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With the holidays nearing and MAL getting (what appears) to be slower and slower due to increased traffic, I have a question for everyone:

If disabling clubs AND private messages 'guaranteed' up-time and zero lag, would you accept those two areas not working?

I've been talking with Crave and we're trying hard to get these lag issues resolved, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen before the holidays (sigh.)

Let me know your thoughts.

P.S. I don't even know if completely disabling those areas will work, but I have a hunch it will help significantly.

Don't care much for private messages, but as for clubs I'd say keep them. I wouldn't even be on this site without them.

I'll probably be happy if it was a temporary thing for either. I'm guessing clubs could survive slightly in the form of just being apart of the forums for the time being.

I'm also guessing by hunch, that something connected to these is the possible cause for this really annoying lag.

If there are some results by disabling those, I think it should be done. However, it may be hard for some clubs. I think many will be bursting in Christmas time...
I hope for the lag issue to be resolved(big time lag; it got to even 2 hours). I hope for the frozen stats to be fixed along with the lag :D (my manga stats updated like 2 days ago, but the anime ones are down for like a month)

I'd be find without the PMs but I'm pretty active in a bunch of clubs so I'd be rather sad to see them not around (even for a short while).

Even though I'm in many clubs , I can't say I'm rly active in them but clubs are an important part of mal . I doubt ppl would just be ok without them . Some have done great work to see it gone just like that =/

Private msgs , I'm pretty sure we can live without them .

Private Messages I can deal with...

But I spend most of my time in clubs and im sure most users do too, Thats Probably the reason why people want the lag gone to Be IN the clubs IMO.

Private messages can go but clubs are a must. Except for those only existing to make membercards..

I personally never use messages and rarely visit clubs so it wouldn't bother me. At the very least though, I'd say get rid of messaging but keep some of the more active clubs, those that have multiple hundreds of members that are frequently active.

well as long is the stat is fix ... I won't mind anything ....

Fine with disabling. List updates should be a priority. Hell, if there will be no lag thanks to disabling them, please consider not re-enabling them until the lag is fixed.

I agree with everyone that the private messages can go without anyone crying over them.

As for the clubs, though... I kind of feel like sometimes the feature is abused, but many of the clubs are still an important part of the community. I like Benj-san's idea of maybe just paring down the clubs instead, and only keeping those that are big and active (though... those are probably the cause of most of the drain, I realize). There are a lot of extraneous and/or duplicate clubs around.

Or maybe there's a way to simplify clubs, like iamnoone's suggestion of leaving them just in the forums for a while...

OH, GOD. OH, GOD. So right.

I don't care about PMs, but I'm pretty addicted to few clubs. Though, it would be great to see that those member card clubs would be closed Θ∀Θ If there isn't any guarantee it will work out, I'm pretty sure there will be even more annoyed people.
If it's at least 70% of possible succession then please do it..

I'll echo this comment.

Speaking for myself, no, I don't really use Private Messages or Clubs much at all. But I also don't really mind the lag all that much. Personally I think it's manageable as long as my list gets updated eventually.

But I'm guessing that for a lot of people, they want the lag issues fixed so that everything will be accurate and run smoothly for social networking purposes (including clubs). Those are just my thoughts, though. Whatever you decide I personally don't really care. =P

If that solved the problem then I would consider it done. I don't honestly care about clubs too much so go ahead close them down for the holidays.

Hell disable the forums while you're at it.

As long as my list gets updates. If I need to discuss the anime there are plenty of other places I can go. But only one MAL list.

For all those who want the clubs to remain up - you do realize you won't be able to use them comfortably anyway when the lag kicks in? So what do you prefer, laggy site with clubs or fast site without them? Think twice. Also, keeping only the most active ones up? So the ones that cause the heaviest load? Again - think twice.

Go for it. (^_^)b

I'm fine with both disabled temporarily, but like most people here are saying- at some point, I'd like to re-access the clubs.