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Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

darioazul — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:51:44 GMT

Very nice job on the new site. By the way, this is my first post since the upgrade.

Likes: Beoworld is back

Dislikes: Minor things, the font of the topic name could be bigger;

decrease the font of the rest of the information;

when clicking on forums skip that page that comes up and take me straight to the different forum titles, e.g., General, North America and so on;

the color fond scheme needs rethinking

The site design should follow the principle of less is more. Do not crowd the main headings, keep it simple and clean, like a B&O product (most of the time).

Darioazul

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Peter — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:42:03 GMT

Have not tried ! But will!

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

jk1002 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:16:07 GMT

I am getting used to the layout but somehow I can not reply from my blackberry anymore. That was quite entertaining while waiting for planes, trains or meetings to begin. Reading still works perfectly fine. I might be the only one who likes doing that though .....l

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Kevin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:50:58 GMT

I cleared some earlier.

One did have loads of words in that the system picked up someone trying things out?

Could I ask that if this does happen please don't retrying to beat the system they just fill up the box so to speak.

They do get posted but at the original time of submission so if a thread has moved on it can look like it never was posted.

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Peter — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:41:13 GMT

Just checked and there was only one to moderate and it wasn't a post from you. One from Graham and I have no idea why as there seemed nothing wrong with it!

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Peter — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:38:26 GMT

Very few are checked! There is an automatic program that decides some need moderating - about 4 or 5 a day. These will be posts with lots of links in, dodgy words or the same word repeated more than three or four times. I am sorry if it takes some time for them to be approved, but I keep forgetting and there isn't a warning sign to tell me that there are some waiting! Another request for improvement from me!

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Dafinity — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:28:03 GMT

I dont think the checking of some posts before they are classed as suitable for posting is working particularly well.

Although I appreciate checking is required and I am sure the Moderators are very busy with this and other tasks, I think the delay is to long.

I added a post to catch the weekend traffic on Friday and it still hasn't appeared!

Also, although I think the web site is good for what it is, I do wish that terms like 'amazing, fanstastic' had not been banded about before launch as I honestly think it is fairly run of the mill, albeit on a huge scale with some nice features it certainly isn't 'wow' inspiring.

I remember visiting Tolga's website and thinking 'cool', but I guess that is the trade off between something that needs to be very functional and something that can afford to be more glamorous but possibly time consuming to navigate through, so i do appreciate the time and effort,

Russ

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Peter — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:45:24 GMT

We will discuss all your thoughts and see what we can change. Clearly it will be after the Struer trip now but please do keep posting as we are very aware that every forum has shortcomings and anything we can do to make things better will be done.

Of the ones posted so far, I certainly agree that:

1 More threads per page. - should be possible.

2. Notification of PMs - couldn't agree more! Don't know but I hope so!

3. Smilies! Argh!

4. Button at bottom of thread to go back to forum

5 Oldest unread post in a thread

6 Safari doesn't work - actually using Firefox much more and it is better!

7 We need a HOME button to get to the main site

There are more and we will look at every suggestion seriously.

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

simon32ol — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:56:59 GMT

I thought I would throw some ideas into the pot about the new forum. I was thinking the other day about the for sale and wanted sections. Is is a good or bad thing to limit this section to gold and silver members? On the one hand you are targeting only the people who share your ideas about hi fi, but on the other you are limiting your market. With the restrictions, you can get B&O items at a fairer price (but I do notice that alot of people ask for 'make me an offer') but buy opening up the market you are able to spot a bragain.

I remember a thead on the 'old' site about members cross bidding on ebay, but if two people both want the same item how can we avoid this?

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

benkap — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:37:59 GMT

I really miss a notification on login if I have a PM. Also, I've tried to change my setup so I get email notifications with no luck.

The new forum looks very good but I find myself spending a lot less time on it than the old because it is simply too slow and I get tired of browsing it.

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Stars — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:41:10 GMT

eduard:

Henry:
One last question. Will Beoworld in Italian come back too?

I do not think that the Italian section on Beoworld will come back, it was very quiet on that part of the forum. That was one of the reason to stop this section.

Okay. Thanks for the update though.

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

Peter — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:57:33 GMT

At a guess those are threads in the moderators forum! We only realised about a week ago that they showed up on the home page! Had to title the threads carefully!

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

jonnyb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:48:09 GMT

I dislike the missing links to posts on the homepage which, when clicked, come up with a 'forum does not exist' message. What's going on there?

Re: What do you like/ dislike about the new forum?

jro — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:48:54 GMT

Can we enable the embed codes so we can post videos from youtube or similar sites?