Is the forum finally being fixed?

Premadonna Kebabs as I had referred to in earlier posts not Prima Donna as they may rather be called

I can say what I want, same as you, but some were very demanding so do not try and talk down to me

They flounced off, and people I do know for your information who I have been in regular contact with so again you are making assumption.

Some yes just left, some went down fighting, some like myself stayed around although we had lost out previous handles

The death of the forum had started a few years before, forums in general have declined people have moved onto FaceAche and such which they get the news they want, it is not for me I can just about handle this. its not worth getting steamed up about really is it after all its just a forum “a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged”

But I do hope you had a nice holiday dhfan

I’ve been on holiday for a couple of weeks or I would have replied earlier.

To Trolley Aux: However many times you use it, premadonna is STILL not a word. I assume you mean prima donna yet again.

The people you don’t know but have the sheer brass-necked nerve to describe as demanding something and that’s why they aren’t here any more include, just off the top of my head to be going on with:

By general consent the worlds’ leading Spitfire historian and expert, at least two experts in WWII camouflage and markings, a noted naval aircraft historian, several owners and pilots of historic aeroplanes spanning a range from light aircraft to fighters, more than a few people who work for “classic” aircraft companies as restorers or technicians, and several published authors.

How dare you have the nerve to be rude about them and accuse them of handbags flying? What have you done?

I perceive that Key have, very belatedly,  addressed some of the issues that repelled contributors, and though it still looks fairly horrible, it is not quite as bad as it used to be when first ‘improved’ .

I still think Key made a terrible error, but I guess that we have to deal with things as we find them, not just as we wish they were, so, holding my nose, I will come back and ‘give it a go ‘,  mainly because in terms of UK orientated Historic aviation forums, for the moment, it is really the only game in town.

On the plus side, there does seem to be a lot more people posting on here now

…including at least one person who’d once landed a Cessna, which qualified him to slag off someone who’d just had to deadstick a Sea Fury with the gear down…

However, on any thread started regarding  an aircrafts demise, a series of wildly speculating posts would follow. with the inevitable intervention from a moderator….. (those were the days…not)

https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/accidents/three-injured-after-n…

In the good old days an accident to a historic aircraft would have been opened as a new thread even if the news was a few days old. Glad the crew of B-25 “Old Glory” got out without serious injury but sad to see the substantial damage to the aircraft. 

A B-25 was lost in a non-fatal forced landing over the weekend.

In the old days of the forum, it would have been covered faster than BBC.

That means:

-the few people who still post here aren’t vigilant 

OR

-This forum has become far more UK centric than it was before…A Hurricane gets a flat tyre…that’s headline news here.  . (The old forum was always tilted a bit towards the UK…but look at the current subjects, you would think historic aviation doesn’t exist outside of Duxford).

In either vase, it’s not good news for the forum’s future.

Errol C, a forum we pay nothing for, could be insulting to the people that do pay for it, I am not insulting the handbags at all, they mostly DEMANDED ! something.

I miss all the old hands but you cant go all premadonna, it was dying anyway

I would use the word “fixed” very loosely. One thing I still have problems with is that in some threads, there is no blue menu bar at the top of the thread for the Historic Aviation forum, which means you have to go back to the main forum menu, click on Historic Aviation, and then drill back down to the discussion thread you were on …

Insulting those that left when the website owners broke it for months with no warning (let alone consultation) or apology seems counter to the objective of encouraging them back? Of course once you have broken a community there is much less reason for people to return, even if the technical side of things was now ‘perfect’.

DHFAN, not you, the ones that went off handbags a flying,, All of us have stuck by it, my YOUR was them not anyone who has frequently or infrequently posted or interacted

PS hence the smiley face

layout does seem to be better; would be nice if there was a view count so that we could see if there’s trafic on your posts

John

Yes, it’s a very different feeling now. Not at all what the forum used to be. But it’s good to see some of us old (at least fairly old) timers still here. And we still have things to say, and things to learn. And we still see some newcomers arriving. All was not lost.

Above all, let’s not squabble. 

Laurence

Looks better on my screen and is loading smoothly. I hope those pee’d of members do slowly drift back as nowhere has picked up the feel and momentum here used to have. 

Who are you to be calling people you don’t know prima donnas? At least I assume that’s what you meant… Some of us have been here an extremely long time.

It has a whole new feel so good on Key for pushing forward, maybe the original old system could not of been changed as it must be getting on for a year sine it imploded.

If you are to premadonna  to accept what has gone on then obviously its not the place for you, some of us have stuck by it and it is improving slowly and hopefully some new blood will arrive shortly.

At least I do not spend hours now going through pages of postings, its much more manageable for me now 

I think that’s pretty well guaranteed. The number of missing previously regular posters is staggering.

I don’t know if the answer to that question is in the affirmative but, even if it is, will it not prove to be a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted?