Where did the Members tab/navigation go?

Help Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by Dicers, Mar 28, 2016.

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  1. Dicers

    Dicers Grand Pooh-Bah (3,436) Sep 2, 2012 California
    Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Notable members section appears no longer accessible? It gives me the option to click it, but when I do it redirects me to the front of the forums page
     
    #1 Dicers, Mar 28, 2016
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    jmdrpi Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,989) Dec 11, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Same thing happens for me. So it does appear to be a bug.
     
    #2 jmdrpi, Mar 29, 2016
  3. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
    STAFF Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah

    This isn't a bug (prefix and thread title updated). Members and online activity feeds have been disabled and removed.

    Why ...
    • Rarely used by members and many of the pages served no real purpose.
    • Online feeds were often heavily scraped by bots which created slight performance and spam issues.
    • Notable Members and similar tabs were basically leaderboards, which we're not fans of as they promote elitism and activity to simply get on the list.
    • One less item in a busy navigation bar.
    Additionally, "Find Member" has been added to the main forum page (see the bottom of the sidebar).

    http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/

    As always, we'll revisit or make adjustments as needed.
     
    #3 Todd, Mar 29, 2016
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