What do you think about the new forums?

[Anonymous]

Ya finally got it into the highball mode. I can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time when I check into the page from work.

Ken, D&J Railroad, Stafford, VA

[Anonymous]

I haven't voted as I haven't had a chance to "test drive" the forum. But my initial impression is that the new forum is much better than the last.

First, I can take the name I use in other forums, except for the layout design sig, where I'm nicholson1318. The past forum wouldn't let me register as rsn48, it was too short, so the first improvement I noticed is that I can be me here, instead of using my son's sign - he is cascade here (or I was cascade here...lol).

Next, there is a search function - good.

And I can go further back in threads - good.

And I can see the posts replying to the initial thread post - great.

I haven't even looked at the forum categories yet so I won't comment. But be aware that a busy forum is a happy forum (flame wars excluded...lol). To many forum categories will water down the apparent activity of the forums. I have learned by being active in several forums that less is more in forum participation. For example, the layout design sig is one forum so activity is high. The Atlas forum is 4 forums, so activity is high. Many other forums with several categories - though perhaps having the same volume of replies - feel less busy because the posts are spread to thinly across to many categories - I can think of at least 4 forums that fall into this category.

Having a layout design forum is good as it doesn't have to be scale specific, so an HO guy can help an N scale guy and vice versa; grades are grades and minimum radius is easy to grasp for another scale once you understand your own scale.

A suggestion - supply a link to ispell - an excellent forum spell check that can be downloaded. I really like it because you can specify "Canadian" spelling which isn't normal in many spell checks - so I can spell colour and neighbour, etc in peace with out it being challenged by a spell checker. But it is a great tool I use a lot; I'm writing this on a library computer while my car is repaired so there might be a typo error or two.

[DavidH]

Finally!! I had pretty much given up on the MR forums, but now I'll be back!

David

[Anonymous]

Looks great so far. The update time isn't that speedy right now, but overall the structure and features are great!

[GerFust]

I like that we can see all the replies at once, but it is hard to see who is replying to what, exactly, since the "tree" structure is lost. I also like that we can talk to each other off-line and chat, but would like another way to see profiles other than trough forum postings.

[Anonymous]

I really like the new look and the ability to read through the thread without calling each message individually. If it loads faster than before, I will probably go back to using this as my only regular modelling forum.

Ed

[Anonymous]

I like the new forum setup a lot. Makes it a lot easier to view all repies to postings as mentioned above.
This was a long time coming. Good job MR- Bob

[Anonymous]

It's about time that I can read all the posts in a thread with clicking on each one.
Nice Job.
Bee Line

[edo1039]

Much better now I can review all replys without leaving the page,great job.

[BentnoseWillie]

Hoo ha! I can find stuff now!!

And I can edit, and my name shows on my posts. Life is good!

[Admin]

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