OMG this forum is DREADFULL

[bizzo-buys]

OMG this forum is DREADFUL

Oh my LOL

I've been around since before the internet was invented, my first communications computer was a portable airline booking system (kind of like the old prestell) that allowed BBS access and I have never ever ever seen a forum so dreadful as this in all my years.

It is awful.

I can't figure out how to use it, and I'm an "experienced user!"

I can register a domain, pay for web hosting, and install the forum software in 15 minutes flat and it will work better than this junk.

I have no idea what this joke is but it is NOT a forum 😄

[bizzo-buys]

Oh Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus

I've had to use my BACK BUTTON to find my original post!!!

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Dear eBay.

I don't know what 12 year old you hired to write this "board" software but they saw you coming, whatever you paid them it was too much.

In the same way a car has a steering wheel a clutch a brake and an accelerator pedal (at least for manual cars) so that once you learn to drive one car you can drive "any" car,  the the same goes for forum software.

This is NOT a forum or a board.

You should re-name the link so it says an eBay wotsit  😄

[bizzo-buys]

Dear moderator's please don't ban me I WILL get over the shock of how terrible it is but please understand I haven't seen anything so antiquated since 1979.

Its hideous but if you can live with it so can I.

oh my oh my oh my 🙂

[right-then-petal]

[cee-dee]

Goodness me!

I don't think you need much in the way of computer experience to figure out how to use this site?

[ed_blackadder_1]

If I can use it anyone can, I thought it very simple. A bit like me.

[electric*mayhem*band]

Dear OP.

Thank you for taking the time - and trouble - to register, and to log in here. You have made my day by giving me the best laugh I've had in ages - despite splattering my monitor with coffee - and I do hope you will persevere and return to these hallowed boards.

Please look on your ebay chat forum experience as you would a boil on your bottom. A bit of an annoyance initially, but after a while you get used to it.

Sincerely,

An Admirer (From afar).

[queenelsa83]

I've always found this forum very easy and simple to use, no problems or worries at all 🙂

[calibra101]

That was funny   

[captainbovine]

blimey don't make it anymore difficult...I've only just got a handle on how this lot works as it is!!! I still have to ask for help now and then.

joins Ed on the beginners step!!

[franology]

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@bizzo-buys wrote:

Oh Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus

I've had to use my BACK BUTTON to find my original post!!!

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Dear eBay.

I don't know what 12 year old you hired to write this "board" software but they saw you coming, whatever you paid them it was too much.

In the same way a car has a steering wheel a clutch a brake and an accelerator pedal (at least for manual cars) so that once you learn to drive one car you can drive "any" car,  the the same goes for forum software.

This is NOT a forum or a board.

You should re-name the link so it says an eBay wotsit  😄

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If you actually want help because you're having problems (rather than just complaining) there is something I can suggest.

You mention using the back button to find your original post. One thing that will make it easier for you is to click on your user name while you are signed in to Community.

This will take you to your own Community page with a record of your posts among other things. There is also a tab 'My Settings' which lets you arrange to be contacted when a new post is added to a thread you are interested in by clicking on Subscriptions and Bookmarks and then Notification Settings.

If you explore your Community page and what it leads to you will find it much easier to use this section of the eBay site. (You may even wonder why you ever complained about it.)

[the-treat-emporium]

Made me laugh! J x

[aernethril]

These styles of forums have been working very well here for a long time now.

I've seen people discribe them as old fashioned, but I've also seen nothing new in forums - many many forums out there have this style.

The forums I really don't like is where there are wads of indented responses to someone's post, which then make it harder to actually respond to the original post when it's a someone wanting help, or to keep track of what has already been posted after the original comment but much further down.

Those are the early types of forums and they're still being used today.

This one is much cleaner and once you take the time to find how things work, it's got a lot more you can personalise to your own tastes.

If you're really that good, you'll have seen the various links you can click on to take you to different points on the board - no need to hit the back button at all.

[ecclesvinaigrette]

The format is adequate and free, the moderation is also free, the way you post is also relaxed.

Returns to the asylum

[baybizz]

Sounds like an OP wind-up to me.  This is the third eBay forum format I have seen and, apart from a few minor irritations (like the "in reply to" headings) I think it's pretty good, and anybody with basic computer skills should find it easy to enough to operate.

>> The forums I really don't like is where there are wads of indented responses to someone's post...

I agree with that. On the initial comment threads  when this format was first introduced there was some talk from management about that wretched threaded system being adopted on here at a later date.  It wasn't popular then, and I trust it has died the death:

www.community.ebay.com/New-Community-Experience/16422335#M635

[renomarvinm]

Boy! Just wait until Spike Milligan hears about THIS!!!