Nelson, I think the new site is fine., but I was OK with the old site. I suppose it works a little faster, and I never use a mobile app for accessing these types of forums, so I can’t comment on mobile.
The biggest negative was a lack of an email to reset my password and the fact that my old password would not work. I figured out how to reset and get back on, but I feel like you lost some posters in the transition.
Another negative with older posts, you seem to have lost some kind of HTML formatting. I picked a piece of text at random such as ““arthritis”” I am sure this was easy to read in the old website but it now looks like a formatting error.
I was initially confused about replying to a thread automatically causes me to quote the poster as opposed to going to the end of the thread and using the post reply button if I just want to post a general comment. I would have liked to see post reply and post reply with quote, but I am already used to the new method.
The drop down menu for inserting a quote isn’t very obvious, but I figured it out by highlighting each option in turn and assuming you didn’t remove it entirely, just have to invoke it a different way.
Another initially puzzling thing was thread filter is automatically set to only show unread threads, at first I was confused where threads were disappearing to. I read the thread, think about replying but want to read another before I reply, then can’t find the thread. I then realized it was because of the unread filter option being on. Anther thing about the filter, if I set to show me all threads whether I have read them or not, went click out of
excel male and open up the a new window, the filer defaults to only show unread threads, there is no way to make a sticky choice on how I want to filter threads. I don’t know how difficult it would be to make the choice stick when I open a new window.
I have evaluated a lot of software in my time, generally the problems are ones that users don’t see, such as your example of being penalized by google in search results, which I wouldn’t know about. Also typical is software that works just fine with a few users but can’t scale up when the number of users soars.
Overall I have no problems, keep up the good work.
John