New SJ Owner

I don't care for the redesign but I do appreciate your effort, your enthusiasm and your respectfulness. We have not seen a lot of the latter from the bosses lately. Peace out and Merry Christmas.

 

Thanks, I see that I am now up to "active member." And just when I was ready to start grounding people!

 

This guy has whined with every leadership of the site. Don't mind him, Jeff. He's our Aunt Edna.

 

Haven't seen many decent designs for message boards. Applaud the effort, as I assume it wasn't an easy task to switch the board to a new platform.

 

The strategic use of white space on steroids. Anyhoo, welcome, jefe Jeff, and just remember, Brad Renfro was good in The Client.

 

And bells and whistles go off in the Jeff extra bedroom as the #2 notable returns to the fold.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/index.php?members/

 

Love the alerts. That is a great addition. I don't love that it's not as easy to see if you have a PM. I had to go mark every one in my inbox as read in order to get that working the way I wanted.

I have never understood why the delete post was taken away. If I started a thread that nobody responded to, I could delete it. If I posted something that was wrong, I could delete it. I'd love to have that back.

Welcome to the board. As someone who has been here since Day One, I like what you've done so far.

 

And I got a "like"!!

 

And then you got another!

 

I'm guessing the purchase of the first forum went reasonably well since you decided to buy a second one.

Could you share a little of that experience with us?

Since I'm not sure how discreet you'd like to be, I won't mention the other forum, but it looks like they had many of the same problems when you bought it, and members had some of the same concerns with the change in ownership.

Were you able to grow revenue/membership/page views, etc.? Did you lose any/many active members in order to do so?