Rather than start another thread on this, I would like to congratulate Ian on his quiet background operations.
There is an ongoing thread on another forum I use, which is almost getting to be a giggle. It has , so far, taken about 6 months for the Admin to change the format and servers.
Ian has done it (I think) in two discrete and virtually unseen 12 hour operations.
I know little about in depth programming.
I have a 6 page website, which I wrote myself. (It is entirely unrelated to Windows) I have to change some of the detail and format, on a six month basis, due to its nature, This is prepared on my hard disk (about a half hours work) and the upload takes about 10 minutes. A recent change of providers took about 15 minutes. This time scale would be for any simple site owner, and requires very little programming knowledge.
I do realise that it is a more complicate issue with sites such as this, with members and othert Dbases running. But Ian seems to do it in a remarkably good time.
The forum I refer to has, with "improvements" become a jungle of lables and sub headings.
I prefer simplicity. I am on forums such as this, partly because of the "cyber" friendship it creates, but also because I feel, (Not Always!!) that I can pass on information to help others.
I do hope that we never, for example, start a (imo) dreaded merit system. On the forum mentioned, for example, one can give a credit point, without expanation, to any subscriber, but, by the same mouse click, a demerit point requires an explanation before it will be progressed. You don't need much imagination to see how that can be misused! Most forums I now visit, have dropped the practise, none of them allow a "demerit" option. Apart from other flaws, it does, of course, develop a love or hate relationship between members.
Another problem with the site is the careless use og the open thread forum. This goes by various names on sites, but is a section used to discuss anything which is not appropriate to the site generally (Window 7, for example) On the other site, this is almost totally dedicated to links to a music site, which, of course, members could link to without going through a third party Windows 7 forum. In connection with this, news items are posted as new posts.
If the site is accessed after a half day cooling period say, a likely staistic is to find more than a hundred "New posts". only a quarter of these, at best, would actually relate to Windows 7.
Coming to this site today, not on for about 20 hours, I find 20 posts, but they are all directly related to Windows7.
What is the point of this rambling, you are now saying? Call it a shot across the bows. I hope this site stays in its present, straightforward, format and remains dedicated to good solid discussion on Windows issues.
Keep up the good work, Ian.
