Impressive Audiogon, Great Job!

From Audiogon

"Thank you all for your feedback on our latest site update. We spent the week addressing technical glitches that affected filtering and browsing. In addition, search/browsing pages have been simplified based on your feedback. With these patches making search and browse stable, we are able to release the ability to choose between the Classic View you are used to and the new Grid View. Simply navigate to any search/browse page and click the View drop-down next to the Sort By Preferences to switch between the two. Your preference will be set via cookies; you will not be required to make the change every time you log in."

I hope Agon doesn’t mind me doing the above Copy & Paste, but this is what I mean by impressive. Those who have never had a site/forum to maintain can never imagine the work involved. Audiogon is one of, what maybe 10 (probably less), successful sites of their type in the world. And one of the originators of these types of sites, maybe even "the" original.

Even early on it was evident that Audiogon’s mission was to move this hobby forward. Over the years you could see their mind’s wheels turn to keep ahead of the audiophile experience curve. They could have easily developed and shown a bias that made the playing field for both sellers and buyers uneven but if you paid attention over the years you can see that Agon has strived to make all things equal, not an easy task, and not an easy thing to pull off in a hobby that has more mood swings than most other hobbies.

Michael Green

It's just my input here and advice as someone who has a forum as well, but some of you guys should chill your pill and save it for another time. The work Audiogon is doing for you, as we speak, is what is important here and I think the communication between those giving their real time experiences of the site is what we should all be focused on so that Audiogon has the opportunity to find the bugs and get them worked out.

To those folks who are pointing out some of the issues, I know this is a big help to the situation and as all of us can see Audiogon is on the ball to make sure things run the way they need to be.

"Judging by the way Audiogon is deleting posts critical of your original, there may be no award this year.

And your skinny little knees will be saved an arthroscopy. "

Yep, and don't worry there will be plenty of other threads for the kids to play in, but for this one and maybe others I think what's important here is getting to the issues and solving them as fast as possible