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Replying to: steve_ (Sep 25, 2008 4:57 pm) ...me..me..me...(altogether)...kumbayahhh..... |
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I don't like it. I'll get used to it. What is the rationale behind it? |
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| The Hybrid Cars discussion used to have dozens of forums, now it has only one? | |
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Everything seems to be right where it's supposed to be in Hybrids. Is this something you're still seeing or is it a temporary hiccup? I just clicked into every group in Hybrids and everything looks OK
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Sep 29, 2008 3:16 pm) I'm sure there was good reason to make this change, but I just usually dislike adding unnecessary layers to navigation. I'm guessing this was done to organize similar topic themes under one heading on the groups index page. I also don't understand what the Members number tells me on the item pages.
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Replying to: mattandi (Sep 30, 2008 8:40 am) This is pretty bad. The old hybrid cars forum at least listed the newest messages under the forum headers. Now one has to click each topic to see if there are recent messages. This is progress? I get ticked off by what web site do for "progress". Not Edmunds in particular, but they are included. People seem to be changing their sites just for the benefit of changing their sites, rather than making them better. -----edit------------ OK, I just found the renamed and relocated page. Now I wonder why the change... |
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| on the new Forums page (Your software questions asked). Where is it? The new page is much harder to navigate. Smart Shoppers Forum is now under Car Shopping, and it takes an extra click to get to it. | |
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Who decided to change the way the Forums work? The old "Hybrid Cars" forum had a list of all hybrid forums; directly below were a list of all newer posts in chronological order. Now the "Hybrid Vehicles" forum just lists the hybrid forums and about 30 assorted odd-ball topics. So now, on the "improved" forums, I have to click into each individual forum, and usually click further into a "maintenance" forum, in order to see the posts. Or rather, I DON'T have to click into each forum, because I don't intend to put up with this kind of nonsense. I'll check back in periodically to see if it has been put back to a usable format.
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Replying to: stevedebi (Oct 02, 2008 2:39 pm) Hope this helps.
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Replying to: pat (Oct 02, 2008 5:03 pm) That is the one to which I was referring earlier. This forum has only one page of postings. The old forum had every posting in all forums listed in the "hybrid cars", in reverse chronological order. I could rapidly see new posts without searching a bunch of individual car model forums. The "new" method is useless, because one has to go into each sub form to see new posts. The "old" method showed newer posts below all those forum categories. This is the second time within a year that Edmunds has bungled a web redesign. The first error was when they redesigned the site with the ads on the right - a LOT of people complain that their text slides under the pictures. If Edmunds had put the ads and pictures on the left, they would have been always visible, but never interfered with browsers that move text to the right when the font size is increased. These two "features" are classic examples of updates with no purpose, and with poor results. Strange, it is almost as if you don't conduct design reviews or have QA checking the designs before they are published...
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