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• Lady London says:

  14 Dec14 December 13:01

  Would like nesting as otherwise it don’t make sense and isn’t a forum.

  Also hard to get perspective looking on Android mobile as print too large even for my big screen (not the case on other forums) and the lack of nesting makes me lose my way.

  Could be just the mangled Samsung version of Android though.

  • Lady London says:

    14 Dec14 December 13:03

    PS is there a Forum link somewhere near the top of the Home Page?

    • Rob says:

      14 Dec14 December 14:12

      On desktop, yes, in the menu bar. On mobile it is inside the ‘hamburger menu’ top right.

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 14:16

    Forums DON’T have nesting usually (a la Flyertalk).

    The idea is that, if we talk all the random stuff out of chat, it should only have a couple of running topics in it each day. This means you can either simply add your thoughts to the bottom or, if running out of sequence, quote the one you are replying to.

    The font size SHOULD be the same as the rest of the site. If not, take a screenshot of the forum and main site and ping it across to rhys@headforpoints.com. I have an iPhone Mini and it could be marginally smaller to get more on, but few have such a small phone.

• dougzz99 says:

  14 Dec14 December 14:47

  I think the forums should not be nested, that would be an unusual approach. The problem is the daily chat thread where nesting makes sense to me. The issues is that the daily chat thread is not a typical forum thread, it’s really something of an outlier.

  • dougzz99 says:

    14 Dec14 December 14:52

    As evidence of this look at the person asking about seat selection on the A350. The replies are scattered all over the place, and I pointlessly replied when as I read further I could see it had all been said already. The nesting solves this, but again I don’t believe this is a typical thread, it really is something different.

  • dougzz99 says:

    14 Dec14 December 15:02

    Further to this having looked through today’s chat thread I think users are not really getting how a forum works. If you’re asking advice on a very specific subject, destination questions, 241 cancellation rights as examples, why not start a specific thread, that way the forums become a useful tool to others with similar questions, and also keep all your answers in one place aiding you in looking at the feedback. I think you need to write a how to article so that people better understand how to use forums. As it stands, it’s almost a step backwards as the daily chat has lost nesting, whilst the benefits of a forum are not being exploited.

    • Harrier25 says:

      14 Dec14 December 21:56

      Sounds complex. Think I’ll go and find something else to do instead after reading the morning articles.

      • Magarathea says:

        14 Dec14 December 23:08

        +1

      • dst87 says:

        15 Dec15 December 09:34

        It’s really quite straightforward. If you have a topic to discuss or a question to ask, you start a new thread for it. Then all replies are relevant, people who are interested can find the topic easily, and those who aren’t can just as easily ignore it.

        Having the daily chat thread complicates things because it gives people a choice: do I post my quip / question / topic in the daily chat thread, or do I start a new thread for it? My view is that in basically all cases, starting a new thread is the right answer.

        • JerrySignfield says:

          15 Dec15 December 13:12

          @dst87

          yes that is how it should work

    • yorkieflyer says:

      17 Dec17 December 23:21

      I don’t need to be told to do what I don’t want to do thank you

• James says:

  14 Dec14 December 18:43

  Can you please check whether I’ve put in the right email address in the registration form? The “confirm email” email didn’t come.

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:49

    Was a slight typo – have updated and sent the link.

    • jlo says:

      15 Dec15 December 09:52

      Thanks Rhys! I did think I pressed register too early!

• Sloth says:

  14 Dec14 December 20:32

  Rob/Rhys, I registered with the original email address I always used here forgetting that I can no longer access the actual email account…:) I now can’t register with this username with a good email address. Could you help pls?

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:50

    Send me an email with the email you’d like to change it too 🙂

• Russ says:

  14 Dec14 December 21:21

  Don’t know if I’ve missed an announcement but the last line’s interesting:
  Flight: QR0004
  Operated by: Qatar Airways
  Departing from: Heathrow (London) Wed 18 May 2022, 15:05
  Arriving at: Doha Wed 18 May 2022, 23:50
  Stops: 0
  Flying duration: 6hrs 45mins
  Aircraft type: Airbus A380 Jet

• Andrew J says:

  14 Dec14 December 22:37

  What a shame the daily chat is over – it really got me through the last 18 months and I learnt a lot and was a really useful way of hearing about breaking news and offers. Never mind, was nice while it lasted.

  • Harrier25 says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:28

    +1. A forum is perfect to keep abreast with different subjects but it really doesn’t work for the fast moving daily chat with a variety of subjects being discussed.

  • dst87 says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:36

    None of these things are hard to replicate in a forum format. There could be a new topic for a deal that someone found, or a long-running thread where people post all of the deals. It just takes time for everyone to understand the flow of using the forum. It’s a change, but it’s not necessarily worse.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    17 Dec17 December 23:23

    Perhaps we need to recreate this if Rob thinks it detracts from his mission

• Barnaby100 says:

  15 Dec15 December 08:04

  Given up trying to register

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:51

    What issue are you having?

• Tarmohamed says:

  15 Dec15 December 10:34

  Can we not just keep the daily chat thread as it’s been for the last 18 months? And use the forum for longer and specific discussions.

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 10:36

    The chat thread always had specific discussions, though!

  • Rob says:

    15 Dec15 December 11:10

    Part of the problem is that we cannot move threads from a home page comment to the forum.

    Inside the forum itself, it takes 30 seconds to move a post from the chat thread into another dedicated part of the forum.

    If we could easily break up comments on the main site to move questions to a more relevant home then we may have been more likely to keep the old thread where it was. Short of simply deleting questions in a chat thread – which is rude and doesn’t help anyone – there is no easy answer.

    • Bagoly says:

      18 Dec18 December 11:34

      Someone mentioned that they were expecting the forums to be more led by you.
      It makes sense for most topics to be user-led but I do see a possibility here:

      You have a set of “reference articles” – ones you update and rerun, and which are accessible through the menu at the top of the page, E.g. the Avios University.
      In fact, the “175 BAEC questions answered” article links to a further 175!
      To keep them fairly timeless there are no Comments on them.
      But could you add links at the bottom of them to relevant forum threads, or indeed create a forum thread for each one?

      • Rob says:

        18 Dec18 December 12:32

        I have deliberately kept out this week so that it could find its feet naturally. That will change from next week and the content will be a little more curated.

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