Change the Forum back to EZBoard

[milanbenes]

To The Management:

this forum software is not an improvement

as has already been observed it, the Avitar pictures make reading a
thread cumbersome with all of the scrolling requirements

the forum is too cluttered and containing too much irrelevant information and buttons

the colour scheme makes following threads difficult, am I reading a post, a quote or an instruction from cuk


Question to the other drinkers at the CUK pub...

shall we organise our own EZBoard / General forum instead of this one ?
or does anybody have a good forum we can use ? perhaps AtW's forum ?

perhaps CUK want this forum to be workplace unfriendly and therefore
discourage us lot from posting here ?

certainly unless an alternative is found my contribution will reduce - which some may argue will be a good thing

Milan.

[milanbenes]

this is amusing,

the EZBoard CUK forum page ( http://p201.ezboard.com/bcuk ) contained a banner ad and two rows of adverts:


Useful Sites: Freelance UK | The Register | NeverBeLate | Freelancers.net | ************ | PCG | Small Business UK | ZDNet | 1stAccountancy
Advertisement - - IT contractor insurance - fast, competitive cover - just fill out an online application form.


this forum contains only a banner ad !

that's a smart business move.

Milan.

[AtW]

perhaps AtW's forum ?

Errr, its an honour but I feel that allowing HHaH to rage over my forum would be too hard to hoot

[planetit]

I agree with Milan. The new forum isn’t workplace friendly, so might have to find some other way to fill my day. Might even have to start doing some work!

[HappyBaggie]

the forum is too cluttered and containing too much irrelevant information and buttons

Must admit, I agree too. There are just so may features that I've no interest in seeing and far too much wasted space around the messages. I just keep thinking... Why? I've no interest how many posts a member has made, when they joined or what pretty graphic they choose to upload.

Or maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man...

[Mindomoo]

I agree..........

The old one was the best

I didnt post much, merely lurked a lot so as not to hghlight any client net policies.......

but lurking was MUCH easier on the old one

[MarillionFan]

Workplace Friendy

Have to agree, the problem here is the use of avatars is not workplace friendly. I dont think the Brian & Co realise how badly this will affect daily postings but to be honest considering the lack of postings the boys have shown over the last 18 months it's probably not a big deal of what they do.

What is it you do for work?

[AtW]

Have to agree too -- mainly white look of the ezboard made it innocently looking from distance, as if it was blank word screen or something.

In fact it would be nice to have a number of skins on the side to optionally make posts look as if they are inside Word Document or Visual Studio

[Lucifer Box]

You can edit your profile so that avatars, signatures, and/or images are not shown. That helps a bit.

[Not So Wise]

It's not so much the software (though vbulletin is one of my least favs) it's the template/design. Someone focused more on look than practicalites