This board has always had a lot of posters from what was the dogwood school in 1A and 2A not just from the southwest. I have hardly even seen most of these posters, and the ones I know say they hate the new format and have moved own.....a real shame. We had a lot of fun last year with a pickem on the 2A board and it kept us up on all the schools that we were competing against from all over the state. I haven't even seen gtownfencecrew on the board? Or maybe he's on the board for the valley....I'm so confused and starting to not care myself.
Still looking for that elusive person who thinks the boards are better now
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You can still message me on Facebook, email me at mike24885@comcast.net, or text me at (540)309-5217, to keep me up to date. I know the board changes aren't popular right now, maybe they'll change it back after a while or change it to 3/4a West, 3/4a East, etc... which I would like to see. That's how I follow the boards- by classification (3/4a for me) and by area (Roanoke, Lynchburg, NRV, & Southside for me).
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They have to change the format or these boards are going to die out. Granted, I will still contribute and follow along regardless, but this is not user friendly for me at all. It takes me so much longer to find a thread of interest now, and I end up having to click all over the place and it is making things take much longer.. Not to mention since they changed the layout the first time, I am unable to post a thread from my cell phone.
Boards are going to be divided up by class. I have changed the dropdown menu on the front page but am having technical difficulties with changing the thread names on the forum page and at the top of each board.
Allow me to translate your explaination.
These boards are now one huge cluster----, but instead of admitting that, I will continue to deny until there are no more followers.
What are you talking about? I'm changing the boards back to the classifications, as requested.
I think things might get back to the way it was if folks return to see things are reverting to the way they were.
This is a slippery slope. Obviously, VAPreps is looking at the stats of users access, frequency, etc. They work hard and are writing good stories. At the same time, the future has to be considered. Older users are probably their most frequent users. Change is difficult and needs to be dealt with.
I currently work at a local College in the IT Department. Not because I need to but because it's a two block walk and I'm bored. In this area, the customer base would prefer to give up hot water for a week than their cell phones and Social Media access. That's just today's culture. If we don't address and cater to that culture, we go the way of the Dodo. VAPreps has made their site mobile friendly, and social media appropriate because they know that if they don't, folks will go elsewhere and they cannot attract new business from a newer generation of users. As with anything, it's about the money. They need to cater to the young to do this.
Business decision here and I have to agree with it. I don't like it. Nobody wants to have their cheese moved. The content is there and VAPreps I working hard to provide it. New writers. More coverage. Contacts around the State for information you won't get anywhere else. There's just a learning curve and we'll have to deal with it. It will come.
I currently work at a local College in the IT Department. Not because I need to but because it's a two block walk and I'm bored. In this area, the customer base would prefer to give up hot water for a week than their cell phones and Social Media access. That's just today's culture. If we don't address and cater to that culture, we go the way of the Dodo. VAPreps has made their site mobile friendly, and social media appropriate because they know that if they don't, folks will go elsewhere and they cannot attract new business from a newer generation of users. As with anything, it's about the money. They need to cater to the young to do this.
Business decision here and I have to agree with it. I don't like it. Nobody wants to have their cheese moved. The content is there and VAPreps I working hard to provide it. New writers. More coverage. Contacts around the State for information you won't get anywhere else. There's just a learning curve and we'll have to deal with it. It will come.
Think everyone likes the social media changes an mobile friendly I have enjoyed it. Biggest problem I an most the last few weeks was the forum name change. Like I say think most people are more interested in the class there teams in than the area. Like peidmont has 1A to 4 valley had 1A to 5A
Must be a phone issue HR I'm on my phone now. Might want to power cycle your phone
I think the move to Social Media is correct but I would have recommended everything stay 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A. I have no numbers to support that. That's just what my gut tells me. I think it brings more overall interest among the Divisions who like to see what everyone of their potential competitors is doing. I'm just as interested in Sherando as Salem, as Dinwiddie as LT. I don't like jumping around to different boards to hear commentary or updates. Took me two days to find anything on the JM/Dinwiddie matchup where I normally would have found something the night of the game. That's just one example.
When I attempt to pull up vapreps on my phone, the website appears to come up, but screen is blank except for a blue outline.
I have problems on my phone (android) too. When I open the VirginiaPreps home page, or at least the page I bookmarked, I get a large pop-up that prompts me to sign up. None of the links on the pop-up work, I can't get rid of it, and it takes up half of the screen. I'm still able to scroll the page and read around the pop-up, but after less than a minute I get tired of doing that.
I was able to post from my phone last night for the first time. I have a problem when clicking on a thread at times though. When I click a thread of interest it will occasionally take me to another site like mdpreps or njpreps or some other site like that lol
I pretty much do all my posts a reading post on my Samsung s4 android an have not ran into any issues
Except proofreading and spell checking. I'm sorry but I don't know what you're trying to say most of the time.
Take it easy on AMHERST #1 he's a good guy. I think he uses the voice function on his phone to do his posts. That doesn't always work out very well.
Ron..., Rod..., just call you at kick off time, right? Thanks, regardless. And I look forward to the return of your podcast one day in the future.
It definitely requires a visit from the learning curve. JMO. I'll just have to get used to it.
The gold on white may be worse part of boards now. My eyes are bad to start with, gold on white makes them worse.
