Major Changes coming up...

[primsong]

Okay, I'm out on a limb here but want all of you from the Fanclub boards to have a heads-up. There's going to be a change in the Decipher boards very soon - possibly this week. It will be a shift to the standard YaBB format of message board. Some of you are already familiar with these, others will find them confusing at first but once you get used to them, not too bad.

*******This is NOT to be talked about, mentioned or inferred on the boards themselves yet!****** Please - it could really rock the boat for us. Decipher wants it mum until they iron out some background details, and it is at this point in time still confidential.

BUT I want all of you to have time to think about it and get used to it, not have it sprung on you all at once. Decipher doesn't understand the community we have. There will probably be a small overlap where both kinds may be available, but I'm not for certain on that. Watch for the "Real Announcement" from Decipher on all of the boards soon, then proceed from there on adjusting your registration, etc. and remember "Don't Panic"!

Now, where did I put my manual on "duck and cover"?

Comments

[the-tinidril.livejournal.com]

YaBB stands for "Yet another Bulletin Board". It's a format you have probably seen and used but just didn't realize what it was called... =)

Unlike the Fan Club boards, the posts are not "threaded" like an outline (with indented replies). It's a lot like the FotK message boards (EZboard.com). Old messages are archived on pages within a discussion instead of scrolling off the server like they do currently in the Fan Club.

I like the way LJ handles replies. Journal "topic" posts are displayed on the main page and the replies are threaded inside each journal topic. I find that the visual threading helps me keep track of who is responding to whom... somthing that can get confusing with the YaBB style.

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I don't like having to "quote" someone further up the thread if you want to reply directly to them. The Narnia boards I frequent are like that too. The nice thing about a Yabb board though is most of them let you turn on a feature to let you know if someone has responded in a thread you are watching. That's a nice feature. This Narnia one even gives you a bit of the actual post in the e-mail so you can read it without actually going to the board itself.

I know alot of people have been critical over the years of the style of Decipher's boards, but I kinda like 'em and I'll miss 'em when they're gone. ::sigh:: oh well.