An interesting proposition for C+ers

Mister Paul

http://www.cyclingplus.co.uk/forum/topi ... _ID=135299

Read Krypton's post towards the bottom. What do people think?

Rhythm Thief

Sounds good to me. Next best thing to my idea of letting us all back in to carry on as we were.

Joe Sacco

I prefer cyclechat because of the lack of ads. Other than that is is pretty much the same as this one. (I can't block ads at work which is where I most want to!)

ankev1

Sounds like a good idea.

Smeggers

Looks much the same as this one, why bother?

Mister Paul

Because it's much smaller, and you don't have to sift to loads of threads and responses.

Gary Askwith

As the title of a famous environmental book says: small is beautiful....
If only for that reason it appeals more than this place
A few points: The threads last longer...more time to spot if busy at work.... less attractive to casual browsers therefore statistically less chance of being hijacked by SS/troll/idiots
I alrady thought c+ was too large esp the know how sections- a thread could be shunted off the page in 1/2 hour-what chance of people reading it never mind replying
We need a smaller more intellellectually challanging unit sorry if that sounds elitist but I can only see this site going the other way...who was it that said the internet disproves the old monkeys and typewriter argument

Either way I'm not hanging around here...C+ regular good folk please feel free to mail me if you find somewhere suitable

Archcp

I've tried to sign up to cyclechat, but haven't had the confirmation email yet - Krypton, if you are reading this, should I have had an automatic reply? I'm wondering now if I've made a balls up and typed my email address wrong or something...

Krypton

Yes, you should get an email with an activation link. Don't worry though, I've approved you and set a password for you - just change it with your profile.

I've PM'd your password to you on this forum

Uncle Phil

Well I've joined it.

C+ wasn't broke as far as I could see, so I don't know why it needed fixing.

Uncle Phil

Well I've joined it.

C+ wasn't broke as far as I could see, so I don't know why it needed fixing.

Paul

None of the 'other' forums (WMB, MBUK etc) were broken either. Grouping them all together like this just earns Future Publishing more advertising revenue.

linfordlunchbox

phpBB is fine until it the database gets to a certain size, then it starts to crash on a daily basis - it happened on a busy forum I moderate on so we dumped it in favour of http://www.simplemachines.org/ which is a zillion times more reliable !

speshcp

Gary Askwith said:

"...who was it that said the internet disproves the old monkeys and typewriter argument"

____________________________________________________________________

It was Robert Wilensky, at a conference in 1966.

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. "

formerlyknownasbonj

is it going to be a live chatroom?
That might be quite a good idea.

Joe Sacco

formerlyknownasbonj wrote:

is it going to be a live chatroom?
That might be quite a good idea.

Not if you're allowed in it

CometGirl

Well, this is all a bit peculiar. :?

Maybe it just takes some getting used to...

starseven

Shut the door on your way out :arrow:

Nick H.

I think I much prefer anothercyclingforum.com. All it needs is a few more people. Having said that, a lot of the people already there are very very knowledgeable and helpful so it's probably already better than C+ was for technical help, purchasing advice and so on.

Archcp

Krypton wrote:

Yes, you should get an email with an activation link. Don't worry though, I've approved you and set a password for you - just change it with your profile.

I've PM'd your password to you on this forum

Cheers. Actually, I quite like the one you sent me... Do I have to change it?

Joe Sacco

Archcp wrote:

Krypton wrote:

Yes, you should get an email with an activation link. Don't worry though, I've approved you and set a password for you - just change it with your profile.

I've PM'd your password to you on this forum

Cheers. Actually, I quite like the one you sent me... Do I have to change it?

You run the risk of someone else stealing your profile and posting under it (not the biggest risk in the world though and I guess only Krypton knows it!)

Krypton

Arch: Nope, you don't need to change it.

Everyone else: "I know something you don't know!"

Cretin

The old C+ site was technically quite poor, but so is a newspaper. It was easy to read and post, the only things I didn't like were the silly archiving, and the lack of embedded images. Apart from that it worked fine.

As for adverts on this forum I haven't seen any - I use Firefox with adblock and flashblock.

This forum is very ugly. Difficult to read, slow, badly laid out. Marks out of 10: 2

Archcp

Krypton wrote:

Arch: Nope, you don't need to change it.

Everyone else: "I know something you don't know!"

hee hee.

Cool, then I may keep it...