Things that need to be added/changed here - add your suggestions

I agree with most of the constructive feedback from people here. I also can relate to the frustration coming from some other users.

@ruckus : I appreciate your patience and the will to put this thing all together. But you have to understand that people that say that the navigation sucks are comparing it to ANY other forum like vbulletin or phpBB etc. I have also come to realize that you are the middle man between the devs/users/management. That role must suck I have to admit. So I will have to echo what goldy said

1. Since this white and blue color combo with large fonts and scattered posts is the universal community interface, how much UI change are we realistically expecting with all the feedback? Are you going to the management first then the devs?

2. Why are we reinventing everything? First with copernicus/SF-OS/XG and now with this board. Other people have done this and very successfully I might add. Why are you guys hell bent on giving it your own flavor? I don't mind the flavor aspect either, its the philosophy of recreating everything from scratch. If you have devs sitting around sipping coffee, send them to work on SF-OS. They really need help there.

3. As much as I appreciated the whole post that vilic wrote, it should have been already sorted out by the QC department. You guys are in security business as most of you like to brag so stay with security and quit reinventing forum software.

Please don't take this as negative criticism as I really think that you are trying to help but we need some kind of road map. From previous experience with sophos, it seems most of our feedback falls on deaf years.
Copernicus interface/ overall architecture - no one cared to fix it.
Astaro.org - Dead with no functional backups.
Sophos community website - Still taking feedback on functionality. The basic forum functions should have been sorted well before it became beta and now IS the face of SOPHOS community.

So, do you have any OFFICIAL timeline on when or if ANY of these changes will be implemented. I know in the other thread you had mentioned that the read-only astaro.org would have been back before it even went down but you had minor difficulties and we know how that turned out.

Sorry for the long rant
Regards
Bill

Edit: I will go even a step further. In your judgement, what is the realistic time frame that the very basic things that teched/ vilic outlined in their posts can be implemented into this forum. I mean deadlines... not vague references like next major version upgrade etc ;)

I agree with most of the constructive feedback from people here. I also can relate to the frustration coming from some other users.

@ruckus : I appreciate your patience and the will to put this thing all together. But you have to understand that people that say that the navigation sucks are comparing it to ANY other forum like vbulletin or phpBB etc. I have also come to realize that you are the middle man between the devs/users/management. That role must suck I have to admit. So I will have to echo what goldy said

1. Since this white and blue color combo with large fonts and scattered posts is the universal community interface, how much UI change are we realistically expecting with all the feedback? Are you going to the management first then the devs?

2. Why are we reinventing everything? First with copernicus/SF-OS/XG and now with this board. Other people have done this and very successfully I might add. Why are you guys hell bent on giving it your own flavor? I don't mind the flavor aspect either, its the philosophy of recreating everything from scratch. If you have devs sitting around sipping coffee, send them to work on SF-OS. They really need help there.

3. As much as I appreciated the whole post that vilic wrote, it should have been already sorted out by the QC department. You guys are in security business as most of you like to brag so stay with security and quit reinventing forum software.

Please don't take this as negative criticism as I really think that you are trying to help but we need some kind of road map. From previous experience with sophos, it seems most of our feedback falls on deaf years.
Copernicus interface/ overall architecture - no one cared to fix it.
Astaro.org - Dead with no functional backups.
Sophos community website - Still taking feedback on functionality. The basic forum functions should have been sorted well before it became beta and now IS the face of SOPHOS community.

So, do you have any OFFICIAL timeline on when or if ANY of these changes will be implemented. I know in the other thread you had mentioned that the read-only astaro.org would have been back before it even went down but you had minor difficulties and we know how that turned out.

Sorry for the long rant
Regards
Bill

Edit: I will go even a step further. In your judgement, what is the realistic time frame that the very basic things that teched/ vilic outlined in their posts can be implemented into this forum. I mean deadlines... not vague references like next major version upgrade etc ;)