This forum is useless now.

[angelatc]

No, if you don't post threads where they should properly go, then don't complain if it gets moved.

If you want a one-stop shop, then use new posts.

You're making my point.

 

[angelatc]

Actually, it's created the discussion I had hoped for. What do you guys want? We can't have everything on one page. It'll be a mess. What then would you like to see instead?

We need input or else you won't get the best product.

What's this "we" stuff? Seems like you've aleady decided. "New Posts! New Posts!"

 

[ChooseLiberty]

Just demonstrates there is only freedom of the presses if you own the press.

But definitely bizarre for a Ron Paul forum.

Yawn. The irony that this is happening on a Ron Paul forum is overwhelming.

 

[ChooseLiberty]

The "new posts" thing works pretty well tho.

 

[Revolution9]

Again, New Posts.

Is it really that difficult to click a link?

Or, are you just griping because you don't like change?

I don't want that. It is extraneous to what i need to know. Stop making lame excuses and pointing out features few could care less about. it bwas functional. You work for the gvernment because tyour motto is fix it till its broke. Well pal..we are sick of government that works that way.

The forum currrently sux.

Randy

 

[Shink]

The "new posts" thing works pretty well tho.

Of course, so does leaving things the way they were!

 

[Bryan]

As to the link that keeps getting posted, that does not help at all. It groups EVERY board together. When you moved the threads from the discussion forum now you can't just look and see when new posts were added or anything. I sure the hell am not sorting through every thread or forum seeing what's new or had a additional post.

The 'New Posts' way of doing things consolidates everything into one page which moves that much faster - I like being able to refresh seperate forums seperate, at different intervals (more often for ones that move faster or which contain a topic or topics I am paying specific attention to). I don't have time to contribute to the vast majority of threads, so I tend to pick the few which I feel I can contribute the most value to. The 'New posts' way of doing things makes that more difficult by lumping every section of the forum together into one page instead of allowing me to follow each board seperately.

You can also exclude sub-forums in your "New Post" search, such as Hot Topics by bookmarking the following like:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54

You can change this to exclude whatever you want, just change the 54 to something else or add by using A,B,C,D etc.

Or you can just do an include only search:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3

 

[UtahApocalypse]

You can also exclude sub-forums in your "New Post" search, such as Hot Topics by bookmarking the following like:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54

You can change this to exclude whatever you want, just change the 54 to something else or add by using A,B,C,D etc.

Or you can just do an include only search:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3

Or, It worked how it was and im not going to participate in any important threads while this is fucked up.

 

[Marceline88]

I really haven't noticed any of the article movements that are "ruining" the forum.
I have always used the New Posts button. It's always just one big list to me.


Silly woman.

 

[mdh]

You can also exclude sub-forums in your "New Post" search, such as Hot Topics by bookmarking the following like:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54

You can change this to exclude whatever you want, just change the 54 to something else or add by using A,B,C,D etc.

Or you can just do an include only search:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3

But if things are being moved about into places that may or may not suit them, how am I to guess which forums to look in? Also, if things are constantly being moved, do I not then risk losing threads I was tracking in board 7 if it's moved to board 9 and I'm not following board 9 because most of board 9 is stuff related to things I am not familiar with or interested in?

Furthermore, it doesn't address the "everything on one page" issue, as versus the fact that I really quite like reloading the different boards, with their varying levels of traffic, at different paces as necessary to keep up with what I'm caring about at the moment.

What it comes down to is I'm not sure why you're trying so hard to fix something that I thought, personally, was working out just fine the way it was yesterday and the day before and the day before and...............

 

[Bryan]

Or, It worked how it was and im not going to participate in any important threads while this is fucked up.

It's just an option.

 

[mdh]

I really haven't noticed any of the article movements that are "ruining" the forum.
I have always used the New Posts button. It's always just one big list to me.

That's cool. For those who prefer to view things via the 'new posts' button, nothing has really changed. For those of us, however, who do not prefer that method, things have changed quite drastically. Not everyone shares your personal preferences.

 

[Nihilist23]

It's just an option.

More like it's trying to be shoved down our throats. If people aren't using certain subforums it is because they choose not to...the minority that are displeased by it shouldn't be catered to at the expense of the overall popularity of the forum and cause of this campaign.

Some of us are here discussing it, but the majority will come to this forum, see all the moved threads, briefly say "WTF" to themselves, and go to a new forum; and you will never know about them until it becomes apparent less people are coming to use the forum.

Those are the people that need to be considered most.

 

[Bryan]

But if things are being moved about into places that may or may not suit them, how am I to guess which forums to look in? Also, if things are constantly being moved, do I not then risk losing threads I was tracking in board 7 if it's moved to board 9 and I'm not following board 9 because most of board 9 is stuff related to things I am not familiar with or interested in?

Furthermore, it doesn't address the "everything on one page" issue, as versus the fact that I really quite like reloading the different boards, with their varying levels of traffic, at different paces as necessary to keep up with what I'm caring about at the moment.

What it comes down to is I'm not sure why you're trying so hard to fix something that I thought, personally, was working out just fine the way it was yesterday and the day before and the day before and...............

I am opposed to the moving- the subforums need to get better defined to match what people want.

 

[Bryan]

More like it's trying to be shoved down our throats.

No one is shoving- just pointing out the undocumented technology.

Again, I am opposed to the moving- the subforums need to get better defined to match what people want.

 

[Revolution9]

You can also exclude sub-forums in your "New Post" search, such as Hot Topics by bookmarking the following like:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=54

You can change this to exclude whatever you want, just change the 54 to something else or add by using A,B,C,D etc.

Or you can just do an include only search:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=2,3

Wow..let me put thse with my 200 video lnks and 400 policy text lnks and 700 news links and 44 grfx arts links. Once I take time out of my schedule to fix my bookmarks i can easily navigate my way around and sift through a bunch of stuff i have no interest in.

This is silly, accomplishes nothing and is a perfect example of federalising something and ruining that was working fabulously at the local organic level just as it was. We need less admnistration in the creative flow of ideas. To nail this organic spreading entity into trite and hardened categories will kill the plant.

I liked coming in to a full page of links on the RP News and Discussion forum and rarely went elsewhere. If it was half empty I often skimmed headers only and went on about other business. I did not visit the other forums as that is not where i get my news from. I come here for any and all RP related news so the other forums are useless to myself for the most part. When the RP News and Discussion forum was full it got me involved because I would reply to something and get totally involved then. I see the same dynac as being integral to other complainnts around here as well. And of course you have the go along to get along crowd as with anywhere..but do you not think the amount of backlash against this not too well though out policy is indicative of a broken process and faulty diagnosis?

Best Regards
Randy

 

[foofighter20x]

That's cool. For those who prefer to view things via the 'new posts' button, nothing has really changed. For those of us, however, who do not prefer that method, things have changed quite drastically. Not everyone shares your personal preferences.

"I will not try Green Eggs and Ham. I will not try them Sam I Am."

Try it.

You'll love'em.

 

[G-khan]

Again, New Posts.

Is it really that difficult to click a link?

Or, are you just griping because you don't like change?

Yes and I also grip when they change the Constitution... Some things don't need to be changed... It works don't fix it!

 

[mdh]

"I will not try Green Eggs and Ham. I will not try them Sam I Am."

Try it.

You'll love'em

I tried new posts a long time ago when I was *first* figuring out how I wanted to manage my forum browsing experience. I found it less efficient then than the way I've been doing things, and it's still less efficient.

Maybe I'm in a minority on feeling that way, but from reading a lot of the other responses to this move, it seems I may not be. Again, the way things were earlier today, yesterday, and so on - the forum looked the same as it does now for people who use 'new posts'. The change only affects those of us who don't. Since you seem to really like using 'new posts', why change the way the forums work for the rest of us who don't?

 

[Shink]

Please just return it to the way it was. If something is RETARDEDLY off-topic, then moving it seems fine, but News&Discussion, like it or not, was where the main discussion was, and where most things got done. If you guys don't like it, perhaps add a different section called "Popular" or whatever and we'll do most of the discussion there.