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11/18/2021 7:54 PM
 

Brolin - seems that the current replies to this post - are pretty much in line with the post that you removed.  Non-constructive?  The forum has always existed to get user feedback and has been a source of support for both users and to the iFly program design team as well. 

If getting negative feedback about a change to the iFly system is non-constructive, then it would appear that iFly is only interested in atta-boys and won't tolerate hearing anything less.

Nothing had been posted that was inappropriate from the existing but soon to be shuttered forum users - we were simply letting iFly know that we disagreed with your decision - much like providing feedback on a potential change to the iFly app. 

And my vote? (again) - don't shut out your faithful group of users to just make it easier for you to monitor the forum.  I'd be surprised if the existing forum software can't be or isn't set to notify you folks at iFly when a new post is made - heck I do it all the time for posts that I want to follow.  Like this one..

 

 
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11/18/2021 9:13 PM
 

I've never been a fan of the particular forum software used here (I participate in a number of forums around the internet and this is the only place I've ever run across this software).  One of the primary benefits of message forums is that they grow into a large body/archive of inforrmation, and good forum software platforms have robust search tools that allow users to easily mine and extract that "group wisdom".  This forum's software is really poor at leveraging that particular benefit.

But I've participated in a variety of message forums from the days of Apple ][s and Commodore 64s and CDCs and VAXs up to the current day.  The "message forum" mode of commuication is one that has served me well for decades, and I like it.  Facebook is just not my cup of tea.

Maybe I'm just a dinosaur and maybe I'm in the distinct minority in not embracing the Facebook/Metaverse world.  After all, you said in the previous-but-now-deleted thread that you had thousands of users on Facebook.  I've never really seen more than a few dozen active users here on this forum, and would guess that means there might only be a few hundred more lurkers.  If that's true, then it sounds like you'll serve a larger fraction of your user base over on FB.

So it may make good business sense for you to move there.  But clearly you're going to lose some of the folks who've been active in this forum for many years.  C'est la vie.

 
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11/19/2021 6:45 AM
 

I have a facebook account that I rarely use, thougt I would ckeck you out. some one tried hack me to sign in on my account . now I'm locked out till I change my password again.

Just another reason not to change.

Bill

 
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11/19/2021 7:26 AM
 

After talking to several friends who currently use IFLY either in it's 7XX version or tablet form, no one is happy about the move to facebook.

Combined with the sunsetting of the 7XX platform development, the majority of the people have determined that a move to another product to replace their panel mounted 7XX devices may be in their best interest when their current unit fails.

 
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11/19/2021 8:06 AM
 

I will offer up that one thing that's set Adventure Pilot apart from other companies is its longstanding engagement with its customer base, and this forum is how that engagement occurred.  In the early days, it was common for Walter himself to participate in these forums, and even as his participation waned over time there have always been other AP/iFly folks who were here on a near-daily basis.  For those of us in the beta program, the engagement was quite robust at times, often directly with the developers, though over the last two years or so it's been a lot more quiet while the AP/iFly team's been head's-down focused on the new EFB development.

I think AP has benefitted quite significantly from the testing and feedback provided by the beta user community, and the broader user community has benefitted from the bug fixes and UI/feature implementation feedback provided through that subforum.  I wonder how much of that symbiosis will continue over on Facebook.  Maybe with those thousands of users over there it's already happening outside my awareness, and that's why the beta forums here are quiet these days.

 
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