I hate this new forum

Me, too; and I hope this all proves to be "much ado about nothing."

Only time will tell.

headrott wrote: »

gce, I must ask; why do you feel you want to leave the forum because of the "haters"?

No, yeah I understand nobody's hating any of the members here. I got started on this forum because of all the audio knowledge that you guys have. I've been to a lot of forums but this one is/used to be the best for that.

Hopefully in time and with all the "hating" this will get fixed and get back to what it used to be...the very best audio forum on the net!

Gone, gone all gone.

come on Stan be real. You know after a few days of that I Google'd and presto new Polk site. Just log in and get a look sometimes there is NO ONE HERE and in prime time like 5 members. Heck this morning I got on and was the only one on the site.
Traffic is down for good reason....And its not that Patrick page.

You know, guys, I think we should quit whining about the new site and just get on with our discussions -- get on with what was substantive about this Forum and forget about the "cosmetic" issues.

That does not mean that we shouldn't continue to press Polk to restore substantive aspects of the old format that have simply been lost or omitted.

But keeping calm and carrying on will win the war, just as Sir Winston Churchill said it would in WWII.

I'm convinced that polite and consistent persistence will prevail. It may take time, but it will prevail.

I'm convinced that polite and consistent persistence will prevail. It may take time, but it will prevail.

Sorry, it's not gonna happen. We're stuck with this format.

There were links to vintage speaker information on the main Polk Audio site. They are no longer there.

Agree, it's time to move on.

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

How about we decide to no longer complain about what has changed and get on with making the forum a better experience?

I agree that we should get back to using it, and I am trying. But there are some serious usability issues with the site.

The layout of each thread is such to make it difficult to read. The plethora of icons and massive signatures makes reading each thread difficult. I turned off signatures entirely but would have rather left it on. Other forums can have icons and signatures but makes differentiating each post easier. Audiokarma's forum comes to mind on how you can have huge icons and signatures but still reads quite easily. It is better reading on a tablets and smartphones, but it wasn't terrible previously.

For the previous layout the information seemed to "pop" right out at you. You could quickly see who posted, when they posted, etc. That information is there but just lumped together that it makes it hard to quickly scan. Your title of "Moderator" is more difficult to catch quickly than it used to be. Not a big deal for people who know the role you play here, but most people don't. The icons do not help to quickly identify people. Part of the problem is the default icons for people should have been NO icon, not just randomly giving people one. Again, other forums simply do this better. It's not a matter of poor eye sight as some people are providing as an excuse. It's simple layout of the information that requires hunting for the information within a thread, instead of being able to quickly scan a thread.

Then not being able to search the forum using Google is bad. Links are broken. You have effectively cut out a great means of directing traffic to this site.

There's others that people have brought up. But I will commit to stop complaining from now on. I do appreciate and thank you for your work on this forum and Polk's commitment to it.

maximillian wrote: »

Then not being able to search the forum using Google is bad. Links are broken. You have effectively cut out a great means of directing traffic to this site.

That has got to be one of the biggest mistakes made in my short time here. All my links I saved that had massive info I could come back to time and time again to refresh my memory. Now they are all just taking up space on my computer that goes nowhere.
I belong to Simply Discus forum that uses vBulletin and they have all the good stuff we had for years until that last update.

I would like to know who else uses this vanilla stuff as I'd like to see how much betters that one would be.

Ken you have never answered my question in my PM or in a thread.

How do we delete our PM's? I do not need everyone I have had from the beginning of my time here.

Can we delete PM's and if so how as I have not been able to figure that one out.

Ken I have 99% of every PM i ever sent or received even the ones I deleted loong ago. That my friend is ludicrous because none of the PM's I saved made it to the new forum.

I understand pitdogg2, I have quite a list myself. As soon as I have an answer, I'll post it.
I understand PSOVLSK, I still miss the home my parents moved from when I was in the service. Probably if I went back there I'd wonder what I was missing so badly. Face it, we're sentimental about things from the past that we remember as being important.

How hard is it to edit the stylesheets and get a widescreen option (not very...even my own basic web page layout knowledge knows this)...

It's like having a 10 acre yard and only using 1 acre of it...

Once I turned off signatures, the look of each page was improved, but I find that to be a poor method of handling the feature. Signatures sprawling down a page, taking up lots of real estate is poor design. I also find the popup like/disagree buttons to be mildly annoying. Maybe its just me, but I think they should be stationary like the Flag/Quote options are.

I like bells and whistles to be available, but not intrusive.

BTW, I am consistent in this, as I dislike the popup preview that AudioKarma has turned on in vBulletin. I am forced to scroll with my mouse hovering in the right columns to disable this feature or it becomes too intrusive for me.