Ok - Feedback on the New "Upgraded" Site.

          Before I begin, there has been a lot of grief taken and given for Members voicing their "Opinions" about the Site and this needs to stop. We all have our opinions and we are all entitled to the right to voice those opinions. That freedom of speach is one of the things that made the NSMC Site what it  was and is.

          I am going to give my "Honest" Oprinion of the site and will take whatever complaints and crap I am given for doing so.

      The Site was Changed for reasons that benefit the Club and their ability to run and host their own site giving more control over content and structure. 

               I feel from a Business standpoint the change was a beneficial one for the Club. The change allowed the restructure, and ability to add more features to draw new Members and give current Members  more out of the site. Some people like it some do not. You can never please everyone. But as a Business transaction the change will bring more income and lessen expendatures for site maintenance.

                  There are issues that need to be resolved, and they have been stated numerous times and we have been patiently awaiting the corrections and release of upgrades to the software that will hopefully create a simpler to use site. I am sure the Club is doing everything it can to remedy the problems, and return some of the features we were used to and are presently missing. I hope it happens.

           I do however have a msjor concern.

              The biggest problem with the present site is that when the change occurred one Major " Fubar" occurred that I hope can be fixed.

                  The "Heart" of the site that we had that gave this site a "Life" and a "Family" feel has been lost and I have not seen much hope for it's return. The Posting has almost come to a"Comatose" Statelinge and the "Friendly down home feeel has been replaced with a Business like feel-- Making a Post has become more like a bank transaction than a Friendly phone call.  I used to Enjoy viewing, posting and just chatting- now I just stop in to see if any "Life" has returned to my once pleasant "Home".

          I will pray for the return of that "Aura" that made visiting the Site like going out for a Friday night with the Boys, or just chewing the Bull in the Garage while working on a ride.

          Well that about sums up my  "Feedback" on the site, If I offended anyone OH well they asked for feedback and that's mine.

         Please return the "Life" to our site.

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  I do Love this Club and all the Friends I have made. I consider all of you Family and have nothing against you guys. We have had our disagreements and some Crap has happened that has been swept under the rug for a new start. I am just saying this Site- which is a MAJOR part of our Club needs to be taken off of Life Suppport and get it's heart jump-started before it falls in with the masses of other car Sites that are nothing but Technical Gumbo. We had something great going and that has fallen by the wayside and that sincerely saddens me. We have lost a few of our Regularas .-how many more do we have to lose?? This was the Best Site I eve Saw and we made it great- lets get together and conquer the technical crap ourselves and make this site The Family Being we knew. It's up to us -as Giv so eloquently has stated the Club Honcho's are working on the Tech stuff but nothing they do will revive this site- We made the first one lets make this one.

      AMEN BROTHER, COUDNT HAVE  SAID IT BETTER MY SELF.

 Cuda, I think you took me all wrong.

               I am not complaining and did not say anything that the Club is will do can fix this. Not all of us will ever agree on this site. Change happens- yes, but not all of it is good- Remember "NEW COKE" or "COKE II" ? The change has happened and I reallize there is nothing that can change that.

                                                BUT

    My Point was  WE need to get together and revive this site before it's too Late. We have people complaining about "Off Topic" Psts and such, but we always did that. In my opinion-right now any post made is just breathing life back into our Baby.  ONLY WE can revive this Site and I know MOST of us are Upset and Aggrivated, but we need to cope with the Loss of Our Old Site and Build a Bigger and Better one.

           If you  LOST a ride you would mourn it's loss, but in time build a new Better one.

           Let's get off our Asses and do something- the Club can't do anything we MUST.

      That was my Point.

I'm with you guys all the way. Now that the old site is officially gone, we have no choice but to try our best to get the feel of the old site transferred to this one. Once everyone gets more comfortable here, the car talk will return. I'm sure when "car weather" spreads to more of the country that will help a lot also. Hard to get into talking cars when it's cold, wet, windy and generally crappy out. Anyways, I would like to thank the admin or whoever takes care of these things, for fixing the page numbers so you can see them at the top of the screen. Now, about those darn smilies.............................................. :)

NSMC member since 02/12/05, LIFE MEMBER last couple years Had 708 posts on the old site. Street Machine: 1979 Dodge Aspen 440/auto. Owned since 1987. (Avitar is not my Aspen) Rib Mountain-suburb of Wausau WI

Thanks to whoever is responsible for repairing the Page Number error.

          we can now cross that one of our list.

            Progress I can see. Keep up the good work on the rest of our issues and we will slowly get happier.

I hate to break the news to you guys but I mostly use Firefox myself and I saw it get fixed yesterday afternoon when I logged on. Take a look at the attached screenshot I just took. PS - Why, I fart right here Camaro69.

Wes

Hey Hey Ho Ho it works. Now that I cycled the old cache I can see it on both IE and Mozzilla.

Thanks guys.

 Now about the fix for jumping back to the top of the first page after each post.......

How about a delete button  in the edit post . Im old and can't remember if I hit the post it now button once or twice. It will post the same dam thing twice if you hit it more than once.

I don't call it jitters, I call it C R S. Can't Remember $hit.

Just wondering now that we are coming up on 2 months here. Are the software upgrades and our concerns any closer to being taken care of???

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Hi Wheelman. Hmm, I thought we were coming up on 5 weeks or so since the new site went live but I could be wrong.

I haven't heard back about the software upgrade since I've been back. As for the concerns you've had being addressed, I remember you being concerned with having a painfully slow website - fixed, losing chat - still there, navigation hassles with black text on a black background in the forums - fixed. As for smilies - nope, an easy click and paste way to add pictures to posts - nope. I guess you're up on what you can do and can't do right now as much as anybody.

Things are closer to being resolved, not as fast as we'd like but you haven't been forgotten about.

No Sweat buddy, you didn't come off wrong!

Looks like we knocked some of the easy ones off our to do list and have a bunch more to go. :0)

"On line Member list, a Registered user Directory, a PM notification on the Forums page( alert of some kind) Chat on thr Drop down menu under community, etc... Never heard an answer on that one and was just curious if they were going to be able to be put into affect."

They're stalling on the drop down chat menu item because it will be integrated into the new system from the forums. The current PM system isn't ideal. I like having an email sent right away but can't easily respond so I feel your pain on that one... Pretty much everything you mentioned are basic functionality with the new software which is overdue for an upgrade.

Thanks for your patience, those are honest questions that you've had for a while so feel free to post them for sure. I'll find out what the latest info is because I have an internet meeting today.

Hey Wheelman,

Our Admin tech guru just showed me screenshots of the updated forum software currently running on a test server and a different in house site. They've got most of the bugs worked out and will start updating our forums in the order the sites were updated - which means we're almost last. :0)

Some good news: Smilies look pretty good, PM'ing is WAY better than the current system, inline pictures look good as well and there's some other thigns like a little marker that pops up in the lists of discussion threads telling you someone's posted since the last time you opened it.

It might be a slow boat to China but it's a comin'

Thanks for your patience.

Wes

Nice picture! Carr? Hmm, I hope the new system has spell check too. ;0)

hello to all my friends this is the first time i have been on in a long time and i like how its coming an i still cant get my pic back up but any ways im glad to be back ( had to replace powersuply in computer) an cant wate till we have chat back. well tc everyone an have a good day