompetent fools like hotavxxx, avhio, javaddiction, avdvdshop, avdvd.tv, and the list goes on, have completely CORRUPTED the whole idea of sharing. Everything they touch turns to sh!t, and they leave a trail of it all over the Internet. They didn't create a damn thing; they're not only pirates and infringers, they're scumbag pirates and infringers, trying to make money from something they stole.
And of course, many of your Akiba sheep posters simply repost the crap that has already been posted. It's a vicious, never-ending cycle; and it looks like it's too late to fix. Unless you decide to exert some quality control on your board and start deleting crap watermarked posts and banning those users who post and repost them.
3. Your forum software is extremely buggy. Pages and posts REPEAT and REPEAT themselves, whether I manually go page to page, or whether I use AutoPager to save me the hassle. With more than 50 pages of posts per day in just the JAV Downloads forum, I'd say that probably 20% are duplicate posts. It makes navigating your site a real pain in the a$$.
1. How many connections to you "enable" for places outside Japan? The reasons I ask is that I use Tab browsing, so if I'm going through a forum here and I see a post that I want to grab links for, I'll open it up in a new TAB.
But EVERY TIME I open in a new Tab, I get your two-bit "503 Service Unavailable" error page. EVERY SINGLE TIME!. You spent extra time developing this "special" page and you display it prominently, but you should be EMBARRASSED that it ever has to display. What do you offer, 5 or 6 connections? And it's not just during "evening time in Japan." It doesn't matter what time of day. The 503 Error Page ALWAYS happens. Even if I try to attach an image to a post, I get the 503 Error page. It's totally ridiculous. Like I said, it makes you look like a two-bit outfit; a joke. Do you know what that means? Are you in the process of folding up your tent?
2. The quality of the posts on Akiba has gone down dramatically. There's been a recent streak of watermarking files, and it has UTTERLY RUINED collecting. I don't know what it is, an asian thing? Why do those idiots watermark files? Mama didn't give them enough attention? Actually, I can't say it's only an asian thing, because there are some great asian JAV posters -- mottto, ichiban, japan-x, japgirlz, nukleotide, Conquistador and a few others -- that DON'T watermark files. They encode cleanly and will leave an .nfo file; that's it. But most of these guys, you don't find their excellent posts on Akiba. That should tell you something.
Incompetent fools like hotavxxx, avhio, javaddiction, avdvdshop, avdvd.tv, and the list goes on, have completely CORRUPTED the whole idea of sharing. Everything they touch turns to sh!t, and they leave a trail of it all over the Internet. They didn't create a damn thing; they're not only pirates and infringers, they're scumbag pirates and infringers, trying to make money from something they stole.
And of course, many of your Akiba sheep posters simply repost the crap that has already been posted. It's a vicious, never-ending cycle; and it looks like it's too late to fix. Unless you decide to exert some quality control on your board and start deleting crap watermarked posts and banning those users who post and repost them.
3. Your forum software is extremely buggy. Pages and posts REPEAT and REPEAT themselves, whether I manually go page to page, or whether I use AutoPager to save me the hassle. With more than 50 pages of posts per day in just the JAV Downloads forum, I'd say that probably 20% are duplicate posts. It makes navigating your site a real pain in the a$$.
