I agree Rita. The eteamz forum is what we're all used to using. This is going to take awhile to get used to using. But I don't see where we have too much of a choice. Eventually, the eteamz forum is going to be eliminated and everything there will be pushed over to this forum. So we might as well make the most of it. Hopefully someone at Active is listening and some of the concerns will be addressed and corrected.

Time will tell.

Bill

Rita,

What I have noticed is that posts that you have read are shown as (updated) next to the post. New posts do not show anything new.

On updated posts, you can click on the right area, showing when the update was made, and it will take you to the most recent posts.

The old active board did not have any feature to take to the most recent posts, you had to go through them and find the ones that showed "new".

I agree that there is a lot of White and Liter colors.

Tom

This forum will obviously take some getting used to, if it does replace eteamz.

I've been with eteamz since its Team Discovery days almost ten years ago (even though my "Member Since" date shows July 00, I have hard-copy threads from 1998 that I printed when I first started umpiring), and have done the overwhelming majority of my posting on that venue. I also post on the llumpire forum in Yahoo Groups on occasion. I have visited a number of other forums, such as the Officials forum, but never did much on them, mainly because I'm most comfortable with the people on eteamz and the format of its threads.

A few things I don't like with this forum:

1. There's no "Top of Page" link on the messages to get back to the task bar to return to the message lists.

2. The little "in response to" link doesn't really help. If a Michael Taylor message says it's "in response to: BHanlon", but Brian has five messages above Mike's, how do you know which one he responded to, other than by clicking the link? Hard to track as you're reading the threads.

3. Too many links. If I see that Mark S posted a response to my initial discussion, and I click "Mark S", I go to his profile instead of his response. Just a little annoying, that's all.

4. Keeping track of my responses is tough. Let's say I responded to a post by Mason Dixon Blue and asked him a question. On eteamz, I could quickly find my post because it would be under a post by MDB, and would have the question mark icon. But here, I would have to remember not only which discussion MDB's original post was under--did he post his original in "Ball Hit Bat Twice" or "Rule Clarification", for example--but then find the right MDB post with my question after it.

Again, I'm sure once I get used to it, this place will be okay. But I strongly adhere to the "If it Ain't Broke" philosophy. I honestly don't know what was wrong with the eteamz discussion board that the powers-that-be felt the need to start this place.

Manny

Hi everyone, I'm the Online Community Specialist for team sports here at Active and wanted to jump in and post a reply to reiterate our intentions and upcoming plans which might be helpful while Rob is out on (a much needed/well deserved) vacation.

First of all, thank you all for feedback. As for the layout and white space, there will be user interface changes in the future. We're analyzing your feedback and will make decisions based on member wants and needs such as the ones you have voiced to us. Continued improvement is the plan and this is just the start. There will be many updates and additional features on the new Active as we move forward. ALL existing posts on the eteamz boards will be migrated to these new boards next month.

It is important to us that you know member feedback is why we've created the new Active.com. We have invested our resources and time to make the new site entirely about you. Whether finding things to do, checking out our articles and special sections, getting involved in the community message boards, or taking advantage of one of our products, the choice is up to you. After years of reviewing feedback (focus groups, thousands of phone calls and email) and planning, we're now in beta to improve the overall experience of Active.com.

We've also received several questions on the topic of new post notifications. There has been an official request to develop more obvious notification of new messages. We expect to see this in site updates later this year. For now, the home page for each forum (e.g. Official Baseball Rules home) displays the latest posts as well as posts with new replies (the text "updated" will display next to the thread name). The newest reply to a thread will always be the last post listed in this new format.

Also, here is a link that shows some options on how to quickly check out the latest reply: http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/23635-1530/boards.JPG?tstart=0&start=15 You can click the "last post" link on the parent thread, subscribe to the RSS feed or by email (on left navigation). I hope this helps.

Please continue to let us know what you think--what you like and what you believe could be improved. We are working hard to make sure that our user's experience is a positive one.

Thank you,
Trish

That's great news! Glad to hear it worked. Yes, please contact us again if any other issues or bugs pop up. Thank you.