Attn: MCN.......please help?

I hardly ever post on this board anymore because I can't tell who I'm responding to or who has responded...it would be much more user friendly (and would have more traffic) if posts were listed in real time!

Thanks!

Hey guys!! Thanks for your input. Have you tried using the main feed at all. We've really tried to navigate away from the forum since it's somewhat outdated. The main feed posts in real time and operates in a very similar fashion to facebook. We're paying a lot of attention to what's said there as opposed to what's going on in the forums. We completely understand that the forum has been around longer, but we're constantly looking for ways to move forward, and the feed seems to be doing that. Your input and experience, however, is always what's most important so we desperately want to hear what you have to say. Let's talk about it! Basak MCN

First off, thanks for not only reading, but responding. I really appreciate knowing I'm not talking to outer space but a real person :)

Second, I'm an old dog and changes make me crazy, lol. I will give the feed a shot again, although I didn't like it before but am willing to try it again.

Third, is it that difficult to fix this one? Honestly, I don't know how hard it would be and maybe that is the reason it hasn't been changed? I know a lot of us from the older days of Eric Church's web site, really like the forum ways of things but if it's too difficult, I understand. On the other hand, if it's an easy fix, you sure could make a LOT of us happy :).

Once again, thank you for your response!!!

Chris

Thank you for responding .... but I agree with Chris.

As much as I don't like this forum, I hate the Main Feed even more! Yes, it's laid out similar to FB, which is a good thing - but the font color is too dark and hard to read. That's not the biggie though. If I want to have (or watch) a conversation about something, I have to scroll back through hundreds of "Can't wait until XXX" and "How do I get a M&G" posts to find it.

Call me outdated and tell me I need to move forward if you want, but *I* like to have conversations and it's just too damn hard on this forum. Hence, the lack of traffic and lack of feedback.

It would be great if you could "PIN" some of these questions that are constantly asked - coz it seems the newbies don't know how to look back a page or two to find the thread.

I check in occasionally - because I miss The Choir - but this new site still sux and not sure MCN is willing to change it (they pay more attention to the main feed because we are outdated and need to move forward!! really??)

Yes, let's talk about it ....

I have to say that I agree with these ladies 110% ~ These boards are very confusing and hard to follow. I don't care for the live feed.

I have to say having been in the EC community for a LOOOOONG time (longer then MCN lol), the community was always a HUGE HUGE part of Eric's appeal. His boards were *ALWAYS* hoping...and now they are super slow. it's sad to see. :-(

Maybe it's old fashioned....but I miss easy to use message boards...I miss the community....I miss the fun...that was just as much of Eric's appeal as the music.

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Yes Patti - I think that is my frustration and you said it so much better!! It's the community/family of "The Choir" that I miss interacting with on here. Perhaps they don't understand the importance of "The Choir" and that we don't think of ourselves as a fan club but more of a family.

Drew, you rock!!

I couldn't even figure out how to get a reply posted here...I did check out the Main Feed...briefly...it struck me as quite "twitterish"...I didn't really see the opportunity to have an actual dialect or conversation of any length...though, I may not have given it enough time...I'm a simple girl...I miss the easy flow of the older message boards that were, indeed, simple...but were always a great place to share and find out new info. Made some great friends through that board and planned many a pre-Church get together...sometimes simple is better...just a thought...I would love for the posts to be listed in chronological order...that makes it much easier to keep up! I really do miss all the chatter on here...I assure you, I have never utilized any other message boards...so I don't have much to compare it to...so, for what it's worth, those are my thoughts on the matter.

I agree with Shawn, Patti, Carla & Drew.....just even trying to figure out who posted what and when they posted it made me crazy!

All I'm asking is that the new posts go to the bottom of the thread so I can read it in chronological order.

Remember, I'm old and get confused really easy! LOL

Thanks again.

...Like these young ladies, I am part of the old guard.... one of the ones who was posting every day on Eric's original website. Like they are saying, the boards are not user friendly to use. The feed is far to limiting. I won't use it for the same reason I won't use twitter. Sometimes 140 characters isn't enough.... our perceived lack of usefulness is why some choir members have set up their own pages on social media sites so we can talk/post/comment the way we used to. Using say...
Facebook ....as a model wouldn't be so bad. :) Steve

Ditto - I rarely check the boards anymore unless I really need something. Too hard to follow!

See the frustration lies in stuff like this....

I tried to answer a new posters question about Eric's band members....

AFTER I posted I realized I had posted my info backwards (lol...I said Driver/Lee were on E's right - but they are on OUR RIGHT)...so I tried to EDIT the post....Nope wouldn't work....there is no delete....so I had typed the correct info...created a new post saying "sorry I had it backwards in the last post" then copy and pasted the correct info - and it reverted to the wrong info....

FINALLY i was able to do a new post w/the correct info. BUT it should have been an easy edit or a delete. The old boards let us delete for a short while before it wouldn't let us.

I was "trying" to follow a thread...read the first thread that was posted, had to scroll to the bottom and read it upwards...then in the midst of that mess was "quotes" so I just gave up!!!!!!!

Even my own thread here is pissing me off trying to figure who posted when ... before or after the person that just posted.

I give up. Sorry Eric.

When reading posts I often have to look at the date and time of the posts to figure it out.

Thanks to MCN for sending out the survey via email regarding our concerns!!

Hope you get some good feedback and are able to follow-through with it.

Chris - if everyone replies to your original post, it goes under there in reverse order; if they reply to a specific post - aka "a quote" - it goes under that (however, I can't reply to a certain post (quote) so all mine are replying to the original post) Got it?? LOL

To MCN:

Were we all supposed to receive the survey that was sent out today? I know of a few members who did not, including myself.

Thanks!
Drew

Hey guys! Thanks so much for all of your great input. Just wanted to let you know that we do hear you and appreciate all of the feedback you guys give on a regular basis. If you'll notice, the forum posts will now be listed with the most recent posts last, as you requested. I hope this makes everything easier. Also, keep in mind that we are trying to gear things more toward the main feed, so things that are posted there will be seen and monitored more frequently. Thanks again! Basak, MCN

You'll also notice that a reply to the entire thread will have a transparent background, while a reply to a specific post in that thread will have a solid grey background. I hope that minimizes the confusion! B MCN

way to go Choir ...thanks for listening MCN

...but I still have to admit, I don't really care for the "solid or transparent" posts. On the old forum (Yep, I'm one of the "old guard" too, lol) EVERYTHING was in chronoligical order. Even quotes... See, when someone replied to a quote, it copied the original text above your reply, and placed it at the bottom. It was very simple and easy to figure out what was what and what went where, etc..

I don't know if this matters, but not everyone in the world likes twitter. And not everyone in the world likes facebook, post-changes. It was all over the news, even.

If you go back and look at the old EC forum, it worked. It was always busy. We all loved it and because of the ease of it, we made new and lasting friendships and expanded our families to include one another.

Awwwww, I'm so happy you guys fixed this! There were four new replies since I came in quickly yesterday and they were SO much easier to find and made sense reading them. I think I only saw a couple of them, the other must have been a quoted reply or something, but it's all good! Thank you again and again and again!

I'm trying to do the Main Feed too...I'll keep "practicing" everyday until I figure it out and to see if I like it better or not.

Seriously, thank you again. It's SO much easier to read and keep track of what people are posting.

Chris

Thanks! Much easier to figure out what's going on!!! Very cool that you implemented the suggestions so quickly!!!

glad they are listening to all of you and the comments are in order. Just feel the whole look of the website is to cluttered and dark. Simple is sometimes better. Just my opinion.

a like button...LOL

Laurie.....LOL! I think FaceBook even needs a like button for private messages! :)

Is there a search button around here? I wanted to search a certain thread and I can't seem to find it...so I tried to find a search button and couldn't find that either?

Just curious.