Hi all,

Well - pretty much as expected there have been mixed reactions to the 'new' look forum - and some criticisms are indeed perfectly justified.. we feel the same.

Let me first explain why we 'upgraded' the Forum though - this is important..

Telligent, when we first started with them, gave us the option of two 'themes' (the way the forum is displayed basically). They were called 'Lean and Green' and 'Hawaii'. 

We decided 'Lean and Green' would best meet our needs in respect of the way it laid out the forum, so Keith and Van set to work completely redesigning the graphics to fall into line with the BeoWorld 'look and feel'. Keith added extra code that Telligent couldn't or wouldn't write (think stars, founder and lots of other little personalisations).  That gave us the forum in the old guise, and we happily added the Telligent updates as they happened.

Telligent, recently, decided that focusing on two different forum 'themes' was a waste of man hours and focus, so announced they were going to drop one of the themes.  We waited with baited breath, and were very disappointed when they announced the theme that would no longer be continued was 'Lean and Green'.

This basically meant an imminent end to all support, updates and improvements for us - not good, so the only option was to start the long process of migrating the whole forum to the 'Hawaii' theme.  Keith and Van have spent the last few months, in constant discussion with the moderating team basically building the new look forum so we could have a totally uninterrupted transition. This worked perfectly of course and the downtime was zero. Hats off to Keith on that one.

So, here we are with basically a new layout which has been given the 'look and feel' of BeoWorld, but isn't quite perfect for us. This is where we are asking for your help and thoughts.

Please, please don't just say things like 'i don't like it', 'i can't navigate it' or 'i don't like the tags' - we need constructive suggestions. Where would you like to see things, how would you change it and what would you prefer? Be specific.

As we are - it's all 'off the shelf' and any changes would involve Keith writing hundreds and hundreds of lines of new code. This is something Keith is prepared to do as he takes great pride in what he does and wants the BeoWorld Forum experience to be enjoyable and easy to use for absolutely everyone - as we all do.

So - your comments please.  Make them precise, give us suggestions, and let's not turn this into a ramble - it's important that we get as much quality feedback as possible in order to make things better for you - the user. 

We look forward to your thoughts..

Kindest Regards

The BeoWorld Team

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