Combining of Forums

[LINCOLNMAN]

For Pete's sake, isn't anyone going to comment on the combining of forums, or have I missed something? I'll start: excellent idea, I've already learned a bit about ancients. Further, there are a number of topics that are of interest to all collectors, such as show reports. 

[World Colonial]

Well, hopefully it will increase the posting activity.

[WoodenJefferson]

I read that Monday, and just sat here waiting for some comment...finally lol.

[Conder101]

Just means I only have to go through two forums instead of four, so I'll be here a shorter amount of time each day.

[Zebo]

The jury is still out in my opinion. I collect both US and World, so it will be easier to navigate.

[Abuelo's Collection]

Not happy so far. I do not care for US coins and finding postings in between US coinage posting makes me think I will miss stuf. Will see. As far as I can tell, NCG keeps on missing the point IMO.

[Just Bob]

Since I returned to the forum, I have just used the "Unread Content" feature. There are usually just a few posts anyway, so I always read all of them. I learn a little more this way.

[RWB]

Consolidation isn't really a "simplification" processes. It's an acknowledgement that participation and page views are down and consolidation will make it appear there is more visitor traffic.

The fundamental difficulty is that the message board changes created lower quality and increased user frustration, especially when compared to competing message boards.

 

[Zebo]

After a few days - I like it. But then I collect both U.S. And World coins.

[physics-fan3.14]

On 6/29/2018 at 1:57 PM, RWB said:

Consolidation isn't really a "simplification" processes. It's an acknowledgement that participation and page views are down and consolidation will make it appear there is more visitor traffic.

The fundamental difficulty is that the message board changes created lower quality and increased user frustration, especially when compared to competing message boards.

 

Exactly what I was going to say. (It is a simplification in that now I only have to fight with opening one page, instead of going to four different ghost towns). 

This is not increasing traffic - it's just putting all the traffic in one place so it looks busier. Rather than appearing totally dead, now the forums only look mostly dead.