Nope just part of modding forum now. but this new way of arranging categories is so f****** confusing. The old way filled way more, but atleast there was a system that was easy to use.
I've almost stopped reading the forums completely since the switch. I HATE the new layout. Makes it soo much more complicated to find even the simplest thing. I used to visit every day (and read about 90% of the new posts), but now I hate the layout so I only visit about once every other week and I only stay for about 15 minutes. Still a lot of really good information here, but this layout/scheme/whatever must go.
Maybe someone should ask one of the admins to make a poll about the design and put it as a front page news so everybody knows there there is a poll about the layout. Personal opinion. Bigger mess then my computer closet (and then it´s really bad)
I also liked it the way it was before, alot of the forums seem to be doing very well with the new format but after a brief spate just after the change when old electronics threads got finished up all the electronics stuff has died, its a shame because there used to be quite a few people who would jump in and offer advice or discuss things. Moriquendi
Use. The. Tags. It's not confusing, you lot are just lazy We've just checked and there has been a drop for the electronics forum, but it was long before the forum change. In 2005 it was doing 100+ threads a month, but in the last two years it's dropped right off and hasn't still picked up. Imo it's because people aren't modding like they used to: there are no solder yourself VFDs/LCDs to do now, or it's not really that popular. The whole modding scene has changed fundamentally. The other forums are doing well and we are constantly re-evaluating it and will take it into account. However, for the 50 millionth time we are NOT changing it back to "the old style" You lot are probably just sore because now you have to share the chairs and biscuits with the modding crowd who get grease and paint on everything. I bet you've read more modding threads that you wouldn't have known existed otherwise.
ya, but thats not the problem, nor is that what anyone is talking about. there are hardly any threads with those tags anymore, and if they do they get buried. i'd like to see the numbers from when bit-tech started till 2005, from 2005 till the new forums, then from new forums till now. if you get the time, post em please! very few people, in this thread at least, are asking you to change it back to the old format. i think we would just like to see electronics in its own forum is all. just something to think about.
I'd prefer the electronics forum to be separated, but since the change I don't spend very long on here because it's such a hassle. I've found some other forums for electronics which don't mix their topics The clock thread is the only one I look out for now
Oh, really where wouldn't mind checking that out. And tis a terrible shame to loose out on the sheer genius that is SteveyG because of some modding posts!
I spend more time on dutchforce, linear1 and the microchip forums now. Don't worry, I still check this forum when I can so there'll be replies to proper electronics questions
sweet! checking out those forums now (i knew about microchip). are they as well-visited, i.e. it doesn't take 4 days to get a reply?
dutchforce and microchip are very well visited. There's only a few active members on linear1 forums, but lots of knowledge for anything LED based and you still get replies within a day .
I really don't understand how it's a hassle to click one thing to filter by tags and have your whole forum back again. There's simply not enough traffic to justify a separate electronics forum and it would defeat the whole point of using the tags. Bit start to 05 = growth for bit in general, plus we didn't have an electronics forum. 2005-new forums = decline, new forums to now (just 6 weeks) = status quo. Seems like we've just lost anyone who would ever care about the leccy forum anyway
You get electronics questions under n00b, help, request etc. too, but those are also mixed in with modding questions, which means you have to trawl through those in addition to the ones under the electronics tag. If everyone who had an electronics question posted under electronics then it wouldn't be so bad
Isn't that kind of mutually exclusive goals, on one hand encourage people to use tags to only see the topics they want and then say "look you'll see lots of other threads as well" which they wont as they will be using tags?
