Azurite was not referring to the lack of current forum features, but the way that Tom communicates with us through text. It can be understandable at times, but less so at others.
No one will question the work Tom actually does, both for us and for the YouTube channel - in that aspect he's impeccable.
Still, we all have our flaws
agreed but tom gets a hell of a lot of undeserved flak, i re-read the op and it could be construed as petulent complaining. The last sentence in particular got my hackles up and i have nothing to do with the forum running.
So we just got used to the new look a few months ago. Now heres the new look, lacking everything good the older version had. Im sure theres several reasons for these adjustments but for me its annoying. I friggin hate coordinating here now
My inbox had several hundred msg's i had deleted but had to delete once again. My picture is gone and my signature looks different. If i want to see this weeks/days/3days posts there should be an option for it still
Also the pics looks better before this change
Im sure i got several other things i can discuss but my time atm is limited.
then theres comments that could easily be interpreted as a personal assault on his credibility, even with smilies in place (not saying it is, just it could be interpreted) as tom disabled posting on his page for a specific reason and now people simply resort to asking questions in toms threads instead of here where they should be asked and in my eyes tom is perfectly right to insult them (on his own page) if they can't follow simple requests.
tom's to busy insulting people on facebook and feeding his ego to fix this
not trying to start a flame war, just been on my mind thats all.
I dont want to get kicked from the site for saying that but we are all entitled to our opinions.
now i'm not saying that they actually are, but from a tired, overworked perspective, i'm sure we can all agree that we've all reacted in a similar manner as tom has. all he see's is majority complaints with very few congrats for the work he has done (or whoever runs the forums) to quickly port the previous forum across with minimal delays, downtime and loss of content.
i for one am proud of the speed of the oc3d team in reacting to the situation, without unduly compromising the integrity of the forums as a malicious code intrusion could easily have been ported as well. thats probably why the forum itself is at the base building blocks, to ensure any malicious code doesn't get inadvertantly resubmitted back to the forums so we end up back at square one all over on a different provider.
all tom asks is that we are patient, while the forum is rebuilt to as close as possible as vB code allows to get to IPB code, and yes it is gonna take some time and we have to accept that features we used will be missing and potentially may never return due to code incompatibility. its one of the strategic risks you take with any decision of this sort of magnitude.
anyway my mini rant is over and i hope no-one sees this as a directed attack, and hope they see this post for what it actually is, an end to questions and requests that quite clearly are not currently warranted at this time. as everyone is aware by now of what is missing in direct comparison of the forum host coding
if you did take offence, i am sorry, but i say it like i see it, thats just who i am and i hope a line in the sand can be drawn under this time of transition and the oc3d team will be given chance to weave their coding magic, as and when it is ready to be released onto the live forum
