I miss the old forum!

I'm all for it if it really helps - Maybe it should have been rolled out as a complete package, constructed offline. From working in Web application design there is always a tendency to rush out all of the tech stuff before design and usability and GUI is fully considered in relation to functionality.

Making something easier to manage technically is just as important as making something look a feel and work through design for its users!

You all posted whilst I was writing! That's cheating.

Yes, the user experience needs work. But I don't have the luxury of the time to spend doing it... I have a very consuming day job.

But let me get the tech stuff all sorted and then I'll attack the user experience stuff.

Priorities:

• Is the software working, are there kinks in the tech stuff that need sorting... help everyone get back on the forum and posting.
  
• Can it look better? How can it be easier to use?
  
• What is missing? Map, calendar... other things we want?
  
  

So right now... it's pure and simple... are people having trouble getting onto the forum.

I can't make #2 become #1. There's a difference in user experience whatever I do. But I can give you all the time to work out what it's doing, and then show you it can be better by changing it.

Big bang approach is good. If I had the resources to do it.