Jud - s/v Sputnik
07-07-2005, 01:02 PM
If a new threaded board BB is created, it's my hope (selfish request) that someone will take the time to send out an email to all of us to let us know where it can be found. (Arggh..the subject box on this new message board format is too short...the old one allowed you much more space for a long subject/topic sentence...my whining is just beginning.)
I have to add my regrets to all the others below...I simply do not find the non-threaded format usable enough. It's not anathema and it probably could be worse --but it's just not worth it for me to spend time clicking around for messages/threads when this task was so very, very easily accomplished before by simpling scanning the page in the previous format. Assuming that the suits at Word Pubs care about keeping the same band of posters here (and encourage others to contribute), I just don't see what is so hard about continuing the same format with new software. I just don't get it, but so be it.
I'm balancing this regret about not participating in the new BB against the fact that there are a lot of great folks here, and a lot of interesting nutters (as Logan affectionately called them) that made it a great community. Folks that I hope to meet up with at some point when cruising....who knows: perhaps our paths will cross anyway at some point, or perhaps I'll suck it up and eventually realize that the vibrancy and value of this community outweigh the real unusability/unfriendliness of the format. Maybe the message is more important than the messenger, so to speak.
But for now, alas, I gotta say, regretfully, I'll be cutting the lines here, at least for a while. (And what is this "emoticon" crap that allows you to add 16 differnt types of smiley faces, etc. to your post...extraneous crap that doesn't add any value to the forum. Reminds one of a teenager-oriented BB or something.)
Best,
Jud - s/v Sputnik
I have to add my regrets to all the others below...I simply do not find the non-threaded format usable enough. It's not anathema and it probably could be worse --but it's just not worth it for me to spend time clicking around for messages/threads when this task was so very, very easily accomplished before by simpling scanning the page in the previous format. Assuming that the suits at Word Pubs care about keeping the same band of posters here (and encourage others to contribute), I just don't see what is so hard about continuing the same format with new software. I just don't get it, but so be it.
I'm balancing this regret about not participating in the new BB against the fact that there are a lot of great folks here, and a lot of interesting nutters (as Logan affectionately called them) that made it a great community. Folks that I hope to meet up with at some point when cruising....who knows: perhaps our paths will cross anyway at some point, or perhaps I'll suck it up and eventually realize that the vibrancy and value of this community outweigh the real unusability/unfriendliness of the format. Maybe the message is more important than the messenger, so to speak.
But for now, alas, I gotta say, regretfully, I'll be cutting the lines here, at least for a while. (And what is this "emoticon" crap that allows you to add 16 differnt types of smiley faces, etc. to your post...extraneous crap that doesn't add any value to the forum. Reminds one of a teenager-oriented BB or something.)
Best,
Jud - s/v Sputnik