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    November 2005
Here's some feedback for ya!
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 3:54 PM

My first thought was "I don't like it", but it will grow on me, I know that.

As for the important feedback I wish to share: In the old forum, when you viewed the posts since your last visit, they were presented in a clear, organized fashion, separated into the different sections, like Aircraft, Armor, etc. I went to check out the same thing today, it was definately a "Charlie Foxtrot". I think the posts may have been arranged by date/time, but I'm not sure. However they were arranged, it ended up giving me something like 50 pages and 699 posts to search through, not in order of sections.

Is there a way to change this back to the "old way"? It is going to get really tiresome searching through 699 posts in no particular order. I don't want to be one of those "back in my day..." or "in the other forum...." guys at all, I'm suggesting this as a way for everyone to not sit for hours searching for the post they want to read.

Thanks for hearing me, I know it's early in the adjustment phase, but I hadn't seen anyone else bring this up. Good luck with it, FSM staff, you're doing great so far.

  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 4:17 PM
It's also pretty slow compared to the old site, with all the re-registration and cross transfer of post name, I can imagine the SQL is pretty big now! Will this stay this slow or will you tril the DB as people settle in?
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  • From: Oak Harbor, WA
Posted by Kolja94 on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:11 PM
I agree that the way "posts since your last visit" used to be presented was very convenient - if there's setting you could change or something that's not-to-difficult, it would be a nice feature to have here too...

But other than that, so far so good...

Karl

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    April 2005
  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:30 PM

I will seconfd the factthat it is slower and also say that if there is a wat to put some like the last visit feature back that would be great.

Marc  

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:26 AM

or at least a way of marking messages as read? instead of pages and pages of unread messages?

Most "free" or open source forum apps seem to be better equipped, I know it's still early days for the change over, but so far it seems very clumsy and awkward to use guys. That's not to take away the hard work, I know, I do it on sites all the time for people.

The issue with "new posts" not being sorted by heading is a problem, not sure about others here, but I don't have the time to trawl through them all, looking for the ones I'm interested in.

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Posted by lolok on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 7:41 AM

Oh Yes...just what I came here to say...Please,pretty please put the "Posts since last visit" back the way it was.It was a handy tool to catch up on what I had missed without trawling through everything..Definitely a step backwards now.

      Also the code thing...I have bought FSM for years through my hobby shop in the UK and now here in Warsaw but while the UK times where around the first week of the month.here in Poland it is the end of the month:( I am still waiting for Novembers issue..So codes are a bit of a niggle.

Jim Ryan Ex-Pat Limey in warsaw.Poland. " MENE,MENE,TEKEL U PHARSIN"
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  • From: Saratoga Springs, NY
Posted by Jeeves on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 10:30 AM
I would also like to lend my support to this request...it was an option I used regularly.  Overall though- I am happy with the changes and felt the registration process was not nearly so rough as some people thought... we live in an age of fast food and cell phones and the NOW generation....nice to see some people have to slow down a bit Big Smile [:D]
Mike
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: West Des Moines, IA USA
Posted by jridge on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:53 PM
I want to get in line for the restoration of the  "posts since your last visit" feature too!
Jim The fate of the Chambermaid http://30thbg.1hwy.com/38thBS.html
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    June 2005
  • From: San Tan Valley,AZ
Posted by smokinguns3 on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 1:18 PM
Yes I agre  that was a nice option wish thayd get the kinks out, as for slow yes i thought it was just me iam on cable internet and sometimes it takes 10 to 20 seconds to load the page and some time i get the error sever timed out.
Rob I think i can I think i can
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    February 2003
  • From: Sugar Land, TX
Posted by rlawson on Saturday, November 12, 2005 6:25 PM

Count me in on this one, too.  I had the URL for "Active" topics on my IE favorites list, and could immediately scan my choices of category, namely Aircraft and Group Builds, paging over what I wasn't interested in.  Now it's so much hash.  I support the others here who find this a serious omission.

Other than that, re-registration seemed to go okay, and my name wasn't lost, so I can still get in and find stuff. 

 

Regards

Dick

 

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