First off, I DO like the new format. I can certainly live with these changes, and I have no intention of abandoning the BEST treasure hunting site on the internet.
I have one friendly suggestion which might merit the consideration of the new owners. Long ago, I had been interested in having a personal page for the sole purpose of being able to quickly find and keep track of my "Today's Finds" posts. This never happened, which was fine. It would've been a lot of trouble for the moderators at the time to move all of those "finds" posts, which probably numbered in the hundreds even then. The reason I was interested was this: For a member with 500 posts, it is not difficult to find old threads or replies. (The search feature works well for this.) But for a member that has been here as long as I have, with 10,000+ posts, it is quite a difficult thing to find old posts, or to see how much I had hunted in a certain year or month vs. what I found. I do REALLY like the "My Posts" categories of "My Threads" and "My Replies." Already, this is a HUGE improvement on the forum! I had two ideas about how to improve this further:
1. When a member clicks on "My Posts," is there any way that they could be categorized by the section of the forum they appear in, and listed by year? An organization system that would differentiate "replies" from "threads started" would be highly beneficial. For example, when "My Posts" is clicked, it could show a timeline that you could decide whether you'd like to see replies or threads started, then the user could scroll through the timeline to the month or year they wished to see. A filter would be very helpful if, say, the member wished to view only the threads that they had started in Today's Finds in 2008 for example, or view only their replies to others posts in March of 2010.
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2. The popular social networking site Facebook has a place where a member can write a "note." The New TreasureNet could perhaps employ something similar, where a member could post a private or public "note" on their profile, where they could share tips/techniques that would always be available to others (without another member having to search through someone's posts, or know in advance that such a post existed in order to search it). New members could then go to a long-standing member's profile page to look at their tips on detecting, coin-roll hunting, yard sale or auctioning, etc. Moderators could write "notes" that contained website "how-to's" or other pertinent information without cluttering up the top of an already shortened first page of a board with "sticky" posts. A member could write a public or private note and categorize all their "today's finds" posts by month or year by copying and pasting the links for those posts in a "note."
In closing, I do like the vast majority of the changes to the forum. Some changes along the lines of what I have described here will make the organization and management of a member's own content much easier, especially the long-standing members on TreasureNet.
I am just trying to envision some changes that others might find beneficial.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
Thanks!!Got it!Yea,its different but we will get used to it
