Oct/Nov/Dec 2019: the new forum lay-out…

…for those wishing to keep up with the most recent updates,  follow https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/new-layout?page=17 at the Historic Forum.

The “Forum Updates/Issues” over at https://www.key.aero/forum/forum-updates-issues is not that active.  

Anyone know how to edit a post please?

Someone checks the boards enough to delete my comments.

Agree totally with clodawg.    The randomly expanding/shrinking banner, among other things, is Really annoying. 

Have read some posts suggesting changes I might do to stop this, but why should I have to?  

I just wish the banner at the top would stop moving and remain narrow.

I’ve found this forum a great source of info for a decade and would hate to see it fizzle out.

Those were the days…

And I’m feeling quite old now.

BTT: Yes the new forum is a trainwreck. I visit many forums, not one uses this layout. There are some established, very good forum softwares, why not just use one of them?

And as I just noticed, the emoticons are terrible.

Just checking in with the new forum layout. 

I am confident GeForce and F16isbest will check in…  ?

To be honest , I thought the forum would pick back up a bit after a few days. This isn’t the first forum format change that Ive seen. 

But it just hasn’t ! It is in a terminal state. Time is running out

Where should we all go from here ? There has to be another forum we can all jump to. That hardly ever works though ugggghhhhh..

Forums are very unique. There’s no way to replace them

I suspect that the forum started to die when one or more of the moderators began deleting entire threads, throwing away not only the low-grade or even worthless postings that had aroused their ire, but also a substantial amount of useful information that some members had contributed. That was the point where I decided to become a ‘lurker’ rather than a regular contributor, and I do not think I was the only contributor to do so.

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I suppose most of you have now really noticed that “Military Aviation” is dying off.

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Yup. Things have gone really quiet.

The thread

https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/new-layout?page=11

seems to be the most active one

asking for and demanding changes to the current lay-out.  Postings are daily.

I suppose most of you have now really noticed that “Military Aviation” is dying off.

The front page/page one at

https://www.key.aero/forum/modern-military-aviation

these days shows several threads with updates of already three weeks ago

When this forum was more active it was only one week.

Layout seems somewhat improved. Still suboptimal. About a third of width is wasted on my device on margins around user portraits.

Terrible update. Better old style forum.

I don’t see myself using this forum much with this kind of layout.

PS The above is a quote but the square brackets quote … /quote command does not seem to be recognised any more

As far as I can make out from the time stamps, only one or two people are now posting each day so you are not on your own.

agree completely. Its unbelievably bad. Pretty much un-readable..the quote functionality doesn’t work well, the pictures are all sized too small and so much white space being wasted! I also lost my old account saying that my username wasn’t activated or was blocked. No idea why..I don’t see myself using this forum much with this kind of layout.

Correct me if I’m wrong but It seems to me that the number of posts on this forum has …er… plummeted.

I’m not sure that I can offer any constructive crticism except to echo at least one other contributor – appearance needs tweaking a lot. I think a dated appearance has been swapped for something rather crude in appearance. Bit of refining required, methinks. OK, suggest looking hard at font sizes (too big IMO), use of bold and italics (too prevalent IMO) et al

I miss the pictures!

…see
https://www.key.aero/forum/forum-updates-issues/new-forum-update now.

Work is still in progress.
Also read below:

“not least of all to ensure the longevity and sustainability of the Forum and protect all the important discussions it’s housed over the years. “

Plus:
“As from your feedback, we know we haven’t got it all right and we’re doing all we can to rectify some critical usage issues thanks entirely to your feedback. ”

…better read it for yourselves at
https://www.key.aero/forum/forum-updates-issues/new-forum-update …

I take no pleasure in adding to the doom and gloom that has been heaped on the new layout but I have to say I agree with the thrust of readers comments. I actually liked the previous layout.