The community forum is now over one year old! Since its introduction to the wild in the summer of 2009, this beast has now grown into a popular and informative place to exchange ideas, pictures, stories among a variety of other things! It has not been a smooth journey all the way with a few technical issues and disruptions setting it back, but we are very happy with the way most of it has been going.
We, the moderators from the Wildlife and Web teams, must say a big thank you to all the contributors and viewers of this forum. It is your friendly welcomes, interesting and informative posts that make this successful. It has been a steep learning curve for us all, we've enjoyed it and hope that you have enjoyed it as much as we have.
Other than to say a big thanks to everyone, we wanted to inform you all about what we have been up to with regards to the future of the forum. No doubt you will all be happy to hear that there will be upgrades happening to the software and hardware which the whole website uses. These upgrades should see an improvement to some of the issues which some of you have experienced. Unfortunately we cannot give you an exact time scale for this but it is in the pipeline.
We do realise there have been a few problems on the forum and we have been working hard to deal with them. Please keep reporting any posts you're not happy with and we will endevour to keep the atmosphere of the forum friendly and constructive. There may well be a few other tweaks, additions and changes as well, which we will keep you up to date with as they happen.
Once again thank you for all the great input to this forum, keep up the good work! If you have any feedback or ideas for change then please let us know, we are still learning and are willing to listen to any constructive criticism.
Thanks
Warden Intern at Otmoor.
Have just thought of a little addition that would improve my forums experience at least. The option to go to the first unread post in a thread, some times when a thread is fast moving or when I've been away for a couple of days, its hard to follow a a big thread without possibly missing reading a post.
Have another thought that might be useful.
I think having a lot more privacy on ones profile would be a good idea. On the Forums that I so reside on the profile feature remains invisible to guests who are on the site to look at the posts.
Having a choice of registration would open the doors to a member to look at someone's profile after they have become a member posting their first post.
Just another thought for privacy.
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Lindybird said: What a brilliant idea, Izzy!
What a brilliant idea, Izzy!
why thank you Lindybird
there are so many good pics on here arent there plus Robert showed his skills on the '30 years ago thread' mind you i loved some of the 'worst' photos too - made me chuckle
Izzy
There are certainly plenty of absolutely wonderful photos on here, almost on a daily basis, Izzy.
Hi Lindybird
Yes, there is a healthy dose of pictures of all sorts of wildlife on this Forum, and that is what shows peoples enthusiasm is about their subject.
That is a good thing to take note of.
Izzy said: Thanks for all your comments and positive feedback. It really is appreciated and we will be looking into the suggestions you have made! Great stuff and keep it coming!
Thanks for all your comments and positive feedback. It really is appreciated and we will be looking into the suggestions you have made!
Great stuff and keep it coming!
i have a suggestion - would it be possible to have some more avatar choices - if possible can they include some of birds and (perhaps too big an ask) could some of them be smaller versions of some of the wonderful photos posted by members - only with their permission obtained first of course
i would also like an ignore button
thank you to all the staff
Great idea izzy and some smilies please he he
An optimist sees the beauty of the complete rose.A pessimist sees only the thorn .
Hi,
we can choose / make/ upload from other sources etc. our own avatars ( I did ) - I think if you asked to use a section of one of our photographers images as your avatar some of them might be willing and flattered :)
S
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Hi S
Good idea to have a grouping of Avitors to use - I am all for that!
Yes, it would be flattering.
Happy Birthday RSPB Forum! *Big Grin*
Although I'm currently on holiday in the wonderful US of A I couldn't let this thread pass by without me replying to it.
Lots of love and best wishes to you all Chris XXX
Best wishes Chris
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Hi Chris
Hello and a *wave* from me
Great way to remember you post that you have typed from the USA. Another great momento of the occasion.
I bet that you are enjoying your holiday a whole
Cannot wait to hear about your trip and see all of your photos
Take care
Woodpecker said: Happy Birthday RSPB Forum! *Big Grin* Although I'm currently on holiday in the wonderful US of A I couldn't let this thread pass by without me replying to it. Lots of love and best wishes to you all Chris XXX