Forum Changes

Are you guys going to remove some of the older program links.

Some of the listed programs you guys got are completely out of date and would most likely break some thing then fix it.

{MG} site really did need a over hull.

 

Thanks for the heads-up, LauraR!

 

I don't see Drivers listed anywhere. Was that removed?

 

What an incredibly welcome change! Not that there was necessarily anything wrong with the forums here, but another site I frequent has elephantitis of the forum...they add such narrowly specialized forums that no one posts in them more than twice a year, and there are something like 85 of them. I love streamlined forums for trying to find stuff!

 

I too like the new format but the happy birthday bar is missing

@MA Speaking of which..... happy late birthday to MA (20th August):drink:drink:drink:guitar:guitar:dancer:dancer:celebrate:celebrate

I grabbed some Jim Beam Black
http://[URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/vaccaz/media/Jim_Beam_Black.jpg.html][IMG]http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/vaccaz/Jim_Beam_Black.jpg[/URL][/IMG]


Try this mmmmmm
http://[URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/deava_01/media/JimBeamBaby.jpg.html][IMG]http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m265/deava_01/JimBeamBaby.jpg[/URL][/IMG]


While looking saw this cool Jim Beam decanter..... fit for a Major LOL
http://img1.iwascoding.com/4/2013/07/11/75/79691DD5F56945FCB005E01417E01553.jpg

Hope you had a great birthday :drink

 

I like the change. Cleaner presentation and should help direct newer forum users to the proper threads . . . nicely done.

 

Yep, also "Phantom Approved", LoL
Good job, TIm & crew!.:major:major

 

Sensible clean-up

Nice job. One of the best help forums around just got better.:major

 

That is a yes from me :wave :cool
Thanks :cool

 

To take this back to the original topic of the thread, this is your site and your forum. You are allowed to make whatever changes you want to make, and as non-paying members we are allowed to go with said changes or to leave. I for one appreciate the opportunity to stick around... I know I have been less than active lately, but that doesn't mean I don't check in just to read now and then. I still consider myself a part of MGs, and support whatever you need to do to keep the site a success.

That said, please add birthdays back. They are fun, and if you really want a feeling of community here, you need them

 

Might want to change your title since there is no longer a game forum :-D.

 

I'm with Joffa and Mimsy . . . I wouldn't mind seeing the birthdays come back.

 

It's a tribute to my old home, the Games forum. Unless one of the moderators or admins wants to change my title, it stays.

 

Careful...discussing custom titles rarely goes the way you want it to

 

one minor thing: "desktop" should be plural. right now it's jarring to see "desktop and laptops". so much so that it sounds like desktop indicates the software meaning there.

 

Thanks to whoever brought the birthday bar back :-D :cool
It's just an excuse for some lighthearted fun
Good one :highfive
Cheers :drink

 

what, pray tell, is a "birthday bar"??

do i need an ID?!

 

gotcha.

btw, that profile shot is too "busy" for that picsize. i see a ninja...stabbing someone in flowing red silk robes? arab lady i suppose...possibly anime?

scene from aladdin?

now imma blow up page to confirm....

 

I would actually very much like to keep this one, becuase of all the happy memories, and all that.

Yay, birthdays are back! :-D

 

Good move in my opinion. I hate too many subforums.

 

Seems like this is about the third paring down of sub-forums in the last two or three years or so.

My experience is that sometimes it takes several attempts before you get something the way you want it and you're satisfied
with the result. Maybe this time they hit the mark. :cool

I hope people won't be discouraged from posting Programming questions since that forum is gone.
There are several members that watch that forum and are very knowledgeable. They always respond to appropriate questions and
are always helpful. Their knowledge and ability is very impressive, IMHO. It would be a shame to lose that.

I was wondering if MA and CP would consider adding some typical keywords to be used as tags in the threads to be used with forum search.
They could be made available with a drop down list with check boxes for selection. Users could still type in other tags.

I don't know if there is already something like this, but I'd like to see MA do a video tutorial about how to use the forum
search tool effectively.

(I hope this isn't too l-o-n-g) :-o

+1 for Mimsy to keep her title.

 

mjnc's comments triggered this thought: what happens with those folks who seemed to appear out of nowhere when someone asked a Q in an under used forum. I'd assumed they'd subscribed to that particular forum, so what happens to those subscribers, some of whom seemed very useful Members, now that those forums and, presumably, their subscriptions have gone?

 

I agree some are specific Questions like Programming and it was good to have them forums.Be cause it would not get lost in the software forums.

I think there should be one more forum section added for stuff like Games and programming All mixed into one.

 

Personally i have found that the site has evolved with new technology coming in and replacing some of the dinosaur apps.
The malware team are unbeatable (i remember Emma (Kestral) joining and being a total beginner but she has learned and developed into a top rate malware fighter)
Although i am not as active as i used to be (due to ill health) i am an avid MGs reader and when the PC comes to life in the morning it opens with MGs and it stays open all day with me popping in and out during the day.
MGs is without any doubt one of the best tech sites on the web and the mods do a great job in keeping it free from idiots who just want to disrupt what is a fantastic place of learning (you should get University status)

Great job Tim and Jim plus all the mods (not sure if it is Laura's team or Davids?)

 

do my eyes deceive me or have SIGNATURES finally been blocked?!

halleluiah! a bigger waste of screen space i cannot imagine.

plus it's confusing when someone says "here, try this app" only to be hijacked by 5 lines talking about some OTHER app....

 

Sorry, MA. Sorry you didn't like my wording of "paring down".
Just meant that other individual forums have been removed in the past because of little interest or activity.
I won't get the names right, but I remember something called Hearth and Home and another about cars, trucks, boats,
motorcycles, etc. and of course the Hot Button forum. Can't remember all of them.
The Overclocking forum also seemed very quiet.

I like it. Simple is good. Less confusing and less intimidating.
It Looks Good.

Thanks!

 

roflmao

Living dangerously...

 

@LauraR: well, i didn't myself turn off anything, but somehow with the forum changes the default must have changed. they're definitely turned off NOW.

hip hip hooray! wish i'd known i had that power 6 months ago!!

i will NEVER understand people's obsession with adding those. if I were to conclude every phone call i made with "by the way, friedrich nietzsche once said...", i would have very few people answering my calls before long.

and not even a RANDOM quote, but the SAME dang ONE!! when a person posts multiple times in a given thread (not uncommon in a good discussion), what makes ANYONE think we want to read the same lame4ss spam MORE THAN ONCE?!

"once" was bad enough, believe me.

/ENDRANT

:major

 

You do realize signatures are always the same because the software requires they be the same, yes? As for not knowing you could turn them off...always explore software! It's how you learn.

And signatures cannot contain spam. As Laura said, if you see one that does, report it and it will be taken care of.

 

You obviously don't know the concept of a 'Signature', is then. A Sig. is precisely that, some kind of thing that you want to be a personal trade-mark. You're not supposed to read it and memorize it every time you read a post. That sort of attitude is pathetic, i.m.o., sorry.rolleyes

You ask for a can of Coke, Not "A can of the Real Thing!" That must be read every time you buy a can.rolleyes

Don't like reading sigs.? Then turn then turn them off and don't, instead of complaining to everyone else.

You might wanna read up on it, too:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures

 

People use signatures for the same reason we spend a lot of time and effort on selecting an avatar. Because it's an easy and obvious way to express something important about ourselves, and about our personality, that we want people to know about us. Avatars and signatures are the clothing and hairstyles/make-up of online social interaction. In the world outside the internet we pay attention to how we look, because we know we will be judged by our appearance. In a forum like this one, the signature is an integral part of that appearance. It can be turned off, so it's not quite as vital as the avatar, but it's still important.

And to be perfectly honest, if you are at all fluent in the fine art of interacting with other human beings without ever meeting them in person, I don't need to explain this to you, because you already know why forum signatures matter. In fact, I could very easily argue that by being so adamantly against them, you are actually against getting to know the people who post here, and you're sending a strong message that you have no interest in doing so. But that would be kind of bitchy of me, now wouldn't it?

 

I was trying to think of an analogy, and the best I could come up with is that the Avatar is like a Letterhead and logo or page header and the Signature is like a page footer.

 

gotcha.

and hey, has IM been turned off as well, or is that also on my end?

Major A left me a cryptic message in another thread (since closed), and i see no way to enquire about it.

i don't mind that he closed the thread, and i wudn't mind if he zapped my post even [hic conferte], but i've no clue what he meant.

:confused