What happened to XT600 forum?

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Originally Posted by Nigel Marx

Thanks for the feedback guys. Grant and the moderators are always interested in what the HUBB community have to say.

Regards the dropping of the XT label on the forum; my personal feeling (and I have nothing to do with any forum setting up) is that, as Big K says, as long as the topics are easy to locate in the forum, then is shouldn't be too much of a change. So I guess people may consider being a little more careful with the title of the tread, so people know which model the posting is about. That was already happening before with people sometimes using exact XT model numbers (eg 2KF) to target specific model information. All the other marque forums manage fairly well. And besides, if almost all travelers on Yamaha are using XT models, then not much will change.

Kind regards

Nigel in NZ

Folks, I'm just gonna say it one more time and then I'll shut up. Right now, before we've gone too far, you have a chance to fix this thing. I hope I'm wrong, but if you change what was a model specific forum to be general one, you will water it down to where it is difficult, time consuming and, or useless to use.

As a matter of habit, posters are not careful about titling their threads even if they have any idea they are supposed to. Right now, on the first page of the newly named Yamaha Tech Forum, 30% of the titles don't relate to any model. What do you think it's gonna be like when there are posts about everything from Razz scooters to outboard motors? Or maybe for the really confused, musical keyboards?

I fear that what was once a forum that was interesting to follow will turn into a place where it's too time consuming to sort through all the BS. Serious intelligent posters who value their time won't be watching or posting because it's not worth it.

Sorry guys, I don't mean to be a wet blanket on your feel good parade, thinking every thing's gonna be alright. It's not. The other tech forums have posts a month old and longer on the front page of threads, a year or so from now, so will this one if nothing is done.

BTW - I know a helluva lot more about PR than I do bikes.