I can see some benefits by being able to draw posts from multiple threads into a single “article” - but wonder how useful it will be. While it may help with “hijacked” threads I’m not sure how wellit will be received. Will wait and see. I understand your desire to post examples of how the forum can be used, and some may go that way, but there is still a lot to be said about a “threaded” topic that is easy to find and get to - and where only sailing topics are visible upon sign in. BTW - all sign in info from the header has shifted left just next to the site logo and is shaded down. Was hard to read/notice Earl had left a message as the options were all grayed out.
Let’s see how it works, and comments received. A search for rcsailing.net brings one to the “how to use” article post, and I think many new visitors may think they had a redirect. When looking for rc sailing, and a quick look at the left side column reveals cities or countries - just a hunch many will leave.
Hope you can track sign ons or visits and how far/deep they go into the site.
ADDED: Did we get the problems associated with registering/sign in/posting resolved?
How did all the news stuff get in there? Sailing-related (WOC, VOR, AC challence, etc.) stories or news would be more appropriate than recipes or politics, unless Obama wants to fund r/c sailing lakes in every city?
Even the recent ‘old’ form was fine, but I would always like to know who started the topic…
BTW, the links at the top, next to the banner are the same color at the background, so I couldn’t read them. Please make all text more contrasting/ easily readable.
While the forum page may be the same, clicking on new posts is definitely much different. I come to the forum for RC sailing items only. The rest gets in the way of finding the items I wish to read.
And now I need to click on more things to get where I want.
