Just wanted to let you guys know we are making progress on the text size on the website. The main text on features, product reviews, articles (etc.) is now larger and darker.  We've still got work to do with the text size, but I wanted to give you all a heads up on this first fix.

Thanks for the heads up.  I have been using the box in the lower right side of the screen in Internet Explorer to enlarge the type.  Now maybe I won't have to, but probably will have to because my eyes aren't what they used to be.

Gary

WOW!!!!! Thats nice.

Maybe next we could work on something like the last post button. 

What  do you  think?

We do have someone working on getting the "jump to last post" icon to work properly, so for those who have been following a thread, you can jump right to the most recent post. 

Wow again!!! A response from the managment, a new trend?

It`s nice to hear someone is finally working on this. Let me try another problem.

Whenever you reply to any thread on this site, the site has to reload the whole thread. This ain`t a big deal on short threads but on the long threads this is a killer, especially for those on dial up. If you scroll down under your reply box you will see the whole thread from the first post to the last. On the long threads that means we have to reload every avatar, siggy, picture, and any other little goofies that may be in it. Some threads here have got to the point that they are hard-- impossible to post in. If it was to just reload the last 5-10 post instead of the whole thread that would be GREAT. If thats not an option, reloading nothing would be better than reloading the whole thread. This is a big problem on this site.

You can delete the two threads stickied to the top of the misc. section.

Got it. For what it's worth we are chipping away at a long list of things. The small fixes will start adding up. There is a stong focus on forum issues.

Looks like the new colors rolled out. Forum is not a blue background with grey text anymore. Black text, white background. Easier to read.

I'm not really the voice of mangement, but when the text size bumped up I got very excited. I put my sandwich board on and start walking around town announcing it, even if no one else cares.

For a year now I've been reading posts from disgruntled members. I'm not one of them, but I'm glad to see you're addressing some of their concerns. Thanks.

Phoenix Arizona

~N.A.F.C.~B.A.S.S.~BoatU.S.~N.R.A.~A.M.A.~

LOL. It`s not that no one cares, just that there are more important things on a BB than what color the background is. You know, like the ability to post.

It`s very good to see someone from within the club here talking to us and addressing some of our concerns. Many times it seems like we are talking to a wall when we use the forum feedback section or E-mail member services. I hope your presents here continues. I think that would ease some of the bad feelings many have towards the NAFC right now. Tony?

ICB's comments are right on the money. Thanks for taking the time to listen to some of our concerns.

I'm definitely not Tony.  I work with the editors, but I'm not one of them.

Think of me as a virtual librarian for all the clubs. I'm the one that knows whether or not we still have that dusty old book about largemouth bass lying around. Is that what you all came to this library for? Probably not.

Something like the text getting bigger or the colors changing is the equivalent of us scraping the algae off the side of the aquarium over in the children's section. Does it make a huge impact? No. Does it make things a little bit better? Sure. You might actually be able to see the goldfish swimming around in there now.  There's a lot to fix and improve around here. Sometimes the only thing we can do is brew another pot of coffee while you guys sit and wait.

- E.

Thanks for what you've done on here so far................as far as the coffee goes just how much you thing we can drink out here waiting.......must be going on 1,000+ pots so far........LOL................

  I would like to add my thanks too! At least now someone is working on improvement and giving response! Please PUULLLEEEZZ keep improving!!!  

Hey ERabbit-- Put another pot on, coffey is always good until ya start Ice fishin da other way!!   By then who cares!!  

Bill J.        

Hey -E, you keep this up and I will have to send an E-mail to member services requesting a raise for you.  LOL. Are you going to be here regularly? Is there any time frame you guys have for this place to be at 100%?

By who's standards of 100% ICB   

Now that THAT is taken care of

I too am pleased that we are having someone on the CLUB end at least responding to our frustrations. The BB is seemingly working better as each week passes...and it ultimately makes it easier for us Life Members to recommend and INVITE others to make a commitment.

Having worked in software QA over the last 10 years tells me that DEFECTS are ALWAYS an issue when it comes to a business's bottom line....but at the same time though...resolution CAN mean survival / prosperity on the 'Net.

MY recommendation would be to dump the MISC Archive....as I doubt that the majority of the current users look at it...and for that matter....since there's very little in there about fishing....you guys could make some serious server space by doing so.

Just my 2 cents worth....and thanks AGAIN for you posts

ICB....considering the millions of folks that have lost their jobs over the last 18 months....bonuses / raises should be the LAST thing in ANYONE'S vocabulary at this point

ice cube bob wrote:

Hey -E, you keep this up and I will have to send an E-mail to member services requesting a raise for you.  LOL. Are you going to be here regularly? Is there any time frame you guys have for this place to be at 100%?

 

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Well Dave for the 100% I will take the NAFCs` 100% for now.  If I don`t like it I can always complain some more.  I have got really good at doing that. LOL.

I agree if they need space they could get rid of the archive section. There is nothing in there anyway. Most of the threads in it have the first post only, none of the responses made in them seem to have made the trip. Even if there was useful info in any of them at one time it is long gone. I will add, with a little help from some of the members alot of threads could be deleted if space is an issue. Is Space a problem -E?

And Dave, If people were paid for what they do and not for what they pretend to do this country would be alot better off. Just like this BB for the last year and a half, someone has been being paid for this. If they worked for me, they would be in the unemployment line. And when you find someone that makes a possitive difference, you hang on to him. -E is making a possitive difference just by talking to us about the things we wish to talk about. With all the complaining I have done about this site over the last year+ I will most definetly Thank the person from the NAFC that comes on here and make a possitive difference.

Deleting the Miscellanous Archive probably won't do much of anything, but if it's something you guys don't use and it's an annoyance, we can get rid of it like we did the sticky threads.

E.