I find them really annoying and I was curious what you think about them and if there is any reason you'd leave them on?
I disable them and remove the option to turn them back on. Absolutely useless.
(2012-03-02, 11:24 PM)Solidus Wrote: [ -> ]I disable them and remove the option to turn them back on. Absolutely useless.
Yea, I can still remember the first time I used a "forum" (Like 7-9 years ago) and it had these redirect pages I'd get pissed of with my old crappy internet connection, loading this page which just tells me the page I wanted to go to will "load now?".
No, I disable them via the admin control panel.
I use them, if no other reason than simply to let users know that their action did complete. When working with a wide target audience, some of whom are very tech savvy and some who aren't, It's important to keep a friendly and informative user interface. It also helps to cut down double posting on slower connections by breaking down the activity into 3 pages and displaying a confirmation.
I hate them. They're usually the first thing I disable when I install MyBB. So pointless and a waste of time and bandwidth.
I dislike them but I use them.
I hope there will be a better way to show success message soon (hey, that whould be a great plugin idea - I will try to do something with redirect hook soon).
Something like the way Twitter shows alerts would be cool.
The original idea was to help reduce load was it not? (Because MyBB isn't the only software that did this). I think that usage is no longer really needed.