Unbelievable! Don’t look for any more blue letters on this forum until they get it right. Used to be user friendly, with lots of neat functions. Not now.
‘:(TubeDude’ pid=‘1094588’ dateline=‘1582842942’ wrote:
Unbelievable! Don’t look for any more blue letters on this forum until they get it right. Used to be user friendly, with lots of neat functions. Not now.
It seems they took your blue, and used, and used, and used it.
Didn’t they know that was your thing?
‘Tarponjim’ pid=‘1094598’ dateline=‘1582851625’ wrote:
‘TubeDude’ pid=‘1094588’ dateline=‘1582842942’ wrote:
Unbelievable! Don’t look for any more blue letters on this forum until they get it right. Used to be user friendly, with lots of neat functions. Not now.
And you’re a “junior member!”
And they took away maroon letters as well. How rude! And just in case you hadn’t noticed yet, we are ALL junior members. 
**…I continue to be underwhelmed at the “improvements”. Definitely gives a lot of credibility to the old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” **
I agree with the Duds feelings that the new site has not impressed. Yet.
I don’t agree with the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
While outward appearances may have said that the former site was function without problems, that may not have been the case for what was going on inside. As with any software application, the prevalence of malicious code requires administrators to patch and update software - even when the end-users think “it ain’t broke”. At some point, a “major” upgrade is a necessity, to the shagrin of all users. A necessary evil, it is.
The transition to the new site has come with plenty of problems - that is very well evident. Multiple logins, security failures (ie: porn silicitations), poor initial layout, the loss of the treasured floattube forum along with all it’s pictures, step-by-step instructions, and loquacious discussions of a sesquipedalian nature concerning all things pvs., etc., all suggest that the upgrade plan was not as well thought out and tested as it could have been…
…nonetheless, here we are having a discussion. You mentioned that some members have written BFT off for good. That’s unfortunate. I would dare guess that if they were a valuable asset to the forums, they’ll venture their way back eventually.
I have had the wonderful oppportunity to lead a number of projects involving software upgrades. The largest involved 12 months of work and a bill to the tune of $1,000,000. I’ve heard the very same complaints on every single one of those upgrades that I’ve read concerning BFT’s upgrade. This is natural. It is expected. It is normal human nature. We don’t like change. However, just like in every upgrade project I’ve taken part in, given time, users will begin to accept the changes as “normal”. The new site will become the new normal. The sun will once again rise in the east, and set in the west. We’ll all forget our common enemy (the upgraded site) and start focusing our angst in a different direction. The target will change, and BFT will once again revert to a common place for all of us to partake in infelicitous forms of velitation with one another.
As a mod I don’t know how to take you guys bantering… I’m hoping it’s nothing serious if so PM me and I’ll pass along a knock it off… I shared everones dislikes of the new site at first, but I’m actually finding lots of stuff I’m starting to like… Also as time goes on many of the early glitches are being fixed, so keep passing them along and hopefully it will end up something that all will like to keep using… I know I’ve got a lot of things to still learn about the way the new one works, but it’s fairly user friendly… in time I think I’ll come around to liking it.. However, I still think there are a lot of folks that can’t log back into the site… If you know of anyone contact them if you know how and help them get plugged back in… My early issue was realizing I needed to do a different password for the forums and then using the same electronic device for all of the communications while I was setting up the new account… I kept going from phone to computer and it simply was not working that way… Anyway everyone please play nice, I’m not covering all the posts very well while I’m still trying to figure things out… plus the fish are still biting and the ice is getting thin too quickly… Later Jeff
Agreed, I liked the old one better as well.
color me unimpressed with the bft new look and features
least it snowed a bunch
so we should have decent water again
and photobucket pics load and look way better than the uploader
oh and i give the duder o tuber and extra r
you knows caz
maybe we should update the list to reflect Utah species?
Personally, I’d rather top out as a salmonid than a cartilaginous lamnidae. Bony fish > cartilaginous fish.
yeah, me too…really, we “progress” to a walleye and eventually a catfish above a salmonid? Ouch…that’s bad!
Well, well, well…it’s taken me days, registered several times under several new user names, something great? Surely they jest.
25 years and something like 12,000 posts gone, so I can shop, :@ .
Try to sign in, nope, says my e-mail, the one I’ve been using for 25 years is not a real e-mail.
Won’t reset passwords.
Just dropped in to say bye.
Troll