oscar
Well-known member
Greetings,
First off, thank you for having this forum here. It was very helpful for us in reaching the decision to buy a HL, and which model.
As a "credit reference", I have been on fora for a variety of subjects for years. Cars, boats, building, medieval stuff RV's and more. I love them for the simple fact that you can instantly visit a group of people that are talking about something you want to talk about. Not to mention the fact that if you have a problem, there is most likely a knowledgeable person who has seen your problem before. Priceless. Finally, I have been a moderator/administrator on a number of forums and I know how they "work".
That said, and I mean this as a constructive criticism, this is the most complex, and hard to navigate forum I have ever been on. IMHO there are way too many sections, there is too much detail and a lot of duplication. The biggest irritant is the fact that the tree has more than one root. If you hit the back button you don't necessarily go back to where you were before, you end up in a different portal. There is more than one "top".
Part of what a forum does is to create community, and we all know how important that is for a brand. And, for us it is nice to have friends on line. Makes you feel at home. Because of the fact that this place is such a maze, it is hard to have a "home base", and it is hard for a nucleus circle to form. If you start a thread it is hard to remember where you started it, and how to get back there. As a result I have picked an arbitrary "home base", in my case the Cyclone brand forum, and I kind of stay there. But, I know I am missing a lot.
My suggestion is a re-design. ONE Home section with a more rational number of sub sections, but always, always, the back button takes you back to where you were before so that you can keep track of the tree structure.
Thank you, and I will be back to check for responses, If I can remember how to get here.
First off, thank you for having this forum here. It was very helpful for us in reaching the decision to buy a HL, and which model.
As a "credit reference", I have been on fora for a variety of subjects for years. Cars, boats, building, medieval stuff RV's and more. I love them for the simple fact that you can instantly visit a group of people that are talking about something you want to talk about. Not to mention the fact that if you have a problem, there is most likely a knowledgeable person who has seen your problem before. Priceless. Finally, I have been a moderator/administrator on a number of forums and I know how they "work".
That said, and I mean this as a constructive criticism, this is the most complex, and hard to navigate forum I have ever been on. IMHO there are way too many sections, there is too much detail and a lot of duplication. The biggest irritant is the fact that the tree has more than one root. If you hit the back button you don't necessarily go back to where you were before, you end up in a different portal. There is more than one "top".
Part of what a forum does is to create community, and we all know how important that is for a brand. And, for us it is nice to have friends on line. Makes you feel at home. Because of the fact that this place is such a maze, it is hard to have a "home base", and it is hard for a nucleus circle to form. If you start a thread it is hard to remember where you started it, and how to get back there. As a result I have picked an arbitrary "home base", in my case the Cyclone brand forum, and I kind of stay there. But, I know I am missing a lot.
My suggestion is a re-design. ONE Home section with a more rational number of sub sections, but always, always, the back button takes you back to where you were before so that you can keep track of the tree structure.
Thank you, and I will be back to check for responses, If I can remember how to get here.