Select Alexa data for Slickdeals:

Global rank: #416
U.S. rank: #58

Visitors by country:
United States -- 89.0%
South Korea -- 4.5%
Canada -- 1.0%
India -- 0.7%

Select Alexa data for Flyertalk:

Global rank: #4,014
U.S. rank: #1,300

Visitors by country:
United States -- 70.0%
India -- 4.5%
Canada -- 4.1%
United Kingdom -- 2.9%
South Korea -- 2.3%

It is not merely a looking for deals site. It's a discussion site for consumers helping consumers save money. Lots more crowdsourcing and wiki-ing going on over there than here.

Thanks, interesting stuff.

That's also my view on this.

Based on what?

What if you couldn't delete or move your email? Same general concept.

Based on the comments above.
Also the issue with IB implementing this to the FT as tcook052 pointed out.

I just subscribe to the threads I'm interested in and when I view them, they disappear from my myflyertalk list until a new comment is posted (kinda like the new Google inbox).

This sweeping conclusion of what the FT membership would use is based upon what?

Understand that if there are technical issues that's one thing. But it seems presumptuous to decree "no one would use XXXX" without some data to back it up (e.g., a survey). I would use such a feature (we already select FT members to ignore - would be nice to do the same for a thread).

Comments from a handful of people here correlate to the FT membership at large? I count 3 people specifically opposed to it in this thread so far....that equates to "nobody would use it"?

What the OP brings up isn't addressed by subscribing, as previously noted upthread.

I have no idea what the majority of FT would think of the concept. I just find it interesting that some TB members are so quick to dismiss an idea out of hand, based upon their presumption that nobody will use it. (Again, obviously if there are technical issues then it's a non-starter)

I think this could be very useful in the deals/buzz forums in particular, and addresses the major shortcoming of MyFT which misses new threads which you might be interested in.

If software performance is an issue, perhaps consider replacing (or combining) MyFT with a new highlight+hide thread functionality? I.e. when viewing a forum your subscribed threads are highlighted and ignore threads are shaded. I guess this is analogous to viewing emails with stars or priority symbols.

Personally I would want to keep MyFT rather than replace it, as being able to see all new activity on subscribed threads across forums is useful.