Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Attention Joe...Please consider

Joe checkout ..www.taxidermy.net/forums
Sometimes I think this forum is to complicated..would you please adopt the same format has the web site I indicated
In my opinion the taxidermy forum has got to be the best format I've seen in a websiwhy do you want a loggin for Joe your watching the site anyway...and if people leave a email address consider that a log-in:(

What exactly do you like about the taxidermy forum? What do you find hard to use about this format?

(moving to suggestions and feedback forum).

A forum for taxidermy issues???!!!

To each their own, I guess, but that forum looks much more complicated than this one. I like being able to see right there who started the thread, the last poster, and number of views/replies. In my opinion this is the best and most easy to use forum out there.:)

i belong to alot of forums for a lot of different for a lot of different subjects, this one works as well as any ive seen. i think your doin a great job.
thanks Joe

Personally I like the layout of this site as it is. I don't want to see it changed in anyway.

Originally posted by Chris L
Personally I like the layout of this site as it is. I don't want to see it changed in anyway. :) YES Bike Forums is great!!!

What I liked about the taxidermy forum is you can scroll threw every posting without changing categories...Its all taxidermy talk..just like this forum is all bicycle talk anyway...why not just lump everything together?

What I do not like about this site is too many threads...just lump it all together...thats what I think

Chip, add this link to your bookmarks: http://www.bikeforums.net/search.php?s=&action=getdaily

That will bring up all topics in the last 24hrs, or you can goto http://www.bikeforums.net/search.php?s=&action=getnew to get all new to you topics. (This button is also located in the navagation, below the logo).

Originally posted by chip
What I do not like about this site is too many threads...just lump it all together...thats what I think

So just have one thread with 220,000+ posts? :confused:

Thanks Joe I did a bookmark..I'll make the best of everything

This forums follows a standard layout of 99% of the forums on the web and is definately the most popular style of standard. to change it would just be wrong :(

I generally like it the way it is. There are a few cosmetic improvements I'd like to see, like lighter backgrounds everywhere, and especially in this box, but overall that's very minor.

Now, one major improvement I would like is the use of real names instead of nicknames. I know that people can hide behind a name (especially if one's name is John Smith), but it adds a more personal touch.

Regards,

Originally posted by mgagnonlv
Now, one major improvement I would like is the use of real names instead of nicknames. I know that people can hide behind a name (especially if one's name is John Smith), but it adds a more personal touch. .... and your name is really mgagnonlv?:D

If I was re-registering I would certainly go with my real name.

I don't want our forum to look like one about taxes

Accounting is so boring. :D

I like this site just how it is.

Don't change a thing, please.

Joe, I like it just the way it is now too, please dont change it.

I used to belong to a forum in the mountain bike site, then they switched the software without warning, everyone got mad and left. Change is bad. Let's keep the current format, I like it.

Originally posted by mgagnonlv
Now, one major improvement I would like is the use of real names instead of nicknames. I know that people can hide behind a name (especially if one's name is John Smith), but it adds a more personal touch.

Regards,

I would never want that. I like having aliases and handles :)

Originally posted by MediaCreations
.... and your name is really mgagnonlv?:D

If I was re-registering I would certainly go with my real name.

I would too. Future option for the forums, maybe?


So no, my name isn't "mgagnonlv", you have my real name, Michel Gagnon in the signature.

The problem with "log ins" is that one needs a unique name, and in most cases, the name must be one word, without spaces, etc. Looking at other user names like "Koffee Brown" or "Joe Gardner", I now can see that the Bikeforums software allows more possibilities for user names. I didn't know before registering, however.

As to why not Michel Gagnon? It's a very common name in Québec, probably equivalent to John Smith elsewhere in Canada and in U.S. Let's say that if one tries to register a Hotmail or Yahoo account with "MichelGagnon", one is typically offered something like "MichelGagnon22". My username therefore comes from MGagnon, and the last two letters are initials from my wife's name. Easy for me to remember.

Now you know.

Regards,

You can change your username. Just PM Joe. I changed mine. I like my username now....

Koffee

Shhh! ;)

BTW, There are some MAJOR changes coming to the forum soon, but the basic layout / functionality will be the same. :)

taxidermy??? Is this going to be a sub-forum on roadkill recipes?

Originally posted by Koffee Brown
You can change your username. Just PM Joe. I changed mine. I like my username now....

Koffee I know I could change my username but I don't want to forever end up as 'Rodney Olsen' (formerly known as MediaCreations) :D

So what was your original username?

My original name was my real name.

So I changed it.

Koffee (the poster formerly known as X) ;)

Originally posted by 1oldRoadie
taxidermy??? Is this going to be a sub-forum on roadkill recipes?

Luv it!:lol:

I like the way you've being doing things, Joe, gradual changes with some input from the users.

Re: user names, I didn't realize when I joined that the name could be unique, and aerobat was my email address at that time, so that's what I used. I'm not sure if I would have used something different or not, had I known.

I tried changing my user name for a while last year. Somehow being "Fatal Justice" wasn't quite the same, although it might have been the temporary change of avatar at the time (does anyone remember that stupid looking "mouth of the south" pic?). I think I'll stay as Chris L for the time being.

Here's another vote in favor of the current format. It's hands down the very best I've seen. :)

-Rob

If it aint broke why fix it !!

AMEN!

:D