Bring back the old form.

[HolmeBass]

How about updating it to perform like the old platform

Also, strictly speaking, it DOES perform like the old site, but even better.

You are complaining about the layout of where the controls are, and how threads are displayed. That’s not performance.

If the site wasn’t performing, we would not be typing this back and forth on it.

 

[GreyBeard]

That is entirely out of the hands of the people who run Talkbass.

You would have to convince the developers of the platform to allow that kind of styling in their product, and then TB management to make use of those features. It is more complex than a simple reskinning.

I think the look and feel of this site is now more in line with what is seen as the current state of the art. So you are trying to convince someone to “make it worse” in their mind.

Maybe just try embracing change and putting a positive spin on it. Within a few weeks you will be used to it. The chance of you talking someone into 10’s of thousands of dollars of software dev work, if not more, is slim to none.

So, you are saying that a lot of this is out of your hands. Fair enough.

 

[HolmeBass]

So, you are saying that a lot of this is out of your hands. Fair enough.

Yeah, it is entirely out of my hands, I don’t manage or moderate TB at all.

But even the folks that do run Talkbass probably didn’t write the software for the hosting platform. Depending on configurability, it might be either impossible or cost prohibitive to make this site look exactly like the old site.

The owners may simply want it to look more modern. Things change, right?

 

[Minimalist]

But even the folks that do run Talkbass probably didn’t write the software for the hosting platform. Depending on configurability, it might be either impossible or cost prohibitive to make this site look exactly like the old site.

The owners may simply want it to look more modern. Things change, right?

I would think a lot is outsourced to these folks:

From my very unscientific observation, the average Talkbass user is 50+ years old. That is not a crowd you can build a sustainable business model on. So, a refresh to cater to younger users is more than justified in this case.

Could be that the update was driven by regulatory requirements. Some privacy concerns may have not been able to get resolved with the old platform.

It may be that the old platform is simply not running on a new server platform anymore. Maybe an update was in the works, but the old server died and that forced TB to act. No choice but an unplanned and rushed update.

Without knowing what drove the update, it's all speculation, though.

One thing is certain, and that is, that the old site is gone. It's not coming back.

 

[ardgedee]

ICould be that the update was driven by regulatory requirements. Some privacy concerns may have not been able to get resolved with the old platform.

It may be that the old platform is simply not running on a new server platform anymore. Maybe an update was in the works, but the old server died and that forced TB to act. No choice but an unplanned and rushed update.

Without knowing what drove the update, it's all speculation, though.

Why speculate? Staff have said in other threads that the old platform had been End-Of-Lifed by the vendor and they had to source a new one to ensure ongoing site security.

The GDPR in Europe (and CCPA in California, and similar laws in other non-EU countries) miiiight have had a part in it, but those laws have been in effect for 6 years already. Since this site is sufficiently small in scale most of the regulations can be enforced manually (including content restrictions, which this site had been doing all along anyway). It's really the massive international social media sites like Facebook where issues like right-to-be-forgotten get onerous.

 

[_Obra_]

I also want it back to old. Hate the new look and behaviour of the site!