These new forums are driving me nuts all being seperate. I have five different tabs open because I opened new messages in new tabs and I'm not sure which tabs have active topics I've already looked at and which don't, and I just noticed that the only way I can tell which forums I'm actually looking at on a particular active topics page is by looking at the number in the URL or scrolling down the page and looking for a forum name with MAX or PLUS or 3D in it.
Also searching for off topic posts to read amongst the beginner topics on each page is becoming tiresome! Bring back the off topic forums so people can post messages like this THERE instead of cluttering the beginner forums!
In short, to fix this:
1. Bring back off topic forum acessable to everyone. ONE off topic forum. (not 3)
2. Bring back general discussions forum accessable to everyone. ONE general discussion forum. (not 3)
3. Create a button I can press to get a list of all active topics in all forums.
4. Reenable the ability to post in forums of products you haven't purchased, because I sure as hell can provide help to people owning BlitzMax even though I haven't bought it.
5. And for put the updates back on the account tab and allow access to the forums where mark will post that there are new updates so that people can ask questions about the product changes, like what the 3D will be capable of when it comes out.
Also, what is with the 2 day downtime to upload some new forum code? It should take less than 20 minutes to do something like that?
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I just noticed that when I finished posting here I am taken to a page that says at the top forums/beginners area, and only the beginners area forum is listed below. So there is no way to tell which beginners area I was posting in without clicking on forums to go back to the forum list to see which particular beginners area I'm in. This is bad design.
Also, I am forced to now bookmark this thread to be able to keep track of it so I can find it again. I don't want to clog my bookmarks with hundreds of bookmarks here... I already have to do that to keep track of threads on slashdot...
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Also searching for off topic posts to read amongst the beginner topics on each page is becoming tiresome! Bring back the off topic forums so people can post messages like this THERE instead of cluttering the beginner forums!
In short, to fix this:
1. Bring back off topic forum acessable to everyone. ONE off topic forum. (not 3)
2. Bring back general discussions forum accessable to everyone. ONE general discussion forum. (not 3)
3. Create a button I can press to get a list of all active topics in all forums.
4. Reenable the ability to post in forums of products you haven't purchased, because I sure as hell can provide help to people owning BlitzMax even though I haven't bought it.
5. And for put the updates back on the account tab and allow access to the forums where mark will post that there are new updates so that people can ask questions about the product changes, like what the 3D will be capable of when it comes out.
Also, what is with the 2 day downtime to upload some new forum code? It should take less than 20 minutes to do something like that?
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I just noticed that when I finished posting here I am taken to a page that says at the top forums/beginners area, and only the beginners area forum is listed below. So there is no way to tell which beginners area I was posting in without clicking on forums to go back to the forum list to see which particular beginners area I'm in. This is bad design.
Also, I am forced to now bookmark this thread to be able to keep track of it so I can find it again. I don't want to clog my bookmarks with hundreds of bookmarks here... I already have to do that to keep track of threads on slashdot...
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