WTF happened to this forum?

Discussion in 'The Squeaky Wheel' started by gregski, Feb 5, 2012.

  1. gregski Active Member

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    OK, so I fell asleep on my watch and haven't visited for a while, and today I log in and what the he11 happened to this forum? Did we have to cut down on user participation or something, I'm an IT guy by trade and I am like a deer in the headlights with all this clutter. Sorry about the rant, nope, no I'm not sorry, LOL
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  2. mustangphil Founding Member

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    Yeah man, this place is not what it used to be, for me at least. I found myself hanging out elsewhere and visit this place on an average about once a week or less.

    BTW, how you've been bro?
  3. Winters98GT Founding Member

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    Yes, basically this place sucks now. The mods haven't figured out that this forum format sucks, and that all the off topic sections need to be combined. There is no traffic here.
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  4. d98gt Founding Member

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    Is there traffic in other sections of the site? I'm wondering if the active members have actually declined and went elsewhere :shrug:
  5. Winters98GT Founding Member

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    Streamline the site, use the forum software that ls1tech and a lot of other forums do(not sure what it is), and send a message to all members about the changes. I would also change this section to just the "OFF TOPIC" section, in stead of spealicty fun forums.
  6. d98gt Founding Member

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    I do agree with this just being the general talk forum like most of the other forums. There are probably a few guys that don't even lurk over to the specialty forum section.
  7. yukisho Rocky Horror Fan #1

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    Yeah it's died down. A lot of us went off and started posting in our super top secret classified facebook group where we can talk about things we aren't allowed to here. And others have gone to other places.
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  8. 85_SS_302_Coupe it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

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    Estrogen. That's what happened. Large dose of estrogen and sand.
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  9. gregski Active Member

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    Hey Partyzant how are you, LOL? Are we doing the swap meet again this year Pollack style?
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    Two words for you bro: Avatar Avatar, I don't care what you type as long as you always reply with them [ahem] her in the pic, LOL
  11. gregski Active Member

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    The changes on this forum remind me of when my local Credit Union I bank with hired some fast talking consultants and had them redo their website, I chatted with their employee who maintained it for years before they re did it and he said all the feedback has been poor and pretty much negative yet he is not allowed to pass it up the chain of command. Man they made everything backwards, they sorted transactions so that most recent were on the bottom and you had to scroll down to see them, go to page 2... go to page 3... and so on, cumbersome (and couldn't change the sort order) and a bunch of other stupid stuff, kinda reminds me of how NFL.com is all jacked up now, they blow even on the simple stuff like team records without a Wins and Loses column - and step down from my soap box
  12. InMyPrimeSVT Founding Member

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    I agree. I have yet to get fast responses to anything in this forum anymore. The traffic must have died down since I was last working on my car. I've started to visit svtperformance.com. Anyone have any other recommendations?
  13. timeless2 Vi Veri Veni Versum Vicus Vici

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    Site traffic stats are as high as they've ever been. If you ( @gregski ) haven't been here continually, how can you safely discern, with objectivity, what's "good" or what's "bad"?

    Anyhoo, back to your regularly scheduled rant(ing). :D
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  14. yukisho Rocky Horror Fan #1

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    Hey that's the only reason they keep me around here.
  15. BlownFiveLiter have car, will race....wait, it doesn't run

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    Traffic is great, just look at all the members online right now. All 55 of them. And 675 guests. My guess is that traffic is all Google Spiders crawling the site with a handful of actual people.
  16. timeless2 Vi Veri Veni Versum Vicus Vici

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    Oh, you have access to Google Analytics and our server dashboard now? Cool!

    :rolleyes:


    If anyone wants to whine/complain/pee/moan, you don't have to be here. Cheers.
  17. VibrantRedGT "STANGNET'S PENGUIN SMACKER"

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    Posted on Super Bowl Sunday, most people are drunk on this day not on a forum browsing. I was hosting a party.
  18. S&B dlihc evol ssaH het

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    whats supposed to be happening here ? Now all of sudden I feel like I am missing out on something......



    Please internet forum members tell me the meaning
  19. N8Dogg98 Mustang Master

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    LOUD NOISES :fuss:
  20. VibrantRedGT "STANGNET'S PENGUIN SMACKER"

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    Maybe it's dead because the End of The World came and those members were Ford owners.
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