New look over at Avsim

[n4gix]

FYI, I have donated some small amounts of money to that website in the past. Have you?

As a matter of fact, I've made annual donations to AVSIM for the past sixteen years.

I also served as a member of the Board of Directors for nearly six years, and only resigned my seat when I became a "commercial developer" and felt it would have been a conflict of interest to remain on the BoD.

Even so, that does not somehow give me any more "rights" at AVSIM than anyone else.

 

[GypsyBaron]

Paul, that is factually incorrect. You need only one login for "normal use" of the forums and library.

The exception is a separate login for commenting on articles or reviews, which quite frankly not that many people actually do to begin with. I understand that there are plans to remove that separate login requirement once they've managed to tune up the other issues.

Well, I was prompted to log min for library access this morning and the only option
was to enter an email address and a password. My previous Avsim library login and
forum login were the same, and they were NOT an email address.

I then went through the "Register" procedure and again, I was asked for an email
address, not a user name. After registering and having it validated I went back
to login and again needed to enter the email address and the password.

Thus, I have two distinct logins at Avsim now. My forum lohgin which is a User Name
and the Library login which is an email address.

This may be a moot point as I doubt that I will be using the library there unless they
can undo the terrible blunder they made by changing the entire form, fit and function!

Paul

 

[Tracon]

Moot point it is then. Obviously Avsim won't leave it the way it is. Improvements will be made, they have to be. Everybody chill with Avsim. Good grief it's like a really bad hollywood news story.

 

[Wing_Z]

Never mind whether you like the new look or not, AVSIM is primarily a library resource.
The one thing a library must do well, is retrieve information.

Previously, the AVSIM search was clunky.
It needed fixing, sure, but now it is broken.
I have done 3 simple criterion tests: utter fail.

If AVSIM does not fix their search engine, they may as well pack it in.

I’d place this tirade on AVSIM somewhere, but I suspect you need to be a Tweeter (I am not).

Maybe someone from there reads this forum.
Fix the search function, guys, because the front end is so ghastly, you wouldn’t want to visit for any other reason.

 

[n4gix]

Well, I was prompted to log min for library access this morning and the only option
was to enter an email address and a password. My previous Avsim library login and
forum login were the same, and they were NOT an email address.

Paul, apparently there are still some issues with logins, although I certainly haven't encountered any at all...

As a matter of fact, I've not had to login at all for either the forums or the library, but that may simply be because I don't "toss my cookies" when closing Internet Explorer...

 

[GypsyBaron]

Avsim reverts to the good, old, useable site software!

Avsim has seen the light....and it is the old site software!

A big "Thank you" to everyone who expressed their dissatisfaction with
the change that was attempted!

Paul

 

[Wing_Z]

Hallelujah. It is a lesson to all who Make Stuff, Write Stuff, Create Stuff:
NO MATTER how friggin' clever your codes and scripts, if the end user experience is compromised it is NO GOOD AT ALL.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Ehhhhmmmm: They say their reverting is "temporarily"...

Anyway, I appreciate their considering the mostly negative feedback.
Good to see the "Classic Coke" again (although I could have lived with the new design, if only full functionality was given...).

Let's see how long this temporarily solution will last.
We have a saying here:
"Nothing is as consistent as a provisional solution", so maybe we can forget about their "New Coke" soon...

Cheers,
Markus.