Does anyone miss the old forum.........???

Ginger. · 28 October 2001, 04:29 AM

It's all dive and zoom these days. :-[ Remember when you really had to dogfight a difference of opinion?

Volker_Nemsch · 28 October 2001, 04:52 AM

Hello Ginger!

I miss it...

...sometimes!

The old forum was somehow easier to use. But we have to face it that things are becoming more and more complicated. It is the same with a modern car: the electric wire system of a modern Ford has the surely the same length as the systems of 10 or more old "Cortinas" or "Beetles". (Unfortunately) things are never getting easier, they improve...

Best regards
Volker Nemsch

Kirby · 28 October 2001, 05:04 AM

Volker and Ginger

It's just like Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass. Here, one must run as fast as one can, just to stay in the same place.

Vic_Mouton · 28 October 2001, 07:40 AM

Yes.
One rarely missed a post on the old forum. With all these headings some interesting stuff can go by unnoticed.
VBR
Vic

PeterL · 28 October 2001, 07:52 AM

Although I have said I appreciate the new forum having a special place for those off topic discussions which generate much heat and the occasional glimmer of light, I do still find separate headings a bit of a bind generally. As Vic says, it's so easy to miss a thread to which before I might have been able to contribute. Logging on takes away some of the spontaneity but that's not always necessarily a bad thing (see above). The best bit is being able to edit ones own contributions and even delete them all together. And the spell check is a boon to a semi-literate modeler. Overall I prefer the new forum, but there are just a couple of features from the old I should have liked to have been retained.

WFS · 28 October 2001, 11:23 AM

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It's all dive and zoom these days. :-[ Remember when you really had to dogfight a difference of opinion?

I know what you mean. Technical differences aside, there seems to be a different attitude here. I can't quite put my finger on it.

Wayne

Barrett · 28 October 2001, 11:43 AM

I agree, the tone here is different, even better. Hardly any of the acrimony we often saw before: far fewer flamers and barely any straffing of downed opponents! Of course, the absence of some particular jousters may be largely responsible for that.
Overall, a dash-ed fine bunch of chaps--and chapettes.

leo · 29 October 2001, 02:58 AM

I miss the Old Forum. It seems we have lost some of our old correspondents, Whether or not that is due to the format change, I do not know, but I must align myself with the Luddites.

leo

29 October 2001, 03:15 AM

I have no regrets about the switch. None. Nada. Zip. There were many times the old forum had me annoyed to the point of walking away; the new forum's structure has had the delightful effect of steering most of the sources of my frustration into a single category which I can more easily ignore. As Barrett put it, there's a different atmosphere in the Forum now, and it's better.

Michael · 29 October 2001, 06:30 AM

More like Alice in Wonderland.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.

`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'

`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'

I certainly agree that the New Forum keeps my stress levels down. It's possible to get around the "missed thread" problem by using the "Recent Threads" feature.