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.
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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can't remember any that didn't have chorus of 'Boo Birds' to lead the charge backwards to wallow forever in their old, outdated, feature-poor software, never bothering to even try to learn what the new software or hardware were all about.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. |
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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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. |
