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Replying to: stevedebi (Jun 19, 2009 2:15 pm) I see nothing in your post to disagree with in any way. Comparing then to now, I think the same can be said about most of the vehicle specific forums. I mainly see a repetition of the same old questions and little active discussion. The only thing that would make any difference is a reduction in income to the site, but obviously the changes made were financially successful so I see little chance of changes that would be regarded as positive by any of the remaining 'community'.
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Replying to: mac24 (Jun 20, 2009 3:59 am) I'm not so sure. Obviously I have no access to viewership figures but it would not surprise me if numbers are down, and worse, heading down. Lower viewership means lower advertising income. As it is most of the adverts on any given page are for Edmunds itself.
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Replying to: grandtotal (Jun 20, 2009 10:49 am) Thanks to you and the others for bringing this up. Ever since the really popular model-specific forums were split up to achieve, what was it. . .oh yeah, "better granularity," things have been sliding down the chute. The "problem" (from Edmunds POV), as I understand it, was that there used to be too many regulars posting many times each day (clogging up the bandwidth) & not enough newbies coming in from the greater web. Well, they've certainly solved that "regulars posting too much" problem, & on the few topics I monitor, I'm not seeing very many newbies either. The only value Edmunds forums used to have, for new people signing on, was the cadre of experienced folks who could (& would) help them out. No regulars = no answers. I'm sure someone at Edmunds got a quarterly bonus (or three) for the idea & the initial results, but I'd be interested in hearing how that hope and change thing is working out for them these days. The two boards that I can depend on for hearing from a solid group of regulars aren't at all model-specific, and there are very few posts on the model-specific boards I still follow. Somebody somewhere probably thinks all of this is a good thing, but I certainly don't.
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Replying to: cdnpinhead (Jun 20, 2009 2:54 pm) -Brian
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Replying to: subearu (Jun 21, 2009 9:05 am) We see a number of members who were active in Forums spending a large amount of time in the blogs commenting. It used to be Forums was the only place to have social interaction Edmunds. We've added more tools/places so you will see some people gravitate to tools they enjoy more than others. It doesn't make any one of them better or worse. |
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Anyone know why I can log in to the Forums fine from Firefox 3.5.1, but when I try to log in from IE 8.0 the login dialog box just sits there and I can't log in? This seems to be a recent behavior. I was able to log in from IE 8.0 until a couple of days ago. 
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Replying to: backy (Jul 20, 2009 12:36 pm) I'm using IE8 that way to log on here.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 20, 2009 12:39 pm)
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Replying to: backy (Jul 20, 2009 12:42 pm) Or if you're trying to sign in using the form on the righthand side of the Forums, let us know -- we don't know of any bugs with that at present. Thanks for the report!
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