Finally the Forums are back

Is it just me or does there seem to be less forum activity than previously (with the old forums)? I know they go through periods, or cycles...on again, off again increase and decreased activity. Maybe it’s just a learning curve and users just need to get used to the new. ???

Dan 

No, I made that observation in another thread.  Which I think exemplifies part of the problem.  There just isn't enough traffic to justify all the different forums (IMHO).  I appreciate what they are trying to do, but the transition isn't going to be fun.  I realyl dislike this layout.  Much prefer chronological.

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Allen Stark Thanks for the suggestion on letting non-members have limited access. Its something we're considering for the future. The time and resources to create that functionality aren't realistic in the near term but over the next year or so we should have that type of capability available and will be discussing further. 

Elaine Krugman - The former forums were rapidly becoming unmanageable and obsolete. To keep USMS discussion alive online, moving to a new software was necessary. The alternative would have ultimately been shutting down the old forums.  While it would have been nice to bring over 'everything' it simply wasn't possible in most cases. We understand learning a new platform takes some time and I hope you'll continue to explore all that the new community has to offer. We'll be continuing to make updates and fine tune functionality as we learn about user preferences and challenges, something that we also couldn't do in the old platform. 

I really appreciate that you are there responding to our concerns. Thank you

I'm not going anywhere!  Like Allen, I, too, appreciate everything you all are doing with the forums and responding to our concerns. 

I understand the former forums had to be replaced, and I appreciate your efforts!

Hopefully, the bugs will get worked out, such as I explained in my post to Tim Waud and Allen Stark.  It was frustrating to write a post, insert a photo, and then have it be rejected with an error message.  Have you tested that function?  It doesn't seem to like photos, although it will take my .gif Smilies! 

67King, Allen Stark, Elaine Krugman, ForceDJ each parent group has its own set of chronological forum threads in it (i.e. non-swimming has a list right under its group titles with all the threads). If you are looking for a chronological forum thread for the entire Community that you have access to, I have added that to the home page under all the parent groups. 

Note that part of the reason for the structure is that you can combine groups and threads later on if you want but you can't separate them if you want to provide more structure in the future. 

I haven't seen issue inserting documents or phots but we'll take note and see if it is  an issue for others. 

I've inserted a couple others via copy/paste before and never had issues.

The only problem I had was with posting a link, it market it as harassment or spam at first.

See that orange box in the upper right corner of my screen print?  That's the error message I get when I try to insert a .jpg.  I just tried to post a photo again, and it wouldn't take it.  

If I'm browsing a topic, and I see someone has responded, I can't open it up and go to the bottom.  I have to look through the entire thing to find where the new post is.  So on your post, 9 hours old as of when I type this, there are 9 posts below it that were posted well before yours.  I just find that view awkward to navigate.  That's what I mean by chronological, posts within a thread, not threads within a forum.

If I'm browsing a topic, and I see someone has responded, I can't open it up and go to the bottom.  I have to look through the entire thing to find where the new post is.  So on your post, 9 hours old as of when I type this, there are 9 posts below it that were posted well before yours.  I just find that view awkward to navigate.  That's what I mean by chronological, posts within a thread, not threads within a forum.