there are classifieds at *****
Ads listed by region was the only advantage SN had. if im wading thru national stuff, it'll be at Corral.....The local classifieds are the main reason I visit Stangnet.
Redundancy. Now that everything is forum based instead of software based like the old national system, it places the same content in multiple areas on the server. This is bad both from a member perspective when trying to locate items and for a search engine optimization, too. When the bots crawl the site, it makes sense from a search engine optimization perspective to have everything in one centralized area (classified forum).
Per the big guys
Big guys arn't car guys I take it, oh well. I came here daily to check the classified, I guess it won't mean much when I'm gone...
Nate
Big guys arn't car guys I take it, oh well. I came here daily to check the classified, I guess it won't mean much when I'm gone...
Nate
I looked in the "Regional" forums, how come we are the only one that got this thread? I didn't see it in any other forum here....
Nate
I'm not really the big guys here on StangNet (that's my quote above - I'm an admin elsewhere), but those are the most likely reasons behind eliminating the regional forums, since the national classifieds have been moved onto the forum itself. The change in classified systems itself is because the old system never really took off. Corral, for example has an extremely busy classified section that's based in vBulletin. Ours was a third party system that was foreign to most users, and I can only speak for myself, but I know that I've been a member at other forums that weren't based on vBulletin and I have a tendency to not stick around at them very long. Maybe I'm just lazy and unwilling to learn a new forum software, but I prefer to stick to what I know, and I'd venture to guess that our old system was looked at by others, in the same manner.
The new system can be made just as effective as the regional system if we institute some ground rules for the classified sections that include a location requirement. I've been looking around for a plugin that allows you to search by location (or similar function), after hungrymonkey mentioned it in the thread we have going on this in our staff forum. In the meanwhile, simply adding your location to the thread title at least makes weeding through them a bit easier. We're always in favor of improving the forum for the members and moving the classifieds onto here should make it better in the long run. Just give it time, we'll perfect it and it'll be like it's always been there.
Im with dave, this was not something that needed fixing. Stangnet was one of the first sites I remember having a regional classifieds and I thought it was brilliant. Now alot of other sites I go to are starting to get them and Stangnet is dropping it?
Did Boeing buy the site by chance?
Don't be so afraid of a little change.
I swear, based on some of your responses, I’d think a lot of you guys just choose to complain for the sake of doing so!?!
Nice approach, good to see Stangnet has Mods with great people skills. I suppose next time they make a change we dont like we'll just keep it to ourselves.
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