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[ronald hirsch]

I use many forums on the Internet. I have to
say that the X-10 forums are about the worst
I've seen, from the standpoint of X-10/s
software and resources.

They load like I'm on dialup, instead of
broadband. I see no way to search for any
threads I've started, or any search
capability, other than 2 sorting choices.

Every time the forum finally loads, I get an
error mesage about a "script" not running,
and do I want to continue.

C'mon X-10 get with it. Get rid of the
donkey, and get a modern framework.

Ron Hirsch

[Brian H]

You getting the popups like me?
It does seem thet the AHP fourms do load
slowly. The older X10 area seems to be
somewhat faster. I too am DSL.

[Dan Lawrence]

It's free, so why gripe?

I'm on cable broadband, and any delay is due
to traffic on X10's servers.

I love it when people who got on a web bbs
for free want all the "bells & whistles" but
don't want to pay for it.

Read the disclamer when you post. It's at the
bottom of the "Post a New Message"

[dave w]

You can stop the error message within
Internet Explorer/Tools/advanced
click "Disable Script Debugging"

[dave w]

You can stop the error message within
Internet Explorer/Tools/advanced
click "Disable Script Debugging". Probably
updating the X10 forum site is low on
X10's "Lets Fix This" list.

[arf1410]

Every other web forum I use is also free,
and somehow or another, they are able to
provide a much better interface and on much
faster servers

[jarett]

http://www.phpbb.com/

[Dan Lawrence]

One of the Baltimore boards I get on runs
phpbb bbs software.  It's Ok, but I prefer
threaded boards, which neither X10's or phpbb
is. My general view is "put up with what you
get".

[jarett]

Hm.  I've actually always hated threaded
boards, largely because they provide much
less information "at a glance" than flat
boards do.  To each his or her own

[TimU]

I'd like to point out that this forum is NOT
free.  I paid a great deal of money for some
hardware that is NOT working, and these
forums are part of my support options.  They
ARE slow, and nearly featureless.
(yes, I am upset at the X10 product, and
YES, poor support, including poor forum
performance, is aggravating the issue.)

[arf1410]

Anyone know why this forum software is so
primative, and the server(?) so slow?  IS
better software that expensive?  I know
guys who have set up various forums for
fun / hobby type things, so I doubt the've
spent much money, yet the software is much
nicer and the data comes up much faster.

[jarett]

I think if X10 were to allow some of their
users to jump into their webserver, they
would probably find that we could set up a
forum which was ten times more effective for
exactly zero cost.

But hey, whatever.  They probably have a deal
for support with whoever supplied them with
this forum, so why get rid of it?