Time to roll back to previous forum?

Bugs, my criticism was solely of the 'finished product' that has been delivered to us, the customers. i think the 'Bugs' we are finding now should have been ironed out a long way back...

my point was that this should not have been delivered like this in the first place, and if citing the processes and practices that were used 10 years ago which prevented this sort of thing is somehow wrong, then i apologise.

i certainly know what its like to be on the wrong end of a badly perceived implementation, and this becomes a hard learning curve.

it certainly tightens up the checks and balances....

i wish the club the best with understanding the outstanding issues, planning their correction, constructing the build, testing it fully and rolling it out (again).

im sure they 'did all these things' as part of this implementation but, to my eyes, this is nowhere near the finished article.....

ill hazard a guess that the first time an actual 'customer' saw this system was on the day it got rolled out....

Have you tried replacing the correct information with some gobbledegook?

To all those complaining that the new text is too hard to read it sounds like you need to adjust your screen resolution and/or font size as I have done. If you use Chrome it is a simple matter of clicking on the 3 dots on the extreme right of the top search bar and scrolling down the menu for Settings, then Advanced settings and Web Content let's you set the font size, I have mine on medium and it is perfectly readable, I have no idea why anyone would want the small let alone the very small settings 

Alison

Myself and two friends set up a better website and we invited 9 others to make a dozen folk to stress test. For 10 days or so before inviting members we ironed out bugs and improved usability and visibility for visualy challenged. Did not take much tweaking once opened for business. OK more user friendly than this one but to view the initial offering it looks as if no testing, nor questioning, nor deep thought and considerationhad gone into it. Incidently among the dozen testers we knew that one had site problems and another was very poor sighted and registered blind. Just a thought. 

But the testing is being done on here now by everyone who might be interested. Only then will the CC see snags and omissions. Constructive input is of course the key to helping the site emerge as it should. This is day three, I expect it will take quite a while to iron out problems for users.

Brue, you surely dont think its acceptable for the members to 'be doing the testing here now', in the live environment

yes, the user testing should have been done by a group of experienced (real) CC website and CT users, but before it got released to the general public.

this could have been easily acheived by getting a group (of members) together and giving special access to a user test area, where they could bash away at it behind the scenes , liaising with the IT team over fixes and tweaks but away from all this glare.

this 'testing' that you refer to should have been completed long ago, along with some sort of volume/stress tests to ensure that the thing doesnt grind to a halt when a larger number of users get aboard....

im afraid i dont think this is the right way to be testing a product....

And meanwhile really pee those off who are less 'dedicated' to the site or have other difficulties. To my way of thinking this way of ironing out flaws is plain inconsiderate and ill mannered.

A positive suggestion which may help others:

My biggest bugbear was reading a few threads without logging in, then deciding I wanted to reply to one, and finding that after logging in I was back to the front page again.  Then I needed to go back through the sequence of getting to the post I wanted to answer - not easy if it's the last post in a long thread.

I've now found a 'fix' for this, in that if I'm not logged in and want to reply I just 'Like' a post, then go to the Login button, login and I'm taken back to where I started, at the correct place at the post I want to reply to,  even if it is right at the end of a very long thread.

So, if anyone wonders why I have become such a 'Liker' it's not to gain popularity but to make it easier to use this forum!

And after you have replied can then you can unlike the first one Val. Neat.