[quote quote=991]Re styling. I get what you are saying about the brightness. One thing I think that may be weird for you but is actually logical is the size of everything. Old forums were clogged with 100’s of tiny text options. This forum is built on bbpress https://bbpress.org/ which is powered by WordPress. Ultimately this forum will be the comments engine for a news and video”Channel”. The veterans will all have a space to create as well if they want one. I just decided to put the forum aspect of it all out there first, to generate some conversation and start to reconnect and make new connections with an audience. To develop a community from scratch is my goal – and I appreciate and will consider ALL feedback from it and never get offended.[/quote]
Well, I think that goes straight to the heart of it. From my perspective, and I’m sure from others, the old forums weren’t “clogged” with anything that didn’t need to be there in order for us to express ourselves with a reasonable amount of nuance and satisfaction.
[quote quote=991]What you are used to is vbulletin or other vbulletin clones. Vbulletin is a nightmare to maintain and host. WordPress is easy to maintain and host. bbPress can be built on to in any way so we’ll get there![/quote]
Cool, but all we’ve established is something you and I already knew, which is that no system is perfect, I have respect for you, Mike, because I well know that the old forums were hard on you, but easy on us. This new format is easy on you, but NOT so easy on us. You’ve said it yourself, that this system is not optimised towards traditional forum dialogue, and that “ultimately this forum will be the comments engine for a news and video channel” – for as long as that is true, and as for as long as you craft the site with that vision in mind, you can expect threads like this one to crop up. We’re posting in a section of the Internet called http://www.michaelbakerdigital.com/forums, and not http://www.michaelbakerdigital.com/comments_engine_for_news_and_video_channel
I hope this is useful, and a fair reflection of the spirit in which Apache opened the discussion.