Any plans to improve the forums-

Just little things that would make navigating and finding these easier, like a better search engine?

Also things like being able to better track threads you have replied to.  Right now you can look at them in your profile, but they don't all show up.  Also, at the bottom of the list when you go to page 2, it is blank.  

I like checking back on threads to see how things are going but it is near impossible to do that here unless I remember the exact name of the thread and I search from google using the "search term site:trusnow.com" method.  

Or are we just waiting to be completely absorbed by The House and then close down the forums entirely?

Agreed!!!!!  Not that I've bought a bunch of stuff here, but I do look here.  If I'm not trolling on the sites, I don't see a need to come back to the TruSnow website. 

 

Just because improvements aren't being made to the forums doesn't mean they're going away. Development costs are a whole different animal than maintenance costs, and the forums may not be where active wants to drop their tech budget this year. There's been really no indications that any part of TS is going away (memberpoints system, forums, etc) other than a lack of comment on threads like this, but then there's a lack of comment from the top on most anything around here under the new ownership. I'd say no news is good news, and we'll have to deal with the slight annoyances of the forum limping along with all it's brokenness we've come to accept as normal.

To me, the forum looks like its optimized for a lower traffic and simpler "customer service" type base. But really on the flip side the developers did a nice job integrating user profiles, forums and reviews into one integral system. But for people who are used to the vBulletin forums, this place is a total 180. They have some kinks like the page two and "helpful?" dead ends and a buggy google search, it's a business. As long as the business front isn't crumbling I don't think we're going to see any real changes or updates to our beloved forum. 

Observation:

They've developed a nice facade for casual forum goers. Most of the issues are a couple layers deep, specifically the "Is this review helpful?" and the page two dead end pages. The search bar issue should not be a hard fix for the IT guy though and should really be taken care of. I'm typing this with my Smiths on. 

Ideally, when they switch over full to the house, I think they should completely drop whatever the use for these forums and transfer them over to a different forum software that actually works.  There is just too much here that doesn't work.  My "Better forum Searching" thread (http://www.trusnow.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=47296) has not gotten one employee response, which leads me to think they do not plan to fix it.  

They do have the power of greyskull to spam posts; however, the number of active Expert members has definitely dwindled after the switch from SS to TS.  I remember logging on here during the prime Sierra days, and there'd be a minimum of 10 expert members on site pretty much any time of day.

If they were going to can the free stuff they would have done it already.  In my opinion, it's too big of a draw - I'm sure a lot of people end up on the site with the lure of free gear and that just leads to more sales.

I actually forgot about the giveaway...since my province does not observe DST, I'm always commuting when that happens until everyone else shifts again.

I hate seeing this as the "official" response to any TS/SS issue. Really?! Unless you plan to back up your claim don't bother posting it. 

Does this mean that the were not issues BEFORE they were bought by The House?  I mean, I think these are issues that have been going on for some time and should have been addressed awhile ago, even before The House bought them.  

I can view threads I have posted in, but when I click on page 2, it moves to threads that I started...

Which is better then the search function, but requires you to know the name of the thread.

There are a couple I check on like the "It's Snowing By Me" which has been renamed "Good Vibes" but the google search only pulls up the original thread name...

What a great tip!

I got it to go back 285 posts which is 20 pages! 

Haha this was me! wooo.  I forgot I used Bruizza's page to do it originally.