Welcome to the new forum

Fred Smith said:
Rationally the new forum looks good, better on mobile and nice and similar to before.

In reality I seem to find it much less tempting. Maybe I am just tired of Z4 chat (other than specific problems I have or things I need) and that has coincided with the change, but for whatever reason the forum doesn't have the same draw it had a month or two ago.
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Surely it's the content that has the draw, not what it looks like?

I think at least one seasoned member is sulking cos he don't like change, but seems a little churlish to me. :)
 
Pondrew said:
Surely it's the content that has the draw, not what it looks like?

I think at least one seasoned member is sulking cos he don't like change, but seems a little churlish to me. :)
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The content is the draw. Maybe I've done a year of "I want to read and learn about my new car" and now I'm losing interest other than specific problem solving - maybe the forum changes have just so happened to land at the same time as my interest has waned.

Also I am vrey much an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of person, and it wasn't broke.

But I've just googled and found an archive of what the forum used to look like and I think a pub might be a good comparison. The forum used to be a pub, built 150 years ago, nothing special, but a bit of character and charm. Then the landlord decided it needed a refurb, stripped it out, and re-furbed it as a reasonable quality but nothing special minimalist white walls / modernist furniture look. Objectively the refurbed pub is more tasteful and better designed - not least because it was a bit of a mish-mash before - but it's lost the warmth and the comfy old sofa in the corner has gone.

I dunno, I'm not going anywhere, content is the main thing and it is probably mainly paragraph one that applies.

But I stand by paragraph three too... you can have a certain old-school charm, and you can have clean modern design, but you can't have both. I think I preferred the certain old-school charm.
 
Fred Smith said:
The content is the draw. Maybe I've done a year of "I want to read and learn about my new car" and now I'm losing interest other than specific problem solving - maybe the forum changes have just so happened to land at the same time as my interest has waned.

Also I am vrey much an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of person, and it wasn't broke.

But I've just googled and found an archive of what the forum used to look like and I think a pub might be a good comparison. The forum used to be a pub, built 150 years ago, nothing special, but a bit of character and charm. Then the landlord decided it needed a refurb, stripped it out, and re-furbed it as a reasonable quality but nothing special minimalist white walls / modernist furniture look. Objectively the refurbed pub is more tasteful and better designed - not least because it was a bit of a mish-mash before - but it's lost the warmth and the comfy old sofa in the corner has gone.

I dunno, I'm not going anywhere, content is the main thing and it is probably mainly paragraph one that applies.

But I stand by paragraph three too... you can have a certain old-school charm, and you can have clean modern design, but you can't have both. I think I preferred the certain old-school charm.
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Yes Fred, I have to agree with you, the cosy log fire has gone and been replaced with central heating boiler. As they say, you can't stop progress and everyone else seems to like it.
 
I see someone has scored 1 on solutions….may I ask what are ‘solutions’ and how do you score them?
 
B21 said:
I see someone has scored 1 on solutions….may I ask what are ‘solutions’ and how do you score them?
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Haha, not sure but there is an option to post a thread as a question, so I assume that has happened and someone had their reply accepted as a solution :)
 
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