we used to have an easy system to follow new threads as they appeared. now we have a cumbersome, overcomplicated nightmare! why don't we follow the lead of c32 life?

 

I can totally relate to your fustration.... at times one thinks of that old cliche "You can't teach an old dog new tricks". You and me are in the same boat. Trust me here, play around with the options, icons, avatars, signatures, etc. and once you get the hang of it you will like it much better. I am not computer literate so it took some time to figure out where things go.

Use the Test Forum, its a great place to mess around and no one will say anything about what you are doing in that Forum plus you can try out all the extras that this great site offers.

Good Luck

 

adjust to change...and deal with it

As a famous German once said:
"With out the courage to try, fail and utimately succeed, mankind will live in fear it's own potential and stagnate as a worthless society."
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche

 

not very complicated at all...www.dtmpower.net also uses this...check their reply form out ...etc their's uses the same base software with some cool touches they have added

 

If you think these forums are complicated, I truly hope you did not get COMAND in your car .

Don't worry, you will learn to love these forums and won't even beleive you used to like the old format.

 

Granted, this forum is free and therefore I gladly take it as is, but I do like the threaded format better (like the one at MBNZ.ORG). Also, I don't care about graphical bells and whistles that much - I'm not 14 y.o., after all.

 

This new format has a lot of new features, it is much more organized, and just overall much more user freindly.

 

IMO, it's less user friendly since it has a flat structure vs. threaded structure of the "old" one, whch is its main drawback since this is not a simple bulletin board but discussion board which implies multiple lines of discussion under the same main thread. Yes, I agree that is has some nice features, but they are not important to me, except the ability to edit and withdraw posts, which is great.

 

My only complaint about the old system is that it didnt put discussions where new posts had occurred to the top of the board. But I find the "show me all thats done since I last came here" and the "email me when someone posts" features of this board making usage very easy for me.

 

Simple, easy to use and overall, a huge improvement.