Well, look at the vision statement -
"The site will stand above all other ham radio sites by employing the latest technology and professional design/programming standards, developed by a team of community programmers who contribute their skills to the effort."
If that's true they should have been keeping up with the SMF upgrades because that's "employing the latest technology and professional design/programming standards". So on the face of it, they aren't even adhereing to theor own vision statement. Most vision statements are a dime a dozen - they look and sound great at the start, but the essence of them are soon thrown by the wayside.
But forget the upgrade for a moment. Why can't we get some moderators to volunteer to help keep the place straightened up?
For example -
Move threads
Split threads that have two topics going on
Rename threadsand so on.
I've asked for a thread to be split on this board before and I got no answer - not yes, not no, just no answer. Why? If this forum has a board for site talk it's imperative that the Admins chime in. You know -actually
talk about the site - what a concept. Otherwise it's not of much use.
There's a thread right now in the DX board that belongs on the antenna board (each major part of the forum is a board - not a forum as some say here), but it's not going to happen because the Admins don't seem to care, or don't have the time, or both, as far as I've seen. I'd volunteer to do maintenance sort of moderating tasks if they'd let me. I'm fully qualified to do them as I've owned and operated SMF forums for years.
I can think of all sorts of other things that would make the form more fun to look at. Things like ham -related avatars, member ranks, New post/No new post indicators that are related to ham radio (the little yellow post-it notes you see at the left). This is for ham radio - not devotees of Office Max or the 3M company.
Like I said, I just don't understand where the Admins are. Why don't they talk to us? Why don't they seem to care? If they don't have the time anymore, or don't care, they really should pass it along to people who do.
I also wonder how many people actually use the home page of this website. It's very cluttered and I myself have rarely looked at it, I mainly just use the forum and the reveiws. For example, the cluster - does anyone really use the cluster at eHam?I'm not saying some people don't use the home page, but is all that really worth the upkeep?
I've half a mind to just start a new forum just for DXers, at least from the start. There's a group on the DX board that get together now on a net, and if we had a forum that was run professionally (lke I can do) withh good-looking updated form software we might be better off. The hosting really doesn't cost all that much, and I'd pay for that. I'd just need the members to mover over to it.
You never know what the future will bring ...
