New Web Site Stinks - I give up | For the Good of the Order | Forum

Dave,
I am sorry that you are feeling alienated, that was definitely not what the board was wanting, and not what I wanted at all.
The forum contents in the new site is exactly as it was in the old site. The what's new button has changed, and it does not work as nicely as the old what's new, but I am creating a workaround for that. I agree that What's New needs to be easier to find and read. I am not sure what else you cannot find, if you are specifically looking for something that is not there then why not ask me? I put some of the members only stuff into the main web pages because they were not really conversations, they were things that should be in a page instead. So if you need help there I would be glad to answer your questions.
The gallery pages are coming back as are the HIN pages, there was a giant technical problem that is resolvable and is on the to do list.
The articles, and events should be easier to find now, that is what I changed the most on the site. I agree there are a lot of bugs to work out, but I believe they will be worked out. I am looking into changing the math quiz for members' posts now, that is the kind of feedback that is helpful to me and I can respond to.
We will miss your contributions to the NWBA, if indeed you really are leaving. It does not really make sense to me that your dislike of the website will cause you to leave the organization completely, you will miss out on a lot of events and blacksmithing... but maybe you only wanted to be a part of the forum.  In any case I am sorry that you are so unhappy with the website that you have decided to quit.

I am sorry to all who think the forum is impossible to navigate. In the move of the forum I did not change the forum structure very much at all. The main thing I changed was moving some of the NWBA members only stuff into the content management pages, that is, under the main menu links. Al Bart Grant, Library, Member Roster. Other than that the forums are all under the same headings, with the topics and threads all the same. All the attachments are there too. I may be dense but I am not sure why it is so hard. I get that you hate it and I want to address those issues.  I think some people agree with you and others do not. 

Give me some examples of what you are not finding and maybe I can help you.  

Larry,
Thank you for all these specifics. I agree these things need attention. Now I just opened the forum and without doing anything else to it since I last looked at it the pages are broken. I am working hard, but many unpredicted things are happening. I really really appreciate your trying to show me what is going badly so I can try to fix it.
I am sad too that you are discouraged to the point of possibly giving up. thank you for understanding that I am not trying to ruin things for everyone.

Regarding Topic Titles:

If you are logged in, you can edit your own topic titles:

Go to the Main Forum Page, where Forums are listed. (there is an up/down triangle on the right side of the lists, just under the button 'Group RSS', which when clicked either expands so you can see all the sub forums or collapses to hide them)

Expand the Forums and subforums until the topic you want to edit is showing in the list, just the topic titles, not the posts under each topic.

Then, when you find the one you want to edit, and it has to have been created by you, you mouse over the TOPIC TITLE and just to the left of it pops up a little picture of a wrench. Mouse over that wrench and you will get the popup message "Open the forum toolset". In there you can choose to edit the topic title.

Andrea,
There are many places where the new things are listed.
On the HOME page the Upcoming Events and Recent Posts (articles not forum) are in a list on the right hand side of the page. On HOME page at the bottom of the page are a list of the most recent Forum posts.
On the Forum pages the list of the latest forum posts, most recent at the top. The links need to be fixed to show up in a better way... the first link in each listing is to the Topic itself, which may go back pretty far, the second part of the link which is the specific new thread takes you directly to the new post. I will be working on changing the way it displays so it is clearer and doesn't take you to the ancient first post in that topic.
I will be working on these things in a manner that may seem slow, but to hack into the code for displaying what I want takes some thinking room and I don't want to go breaking the pages... so I am taking it on when I have a bit more time in a sitting to attend to the details. I am sorry that the job is taking so long... I have to actually do paying jobs which takes me away from the website rebuild.