THANK YOU Larry Auton, Alex Frakt, Phoenix...

mudfud · Post by **mudfud** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:52 pm

...and everyone else who worked so hard behind the scenes. The split format on diehards.org works beautifully.

Thanks again!

Mud

Post by **Mel Lindauer** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:00 pm

I couldn't agree more!

Regards,

Mel

Post by **Alex Frakt** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:51 pm

Thank you for your support. Time for a beer and bed.

xenial · Post by **xenial** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:10 am

Superb. You guys have done an unbelievable job.

Best wishes,
Ken

Sunny Sarkar · Post by **Sunny Sarkar** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:27 am

This is simply awesome!

Thanks a lot.

White Coat Investor · Post by **White Coat Investor** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:01 am

I just logged in for the first time since the change...awesome. Great work. This will help unite the community like nothing else.

Sunny Sarkar · Post by **Sunny Sarkar** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:02 am

Hi Alex & Larry,

A little constructive criticism, and you may have already considered this option: what if we go back to the original format of diehards.org with links on the left and one list on the right, except that list now contains posts from both forums intertwined, sorted by time (descending), distinguishable by something like perhaps a subtle change in background color or an icon or something (you get the idea). Since you now have interfaces to both forums in diehards.org, it'd probably be possible to create the wrapper. Just a thought.

Best wishes & Thanks!
Sunny

indexfundfan · Post by **indexfundfan** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:26 am

Awesome!

And I see that about twice as many conversations are updated on the new forum compared to the old forum.

cfs · Post by **cfs** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:52 am

Outstanding Job, all this progress made here in just a couple of weeks !!!

cfs

mapleosb · Post by **mapleosb** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:27 am

"Under promise and over deliver" Indeed!

Thanks to all who are making this a great place to be.

shadowrings · Post by **shadowrings** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:47 am

Outstanding job fellas!!

vickie

gummy · Post by **gummy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:49 am

I was gettin' frustrated with the M* restrictions.
Now this forum is GREAT !!
Many thanks to all who worked to get it up and running.

rob · Post by **rob** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:13 am

Nice job - a minor request -> Any chance we can indicate a poll on the message (like the board)??

bilperk · Post by **bilperk** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:15 am

Thanks a lot guys. This is getting better every day!

best,

Bill

CountryBoy · Post by **CountryBoy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:02 am

Thanks to everyone who have set up and are making this forum possible. We obviously all love it.

Equally obvious is the simple fact that M* will Never have the manpower, technical know how, software, and concern to make their forum anywhere near as good as this one.

Thank you Phoenix !!! Power to the people!!!

Country Boy

kathy · Post by **kathy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:16 am

Thank you Bogleheads and Diehards sooooooo much for
setting us all up so nicely with the split screen. This must
have been a mountain of work. You are all amazing!
kathy

Post by **Alex Frakt** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:34 am

Sunny wrote:...what if we go back to the original format of diehards.org with links on the left and one list on the right, except that list now contains posts from both forums intertwined, sorted by time (descending), distinguishable by something like perhaps a subtle change in background color or an icon or something (you get the idea).

We tried that. Actually Larry and I started out championing two different displays. He wanted to do as you suggested and I wanted 3 panes, the original two plus one for this forum.

So each of us worked on our own design separately. We got them to workin (minus bells and whistles), but found that each had its own insurmountable problem. My 3 panel required a resolution of at least 1024x768 to be readable, and Larry's interleaved approach was much more complex from a programming standpoint to make it display properly. But that was something that could have been overcome. To me the real problem was the disparity in the post volume. Here's a copy of my response to Larry once I got it running with live data.

Have you looked at the interleaved results? Something I hadn't anticipated is going on that makes the interleaved display almost useless. The activity on our board is now so much higher than at M*, the M* posts are almost lost in the noise - sometimes you even have to scroll to find the first M* post. If the default view is interleaved, diehards.org will cease to be a reasonable entry point for M*. For those who don't want to give up our homepage, we'll essentially be forcing them to leave M*.

The only way to support both forums is to have the two posts lists display side by side. I guess I'm going to have to say goodbye to my old design

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:58 am

For the record, credit for the split screen work on the home page goes to Larry and Alex. I had nothing to do with it and, in fact, I doubt I could have done it (and certainly not in the time they did).

cfs · Post by **cfs** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:10 am

CountryBoy wrote:Equally obvious is the simple fact that M* will Never have the manpower, technical know how, software, and concern to make their forum anywhere near as good as this one.

They do have the MONEY to pay some software gurus to update their obsolete web site, but imho the DESIRE [or NEED to do so] is not there.

cfs

AshKK · Post by **AshKK** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:32 am

If the default view is interleaved, diehards.org will cease to be a reasonable entry point for M*. For those who don't want to give up our homepage, we'll essentially be forcing them to leave M*.

Aw, poor M*.
I can't believe that this was considered a negative point for interleaving.

Wagnerjb · Post by **Wagnerjb** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:49 am

I would like to add my thanks to Larry, Alex and Phoenix for all their hard work in making this forum a tremendous success.

It is a joy to post here and I am still amazed to see how the forum has taken off so fast.

Best wishes.

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:40 pm

I couldn't agree more. Great job, guys.

Bogleheads.org

THANK YOU Larry Auton, Alex Frakt, Phoenix...

THANK YOU Larry Auton, Alex Frakt, Phoenix...

New diehards.org split format

Both forums on Diehards.org

A little constructive criticism

Just outstanding

Fantastic Job!

Thanks to everyone

Re: A little constructive criticism

In ref to M* updating their web site

Thank You!

Very nice