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Perhaps a simple redesign of the front page might help.

If you put a box at the top above all the topic areas with something along the lines of "PLEASE USE THE SEARCH FACILITY BEFORE POSTING" (or something along those lines) then that might help.

Would still love to see recent posts to the suppliers forum appear when you click what's new. In fact unless you enter the suppliers forum section you do not even know what has been posted in there.

WDR....I thought that issue had been resolved, will need to double check and rectify this.

I don't think locking a thread will help as it will just look as if the forum is unwilling to help, which is not true.

I do get peeved myself when people start a subject thread which has been answered many times before, but I also think that old threads getting new answers is annoying. LOL

Has the suggestion of making the forum 'Tapatalk enabled' ever come up? For those who don't know, tapatalk is a forum app that works across all phones, be it an iPhone, Android, Windows etc etc. Its free and easy to set up, and in my opinion, is a must have feature. I run a forum too, and when a look at my 'who's online list' the amount of people viewing via tapatalk easily outweighs the amount of people sitting at a computer.
I don't know about you lot, but browsing while on the phone can be quite a difficult task, and posting is not much easier.

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I just the the "mobile version poll" a few threads down (http://www.dyesubforum.co.uk/vbforum/sh ... Style-Poll)
Still think this is a must though!!

EssexImaging;75503 wrote:Has the suggestion of making the forum 'Tapatalk enabled' ever come up? For those who don't know, tapatalk is a forum app that works across all phones, be it an iPhone, Android, Windows etc etc. Its free and easy to set up, and in my opinion, is a must have feature. I run a forum too, and when a look at my 'who's online list' the amount of people viewing via tapatalk easily outweighs the amount of people sitting at a computer.
I don't know about you lot, but browsing while on the phone can be quite a difficult task, and posting is not much easier.

:edit:
I just the the "mobile version poll" a few threads down (http://www.dyesubforum.co.uk/vbforum/sh ... Style-Poll)
Still think this is a must though!!

Good prog - use it for all forums I go on and if it has tapatalk I never use a computer. Also more likely to use a forum with tapatalk.

A special section of the suppliers/advertiser where they can offer special one off discounts or special offers coming up so we can be aware of it,and may be a video section on different aspects of sublimation,video should be available for premium members only tho as no hit and runners,they can even be taken from youtube as links

Angloman;83811 wrote:A special section of the suppliers/advertiser where they can offer special one off discounts or special offers coming up so we can be aware of it,and may be a video section on different aspects of sublimation,video should be available for premium members only tho as no hit and runners,they can even be taken from youtube as links

There is a special section for suppliers isnt there ? as for making it available for premium members only isnt that counter productive to suppliers ? they want to reach as many people as possible with their adverts premium members or not . I have not renewed my membership for reasons of my own but i speak to suppliers deirectly very often and im pretty sure if i said to one " hey i cant see your ad on the forum as im not a premium member " they would probably start considering the viability of paying to be a supplier if their only audiance is an elite group of people . Existing businesses are very important to suplliers but i would suggest that suppliers would also very much want to reach newcommers to the trade after all get a customer early on then that customer has a greater chance of sticking with that one supplier new commers dont tend to pay for premium membership initially (if at all) so this demographic would be lost to suppliers . Unless of course you make the whole forum a membership only and that subject has been hammered to death in the past.

Angloman;83811 wrote:A special section of the suppliers/advertiser where they can offer special one off discounts or special offers coming up so we can be aware of it,and may be a video section on different aspects of sublimation,video should be available for premium members only tho as no hit and runners,they can even be taken from youtube as links

Any Supplier Member has their own section where they are encouraged to do this. We also have a video section

more links to other business so we can help each other !