What do you think about the new forums?

[Anonymous]

Better than before...Still slow loading and I have DSL

[Anonymous]

I have been using them now ever since they started and I think they are great and well thought out. The old style rambled all over. Good job webmaster.

[dphusman]

I like them. I also think they could be broken down by scale. Thanks for the update.

[Anonymous]

I like the format.
I gave it a "good", due to speed, but the folks who did this are to be commended.
I agree with that previous post that 'smilies' should be restricted to just a few, if any at all. Surely those who post rows and rows of such smilies could find a subway car to deface ?
Thanks again & regards to all. / Mike

[Anonymous]

Well, I got to admit, this is the most activity Ive seen in this forum in the 21/2 years I've been coming here.--hope its not just cuz the atlas guys are on vacation-so far I like the attitude of the folks here a lot better then the atlas forum
So, for whatever my 2 cents is worth, ,I give the forum a thumbs up[^]

[bruce22]

its ok

[Anonymous]

great

[wp8thsub]

The new forums are far easier to use. I don't have to read every post individually to find out if the feedback I was planning to give was already mentioned, which tended to discourage my participation before.

It would be nice to have a companion site for convenient sharing of photos, especially if a quick digital photo from the layout can help to explain an idea.

I like maintaining things as non-scale-specific. Dividing everyone by scale reduces the opportunity for a good idea to "cross-pollinate" with the other scales involved.

I do have a couple of concerns about the current format. First, all those smileys get on my last nerve due to rampant overuse. Most boards out there using them suffer from emoticon overload, which distracts from the actual discussion. I implore the MR staff to dump them.

Second, as another post mentioned the "junior-senior-member thing" is a trap. On most similarly afflicted forums it encourages nonsense posts to artificially inflate one's standing. Furthermore, the uninitiated might look at a poster's ranking as a measure of the poster's credibility. Somebody with a few very good things to say trumps the blowhard who can't shut up, but the rankings almost suggest the opposite. Again I hope that idea gets dropped before it causes too much trouble.

Rob Spangler
WP 8th Sub
Layton, UT

[Anonymous]

I HAVE'NT QUITE FIGURED IT OUT YET BUT I'M WORKING ON IT[:)]
BUT FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR I THINK IT' S OK.[^]

[Anonymous]

The old style of the forum was truly a royal pain to use. Click this, click that, new page, new page AGHHHHH! But the new format I think is great! Sure there's a few bugs but win98 still has bugs in it. As far as speed goes I think it is a little faster. Someone mentioned above about the load time. I've talked to a few guru's and a lot of them say if your on a dial up and near a back bone it will slow things a whole lot. I have a dial up connect(52-53kbps) an from 4:30 to about 4;50 I was trying to get on a NOAA site and it took me 5min. to load one page!! After 4:50 it seems that a dam burst and BANG my load time were back to normal.

What I;m trying to say is give give em some time. This forum has ALOT of potential. I put it back on top of my forums lists!!!

Take care Tim

[tankertoad70]

I really like the 'gnu' setup, 'cause I don't hafta click on each response to see who has shared what. Nice Change!!!!!

[Anonymous]

The new forums are great .Are the content standards the same as
the Finescale forums? Perhaps Model Railroaders forums could be
set up similar to Finescales forums. It would be easier to find a topic
and or forum. Thanks again for the changes.[:D]
Harry jr.

[Anonymous]

Now that I have test driven the forums (or some of them) I gave this forum a "good" - still a bit too slow for a great - but almost there.

What surprised me is that three people said they liked the old forum better???????? I would love to hear from one of them why they liked the old one better, I'm not interested in flaming, I just don't get it.

[Anonymous]

I like. The old forums were.... from the 50's and very cumbersome. These are a lot easier to navigate.

[Anonymous]

Well it is a step in the right direction, you all are up to the 1980's now [:D][:p]. I'll check back in about a year and see if you have made to the 90's yet. I don't get it, Kalmbach is the leader in mags, yet continues to have THE worst site on the net!?!?!

[thirdrail1]

David Voss, you might point out to those unfamiliar with Snitz forums how to use the "trash can" icon to delete all those multiple posts generated yesterday due to the forum glitch.[:I][:I][B)][B)][B)][B)]

[Anonymous]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. It is very much appreciated!

QUOTE: Originally posted by RogerW
I did encounter the following error message twice when attempting to retrieve older pages -- above 20.

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator at [e-mail]. Thank you.

I have this noted down and I'll look into it.

The error that many of you encountered while posting a message has been fixed.

Thank you for your continued patience while we work out some of these bugs.

[MAbruce]

It's a far cry from what it was! [8D] Nice work!

But the site is still slow in loading.

[Anonymous]

I think the new forums are a major improvement. Performance is comparable to other similar forums. It is now easy to read all the responses to a specific post quickly. I was able to glean more useful information in 30 minutes today than ever before.

Thanks to the Kalmbach folks for listening.

I did encounter the following error message twice when attempting to retrieve older pages -- above 20.

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator at [e-mail]. Thank you.

Thanks,
Roger

[Anonymous]

[?] still trying to figure it out, my first post ended up coming up twice[?][?]
not crazy about the junior-senior-member thing. Seems some folks just post anything to get there rating up, at least in other forums I belong to.
And I agree with others that seperate scale headings would be good

[pondman]

Great forum,,,,,,,,,,, Now we need it broken down by train size ! Like --- Ho forum's and N/Z forums

QUOTE: Originally posted by Admin

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[Anonymous]

You all still don't get it do you?

[Anonymous]

Well you are going in the right direction [:)] , now if you can speed things up a little more, enable photos, divide into more forums (HO, N/Z, Large Scale, Kit Bashing, Narrow Gauge etc. ) you will after all this time be where every other forum has all ready been for years! [:(] I don't understand, you are the leader in the industry when it comes to mags, but still the worst when in comes to the net.

[Anonymous]

Well you are going in the right direction [:)] , now if you can speed things up a little more, enable photos, divide into more forums (HO, N/Z, Large Scale, Kit Bashing, Narrow Gauge etc. ) you will after all this time be where every other forum has all ready been for years! [:(] I don't understand, you are the leader in the industry when it comes to mags, but still the worst when in comes to the net. Oh well I'll check back again in a few more years. Good luck and best wishes.

[JDCoop]

It's very much improved. It's pretty much a night and day difference from the old forum format. Wonderful!

[Anonymous]

Great so far, except that I tried to post a reply around noon today (EDT) and kept getting an error message from the server. I like the new format - here's hoping the performance is good too!

[Anonymous]

I haven't voted yet because I want to look the whole site over first. But I will say that I'm glad the forum architecture is from Snitz. While the appearance of this forum differs from the versions used by Railroad-Lines Forums, Railroad Forums.com, and Atlas, it still has a familiar "feel" to it. And it should be faster for those using dialup connections also.

[Anonymous]

new forum a little confusing, but i will get used to it[:)]

[Anonymous]

I haven't been here in a very long time because of the old forums,I could never get anywhere. So far the speed does NOT seem any better and I think if you broke things into smaller sections like by scale and scratchbuilding and so forth that all that info would not have to be loaded every time.