Oh dear...

jmilli2

I pop back once or twice a week but I've stopped comping since the update.  I'm surprised they are not sorting this out quicker surely all the traffic and posts the comps board generates are good for the site? More members more posts more revenue. Anyway... I don't post much but just wanted to say I'm in the same boat. Hate the new site.... all I want is ticks crosses ,hovering back and a workable search. I'll keep checking occasionally but I don't hold out much hope to be honest. I think it will be 'looked at' for another month or so and then suddenly it will be unfortunately not possible to implement in the new forums.

strawberri_shortcake

LizB62 said:

I agree, it almost feels like this was a stealth way to get rid of the Comps board as we're probably pretty demanding. I've been comping here on and off since 2006 and it's such a shame...

This...............

thingamaBob

Makeandsave said:

I will give this forum a few more months, Things need to change quickly. I too am fed up of having to open each topic up. I wish we could tick and cross and hoover over the title.

I hadn't noticed that the titles were dusty. Is that another problem?

robin_725

I tend to agree with lizB62  all the new changes have been designed  as un user friendly, the old system was walking fine , if it ant broke leave alone .  would have liked to put some questions to the suites who designed and approved this.

cagsd

I just don't understand why it is taking so long to restore the functionality we had before.  The "tech team" knew how to implement such things as tick/cross from main list, hover, expire, sort etc etc before the change, as we had those things! It's not like we are asking them to invent them from scratch! I can't see how it's taken four weeks and counting to get them back.
I have been playing catch up since the day of the changeover and had fallen further and further behind due to the slow nature of how they've changed things.  Yesterday I had a few hours to myself so I thought I'd get back up to date.  I am pretty selective about what I enter but I do like to check everything. Bear in mind that on the old forum, on a page of 20 comps, if I hovered and red-x'ed them all, it would take one minute.  Even if I hovered and then chose to open and enter say 2 comps, that might take 3 minutes.  Yesterday it was taking an average of 7-8 minutes to open everything, red x it, and then close it again.  That's not including the time it might take to enter anything.  To get through 56 pages of comps took me all day and into the evening too. Plus as has been mentioned above the risk of RSI from moving mouse about so much.  
I really dislike the design but I could come to live with that if we could have the basics back, ie. hovering and tick/crossing from main list.

dobbiesloan

Funny none of the jobs they are offering does not include any computer wizards. I think they should sack the ones they have now and hire people that can fix this mess. 

thingamaBob

cagsd said:

I just don't understand why it is taking so long to restore the functionality we had before.  The "tech team" knew how to implement such things as tick/cross from main list, hover, expire, sort etc etc before the change, as we had those things! It's not like we are asking them to invent them from scratch! I can't see how it's taken four weeks and counting to get them back.

But, this isn't just a revamp of the old forum. This is a totally new forum from a completely different supplier using totally different software. There are some things that the old software did that will not be possible in the new one. To recreate the things we want means creating new ways of achieving the same result in different software and without disrupting other things that it needs to fit in with. It's nowhere near as simple as some of the "experts" complaining on here seem to think.

mjm3346

thingamaBob said:

. There are some things that the old software did that will not be possible in the new one. To recreate the things we want means creating new ways of achieving the same result in different software and without disrupting other things that it needs to fit in with. It's nowhere near as simple as some of the "experts" complaining on here seem to think.

That would be the case if the forum was moved over a weekend and MSE had no idea it was going to happen - but instead both  the move and the timing of it was their choice and they had months to sort it out before hand so there should only be small "snagging" bits to be done if anything, not every single useful feature from this section.

thingamaBob

mjm3346 said:

thingamaBob said:

. There are some things that the old software did that will not be possible in the new one. To recreate the things we want means creating new ways of achieving the same result in different software and without disrupting other things that it needs to fit in with. It's nowhere near as simple as some of the "experts" complaining on here seem to think.

That would be the case if the forum was moved over a weekend and MSE had no idea it was going to happen - but instead both  the move and the timing of it was their choice and they had months to sort it out before hand so there should only be small "snagging" bits to be done if anything, not every single useful feature from this section.

I wasn't commenting on the way the move was handled but on the apparent assumption that just because things had been done in the old forum, they should already know how to do them in the new one.

mjm3346

thingamaBob said:

mjm3346 said:

thingamaBob said:

. There are some things that the old software did that will not be possible in the new one. To recreate the things we want means creating new ways of achieving the same result in different software and without disrupting other things that it needs to fit in with. It's nowhere near as simple as some of the "experts" complaining on here seem to think.

That would be the case if the forum was moved over a weekend and MSE had no idea it was going to happen - but instead both  the move and the timing of it was their choice and they had months to sort it out before hand so there should only be small "snagging" bits to be done if anything, not every single useful feature from this section.

I wasn't commenting on the way the move was handled but on the apparent assumption that just because things had been done in the old forum, they should already know how to do them in the new one.

They wouldn't necessarily know immediately how to do things on the new forum but as they had months to prepare before going live it would reasonable to assume things would sorted then and not after the forum went live.