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Replying to: ab348 (Dec 11, 2005 10:56 am)
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 11, 2005 11:11 am) |
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 11, 2005 11:11 am) Well, just look back at the change history of the forums for lo these many years. In many cases it was 2 steps forward and 3 steps backwards. Maybe given that, and the redirection of discussions here to blogs (those are also considered progress, I'm sure, even though it appears from the number of comments posted that few people visit them otherwise) you can understand my concern. I'm sure Inside Line is also considered progress, but I hate the way it has cluttered up and generally dominated the presentation of the forums. I come to Edmunds for the forums, not for all the other stuff. Maybe I'm a minority, I dunno.
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Replying to: ab348 (Dec 11, 2005 1:30 pm) I really can't speak to anything outside of community. Blogs are a great move forward as they are popular in the community culture and are drawing in new people who otherwise wouldn't participate at the site. Some of them will cross over and also participate in Forums, others will not. I've already seen some names that only posted a few times in Forums be extremely active in the blogs. That doesn't make you right or them wrong. It simply means that we are expanding our community tools to find places to meet the needs and cater to a growing community user base. After all, it would be pretty boring if we had the same people in here day in and day out with no new blood. So, keep the old-timers happy best you can and attract new people to show them what a great place the Forums can be. Bottom line is you are upset about a link title being changed. While I'm truly sorry such a change has upset you to this extent, I can tell you that it probably won't be changing back given the amount of data (emails, stats, tracking, etc.) that we have telling us the change will help others use a feature that you have already found to be so helpful. |
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 11, 2005 2:09 pm) However, would someone like to point me at the blogs that we're apparently being encouraged to move to. I see no obvious links here at the sides, top, or bottom.
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 11, 2005 2:09 pm) One last point and I'm done: No, it's not just that, although whenever I see things changed from being understandable to less so -- anywhere in cyberland -- I shake my head. No, what troubles me is the incessant tinkering with the forums over the years that has seldom improved things, but has almost invariably led to increased user confusion and functionality problems at best, or tighter limits on what the forums provide at worst.
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Replying to: ab348 (Dec 11, 2005 4:14 pm) Enjoy the holidays. |
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Replying to: ab348 (Dec 11, 2005 4:14 pm) I could send you the very slim feature set we had at one time...in the days when discussions were always stopped at 1,000 because the system would break; where creating a discussion with a typo had to live because you couldn't correct/edit it; where users didn't have the ability to edit; where you didn't have a preview function; where you were forced down lines of different boards whether you liked it or not because there wasn't the ability to browse by make/model but instead had to go to the vans board for the Odyssey and M&R for the mechanics of it and if you wanted to buy it, well, head to Smart Shopper; don't forget search - hate to have you go back to where you only had search in the board and not across all boards (so you needed 16 searches).  So, yes, let's leave this as one of those agree to disagree situations.
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Replying to: mac24 (Dec 11, 2005 2:23 pm) http://blogs.edmunds.com/straightline (automotive news blog) http://blogs.edmunds.com/karl - Editor Karl Brauer's blog http://blogs.edmunds.com/strategies - Our resident buying experts' blog |
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 11, 2005 4:58 pm) I've been with you through most of this, and overall things are much better these days. "Well Engaged" had its place, but now we're here. Here is not bad. |
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