New Forum Format Sucks


The new forum format sucks. The old one was perfectly fine.
bojack
dbear44 - I did a Yahoo search and found appropriate threads on the new forum by including Audiogon in the search. Without including Audiogon, the only hit I got of your list in the first few pages was Audio Review.  None of your other examples came up. Search engines work by looking at sites on the Internet and then they index their contents. That may take some time, but I suspect they will catch up to the new site pretty quickly. I doubt the visibility of the new site will be much different than the old site over time.
I agree, sucks.  Fire the SOB that designed it and get someone who knows the community.
rough crowd...let them know what you don't like and maybe they'll look into it.
I am having a problem that I don't know if it is just particular to me.  Even when I am logged in, I cannot post a message when I use IE as the browser, but I have no problems with Chrome.  With IE, the box shows up to add a comment, but, I cannot click into the box.

No problem here either, Larry, using IE11 on multiple Windows 7 computers.

Best regards,

--Al

I worked in the IT department in a big manufacturing company before retirement.  I am a veteran of scores of software update rollouts and I can't remember any that didn't have chorus of 'Boo Birds' to lead the charge backwards to wallow forever in their old, outdated, feature-poor software, never bothering to even try to learn what the new software or hardware were all about.  Give it a chance.  

Also, if I were the analyst responsible at Audiogon for this new Forum client,  I would look at features available on successful high-traffic websites, and install some of them.  I would start with a sort feature allowing viewer to toggle between FIFO, First In First Out, as it is now,  to let the screen build starting with the most recent.  Perhaps you could keep the value in the profile of logged-in viewers.  This change would make it easier to navigate larger threads and would encourage the whole population of viewers to stay interested in them.    
I would start with a sort feature allowing viewer to toggle between FIFO, First In First Out, as it is now,  to let the screen build starting with the most recent.
The idea is whether to sort by most recent posts or more recent  threads. This was actually discussed during the early  beta and was on the list of things to do for the developers. They implemented a similar concept for the Popular Discussions - Popular All TIme or Popular Recently.  They may well come back and add that option for the main threads. If they do, I would like to see it done like Popular Discussions - as an option at the top of the column rather than in the profile. That lets you toggle back and force as desired.
Sorry Audiogon... But this gray and white tiger stripping has got to be the worst.  I see zero value in this particular color scheme. I would suggest to pick one color,or the other.

Better yet, go back to the original format...

Please fix.
The previews of posts on the pages listing the threads is very annoying. You should be able to scroll thru thread titles without having previews of posts. The need view takes far more time to scroll and makes it harder to see all the threads. People will tire and leave the site and miss threads that are potentially of interest.
Should be easy to make an option to toggle between "view thread titles only" vs. "view preview of posts below thread titles". Cheers,
Spencer
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After a few days, my gripes are;
The color scheme is hard to read & way too bright.
Once you look at the forums page  I see no way to go back to the std Audiogon website. 

Did I mention the color scheme sucks...
-John
It's getting better. After the conversation with team I realized that they're so green and amateur!


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czarivey2,240 posts12-07-2015 4:49pmIt's getting better. After the conversation with team I realized that they're so green and amateur!

Why not simply law out what you would like to see changed and why. IMO, the snarky remarks are pretty amateur.
I wish they would have a link to the Home page from any page your on.


   Place your cursor over the small upside-down pyramid thingy at the top of the page for a link to the home page.
Sure as with most everything else that is new. Devo said right in the 1970's. We are all de-evolving. A messed up mind creates messed up products