ClassicCar

Just started posting. First, thank you (Classiccar) for all your efforts, I understand you've been up until pretty late in the morning getting this thing to work! Take a nice long Easter weekend and refresh yourselves!

I also see that (in the last hour or two) you've restored "HUDSON" to its status as an actual forum category, that's good! And the thirty seconds it took me to switch from forum to forum is way down now, another improvement.

Here are a few comments or questions offered in the spirit of helpfulness. These are entirely my own thoughts, maybe no one else is concerned with them...

1). Could there be a positive way to establish that a person has successfully signed in? It used to say "Welcome, Jon B" and then I knew I was signed in. Now it's a guessing game.

2). Has the chatroom feature been jettisoned, or will it eventually be coming back?

3). Is there an "operator's manual" somewhere here, for newbies and bewildered oldies?

4). I, too, feel that the colors and layout could benefit from a designer's touch. The colors remind me of shag carpeting and 1970's kitchen appliances! The lettering on the forum lists, ought to be black, not in green. And, yes, I am blinded by the white background on which the postings are made -- a slight tint would be helpful. This is all secondary to the good operation of the forum, though!

5). The term Discussions is used in a number of places and may be a bit confusing. Under Hudson, might the divisions be called Street Rods and "Off Topic", or something like that? I think a lot of people post things there, that might be more appropriately placed in the regular "Hudson" forum.

6). "General Topic Area" has confused some Hudson people in the past, who got lost when navigating the forums. They thought they were in the "general" Hudson topic area! Would it make sense to say "General Topics -- all makes" or something like that?

Okay, you have work to do so I'll shut up. Anyway, thanks for your superhuman effort to get this monster off the ground, during the past two or three days!

Here's a quick "layout" suggestion, offered in the spirit of helpfulness, not criticism.

Open the Hudson forum (to give an example). Now, look at the page.

Quick!--What forum are you on?

Why, "All Discussions", right? That's what it says on the file tab in large letters just above all the postings!

Nope! Look close. REALLY close! In tiny letters "Orphaned Marques / Hudson".

Ahh! I see!

Okay, so one thing that would make some sense, might be to place the actual name of the particular forum in Boldface at the top of the page -- maybe even in a color (same color for all forums, something unique) which would identify instantly, where you were. The term "discussions" appears in so many places now, that it is becoming somewhat confusing.

But again -- this is a concept I humbly place up for consideration. We are still very grateful for the opportunity to have this forum in the first place, and appreciate all the work that Classiccar has done to upgrade the forums, in the last week.