Should we: Stay here or Go back ...

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:08 pm

I like the open format of this temporary forum, and the regular forum. However I have to say I like this format better. Instead of the stickies and maybe a half dozen threads on the first page like we have on the regular forum, here we have many threads.
I find it much easier to browse and monitor the active threads HERE.

With all respect to Joel and the other forum, I'd like to stay here if I could.

Just for my curiosity; what say you?

J

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kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:18 pm

Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:27 pm

J Miller wrote:I like the open format of this temporary forum, and the regular forum. However I have to say I like this format better. Instead of the stickies and maybe a half dozen threads on the first page like we have on the regular forum, here we have many threads.
I find it much easier to browse and monitor the active threads HERE.

With all respect to Joel and the other forum, I'd like to stay here if I could.

Just for my curiosity; what say you?

J e

With all due respect, Joe, "going back" isn't an option to the best of my knowledge. The software Joel was using is no longer supported. Nor is is capable of handling the database size needed for the amount of traffic this site generates. Time will tell, but we don't know for sure yet what the future holds.

BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba · Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:33 pm

It ain't the church, it's the congregation

It would be cool to access all that lost knowledge back there, tho.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:35 pm

With all due respect, Joe, "going back" isn't an option to the best of my knowledge. The software Joel was using is no longer supported. Nor is is capable of handling the database size needed for the amount of traffic this site generates. Time will tell, but we don't know for sure yet what the future holds.

AmBraCol,
Thanks for the information. I've been here everyday since this forum was reopened and had not heard those details. I probably missed it.

I do appreciate your making this available to us. Thanks.

OK, guys I guess my pole is / was a waste of time.

Joe

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:26 pm

Hey Joe, there's never a bad question brother! I agree.....this "place" is so nice it feels like we have a new leverhome, not a refuge at all.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:32 pm

I like each place, but, really, Blaine nailed it for me.

txpete · Post by **txpete** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:42 pm

yup I am with tubby on this one

.
pete

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:46 pm

The old format will not be returning no matter what you wish for.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:54 pm

Well then, if this is our new home I'll repost my thread about how to tell the difference between pre and post 64 Mdl 94 Winchesters if anybody is interested.

Hobie, is there a possibility of recreating the "One Sticky" and the info it contained?

Joe

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:58 pm

Joe,

There might be. If we build it, they will view.

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:05 pm

Hobie wrote:The old format will not be returning no matter what you wish for.

RIP old forum...

Hobie, any chance of the data being recovered and made available at some point? There was an awful lot of good stuff on there. Shucks, and I had just been promoted to "Buckaroo Levergunner" (or some such thing) with my 1,000th post...

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:47 pm

What old forum?

Rusty <><

jazman · Post by **jazman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:53 pm

I am with Blaine too, it's the folks here, regardless of how it looks.
I sure do thank the people who are in charge for running it, lot of great knowledge and discussion.

Don McDowell · Post by **Don McDowell** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:23 pm

I like this format, much better than the old one. I also like the email notification.
While the info contained on the old place maybe gone , the knowledge is still here, looks to me like most of us have made the trip over here. So alls that needs to happen is......

for the same tired beat to death questions to be asked.

bsaride · Post by **bsaride** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:34 pm

Only reason I like this forum better is when I use the search function,
otherwise no preference.

BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba · Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:42 pm

And the best reason of all is that maybe someone has a ghost of a chance to keep up with Hobie's post count

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:47 pm

bsaride wrote:Only reason I like this forum better is when I use the search function,
otherwise no preference.

I have 0% luck with the search function on this forum.

Oh well, I'm probably just broken.

CraigC · Post by **CraigC** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:55 pm

Hate to lose all that info from the old forum but I do like this one better.

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:35 pm

BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba wrote:And the best reason of all is that maybe someone has a ghost of a chance to keep up with Hobie's post count

Yeah, right!

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:43 pm

How many members from the old forum are still missing from this one

The old forum seemed to have more readers than writers

cas · Post by **cas** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:06 pm

Hey Paul... just how much of your bandwidth is this thing using up every month? More out of curiosity than anything, though I do toy with the idea of leaving Disc Sewer and it's pop ups for Savage24. (though I don't know if that change would be welcome)

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:06 pm

Hobie wrote:
BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba wrote:And the best reason of all is that maybe someone has a ghost of a chance to keep up with Hobie's post count
Yeah, right!

Ysabel Kid's giving you a run for your money. Better step lively or he'll take your crown! He's only 30 posts behind you at the time of this posting...

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:00 pm

I like this format better. But it don't really matter as long as the same folks are here.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:06 pm

BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba wrote:And the best reason of all is that maybe someone has a ghost of a chance to keep up with Hobie's post count

I'm closing in on him!

I really missed the old forum at first. Took me a couple weeks to move over here. Now I'm used to this one, and it does have some additional capabilities. I just hope we get all the history off the old forum - there was a treasure-trove of info there!!!

I also miss a few of the "emoticons"! And really miss the "send topic to a friend" and "print topic" features. Despite this though, I have to admit, the new site is better - and as noted, the old one isn't coming back!

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:41 pm

cas wrote:Hey Paul... just how much of your bandwidth is this thing using up every month? More out of curiosity than anything, though I do toy with the idea of leaving Disc Sewer and it's pop ups for Savage24. (though I don't know if that change would be welcome)

cas, hit me on the e-mail if you'd like to discuss moving away from disk.sewer. The Savage 24 forum is lower traffic than here, by far. This one used about 40% of the bandwidth I assigned to it last month (I think, it was over 33% last I checked) and there's more in the pool we can throw at it if necessary. This program (and another one SMF or some such) come with hosting at no extra charge - and if you need another MySQL slot for it, that's no problem either. You could poll the guys on Savage 24 and see what they have to say.

canonsix · Post by **canonsix** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:56 pm

I do like this site I miss the 2000+ post count I had . oh well

Doug

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:12 pm

I reckon I feel alright about this place. It is here and the old one ain't.I'm satisfied here but I would like to have the "one stickey" for finally trying to learn to post some pictures. Thanks for this place,

Jerry

Longfin · Post by **Longfin** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:36 pm

As Tubby said, its the folks that make the site, regardless of what it is called. Same as when Marlin Talk was taken away; birds of a feather will gather. I was able to save alot of the date from the old Marlin Talk forum and what a treasure of data it is.

cas · Post by **cas** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:45 pm

AmBraCol wrote:[ You could poll the guys on Savage 24 and see what they have to say.

Last time I initiated a change over there (even though it wasa temporary, much needed one) a few long timers "took their ball and went home."

steveb · Post by **steveb** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:55 pm

Where ever all you yahoos are hanging out at is were I will be.

Poohgyrr · Post by **Poohgyrr** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:45 pm

I've lost a couple of favorite forums before, and the old forum will be missed, but this one is doing well.

GANJIRO · Post by **GANJIRO** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:34 am

I'm an old fanny burp, so I prefer the old site, I also prefer being called "senor" than pilgrim.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:18 am

I amvery set in my ways and liked the old forum. but this is way better than no-leverguns and is still my favorite site. Jim.

KWK · Post by **KWK** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:11 am

With this version, I like the greater number of threads displayed by default. With the old version, I liked being able to display only threads which had changed since the last visit.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:14 am

I'm with Ji, also miss the technical links.

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:39 am

GANJIRO wrote:I'm an old fanny burp, so I prefer the old site, I also prefer being called "senor" than pilgrim.

I didn't know you were supporting the south of the border program...

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:40 am

KWK wrote:With this version, I like the greater number of threads displayed by default. With the old version, I liked being able to display only threads which had changed since the last visit.

You can do that here as well. This includes the Classifieds forum!

http://sixshootercommunity.com/levergun ... d=newposts

ceb · Post by **ceb** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:51 am

I guess I just don't see that much difference, other than more topics per page. I do like the layout here and as C. Cash said, where ever you guys are is where I want to be. I wonder though what it does to Paco and Jim T.

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:53 am

Is there anything wrong with this format?

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:05 am

I would like to see the active button so I could skip the stickies. Don't miss the 6000+ - spent way too much time at this for quite a while.

Woodtroll · Post by **Woodtroll** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:11 pm

Is there any way on this board to highlight the posts we've read in the past, so we can more easily return to them, or to jump to the first new post on a thread when we click the thread title? I think that is the most frustrating thing for me on this board- I read a lot more than I post. I appreciated the "highlight" feature on the old board. I can't find that on the settings here, but also don't know what I am looking for.

Thanks, Regan

BAGTIC · Post by **BAGTIC** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:38 pm

The 'Search' function here actually works. Need I say more?

KWK · Post by **KWK** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:40 pm

Hobie wrote:You can do that here as well.

http://sixshootercommunity.com/levergun ... d=newposts

That seems to do the trick. Thanks Hobie.

jengel · Post by **jengel** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:45 pm

I like this format but a feature that we need here is an automatic reload of the active topics like that old board had.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:54 pm

jengel wrote:I like this format but a feature that we need here is an automatic reload of the active topics like that old board had.

I'm not sure what y'all are referring to, but there are various ways to see what's going on. On the Forum Index

http://sixshootercommunity.com/leverguns/index.php

you see the regular forum and the classified forum. IF there's anything new on one or the other since the last time you logged in, you'll see an orange colored bell icon. If nothing's new when you login then you'll see a white bell icon. Now, once you go to the main forum, again you'll see the same.

http://sixshootercommunity.com/levergun ... um.php?f=1

All new items are marked in orange, older stuff is marked in white. One thing to make this work, you DO have to log in - that way the server recognizes you and lets you see what's new since the last time you visited.

I'm guessing that y'all are looking for something that only works if you're logged in. I set it to login each time I drift over here. That way I know what's new and what's old since the last time I was here. And all active topics are at the top of the page, right under the announcements and stickies. Each new post or response gets placed at the head of the list and older stuff is pushed down. It works slick - IF you log in.

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:57 pm

Well Am, it is the latest topics appearing without the stickies.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:04 pm

Old Savage wrote:Well Am, it is the latest topics appearing without the stickies.

I'll look and see if there's someway to suppress non active announcements and stickies for folks logging in. But I've no problem seeing what folks are chatting about recently.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:08 pm

Old Savage wrote:Well Am, it is the latest topics appearing without the stickies.

Well OS, there's no toggle to tweak, unfortunately. Perhaps in a future release of the software. But I've NO idea what the developers are doing on that front.

PPpastordon · Post by **PPpastordon** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:16 pm

Uh - Maybe Hobie should become - - - - - - - - Count Hobie!

OK - Where am I?

I posted in response to one post and it shows somewhere else? I know I didn't miss my wake-up coffee; I'm still drinking it!

PPpastordon

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