JTF.ORG Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ape on June 30, 2008, 10:36:06 PM
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It looks pretty much the same? Am I wrong? How is it different?
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It looks pretty much the same? Am I wrong? How is it different?
A couple of the sections were taken off
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I think a lot of sections were collapsed into other sections to make it more tidy.
To Chaim or any administrator: Was any content deleted altogether, or was it all just moved around?
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Please trust Chaim as he reorganizes. There is a lot of work that needs to be done.
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Chaim said in Ask JTF that he merged forums, so I would assume that the posts are still there, otherwise we would have seen a pretty significant drop in post-counts from everyone.
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The forum went on a diet and now it has a slimmer waistline.
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less child boards more sections merged to make it look more organized
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Healthy Living was moved in General Discussion! :) :) :)
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I don't think Chaim deleted any posts.
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Damn, and I spent a lot of time moving stuff to those smaller forums. Well, this is going to take a lot of getting used to.
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I think a lot of sections were collapsed into other sections to make it more tidy.
To Chaim or any administrator: Was any content deleted altogether, or was it all just moved around?
We just moved some of the messages to their parent topic or the general section.
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Damn, and I spent a lot of time moving stuff to those smaller forums. Well, this is going to take a lot of getting used to.
Its always good to try something new but I have to say I liked our old layout. We might have needed to par down a few sections but everything had a place and it was easy to find stuff that was posted even from a while back. Now and then I would go to the the page that shows where people who are on the forum are browsing and I would see guests looking at old and new posts in all the different sections. I think our old format with all its subsections made the place look like it was a well established presence on the web. We had a history. It was easy to follow a thread back to its starting point and all the related issues were in that section. Visitors could see we have had members who have been around for some time and by reading back they were able to get a feel for our movement and its people. I think we lost some of that in this new format. For people who did not what to bother with that we had the general section that features current issues and this is the first thing most new people go to anyway. I guess in a few weeks the new format will overshadow the prior one and we may end up liking it better. Only time will tell.
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Damn, and I spent a lot of time moving stuff to those smaller forums. Well, this is going to take a lot of getting used to.
Its always good to try something new but I have to say I liked our old layout. We might have needed to par down a few sections but everything had a place and it was easy to find stuff that was posted even from a while back. Now and then I would go to the the page that shows where people who are on the forum are browsing and I would see guests looking at old and new posts in all the different sections. I think our old format with all its subsections made the place look like it was a well established presence on the web. We had a history. It was easy to follow a thread back to its starting point and all the related issues were in that section. Visitors could see we have had members who have been around for some time and by reading back they were able to get a feel for our movement and its people. I think we lost some of that in this new format. For people who did not what to bother with that we had the general section that features current issues and this is the first thing most new people go to anyway. I guess in a few weeks the new format will overshadow the prior one and we may end up liking it better. Only time will tell.
I agree with CJD
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Its always good to try something new but I have to say I liked our old layout. We might have needed to par down a few sections but everything had a place and it was easy to find stuff that was posted even from a while back. Now and then I would go to the the page that shows where people who are on the forum are browsing and I would see guests looking at old and new posts in all the different sections. I think our old format with all its subsections made the place look like it was a well established presence on the web. We had a history. It was easy to follow a thread back to its starting point and all the related issues were in that section. Visitors could see we have had members who have been around for some time and by reading back they were able to get a feel for our movement and its people. I think we lost some of that in this new format. For people who did not what to bother with that we had the general section that features current issues and this is the first thing most new people go to anyway. I guess in a few weeks the new format will overshadow the prior one and we may end up liking it better. Only time will tell.
I can honestly understand. Any change is going to have difficulty. We get used to something and it's natural for people to have difficulty with change sometimes. This format has been more effective in the Hebrew forum so we try to do the things we can to increase membership.
For people who have been here for a long time and post often, it really wasn't that much of an issue. But for new people, it was very confusing and new members weren't sure where to post or wound up just posting everything into the general section defeating the purpose. We want the site to look professional so we can attract many new members. Plus, maintaining it was very difficult in numerous ways.
I feel a tremendous amount of relief the board was cleaned up and simplified some... and there are still a ton of easily searchable topics.
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Yes, the search function is incredibly useful and really enables a person to go through the archives and find unique topics/subjects irregardless of how the forum may be divided up into subsections etc. I Love the search function. It is invaluable.
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Thanks to everyone who spent the time and effort in putting together with the new Forum format. I certainly like the new format and it's potential for the overall cause. And thanks to Yacov for all his efforts with the Forum.
A couple question regarding the new Forum format:
Where are the audio and video archives now located? Including the thread that was a sticky in the Kahanist Section, tha the http://www.jtfarchive.org/index.pl link is located in?
Also, where was the info moved regarding the campaign for Chaim to be able to go to Israel?