Goodbye

 Overall I don't think there is a lot wrong with the new site, but what is wrong is severe and effects the usability of CT. Until that is fixed I won't be wasting my time clicking and scrolling through it.

peedee

For me there is very little wrong with the new site.I,ve had no real difficulty doing what i wanted to do up to now.

v9

I'm not the most technology minded so maybe its me but I am totally lost with this new site, I have tried on different nights to get my head round it but its just not enjoyable. I can't even find where or how you start a new discussion. Maybe its because I'm on a tablet, I don't know and to be honest starting to lose interest.

If you wanted to start a discussion in this section, how to use club together. Go to the page showing the list of discussions in the section and right at the top there is a button, create a new discussion.

I used to regularly browse discussions via my phone while on the train into work. Find it very difficult now since the change over. Why isn't CT built on a proper forum tool such as vBulletin or similar? The other forums I use that are based on that or similar are very easy to use. To be honest, I don't look on here now more than maybe once every couple weeks (compared to once per day previously). I prefer the various discussion and advice groups on FaceBook as they are more accessible imho. 

Totally agree with rob3047. The sideways scrolling on a phone is quite bizarre, and means almost irrelevant information (no of reads, posts etc) is shown in preference to far more useful information such as the names of the threads.

I think almost any of the off the shelf solutions would be better, and cheaper, and many support client applications such as tapatalk which makes them even more convenient to use.

One other design point I would suggest, if you need to write user-guides (eg for uploading files) then the web site design is probably wrong. It should be so clear, so intuitive and with appropriate guidance on the main pages that there is no need to consult user guides etc. I appreciate that's not always 100% possible but its a good guideline to work to.

And posting is still painful due to dreadful lag when typing - and that's on a  quad core I7 processor.

Mike

Maybe I’m being uncharitable but the conclusion I have come to, having looked around this “new” forum, is that CT is unimportant.

We provided lots of suggestions for improvement when a revision was first promised, well over two years ago, and very few of them have been addressed. What happened to a PM facility, for example? Were all the suggestions so conscientiously provided by the members using CT at that time simply ignored? I do think that the new appearance is refreshing but I am not swayed much by presentation, it needed more than a lick of new paint.

The system was delivered with inadequate testing and the pale text could have been corrected immediately, but wasn’t. This simply reinforces my belief that CT does not matter to the Club. I just hope this revision did not consume very much of the Club’s resources, although I doubt the accounts will provide such information.

Having waited patiently, only to be rewarded with something that provides very little functional improvement is extremely disappointing, to say the least, and I have sympathy for the front line staff who are obliged to defend it. If this is the best that can be done after all that preparation, I wouldn’t expect much more in future.

We have been conditioned by the CC for so long that perhaps we don’t notice the propaganda anymore. Such behaviour certainly makes me question the value of my membership. It’s mainly inertia that has kept my subscription going. In the past I’ve merely paid up automatically without question but, as it’s time to be thinking of a New Year’s resolution, maybe I should join BestBoy and see whether I notice the absence of a few nice sites. There are plenty of alternatives around and the same goes for fora (or even forums).

So.. Goodbye.  But I am still here, and happy with life as it is.

As Club Together is a custom made forum I imagine that to include a PM facility would take up too many resources if indeed it could be done. Stand alone forums have that facility built in. I am yet to be convinced that it would be a worthwhile addition to Club Together. Why do people need to contact each other off forum anyway?  Everyone can incorporate a contact e-mail in their profile if they feel the need for other members to contact them. I have provided that option but I have to say that it can come back and bite you on the bum in some circumstances as could a PM system.

David

People using a PM system are easily traceable within CC, David. Not so with an email user.