Thread: Ok, I tried.

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Not trying to complicate your efforts to improve the site, and I realize that was your goal, Brent. It is just that some of us (especially us older guys ) didn't grow up in the Atari generation and for us it is confusing at best to try to navigate these forums.

Maybe my old CHR format was different from other peoples, but when I logged on the first screen I got was the one with members galleries at the top and below it was all of the topics being discussed, regardless of where they were posted. It was so easy to scroll down that list and see what was currently being discussed and what had been discussed recently. As someone posted on a thread it would rotate to the top and then travel down as new posts on other threads happened.

I might be missing that this new format somehow functions the same way, and if so, please excuse me for missing that. Just trying to give some constructive feedback because maybe some others that are not as vocal as I am are feeling the same way. I really like this forum a lot, and the people who frequent it. Would hate anything to make it so different the participation drops.

Thanks,


Don

Don I HATE COMPUTERS but this is realy basicly the same if you go to the top and click "Todays posts" I think thats the same thing, if you look at the times the posts are made they are in order by time of entry

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Maybe my old CHR format was different from other peoples, but when I logged on the first screen I got was the one with members galleries at the top and below it was all of the topics being discussed, regardless of where they were posted. It was so easy to scroll down that list and see what was currently being discussed and what had been discussed recently. As someone posted on a thread it would rotate to the top and then travel down as new posts on other threads happened.

Yeah Don, that's the same screen that I had as my "home screen". Truthfully, if you simply hit the tab "Today's Posts" the information presented is the same as the old screen, minus the gallery taking up space at the top and minus the advertisement band at the left side which gives full screen display of the threads - a big improvement in my mind. I found the initial bright white screens to be a bit glaring, but this Robin egg blue format is quite nice - easy on the eyes, and good contrast with the text. Sure, it all looks a little different, but Brent has done a ton to make the way it works all but identical and now those who use Facebook, Blogs, and other "cutting edge" features can do that too. Admitedly there are some small differences, like when one hits "Reply" it goes first to the "Quick Reply" format and you have to select "Go Advanced" but nine times out of ten a Quick Reply works just fine. I really think if you spend a bit of time playing with the buttons you'll find it is really very nearly the same - that's what I have found, anyway.

Don, 1 thing you might try to make finding new posts easier. I dumped the old CHR bookmark I had at the top of the page. I then clicked on "today's posts" on the front page, then I saved that page as my new bookmark. Now when I click on the CHR bookmark it opens to the "today's posts" automatically, sota' makes ''today's posts" the CHR homepage. The only downside is it names the bookmark "Search Results" instead of CHR. However if you put your cursor over the bookmark and wait a second it expands the bookmark name to read "SEARCH RESULTS, Club Hot Rod Forums" makes it easy to find if you bookmark several sites this way (as I have).

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Don, 1 thing you might try to make finding new posts easier. I dumped the old CHR bookmark I had at the top of the page. I then clicked on "today's posts" on the front page, then I saved that page as my new bookmark. Now when I click on the CHR bookmark it opens to the "today's posts" automatically, sota' makes ''today's posts" the CHR homepage. The only downside is it names the bookmark "Search Results" instead of CHR. However if you put your cursor over the bookmark and wait a second it expands the bookmark name to read "SEARCH RESULTS, Club Rot Rod Forums" makes it easy to find if you bookmark several sites this way (as I have).

FYI, you can rename your favorites to anything you want - just right click the item in your Favorites list, select "Rename" and do your thing.