I can't imagine why anyone thinks this format is more convenient than the Yahoo board. I can understand making it an addition, but not a replacement.
The Yahoo board was really convenient, at least, for me. You could easily scan the message page to see: What you've already read, what you haven't read, what topics you want to read, and the spam was very obvious and easy to skip.
With the new NinjaTrader Support Forum I really dislike having the subjects separated by topic; It's just a lot more effort for the same benefit. If you are going to stay with this concept I would suggest you add the same features that NeoTicker has on their board, to ease the incovenience, such as:
1. A button called "view all new posts", that gives you a list of threads for each post since the last visit.
2. A button that called " view first unread message" that is available when you click on a thread.
3. A button called "mark all forums read" to make it obvious we have read all messages we are interested in and to get rid of the ones we are not interested in.
Also, just as an FYI; NeoTicker supports an internal message forum, like this one, and an external Yahoo forum. They still get many more posts on Yahoo than they get on their internal forum.
Sorry if I've missed some fundamental benefit to this new internal forum, but as I say I have fairly extensive experience with both and IMHO Yahoo should not be eliminated.
One more thing: Did anybody actually poll NinjaTrader customers to really assess whether they prefer this new format? Cause sometimes the people yelling the loudest don't represent the majority.
Matt
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