Date:   9/15/2010 10:18:37 PM ( 14 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1690041

Spuds,

Yes, the upside of the current CZ software is that it is text/ansii based. Making it easier for lower bandwidth machines to contend with yes.

Personally, I am also not a fan of gobs of images, flash (as in Adobe Flash), and all that glitz. Content aka text over glitz for me.

The only thing I was examining was not the ease or the dis-ease use of the site, but was offering one additional idea as to why CZ has dropped in rankings. Thas all.

However, since we're on the subject, the navigation and search aspects of the site are poor to put it mildly. So much great information and it is nested in a very poor application base. Too bad. I'd offered to a couple of forums awhile ago to try and create even just a wiki type environment, just to make more sense out of the difficulty in navigation and searching. But no takers.

There are several forum applications that can do this so much better. And still maintain a text centric posture that would favor the lower bandwidth users. There are some really worthy forums, like your new forum for sure, so the offer is still out there to a couple of forum owners (they know who they are). Just in case something happens down the road.

The real downside of CZ has been the lack of skilled, aw, forget that, just attentive moderation. That more than anything is why there is everything ranging from excitement to discontent.

Anyway, just my $0.01.

ck


 

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