What's up with simHQ?

[Skybird]

After a week of changes, they seem to have pretty much downgraded their forums in diversity and focus, much has gone, much other things have been thrown into one pot alltogether. Is their user community decreasing, or the size of their staff for maintenance, or what? If the changes were meant to be an improvement, I must say the new design somewhat backfires imo- and it is not the visual presentation I mean.

A site with reputation and tradition. When seeing it first yesterday, I hoped that the forum still was a constuction site, but it is not different today, so it probbaly is meant to stay that way. I liked it much better before. Many sub-categories are gone, putting simulation topics beside action topics in one place. Not good.

[Fincuan]

What exactly are you missing in the forums? I didn't actually count how many different subforums they had before, but I can tell you there's still a ****load of them left

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Fincuan

What exactly are you missing in the forums? I didn't actually count how many different subforums they had before, but I can tell you there's still a ****load of them left

There are forums left, yes, but as I said, much has gone, and much other stuff has been thrown together. Before you had 3 times or more of them, with many subcategories inside the general categories. Now you only have a reduced number of general categories, where all stuff is thrown together in just one pot.

[SteamWake]

Why ask here? :hmm:

[fatty]

It's all still there. You just need to log in to see everything. IMO a really bizarre decision on the behalf of the administration but none the less that's how it is.

[Konovalov]

Why ask here? :hmm:

Perhaps becaue there are quite a few Subsim forum members who also reside on the SimHQ forums.

[Hanomag]

Originally Posted by Konovalov

Perhaps becaue there are quite a few Subsim forum members who also reside on the SimHQ forums.

Whats SimHQ??? :hmm:

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Hanomag

Whats SimHQ??? :hmm:

A quite famous and wellknown simulation community website with a years-long tradition and reputation. A real heavy-weight.

www.simHQ.com

[Hanomag]

Thanks for the link..I'll check it out.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Hanomag

Thanks for the link..I'll check it out.

Not before they're back online you won't

Great resource. I mostly read SimHQ for my daily general simulation news, which they're really good at providing. Solid reviews/previews and feature articles, too. I've never been active on their forums however.

Originally Posted by Skybird

A quite famous and wellknown simulation community website with a years-long tradition and reputation. A real heavy-weight.

www.simHQ.com

Nice Site,Less Ads would be nice,again Good to have a Choice, like Our Site,Without A Clutter Of Advertisments,A turn off to Any Site Visitor,nonetheless nice Site

[Fincuan]

What ads? I don't see any either here or at Simhq. Adblockers ftw

[fatty]

Originally Posted by Fincuan

What ads? I don't see any either here or at Simhq. Adblockers ftw

Not so cool when both of those sites are supported by revenue from those ads

[Zachstar]

Originally Posted by fatty

Not so cool when both of those sites are supported by revenue from those ads

Um, Anyone who runs a site needs to be prepared to pay out of pocket to run. That sympathy stuff does little to me.

The ONLY sites that may be outside of that are sites to assist in RL issues.

[fatty]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

Um, Anyone who runs a site needs to be prepared to pay out of pocket to run. That sympathy stuff does little to me.

The ONLY sites that may be outside of that are sites to assist in RL issues.

I'm not really following you. Do you propose that Neal should cover the costs for SUBSIM out of pocket so that we, the users, are not subject to advertisements?