This new format ain’t doing it for me. Difficult to figure out. Not as user friendly either. [banghead]
Me too and we lost a few great modelers that had headaches posting. But then agro I surley dont miss the polling and the stars…John. .
Me too, I’m glad to see all the polls and trolls are gone. but it just ain’t the same.
A lot fewer posts and new topics. Also before you could see the threads that are new and new replys
since your last visit that were a different color. I dont know if I’m just stupid or what but I can’t
figure out alot of the new features.
I also miss my daily Spacemouse fix.
Oh, its not all that bad. There are few features that are diffiicult, or wishfing that had done something else. But then, they are quite a few things that I like too.
Like the fact that you can see my happy dance under my name.
[:D]
Nice to see your face again. Hope to see more of it.
Agree with you, it is NOT user friendly.
Cheers,
Hang in there please guys! We need to keep going to build this forum back up.
I agree that the change has been annoying. I think that they didn’t appreciate how stuck in our ways we get and how PC challneged some of us are.
I’ve only just figured out how the “My Forums” and “Persoanl messages” work… and I’m not entirely thick… mostly just not used to the jargon.
Would it help if I posted more weird questions for you to comment on? [}:)]
To tell the truth I get a bit concerned that I post a lot and long stuff… I don’t have Spacemouse to compete with currently…
COME BACK SPACEMOUSE!
WE MISS YOU!
I’ve been waiting for someone to broach this subject and yes I couldn’t agree more with most of the comments made.
I do not find it user friendly nor very navigable.
A lot of the friendly banter that I thouroughly enjoyed is gone.
I dare not say more as I may invoke the wrath of the “Old Wife’s Club”
However that said it is still one of the better threads for getting quick answers to questions asked.
Fergie
Couldn’t agree more. I’m fairly new at this, but the change, in my opinion, has not been for the better. I have recently spent more time trying to find other model railroad forums than lurking here. I have noticed a marked drop in participation, which seems to be getting worse. Hopefully the powers that be at Kalmbach will take notice and make changes (quickly?).
In the meantime what are some other forums that I should visit. I’ve already tried Atlas, which isn’t all that bad as an alternative.
Tom
I might be considered part of the “Old Wife’s Club” - I don’t miss a lot of the inane chatter. It was just static on an otherwise informative channel.
The forum change is kind of a wash - some better features, some worse.
Aggro,
I think the worst thing is the totally lack of interest for solving the problems on this so called new and better forum.
I have emailed Bergie but I don’t even get an answer.
As a Mac user I can’t do much here. I have all kind of problems. The pdf videos for example that seems to be the new great thing is not for me, I can’t use that feature at all.
Mac users are model railroaders too, but when the importent thing is money, things like that does not mean much… I’m 100% sure they calculated and said, we can sacrifice Mac users because they are a minority.
Well, The age old Mac Problem. Not sure what it is, but I am sure it will get worked out. I’ve volunteered to help, not sure if it’s needed or not. I stay here inspite of change. I never posted much. Too many people with better ideas and experience than I have. I post where I feel my point can be made after reviewing the topic. Sometimes I even make a post on a topic I need help with. That is what I thought a Forum was all about. Giving and receiving help. I have learned a lot here in 2 years, post count be damned. Chris
I don’t know. While the new format is not perfect, I think it’s better than what was there before. But then again, I’m not a high post count members that is reading/posting through nearly every topic and demands advanced features. I’m an average user that realizes this is a free forum and works with what they have.
Do I miss the old forums? Yes.
These forums are ok. Just overbuilt and cumbersome.
I have a feeling a little something may have gone by the wayside when the new forums was implemented.
The recent troubles over the weekend assured me that some things never changed.
Spacemouse has been hanging out in the layouts section lately. He’s still here!
As to the new format…I don’t miss the polls or the stars, but I do miss being able to copy from a post before it’s posted. It was handy for my spell checker, you know? It’s not as user friendly, but it has it’s good points as well. It’s kind of a tradeoff.
Also, does anyone know how to look up a specific members profile without having one of their posts to click on? Like lets say I want to look up Spacemouse, and I don’t have any of his posts to just click on. How would I find his profile?
And TMLEWI, there’s one in my signature. It’s kind of new so the membership isn’t what this one is, but it’s pretty good. Since there aren’t a lot of members yet you really get to know everybody.
To me, there’s really not much that’s different. Sure, the keystrokes have changed a bit, but it’s mostly the same things. I would say that the performance is better, particularly in the daytime hours. The old one used to hang up for 10-20 seconds once in a while, and I don’t see that problem anymore.
I don’t know if Kalmbach did a server upgrade along with the forum change. Since the old forum has been around for quite a while, it may be that the old forum software wouldn’t even run with new servers and new OS’s. This happens a lot when you upgrade.
Go to the top or bottom of this page and click on “Model Railroader Forums.” That’s one step up from the General Discussion or Layouts Page. Find the line that says something like:
There are 34 of 28,821 member(s) online
And click on the big number (28,821 in this case.) That takes you to the member directory. I think I’ll bookmark that page, because getting there is really obscure and I’m not sure I could do it after a couple of beers.
Some members of the “old” forum don’t visit as much because they don’t have as much free time as they once did; others have changed their screen name (myself included). IOW many of the changes may not totally be the result of the new software.
Tigerstripe, instead of using the “Back” button on your browser, click on the forum name that you are reading in (General Discussion, for example) at the top or bottom of the page, and when it reloads, the topic you just read shows up in grey, while the unread topics are blue. Also, when coming back to the forum, those grey topics will again be blue if a reply was posted in your absence.
I hope this helps,
Don Z.
Change comes very hard for some people. Working in high tech comapnies most of my working career, I had to deal with many radical changes. I had to help people through many of these changes as I had over 100 techs working for me. You will get through it trust me. Change is how we get better, grow stronger. Heck, if our bodies never changed, we would still look and act like Neanderthals…ohh ohhhhh, some still do!!! LOL
I am in high tech as well. I deal with new software and changes all the time. Yet I echo many of the complaints written above. I am dissapointed with the new forum. It really is not a significant improvement in any way, except for speed. It is faster to load, no doubt, but I can not think of a single other improvment over the old forum. I don’t hate the new forum, I am just ambivalent towards it because it does not seem to have provided the user any advances.