Posted by Keith in Washington on Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 12:31PM :
In Reply to: PWA Forums posted by Cheyenne Dave on Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 9:25AM :
I really love the PWA and have been reading it for many years. I wait every month for its delivery. Gordon I need to write you with more details about my concerns that I have expressed below especially in the area of privicy.
I tried the PWA forum several times and keep going back to try it again and again because I really enjoy the people and PWs. However I found the PWA forums to be what I call "not user friendly" from my stand point. My main issue is that the information/threads are so segmented. This makes it very difficult to browse what is going on in the PW world with out having to open a lot of different discussion threads. For example in Joe's (this) forum I can quickly browse all the discussions and see who is involved in them just by scrolling down the page. I can quickly see, for instance , that Marty is talking about an engine converion and that person X is involved who usually has very good comments on the subject. It has only required me to use my mouse wheel to find it and not hunt and peck through a lot of different pigeon holes (discussion threads). That is not possible in the PWA forums. This may not be relevant to some people as they may have very specific interests and only want to look at discussions in their area of interest. But to me I like to read what is going on in the whole PW world. There are also several privicy issues in the PWA forum that it would be nice to see addressed.
You might say that I am being a little picky. That might be true, however I test software applications for a living which gives me some different insights especially in the usabilty and privicy areas of software.
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