T4 - T5 Club UK

 

 

 

Transporter Talk August 2010

 

As all our members will undoubtedly now notice our site upgrading process after a few hitches worked remarkably well, i can now confirm that it was a bit touch and go and undoubtedly took a bit longer than first expected however with the community and forum we now have it was worth the wait.

 

Many changes have been made to both the overall design, concept and running of our entire online presence, by so doing it is hoped we have managed to iron out mosy of the glitches, annoyances and such like that have plauqed our community over the preceeding months, some issues are outwith our control to remedy however i should also take this oppurtunity to add that several other forum and website software will be getting trialled over the coming months with a veiw to a possible future complete change in hosts/suppliers but it should be stressed one of the main reasons this was not carried out this or any other time problems occured was quite simple most major changes of this sort would mean we would loose ALL forum posts, all threads and a great deal of our websitee knowledge built up over the now 2 + years we have been online a simple matter i am not willing to allow, we have worked hard at finding answers building thsi community and shaping it the way we want it so the thought of starting all over again from scratch simply fills us with horror hense remedies have always previously been sourced from with-in not to say we will never move over to a better more functionable site/community/forum just not anytime soon least untill a way of saving our built up knowledge base a completely...

 

 

Our main forum content has been moved around, some forums have been removed, some added and some simply moved in order of importance in the list, to hopefully make the whole forum experience more intuative, easier to use, and take part in with the most used areas nearer the top, with-in this process we have pruned back some areas and removed posts that have no relevance to a forum, or moved them to where they have, in an overall tidying up of our forum area, which will help our search facility to find posts, it is off course hoped that members will make use of this function before posting thus saving our main members myself included from having to answer the same questions over and over again with this in mind we have added a basics forum where basic information of the typr frequently asked of us will reside you know the type of thing "where is my bonnet catch" or "where is my vin plate" type questions in an attempt at only having to answer such queries once

 

A few of us continue to contribute over and above what is expected which keeps us evolving day on day month on month you know who you are and once again i salute those members, whilst asking once again for EVERY member making use of our community to consider that without members contributions/participation we would not be here, we are after all a members community where ALL members are supposed to participate fully in every area possible thus growing our information and equally our community, making it far more attractive to new members, this said in our recent upgrading process all members will notice changes in their accounts and their privelages as we now revert back to the original untouched system which does so reward users who are using our community and not those who dont, with this in mind we revert to our original those who particiapte gain more from the overall community presence "the fair way"

 

Some forums are now locked to some members this is to enable the more indepth more precise knowledge to be offered only to those willing to add to our overall content in this way rewarding those who particpate, those who put in the hours, days, weeks and months service to keep this community moving forwards essentially from now on if you wish to have full access, to be able to make full use of everything we supply then you need to participate simple as that .....