Sigh at the new layout

[Niceman 123]

Bro. Lungor, I welcome your move to bring everything treasure over from the old site to the new site but as an user who has involved in so many system upgrades, I really don't think I am supposed to do all that. I can still recall as an user, I was involved in any system upgrade by participating in meetings and writing user's specifications for the software company to adjust its standard software to meet my requirements.

Having said that, I know the website owner is not a big corporation making a lot of money out of this website and I do like to interact with many brothers (like yourself) via this forum. I'll see what I can do to transfer over some of my reports here but shop owner can assist to do so like MOC brother has done a good job transferring over all the good reports for his current girls. Maybe Bluemoon bro. should follow suit as I have written a few good ones for them too.

I still think that the website owner (i.e. Administrator) can do something by employing some part time helpers to bring over all the ARs and General Discussions threads of the old site for at least the last three months to the new site. This should not be difficult to do but need a bit of money and manpower. It is worthwhile to do so as it will definitely assist the website owner to make more money in the future. If they don't do that, they will waste their monies in this system upgrade exercise because the new site has got nothing there now but a bunch of functions (which not everybody likes or know how to use) and colorful screens. I am a pragmatic man and always believe contents are more important than appearances.

Sorry for being frank in my discussion of the new site though my views may not be shared by other brothers.

[AHLUNGOR]

A couple of things i found out yesterday while transferring Snow Lotus across was you can not post anything for more than 10,000 characters, the old site didn't have this restriction, and the limit was only 5,000 for PM,
This mobile version is good but it has lost the auto correct function which i was more used to from the old especiaaly when you are typing words like "I'll" and don't , this version no longer change the word and add the ". '. " automativally for you.

In regards to historical data transfer, that to me is the single most important factor to consider when upgrading to new systems, if this is not possible or incomplete then the have picked the wrong system as simple as that.

Can you imagine in any business where after a system upgrade, ALL client data and historic sales records and account ledgers detail will need to be manually re entered???

Well no point blaming the Admin, what's done is done, just see who has the time to do some SOS......no wait.......it's SOP

Save Our Posts!!!

Cheers

[AHLUNGOR]

Oh one more thing, my iphone just hang after I posted a reply on Sophie so i have to turn my phone off to restart, then it took me three go the log back it.

Never happened in the old forum

Hope this is just one off

Cheers

[tectonic]

i don't think admin is taking criticism very well here

[spiral]

The flashing ads are the most annoying thing for me.
Not very professional in my opinion.

[Niceman 123]

I will let the shops and Admin do their work. It is really not users' responsibilities to do all this clerical and tedious work to preserve the data which is meant to be precious for the shops and this website.

But I will continue to post and write AR in the new forum to show my support for this website.

[sooner]

AHLUNGOR

You are awsome!!

[Administrator]

Hi brother AHLUNGOR

I just remove the max number of character 10000 limitation for the post limit.
I did put 10000 before because in case there is spam post, i don't want them to put unlimited characters in the spam post

lets see how it goes, if crazy spam comes, I may put the limitation back

This is also one of the reason we purchase this new forum, more security and control, thus, we have more control to stop/prevent spam post

[Niceman 123]

Admin., I can see that members and guests are still browsing your old site/forum a lot and the hit rate there shows that you may have to maintain the old site for a very long period of time if you can't solve the data migration problem and can't find the manpower to do it for you manually.

[punther]

I actually like the layout of the new forum, it's user friendly. However, I did see some spam posts earlier which I never saw in the old forums.

[superchick77]

Yeah I can't even use its driving me crazy hey everyone I'm back as soon as I figure out how to use this bloody thing I recken change back to the old one I'm to blond for this new one

[superchick77]

Yeah I can't even use its driving me crazy hey everyone I'm back as soon as I figure out how to use this bloody thing I recken change back to the old one I'm to blond for this new one

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[wilisno]

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Haha, you're blonde but you're not dumb, Amy !

What don't you understand ? Tell me !

[mandt]

I just hope you did not pay anyone for this implementation as it would appear to me that every rule for running a successful project has been ignored. The first and most important would have been to have a requirement that existing data be converted; second get feedback from the customers on what is required etc etc etc

You can surely see from the lack of posts that it is not a successful project. Punters MAY come back over time we will just have to wait and see.

[AHLUNGOR]

Hi brother AHLUNGOR

I just remove the max number of character 10000 limitation for the post limit.
I did put 10000 before because in case there is spam post, i don't want them to put unlimited characters in the spam post

lets see how it goes, if crazy spam comes, I may put the limitation back

This is also one of the reason we purchase this new forum, more security and control, thus, we have more control to stop/prevent spam post

Hi Admin Brother,

Thanks for removing the 10,000 limits, wish that was there earlier when I was moving "Newtown Massage" as I was moving 1 page at a time as a new reply and whenever there was a few decent sizes posts I have to split the reply into two, but that's OK, all done now, and most of those oversized replies were either by myself and brother Steven............LOL

Any chance for a response on how to delete a post??

Both 5 star and Roger were telling me there is a delete button when you edit, I just can't see it, What The..............

[Administrator]

Hi ahlungor

At this stage, we not granting delete permission to user
We will review the permission setting when this forum is getting more stable after this transition period

Simply email us or pm us the URL of the post that u wanna delete and I will do it for you

[SpankyTheMonkey]

I wonder how many people here work in IT and are thinking how they would've done it a better way. See Admins, you should've formed a working group from the users here, maybe people would have at least put in some ideas on how to do the migration and keep the old posts, which is really very important for a site like this. I found a converter here: http://www.blahdocs.com/Forum_Converters but I don't know if it's compatible with the E-Blah used by the old site.

The flashing GIFs make it look like a porn site. Some people might have an epileptic fit.. OH&S warning!!

And please, change those colors. They really hurt the eyes. Pink? Why not start with more common colours -- whatever Yahoo/Amazon/ Flickr/ Google /FB/ Apple/ Microsoft are using...

I already emailed the admins a lot of comments about the forum threading, so won't repeat myself too much. Anyone else a bit annoyed with mobile version because Subject lines are now wrappping around and occupying two lines on screen. The old forum wasn't mobile specific but you could see more info as each post only occupied one line on screen. I don't find the "[Shop]" "[Advise]" etc kind of tags at the start of some posts very useful. Subject description usually gives you enough info anyway. Any Subjects that don't tell the user enough info tend to die a natural death.

[aus99 admin]

We put more colour for member to choose.
please chagne the colour in the little box at the left bottom of the forum.

[Omen]

Thanks for trying but this new forum sucks big time. and it was a pain having to reset the password

[Administrator]

For security issue, we have no way to hack or decrypte your old forum password, thus we can only migrate your basic account information, and ask your guys to use the forgotten password utility.

Thanks.

This thread is about forum colour, please create a thread for other issue.

Thanks Admin Manager creating those nice colour. Blue is clean and good one, have a try.