Yet more confusion - why not ask Forum members what they wanted?

I appreciate that MSC tried to anticipate what people like Martin might want. But why spring this on us unannounced, when MSC knows that there's existing Forum members (from Adams and other MSC products) that are quite passionate and wouldn't mind helping get a new site to have some nice functionality?

It just really seems like somebody made a decision in a vacuum without customer feedback. And even if you nail it with what users want, it's not generally a pleasant experience to find somebody has switched the rug out from underneath you without even consulting. Obviously it's MSC's ball and they can play with it how they want, but at least from the Adams side, a lot of the heavy Forum lifting was done by non-MSC forum members, and it would be good to involve them in the gameplan.

And I hate it when my only form of feedback is a pissy post on a new Forum. Sorry for my rant! :)

0 Martin Kieltsch over 7 years ago

I have bookmarked the topic ADAMS and yesterday there was a Patran PCL related post appearing on that board ...

Interesting, but I usually I prefer wasting my time with more enjoyable things. Can't you just put some of the usual NSFW content in between?
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0 Martin Kieltsch over 7 years ago

BTW: The daily nuisance using that bookmark is that the posts are ordered by the latest replies, but the date appearing in the list is still the date of the original post.

Just that nobody is interested in that (old) post date, just in when the latest reply was posted because that is my main indicator if have already seen it or not.

Actually I have to click the post and scroll down just to notice that I already checked it the day before, so please just change the date displayed in the list to the date of the latest reply.

Alternatively use other techniques to distinguish between posts with new replies I already read or not. Other forums use cookies to display them in bold letters or display unread icons.
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0 Eric Fahlgren over 7 years ago

Ah, I misread the misposted post, assuming it was not from the Adams forum, that explains it...

And, yes, all the other forums in the universe have a "most recent posts" button, invoking a search for recent posts sorted in reverse chronology. Then all of the posts themselves are prefixed with a "New Posts" button that jumps you to the oldest post that you have not yet read. I recall starting to use that functionality over 15 years ago, seems like something that mature should be pretty ingrained and widely available.
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