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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 08:54 PM
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Good change/update Adrian, amazed at how many people whine about this, wow. Now that the LS/non-LS is separated, should look much better, (right now its a clusterfuck) Thanks for the update.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:15 PM
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Could you please make an option in the search area where I don't have to search state by state. Could you add an option to search all states?
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:31 PM
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Wow, this seems familiar......OBAMANATION! LS1 tech has messed up bad. Corrupt site
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by csjta2
Could you please make an option in the search area where I don't have to search state by state. Could you add an option to search all states?
It should search all states by default
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:10 PM
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For those of you that keep bringing up the little poll thread, with the 90% disfavor comments.... You don't realize that LS1Tech sees over 100,000 visitors per day. So, that poll is hardly even worth considering as a majority vote by viewers here. If anything, that poll only serves to indicate 90% disfavor among people who read that thread. The same people which happen to prefer complaining about something instead of offering helpful solutions or ideas.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:15 PM
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Thank you for separating the ls from the non ls. I would like one more change since we cannot go back to the old format. Like another member had said can we make the search option a drop down menu. That way we can see the ads full sized like before. I think this is a great idea! A lot of users use small laptops or like me a cell phone to check on the site and the scrunched up sales section is hard to read. Just put the search options at the top as a drop down menu and when someone wants to search for a particular part they can pull the menu down and do an advanced search. That way everyone for the most part is happy. I think this will solve a lot of the frustration with strolling through the classifieds. It will give the look of the old classifieds with all of the advantages of the new classifieds. Thanks again for the separation and the updates!

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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:17 PM
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This sucks, looked like ltxtech and planetlsx is going to be getting more traffic now, I hate when people have to change stuff that is working fine.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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What was annoying me was the mix of LS and LT, but now that is fix, I would like to see the clutter of searching stuff gone on the left side of the screen. It pushes everthing to the right and make it a PITA... and my Laptop even has a 20in screen!

Can't you put all the search options in the Advanced section or at least the Drop Down "search this forum" button

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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by IB Adrian
That is your browser.
If you try firefox (or even a newer version of Internet Explorer) it will save that info.

So now we all have to change to Firefox to make sure we don't have issues with the site when using MS-IE?!? (And I'm using IE-8 now. So it's not a newer version problem.)
Yer right, that's irrelevant, ...
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Devils Mentor
What was annoying me was the mix of LS and LT, but now that is fix, I would like to see the clutter of searching stuff gone on the left side of the screen. It pushes everthing to the right and make it a PITA... and my Laptop even has a 20in screen!

Can't you put all the search options in the Advanced section or at least the Drop Down "search this forum" button

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Imagine it for people on a netbook. Its a complete pain in the *** to view the classifieds.

This is how I see it.



I would suggest that the search menu be put up at the top below the navigation bar to relieve some of the look headaches.

Overall, its good its split back up into the right sections.
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:24 AM
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I am happy with everything but the layout.. If we could make the search at the bottom or the top, I would be happy with it. Or, as I stated earlier, make a drop down menu so we can open or close it as we wish.

It is still too crammed, this is what I see on my screen.



That is a MAJOR PAIN IN THE *** to read!

Thank you for helping out!
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:53 AM
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IB Adrian,
Thanks for seperating the LSX & non-LSX parts. That should make
things much better.

The main issue I have with the new system is this:
With the old system I would go into the LSX classifieds section,
scroll to the bottom of the page, & in the "Display Options" I would
sort the threads by "Thread Start Time". This allowed me to browse
miscelaneous LSX listings starting from the newest post. This option
saved me a lot of time since I didn't have to look over older posts
that I had already seen.

Since the system changeover I have been unable to find a way to
do this. Every section of LS1tech seems to have the "Display Options"
panel at the bottom of the page. Would it be possible to add it back
to the new classifieds section?

If there is already a way to do this with the new system please let me
know & disregard my entire post.
Thanks,
Daniel
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 09:37 AM
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remove the search from the side and please add a search all states, if you type in a keyword you have to search state by state.
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 12:44 PM
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I am seeing what we can do to move the search bar to the top.
I am not sure why some of you can't seem to be able to search with all states. I seem to be able to
Anyhow, we will fix that too.
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 12:49 PM
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Is it just me or does anyone else have problems searching? Anything I search for it say "No New posting in the last 30 days" anyone else seeing this?
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Nine Ball
For those of you that keep bringing up the little poll thread, with the 90% disfavor comments.... You don't realize that LS1Tech sees over 100,000 visitors per day. So, that poll is hardly even worth considering as a majority vote by viewers here. If anything, that poll only serves to indicate 90% disfavor among people who read that thread. The same people which happen to prefer complaining about something instead of offering helpful solutions or ideas.
Most people probably havnt seen the poll, correct, this website has so many forums and sub forums I would have to say pretty much every person that visits is missing something and couldnt possibly look at or find all of them. Its a clusterfuck. WAY too much going on, and getting worse.

The classifieds is still a pain in the ***. If your going to create subforums for every little thing that is going to be a bigger pain in the ***. I, like many others dont look for specific parts. We want to browse all available parts. Its bad enough you already have several classified sections, regional, vehicle type, then this.

If you dont frequent the classifieds then you probably cant comprehend what the problem is. It is still a pain in the ***.....the separation, and more importantly the way its laid out I think. The item description box is so small its tall and a pain to read.
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by daschra79
Is it just me or does anyone else have problems searching? Anything I search for it say "No New posting in the last 30 days" anyone else seeing this?
i also get this.
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 03:59 PM
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IB, I don't understand why you are fighting the idea of changing it back. It is obvious that the new system does not agree with the majority of the members here. Granted that this site may receive one trillion hit per second, but that does not mean every one of those members will speak up. Another thing is it's funny how if it is such an improvement, there is not equal, if not more members (by your logic and view of the poll), that should be defending the new classifieds. Keep in mind that if someone "does not mind it", that still means they don't like it. There is a difference between liking something and not minding, or better yet having to deal with it. If someone likes it, they will state just that, if they don't then they will voice their opinion, if they have the fortitude to fight for what they believe is right, or simply "not mind it".

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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by IB Adrian
but now that we have made the change it is impossible to turn back (all the threads have been moved to a common forum, and the only way to move them back is one by one... when there is about 60,000 threads, that isn't feasible unfortunately )
You still have everything available separate in backup files right?
What could have been done is wipe the whole classifieds out and take everything off of a backup file.. you do backup daily right? And then you would lose what was entered that day but not a big deal and only a minor hickup compared to the disaster that now exists.


The price block is an awesome idea...

Get rid of the row that says "categories" and make the title block way bigger. Maybe it looks ok on your browser but not mine. It takes up half the screen almost.

Also get rid of the private/vendor listing.. All it does is add clutter, take up space and its irrelevant anyways. Theres just too much going on. Shrink the search thing on the left, and be careful how you separate the stuff. I hate going to all diffferent forums to look for something because someone wasnt quite sure what one it was supposed to be in.

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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Nine Ball
For those of you that keep bringing up the little poll thread, with the 90% disfavor comments.... You don't realize that LS1Tech sees over 100,000 visitors per day. So, that poll is hardly even worth considering as a majority vote by viewers here. If anything, that poll only serves to indicate 90% disfavor among people who read that thread. The same people which happen to prefer complaining about something instead of offering helpful solutions or ideas.
I disagree the percentage is relevant. If you really want to get an acurate number you need to see how many people log into the classified adds every day. The people that are complaining are the ones that look at the parts for sale everyday. I'm sure that all of the 100,000 visits don't check out the for sale forum. Most people don't use the user support forum, so if you want to drill down a little further why don't you check to see how much the traffic in the user support section has increased since the change. I don't complain much, and don't start trouble. The old classifieds was the best for sale forum, period. Maybe the new one can be made to equal the old forum. I hope so. Yesterday I did a generic search for a cam. "Cam". I got no results. Well at least within the 5 minutes that I waited. I have done the same search a few times before that with the same results. It sure isn't my internet connection which is FIOS.
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