Folks, Have any of you that customized your boards ever received comments or confirmation that the users actually look at the Board info? I'm just curious. If they don't fix it, will it really be that great a loss? I rarely saw a Board with anything under info except the address -- and I do look. If most Boards ONLY have the address, pretty soon the users may stop looking for anything else. I customized all but two of my Boards and it was obvious that the info was rarely read. I did keep a backup of the html though. I'm just debating with myself it's worth reloading if they can't restore it. Rel@ively, Patrice At 7/26/2009 03:00 AM, you wrote: >From: JYoung6180@aol.com > >I asked the HelpDesk and David replied last week saying they are working on > that part of the boards and to check back later to see if the cusomized >board information pages come back. > >Joan

No, probably very few posters actually read the board info. But it's very frustrating to go to the trouble of doing it, and then it all gets wiped out with no warning, no explanation, no apology, no nothing. I have back-ups, too, but I probably won't bother to re-load them. Nan On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:46 AM, <genealogy@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Folks, > > Have any of you that customized your boards ever received comments or > confirmation that the users actually look at the Board info? I'm just > curious. > > If they don't fix it, will it really be that great a loss? I rarely > saw a Board with anything under info except the address -- and I do > look. If most Boards ONLY have the address, pretty soon the users > may stop looking for anything else. > > I customized all but two of my Boards and it was obvious that the > info was rarely read. I did keep a backup of the html though. I'm > just debating with myself it's worth reloading if they can't restore it. > > Rel@ively, > Patrice > > At 7/26/2009 03:00 AM, you wrote: > >From: JYoung6180@aol.com > > > >I asked the HelpDesk and David replied last week saying they are working > on > > that part of the boards and to check back later to see if the cusomized > >board information pages come back. > > > >Joan > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

genealogy@cfl.rr.com wrote: >Have any of you that customized your boards ever received comments or >confirmation that the users actually look at the Board info? I'm just curious. > > Occasionally. More often I'll point board users to the board info page to see useful links posted there. Whether they go to board info or not is unknown. >If they don't fix it, will it really be that great a loss? I rarely >saw a Board with anything under info except the address -- and I do >look. If most Boards ONLY have the address, pretty soon the users >may stop looking for anything else. > > Sort of like the welcome message for mailing lists. Mine are all customized, but rarely have I seen other customized welcome messages. >I customized all but two of my Boards and it was obvious that the >info was rarely read. I did keep a backup of the html though. I'm >just debating with myself it's worth reloading if they can't restore it. > It seems that board users rarely read Community Guidelines, Board Help, or Board FAQ either, but at least they're there for the reading. I'll be restoring board info since it will only take a few seconds, but it would be nice to know that someone is reading the info. :-) Lynne