Well the forum has been running for over a year, and the site much longer. I am interested in ways of improving what we offer, and want to know what you think we are doing right adn wrong.

Im currently organising prizes for competitions on the site and forum, and also arranging a uk trance alliance review/interview section for exclusive ukta interviews of big name djs, and reviews of promo vinyl, and club nights.

We have also just invested heavely in a new dedicated server to resolve any site slowdowns which brought the forum to a halt at times.

So how do you think we could better this place?

Your feedback is key to the future of this site.

thank you

Fly

having that would be awesome would love to see those changes

one thing i would suggest.. is.. you know in the Main Music Forums.. we have music discussion, general discussion, etc etc

my suggestion is for the forums to be arranged in this form

Music Discussion
New Releases Discussion + Reviews
Liveset Tracklists
Party & Events Info

General Discussion
Sports Discussion
Movies & TV Discussion
Tech & Games

Polls Section

that way music related forums are grouped together, and non-music ones are grouped together as well.

just a minor suggestion IMO, otherwise this forum is doing awesome and you're doing a great job Fly

grouped music and non music sections together

pfff difficult this is.......
The forum is good as it is now
Can't think of any new things.
I'm dissapointed with the UKTA CD at this point and I'm thinking about his future.

At the moment the forums are great the way they are.

I have to admit that I visit the site rarely. I have a direct favorite to the forum, but I will try to go to the main site more ofter

I think reviews are a great idea, there is so much music and so much of it is crap

Don't forget it highly depends on reviewer's taste

exactly too.

but it would be a pretty interesting idea to try out

A music news section of the site. I'd be willing to help out if needs be.

i imagine we will have to setup a ukta news team, so i will be contacting people if i decide to do it, as i cant do it alone. But if we did we would be honest, and that might mean not getting anything more to review, but whats the point of lying.

sounds good to me

at least we'll know which clubs and djs to avoid in future

P.S. I'd love to be a reviewer but there's never any trance nights here in crappy old Norfolk

mate, you have an advantage because your british, so a lot of the big club nights are here.

Really want people from holland, or the uk, coz the record labels and major clubs are based in those countries. And it would mean free entry to clubs etc, so no need to pay to go clubbing anymore, just get on the press list

plus ill get you all ukta t-shirts to wear

the forums are becoming better and better...
it's only bad the "dj section" isn't that popular besides it isn't not that popular, the most of the active people there are only dj's... not producers

that will change in time. We are growing in size every day. A year ago, we had about 2 producers

the forum is gr8 fly u're doing a really good job & it's growing everyday

EDITED: THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR SPAMMING. FLY

No,
As they don't advertise here also

oh enough bout that already

The worst thing you could do

I was just thinking.......
When you are typing a reply you see that last 10 posts
But mayby it is better to either include the opening post or to show only the opening post that people know on wich topic they are replying
Also good for saving a topic to go off-topic

you can select the toption to open up the whole thread in a new window. The idea of the forum i guess is people to reply to the previous post, not neccesarily the initial post.

Ill look into it

And I think we have to make special section on the main site for Review section where all the reviews and interviews will be posted as separate pages in HTML.

ok, so then all reviewers need to know html. It would have to be a php system whatever happens, and we are getting a new area for ukta reviews made, but these things take time and money.

after being here for a few months, I have this to say

I find it kinda annoying that one arnt allowed to edit typos, without "this post has been edited by Glorie" line popping up in the post. U should at least be able to change it for 30 min - 1 hour. in my case I always see something wrong, so I have to change it all the time and that line irritates me a little cause I havent "really changed" anything in my saying.. it was just a minor error!

grrrr

and I think the statistics look kinda cluttered. On one hand I want it to be cluttered, cause I want to read info when I feel like it. But on the other hand I find "Last visit" very unnecessary and also "Member No." but I can see why you old guys want that to stay and yeah, I dont like Awards either long story.. but a lot of forums have that stuff... status, awards, kharma :S

u could add the line "Sex: Male" instead of Last visit maybe

not that Im pro special treatments when it comes to guys and girls.. but wouldnt it be really sweet if the little box under your name said "UKTA girl" for all the girls in here
oh yeah I know... It was just a quiet wish.. haha

Under post icons (while in edit mode) there's a checkbox Add the 'Edit by' line in this post?

can u post a print screen, cause I really cant see that sentence!

Could it be that only mods have this option?

:/ just what I thought..

I think it would be good if this was equal to every member.. edit your post in one hour and nothing will be seen. Edit it after that time and the sentence will be visible.

I have the option on whether to use the option or not. And i think its a good idea for our reference.

As in some cases arguments can occur, and members can edit their posts, or delete them, this way we know if someone has done this.

Secondly for the stats: Awards are hopefully something we will be running every 6 months. They are a bit of fun, and we didnt include any to cause offence.

I agree maybe the member number can be removed now, but personally i think its a good addition to see if someone is currently online/offline, and their last visit.

As for the male female thing, i think it shouldnt matter if your male or female, and adding this to your stats isnt necessary. I maybe wrong ofcourse.

Feel free to make polls on the ideas you have stated, anf if a lot of others agree, im sure i can change, or consider changing things

I don't have that option either

That's because you're a wannabe mod

Yes u do

I was blind

i added it

Nothing major but I found a few typos in the review section..... ...


Quickly amend it....!

cheers, fixed

I think that UKTA should have a bit more reviews on some of Europe's best Hard Trance/Dance D.J'S and aslo have some downloads on the genre of hard Trance music as this is the way of the Harder Generation!!

the invision power board skinh wont wont on my computer

Is it just me or the Musical discussion section is dead??....It just seems there's no discussion at all in there, i try my fair bit but.........

P.s should there be a NEWS SECTION??...etc etc

Unfortunately we cant force people to chat. The forum seems to be a little up and down at the moment. What do you mean by news section?

Yeah I guess. What i meant by news section is just News around the Trance Scene in general. i.e news about djs, etc etc But looking back i guess we have the musical disc thread for it.

I love the new forum fly to bad im not on very much.

At my end it a LOT slower than prior to the upgrade!

0.9687 sec script load time

Make sure you have your cache system setup correctly

Congrats Fly... great upgrade... Fixed most of bugs. It looks fresh.

And what would that be? btw 0.4274 sec now

So your browser softweare saves images, etc so it doesnt have to download all the information on every page load.

Forum is loading faster from now

How come all the links on the site are still linked to the old forum?

Because i havent got round to changing them. Soon it wont make a difference as i will setup a htaccess file to redirect all hits to the old forum to the same page on the new forum.