I got to ask cause this site is the worst to navigate....for what ever reason the last while I cannot even find a todays posts to click.

you have thousand people looking and four or five logged on.

are you hired by the goverment for some co-vert opps to stop discussion regarding farriery??

take it for what it's worth......not very immpressed.

Andy Dana..CJF AFA.

I agree that more of the 1000 or so should register and comment, I think it would add a lot and even the regulars would appreciate the contributions from new folks. As for difficult to navigate , there is no perfect solution for this forum at this time. I have looked at many alternative software packages and they all have issues. This one is the best total answer for the site that I have right now.

Steve, my friend, I guess I'm done posting here. I've been "blown off the air" for the last time. I did a search for the shoeing rig thread so I could post a pic of the forge slide-out I'd copied from Chip Crumly, and show how I had mounted my grinder under the forge. The thread came up in the search results "shoeing rig", but when I clicked on it I got the 404 error I think it was, then I couldn't get back on (406 error maybe? who cares) without clearing cookies. You have been told by a good many members what a mess this site is now. I guess you're just going to let it die - too bad, it was a good thing. I'll probably continue to lurk until it does, but frankly there's just not much to see here anymore. Think about this.

From your Mission Statement:

The mission of horseshoes.com is to grow our business by meeting our customers’ needs in an uncompromising and honorable way. We want our customers (users, advertisers, employees, and everyone else associated with the site) to be proud of the affiliation they have with us. Horseshoes.com will build upon a foundation of honesty, ethics and integrity as we continually seek ways to better serve the online needs of this dynamic trade that is farriery. We will always do the right thing in every situation, which means that we will only do those things that moves our industry, our customers, and our business forward.


Regards

I've spent the past half hour trying to find a thread where I was helping a horse owner. Tried clearing cookies (which is BS anyway) and even logged off the forum and tried to find the thread. "Latest Post" in the horse owner section is something from February. Really?

I try to support this site, but the software is soooo messed up and full of bugs. Search function is useless.

Also, Steve, you are now famous for blaming your users for the problems on this forum . . . clear cookies, yea that'll fix it - news flash it ain't a cookie problem its a bad choice of forum software problem. There is no other forum on the Internet that EVER needs the users to clear cookies. Why keep shooting yourself in the foot? It's like you want this thing to die.

I couldn't even access the site yesterday right after making a post. I cleared cookies and all that, did a new google search and clicked on the link, no access. Typed in the address, no access. Today I can access the site. go figure...

Geee this is a shame to read these poasts
Our Steve has paid so dearly financialy as well as in his personal life to try n make a success of this site
his idears however grand to try n improve things have met with problems n he has strived to get on top of them twould seem to little or no avail
maybe it all got to buisy n flash I dont pretend to know
I for one will stick with him as long as he endevours to maintain this site
I feel I owe him at least that i think he deserves as much
I think hes a good bloke
should it all go under I do thankyou very much Steve for your efforts Mate yeah

My feelings too, Red. Mistakes have been made, the software sucks, the last update was quite unfortunate, but I'm sticking in for now.

A tip for those having troubles. Using Google Chrome, I have lots of troubles. I am using EI just for this site while Steve works through the cookie problem. Everything seems to work fine, and I don't have to lose my cookies.

Today I could view everything in Chrome(which is a big improvement), but not log on.

Safergrass.org will stay old fashioned and simple. If it breaks I can't afford to get it fixed.

Thanks, Steve for hanging in there.
Katy

My choice of browser has no effect on how the forum software indexes and sorts threads - or whether or not I can find a thread or a post made last week. Search for something from a few years ago is useless.

I can't even access this site from my own 'puter.

It's like someone went and put diesel in the gas tank.

My computer runs on electric power. Very low carbon footprint.