Re: Please don't change the forum
 

I don't think it's just about phones, other sites, even ones that were cinematography sites are lively with posts, including both film and video.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

Must be the season, Red is up with a new look. https://www.reduser.net/ but then they make their own video cameras - that helps.

One or two new posts in 4 days, we need new features that attract members and viewers.

Cheers.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

Increasing the footfall is key to this.

The NLE forum has, for technical reasons, prevented new users from posting for the last few months on the old forum. When the new forum software is up and running it's hard to tell the impact this lull will be, certainly the traffic is currently down. So, it's unknown if the flood gates will open or if there will be a slow drip of new members.

The lesson from this is to keep your forum software up to date. otherwise you could be into a lot of pain.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

The other issue is that after a few months people will have learnt new internet browsing habits at other sites and may not necessarily come back. Gotta have all bugs ironed out at launch time.

(I'm sure Chris will be on top of this.)

Andrew

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

I think that's perhaps the thing Brian. Lots of little changes rather than cling on and then the shock is too much. Oddly - the forum I just left I've replaced with a similar one that has a much higher usage level, but has a wider spread of coverage. I never bothered with it too much because I thought many of it's interest areas were uninteresting - but now I've started, I'm quite comfy there.

I'm a member of the Guild of Television Camera Professionals - and their forum is simply horrible - it's as close as it can be to the old listserv bulletin boards, with topic threading and ancient processes. The membership were asked what they wanted and the needs were so wide - nothing suited everyone, so what we have is the worst suit all fit possible. Everyone still is required to put their name, location and contact phone number on every post, because the forum does not even have a click on info box where if interested, people could get that info. There is also a facebook group - and the users of both clearly do not read both! Everybody secretly knows how terrible it is, but because people pay for membership, everyone's views are valid!

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

The change is taking place under new ownership, so they're updating everything on the web site, since it wasn't a priority for the previous owners. I suspect they discovered more and more difficulties once they were into the change over.

Having said that, the new forum software does fit in with the look of the new web site, so is probably a good investment in the longer term.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

White text on a black background is a total turn off for me plus so much wasted screen real estate... & that's just looking at the first screen.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

+1 on that! Gets my vote for sure. That would be a good way to shake the frum down before commissioning it. If it's good enough for the Navy with a new warship where things have to work correctly once the ship is commissioned it's good enough for me.

Chris Young

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

Clearly something is going on - four forums I use are having the same discussions, so the software folk are driving the changes I suspect. Old is not always bad.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

It appears that you need to update the forum software, otherwise you may find yourself with aspects of the software which isn't supported over time.

Re: Please don't change the forum
 

The NLE has moved over to its new forum software, which looks quite different to the old 2010 software. However, it does fit with the graphic style of the new web site.

So far, the numbers who have seen it are still relatively small, however, there are individuals who don't like it. The forum does have advantages over the old one, but features like trophies and seeing the newest posts a different way and the old one was more compacr seem to come up in the dislike stakes,

The one person who might've complained strongly about the new forum is, so far, pretty positive about it.