Message Board change - Printable Version

Message Board change - Printable Version

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Message Board change - Moonbug - 04-27-2011 05:58 PM

OK .. basically the message board is dead, and traffic to the website in in major decline. This has been caused by a few reasons, and is very saddening to us. Work, and "life changes" have got in the way, and for that we appologise.

I've condensed the message board down to a few sections, to streamline it's appearance. We are, as always, working on other features and ideas, but the last 6 months has been a complete change in our lives, and work for the last few years has taken over most of our time.

V9 (2 years late) is still on the go, although we are no longer happy with it, we need to get that in due to the coding changes that it has. It allows for a better user experience on the site.

We hope to get "back to basics" to try and get the site back to it's former glory, or at least get some people back to looking at it.

The message board, after we jump from Proboards, never really worked. We had lots of ideas for site intergration, which we never got round to, and posted less .. and less .. and less.

It's really saddening for us, but we hope to some day bring V4 of the message board with a better looking site (starting with V9, moving on VX) and hopefully create a community again

Re: Message Board change - Smellyferret - 04-27-2011 06:38 PM

Just rebuilt my pc and thought it was that lol!!!

In all seriousness, I can see the point - for me though the fact this site was UK centric was the reason I joined. I got fed up on other sites asking 'will you ship to UK?' and 50% of the time being told no Sad

Push the UK'ness!

(Please also keep somewhere for sales/trades too - very useful!)

Re: Message Board change - minion - 04-27-2011 07:04 PM

Moonbug Wrote:OK .. basically the message board is dead, and traffic to the website in in major decline. This has been caused by a few reasons, and is very saddening to us. Work, and "life changes" have got in the way, and for that we appologise.

I've condensed the message board down to a few sections, to streamline it's appearance. We are, as always, working on other features and ideas, but the last 6 months has been a complete change in our lives, and work for the last few years has taken over most of our time.

V9 (2 years late) is still on the go, although we are no longer happy with it, we need to get that in due to the coding changes that it has. It allows for a better user experience on the site.

We hope to get "back to basics" to try and get the site back to it's former glory, or at least get some people back to looking at it.

The message board, after we jump from Proboards, never really worked. We had lots of ideas for site intergration, which we never got round to, and posted less .. and less .. and less.

It's really saddening for us, but we hope to some day bring V4 of the message board with a better looking site (starting with V9, moving on VX) and hopefully create a community again

Moon for life!

Re: Message Board change - KingGrimlock - 04-27-2011 09:03 PM

Moon 4 Eva yo!

Re: Message Board change - Sunstreaker - 04-27-2011 09:44 PM

Do what?

Re: Message Board change - Sunstreaker - 04-27-2011 11:39 PM

TF@TM isn't a lace, a board or even a collection of people.

It's a mindset.

It's in, and always will be in our hearts.

Re: Message Board change - Moonbug - 04-28-2011 07:48 AM

Out plans are to simplfy the board, I just did a hack job yesterday to "get thigns done".

We are looking at.

1) General Discussions
a) STICKY Topic - Website Feedback
2) Transformers Discussions
a) STICKY TOPIC - Sightings (ideally with a list on the first post listing - Line, Toy, First Sighting -> This will help us create a nice list for future reference
3) Trades

Re: Message Board change - Phill - 04-28-2011 08:12 AM

Although streamlining things is always for the better, people will always ask for bits back that were there before.

For example - I was never involved in them, but I'm sure the RPG people would like their own section for it.

Phill

Re: Message Board change - Starscreams_Ghost - 04-28-2011 08:18 AM

screw the rpg people do you still have my man cave clearout post anywhere???

could really do with the content of that if you have it backed up somewhere please

Re: Message Board change - Moonbug - 04-28-2011 01:06 PM

All posts should be there .. I only deleted onw lot by mistake.

It's just finding them. They should be in Transformers or General

Re: Message Board change - quartz - 04-28-2011 04:54 PM

You put too much in Transformers Discussions that isn't.

Personally i'd like

General - general chat
Transformers Discussions
Other Toy Discussions
Trade / Sales
News -> for the automatic posts

Perhaps a dedicated sub-forum, in news or transformers for sightings.

Oh v9 might have a new board BTW. I can't stand PHPBB anymore its worse than the code on the moon that I hate from V6 through V8. I will be evaluating a new light weight message board later that is suppose to be written by people that know what they are doing rather than rookies.

Oh it wont be vBulletin as I dont want to pay for it lol, though I have been tempted

Re: Message Board change - X-Bot - 05-09-2011 04:05 AM

The moon will always be here, but then again we are all just an egg and the multiple verse that spawned us is just a chicken of chance.

Re: Message Board change - Sunstreaker - 05-09-2011 06:31 AM

X-Bot Wrote:The moon will always be here, but then again we are all just an egg and the multiple verse that spawned us is just a chicken of chance.

The Moon is right here...!

Re: Message Board change - thelastallosaur - 05-16-2011 07:22 PM

Honestly, I'm gone for a month and look what happens. Shame to see the board shrunken, but there definitely were bits that weren't being used, so it makes sense to compact it. Hopefully the new movie will bring in new members, most of the keywords are right. Just need to get the word dark into the site somehow.

Dark.

Dark dark dark dark dark!

Re: Message Board change - Sunstreaker - 05-16-2011 07:30 PM

thelastallosaur Wrote:Honestly, I'm gone for a month and look what happens. Shame to see the board shrunken, but there definitely were bits that weren't being used, so it makes sense to compact it. Hopefully the new movie will bring in new members, most of the keywords are right. Just need to get the word dark into the site somehow.

Dark.

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