Forum Organization

Lex

I will call Ty and let him know about the Forum..

He's a busy as a one legged man in an ass kickin contest but I will make sure he checks it out and if
possible get him to join and post.

Who knows maybe get Alex to post updates...

Hell you may want a section called Techincal updates and Manufacturer notices and let Robinson post them here.

I will mention that when I call them.

Tzoid

I've been thinking about the forum organization when/if the XCR Medium arrives. Depending on how incompatible the Light and Medium will be it may make sense to split off the "Owners Lounge" section for each variant as certain things may work on the Medium and not the Light and vice versa. Ammo, field experience, accessories, etc will all be very different (or maybe exactly the same?) between the Light and Medium. Here is one idea i had, let me know what you guys think:

General
- General Discussion
- Robinson Armament

Trading Post
- Buying An XCR
- Listings

XCR Light
- XCR Light 5.56×45mm NATO (.223 Remington)
- XCR Light 6.8mm Remington SPC
- XCR Light 7.62x39mm
- In The Field
- Gallery
- Cleaning & Maintenance
- Lights
- Sights
- Stock
- Swivels & Slings
- Other Accessories

XCR Medium
- XCR Medium 7.62×51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)
- In The Field
- Gallery
- Cleaning & Maintenance
- Lights
- Sights
- Stock
- Swivels & Slings
- Other Accessories

I will remove the Ammunition subsection since that is caliber specific and move the existing posts into the "XCR Light 5.56×45mm" subsection (since that's the only ammo we've been talking about).

My only reservation about the above layout is that there will be a lot of overlap between the rifles especially stuff like accessories. The same sling will probably work for both a Light and a Medium XCR. This is where I need help from you guys. Which sections do you think should be consolidated and moved into a General XCR section. Or do you think it's fine to have a separate Lights, Sights, Swivels & Slings and Other Accessories sections?

Anyways, just thinking ahead here in case the XCR-M does come out early in 2008 per the Robinson Armament FAQ.

Perhaps something like this would work.

General
- General Discussion
- Robinson Armament

Trading Post
- Buying An XCR
- Listings

XCR Light
- XCR Light 5.56×45mm NATO (.223 Remington)
- XCR Light 6.8mm Remington SPC
- XCR Light 7.62x39mm
- XCR Light 6.5x39mm (6.5 Grendel) (See post #4 http://xcrforum.com/index.php?topic=24.msg412#msg412)

XCR Medium
- XCR Medium 7.62×51mm NATO (.308 Winchester)

XCR General
- In The Field
- Gallery
- Cleaning & Maintenance
- Lights
- Sights
- Stock
- Swivels & Slings
- Other Accessories

Aussie Arms said:

Just a suggestion. Take it or leave it, but what about a "Notice Board" type posting where one can go to highlight a new topic, like a "What's news" type of thing where everyone can go to first and read brief outline of what's new and linked to the appropriate thread? That might be alot of work for you, but it's just a thought and I don't even know if it's possible?
I know there is a small window at the bottom of the home page but it doen't have too much info.

Click to expand...

I think what you're asking for already exists:

At the top there are two links:
Show unread posts since last visit.
and
Show new replies to your posts.

Also, at the bottom, underneath where you said it doesn't have too much info, in stats, is a link:
View the most recent posts on the forum.

Between the three different views of the forum I think what you're asking for already exists. That last link of "most recent posts on the forum" I think is the closest to what you're requesting.

Hope this helps.

I have a question or problem when logging into the XCR forums to reply to a thread while in Firefox.

Scenario:
1.) I open multiple tabs containing different threads in the XCR forums in Firefox.
2.) I'm not logged in at this point, just reading multiple XCR forum threads in multiple tabs.
3.) I see a thread in which I'd like to reply.
4.) I login to XCR in that particular tab containing the thread I'd like to reply to.
5.) For some reason, once logged in, the screen refreshes in that tab as expected, but the tab now contains a previously read and closed thread. Not the one I was in when logging in and not the one I'd like to reply to.
6.) In other words, I'm now logged in to the XCR forum, but into a different thread that I've already read. Not the one I'd like to reply to.

I hope this makes sense.

7.) Once logged into XCR in this tab, I press the refresh button in Firefox and the screen refreshes in this tab, and then I'm in the correct thread in which I wanted to reply.

Any ideas what's going on in this scenario. BTW - I'm using Ubuntu, not Windows. I'm not sure if this also happens when using Windows, but can check Tuesday.