First of all, Great site Martin

It's good to see it growing from strength to strength and hopefully one day we will be up there with the D3 and RRS boys in terms of popularity.


The gallery has no order...that I can see anyway and should be sorted alphabetically, based on the users name, to make it easier to search through.


The next one is I think the 'Off topic' section should be renamed and at the top of the boards to make more people use it rather than them using the 'General' section which gets much more attention. Maybe call it the 'Land Rover Lounge' or something....a general car discussion, joke telling, cr#p talking place.
I would liek to see more of us asking for non-car related advice, to make us more of a community and use the knowledge that we all have.


Next I would like to see a section added to the board that is written by members but posted by admin and would contain solutions, recalls, modification instructions, tuning company links etc. This would save repeat question and having to search so much to find info I think. Also it would combine hopefully info over several posts by an individual into one document/post.

A few examples;

1. Wheel direction symbol when using HDC or TR
2. Low power mode when fuel level is low
3. Tips on PTI Bluetooth pairing
4. Replacing your bulbs for LED's (mburton (if he wants) could do a nice write up for all the bulbs including web links and bulb types etc.)
5. Replacing your green LR emblems for black
6. Which oil for your TD-4? by Yamaha-Fan

There are many more that can be added, but these are those that I can think of off of the top of my head.
And as I said these would not be posts for people to add to, but only admin once they are posted and locked, and would only be altered if the writer wishes for it to be changed or a mistake is found by another member.

Gambba

Last edited by Gambba on 9th Jan 2008 10:34 pm. Edited 1 time in total

Dam it, I'd knew I'd missed a poll option!!!

Last poll option: All of the ideas are great and Gambba is a legend


The first vote was from me (Please don't ban me!!)

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Well, 2 votes so far and one of them is mine

I quite like the site as it is. Easy enough to find everything, I think Martin has done a wonderful job with this site.........3 cheers for Martin  ______________________
2011 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8
2012 FL2 SD4 Auto HSE
2013 Kawasaki Versys 650

Will be sorry to see you go gambba

Only joking not voted yet still deciding which is best idea, it will not be the last suggestion though.

So the guys who think the gallery is fine can you explain how you find an individuals members pictures???? Look through every page until you find it?

The gallery is my only "hate" and the others are simply suggestions that I have seen in one way or another on other sites and that work very well for the community.

Gambba wrote:

First of all, Great site Martin

It's good to see it growing from strength to strength and hopefully one day we will be up there with the D3 boys in terms of popularity.

You've got a while before you catch up with the even more amazing disco3.co.uk  

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Gambba wrote:

So the guys who think the gallery is fine can you explain how you find an individuals members pictures????

Click on the Gallery button in their profile or at the bottom of any of their posts 

Slimer wrote:

Gambba wrote:

So the guys who think the gallery is fine can you explain how you find an individuals members pictures????

Click on the Gallery button in their profile or at the bottom of any of their posts

See i knew I was doing it slightly wrong

That helps a bit, but still sometimes I am just in the gallery and think...oh I should check out Joe Bloggs' pictures.

Very Annoyed wrote:

Gambba wrote:

First of all, Great site Martin

It's good to see it growing from strength to strength and hopefully one day we will be up there with the D3 boys in terms of popularity.

Don't forget the amazing rrsport.co.uk

That's what I said

Ahh the beauty of the edit button

The other thing I was thinking with the Land Rover Lounge would be to have it linked accross all of the sites if possible so we all interact on general topics.

That would be very very difficult. Also at the moment Freel2 is on a different server to martin's other sites. RRS 2.7 TDV6 HSE Zambezi silver, Alpaca, Privicy Glass, Sun roof, PTI, Tasmod's sills, DVD for the offspring, Sex on wheels! RRSPORT.CO.UK sticker on back window! S/C grill & Vents, Front & Rear Lamp Guards, Driving lamps and mud in places you wouldn't believe!
D3 for the wife - No extras! (she has to earn them!)

I like Boobies!!!!

The site works well, I forget about other topics alot so higher up I might use it more. I find the gallery a little random, but it doesn't detract from the fact that this is one of the more welcoming forums I use regularly.
Good work Martin.

joe MY11 Fuji white Td4 150 GS straight up no mixer.

I agree about the Gallery - it's annoying that it's sorted by user ID (in effect, date of registration for the site) and not username, but all the sites are the same. I will look into changing this, depending on how difficult it is

I can certainly create a Tips & Tricks board for you - similar to http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/tips-tricks-vf15.html - which should cover what you want for that.

The Off Topic area can't be linked across the sites unfortunately, as this would require a major re-write of the forum code to support this in order to load topics for that area from a single place, but keeping the rest of the content separate. This would also require a merging of all the user databases which would be a nightmare with the number of members we have across the sites now. Of course there's nothing to stop you participating in all the sites separately

Also, I'm personally against the name "Land Rover Lounge" for the "Off Topic" area, because this suggests that the content is still Land Rover-related, which for the vast majority of posts would be incorrect. The Off Topic section as it stands (current name and location on the forum home page) works well on DISCO3 and RRSPORT. Ultimately this site is a Freelander 2 and LR2 site, so "on topic" areas should sit "on top" of the "off topic" items.

A good feature to use to check replies is the "New Posts" link on the blue menu bar, which shows you the popular topics since your last visit, regardless of the forum they've been posted in (except if you've opted out of showing Off Topic posts in there!). Alternatively you can use the "View posts from last: 1h 2h 6h 12h 24h 48h 72h" links towards the bottom of the forum home page to do a similar thing but for a specified time period.

nice job so far Martin thanks.
But I feel you owe me a bit of money as after reading a few posts on this forum, I will have to spend a bit on extras for my FL2, I take paypal.