The New Trains.com

[Flintlock76]

Electroliner 1935

I too checked the links and stopped when I saw I had to agree to accept ads. I get TOO many already. 

I don't mind accepting ads IF, and it's a very big IF, they keep them in their place.  By this I mean on the periphery of the on-line content, NOT right in the middle of something I'm trying to read, and then having it jump all over the aforementioned content so I have to chase it with the cursor to eliminate it.

It's what caused me to block ads to begin with.  I can understand commercials, they pay the bills, but don't pester me with 'em!  

[Electroliner 1935]

Flintlock76

 Thanks Mod-man!

I checked the links, and honestly it still leaves a lot of questions un-answered.  

Have to wait and see, I suppose. 

I too checked the links and stopped when I saw I had to agree to accept ads. I get TOO many already. 

[MMLDelete]

All I saw there was a (nice) video hyping what's coming. But I got no sense of what's coming. Maybe I missed something.

[SD60MAC9500]

 

CMStPnP

 

 

Overmod

I didn't care much for it, snd we lost Vince (miningman) over it forever, but it's likely an improvement for Kalmbach which I spoze is what matters most.

 

 

The trend on the internet is to get rid of the open and moderated forums.    Note Yahoo no longer allows comments to their news stories.   Military dot com dropped their discussion forums as well in favor of individual user comments.   So we'll see what happens.

 

PC culture rules the day.. Google got the ball rolling years ago by deleting content and shadowbans on it's associated platforms.

 

 

[CMStPnP]

Overmod

I didn't care much for it, snd we lost Vince (miningman) over it forever, but it's likely an improvement for Kalmbach which I spoze is what matters most.

The trend on the internet is to get rid of the open and moderated forums.    Note Yahoo no longer allows comments to their news stories.   Military dot com dropped their discussion forums as well in favor of individual user comments.   So we'll see what happens.

[Flintlock76]

Thanks Mod-man!

I checked the links, and honestly it still leaves a lot of questions un-answered.  

Have to wait and see, I suppose.

[Overmod]

It was about 9 days ago.

I went back and pulled up the link from the version touted for Classic Trains 'sneak peek'; I have no idea how to edit the secret tracking codes out of the URL but hey! check it out on my dime, as it were.

https://trn.trains.com/pages/sneakpeek/index.html?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_email=[e-mail]&utm_campaign=SA000_CTR_200930_P38703_Trains.com

EDIT: Oh my, lookee here, they're running a sweepstakes promotion to advertise the new changes.  You may be the lucky winner of free access for a year!

https://traincontests.secondstreetapp.com/All-Aboard/?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_email=[e-mail]&utm_campaign=SA000_TRN_201010_000000_Trains.comPre-LaunchSweepstakes_CTR/CTT/GRW/MRR/MRV/TRN

Again I have no idea how you adjust this to your own specs or how to get the unredirected URL to the sweepstakes out of an e-mail on a phone.  Perhaps Kalmbach can provide the appropriate links here, or to me, and I can edit this post appropriately to include them...

[Flintlock76]

Where's your post on "new user experience" Mod-man?  Looks like I missed that one.  I was out of town several days last week and as a rule I don't take the lap-top with me. 

[Overmod]

Flintlock76

What's changing?  What's staying the same?  What are we gaining and what are we losing, if we're losing anything?  

see my post on the 'new user experience;' it's the same thing. There is a link to 'test drive' the new version.  I didn't care much for it, and we lost Vince (miningman) over it forever, but it's likely an improvement for Kalmbach which I spoze is what matters most.

[Flintlock76]

That's a good question Mac.  I've seen those "trains.com" alerts pop up, but it strikes me that they're talking a bit but not saying much at all. 

What's changing?  What's staying the same?  What are we gaining and what are we losing, if we're losing anything?  

Many unspoken things here.

[SD60MAC9500]

 

If you 've been paying attetnion it looks like the website will finally get an overhaul soon. Hopefully this update will include more ergonomic layout, and use of this site; forums, news layout, etc. The mobile site definetly needs treatment, to be cleared of all the wares that reside on there.. It can become difficult when you're trying to read a section of the site on your phone and get redirected to becoming the 1,000,000 winner of an iphone...