http://classic.theeroticreview.com


how long will the link work admin?

Who knows how long ??

IMHO....I know all things must change...but not ALL new ideas are good.  Much harder to follow a thread...less engaging.   Hard to read.

I use my smart phone to hobby and it literally is impossible to read some of the print on the boards.  I'll be viewing MUCH less frequently.

Deal with it. I'm not crazy about it, but it took me all of 5 minutes to learn, if that.

You could always do without TER? It's your choice....

No one's forcing you to be here....

I hate this new format.. The old format was around for years and much easier to navigate.. I find this new format too busy and cumbersome... The posts are harder to follow thru...

If it's not broke, DON'T FIX IT.

There is no way to "View All"
The threads are no longer listed chronologically but rather by the last posting.  So if a thread is two weeks old and someone wants screw with us, they can go back and pick as boring post from the past and bring it to the top of the list.   Thats called manipulation!  I don't like to be manipulated.
The list goes on.

It's certainly broke now.

The design is fine. Aesthetics are better and more up to date. They fixed the chat room and some features are easier to access and deal with.

Reviews are weird now.....top 100 providers is based on the number of reviews they have which does not make sense. It might encourage more fake reviews so providers can make that list or providers might offer incentives for guys to write reviews.

Providers ratings is actually an average of the performance and looks. Again this does not make sense as both are mutually exclusive and don't relate. A great provider can get low ratings because she is not the best looking while a bad performing provider can get her ratings pulled up because she is good looking.

Again, I am not sure about the credibility of this new feature. It will only encourage more behind the scenes dealing where providers try to get guys to rate them higher on everything in order to maintain their ratings. Providers that receive bad reviews are only going to be more encouraged to throw hissy fits and send their white knights out to challenge these reviews as fakes when the reviews are actually legit.

Why you ask? Every time a provider can get a bad review pulled from a profile, her ratings go up.

It appears that the atmosphere and attitude features are gone which I am indifferent about. The first score seems to be performance and second score seems to be looks. I thought it was the other way around in the old TER. I hope TER can actually label these scores otherwise guys might get confused. The score actually goes a long way in determining the services a guy might receive. If he confuses them, it could mean the difference between a CBJ and  a BBBJ.

It just seems like guys continue to get the short stick with every change that TER makes. I thought that this site was created for guys to evaluate providers. Now it seems much harder to evaluate providers based on reviews compared to 3-4 years ago without factoring in all the variables like fake reviews, YMMV, schilling, white knights, behind the scenes dealing etc.

My biggest gripe however is the number of clicks required to navigate particularly with the discussion boards. Before it used to be one click, now it seems like three. Before two clicks, now it seems like five. Much more work and annoying.

Overall I think I will be spending much less time on the boards, reading reviews and more time exchanging private mail with trusted reviewers. This way I can get their unvarnished opinion about their encounter rather than depending on reviews which have lost their independence and become heavily influenced by providers.

1. The Discussion Boards are not in order
2. The top 100 Escorts actually go by the number of reviews so really should be called Most reviewed escorts
3. The emoticons are fugly

Otherwise I really like it. Its time for a new look.

Too hard to follow threads.  I can't imagine I'll force myself to learn.  I tend to think that after all of the years of the old format many other users will feel the same.

This is a nail in the coffin of the Discussion Boards IMO and I hope that TER keeps an eye on the traffic patterns.   If it works out as is, good...if it doesn't I hope they have the good sense to change it back or modify it.

Have a button for "Classic Layout"

Make 5 stars = 8.5 or higher

Maybe use the new style with ther old layout because #1 complaint is inevitably "I can't find my old buttons" which is really a trick that yahoo, hotmail, etc use to make you spend more time looking around their frontpages, which gives their advertisers more hits.

=====> So, is this for looks or advertiser dollars? If $, then give the advertisers louder inimated ads and charge them a little more. If it's just for looks, keep the layout so everyone can stop crying (including me).

Good stuff re the star ratings. Please DO NOT start an actual rankings page because that will create a number of problems that exist "elsewhere". It will make more work for the Mods in dealing with lots of related BS.

Emoticons are just so so. Maybe an angel one with wings and a halo would be popular for girls posting their ads.

A little very basic HTML coding would be awesome. [b] [i] [u] would be wonderrful.

Convincing  some of us to work more and post less.
Yes I am talking about myself, as one of us.

Thanks for giving the link

What I really hated about the new format initially was the lack of continuity of posts, and this seems to have been heard, and solved.  That's my initial impression five minutes in.  There are good things/improvements about the new format...we just have to adjust, and find them.  

http://classic.theeroticreview.com/
Use old format

**First, I would like to thank TER for trying new and creative ways in their approach with the community.  I am sure this was done with the very best of intentions.  In the short time that I have been here, I have recently noticed a 100% improvement in customer service.

**The consistency of the thread is now lost.  It is extremely cumbersome to go back-and-forth between the posts.

**The posts are not in date-order (including time,) which makes this even more cumbersome.

**The only thing that I can glean from this new format, is how many members in shear numbers are reading each member’s individual posts.  I don’t see any point in this.

**My reading pleasure is no longer pleasurable, and I was just starting to have fun on the P & R Board with all the wild and wacky posts and graphics!

**Please bring back the ‘old’ format so posts can be followed without having to remember who said what (especially on the national boards where there are many followers and posters.)

**Thank You!

NO VIEW ALL , PAIN IN THE ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

I use my ps3 as my computer and I can't even click on the regional boards to access them. This sucks!

This new format suckssssssss,,How do you use the discussion board from your own city? I dont want to read other cities boards . I want the old format back or im not renewing .

I will continue to use the classic look as long it remains available, after that, I don't know what I will do. But whatever I do....I won't and don't care for the new version.

It crashes my Droid. The new site is not usable.I hate it

The link

That was going to be my question. I'll check back in few days. lmao

I hate it. It doesn't even work on my Droid.

Ditto.....Very hard to read and follow

Plus, after only being on the board less than 5 minutes....my eyes are hurting! I won't be spending much time reading the boards with the new format. If it's not broke....why try to fix it!

It would be nice to have a choice to use the old format, but I know that's not doing to happen.

Ok, off to rest my eyes and give them a break.

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Don't like the new layout and find the font too small.

It won't allow me to type within the message space. Oh yeah this shit is wonderful

Of course technologically challenged that i am....LOL

What a mess. Who tested this layout and formatting? The person who wrote it?

Yuck.

Well I could never understand why they have to moderate posts before they are posted. Makes no sense, everyone other board you have free will to post whatever you want and then if later someone reports it or a mod comes across something bad it's deleted , moderated, or closed.

http://classic.theeroticreview.com/

Use old format till you can no longer use it

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http://classic.theeroticreview.com/

Use old format until you can longer use it

This looks just like other boards that begin with a T. No origniality!

Even with my glasses on I am having a hard time reading this crap.  And how can you tell who has posted what? I liked being able to see all who had posted and if I even wanted to read it in a flash.  No way am I going to click on each thread and then on top of that don't have the view all function and have to go into each post individually.  Who has that much time? I know I don't.

Takes twice as long to read and maneuver around the different post and I don’t have that kind of time to spend.

Maybe I’m just too old and can’t learn the new technologies.

Good to see you check in with your op-ed, MSD!

Two apt quotes come to mind:

From the Princess Bride: "...You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia....

To this 'classic blunder' I would now add, TER's recent switch to it's new format.

The second quote is from Blaise Pascal:

"...All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room..."

If anyone is in need of a time-out in regard to this format change-over, it's TER admin.

companies redesign their web sites for looks/sophistication than usability, and in the process lose a good portion their client base.

The new TER redesigned, is slow, buggy, hard to read, and follow. The HTML code generate from ASP code is not compliant and would not pass validations. On my smartphone all the page are garbled. Also noticed that TER is using some of YAHOO APIs, hmmmm.

What ever happened to the "KISS" principle? or Da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication".

I guess I will still use the Classic TER until it is removed, hopefully by then the new TER will corrected, if not then it is time to find other alternatives.

While in my tenure with TERIhavewitnessed several changes, All at the time we thought were not good, they seemed to "catch on."  I suspect that this one, I will not work at Catching the hang of it... just too cumbersome and hard to read.

Does anyone know how, or if, we can sort the reviews alphabetically as we used to be able to do?  It may be right in front of my eyes, but I can't figure out how to do so.  Thanks.

The new format will deffinately disscourage me from using TER for their disscusion board....



I guarantee you will see a huge drop in viewership.....

This new format reminds me of freakin facebook and I hate facebook!!!!

1) I don't need all these colors in different format.
2) I'd like less space between posting lines and a little larger text..and CHANGE THE FONT!
3) I don't like the little picture icons--I don't need them.
4) WTF is up with all that white space on the right side of the screen?  It causes the entire page to appear left-centered, throwing off the page.  Put the twitter, etc stuff on the LEFT side of the screen.
5) You'd think that when the home page comes up, being in a country where reading is done from left to right, you'd want the "Accept" to be your left button, not right button.
6)  The "back to forum" button really should be more to the left, not to the right.  
7)  Not enjoying all the extra mouse clicks.

When I hit reply I get a BLANK SUBJECT LINE.
Not even a RE:

The old way is better, let's you follow better, and you could always change it!

RE: does exist.

Not when you reply to a OP or a OP of a sub thread on the same post.

But I will let the Tech Dept know about this.

Thanks!