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I can't speak for others, but in the last couple of days the forum has been quick and responded well. It has been as fast as the Atlas forum, which is a real compliment, so I hope things continue to go well. I'm sure you've been a bit under the gun. Even the Atlas forum has bad days. So my rating from when I first voted on the quality of this forum is climbing. To Kalmbach, you made the right decision to improve this forum. No matter what you do, not everyone will be happy, but I'm sure you here complaints all the time in the publishing business. I did a long harangue against Kalmbach criticizing its old forum at the Atlas forum many months ago. In my criticism I made the point that you are in the business of delivering information, whether it is on paper or electronic. If the old Horse and Buggy Whip manufactures had kept in mind they were in the accessory business to the transportation industry, they probably wouldn't have gone out of business. More and more of us are taking our information from the web. The task for you is to how make MR go with the changes in the electronic media, some how one will need to feed into the other, a task I know you are already doing. I personally believe the magazines are here to stay as reading a magazine is a different experience from the net. For example, for me 1) looking at layouts is more pleasurable in a mag 2) reading philosophical points of view is better in a mag - don't know why you got rid of "one readers opinion" but I miss it. 3) scratch building and kit bashing is easier in a mag - you have to read the article so many times to twig to the information and to get it to sink in 4) advertising is more fun in a mag where I can look at it at my own leisure, pop ups on the net are a drag 5) New announcements are better on the net - faster. Should have been in the Atlas forum when Athearn announced they were going to enter the N field - real feeding frenzy 6) Teaching is better in a mag, whether it is dcc, or the excellent recent article on how to do a waterfall, and the pond article 7) Being able to go back and re-read and re-learn is easier with a mag Anyways, this forum will pick up and do well.
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