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Sadly, the new forums never got properly ported from the old. Attachments never made the transition. Current settings in the new forum do not allow pictures or more than one attachment. Links to other posts in any of the pre-transition posts do not lead anywhere valid. Notifications for new posts do not appear regularly. The forum index does not show the most recent reply date, just the original post date. Read/unread posts are saved in a cookie rather than in the user account, so when looking at the forum on my phone, I get different unread/new post listings than when I go on my laptop. It's not easy to tell when you have been logged out, and then when logging back in, you are not returned to the page you were on. The overall user experience, though it looks better, feels much less functional, and as such, it seems the interaction on the forums has essentially dried up.
I check the forum every day, yet it was more than a week before I saw a new reply on an older post. I also am just now seeing someone else's new post from a week ago. And my new posts, which previously would have been answered within a day or two, sit for weeks without a peep.
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Posted : 16/11/2024 11:49 am
I would tend to agree with this.
The old forum had a major problem with 'security', in that malicious people were able to make multiple fake postings that could be trouble to remove, but it was mostly OK for general use.
The new one seems to be far more awkward, yet, it 'works' but if feels like much more of a fight. To the point, it seems, of driving a lot of users away, as the number of postings seems to have dropped away from the level is was just before the old forum closed.
The gap between the old forum closing and the new version starting may not have helped?
Geoff
Posted : 18/11/2024 1:27 pm
To be honest the first forum (which I think was PHBB based) was a really good one, very active, with many users, and one I contributed a lot to starting maybe about 20 years ago, possibly a little later.
That all got binned for the last one where I think you joined Jason. I was made a moderator there I think by Athan because of my own MIDI forum (MIDI-tutor. proboards.com). The activity level was still quite good IMHO but lower than the previous one and less interesting.
This one, I log into on most days just to see if there's anything interesting. Most days I log off after 30 seconds or so.
Without any warning I was no longer a moderator, so as far as I'm concerned I'm no longer interested.
I shall just go on using MIDI 1. Nothing in version 2 to interest me.
Posted : 20/11/2024 4:30 am
I don't remember the first forum that JohnG mentions, this must have been before my time.
I started during the second version, and this NEEDED some moderation due to regular postings of 'trash' which seriously messed things up, bulk postings of fake items, items that were total repeats of previous postings, and other things. Apart from this, the forum was fairly busy, frequently interesting (both questions raised, and responses), and generally a pleasure to visit.
The new one is unfortunately a serious backward step, although as I noted above the gap could have been partly to blams if too many people had gone elsewhere (to where, I wonder).
As for MIDI 2..... Still, not much is available for this. When devices are available, how much will they cost? Will I be able to justify such costs? I still have perfectly functional MIDI 1 devices that I've barely scratched the surface of, still with numerous facilities I'd like to play with, and could play with, just haven't got around to. MIDI 2 appears to be a total irrelevance for me, although I totally accept that it could be wonderful for a select few 'power users'
Geoff
Posted : 20/11/2024 8:43 am
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I recently discovered the "Recent Posts" button, and at least that shows all correct date information, and easily sorts the recent posts for viewing.
Posted : 01/12/2024 1:27 pm
I recently discovered the "Recent Posts" button, and at least that shows all correct date information, and easily sorts the recent posts for viewing.
Hi Jason,
Yep! the recent posts is useful, I use that al the time.
Years ago I started writing some MIDI tutorials which are still there at midi-tutor.proboards.com/.
Scroll down to the section called mid setup tutorials and, working through them, see if any might be useful to you.
As I recall I started writing them about twenty years ago, they were on another forum, then I moved them to my own site.
Back then many people seemed to find them useful. Everyone has gone to social media now ... not my scene.
The site is free just to read.
JohnG.
Posted : 02/12/2024 9:59 am
