CGC knowingly damaging books?20972

Originally Posted by Rbolton
Thus is what we refer to as an old fashioned in Kansas. I’m getting doughnuts in the morning!

Originally Posted by flanders
https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/4518693002/

I must be blind. I zoomed in on the high resolution scans and see nothing.

Originally Posted by DrWatson
Well, it will eliminate the field of tiny boxes at the start of each thread.

Originally Posted by Gaard
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Originally Posted by poka
one more annoying thing which will thread will soon hit is the 999 post limit

The first thing you need to know before I ask what's on my mind is that I'm very ignorant when it comes to how these forums work. That being said...

Why is there a 999 post limit, but the '(Just for fun)ID this cover' thread have over 45,000 posts?

Originally Posted by Get_Marwood

Hello Wade.

I'm happy to provide some feedback here and I'll do so by comparing the CBCS forum to the CGC one if I may. I want to be clear that CBCS and CGC are irrelevant in what follows - I'm comparing the forum software that CBCS use (Ninjapost) to the software that CGC use (Invision).

I want you to think as if you are a comic enthusiast, visiting each of the forums in turn for the first time. The first difference you will see is that the CGC/Invision software provides structure. There you will see different forums and sub-forums, tailored to the subject matter, with clear headings to assist navigation. If you are interested in, say, the Silver Age, you'll see a Silver Age forum over at CGC on their landing page. Here at CBCS, we have a landing page that is in effect one long toilet roll comprising every thread ever created. Tags are not forum headings. This makes navigation very difficult and off-putting. Once a thread is a few weeks old, it is out of sight.

Once you access a CBCS thread, you are presented with things like this:











That looks like a child devised the formatting. This is what you will see atop a CGC forum thread:




Once you get to the actual thread content, the CBCS forum has a pointless, annoying feature whereby the last few posts from the previous page are repeated. So you may have scrolled for ages just to get to new content and I find myself second guessing what is new and what is repeated.

When it comes to actually composing a post, the CBCS forum software is a like a wooden box on wheels compared to the Ferrari that is the CGC forum software. Take a look at this post I made just before being banned:

https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/471133-the-distribution-of-us-published-comics-in-the-uk-1959~1982/page/328/#findComment-13352816

It would be impossible to recreate that here at CBCS. The Invision software that CGC uses allows me to:

- Add multiple images quickly and easily
- Resize those images
- Place them side by side
- Add hyper links to them
- Centre them

The process of adding content - whether that be an image, link, gif or member tag - is simplicity itself.

The layout at CGC is so much more user friendly with clear visual delineation between posts. They have journals, galleries, events, leaderboards, online users page, 'my activity' functionality. At CGC I can like a post in a number of ways - funny, sad, like, thanks, and it has meaning. Here the 'votes' mean what? If I think someone has made a funny post I have to say it, in a post, as giving a vote out of three ticks has no meaning.

At CGC, I can click on a hyperlink in a quoted post to take me back to the original post, allowing me to better understand the discussion at that point, and when it was made.

Take a look at my profile page at CGC. Look at all the things I can do with it, and the information it provides:

https://boards.cgccomics.com/profile/34042-get-marwood-i/

I could go on - but essentially I think that CBCS have been reliant on the Ninja software for too long and it is like something out of the Ark when compared to the Invision package that CGC pay for.

I don't think there is anything you can do to enhance the current package. The best solution would be for CBCS to migrate to a package similar to Invision, as CGC did around 8 years ago.

I would love to post here more often. The members are nice. But the software is - I'll be frank - awful. I don't think the Invision package is particularly expensive, but if CBCS want to be taken seriously as a community forum provider then they really do need to do something. I can't imagine many younger collectors would want to join here - it's so outdated and clunky.

I stress again - this isn't me bashing CBCS and praising CGC. I'm bashing Ninjapost and praising Invision.

I hope that helps.

http://www.ninjapost.com/

https://invisioncommunity.com/

Originally Posted by Wade_Story
@Get_Marwood Nope, still here! Will be out starting next week for holidays though.

On the subject, I am not sure of the technical side much myself. But if I am asked for input, I want to be able to give the feedback you have all presented on the subject. If someone from CBCS previously mentioned that creating a new forum would result in the current format going away, that may be true (again not a tech savy person here).