I read the following forum and I'm very happy with it. Except for a few pinned threads it's in latest comment order. There's an edit button with the comment. There are 20 comments per page and the comment box is at the bottom of each page but you can reply to any comment which is a bit like what AccountingWeb has but it doesn't reply on a slight indent. There's no big blobs, jumping around or painful author information or categorisation - you can use a simple categorisation if you want but you can ignore it. What do you think?
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Sorry, I've been a bit ill. I'm having a scan next week so hopefully after that I can get sorted.
It sounds like there was a reasonable sized and
interesting crowd.
Hope all goes well
Also the details of individual posters appear on the left, so you can keep track of who is saying what easily as well.
I've seen forums with this look before, so I'm guessing it's a standard forum software package. Might be better than a bespoke package that doesn't seem up to the job, though integration with other site features might be an issue.
That's just a standard forum format. There are plenty about (Xen, vB, IBP, Vanilla) but they're obviously not what Sift want.
I think we just need to let them crack on now, said drum has been beaten. If they improve things then great, if they don't they'll see visitor numbers continue to dwindle and we'll gradually look elsewhere.
Just not that keen on Hull to be honest, sorry. It would be weird if we all started posting accounting questions there.