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List of what is currently wrong with the forum

Deleted User

I was wondering if most people who contribute here are fine with no current problems, so I thought a list might be useful.

I'm rather despairing at the moment of its brokenness and absence of communication from NAS about a timescale (or anything) for sorting these.

It's making me wonder whether to bother any longer.

1. I know that   has a message coming up in orange at the top saying his account may/will be deleted.

2. I keep being logged out (orange banner at the top with a seconds countdown).

Is anyone else getting anything still (or even unable to use their original account?).

Has anything been sorted?

Thanks.

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    I think we could self-organise and build our own. There are enough coders here that could work on it if they would be willing to participate. Building our own gives us exactly what we want and we have some fairly specific needs that we might not find in any other existing service. 

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  • in reply to Arise

    I think there are a handful of people who would be very good at the tech logistics. Then it would be a question on deciding how it should be run. 

    I would loathe the thought that the posters here really might be thought of as children.

    But it's not just the NAS forum. Other social media sites, especially if the main company begins with an m, are just as bad if you end up with problems. Everything automated, bots should 'off with your head' and letting bad actors get away with it as after all, they aren't violating community standards, automated systems that basically don't work and have you running around in circles. All very fair, absolutely dandy. 

  • in reply to Andy
    Andy said:
    I am very tempted to start building one, I can build websites and could quite easily build a forum.

    Please invite us if you do.

    Arise said:

    Before we begin such a task we would need to think about the ultimate goal, which is not just a better forum, but one that would be put to use and adopted by NAS.

    We don’t want to create a splinter group.

    Although I understand your point, as NAS shows no interest in us or the forum, I personally have no interest in them.

    If they want a forum to serve the purpose you speak of, they could provide one themselves.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Before we begin such a task we would need to think about the ultimate goal, which is not just a better forum, but one that would be put to use and adopted by NAS.

    We don’t want to create a splinter group. People come to NAS for the resources and support on offer and the forum should be a part of that. Also, to be successful and have the proper support and future that it would need, the NAS team of volunteers would need to run it.

    So I suppose we would need an agreement in principle that if what we built was workmanlike and worth using, and liked by the users, it would be considered for adoption. I have no idea how we go about getting a discussion about such an agreement going. Presumably an interested mod sees this and gets in touch with one of us?

    I think it could be a great project. It would bring together all kinds of people from within our community, from developers to users, to create a spec, code it, test it and commission it into service. 

  • in reply to Arise

    We could, or rather others could as I wouldn't even know where to begin, my fear is that for me, it would be just as bad as this has become, because I'm a technoklutz and wouldn't understand it

  • in reply to Arise

    I am very tempted to start building one, I can build websites and could quite easily build a forum. 

  • in reply to Arise
    Arise said:
    I think we could self-organise and build our own. There are enough coders here that could work on it if they would be willing to participate. Building our own gives us exactly what we want and we have some fairly specific needs that we might not find in any other existing service. 

    As this one seems thoroughly broken, I would welcome this.

    I'd hope though that the regular contributors here would use it and of course there's no guarantee.

    Peter and Ausomely Autistic have set up their own forums since I've been present here (2+ years).

    The Microstock Group forum has been in use for many years and is successful.

    It's the only example I know of an individual person setting up a forum for a group and the only other type of forum I have used (ie photography).

    https://www.microstockgroup.com/

    Thank you the suggestion.