This site is flat out broken and something needs to be done about it. Why are we still here? Surely we have enough members now to create and develop and pay for, our own website. Why the fuck are we still using communities.win? This site is pure dog shit.
I am almost to the point of never returning. You guys are great. I love you guys. I consider ALL of you my friends. We have an awesome group of people here. I have zero complaints about anyone here. Just to be clear. But this site frustrates me to the point I don't want to come here anymore.
The Mods and creators of this board really need to consider taking GAW to the next level. I'm simply asking if this is possible? I actually know a bit about this because I too was a mod on GAW. Yep, I'm a Mod. I know the inner workings of GAW. I know this is indeed a possibility. I wasn't a Mod here. I was a Mod @ GAW VOAT. Remember that place? Yeah I'm old school :)
Anyway I figured I'd get the discussion started. You guys know what to do, we get enough frens saying "This ain't a bad idea - lets do this" and the Mods just might agree and make this happen. I think we could end up with one of the best sites online, not this steaming pile of frustrating dog shit of a site - NOTHING WORKS!!! and I'm sick of it.
Come on Mods! You can make this happen. Q ain't going anywhere, and we are only growing. This has got to be one of the fastest growing sites online today. You would easily be getting millions of hits a day, and congratulations, you do a Stella job! I know, I've been there. We can raise the funds, and we have the tech now to do it. I can't see any downside to having a functional kickass website. Why?
I believe we're just about to kick off, if you know what I mean ...
The site is supposedly shite from a technical standpoint and using better tech could make the general impact of the site and its contents better.
What's wrong with the content? This is the best informed site I have visited. No commercials, overload of the best information and the most erudite commentary, with room for people like me.
If it works, don't fix it.
The content is fine, it‘s the technical structure that bothers OP.
There are posts, which you can list by importance or date, and there are comments where you can converse with others. I don't see anything technically wrong here. It doesn't need to be flashy and a strain on anyone's connection or equipment. When I code sites, I try to be mindful of poor people in eastern Europe who may only have old DOS machines or at best Windows 3.1. I try to write HTML that will work on any of those browsers. There is code you can add to check for browser compatibility.
Do you want the text to flash colors like a beginner's site from the 90s? Or do you want it larded up with a ton of high def images that slow down loading for people still on slower connections? Many people bail on sites that take more than a few seconds to display content.
I have been coding for 30 years and know what makes sites accessible to the most people worldwide. I wrote my church's site, and we were getting lots of hits from eastern Europe and Russia.
I was just recapping OPs post, how I understood it. It doesn‘t mirror my own opinion and experience.
But thank you for your insight.