This site needs help.

Utah Fishing Reports & Discussion Off Topic Board
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Like you, I come to this site for the forums. I love to fish, and I enjoy reading about others’ adventures fishing. I like the fishing reports, and the community that is represented here. We have a camraderie that extends well outside this forum into the real world. I appreciate the owners of bigfishtackle.com for hosting a forum on which we can build and strengthen our community.

That said, the problems with the site itself are approaching intolerable. The old version of the site was certainly not aging well, but it worked. I can appreciate that a new system will have bugs that take time to iron out, but I’m not seeing much improvement. I appreciate that the owners invested in the new site but it simply isn’t working out. At this point I have no idea how many times I’ll have to refresh in order to even see a post (or if I’ll be able to get past the errors at all). I’m certain that a significant percentage of former participants have given up on even trying to get to the site, with all the database errors, timeouts, browser incompatibilities, and username issues.

I’ve spent more than 20 years in IT and IT security. I know my way around these things. I offered to help with the old site - pro bono - but was turned down. This community is important to me and I’m willing to volunteer my own time – and even some expense – to have a place where we can focus exclusively on Utah fishing and not have the technology get in the way of it all.

I’d be willing to commit personal skills I have (IT, security) to have the collective knowledge of the group stay vibrant (so that I can work on my less-than-outstanding fishing skills). I’m not sure this will be possible on the current site. If we don’t figure out something soon, I’m afraid our community will decay until it is no longer sustainable. Too many other sites have suffered this fate.

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Before this gets shoved down to the Off Topic forum, I agree. We were promised “all new and improved” and also that we’d all be really happy. Neither has come to pass. First the incredible fiasco of getting signed in, then the outages and the extremely slow load times. Not to mention the difficulties in picture posting.

I’m sure that advertisers (if any) are not happy to know that few are seeing what they pay for. And certainly that we members are unhappy enough to not visit at all. This could not have been done worse.

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Before this gets shoved down to the Off Topic forum, I agree. We were promised “all new and improved” and also that we’d all be really happy. Neither has come to pass. First the incredible fiasco of getting signed in, then the outages and the extremely slow load times. Not to mention the difficulties in picture posting.

I’m sure that advertisers (if any) are not happy to know that few are seeing what they pay for. And certainly that we members are unhappy enough to not visit at all. This could not have been done worse.

Come on this has almost been as successful as New Coke.

I was going to add a face but since this site froze up for a minute each time I tried, yes I being sarcastic. I still can’t recover my original username but as someone on here for over 15 years and thousands of post, I’ve about ready to move on as well.

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Yesterday, I exchanged emails with the owner. You can rest assured that she is as frustrated as anyone for all of the problems that have been and continue to plague this site. I hope somehow she is able to get the issues taken care of, because I certainly don’t want to have to resort to becoming an active participant on one of the Facebook fishing forums.

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the time it takes to load, omg, it`s the slowest thing since dial up… unbearable

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THIS IS WHAT I GET EVERY TIME I TRY TO REPLY, OR CHANGE BETWEEN THREADS, ETC.
I SURE HOPE THE OWNERS ARE NOT PAYING ANYTHING FOR THIS VERY POOR SERVICE.

This site can’t be reachedbigfishtackle.com took too long to respond.Try:

ERR_TIMED_OUT

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Bump to the top.

I agree with all of this. The owner must be :@ :@

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Well said everyone, I believe its time for the resurrection of the old site, I’m not very computer savvy but had no problem with the old site. Enough is enough. Looking for a new forum. :huh: :huh:

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I may be new on paper to this site but I’ve followed and enjoyed for years. I’m just not a very active kind of poster guy. This is getting very difficult to try and enjoy any more. I’m sure there is many more out there like me! Take some of f these people on this forum up on there offers to help. It would benifit all. This site just doesn’t stand a chance with its current condition. I’m just a bystander looking in but have always enjoyed reading. Tha tells ya how bad the problem is if I’m posting.

Here’s to a new begining I hope!!

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Thanks, Kent. It’s good to know that the owner is as frustrated as the rest of us.

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Thanks for the update Alan, I’ve been thinking about that place but I guess it will be after the first of the year before I even think about it again. Any guess on the depth of the snow where it hasn’t been plowed?

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Thanks, sounds like it might be too deep for an ATV, especially if we keep getting more snow.

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If these next two storms do what they say, it may be back to snowmobile country, but as crazy as the weather has been this year, it might just melt off again… Not unusual for Porcupine to not be iced up yet, but it is a little unusual that Hyrum is still open… Makes for a short ice season when we don’t get started until in to January… I hope things get going soon.. Thanks Alan for your report, sure helps to save us a drive by… Thank you… Later Jeff

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Wow, it’s really cold already tonight, so this might be the night that locks it up… I’m sleeping with my fingers crossed tonight.. Thanks for the update Alan… Later Jeff

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If it doesn’t cap tonight I’m hoping by this weekend it will. It’s one of the places I spend most of my time so the waits killing me haha.

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