New Forum Format

It looks like Case enthusiasts adapt the easiest.

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2. On most boards, when someone replies to a thread, it automatically goes to the top of the first page so people know that there has been a current entry. With this board, threads get bumped further and further down and you have to click through several pages to see if there has been any new interest in a post. And yes, I know I can click email notification - and I do most of the time for my own posts, but who wants your email box full of notices to every thread you might find interesting.

3. In any thread, the latest reply goes to the top (right under the original post). So, the replies often don't make any sense. You have to go to the bottom and read up to get a sense of flow.

WELL... try to find a specific post with the "clunky" search engine HERE vs. on a Board of the new style.

That's about my biggest gripe here... the "SEARCH" function simply sucks.

Colin

PS: I"m rather partial to the old format myself. I hate upgrades! :-)

AMEN!!, COLIN. You got it right on the $$$.

Gary

One problem I have with this current format is that, unless you go back to the home page, you can't tell who's replying to who. It just sticks the replies in but you can't see the outline of the conversations unless you back up. I wish every post had a link to the replies to THAT SPECIFIC post right on the screen.

The way this one works, it's like an open forum that might have several discussions at once; although here they're all posted under the original thread, it's hard to distinguish who's replying to who. (who? whom? I never did get those figgered out...)

Hope that makes sense.

The one we have now is "user friendly" just like the contributors.

I don't want people to think that the forum format is changing... We've tried that a few times and an overwhelming majority of people want to keep things just how they are.

In the future we would like to be able to offer people a choice of "interfaces", where you can choose to use our regular forum software or use a more modern interface. The same posts will be seen by both.

I just wanted to clear that up.

In other words, hold down the "Ctrl" key and hit the plus key to change it.

That is really SAD!!!

Gary

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