Whinges about the new forum
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If that's what I saw I would be long gone. The acres of white space I get simply by crossing my fingers (that's a lie) are bearable. I appreciate that advertising is almost a must but that is over the top.Longshot said:Do you mean this one?
I wouldn't mind if they formatted the ad/forum properly. It's really, really awful.0 -
This is starkly bearable.0 -
I quite like it in a pipe and slippers sort of way......Stevo_666 said:
Thans for the tip LS. (Heads off to look at cycling UK)Longshot said:
Cycle UK looks right up your street - it has all your favourite threads and some new targets to educateStevo_666 said:
Let's hope the admin folks are reading this.kingrollo said:
Yep - Sad but true. You can't expect people to use it in its current format.sniper68 said:Oli-admin seems to have thrown the towel in.Not posted for days.
MTBR/RBR are my go to Fora now.Cyclechat and Cycling UK are OK too.All four of them are a much more user friendly format.
Bike radar is dead I'm afarid.
Time to move on.
In the meantime I'm going to check out some of those other forums.
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.......Anyone home........?Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
Scott CR1 SL 12
Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
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In all fairness, I don't see that any more. Whether it's been removed or whether it's been blocked by the Chrome Add in I've installed I'm not sure.navrig2 said:
If that's what I saw I would be long gone. The acres of white space I get simply by crossing my fingers (that's a lie) are bearable. I appreciate that advertising is almost a must but that is over the top.Longshot said:Do you mean this one?
I wouldn't mind if they formatted the ad/forum properly. It's really, really awful.You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0 -
daft thing is - if adverts were less intrusive, fewer of us would be actively blocking them ...
It's because they take up so much screen, move and quite often have sound*, that we block them
*not necessarily this site - all adverts are blocked on our works computers - due to the intrusion ...0 -
Pretty certain it will be that add-in. Mine has been installed for a couple of years (primarily driven by the old Bike Radar forum when the ads went ballistic a couple of years ago) and I have not seen any ads in the new layout.Longshot said:
In all fairness, I don't see that any more. Whether it's been removed or whether it's been blocked by the Chrome Add in I've installed I'm not sure.navrig2 said:
If that's what I saw I would be long gone. The acres of white space I get simply by crossing my fingers (that's a lie) are bearable. I appreciate that advertising is almost a must but that is over the top.Longshot said:Do you mean this one?
I wouldn't mind if they formatted the ad/forum properly. It's really, really awful.0 -
The videos in the bottom right seem to have stopped though - I've not changed anything in firefox.Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
Scott CR1 SL 12
Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
Scott Foil 180 -
The thing that developers and forum hosters should appreciate is that NSFW does not just apply to naked or near naked woman. Having a background video advert suddenly burst into song in the middle of work is not clever. These days people operate/work different shift patterns and whilst someone may take a formal break at 1100 the person next door may still be working......oli_admin said:
The autoplay video was being trialled. The trial period is now over.daniel_b said:The videos in the bottom right seem to have stopped though - I've not changed anything in firefox.
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I see the site is still allowing 1-post spammers to register and post, when a simple moderation queue would prevent it.
It's completely baffling why repeated requests for such a simple measure have not been implemented.0 -
Please say the trial will not be rolled into a full implementation. That was even worse than the huge background ads.oli_admin said:
The autoplay video was being trialled. The trial period is now over.daniel_b said:The videos in the bottom right seem to have stopped though - I've not changed anything in firefox.
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How did you guess...?imposter2.0 said:
Velonutter? Proper helmet, if so..Stevo_666 said:
I know who you mean. Glad he's not in a position of power over us any more: the point that he disappeared as soon as he lost his magic powers tell us a lot about what made him tick.veronese68 said:
Indeed, but from my perspective not doing anything is great.Stevo_666 said:
I think you know who I was referring toveronese68 said:
It's fine now I'm not a modStevo_666 said:
I'm not too worried about that. A few years ago we had to put up with some pretty poor and oppressive moderating on here.sniper68 said:
Cycling UK.....even I keep getting posts deleted and threatened with a ban on there!!!Stevo_666 said:
Thans for the tip LS. (Heads off to look at cycling UK)Longshot said:
Cycle UK looks right up your street - it has all your favourite threads and some new targets to educateStevo_666 said:
Let's hope the admin folks are reading this.kingrollo said:
Yep - Sad but true. You can't expect people to use it in its current format.sniper68 said:Oli-admin seems to have thrown the towel in.Not posted for days.
MTBR/RBR are my go to Fora now.Cyclechat and Cycling UK are OK too.All four of them are a much more user friendly format.
Bike radar is dead I'm afarid.
Time to move on.
In the meantime I'm going to check out some of those other forums.
VERY strange moderation.
The most active mod stopped posting as soon as he lost his banstick, he wasn’t the most vocal one."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
He threatened me several times, in very long, rambling PMs. They were mostly all about him.Stevo_666 said:How did you guess...?
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There has been one post in Rod Bike / General in 36 hours.
Looks dead.
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This is the first email notification I've had from Bikeradar in weeks so that's all the user stats I need.navrig2 said:There has been one post in Rod Bike / General in 36 hours.
Looks dead.
Have the usage stats dropped since the new format?
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Well, it's still utterly awful. Between this outdated and badly implemented forum software and what looks like no racing to chat about on the spoiler threads for the foreseeable future this place is pretty much useless for me now.
Such a shame.
Mods/Bikeradar - what on earth were you thinking? You had a chance to bring this place up to date, add new and useful features and utterly blew it.0 -
My Facebook feed has gone bananas since the stay at home. On that basis alone I would expect this forum to be busy with some good chat and some cracking fights or arguments.
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I think it's past saving now.navrig2 said:My Facebook feed has gone bananas since the stay at home. On that basis alone I would expect this forum to be busy with some good chat and some cracking fights or arguments.
Looks like the admin team have given up the ghost and just hope everyone will "get used to it".Fact is it's shite but they don't want to know.0 -
I've been permanently banned from the CTC Forum(at least they think haveStevo_666 said:
I'm not too worried about that. A few years ago we had to put up with some pretty poor and oppressive moderating on here.
) reason?
"Moderator fatigue-too much work"
The very same mod locked a Covid-19 thread....for this....and i quote:-I locked the thread.
On 29 & 30 March, something like 20 posts were removed due to insults & sniping including such gems, as 'what utter codswallop', 'that's really pathetic', etc.
If people will argue reasonably, I have no objection to this thread. But I don't have much time for moderating at the moment, so I'm afraid I have to take the easy way out, at least on non-cycling related stuff.
Wow just wow.
I'm only there to amuse myself with the self-righteous bunch
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This place is terminally ill. If it cannot thrive when a large proportion of the country are confined to home there is little hope for when things return to normal.
I was just about to post something on a thread in Road Beginners, which under the old format would have been half way down the first page, when I realised the last post was November 2019. I didn't bother and I won't bother anymore.
It's like sitting in a bar when you are working away on business. It's ok for the first pint but eventually even working late in the evening in the hotel bedroom is more appealing!0 -
I appreciate sometimes things have to update for whatever reason but are there any settings I can change to make it look more similar to the previous layout? I used the forums fairly often for about 10 years but I find it so much less user friendly since the update that I barely visit anymore.0
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The answer is no. For reasons best known to themselves Bikeradar have killed the forum.prhymeate said:I appreciate sometimes things have to update for whatever reason but are there any settings I can change to make it look more similar to the previous layout? I used the forums fairly often for about 10 years but I find it so much less user friendly since the update that I barely visit anymore.
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Apart from the general OMG it's awful WTF were you thinking why reinvent the wheel etc that people have presumably already done to death - although it is appalling - you do know that your new image tags don't work with OneDrive, right? So anyone trying to avoid a future repetition of the Photobucket shekeleering catastrophe has a bit of problem, no? Just wasted considerable time putting a post together to find that none of the images work. Don't try to be too clever. Oh. Too late.0
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Ah, but it works if you use actual HTML. Obvs.
No, not obvs.0 -
What a fecking dreadful forum!!
I made a post with quotes. Posted it and then looked back at it and relised I ciuld have done with adding some additional spaces to edited the content and saved.
Either I have deleted my post (I DIDN'T) or it has been send to the mods for approval.
FFS. Please lets have some sense.0
