The email has worked longer than it has not worked and is, in fact, currently working.
I really don’t think this is correct. The first e-mail I ever received from them was last week. It also sent the exact same e-mail twice. Therefore I still claim that their e-mail system doesn’t work.
In addition to that, the UI is awful, the site is often quite slow, and their statistics package is quite rudimentary. There is no filtering mechanism for determining which predictions are “serious”—the result is that many people post public predictions that should be private, but aren’t.
The first e-mail I ever received from them was last week. It also sent the exact same e-mail twice.
Eh. Gmail collapses the duplicates for me, so I barely noticed. And you are being notified...
(Also, you’ve only used PB since last June or so, while it’s been running since October 2009.)
the UI is awful
It seems pretty straightforward to me.
the site is often quite slow
That was much improved after Trike did the SQL profiling.
and their statistics package is quite rudimentary.
Yes, because varying proper scoring rules are why no one is using it?
There is no filtering mechanism for determining which predictions are “serious”—the result is that many people post public predictions that should be private, but aren’t.
This only affects Happenstance, not recording your own predictions.
All of these are annoying to various extents, but do they really explain the near-zero uptake?
I really don’t think this is correct. The first e-mail I ever received from them was last week. It also sent the exact same e-mail twice. Therefore I still claim that their e-mail system doesn’t work.
In addition to that, the UI is awful, the site is often quite slow, and their statistics package is quite rudimentary. There is no filtering mechanism for determining which predictions are “serious”—the result is that many people post public predictions that should be private, but aren’t.
Eh. Gmail collapses the duplicates for me, so I barely noticed. And you are being notified...
(Also, you’ve only used PB since last June or so, while it’s been running since October 2009.)
It seems pretty straightforward to me.
That was much improved after Trike did the SQL profiling.
Yes, because varying proper scoring rules are why no one is using it?
This only affects Happenstance, not recording your own predictions.
All of these are annoying to various extents, but do they really explain the near-zero uptake?