I'll look at schedualing a new appointment, sorry was working nights and was to tired to stay up thismorning.
untill then, identifying new post is a huge issue with the new BBS software, here are a couple examples.
as you will see from the photos , if some one replys to anyone but the initial topic creator it move the post up but it doesnt make it as having new posts, so unless you see an actual new post (if you look in the pictures you will see one as you scrool down that there is three or 4 of these new posts that done show up as new then a new one about 5 posts down but we can only see 3 on our screen at ones so if you don't scroll you will never know. also the slightly bold header for a new topic can't we do better than that maybe a color or make the text of the title twice as big as well as bold, there has to be somthing that will catch the eye more.
second thing is old posts, because of the hidden new post marker when some one replies to a coment on a old post there have been several posts showing up from 10 to 15 years ago. once a post is dead it should stay dead and exzist for read only, say 2 years of inactivitiy and the post becomes locked for posting, if you want better quality discussion you shoudl start a new post and build on the info with new information, technology and products not have to weed through the old stuff. it is good to keep them read only though.
finaly the names of the different comunities thenselves, you took away the Canada and alaska group and replaced it with international, I don't even look in that anymore because I don't concider Canada international and it isn't the best way to list it conciderign a good chunk of your userbase is Canadain. the rest of that I can understand making it regions but instead of throwing Canada in international, maybe have a westren Canada region and a eastren Canada region. for the other side, I don't understand why they arn't concidered comunities, you took two or three of the biggest drivers of the old board and either changed the name so they dissapeared or took on a different meaning, or got rid of them all togeather. some of the new names are confusing so people are not posting in the right areas and the modes are unsure so they are not moving them around. take the truck camper group, named properly, but we haven had a sticky created for trip reports so they wouldn't flood the feed, but look at 5 or 6 of the laitest posts by the same person, all of these should be in the trip report stickey but either he doesnt realize it or no one is monitoring the channel and corecting.
then we get to the big mess ups DIY, is now called DIY maintenance so it implies you can only post self maintenance not just projects you build to enhance your RV, this used to be the 3ed or 4th most active group on the old site but the name change killed it. the second "Technical Issues" used to be "Technology" shortened to Tech on the old group and was one of the top two active groups, but is now somthing totaly different. technical question should be asked in the group relating to the type of equipment, so if it is on a 5th wheel it should be asked there, a motothome then there, that si where the people whith that spicific knowlage hang out, and if some one sees it in the other groups it is because we keep looking for the old activity we used to have on the old board where we could take about new battery technology in the Tech channel, or take about the new roof we installed, and how we did it on our rv in the DIY section. Campground 101, does anyone know what that is suposed to be, I know I don't and rv tips and tricks and rv must haves, do they realy need to be channels , thoes to me are a post in rv newbies and don't warent there own channel. its almost like some one just made this up for a presentations and wrote a bunch of group headers in there just so there would be writing in the boxes for the presentation and that how the custome left it. the groups outside the individual comunities need to be carefully names as to not take trafic from the apropreat comunity but rather to allow converstation on stuff that applies ot every comunity or doesnt belong in any. for example if I have a question about the light on the dash of my winnibego motorhome, I should be asking that in the motorhome comunity, not the tow vehicles or technical issues. by posting in the laiter two, I am taking trafic away from the motorhome group that is spicific to them, at the same time a personal example, I am building my LiFePO4 cells from raw cells and would normaly put it in the DIY on the old board, or the Tech, but its not a maintenace item and it isn't a problem so they don't fit anymore and it isn't spicific to one type of rv, rather it aplies to all. so realy there is no place to logicly post it.
anyways I have to get to work.
thanks
