New site format

[Slydude]

Yeah, I spent a good deal of time this afternoon in my county tax office waiting to re-register an automobile.

Having lived in western Texas for several years while in grad school I feel qualified to ask the following question: How many adult beverages did you consume after this endeavor was over? Not too many I hope.

 

[pm-r]

I think that everything will fall in place once we get used to the new format. I would like to see the forum icon color markings be made so that they stand out rather than looking drab. As far as everything else including the ability to recover, I rather like it. Thanks to member pm-r we now know how to use recovery. Good detective work by him.

Please don't take what I discovered as the only and final gospel way as to how the one way I discovered that the "Auto Save" works. There may be some other things lurking waiting to be discovered.

At least it should prevent the old "oh sh*tttt" operator expression errors I and I'm sure others have done with the old instant gone poof way…

 

[Rod]

This is getting a bit annoying, now i find that email links are not taking me to the comment that has been posted, rather the link takes me to the last post.

 

[pm-r]

What is the function of the lovely big blue button bottom left of each thread that reads; +Reply to Thread? Quick Reply is already there at the bottom under the last reply, pressing this button does not seem to change anything that I can see and Quick Reply seems to be the default setting. In the past Advanced format was the result of pressing Reply and that is my preferred format, now this +Reply to Thread button seems redundant. Is there a way in control panel to make Advanced the preferred format for replies?

I asked the same question the other day that chscag answered, but you'll have to figure out how the forum "search" works to find it. Basically, it's a duplicate, and unless I've had too much dry red wine this evening, I'm not even seeing the blue +Reply thing this evening. :Blushing:

 

[pm-r]

This is getting a bit annoying, now i find that email links are not taking me to the comment that has been posted, rather the link takes me to the last post.

Yup. Same here usually.

But not always and a bit inconsistent, but no big problem and hard to control I'd guess with a very active thread.

 

[Rod]

Yup. Same here usually.

But not always and a bit inconsistent, but no big problem and hard to control I'd guess with a very active thread.

Yes I may be being a bit harsh I think you are right, it's the sheer volume of replies, by the time i receive an email notification of a comment we are already on the next page.;D

 

[Slydude]

Why is that even titled as "settings"? There are no actual settings there.

Edit: OK, technically there are settings there, or really links to some settings. And they are kind of out of place there to begin with.

I kinda thought the same thing. Stumbled upon it looking for the reputations/comments. It took me a bit of poking around to find that link. I basically followed the poke at it till something happens method.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

What is the function of the lovely big blue button bottom left of each thread that reads; +Reply to Thread? Quick Reply is already there at the bottom under the last reply, pressing this button does not seem to change anything that I can see and Quick Reply seems to be the default setting. In the past Advanced format was the result of pressing Reply and that is my preferred format, now this +Reply to Thread button seems redundant. Is there a way in control panel to make Advanced the preferred format for replies?

I was wondering that same thing exactly, and it tripped me up because I tapped that once after typing out a reply. What it apparently is supposed to do is activate the Quick Reply box if you have it turned off in your settings (Settings, then General Settings). But.... that option doesn't even work.

 

[Rod]

Pity though, it's the nicest looking, biggest button on the page.

 

[Rod]

Oh! Haha I just hovered over my icon to see what would happen and saw my "Reputation" who do I have to thank, administrator, moderator for the "Rod sprague is just really nice" description? I'm touched.

 

[chscag]

Having lived in western Texas for several years while in grad school I feel qualified to ask the following question: How many adult beverages did you consume after this endeavor was over? Not too many I hope.

LOL, when I got there my number was 49 and the posted "waited on number was 18". Being a Monday I should have known better. The only saving grace about the tax office is it's on the same block as our local Apple Store. I was tempted to leave for awhile and browse around at the store but I figured I would lose my place if I did. I finally got home about 2 hours later and spent the next 30 minutes putting the new registration sticker on the car in 98 F heat. But that whole ordeal is not near as bad as renewing your driver license at the DMV. That can be a 4 hour affair when school is out for the Summer.

 

[chscag]

A bit of information guys.... I just visited the "Windows Secrets Lounge" (forum) also owned by Penton. Guess what? Their forum is setup exactly like ours. I guess one of the reasons our forum was re-done was to make it uniform with the other forums by Penton.

 

[pm-r]

A bit of information guys.... I just visited the "Windows Secrets Lounge" (forum) also owned by Penton. Guess what? Their forum is setup exactly like ours. I guess one of the reasons our forum was re-done was to make it uniform with the other forums by Penton.

Interesting and I should have just asked as I was trying to figure out who's doing what with all those involved, as far as those listed goes earlier today:

Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2015, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd

Hosting By:
LiquidWeb

Powered by Penton

And a bunch of Mods and Admins and God only knows who else…

 

[Rod]

Perhaps this format change has just made me more conscious of little things on these pages that I did not notice before but what is the "Rate This Thread" menu for?
I mean what is it's purpose? I don't suppose we award prizes to the winning thread for the year and as an evaluation tool it would be unreliable at best.
Just curious. I haven't used it before, maybe I should?

 

[Rod]

On a positive note, I just had reason to use the "Restore Previous Session" it worked like a dream. Thought I'd lost a whole post after being prompted to login after pressing publish. Used my browser menu to go back a page and clicked RPS and low and behold there was my post.
And the new attachment window is great, it even allows inline insertion of images

 

[lclev]

Well, just had my first internet service drop. I live in rural America where sunlight is piped in and electricity, internet, and phone is a part-time occurrence. Auto-save did not recover my post. Yes, I saw the pop up saying it had saved.

I had just hit the "post quick reply" button when I noticed nothing was happening. Thankfully I have developed a habit of copying my posts before submitting - I have learned!

When I reloaded the page I did not have an offer to recover the reply. I had such high hopes! FYI - I was posting to the "Adding video from iMovie to youtube??" thread.

Lisa

 

[chscag]

I guess we shouldn't rely on the "auto save" feature and instead save any long replies to the clipboard just in case. I have had the same thing happen to me when I accidentally navigated away to another page and came back to see my reply gone. I notice that this will happen with Safari more so than with Chrome. Usually with Chrome, I can come back and my reply is where I left off.

 

[pm-r]

Sorry to go a bit OT, but for those that remember and do use the Clipboard, I just thought I'd mention the free multi-clip ClipMenu I've used for ages, and I'd be lost and waste a lot of time without it.

Modify its preferences to get the display that suits you, and done. A nice simple free multi-clip app:
ClipMenu
ClipMenu for Mac | MacUpdate
or
ClipMenu.com: A clipboard manager for Mac OS X - ClipMenu.com

 

[chscag]

I have "ClipMenu" but for some reason I always forget to start it up and have it running. I know.... I should start it automatically. But I agree with pm-r, it's an excellent way to keep those replies handy when "Murphy's Law" takes over. ;D

 

[pm-r]

I've noticed that even the most recent ClipMenu v. 0.4.4a12 doesn't always launch at boot/restart time, even though its Preference says so, so I just check and add it again into my Startup Items in my Users Pref Pane if it's missing, and it sure doesn't take me long to realize if it might be missing so I just keep it available in my Dock to launch it as well. (I also use the "Broomstick" utility to keep the ClipMenu icon positioned where I want it handy in my menubar.)

PS: I just noticed he has ClipMenu 1.0.0a1 released at his site but I haven't tried it and he seems to imply it's almost a beta version. Hmmm…???

PPS: I haven't spent any more time trying to figure out how and where the new forum "auto save" works, even if I could, but it's not bullet proof nor meant to be I don't think, but sure is handy if one forgets and it kicks in and works.