I just got my new large Egg and am also new to the forum. So far, it's been a very valuable source of information. But I find it extremely annoying, slow and cumbersome that every single time you load a forum page, you have to skip down past all the Eggfest notices. Can't those be put in a forum area of their own and make it easier and faster to access the threads?
Thanks.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree Likehttp://www.eggheadforum.com/index.php
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree Likei truely appreciate the hard work it must take to run a site like this but please consider changing to a different style of forum.
look at ezboard forums for direction. you will be amazed how much more sense it all makes/how much easier it is to navigate.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree Like*edit*
OK it isn't awful, but it really needs a quote function!
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeCheers,
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeHowever I have to agree - the last forum was pretty bad in terms of layout but the features where not all that bad. This forum and its facebook look with lack of reply and quoting is much more out in right field. Even if they added proper quoting and such the layout is just bad. Really bad.
Sorry to offend anyone involved with this transformation.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeKent
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeHave been away from the forum for a while, busy with work and other urgent things. Came back tonight to check a few posts and was initially excited to see the splash page announcing the new and improved forum. There were many things I disliked about the old forum and had posted comments and suggestions many times, even offering to help BGE move to a new standardized package for free since I have the IT experience.
But now I am quite disappointed to find that we have moved to yet another sub-standard forum package!!! It really isn't that hard to figure out why packages such as vBulletin dominate the forum industry: they are powerful yet intuitive and have every function you could ever want or need, while also following standard UI design guidelines which make the forums easy and simple to use.
I simply don't see any reason why BGE felt the need to use Vanilla Forums but I guess it must be a cost / budget issue, or they lack the technical expertise or motivation to do enough research and make a better choice. Even if we must use this second-rate package, surely there are ways to configure it to follow industry standard design concepts instead of making everything funky and unique, thus harder and less intuitive to use.
I visit roughly 2 dozen forums quite often and have contributed many thousands of postings, yet the BGE forum is one that I always dread using due to the non-standard interface and quirky design. The new forum is indeed different, and maybe a few things are better than before, but there are also some new issues and constraints, and the general experience is quite frustrating for those of us who use other forums frequently.
Argh.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree Likeof agree with you. Not sure why they didn't just go with one of the
"standard" options, like vBulletin. Maybe the migration path to
vBulletin wasn't as straight-forward, or as you say, it was cheaper...
who knows?
While I've never used a Vanilla forum before, I think I already like it
better than the last forum. With that said, it seems there are still
some knobs-n-dials the admins here can fiddle with to get things working
more like the way people want it. If people would give valid feedback
to the admins rather than just whining and running away, we may end up
with a rather decent forum.
__Jason
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeI spent many, many hours making comments, suggestions, posts, and offering to help replace the old fourm. I even created a free prototype in phpBB in just a few hours, to show them how quick and easy it could be, and how nice it could look. I also sent links to other good examples and highlighted common features and standards. I traded a few messages with BGE folks about this years ago, and the only explanations I recall being given for sticking with the old forum were:
- many forum users were from the "old school" and would be resistant to change of any kind
- migrating legacy posts and content from the old platform to a new standardized platform might take some work, and we have too much valuable old content to toss it all out and start over
- budget and resources were very tight to do any kind of work whatsoever
I suggested reasons why the migration would be a good thing in the long run, offered to help with the content migration strategy and execution, and even offered to help them find a free or low cost provider which offered a standard forum package. My offer was not accepted, and we have lived with the old forum forever, quite frustrating to me personally and I suspect to many others, although some apparently did like the old (or even the current) forum.
I am not going to whine about it. Just wanted to put my $0.02 worth in, and will now most likely go back to only using the forum once in a blue moon when I am looking for something specific. It is a shame, really, because the BGE community is so large and growing every day, yet the forum is pretty lame (the technology part) and will apparently remain this way for a long while, unless and until attitudes change for the powers that be.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeAnd you even talk about higher education with that comment. Amazing how stupid and boorish you can be, congratulations you are number one.
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