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trjford8 |
02-23-2019 @ 7:42 AM
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I would hope there will be a serious discussion at the National Board meeting next week regarding this site. I know little about the mechanics of a website, but I do know what is user friendly and what is not. I find myself coming to this site less and less because of the double posting of questions and answers. It's embarrassing to the user. I'll stop with my comments right here, but there needs to be some solutions to these problems.
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TomO |
02-23-2019 @ 8:54 AM
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The AACA managed to update their website a few years ago and kept the history. You don't need to keep all of the history, most of the information is repeated as new questions are answered. It would be nice if the National Board would appoint a committee to look at all of the automobile related web sites and find out what features are good and what features are not so good. The committee should also look at commercial Forum software or buying Forum software from another car club and modifying it to fit our needs. My code writing experience was mostly in machine language and that was obsolete before some of your were born.
Tom
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MG |
02-23-2019 @ 1:02 PM
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This forum is so sterile, so bland, so boring, I suspect that most people who visit here do so only when there is a lull in posts on the FordBarn.com forum (which is seldom). FordBarn.com is my first choice to get advice or to search for answers about our Flathead cars and trucks - this, given its many user-friendly attributes. The FordBarn forum seems to draw the expertise of many more extremely knowledgeable people than does this forum. The EFV8.org forum just doesn't seem to have the gusto or the enthusiasm which is found in abundance on the FordBarn.com forum. Given the excellence of its V8 Times magazine, there is absolutely no reason for the EFV8 Club to have such a mediocre website/forum. Too bad Jerry Windle isn't a software engineer.... SNORE......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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JayChicago |
02-26-2019 @ 11:35 PM
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Wow. Pretty snarky post there, MG. If you think it so boring here, why do you keep coming back? I Have the directly opposite opinion as you. I find Ford Barn to be more like typical social media, with a flood of postings by everyone wanting to put in their two-cents. Maybe one out five of the posters has good analytical skills and gives a helpful answer. The rest are just taking guesses based on something remotely similar that happened with their car one day in the past. We have some of that here too, but I think much less than Ford Barn. To each his own. I think the V8 Club forum is much superior. There is less activity here, but also less chit-chat and chatter. I don't find that boring, I find that refreshing.
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MG |
02-27-2019 @ 10:24 AM
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JayChicago - I come back here just to read your postings....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ?
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CharlieStephens |
02-27-2019 @ 11:11 AM
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If you are going to keep some history, keep it all. No major complaints on the site and the minor ones should be fixable. Building a new site from scratch should be expensive, aren't there any "canned" sites available? Charlie Stephens
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efv8CofAAdmin |
02-27-2019 @ 9:11 PM
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I want to thank everyone for their responses. Tomorrow I will be meeting face to face with the web hosting company. From the National Board Meeting, I have been given the go ahead to research creating a new V-8 Forum format. I have to agree that the history on this site is important, while it may not be the easiest to use. I also have to agree with JayChicago's assessment. In the mean time, the first goals will be to solve the double postings (thanks to triford8 for his insight), and also the lack of multiple Forum picture postings. I will keep you informed.
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trjford8 |
02-28-2019 @ 8:20 AM
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Bruce, thank you very much. We are all trying to make the site better. I consider myself a novice user, so my comments come from that perspective. We all hope your meeting goes well and thanks for bringing the issues to the national Board.
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TomO |
03-01-2019 @ 8:49 AM
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Bruce, I would like to add my thanks to Tom's. You have done a good job of keeping this site free from scammers and keeping the users friendly and civil with each other. Making the Forum easier to use and more user friendly will help the people who come here looking for advice to get what they need and keep their cars fun to use. I hope that you will be able to come up with a good solution to the multiple posts, the limit on one photo per post and make the search more user friendly. The search function on this site returns fewer irrelevant topic than the Ford Barn search, but you should be able to scroll through the results by clicking on next or go back to the index page by clicking on a "back to search results" tab or box. Thank you for your efforts in getting a better Forum.
Tom
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efv8CofAAdmin |
03-01-2019 @ 9:17 PM
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Thanks for the kind words. I really do enjoy serving as web administrator. I appreciate everyone's comments, and those comments about what needs to be corrected and changed were discussed when I met with the web hosting company. Because of the comments, the web hosting company has a full list of things to address. I will keep you informed. Thanks again for your support.
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