Lousy Forum structure
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MissChief said:
Ben Lowden said:
anonymous said:
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You're confusing CarGurus (new owner) with Haymarket (previous owner). Haymarket did essentially pull all engineering resource off PH and there was probably at least a year where we had next to no support at all.CarGurus are investing heavily in PistonHeads and we probably have the biggest engineering team we've ever had. Naturally as the classifieds is our core source of revenue, that's still getting the majority of engineering resource but the forums now have more resource than they've probably had in at least five years, if not more.
joropug said:
Would be great to make a custom feed - I typically look at the gassing station as a category which encompasses most but not all of the sub forums I like.
Would be cool to add a few more.
This is possible now - you need to select the forums you want to favourite under My Preferences, and then in What's New you can toggle just your favourite forums or all.Would be cool to add a few more.
MissChief said:
So is a forum upgrade on the agenda?
While it won't have been noticed on the front end, there has been a lot of effort post-acquisition to stabilise the site and improve the performance of the forums and the site as a whole. There are ongoing technical improvements being made to the site with a gradual migration to a modern web stack.Naturally as the classifieds drives most of PHs revenue, that's where the highest proportion of resource goes but the forums are here to stay and haven't been forgotten about. Our time will come!
Ben Lowden said:
While it won't have been noticed on the front end, there has been a lot of effort post-acquisition to stabilise the site and improve the performance of the forums and the site as a whole. There are ongoing technical improvements being made to the site with a gradual migration to a modern web stack.
Naturally as the classifieds drives most of PHs revenue, that's where the highest proportion of resource goes but the forums are here to stay and haven't been forgotten about. Our time will come!
It seems we are now hosted on AWS. Was that a recent thing? I am not sure I noticed anything when the change happened but I think that is a sign of success.Naturally as the classifieds drives most of PHs revenue, that's where the highest proportion of resource goes but the forums are here to stay and haven't been forgotten about. Our time will come!
h0b0 said:
It seems we are now hosted on AWS. Was that a recent thing? I am not sure I noticed anything when the change happened but I think that is a sign of success.
Believe it or not, we were actually an early adopter with AWS and have been on it for a long time.The key changes in the past year are that we've been updating our infrastructure for the first time in about a decade, using the latest servers and hardware to make the site more stable and to prevent the outages that we've experienced in the past.
The fact that no one noticed anything can only be good news
Johnnytheboy said:
How about like Facebook, where it puts the same threads at the top visit after visit, because its algorithm has decided they are what you want to read most?
You must use a different facebook to me. I can never go back and find something I saw 5 mins earlier!Half way through reading a post, doorbell rings, sign for a parcel, unlock phone, refeashes, never to be seen again!
h0b0 said:
I see the OP has got lost again. To be fair to him this post did start out in BMW before being moved and now it’s in website feedback so he is probably looking in the wrong place.
Out of all the forums I go on, piston heads is one of the cleaner forums. It used to have very few sub forums so everything was in one place. If you want to travel back in time go to the archive at the bottom of the forum list.
OP simple rules to follow. Web site feedback should go in the “Web site feedback” forum. BMW related topics should go In the BMW forum.
The “lounge” is for general topics and “News, Politics and economics” is for extreme view points. “Speed plod and the law” is for when you have f
ked up but want people to tell you what you want to hear and not actual law. “Super cars general” is for when you think a Lamborghini Urus is discreet. “Holidays and travel” is now mostly historical reference information due to COVID. “Pedal powered” is a documentation of Johnny’s tattoos from multiple angles and nothing to do with actual photographs of today’s rides.
The most important rule is, avoid the “Watches” forum. Step into this world and then wake up 10 years later and you have a wolf watch box with multiple pieces that don’t get wrist time due to not being part of the rotation and you are falling behind on mortgage payments.
Out of all the forums I go on, piston heads is one of the cleaner forums. It used to have very few sub forums so everything was in one place. If you want to travel back in time go to the archive at the bottom of the forum list.
OP simple rules to follow. Web site feedback should go in the “Web site feedback” forum. BMW related topics should go In the BMW forum.
The “lounge” is for general topics and “News, Politics and economics” is for extreme view points. “Speed plod and the law” is for when you have f
ked up but want people to tell you what you want to hear and not actual law. “Super cars general” is for when you think a Lamborghini Urus is discreet. “Holidays and travel” is now mostly historical reference information due to COVID. “Pedal powered” is a documentation of Johnny’s tattoos from multiple angles and nothing to do with actual photographs of today’s rides. The most important rule is, avoid the “Watches” forum. Step into this world and then wake up 10 years later and you have a wolf watch box with multiple pieces that don’t get wrist time due to not being part of the rotation and you are falling behind on mortgage payments.
Brilliant - I'd missed this first time round 
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