[pianotech] Really, really irritated with the New forum system

[Encore Pianos]

Oh, so we have a monthly or yearly fee for a shitty software program that
doesn't work well and sometimes not at all,  and the vendor doesn't fix when
it needs to be fixed.  It just keeps getting better.....

So who is going to scream bloody murder at Council for us?   Does this mean
that some people are able to act like grownups and acknowledge this is a
huge mistake, and work to find a better solution that meets our needs.

I don't think that I am being selfish in advocating for Pianotech here.  In
many ways Pianotech had become a better resource than the Journal - witness
how many articles in the Journal have been lifted from Pianotech.  Is
anybody listening?

Will



-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:32 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Really, really irritated with the New forum system

On 6/28/2011 6:34 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
>  I have to
> question how much value those who were responsible for setting up this 
> system place on the forum, or they would have payed a lot more 
> attention to how it was actually being used by us.

Little to none, nearly as I can tell. The change was made for administrative
reasons and benefits. We're just a complication.


>No one is willing to say how much this thing cost - did
> we get this program out of the $5 bin at Walmart?

Hardly the $5 bin, and the question isn't what it cost, but what it's 
costing. It wasn't purchased outright. It's an ongoing perpetual expense 
of (still) unspecified cost, and the entire structure of the PTG is in 
the hands and whim of the suppliers of this alleged system. That ought 
to be comforting to everyone.


> I think that the Forum had become one of the very best resources for a
> great many Guild members. A year ago, it was lively and vital. Not so
> much now. Have they killed the goose that laid the golden egg? Do they
> even care?

Go with what you see. The fact that you fell back on the old soon to be 
ditched system to even get a post off ought to be a pretty good 
indication of reasonable expectation from the new system.

Ron N