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

[Duaine Hechler]

Several months ago, I submitted a far better solution that I am implementing for my Barbershop Chapters' website - I'm 
the webmaster - called eGroupware.    http://www.egroupware.org/ *It fixes a lot of the complaints that everyone is having.*

And like most everything else that has been discussed on this list - or better yet - ignored on this list - my 
suggestion *also* got ignored.

SO, even though I'm not a current member, I am another voice to try and get things better.

Duaine

On 06/28/2011 09:03 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
> 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
>
>
>


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