Split the Board

For the love of all that is holy, could we split this board between Seattle, Portland, etc.? Ninety percent of the time I can't tell where the posters are talking about, e.g. "downtown", "southwest region", "Pioneer Square".

Amen, Brother Hunter!

What amazes me is that this is not a problem on the Midwest board or the Southwest board or any of the other multistate boards!

The San Francisco Bay Area chowhounds have raised more than $4,000 to support the site financially in 2002 (link below). New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago have also stepped up to the plate to organize events to help keep the lights on here and pay for the software upgrade. If you enjoy this community and the chow advice you receive here, please make a voluntary contribution today.

Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/...

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Let me translate: we can't complain because we're not paying.

regards,
trillium

No, no, I'm saying that complaining alone won't get you what you want. If you want to see the changes made...or even more dire, if you don't want this site to disappear...make a financial contribution.

[The Chowhound Team]

You couldn't possibly imagine how hard we're presently working to make this happen (it will require a truly massive software revamp). The problems are mind-spinning and the workers are all part-time volunteers. But we're getting much much closer...

Please bear with us. The site was never supposed to grow this big in such a primitive, overstuffed set-up. Think of us as the Mad Max of web sites...everything's broken or salvaged, but great things can come out of it! Enjoy with this in mind (also bear in mind that it's a miracle that we exist at all in 2003; most sites that started when we did are long gone.

Link: http://chowhound.safeshopper.com/21/c...

Good to hear it's at least an issue.

I second that...

I like having Seattle and Portland combined.
Life is long, so it takes a few seconds to
figure out Portland or Seattle. Lighten up!

It's not so much the time as it is the fact that it's not always evident, even after reading a posting, what city said restaurant is in. With so many similarly-named neighborhoods/landmarks, it can be tough to distinguish which beautiful city we're speaking of.

On that note, I generally make an effort to keep up on Seattle notes too - the threads are often related to PDX issues or just useful for travels.
rachael

It would also take no time to identify what city your post concerns, and then the reader would have a choice.
Additionally given how long it takes some computers, i.e. mine, to load, it takes more than a few seconds to reload after looking at a post I don't necessarily need to read. But hey thanks for the advice regarding lightening up.

> Additionally given how long it takes some computers, i.e. mine, to load, it takes more than a few seconds to reload after looking at a post I don't necessarily need to read.

I suggest that, when you're opening posts from the full message board, you open them *in a separate window*, thus obviating the need to ever reload the full message board. (This seems to happen automatically from Hot Posts.) In most browsers, you can accomplish this by right-clicking on a link, and picking an entry like "Open in New Window" from the context menu that pops up.

Thank you! This is so much more efficient. Susan C