topic Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement in Community Chat

If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

Marp2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:08:28 GMT

professional help is available. Community chat is a disaster with over 2200 pages of subjects/topics thrown together.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

terrier3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:48:44 GMT

ITA.

I don't want to have to wade through pages of Games to get to a Viewpoint!

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

kdgn — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:56:05 GMT

I agree. This is a mess.

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faeriemoon — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:26:23 GMT

Agree!!! Fashion is full of Linea, Beauty is full of Wen, and this Community thing is full of "Something that Starts With Something" (games.)

Faeriemoon is not a happy camper.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

loveschocolate — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:54:43 GMT

This is one hot mess!

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

loveschocolate — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:55:53 GMT

However, I am kinda digging my hairstyle!

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cater — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:14:08 GMT

What a mess I can't even find my way to the currant post on the ShowMe thread. I have to wade through old posts and still can't find the currant one or the the ones from yesterday.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

lisadpa — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:19:12 GMT

Are the old messages from the subforums still around, but merged into the larger topic? For example, are the "Denim & co" posts still around in the "Fashion" forum?

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

Lion — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:30:40 GMT

All I can say right now is... yikes!

Hopefully, they will tweak this new forum with improvements soon.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

chickenbutt — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:32:46 GMT

@terrier3 wrote:
ITA.
I don't want to have to wade through pages of Games to get to a Viewpoint!

Yeah really! We had that before, several years ago, and they gave the Games thing its own forum, or at least sub-forum. Hopefully, they will separate that out again.

I have no idea what the appeal is, but it seems popular and when they start posting to it, it will overtake the rest of the forum.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

Melania — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:06:30 GMT

When I first peeked it was nothing but games and ShowMe's thread....it's really bogged down with too much of one thing.

I imagine they will change it to how it was.

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

dooBdoo — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:47:53 GMT

I agree, the way they attempted to transfer existing threads didn't work. It's extremely hard to find the threads we want. I'm guessing the lack of sub-forums is a result of that transfer -- if they had set up a brand new "clean forum" without any of the old threads, we might be seeing sub-forums.

But that's just a guess. I've only been looking and trying to "tour" the site for a few minutes and so far I've seen an ancient thread from years ago mixed in with the new ones... they did a very, very bad job of porting the old forum over to this one.

In addition, while they offer a myriad of settings they're going to take a bit of trial and error, without good, detailed help text to accompany the settings.

I'll add that I also miss the "My Activity" feature. I used that frequently, to catch up on threads I'd been interested in.

What a fine mess we have here...

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

ROMARY — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:44:13 GMT

As always, I miss 'the good old days'..............(Rolling eyes smiley face).

Re: If Not Having Sub-forums Is An Improvement

SaRina — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:49:45 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
@terrier3 wrote:
ITA.
I don't want to have to wade through pages of Games to get to a Viewpoint!
Yeah really! We had that before, several years ago, and they gave the Games thing its own forum, or at least sub-forum. Hopefully, they will separate that out again.

I have no idea what the appeal is, but it seems popular and when they start posting to it, it will overtake the rest of the forum.

Someone suggested earlier today (somewhere) that Viewpointers should post in Among Friends. Maybe that's not a bad idea.