Comments (constructive) on the New Forum Software

[Stuart Smith 5Participant @stuartsmith5]

I now need to log in to see ‘Latest Activity’. I could view without logging in before yesterday. When I then log in, and try again it logs me out. When I log in again it works!

Very strange.

Stuart

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[Stuart Smith 5Participant @stuartsmith5]

Following my last post, when I went back to look again at Latest Activity, I had been logged out. But when I clicked on Log In, I was back logged in without having to put my login details in.

Now I can’t get the Latest Activity button to work. It just keeps sending me round a ‘you need to login ‘ circle.

I am viewing on my iPad using Safari.

Stuart

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Given that there are so many Registered Users of this forum, it is interesting to see how few are active at the moment.

Unless it is commercially confidential, it might be informative  to also have the number of  ‘logged-in’ members displayed here:

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I have no evidence; but I do wonder how much [potentially futile] effort has gone into processing the details of long-departed members … and whether their very presence in the database is slowing things down.

MichaelG.

[Stuart Smith 5Participant @stuartsmith5]

Michael

I wondered that.

48000 seems a very high number – as you say it could well be everyone who has registered since the beginning of the original forum.

If this figure is accurate, perhaps it could be filtered so that anyone who hasn’t logged in for say 12 months is removed and asked to re register if they still want to use the site.

I suppose this might not be possible as all their old posts would probably disappear as well.

just a thought.

Stuart

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I think they did screen the number of members that were brought over as the old system was showing over 100,000.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

[alan ord 2Participant @alanord2]

I have to say I do NOT like this new format. Much prefer the old format. Can’t find my albums from the old format and will have to reintroduce my avatar.

Previously I would jump on the forum every night for a few hours, now I don,t bother.

Alan.

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

you can tell by the number of postings how successful and how easy the new forum is just look back and see a weeks activity 6 months ago compared to now. difficult to negotiate and desperately SLOOOOW

[mgnbukParticipant @mgnbuk]

As with most posters I am not having a great experience here at the moment, though I can see that changes have been made since the initial launch.

I had to request a password reset to get back in, but have not had problems logging in after that. The Captcha thing is another hurdle, though at least the awful Cloudfare (sp ?) thing is now gone. Everything is very slow, though, (I have 350 Meg cable broadband, so don’t think it is that) with typical response times of 5 – 20 seconds from clicking on a heading or hitting the “back” key to getting something to happen.

I found the site almost unusable without an ad blocker and, although the message panes appear to have been toned down compared to launch day, the overall bright white background is still harsh on the eyes & tiring.

I am also another who used the “Latest posts” feature almost exclusively to navigate the old site & find it very difficult to find threads in the indvidual sections here. I have managed to track one down from a pre-site-update thread to post a reply (which was easy enough to do once I had found the thread) but it was a pain to find it.

I appreciate that the “activity” button is a temporary fudge, but in it’s current form it isn’t much use as it doesn’t have enough entries and is really sluggish (that is reliably 20 seconds after clicking to get a a page change). And why now do I need to be logged in to use it ? Is the “activity” list some sort of secret not available to “outsiders” ?

Hopefully things will continue to improve and quickly – it would be a shame for the new site to alienate users to the point that they stopped posting.

Nigel B.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

my constructive comment is to follow the PM and ditch what is gradually turning into a waste of effort – there’s little point i see in swimming in treacle on this web site whilst getting to see if anything of interest has turned up, with extremely annoying adverts flashing at one (till I killed all images) – if it is intended merely as an advertising site why bother with the rest.

Any way maybe you could take it off line until current crop of ‘bugs’/’features’ are sorted out – I’m guessing that a planB fall back to old site was never in the management plan

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Here’s a nightmare-inducing thought for you, Frances …

Just imagine this elegant understated building, with all its windows replaced by LED  advertising panels:

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MichaelG.

[TomfileryParticipant @tomfilery]

I’m getting more and more frustrated with this forum.  I’m told I must log in to see latest activity, then when I do so, I am not taken to latest activity, but am given a list of the topic sections (note; NOT the actual threads) where those postings occurred – oh, and  am then told to login again!

Frankly, I can’t be bothered with this.  I don’t know which “wizz kid” developed the site, but (particularly given our demographics) they didn’t do a good job!

Regards Tom

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I liked Michael’s post with the picture of Morton’s building but how did it turn up in my post when I ‘quoted’ the post from Frances?

I tried to edit my post but cannot find the edit button, maybe its one of the unfixed problems but I dont fancy trawling through to see if its already been mentioned.

Ian P

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Ian P see my comment here, still nothing

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[Anonymous]

The <Active Topics> listing that I see covers the latest 10 posts. Couldn’t that be extended (preferably with the addition of a <More> button)?

If you’re not in the Greenwich Zone, you can miss an awful lot of posts/topics that way and are then forced to dig for them in the <Forums> listings.

(On the old site, I could scroll down to the last day/time I was on and work upwards from there. Oh please bring back the one-line per Active Topic format!)

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

Whenever I click on “Forums” or on any entry when in Forums I get this screen come up for a couple of seconds before the screen I want comes up. It only happens on “Forums”, if I click on anything anywhere else on the site It goes directly to that screen. It happens on both my computers so is not just this one.   Any Ideas???

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Now that threads are called topics … I was having great difficulty trying to see how to create a new one.

[ probably blinded by the pale blue on white ‘theme’ … but it should be easy ]

So let’s just put this here instead:

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/

…. hopefully that’s just a direct link to the RS site, stripped of all the tracking details that were in the ‘button’ on their eMail

MichaelG.

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