Can we have the old forum back

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20 years 6 months

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I don't know whether this is a temporary page but this is slow loading ,not an improvement in looks or function :(

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7 years 3 months

Posts: 91

The forums may be slower loading for the next 24 hours as the site is currently re-indexing its database.

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5 years 9 months

Posts: 128

Likewise, can we have the old forum back!! Please.....Really don't like the new look one bit!!

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16 years 3 months

Posts: 1,813

Neither do I...............!!!

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16 years 5 months

Posts: 305

Feeling a bit wary about the new forum, but I suppose in the long run I will get used to it.

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15 years

Posts: 1,712

No I am not too keen on it either, it is pretty weird .

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15 years 2 months

Posts: 5,197

Too much "white space"

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Image sizing issues. At max zoom out, this pic still cannot fit.

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The "sticky" threads are taking up over half of the "military aviation" forum for page 1 (Fixed over the last few minutes)

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24 years 2 months

Posts: 8,464

Lets give it a chance - if as Webby says, it is being re-indexed at the moment, it will take a while to sort itself out.

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16 years 5 months

Posts: 305

I have just realized that my avatar does not show up when I posted my last reply to this forum, yet it does show up on my account home page. Could you please sort this out.

I have had to go to a avatar site and get a new avatar to solve this problem.

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18 years 10 months

Posts: 4,796

24hours? it's been 3 days. It's all screwed up.

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11 years 11 months

Posts: 641

Perhaps someone from Key Publishing would like to come on here and explain why they think this is an improvement.

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14 years

Posts: 4,996

I think we should give them a chance to get it sorted, rather than complaining. After all visiting this forum is not compulsory.

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14 years 7 months

Posts: 66

I'll add my vote to return to the old forum layout - this one is a total waste of space

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11 years 10 months

Posts: 421

The white space either side of the content is completely wasted. How can that be an improvement?

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9 years 6 months

Posts: 34

Duxford Diary: I don't want to have to scroll through over 1200 entries to see the latest photos.

How can we get to the active end of the thread with one click?

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14 years 1 month

Posts: 5,088

I really don't like this new platform. However, Key host it for us at no charge to us, it's their bat and ball, and if they want to mess with it then that's their prerogative.

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14 years 7 months

Posts: 3,094

Please! Less sticky notes on top. Take the Modern Aviation section. 6 sticky notes wich take up more than a third of the messages.on that page

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13 years

Posts: 422

Why is that members get so upset when a forum's format is changed? There were faults with the old format too, it is just that we became familiar with them.

One for consideration by admin/programmers: With a broad view of aviation, and a regular site visitor I always use 'recent posts' to view the activity across all forums, selecting the threads I wish to visit across the whole range of forum interests. While 'latest activity' is still available with an abbreviated version of a post, I like to have not only the latest post at the end of the thread page, but also the ability to look back at the context to that latest post - especially on 'fast moving' threads.

Also, although likely only a temporary 'glitch', when I log in (using the favourites bar) I now get the 'Search' page, not a site entry page. Solution could be in my hands to change the url on my favourites bar.

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7 years 3 months

Posts: 91

We are still working on the styling currently. The site had to be upgraded to the latest version for technical reasons and unfortunately the re-index of the database took all weekend and didn't complete till the early hours of this morning.