Friday, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:07
GO_OFFROAD,
You are missing the point of
membership then. The system will automatically show members only new posts, replies and followups since their last
logon. If you want to only see what has changed since the last visit then
membership is the answer.
I have no problems if you are not a member however I have noticed in this post that the only people requesting category listings are non members - thus I conclude that the current
membership operation of the
forum with the ability to show only new items works for the members.
I will not be making category lists. I have overwelming
feedback that the system (without categories) is so much easier for the majority of our readers. I also have a large number of feedbacks that indicate the reason they use and join the ExplorOz system is because of the easy of understanding and operation of the
forum system and the initial impression that it is different.
I also hate the why that most forums do not provide the followup functions that we have in ours. What I find in reading so other forums is a mismatch of posts between various users appears all over the page causing you to have to read ever post to find something that was posted as a followup to someone elses answer - In fact most of the time the original response has to be duplicated at the top of the post (by the poster) to make others aware of what it relates to.
I guess there are + and - in all cases however I like the way ours runs - integrates with the members - links into and out of all topic search sections etc etc. ExplorOz is in the top few sites of its kind so I guess there must be a large number of others that also agree.
I do not know which
forum systems you use however I have been in discussion with several businesses recently that are buying my code (even though they are using current category based systems) because of the logic and ease of finding the information you are looking for. Guess there are two sides to every equation. Thanks for your input.
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