stevegrant

That feature is available, I wanted to get everything running smoothly before turning that on.

And there's an international break early in September too, so could see a planned season start on the weekend of 12th September.

There was a fairly significant difference between new and renewal prices last season too, tbf, having had a few years of not offering renewing ST holders any tangible reward for their loyalty.

They've said the system will be open for new season tickets as well as renewals, so assume it's business as usual from that perspective. In cases of reduced capacity, I think it's highly likely we'll see the 2m rule relaxed in the coming weeks - large numbers of the public seem unwilling or incapable of respecting that distance anyway - so if Twickenham is a guide (I've not been, so don't know how spacious the seats are), then capacity is halved so we'd be down to 16k. I guess they would probably say no away fans, so we'd at least be able to fill that reduced capacity solely with home fans. Based on last season's numbers, I would assume that would still mean around 4k missing out each game - you might have some who volunteer for it, can't make certain games, are in a high-risk group, etc, but suspect most games would still require some sort of ballot.

I think the processes in place are sensible - the pro-rata refunds for games where we can't get in are reasonable (although there's surely scope to calculate a fairer figure for each game depending on the popularity of the opposition, rather than a blanket "£28 for every game" approach - clearly the Liverpool game is more popular than Watford, for example), and the extra voucher is a nice touch that they probably didn't strictly need to do - but I can't help but feel the whole thing still feels a bit expensive, and my view on that hasn't really changed for a couple of years. The £399 offer for the Itchen/Chapel corner is a good one, but for elsewhere in the ground it seems pretty high considering what's been on offer for the last few years. We're still among the most expensive in the league, especially considering our home record in that time - not sure those prices will tempt many new season ticket holders, and I suspect there'll be a natural drop-off in renewals because of the economic situation, people are going to have lost jobs and incomes during this period so renewing their season ticket will be pretty low priority.

Executive summary: prices frozen for 2020/21, renewal window open until September. Pro-rata credit applied to everybody's accounts from the 4 home games missed this season, and pro-rata refunds will be applied within 14 days for every game played either behind closed doors or with reduced capacity where a ballot has to be conducted.

On the list page, to the left of the post title is either a circle or star (it's a circle unless you've posted in the thread, in which case it'll be a star) - clicking that will take you straight to the first unread post.

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/notifications/options/ On desktop, it's in the top right. On mobile, just checked on mine and it seems to not be shown. Not sure why...

I think that ultimately became quite a low bar to clear, tbh

Not 100% sure but I would imagine the first page load of these areas prompts the site to build your activity stream and then store it in the cache. Once that's done, I think it should be quicker on each subsequent load.

If you go to your notification settings, there should be an option to enable browser notifications

Yeah, I figured we're (mostly) adults. If it starts getting silly, though, I might have to turn it on.

It should be perfect for me, especially as that one has loads of users pretty much 24/7. Bit annoyed it's not running smoothly immediately, tbh

Database needed a bit more memory there...

Working on that - really odd as the setup is basically identical to another forum I help manage using the same software, and that's usually got 1000 users online simultaneously and that one holds up fine. We've got relatively little traffic at the moment, so not quite sure why it's struggling a bit.

So the ref's goal-line tech watch buzzed when he got back into the changing room at half-time No great surprise that the signal in a football ground is shit, mind you...

VAR has no remit to check goal-line decisions because it was always assumed the tech was correct. Got to be a manual error there somewhere, but previously they've always tested the system for about half an hour before the players come out for their warm-ups and I'm pretty sure they don't turn it off between then and kick-off.

Without wishing to appear to be mansplaining this, searching for the site through Google is a very different thing to using their DNS service.

For anyone still getting the old site, I would recommend changing your DNS server to Google's, which has the easy-to-remember IP address of 8.8.8.8. I had the same issue this morning, the default DNS settings used by mobile networks and quite a lot of broadband/fibre routers have really long DNS cache times, so it takes ages for the data to be flushed through.