The site is slick enough as it is.

Every time "you" make an enhancement means that I,and probably other subs, have to work out how to do what we always did before without too much trouble all over again with the invisible improvements that you have embedded for an enhanced experience.

The content is what the subs contribute.

Contacting EAS directly for help IS always helpful. Thanks for being like that. No BS.

Only noticeable deficiency is the loading speed (slough). That's what we get if you keep tinkering.

Stop pressing the buttons!!!

Cheers Wal,
The changes should make it easier to find your way around the site.
Your account is now in one place. The top right hand side as opposed to in two places as was the case before.

Speed is the next major challenge. we do know that the loading speed right now sucks.

Hang in the fella and thanks for participating

here is what should be appearing tomorrow on the site. The dev team at www.yejj.com have now clocked up 0ver 120 hrs

The business directory from tomorrow. choose a category and if they have listed their business it will be there.

I cant find the log out button again, Im using Firefox, other than that the site is looking good.

banker - top right hand side

... after clicking "My Account" and then on the ensuing drop down list.

Just closing the page logs you out anyway. Right?

Got it why not just have a log out button

That would be easy now wouldn't it?

What are u thinking???

For a week or two now when I use IE 8 (then 9) If I click on any forum message I am redirected to a Listing. I have tried clearing temp files and cookies as well. It is fine on listing out the messages, but once I click on any message in any topic I get the same results with IE 8 or 9. Chrome works fine.

thx
will pass this one to the development team.

Cheers

also on that drop down is a nw link...change password. someone asked for that..so we threw it in.
That's pretty much on the development side of things for now.
We are going to have the dev team concentrate 90% on the loading issue. The other 10+% will be kept aside for issues such as the IE 9 issues listed above.

Once we have worked out this bloody slowness of the site we will get back to more bells and whistles for you guys.

The slow loading should be a basic fix. Yes?

Maybe somebody else should be looking into this if it has been dragging on for this loooooong.....

Crikey! What other bells and whistles will we get? I can't wait!!

One other thing, When there is a reply to a topic Im sent an email for every reply, I should only be sent one email until the next time I log in, I just got 6 email telling me about a reply to this topic.

AG: Please keep it Simple for computer dummies like me

OK.
Thanks for all the feedback folks.

I have started a NEW topic here to leave replies for the speed / download

Banker - will look at the replies set up for ya mate.

We would like to know what browser you are using.
Internet Explorer: Which version?
Mozilla Firefox - Which version?
Google Chrome - Which version?

Operating System:
Windows - Which version?
MAC - Which version?

Connection
3G
ADSL
Wimax
Fibre

Which ISP

I am using Mozilla Firefox
When using the combination below and using http://tools.pingdom.com I see an 18second (which is too long) on a Cellcard 3g Connection

If you are using Internet explorer, may I suggest you give up and use one of these
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome

I seem to remember a button on the old version where it takes you to all new topics and replies, rather than digging through one by one. Or was it on some other site, anyway, be nice if you have a one button fits all here

This site is starting to look good, and for me it seems to be loading fast also.

I noticed that the banner advert featuring scuba diving paraphernalia doesn't have the name of the vendor or any other contact info. Is that right?

One feature I would like you to consider is to display the thread title at the beginning of a discussion string on the actual page. It is currently only on the tab.

re the banner Wal...its the internet fella...click the banner for more info.

Re the subject line. ...noted thx

Banker, the comments notification the the forums should be sorted now. There is now a second button at the bottom or the comment / reply box
* All comments
* Replies to my comments

Tommien, looking at where this feature for latest topics went tits up...

Have a good week everyone.

The site still loads very slowly.

If you have the banner adverts hosted off-site but appearing on the page through running scripts then people like me could deny all those scripts permission using something like noscript - making the site faster.

Because, to be honest, I never click on banner adverts.

Over the last few months things kind of went backwards with the team that was running development.

We started with a new team based in Vietnam 2 weeks ago.

So far they have done very well on the back end.

Speeds should now be about 30% faster. Its not good enough for us and they have found some other "bugs" that are slowing the site down. that should be sorted out over the next week or so.

The development and works that had been planned should be back on track in 3 weeks time.

Cheers
TEAM EAS

Lots going on -
Site speed issue seem to be sorted and the new tabs on the events is working well.

thanks for you patience folks

I received a PM from admin in regard to xmas, when I click on the link in email I just get a 404 message.

Oh where to begin.
At the login I guess. The site never logs me in, despite I clicked the "remember me" button.
What really pisses me off is when I go to the front page, and click a bunch of forum posts into new windows ( to load in the background). The when I go to the topics, lo, every single one says "you don't have permission to this content" or some other crock o shire. Please, fix the logins.
Then, what's with the posts themselves, they seem to have a weird nested structure. the latest updates aren't at the bottom, but perhaps halfway up the page as a reply to a reply to ... you get the idea. Or maybe that's changed recently.
Why have so many sub-forums? I get that there are different categories of stuff, but I'm interested in several. Buy and sell, where to find stuff, the pub. Actually, I'd like to just see all the posts in a single list, why can't I have that?
At least now the godawful slide-show events section has been fixed. That thing used to suck the life out of my cpu.
What's the point of the directory? Oh, I see it might generate advertising revenue if you have to pay to list, but what's the point for the user? I can just go to yellow pages to get categorized companies. Is it a "friends of EAS" list?
The articles and sport news I could do without, I mean my small hometown had more exiting news than the "polite" western press in cambodia. We need more gore, the cut and thrust of the business world, or just plain gossip. I can't stomach another "where to find the perfect mocha frappa latte chino" puff lifestyle piece, particularly when the only establishments ever featured are the NGO-friendly colonial joints. (sans, um, joints).
Finally, I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member. But seriously, the place is dead. The few genuine characters that have graced the pages over the years have been pushed away. Are we expecting a surge in new users, tablet toting travellers, perhaps? How exactly is that going to happen?
The entire format is staid, there's nothing much to bring people in, or to keep them.
The one thing that really does work for expats, as witnessed by the CPN, "where to find" and "for sale" etc, you've crippled.
Locking some of the forums for "members only" is just assinine. As Jo Random, I'm not going to register just to see some offer of a baby bouncer, or where I can find curling tongs, and if I do, I won't be doing it to "join up", but simply to get at that one piece of information. 9/10 people probably won't bother, and will just conclude the site is worthless to them, and not bother looking regularly. Sure, CPN is also closed, but it's such a narrow purpose that you join for the membership itself, and are then surprised by all the non parent related posts about moving sales and so-on.
You need to take CPN, particularly the "leaving cambodia sale" posts, EAS "where to find", and perhaps a couple of other elements, and then structure that content, while keeping it dynamic.
That would be a daily go-to.
What's with EAS Burundi, Borneo, Vietnam even? The only active ones are cambodia and korea from what I can make out, I guess the admin used to live in korea? Just ditch them. Brand it as a cambodia forum (and the korean one, korean). I hate going to EAS.com and then having to click through to cambodia, what's the point?
Finally, facebook. The vampire squid of the internet. I have a dummy facebook account, but even then, I don't want that linked up all over the place, and mostly refuse to use it as a login anywhere. Just, choose a different login for the article comments.
Perhaps the same (fixed) login system you use for the foums.
That's all, a(nother) cold beer awaits.

what's this damn snow effect on the site?
Make my eyes go funny, and is probably sucking my cpu.
If I want snow I'll go to lapland.
Merry humbug.

Taylor,
Just back from Vietnam and meetings with the new development team.

Looking into
* The log in issue - remember me
* Directory is simply there for registered users to add a business - more on that 2nd Q 2012
* Forums locked down - that wont change.
* Re the colorful characters - there has only been one sin binning in the time the forums have been running - he knows why. as far as " I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member." No one really listens to him anyway -
* Articles - Feel like writing? let us know.
* Snow - the weather forecaster says that the snow will be gone by this evening - returning SE Asia to normal sunny Christmas weather

Enjoy your beer.

EAS Admin