Testers welcome

Hi Franco,

thanks for the feedback - always welcome!

Re. whether there has been a drop off in the use of the forums, I think it is probably a little early to say. The usage has always fluctuated but I'm not convinced that there is a clear trend of diminishing use yet. Maybe I'll be proved wrong

Re. navigation to the forums. There's lots of different routes in. The one I use most of the time is looking at the "Forum Latest" module on the right hand side of the "SYC Members" page. That's very similar to what was on the old site. If that wasn't there, I'd probably use the "Forum" / "Latest Posts" from the "SYC Members" page to see what's new.
The Forum is deliberately not linked from the default Home Page as that page is aimed at people who aren't members of SYC (yet) so the forum is of little use to them. If you are on a PC where you can click "Remember Me" on logon, you shouldn't usually see that "default home page" (as the "SYC Members" link automatically becomes your default home page)..

Re, the "digest" of emails. Before the new SYC web site went live, I posted an article on the web site describing the differences between the old and new site. That article is is still at the top of the "SYC Members" page and available at www.starcrossyc.org.uk/new-syc-website
In it, it says that your subscription for the old forum digests will not be carried over to the new site and that you would have to re-register for the new implementation of the forum digest, The link for registering is at www.starcrossyc.org.uk/syc-forum/forum-email-digest-preferences
However, I don't think you are alone in not spotting this information - so far only 10 people have "signed up" for the new forum digests

Re. whether it is slow. I haven't noticed this but it is completely different software to what was used on the old site. If people are finding it slow, please do let me know. I haven't the foggiest what I'll do then mind you...

As an aside, the new SYC website offers a few new alternatives for "interaction" including some basic integration with Facebook/Twitter and the ability to comment directly on articles. Given that SYC members have been using a forum for the last 10 years, I'm not too surprised there appears to have been no use of this new functionality yet. Still - early days!

Cheers

Aidan

Hi Aidan,

Thanks for the info on how to subscribe for digest. Please consider the following:

1) In the article on the new web site, I'd start with the new functionality (in order of usefulness to frequent visitors of the website, not in order of logic!), i.e. the new digest information could be first, and the motivation of why we have a new web site could come at the end. People will only read the first few lines and carry on reading only if they think it is useful (e.g. it is not useful reading why there is a new website if you already know why! therefore you'll never get to the end of the article!).

2) As I said, I personally don't like navigating from the latest messages, because you can never arrive to the page with all the forums, i.e. you remain only within the most active forums. But if it is just me, I am creating my own bookmark to www.starcrossyc.org.uk/syc-forum , where I aim to start from.

3) There is a forum that is open to non-members, and yet we don't want non-members to get there... the logic is unclear to me

All the best,

Franco

A. Question: how do I send a private message to just one forum user (a sort of e-mail)?

B. I have received an e-mail saying "Hi Franco, I see that your boat is advertised for sale on the RS website; have you got it advertised at the club? it would be nice if someone in the club bought it". Does this not show that my advert on the club newsgroup (which indeed exists!) has not enough visibility? I'll try to bring it back up the list of latest posts by re-posting...

Regards,

Franco

Hi,

there is no private messaging available directly within the forum. The new software - Kunena - doesn't support this directly. However, there is private messaging available in the main part of the site

a) take the "Info" / "Apps" / "Private Messaging" link from the "SYC Members" home page
b) click "Compose"



c) click the "Show Users" link on the right hand side of the page



d) select the required user(s) and write the private message



e) send the PM. The recipient will see a notification on the SYC Members home page the next time they come to the site



They'll also get an email notification



Users can choose to turn off emails and block PMs is they want

Thanks

I re-subscribed last week expecting to get the weekly forum update emailed to me on Friday's but nothing appeared. Did I not re-subscribe correctly or is there something else wrong with the system? Hope someone can help ...
Mike