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Hi @SteveinCT I’m guessing that the site was upated about 2 months ago.
The overall look of the site changed, and the forums are different. I personally felt the forums were much more user friendly and easier to read new comments and replies and know which messages you had already read and responded to. There was a very active community in the forums on the old site and members were very responsive to questions and comments. There was a large ‘gear’ forum that was very popular. The skills courses are much easier to access in the new site. The old site was confusing for newcomers to navigate to certain courses. The old site had a member map and jam clubs (local groups of people with similar interests) that were very popular. Prior to COVID many people got together locally. Now the member section has a search function by area that you can search for others from your local area, and you can reach out to individuals via messaging. The old site was much faster than the current site. TAC is aware of the slowness of this site and are working with IT folks to try and speed it up. I think the lag has to do with the new site using a spooling technique that causes a delay while everything spools and loads. There was a calendar on the old site that allowed others to schedule things and the entire community could see what was scheduled and where. There was a song vault, that was a separate cost, that had fingerpicking and flatpicking songs at different skill levels that you could learn. I’ll have to think about other similarities and differences, but these are the main ones.
Basically, Tony and the TAC team wanted to get back to basics and focus on building guitar routine and foundational skills.