I dislike the missing links to posts on the homepage which, when clicked, come up with a 'forum does not exist' message. What's going on there?

Henry:

One last question. Will Beoworld in Italian come back too?

I do not think that the Italian section on Beoworld will come back, it was very quiet on that part of the forum. That was one of the reason to stop this section.

Okay. Thanks for the update though.

I really miss a notification on login if I have a PM. Also, I've tried to change my setup so I get email notifications with no luck.

The new forum looks very good but I find myself spending a lot less time on it than the old because it is simply too slow and I get tired of browsing it. 

I thought I would throw some ideas into the pot about the new forum. I was thinking the other day about the for sale and wanted sections. Is is a good or bad thing to limit this section to gold and silver members? On the one hand you are targeting only the people who share your ideas about hi fi, but on the other you are limiting your market. With the restrictions, you can get B&O items at a fairer price (but I do notice that alot of people ask for 'make me an offer') but buy opening up the market you are able to spot a bragain.

I remember a thead on the 'old' site about members cross bidding on ebay, but if two people both want the same item how can we avoid this?

We will discuss all your thoughts and see what we can change. Clearly it will be after the Struer trip now but please do keep posting as we are very aware that every forum has shortcomings and anything we can do to make things better will be done.

Of the ones posted so far, I certainly agree that:

1 More threads per page. - should be possible.

2. Notification of PMs - couldn't agree more! Don't know but I hope so!

3. Smilies! Argh!

4. Button at bottom of thread to go back to forum

5 Oldest unread post in a thread

6 Safari doesn't work - actually using Firefox much more and it is better! 

7 We need a HOME button to get to the main site

There are more and we will look at every suggestion seriously.  

I dont think the checking of some posts before they are classed as suitable for posting is working particularly well.

Although I appreciate checking is required and I am sure the Moderators are very busy with this and other tasks, I think the delay is to long.

I added a post to catch the weekend traffic on Friday and it still hasn't appeared!

Also, although I think the web site is good for what it is, I do wish that terms like 'amazing, fanstastic' had not been banded about before launch as I honestly think it is fairly run of the mill, albeit on a huge scale with some nice features it certainly isn't 'wow' inspiring.

I remember visiting Tolga's website and thinking 'cool', but I guess that is the trade off between something that needs to be very functional and something that can afford to be more glamorous but possibly time consuming to navigate through, so i do appreciate the time and effort,

Russ