Why All The Locked Posts? New Forum Software?

Kind of off topic I guess but they should have at least kept the first and largest one (Shiny New Forum) up here. This is kind of the main Sonar forum as it deals with the flagship products and people need to figure out how to navigate this new forum software. In fact it should probably be a sticky (at least for a while) as the Baker post was immediately locked. There were lots of helpful posts in the big thread that got flushed and those who don't visit the CH won't see it after it rolls of the front page here.... which will inevitably end up with tons of off topic questions about the new software which have already been answered.

Beepster
Kind of off topic I guess but they should have at least kept the first and largest one (Shiny New Forum) up here. This is kind of the main Sonar forum as it deals with the flagship products and people need to figure out how to navigate this new forum software. In fact it should probably be a sticky (at least for a while) as the Baker post was immediately locked. There were lots of helpful posts in the big thread that got flushed and those who don't visit the CH won't see it after it rolls of the front page here.... which will inevitably end up with tons of off topic questions about the new software which have already been answered.

Totally agree Beep.

Beepster
Hi, Keni. You're doing better than I and many of us then with the transition. There's just some nuances and preference settings that were causing some confusion. I actually didn't mean this post in specific was off topic just that that's probably why all those other ones got sent to the CH. If you want a laugh check out the Shiny New Forum thread to watch as I flailed about trying to get my bearings. lol
 
Hope you've been well.
 
@John... Yeah, you just know we're gonna see a few months of people stumbling back in to the forum and being confused. That thread covered most little tweaks that can be done to get things the way people like. It's all still a tad too busy for my liking but I've managed to get comfortable with the new set up. Cheers.

Hi Beepster...
 
I can't say I'm comfortable with it, but it seems pretty straight forward for the mostpart (for the basics I guess)... My first gripe? The nice, clean, uncluttered look "uses" a lot of space to achieve this and therefore I see less on screen at any one time....
 
Just like X1 did to 8.5.3! ;-)
 
Keni
 

This new forum has that facebook feel . Bla.....the all white color makes it really hard to read threads / and to differentiate between threads .. Not a fan at all ..
This hurts my eyes..

Hi Guys!
 
I moved the threads to the Coffee House because they were taking up almost a whole page of the SONAR forum. I love all the conversations, but it just didn't seem relevant to SONAR. I know why people often put things in that forum, 'cause it's right at the top and where most people notice things. This newer software allows people to more easily see active topics in other forums now though, so it's much less necessary then it was before. I don't know about you guys, but I've been using the "Posts" drop down on the menu bar a lot (in the Default Theme) to see what's happening when I've had some down time.
 
Anyhow, when you move a thread, it asks if you would like to leave a notice. The "locked" threads you're seeing are just notices that threads were moved. After a while I sort of figured everyone knew things were being moved to the Coffee House so I stopped leaving notices.
 
All of the original threads are still open, they're just here in the Coffee House.
 
Sorry for the initial growing pains!

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]
Hi Guys!
 
I moved the threads to the Coffee House because they were taking up almost a whole page of the SONAR forum. I love all the conversations, but it just didn't seem relevant to SONAR. I know why people often put things in that forum, 'cause it's right at the top and where most people notice things. This newer software allows people to more easily see active topics in other forums now though, so it's much less necessary then it was before. I don't know about you guys, but I've been using the "Posts" drop down on the menu bar a lot (in the Default Theme) to see what's happening when I've had some down time.
 
Anyhow, when you move a thread, it asks if you would like to leave a notice. The "locked" threads you're seeing are just notices that threads were moved. After a while I sort of figured everyone knew things were being moved to the Coffee House so I stopped leaving notices.
 
All of the original threads are still open, they're just here in the Coffee House.
 
Sorry for the initial growing pains!

Hi, Ryan. Yeah, that's perfectly understandable. It was getting cluttered but the one big thread could have stayed. It would save you having to move more threads in the future as those locked threads will roll off soon and lots of users aren't here every day like some of us.
 
Just a suggestion.
 

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]
Hi Guys!
 
I moved the threads to the Coffee House because they were taking up almost a whole page of the SONAR forum. I love all the conversations, but it just didn't seem relevant to SONAR. I know why people often put things in that forum, 'cause it's right at the top and where most people notice things. This newer software allows people to more easily see active topics in other forums now though, so it's much less necessary then it was before. I don't know about you guys, but I've been using the "Posts" drop down on the menu bar a lot (in the Default Theme) to see what's happening when I've had some down time.
 
Anyhow, when you move a thread, it asks if you would like to leave a notice. The "locked" threads you're seeing are just notices that threads were moved. After a while I sort of figured everyone knew things were being moved to the Coffee House so I stopped leaving notices.
 
All of the original threads are still open, they're just here in the Coffee House.
 
Sorry for the initial growing pains!

 

Thanks Ryan...
I'll definitely reserve any judgements until I have really put it thru some paces... May take me a while... right now my only peeve is that the zoom function isn't working in Firefox 21 and I really would love to reduce the size of all the data and have more on screen as I can scan faster...
 
Keni