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Tony:
You know me, I call it as I see it, and this is my conclusion regards the new forum. Now in no way is this ment to belittle Sams exellent work for the forum.

I don't like this new forum as much as the old one. I prefered the "list of recent posts since last visit" search on the old forum. Or is it me just not using it correctly?

Plus I find it just as slow of late, and I reckon what needs to be done to speed it up.....needs to be done.......or I suspect interest will wane regards visiting the site.

As has been said by others recently, other forums manage to load alot faster, and people expect that to be the norm. And quite frankly, explaining the technical reasons why that is, goes over most peeps heads....they just think ....how come such and such forum manages to load sharpish.

The above is intended as constructive criticism, and I hope it is taken as such .

Clive:
Tony, you still have "posts since last visit" at the top right hand corner of the home page.  That's much better than what we had on the old forum surely?

As for the slowness, I have to agree that it is very erratic, but we just may have solved the problem.  Keep your fingers crossed.  Criticism is always welcome!   8)

sam:
As Clive said critism is always appreciated - especially when people are being informative.

The speed issue is an odd one. We have done so much to fix this and at times I just dont have a problem with it. Give us time. As Clive said fingers crossed we may have hit the nail on the head. Guess what, the most obvious thing aswell.

bare with us... hopefully you all will. I just wish i could put abit more time into sorting this out well and truely without all the umming and arhing (how do you spell those noises!)

DJ:
About the post since last visit, am i using it correctly?...

If I don't view the post at the time of visiting the forum, the next time I visit it dissapears off the list - and so the post is missed.  The only way around this is to read every post made from the last visit - something that can't always be done.

Is there a way of implementing an Unread Post function?

Thanks for your continued hard work Sam (and all the admins too!)

DJ

Clive:
What you say is correct DJ.  I often find it safer to view all posts since the last day.  The nice thing about it is that it categorises them by threads so they can be read in a sensible order.

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