Mike-ClassB
Senior Member
I recently rejoined the Roadtrek Yahoo Groups forum, after wondering why I wasn't subscribed to it any more.
It gets mentioned fairly often on here, as a great forum, and I decided to join it sometime last year (although
I can't recall exactly when), but after a brief spell of membership I un-joined. I likewise couldn't remember why.
After a couple of days, I remembered why I left it last year. I find/found it almost overwhelming.
On this forum, I can browse new threads, get notified via email messages when a thread I'm interested in
or have added to gets updated, and generally get great info, often with pics, diagrams, and url links.
On the Yahoo RT forum, I chose to receive notifications from threads as they are updated, the same as on here,
but the volume of updates and new threads is massive, by comparison. I suppose I could trim back my
notifications to once per day, but I think many others do that as well, as I've noted many answers and replies
to questions, start to appear after 17:00. It's as if people are just getting home form work and jump on and start
updating stuff that's already hours old and has been hammered enough already. It just seems chaotic, and
I can easily lose track of a topic and it's updates.
Maybe it's just me, but I prefer this (classBforum) type of webpage/website forum to the Yahoo one. I am used to
this forum's style having been on some other similar ones in the past, and currently signed up to at least one other
of the same type.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong on Yahoo, I'm not sure? Is there a way to see a list of all the topics/threads on
YRT, like the Board Index here? Rather than get peppered by the endless replies and updates via email?
To me, it just seems like a cacaphony of notes, threads and updates over there.
It gets mentioned fairly often on here, as a great forum, and I decided to join it sometime last year (although
I can't recall exactly when), but after a brief spell of membership I un-joined. I likewise couldn't remember why.
After a couple of days, I remembered why I left it last year. I find/found it almost overwhelming.
On this forum, I can browse new threads, get notified via email messages when a thread I'm interested in
or have added to gets updated, and generally get great info, often with pics, diagrams, and url links.
On the Yahoo RT forum, I chose to receive notifications from threads as they are updated, the same as on here,
but the volume of updates and new threads is massive, by comparison. I suppose I could trim back my
notifications to once per day, but I think many others do that as well, as I've noted many answers and replies
to questions, start to appear after 17:00. It's as if people are just getting home form work and jump on and start
updating stuff that's already hours old and has been hammered enough already. It just seems chaotic, and
I can easily lose track of a topic and it's updates.
Maybe it's just me, but I prefer this (classBforum) type of webpage/website forum to the Yahoo one. I am used to
this forum's style having been on some other similar ones in the past, and currently signed up to at least one other
of the same type.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong on Yahoo, I'm not sure? Is there a way to see a list of all the topics/threads on
YRT, like the Board Index here? Rather than get peppered by the endless replies and updates via email?
To me, it just seems like a cacaphony of notes, threads and updates over there.