Different Forum Software Recommended

First, thanks for a great site, and a wonderful forum.

I'm sure that others have mentioned this, but the forum software you use is far less good that other software that is out there.

On other forums, I can quickly and accurately jump to new posts in a thread that I'm interested in. With your software, the best I can do is jump to my latest post, and then scroll down. This is even worse because the threads load very slowly.

In other forums, moving the mouse cursor in the list of posts displays the text in each thread. This lets me find out what the thread is about without opening it.

Editing is also much easier with other software.

An example of superior forum software may be found at:

EarlyRetirement.org/forums

I realize that you may be forced to stay with what you are currently using, but I wanted to make sure you are aware of the alternatives.

- Al

Hi Al,

Thanks for your suggestions. We do sometimes consider other software, but usually end up deciding against it because moving our 1.8+ million posts and all the other content, followed by having to retrain all our members on new software doesn't seem worth it.

If you choose to watch a post (including your own), when you get notice of a new post the link should take you directly to the new posts in the thread.

Otherwise it's a question of how you choose to sort the posts.

This forum software can display the post content when you mouse over with your cursor, we tried it and the majority of our members didn't like it, found it "distracting".