@Job, Cadet - Thanks for creating the new NOTIFY US thread! It's mysterious that the powers that be are willing to invest in upgrading the forum software but aren't willing to address the issues that concern forum members and moderators.
If the issue is lack of $$$, wearing my professional software development hat, I'd be willing to offer upto 2hrs/week of effort for a time to follow-up on or solve bugfixes and complaints about the existing forum software as configured here.
Originally Posted by job
Traveler,
Cadet and I have nothing to do with the overall running of the business. We are volunteers. We appreciate your offer to assist, but I honestly do not think it's a lack of funding. I honestly don't know what it is, but the support just isn't coming through clearly for the moderators and the posters right now.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but we are just as frustrated as the posters.
I am going to move my answer over here so as not to continue to hijack KML's thread.
As Job said thank you for volunteering, We all make the same amount of $$$ here. And I can triple your pay if you would like.
I am not sure if the problem with the notifications is a hard issue or a simple one. We are only gate keepers for the forum owners and the issue I believe with them is that number one they have very little tech expertise. Michelle is older than me and Job and she has not been involved with the forum for many years. She posts more on facebook than here.
That all being said - I am not sure what she really gets out of running this. I am also not sure that UBB software is something that is paid for, I believe it is free.
So the costs are limited to paying for a server to host the site.
The notification issues are possibly with the server and possibly some sort of issue with email addresses and the huge amount of members that likely now have hacked e-mails.
All of these things are something that we can not control.
Anyways if anyone wants to discuss this or anything else.
thank you Cadet and Job for the tireless and often thankless job of moderating. I know I'm not alone is saying that we appreciate everything you do for us! xoxoxo
If the powers that be don't have the time and interest, I wish they'd give our existing mods more power as they obviously care and have proven themselves, or recruit new volunteers.
Fort the record I already spoke to Michelle about this a few weeks ago and got an answer of
Why would you want to do that?
So we will see what happens, and as far as some of the issues on the board - I also think its based on outdated thinking, the edit button is - self imposed because of some issues in the past. The administrator or owner doesn't want it to work.
