OK, I do not wish to whine and complain, but throw me a bone here! The administrators of this board keep changing it as often as most people change underwear.
Last night the entire look of the board changed twice while I was using it!!
They actually came up with a very good looking version late last night, with a dark blue background, which is now gone.
They had also activated the Avitar feature, and I spent a good deal of time customizing mine, only to see it gone today. I guess somebody decides to provide it one minute, and then decides they don't want to offer that feature the next. Make up your minds!
Now I notice the date and time of each post has been moved from the header of that post down to the bottom, making it unnecessarily cumbersome to simply spot the last post you read on a thread so you know where to pick up and start reading new posts.
I also found the now-deleted windsock feature useful for quickly spotting those topics with new activity and ignoring the rest, rather than having to meticulously scroll through your myriad topics to see the last posting date.
I wish you guys would just settle on a format and stick with it instead of constantly changing things. There is a difference between changing and improving!
I've also noticed that for the past week or so, if you try to use the rich text format for your posts, it takes absolutely forever for the post page to finish loading -- literally a full 5 minutes on my dial-up modem. So you sit there and wait before you can even compose your post. Previously, it loaded almost as fast as the normal text option. That delay is surely time consuming for all of the airline employees at work who are posting here on company time! Think of all the money you would save the financially plagued airlines by fixing it so it loads fast like it used to! [img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif'] [img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif']
I think you guys do a terrific job and I love your message board. However, somebody is a little too giddy with all the toys available in your software, and needs to find a movie to watch or a book to read. Maybe they think its fun to try all this stuff and keep screwing around, but I can assure you, it is no fun for the people you serve who patronize this board. It is irritating to say the least.
If you want to play games (with us--your posters) why don't you post an experimental page somewhere else and provide a link. Maybe some of your posters will offer you feedback about it before you decide whether it's something you want to use. I would be happy to offer such feedback. And that way, it could be done without messing with the real message board.
Thanks for listening.
Marky[img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/8.gif']
PS -- BTW, after wasting a bunch of time waiting for the rich text page to load, it turns out there's no submit button to post your post with! There's only a save button and I have no idea what that does. Since there are no easy instructions for how to use some of your confusing features, you might want to follow the KISS philosophy about how you do things. To assume all the users are computer geeks who will have no trouble figuring things out, is WAY OFF BASE.
Last night the entire look of the board changed twice while I was using it!!
They actually came up with a very good looking version late last night, with a dark blue background, which is now gone.
They had also activated the Avitar feature, and I spent a good deal of time customizing mine, only to see it gone today. I guess somebody decides to provide it one minute, and then decides they don't want to offer that feature the next. Make up your minds!
Now I notice the date and time of each post has been moved from the header of that post down to the bottom, making it unnecessarily cumbersome to simply spot the last post you read on a thread so you know where to pick up and start reading new posts.
I also found the now-deleted windsock feature useful for quickly spotting those topics with new activity and ignoring the rest, rather than having to meticulously scroll through your myriad topics to see the last posting date.
I wish you guys would just settle on a format and stick with it instead of constantly changing things. There is a difference between changing and improving!
I've also noticed that for the past week or so, if you try to use the rich text format for your posts, it takes absolutely forever for the post page to finish loading -- literally a full 5 minutes on my dial-up modem. So you sit there and wait before you can even compose your post. Previously, it loaded almost as fast as the normal text option. That delay is surely time consuming for all of the airline employees at work who are posting here on company time! Think of all the money you would save the financially plagued airlines by fixing it so it loads fast like it used to! [img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif'] [img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif']
I think you guys do a terrific job and I love your message board. However, somebody is a little too giddy with all the toys available in your software, and needs to find a movie to watch or a book to read. Maybe they think its fun to try all this stuff and keep screwing around, but I can assure you, it is no fun for the people you serve who patronize this board. It is irritating to say the least.
If you want to play games (with us--your posters) why don't you post an experimental page somewhere else and provide a link. Maybe some of your posters will offer you feedback about it before you decide whether it's something you want to use. I would be happy to offer such feedback. And that way, it could be done without messing with the real message board.
Thanks for listening.
Marky[img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/8.gif']
PS -- BTW, after wasting a bunch of time waiting for the rich text page to load, it turns out there's no submit button to post your post with! There's only a save button and I have no idea what that does. Since there are no easy instructions for how to use some of your confusing features, you might want to follow the KISS philosophy about how you do things. To assume all the users are computer geeks who will have no trouble figuring things out, is WAY OFF BASE.
