Please don't read this if you don't want to be board to tears.
I have a suspicion I am going to go down a bad road I have already been down before. But I am so frustrated. I just cant help having a winge about this.
I heard that on the grape vine that Artsoft was coming out with a new breakout board that would allow high speed communication between the computer, and a new set of servo drivers, also soon to be released. So I decided to visit the Artsoft web site. In the news section it was only current up to 2003. There was no mention of this break out board.
So I decided to visit the Artsoft forum at Yarpoo Geosh1ties, knowing that it was more up to date with all the gossip.
This is the bit that craps me off. I tried to log into yarpoo and it didn't remember my password, nor did I for that matter. So I sent a password request and it asked me my date of birth etc. Well who would give Yarpoo correct details anyway? ( Not me ) So obviously I cant remember the details I originally gave it. So now I can't log into that crappy server. It wont let me register again because it says that my email address is already used. So basically I am locked out for good.
I have asked this question before and had my head bitten off by many of the members of the Artsoft forum ( Not by Art, he was very polite and understanding) Why is a respectable company like Artsoft, using such a bullsheet forum like Yarpoo? Why cant they set up their own forum? On the Artsoft web site, it boasts 900 members. I wonder how many more it would have if it didn't use Yarpoo as its forum.
I may have worded my original post badly, but I tried to say that I was surprised that Artsoft would be using a forum that was basically for knitting clubs and boy scout chats. I look up to Artsoft as a great software developer, but it is an embarrassment that it uses Yarpoo. It is the equivalent of Mercedes Benz having a forum in Yarpoo. The two just don't go together.
Sorry, to bore you with my problems but I just had to get this off my chest.
EDIT: Before any one bites my head off , I want to stress that my beef is not with Artsoft or its products, It is only with thier choice of forum server.