There are plenty of other free software systems available if that is not suitable. It would stop having to pay programmers to update this forum each time to include what is standard on most other forums (or whatever else you intended) as it is already there and has as many features as any of the other forums I use. There is a support forum there also to help convert a current forum to swf without loss of data and you would still be able to retain the beautiful header you have here. You would need help to moderate this (and probably do for this one anyway) but I am certain there are people here who would be happy to help as that one is also run by volunteers - no-one should have to do this alone, it is not possible nor desirable. There are also help forums on the SMF site for support. Nevertheless, before you spend any more money on programming for this site, have you had a look at which is also related to Birds Australia! The software (Simple Machines Forum - SMF in short) is free and has all the functionality needed. I do not mean to sound ungrateful Holly and none of this is directed at you - you have done wonders with what you have had available and I have told you that previously! Sorry guys, you have been beyond patient and I will do better The old site wasn't functional at all and had to be replaced. I had so desperately wanted the site to be one that the members are happy with and goodness knows I spent a lot of time working on it over the last year to try to give you all something that is better than we had before. I am not trying to make excuses - I am just as frustrated as you all are, but I am trying my best to get it all sorted for you. Re the Red X's - I will try to get on a few times a day and refreshing the cache as that seemed to fix the issue last week.īIBY is basically me - I am the only paid staff member on the project close to fulltime (and I am not full time) and have many things on the website and beyond the website to work on. However many of you have reported issues so there must be something that I am not seeing. I am trying to understand the photo quality issues, to me the photos look just as good, if not better than before and the uploading methods are much easier (though there seems to be a problem over the last few days with the speed of the uploads). We simply don't have the funds to do it all. I can imagine that Birds in Backyards isn't so flush with web site maintenance resources that it can have turn arounds in problems in 1 day like the Big Four banks.Īll comments and criticisms welcome - I am doing my best to work out what needs fixing and getting quotes for it all. Mind you, there's little doubt in my mind that there are some very clever strategies being used by companies to make us believe that we have to have upgrades & new & faster stuff all the time. Still, you'd be paranoid too if the whole world was against you.ĭo we need to cut the site a little slack? I'm prepared to. Really, we're still in the infancy of all this computer stuff & in 50 years time we'll have a good laugh about photos that take days to upload, computers that take 2 minutes to boot up & the user-hostile programmes that currenty bedevil us. I've realised that, overall, my expectations of the world of high tech have been far too high. Yipppppeeee! I was getting frustrated about not being able to but not nearly as frustrated as I would have been 12 months ago. This evening I was able to upload a photo after 6 or 7 goes. Maybe my hopes were too high but honestly I don't think so as I have been these type of forums for over 15 years and none are like this. I once visited this site with anticipation but now it is as an afterthought. There are many software packages around both better and quite inexpensive which would have done a far better job than what we now have and would have needed minimal tweaking if any at all to make them fit the needs of this site. There seems to be no way to mark posts as read without specifically opening them and many I have already read which is time wasting. IMO, we have reduced functionality in many aspects and the photos which were once a wonderful feature are not showing anywhere near to their full potential and now they are not even uploading as expected. I don't like being critical as I realise there are budgetary constraints but while I am grateful for the time spent on this upgrade, the additions by Holly and that we even have this site, for me it has been very disappointing. I am finding this new site to be a backward step even from what we had before.
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