mint Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Perhaps we should now PM each other our email addresses so that we can still "talk", ask for advice, etc and we won't have lost touch with people that we like and want to have a conversation with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 At least this forum has not been reduced to somebody's private estate agency website/facebook page. LOLIf they stretch/widen the forum page a bit, reduce the number of categories to a max of 5-10 it may work. Too many categories IMHO on this forum. Looks to busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 The strange thing is they don't seem to have changed the content and different sub-sections at all. Only squashed everything up to one side to make more space for the adverts.I've just tried the search section, typed in "inheritance",and got 44 pages going back to 2002! Interesting, all the old names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 How often do I say to people on here, IF you want information about anything, 'call' or go and see them. That is how I live my life, always have, whether it be France or the UK.AND so, I have just called Archant and spoken to James. And this is what I have been told, not word for word, just the general jist.Those working on the board have not wanted to close a 'live' board down whilst they are working on it. They have adjusted it, so that it can be used more easily by those with tablets etc, which I said had been suggested on the forum, but that we didn't actually 'know' that...... and we should have.They are aware that improvements need to happen, even with the old format, and still need to be done.I was clear that this new format is terrible and that just about everyone was very unhappy.I suggested that those working on the board, actually post and say what they are doing and when. ie we all needed to know about these current alterations. Also if they have to shut the board down to improve it, then put up a screen saying that it will be unavailable from say midday to 18h or when ever, or even closed for a week or whatever.As far as I am concerned information is always the key. IF they are having a shut down for essential maintenance, then personally I can live with that and come back quite happily. Just keep me informed is all I ever ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Good idea, Idun, and thanks for letting us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 [quote user="idun"]As far as I am concerned information is always the key. [/quote]Information and above all communication.Mind you this is a French forum so what they are doing, or rather not doing shows an astounding level of integration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 [quote user="Chancer"][quote user="idun"]As far as I am concerned information is always the key. [/quote]Information and above all communication.Mind you this is a French forum so what they are doing, or rather not doing shows an astounding level of integration.[/quote]Not quite right chancer, it's a forum designed to get people to buy a magazine, and maybe the so called members are not doing that? What amazes me is the total arrogance of those in charge, not a word of explanation or even "sorry about the changeover being a bit lumpy , but we'll sort it out, Oh and by the way do you like the new look", well that isn't necessary as they only have to read these pages and notice that the contributions over the weekend matched the "green job" in lack of contributors. All we need now is a couple of P&O builders boasting about buying properties for 2 bob and how I bodged it, then sold it for a million Euros. Plus a bloke who hates the UK more than he hates his life in France, but cant afford to change it, so spends everyday spreading doom and gloom about Britain, and we could be exactly like another forum that changed it's format, boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 [quote user="idun"]AND so, I have just called Archant and spoken to James. As far as I am concerned information is always the key. Just keep me informed is all I ever ask.[/quote]Brilliant, well done Idun. Not knowing what is happening is so frustrating.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Well done Idun - now at least we know that perhaps this is only a temporary setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Setups can be temporary, c0ck ups are usually permanent.RIP Complete France Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 [quote user="Chancer"]RIP Complete France Forum.[/quote]For a Chancer you are definitely showing defeatist tendances !Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Outside of this totally internal thread not a single new post today, this forum is surely dead ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSKS Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 As if totally cocking-up the new style forum wasn't enough you guys now have to live with ALBF.This forum has been reeling for such a long time that even the small injection of hope last Sep when another forum similarly cocked-up its ''upgrade'' did little to re-energise it. My quote function never worked anyway on a Chromebook but, compared to the newly-introduced user-unfriendliness, it's a minor irritation.But at least you can criticise without getting chucked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 [quote user="JSKS"]As if totally cocking-up the new style forum wasn't enough you guys now have to live with ALBF.This forum has been reeling for such a long time that even the small injection of hope last Sep when another forum similarly cocked-up its ''upgrade'' did little to re-energise it. [/quote]If this forum takes off again (once they sort out the format) then hopefully FE will be buried once and for all. I am not sure who blows who's whistle on that site (maybe they blow together) but certainly the mods are run by a 'certain member/s' who get people banned at their discretion so that they can carry on their renovation propaganda. (Insert wink wink wink yellow type thing)So we all have a duty to make this forum work as we will help protect French Patrimoine /heritage in the country that we love from two marauding bodging P&O white van men/women from assimilating old French buildings with the intent of selling them on to unsuspecting brits wishing to live the dream on a budget.Your adopted country needs you ! Unsuspecting Brits need you !Unless of course they run this site like they do every other French forum then I am already banned. LOL P.S What happened to Ally ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 "What happened to Ally?"Disappeared into the SNP's misery along with the fishy duo and their referendum. Although he'll probably reappear trying to stop the English voting on English matters. Still maybe he's in Greece advising them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSKS Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 ALBF saidIf this forum takes off again (once they sort out the format) then hopefully FE will be buried once and for all. I am not sure who blows who's whistle on that site (maybe they blow together) but certainly the mods are run by a 'certain member/s' who get people banned at their discretion so that they can carry on their renovation propaganda. (Insert wink wink wink yellow type thing) So we all have a duty to make this forum work as we will help protect French Patrimoine /heritage in the country that we love from two marauding bodging P&O white van men/women from assimilating old French buildings with the intent of selling them on to unsuspecting brits wishing to live the dream on a budget. Your adopted country needs you ! Unsuspecting Brits need you !Unless of course they run this site like they do every other French forum then I am already banned. LOL P.S What happened to Ally ?(The quote function just brings up loads of code - can't find an italics button either)Yes, the other place is over-moderated and there are definitely favourites who can post any amount of hate-filled, insulting, fascist or otherwise objectionable rubbish yet remain unchastened. However, at least the software works.Ally came back as ''normally''.Why not try again? Maybe you should try names like ''Icily'' or Misty3''. Those sort of avatars seem invulnerable!I miss those pathetically silly arguments we used to have. You? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alittlebitfrench Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 [quote user="JSKS"]I miss those pathetically silly arguments we used to have. You?[/quote]Pathetic silly arguments is my middle name. I will go back to the other forum when they sack char (lead moderator....whatever that is) and sidekick Nevile (Johney no stars moderator) for being spineless and unable to moderate a forum properly. The arrogance of two members on that forum is quite shocking. They openly destroy old French buildings, they openly mock on the forum the AE Brit builders they employ to do all the work, they openly mock their customers on the forum and they swan about on forums spewing nonsense and telling everyone how much money they got. If you contest them, you are banned. These people make me so angry. It is everything a forum should not be.Ally got banned for a reason. I wonder what it was ? Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSKS Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 ALBF wrote:1. Pathetic silly arguments is my middle name. 2. The arrogance of two members on that forum is quite shocking. 3. Ally got banned for a reason. I wonder what it was ? Hmmm. In answer to the points above:1. Tee hee. Now that made me chuckle.2. There are more who post really quite revolting stuff yet remain uncensored, largely, I think, because they don't upset the management directly. There's one particular racist, another quite savage fascist, a recent member whose posts almost always contain juvenile sexual references. While it's fair enough to stand up to such filth, it sometimes seems that the mods take the view that you can say pretty much what you like as long as you don't directly challenge these sort of people. Odd. And the real killer is to criticise the forum!.3. I don't know exactly but I do know he had a difficult relationship with the female of the duo you refer to. We know how that's going to end, don't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 A gentle reminder .........We have for some years had a sort of 'gentleman's agreement' that we don't discuss other forums on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Well, some of us (me) don't have a clue about what those posts were on about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSKS Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 OK. But at least we quintupled the daily post count! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 [quote user="JSKS"]OK. But at least we quintupled the daily post count![/quote]nope, it's sextupled (is there such a word?). I have no idea about the other forum either. But I'm still grumpy about this oneand planned to vote with my feet and stay away until it returned to normal (temper tantrum, anyone?) then thought nobody would miss me if I did that, so here I am again ... *throws toys out of pram* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 ??!!! What the heck is happening with the quotes facility ???!!!??? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 The quotes facility has been screwed up since the lavender fields down/up grade. If you use IE and set the compatibility mode as HSD suggested several pages ago, then the quotes seem to work. For those with other systems then you now seem to be condemned as I have been for a couple of years. It really is a PITA and should not be an issue for a competent programmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 It's great to see such an active thread... of course, it's a shame that it will probably be the last active thread ever. What a shambles. There've been some poorly executed upgrades on CF over the years but this beats them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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