The contraction of the forum of http://forums.xisto.com/ and the forum of http://forums.xisto.com/ has advantages. It has disadvantages too. One option to consider is to go back to the former situation and to seperate the computer and interenet forum of http://forums.xisto.com/ and the social forum of http://forums.xisto.com/. If the backups of the several databases are saved this might be possible. The reason for this suggestion is the current situation. Maybe it is nearly impossible to solve the issues the aggregation of the two websites causes. And maybe it costs less time to return to two efficiently working websites compared to the time it might cost to solve all the problems this website faces. It is possible to note some of the issues of this website in a topic. A consideration to restrain from listing some of the issues of this website is the thought that this could be seen like negative criticism. And it is probably unnecessary to talk about the issues of this website because it seems most of the issues of this forum are obvious for everyone. On the other hand, the discussion in the ShoutBox suggests the issues aren't obvious to everybody.
It doesn't seem useful to explain the issues of this website, because it seems things are getting worse in stead of improving. And one charasteristic element of a complicated situation is that the solution for one issue causes new and more problems in another field.
One of the difficulties is, that the reason for making one website in stead of two are not discussed. This reason hasn't been communicated. The reason to combine the two websites hasn't been explained. This makes it a little bit hard to understand the reason to combine the two websites. And this lack of understanding makes it difficult to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the different options about the future of this website.
It seems nice to post and to discuss suggestions for changes.
And one conclusion of the current situation at the moment is, that it isn't clear what will happen with the forum.
No offense.
The experience, that it is possible to include a picture again makes the impression, that links and website names are working again. This gives hope it will be possible to solve some of the issues of this forum.