Old readyNas Forum

[fischesj]

Where are the old ReadyNas Forum and the these sub forum (eg dlna, user submitted tips , in French, German etc) ?

Thanks, Jocelyn

[mdgm-ntgr]

We now have a simplified forum structure, to make it easier to use.

The Regional Support subforums can be found here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Regional-Support/ct-p/readynas-regional-support

[BaJohn]

Sorry to be a pain, but I think you need to revisit all of your "Useful Links", because they aren't.

[Sandshark]

I agree, "new and improved", it ain't.  They took a perfectly good, longstanding and working forum and turned it into a cluttered mess.  The old forum could have used a separation of topics for the legacy and current systems (which should have happened when the new ones came out), but that's it.

Why is it that companies have to go changing things that work perfectly well just for the sake of change and some crazy notion that they "look more modern"?  It doesn't matter how it looks, it matters how it works.  And this forum both looks cluttered and works poorly, so they failed entirely.

[fischesj]

Sorry mdgm,

the modern ReadyNas Forum is not structured. Forums like Plex or Synology (sorry) use sub forum.

Now the Readynas Forum is "the Great Baazar", searching for specific subjects is like "googling"

Jocelyn 🙂

[nsne]

This new forum format has given me a great idea. I'm going to take a wheel and make it square. That way, it won't roll away from folks who are unfamiliar with how it's supposed to work.

[Singularity]

I have just logged into the NEW ReadyNAS Forum which in my humble opinion is a total mess. The previous Forum was excellent and I just cannot understand why it was changed. Hopefully if enough Forum Users complain, Netgear might consider reinstating the previous Forum.

[wli]

IMHO, the old ReadyNAS forum was much better than this replacement, very disappointed!

[fischesj]

Thank you, I'm not alone 🙂

In summary:

The structure of the new forum is confusing, unproductive, and simply unusable for everyone.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel, please give back the old forum with sub-forums!

Jocelyn

[Campus]

I agree with everyone here. The new forum is a perfect example for bad forum software and design.

[BaJohn]

Yes ... but does the new forum meet some new criteria that the old forum did not and that criteria was CRITICAL.

I agree it is rubbish in comparison.

I would guess that the new forum 'works' better on smart phones, tablets and all the new formats:)

[Sandshark]

And, all of the pointers to previous messages are now worthless.

[hobbes487]

I agree as well that the new forum is a complete mess.  It is impossible to find anything.  Where are the old post about community plugins?  Please bring the old forum back

[Blues11]

Where is the ReadyNAS Forum. I used to get to it at www.readynas.com/forum, but that doesn't take me to the right forum. Is that gone?

[Sandshark]

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@Blues11 wrote:

Where is the ReadyNAS Forum. I used to get to it at www.readynas.com/forum, but that doesn't take me to the right forum. Is that gone?

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Yep, completely gone.  Not even frozen for reference.  So now all of the links you find in this forum and via Google to that old forum are useless -- they get re-directed to the top of this one.  And since the search engine is poor, it's hard to locate the old message, even though they were ported over.  Really bad decision on the part of Netgear, IMHO.

[Blues11]

So sad. That forum was so rich with useful information and even just a place to see and share problems, successes and issues. This new one pales in comparison.

Thanks for your post.

[BaJohn]

YEP - I started to 'save' things of interest to me before the change.

I believe I have a copy of the 'beautiful' articles mainly written by StephenB on Snapshots.

Realy informative and detailed. I can see if I can fish that out.

Unfortunately I have been in turmoil for weeks owing to recovering from Windows 10 update.

Several months ago I raised a Post about having a knowledge base for such things, and the response

was overwhelmingly positive. I suggested it should be written by such experts and not a general post.

i.e. A place to look up technical details on ReadyNAS.

[walshlink]

This new forum sucks ass. I could actually find threads (without) searching the the structure made sense. This new forum is an abomination.

[msd]

Totally agree. This place is hardly worth visiting. It will take years to get back what was destroyed by getting rid of the old community.  I regularily visited it for Tips and config stuff.  This new community is............well......a not much to see here.  The problem being a lot of old Posts are gone OR cant be found.  What were you thinking Netgear. Sometimes its best to leave things alone rather than destroying years of Educational Info.