I think the two processes of "instant" hiding and live comments are not comparable. If you pay attention you'll notice that the hiding process is really nothing more than hiding. If it is showing 50 giveaways and you hide 5, it will show only 45 until you refresh the page. It only puts away data already loaded so it does not create stress for the server.
On the other hand live comments would force the site to refresh constantly for every user on the thread at that moment. Concerning the number of active forum users the server load will rise significantly. If you then consider that the "instant" point regeneration has been removed from the site for the very same reason (permanently refreshing for all existing users) the idea is just not feasible. Live comments may be handy but not for this cost.
In short, removing/hiding something is always easier than adding something.
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But it's not Facebook here. xD
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this website is better than facebook xD
at least i spend more time on here
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Well, but my friends won't join this site, but only Facebook, so I'll keep using Facebook. xD Of course, Facebook doesn't give away free games, but it has some nice contests every now and then. xD
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I think it would make too much load to servers. You know, when you hide the game, it's only one event - you press a key, request sent to server, server add game to hidden list. And hiding on page you see is probably done even without server's help. And, people don't add to ignore list all the time, I believe it's from zero to ten requests from user per day. Not that much.
Contrary, for live comment updates, would be necessary for web page to send requests to server all the time, with some interval... It means, if you opened a page - there would be an even every once-per-timer-interval (and this interval has to be short, otherwise comments would appear with a delay). And on every such event server would have to check, if there were new comments, and if it is - it would have to send it to client... It's thousands of requests from user per day. Sounds like a huge extra load for me.
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No. I don't want 10,863,541 notifications a day, especially from those same people who type 1 word per line in Steam chat. ;_;
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Nah. Social features are good as they are now. No need for pokes, likes, and such. Keep that to the FB plebs.
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