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Is the Forum dying?
garyroberts
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It seems that the forum is ill. For there is a serious lack of posts and little sign of the folk who made it what it was. I may have been a stranger for a few weeks but i think it would be a real shame if we lost what is (was) a brilliant online community and one that i got a huge amount of enjoyment from.
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Apart from the excessive spam issue I had no beef with the old forum and other than the "Go to first unread post" thingy and everything being blue instead of yellow, don't see much difference.
AND... all my stars have gone, I worked hard for those!
So I hope to see some of you chaps and chapesses for the first time at the South Cerney and will be wearing my 220 Forum Buddies T shirt with pride - thanks Gary - good job
Hopefully 220 can iron out the glitches.
Reserving judgment on the software... Not liking it much - but most of that is probably because it is different. However, I do mainly use a nice little Asus EEE Dog Proof Netbook. It doesn't have a lot of screen space - and the new software just does not fit as well. It's hard to see what is there and get a feel for things. Also, I've not got it to tell me the threads that are unread. So can't see the wood for the trees.
But! I've not really got any questions, and feel all answered out. I can't really get on with anything tri related while I'm waiting for this pesky op. I'm feeling a little emotionally bruised by the whole thing - a little bit of me is going "waahh - it's not fair, all I wanted to do was get fit and have a bit of fun, and all I've got is 6 months of pain and now having to go into hospital for an operation with general anaesthetic for the first time since I was a kid".
So, instead of posting on the forum, I'm spending all my spare time throwing stones at the fatties. It's childish, but makes me feel better.
Yes - this change will be the end of the forum as we know it.
Why change it ? - All that was needed was a person to delete the spamming twats who posted their crap adverts. Now we have to put up with this.
Awful.
Its natural that we are resistant to changes, its human nature by definition. We all have the routine and comfort zones and when we're forced out of it then we resist.
I'm not a web expert or a programmer so I don't know the ins/out of it but I like the new forum. I would like to see the stars back though. Hopefully as the weeks progress thinkgs will be tweaked. What we do know is that 220 are monitoring the forum so they are getting the thoughts of everyone.
why don't we start a thread of the changes/ things we would like on the forum.... we are the only ones who can make it better.
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Would like to be able to quote though.
Really like the view most recent post option
I tried 5 times on the last forum to put a profile pic on and just couldn't do it - took 2 mins on this one.
Come in everyone - the waters lovely
The display of threads with unread posts is there..
But so is some spam!
As conehead said stick with it. Aren't we mean to be triathletes, we don't quit when when the going gets tough! Just think of it as the final km of the run, it's painful and seems to take but when you get that post done it will be a great feeling.
EVERYBODY IS SLOWLY COMING BACK HOME....... EVEN THE SPAMMERS.........
GOOD TO SEE FOLKS BACK.
It IS a shame though that with the changes made it still doesn;t seem to prevent the spamming, whether totally obvious or (being kind) obviously through lack of a braincell or two and posting in the wrong forum...
didds
Perhaps there are no admin looking at the forum. This brings me to my next point, I was under the impression that some of us would be granted additional rights..... anyone get these?
didds
Good job everyone!
And I'm back too now that the login logout things is sorted!!
I went away and came back and all had changed, took me a day to sort the login issues out, and another 2 days to read all the missed posts.
Not keen on the new layout, but they say change is a good thing - I will reserve my judgment, they did it to FB and people have eventually got used to it, so I dare say the same will happen here.
Hope you are all well, and enjoying the summers racing, about 4 weeks to my next sprint at Hatfield, once again 220 T-Shirt will be on display.