IS it just me... or is the new forum not w...
Anthony_Loera 21 Nov 2007
I got up today and looked at the forum...
I really have to scroll right alot now to look and read messages. I use Firefox.
I am worried folks may not be able to easily read the vast amount of information available in the forum anymore, or at least it may have folks limit their participation.
Any thoughts?
Anthony Loera
senseix 21 Nov 2007
Hi guys,
I got up today and looked at the forum...
I really have to scroll right alot now to look and read messages. I use Firefox.
I am worried folks may not be able to easily read the vast amount of information available in the forum anymore, or at least it may have folks limit their participation.
Any thoughts?
Anthony Loera
I noticed that too, am not a big fan of that at all, plus if you notice some of the quotes from people are messed up, it sometimes puts the quotes of a post plus the posters response in the same box, am not liking that at all.
spaceistheplace 21 Nov 2007
So far I can definitely say that I prefer the old setup.
quarter 21 Nov 2007
stephen_b 21 Nov 2007
Stephen
Matt 21 Nov 2007
fix it please
Nice forums by the way
Edited by Matt, 21 November 2007 - 04:51 PM.
DukeNukem 21 Nov 2007
Someone email me when it's fixed. ;-)
Mind 21 Nov 2007
21 Nov 2007
Edited by friendlyai, 21 November 2007 - 06:17 PM.
Mind 21 Nov 2007
Johan 21 Nov 2007
Edited by namingway, 21 November 2007 - 06:46 PM.
wayside_test 21 Nov 2007
I can see it.I'm using Firefox, and it seems to work fine for me. One thing I have noticed, though, is that my personal photo isn't visible even though I've uploaded one.
zoolander 21 Nov 2007
For those of you still using firefox 2. Perhaps you should consider downloading firefox 3 beta 1 release
Until then, please be patient
Kalepha 21 Nov 2007
browser 21 Nov 2007
BTW, I've had this very same problem before the switch last night when composing posts or PM/PM replies. Sometimes when I clicked the Preview button the screen would jump. I'd have to keep trying to catch the Preview button until it finally previewed. I also saw previews do this very same two word column stuff I'm seeing in some places.
Having to scroll left and right is not fun and trying to read a column which looks like an eye chart doesn't work well.
My gosh. It took me five minutes to find Add Reply. It's way down there......
browser 21 Nov 2007
Give it some time people. As Mind has already mention the new forum was released prematurely.
For those of you still using firefox 2. Perhaps you should consider downloading firefox 3 beta 1 release
Until then, please be patient
Most probably Firefox 3 doesn't play well with the current version of Thunderbird and extensions/add-ins don't work. That's been my experience jumping ahead in the past.
I just told Mind my problems with the new format that websites are adopting. I had a Hell of a time trying to find his note to me and my response to him in the Preview because the print is all less bold than it used to be and everything except the controls are some shade of blue. It's a perceptual chore to find and separate out this piece of text from another piece when they are all pretty much the same font and you have to spot the text in various shades of blue.
This new format is used by a number of forum sites I belong to. Each of the sites suffered a massive falloff in participation.
It's not that people can't adjust to new things. Some new things are not just as good as the former way.
I am usually full of life in the afternoon, but since I've been viewing this site I've been getting sleepy looking at this very soothing, almost mind shutting down pastel site. I'm going off to drink the first cup of coffee I had in the afternoon in many, many months.
eternaltraveler 21 Nov 2007
I just told Mind my problems with the new format that websites are adopting. I had a Hell of a time trying to find his note to me and my response to him in the Preview because the print is all less bold than it used to be and everything except the controls are some shade of blue. It's a perceptual chore to find and separate out this piece of text from another piece when they are all pretty much the same font and you have to spot the text in various shades of blue.
This new format is used by a number of forum sites I belong to. Each of the sites suffered a massive falloff in participation.
It's not that people can't adjust to new things. Some new things are not just as good as the former way.
I am usually full of life in the afternoon, but since I've been viewing this site I've been getting sleepy looking at this very soothing, almost mind shutting down pastel site. I'm going off to drink the first cup of coffee I had in the afternoon in many, many months.[/quote]
we can certainly play with the look and feel. Whats important is that we have tools to manage a forum that is becoming quite large.
and it isn't a problem with firefox. It's some weird bug that changes all the old [quote] to a bunch of weird goobly gook that messes things up. (plain quotes without the name work fine, and all new quotes work fine too.
Mind 21 Nov 2007
maxwatt 21 Nov 2007
Give it some time people. As Mind has already mention the new forum was released prematurely.
For those of you still using firefox 2. Perhaps you should consider downloading firefox 3 beta 1 release
Until then, please be patient
Beta? aren't the pioneers known by the arrows in their backs?
No need. If you look to the right when you open a topic, there is an "options" box; click on it, and choose "linear" from the menu, and the indentions go away.
browser 21 Nov 2007
we can certainly play with the look and feel. Whats important is that we have tools to manage a forum that is becoming quite large.
and it isn't a problem with firefox. It's some weird bug that changes all the old <<taken out so quoting would work>> to a bunch of weird goobly gook that messes things up. (plain quotes without the name work fine, and all new quotes work fine too.
Yes, I responded to one post which looked like the HTML had been composed by a third party piece of software. There was all sorts of stuff embedded in the HTML. Perhaps that was what was done, perhaps the HTML was munged by this engine you're running.
Edited by browser, 21 November 2007 - 11:32 PM.