Who's pissing about with the forum software ?

[Ricardoco]

Are we following cnczone? Must admit I'm not liking this either.

I think not, the Zone main page looks unfinished and less profesional than it used to, Its lost its fluidity. I think its time this site had a spruce up, and yes i will have to find stuff again but thats the price of keeping with the times. The same happened to me when they went from type writers to word processors and then to computers. And dont forget he is doing this in real time while the site is live so we dont know where it will end up, you may even like it...

Rick

[John S]

Why has it got to have spruce up ?
Totally getting pissed off with programmers changing things for changing sake.
Anyone seen the new Alibre and Solid edge menus ?
Old menu bar has gone, now got cave man paintings depicting whatever. Spent 20 minutes trying to work out what the pictogram of a guy shìtting down a mine shaft only to find it was the icon for vertical dimensions.

[Ricardoco]

Why has it got to have spruce up ?.

Why not?, if the site wants to remain fresh and appealing, to new members it must change like all things, I do however see why there may be some resistance to change (old dogs, new tricks, an all that LOL) but i would like to see this forum evolve into something better for both its old members and its new ones. at least its changing gradually in real time so we can see the changes as they happen and point out things we think dont work. IMHO that is

Totally getting pissed off with programmers changing things for changing sake.
Anyone seen the new Alibre and Solid edge menus ?
Old menu bar has gone, now got cave man paintings depicting whatever. Spent 20 minutes trying to work out what the pictogram of a guy shìtting down a mine shaft only to find it was the icon for vertical dimensions.

I get your point totally here. but it would be nice to think they added a few extra nice/usefull features as well. I dont use the software you refered to so could really comment either way but here is hoping.

Rick

[Chas]

It's the beginning of the end John. This forum as we know it will soon die & be replaced by a forum populated mostly with nothing.

I've seen it before on many sites over the years. The forum owner discovers they can make £money from the people that populate the forum & soon become focused on nothing more than making £money.

After pocketing a few £100's they wonder why all the people have disappeared.

I truly believe this forum owes its very existence to CNCZone, it is a poor imitation of it & its modest success is based upon it being UK focused.

Maybe the forum was created purely to build a user base that can then be exploited? I don't know.

But I do know that I've been here & done this before, learn't my lesson & formed the conclusion that once it becomes all about £money, then it's time for me to say goodbye.

Goodbye.

& a BIG thankyou to the folks who've shared their knowledge & not only educated but also entertained me without one eye on earning a quick £quid so far. See you all on the next forum to come along.

[jcb121]

I quite like it to be honest.

[John S]

Started this 4 weeks ago and it's still fücked, nothing has been done.
Half a screen of white page, unless you read it every 1/2 day when busy the new posts scroll off the screen.
No post counter to see how many have posted.

Posts read is broken, I can look at the same post 10 times and it's still blue as if it hasn't been read.

Why do people have to piss about with web sites for pissing abouts sake ?????????????

If it's isn't broke don't piss with it.

[Lee Roberts]

Hello,

Yeh, I just logged in and went to hit "New Posts" as I always do and IT'S GONE:{(

Hit "Todays posts" to see a line up, but as the day wares on, I want my new posts to see what is new since my last visit!

I've no problem with change but FFS bring back New Posts

And reinstate the Mark Forum Read option ,

Sorry about that its the result of a simi-responsive wireless mouse, its now been fixed and the "New Posts" link is back :). Tumutbound, i addressed the Mark Forum Read issue in this post: marking-forums-read

Started this 4 weeks ago and it's still fücked, nothing has been done.

Posts read is broken, I can look at the same post 10 times and it's still blue as if it hasn't been read.

Why do people have to piss about with web sites for pissing abouts sake ?????????????

Actually John something was done very soon after your last post regarding this 4 weeks ago, your screen shot at the time was of the last post in a thread, when comparing this to what I was seeing I couldn’t see what the problem was. I then realised your screen shot was of the last post in a thread and not a post in between the first and last post of a thread, the change was to remove the Google ads from the last and first post of a thread giving the post content area an additional screen real-estate of around 350px.

Was the change that subtle that you didn’t even notice? Or is there something else you are not happy with, or is it the sidebar still being there? if it’s the later I don’t remember it being said that it was going to be removed. Give me a clue?

If you can look at the same post 10 times and the thread title remains bold, then its likely that the thread still has unread post’s in it. Clicking the “View First Unread” link at the top of a thread should fix that, once you’ve read them all of course.

So I don’t think "Posts Read" is broken, it’s as stock as it was when taken out of the box.

No idea, I’m certainly not.

[m_c]

My current annoyances are the site defaults to activity stream unless you go direct to forum.php, and <br> tags leave no gap when viewing with IE (most likely a stylesheet issue with .p settings).

[Ricardoco]

It's the beginning of the end John. This forum as we know it will soon die & be replaced by a forum populated mostly with nothing.

I've seen it before on many sites over the years. The forum owner discovers they can make £money from the people that populate the forum & soon become focused on nothing more than making £money.

After pocketing a few £100's they wonder why all the people have disappeared.

I truly believe this forum owes its very existence to CNCZone, it is a poor imitation of it & its modest success is based upon it being UK focused.

Maybe the forum was created purely to build a user base that can then be exploited? I don't know.

But I do know that I've been here & done this before, learn't my lesson & formed the conclusion that once it becomes all about £money, then it's time for me to say goodbye.

Goodbye.

& a BIG thankyou to the folks who've shared their knowledge & not only educated but also entertained me without one eye on earning a quick £quid so far. See you all on the next forum to come along.

Ive an idea? why dont you show us how to do it?? Oh and dont forget the hosting fees, domain registration, search engine ratings, and the list goes on and on, and guess what, its not free..

I think the site owner does a good job in keeping this site free to its members and the advertising is related to the subject matter, so not a problem in fact ive used the odd link to buy stuff in the past, I for one am thankfull its here. Ive never been asked to contribute anything, it cost me nothing, and im up for anything that keeps the site here, and the costs and the owners end, and i hope he makes loads of cash from it too.

Oh and before i forget..






Things move on so fast dont they, maybe not always for the better, or maybe they are...

Rick

[Lee Roberts]

I quite like it to be honest.

Thanks ;-).

It's the beginning of the end John. This forum as we know it will soon die & be replaced by a forum populated mostly with nothing.

I've seen it before on many sites over the years. The forum owner discovers they can make £money from the people that populate the forum & soon become focused on nothing more than making £money.

After pocketing a few £100's they wonder why all the people have disappeared.

I truly believe this forum owes its very existence to CNCZone, it is a poor imitation of it & its modest success is based upon it being UK focused.

Maybe the forum was created purely to build a user base that can then be exploited? I don't know.

But I do know that I've been here & done this before, learn't my lesson & formed the conclusion that once it becomes all about £money, then it's time for me to say goodbye.

Goodbye.

& a BIG thankyou to the folks who've shared their knowledge & not only educated but also entertained me without one eye on earning a quick £quid so far. See you all on the next forum to come along.

You clearly dont know me or what im about, i suggest having a read of some of the other threads that have gone before this one, you'll read for yourself then what is to come and its not the end believe me! If it was about making money i wouldn't spend the time i do in threads like this one.

Your right i did get the idea of starting a UK focused cnc forum from the zone, its no imitation though thats for sure and i'm glad you agree its a success.

Define exploited, this forum was started as a build log more or less for my first diy cnc machine and has evolved into what it is now for and on behalf of the people that started coming to it and using it, trust me i dont need to do this kind of thing to make money!

.Me