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The search function on the old site was terrible. The old site had grown so much it was difficult to find something to if you wanted to refer to it or post a link, consequently some stuff was getting posted in many places. I know that was one of the big gripes with the old board.

Quicktrader wrote:..second is that when I read a post it still shows up 'red' as 'unread', which is a bit disturbing...

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It seems to take a couple seconds to turn from red to black, at least for me. Or, sometimes the highlight doesn't turn off because there are pages in the thread I hadn't opened.

The thing I really like about this new board is that the forums and threads stay highlighted until you look at them. On the old board, everything "unread" turned to "read" whenever you logged off. Or maybe I just didn't have the preferences set right? Whatever, it's very nice to feel I don't have to read every single new post in one sitting.

One thing that's kind of intimidating to me is the "wall of posts" way in which the threads were transferred. Sort of makes it seem like the comments, opinions, etc. from those threads are now set in stone, so to speak. Don't know how else to describe it. I'm hoping that, after a while, people will start posting a lot on those copied threads, and this "wall of posts" feeling will dissipate.

Well, now that anyone can read here, everyone will see what a good Z site this is and there should be quite a few new people who want to join. Seems like whenever there're new posters, that's when the discussions usually get more animated and everyone's interest is renewed.

Here's some statistics that suggest this board is more popular. But you know what they say about statistics.

PS. correct my math if it's wrong, it's not my strong area.

old board:

march 4 2010 to

march 24 2013

1,116 days, 41787 posts

average 37 posts per day

95 registered users, most ever online 120

new board:

march 24 2013 to

may 6, 2013 so far

43 days, 2083 posts

average 48 posts per day

93 registered users, most ever online 395

There were two main reasons why I decided to open up this site at a new location:

1-The search feature was terrible on the old forum. Seagull hit the nail on the head,there were way too many threads and topics to always find what you were looking for. One day I was looking for something,and pulled my hair out (what little I have ) trying to find it for an hour. That was the last straw,so I decided to get a new forum.

2- The old site was essentially a 'rental'. With forummotion, you simply rent a spot from them,and go entirely by their rules. Your site's name has a .froummotion.com after it, so you are limited to a point. This new forum has no special rules,I own the domain, I am having it hosted, etc, so there is a bot more control from that aspect.

Fresh stuff is what usually spurs activity. A new previously unreleased Zodiac document or letter, a new interesting suspect,etc, those are the things that usually cause alot of new activity,but we havent gotten alot of new stuff lately, plus with all Z sites, they go quiet from time to time. And I would rather be a bit quiet then have somebody like Tom Horan on here trolling the forum,and causing stomach ulcers-those aren't the kind of posts I want either.

I think we will see some improvements, get some new members,etc, and get a fresh start, it might take a bit. Hang in there, and in the meantime, go back and re-read some of the old stuff, there's a ton of great stuff there!

This one is SO much better, imo!

Change always takes some getting used to. Not much happening at a lot of the Zodiac sites. We (myself included) talk about a lot of the same things over and over and like Morf said...fresh stuff spurs activity.