Porsche forum changes

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sleep envy

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Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Tick tock...

craigjm

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Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Surely the solution to this is for all of the forum users to just post everything in Porsche general and the mods will soon get fed up with moving everything!

sleep envy

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Wednesday 11th December 2013
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steve singh said:
We might get to a landmark 7th day without a response - keeping going !!!

Podie

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Wednesday 11th December 2013
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WinstonWolf

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Wednesday 11th December 2013
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nsa

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Wednesday 11th December 2013
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I like the Porsche forum split. I can dip into the Classics and Front Engined sections, which are the main Porsche areas I'm interested in. As people have pointed out endless times - if you want to read the forum the old way, just select Porsche:



Personally LED rear lights, the 991 GT3, Turbo S, 996 C4S, 996 RS, 911s in ski resorts, Cayman/Boxster S do not interest me enough to read the threads. Great cars, but not topics I want to read about.

steve singh

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174 months

Wednesday 11th December 2013
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nsa said:
I like the Porsche forum split. I can dip into the Classics and Front Engined sections, which are the main Porsche areas I'm interested in. As people have pointed out endless times - if you want to read the forum the old way, just select Porsche:



Personally LED rear lights, the 991 GT3, Turbo S, 996 C4S, 996 RS, 911s in ski resorts, Cayman/Boxster S do not interest me enough to read the threads. Great cars, but not topics I want to read about.
I wish there was an option to hide the forum column on the right hand side...

sleep envy

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Wednesday 11th December 2013
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steve singh said:
nsa said:
I like the Porsche forum split. I can dip into the Classics and Front Engined sections, which are the main Porsche areas I'm interested in. As people have pointed out endless times - if you want to read the forum the old way, just select Porsche:



Personally LED rear lights, the 991 GT3, Turbo S, 996 C4S, 996 RS, 911s in ski resorts, Cayman/Boxster S do not interest me enough to read the threads. Great cars, but not topics I want to read about.
I wish there was an option to hide the forum column on the right hand side...
And be able to start threads...

sleep envy

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Thursday 12th December 2013
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sleep envy

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Friday 13th December 2013
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sleep envy

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Saturday 14th December 2013
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Turn7

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Sunday 15th December 2013
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Sleeps, I really dont think they are listening.... or care.....

Turn7

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Sunday 15th December 2013
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..its my ball.....

etc etc

sleep envy

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Sunday 15th December 2013
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Turn7 said:
Sleeps, I really dont think they are listening.... or care.....
I think they are and do simply because the numbers are down.

steve singh

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Sunday 15th December 2013
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sleep envy said:
Turn7 said:
Sleeps, I really dont think they are listening.... or care.....
I think they are and do simply because the numbers are down.
Keep going!!!

sleep envy

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Sunday 15th December 2013
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Today's pic is on hold wink

Garlick

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Monday 16th December 2013
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Thanks to Ric for nudging me on this, I'm very forgetful now I've passed 40.

I do want keep this as it is for now, with the encouragement being to use just the general thread if that is what you prefer. Like a friend of a friend at a party you don't like, just ignore them.

While the sub-sections aren't (and never will be) as popular they are attracting the odd post and prove to be useful to some. I guess I could name a few forums across the site where traffic is low (sat navs, advanced driving, some of the one-make sections) but they continue even with low use.

Yes we started as a TVR (in the main) site so I take the point on board that the TVR section will always work better split out that way, but nowadays Porsche, BMW and Aston are the most popular and in time the news. classified and forums will work together better providing a better platform for fans of those cars.

Is it a case that I don't listen? No not at all, I just want this to be available as an option even if it withers and dies in 2014 through chronic lack of use. As it stands we haven't seen (honestly) a loss of traffic, in terms of page views, to the Porsche area. Comments we'll add as a measure to our analytics. If it does drop and wither, so be it I was wrong. If it manages to survive in a lowly fashion in the shadows of PG then fine.



steve singh

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Monday 16th December 2013
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Garlick said:
Thanks to Ric for nudging me on this, I'm very forgetful now I've passed 40.

I do want keep this as it is for now, with the encouragement being to use just the general thread if that is what you prefer. Like a friend of a friend at a party you don't like, just ignore them.

While the sub-sections aren't (and never will be) as popular they are attracting the odd post and prove to be useful to some. I guess I could name a few forums across the site where traffic is low (sat navs, advanced driving, some of the one-make sections) but they continue even with low use.

Yes we started as a TVR (in the main) site so I take the point on board that the TVR section will always work better split out that way, but nowadays Porsche, BMW and Aston are the most popular and in time the news. classified and forums will work together better providing a better platform for fans of those cars.

Is it a case that I don't listen? No not at all, I just want this to be available as an option even if it withers and dies in 2014 through chronic lack of use. As it stands we haven't seen (honestly) a loss of traffic, in terms of page views, to the Porsche area. Comments we'll add as a measure to our analytics. If it does drop and wither, so be it I was wrong. If it manages to survive in a lowly fashion in the shadows of PG then fine.
Fair response, lets see how it pans out...

sleep envy

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Monday 16th December 2013
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G - cheers for the response.

Can we review again in, say, 3 months time?

sleep envy

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Thursday 6th March 2014
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G - Any chance of a review next week?

Bar the odd picture or potential GT3 owner thread there doesn't appear to be much value to be had in the specific forum.

What are you analytics saying?

From the recent poll there still appears to be majority appetite to merge it back.

Edited by sleep envy on Thursday 6th March 14:23

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