How to use this software

[jean15paul_PE]

How do we make a thread go back to the post that is first unread, once there are new posts in said thread?

This appears to be the default behavior. It's what's happening for me and I don't see any way to change it. (Not that I want to change it.)

 

[jean15paul_PE]

Also the site seems signifigantly faster than before.

My 2 cents:

Different aesthetics: meh. Just got to get used to it I guess. I do wish that the inline images were a little bigger on desktop.

Stuff loss during the conversion: Disappointing but not a huge deal. Stuff that I noticed is gone includes:
Animated gif profile images, but they can be re-uploaded.
Profile images in general, some of them got weird.
Previously followed content being gone is probably the biggest functional loss that I've noticed. But I've already rebuilt it in my watched threads (your milage may vary).
Having a library of uploaded attachments was useful if you often use the same gifs. Meh, just a different system to learn.
Some inline images seem to have disappeared, but others didn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gains
For whatever it's worth. Watch threads and notification work much better in the new system in my opinion.

None of this is a deal breaker. Change is inevitable.

Also the site seems significantly faster than before.

But fewer options under "Advanced Search"

Finally more formatting options
edit: all my various colors got lost in my spoiler format... LOL

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

At the top of each forum there is Mark Read. That is where individual forum controls are for marked read.

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The issue is now I have to go into each forum to do this. I was able to stay on the main page previously and click the word bubble to mark the entire civil forum as read. But now,I have to go into the civil forum and then click that button.

What was done to you? You get new software, extra help almost daily and @Road Guy gets to enjoy the forum and you guys more. I Know if you have an engineering degree that this stuff should take you 1/2 the time of a non-engineer to adapt to and keep on going.

I despise change, it's why I work with utilities.

This layout is awful. I feel like I back in 2001 & on LiveJournal.

None of this is a deal breaker. Change is inevitable.

For you. But honestly, it is very close to being a dealbreaker for me.

 

[snickerd3]

I kept getting security errors throughout the day that prohibited me from logging in yesterday.

 

[JayKay PE]

I despise change, it's why I work with utilities.

As do I. It's why I'm in government.

A big thing that's a little annoying (not a huge deal breaker), is that my icon has a weird speckled black/white background, but when I go to check/mod on my preferences, it shows as a normal white background.

Random annoyance: if you're on a page/in a thread and someone replies, the page doesn't let you know? This was something I really liked in our last version. Example: I was in the mafia thread last night, writing a reply, when someone else replied (but it wasn't shown). I didn't see this response until I had posted and the page refreshed. It's nice to have kind of a 'current' update on whatever thread you're in, since it sometimes changes what you might be posting.

Also...if I make an edit to my post, it doesn't say I made an edit (another thing that changed recently). Half the fun is seeing that someone edited/made a goof.

 

[snickerd3]

the edit note feature would have disappeared for you after getting so many posts.

 

[jean15paul_PE]

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A big thing that's a little annoying (not a huge deal breaker), is that my icon has a weird speckled black/white background, but when I go to check/mod on my preferences, it shows as a normal white background.

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Have you tried re-uploading your avatar image? That fixed the non-moving gifs. I'm wondering if it will fix the background color issue.

 

[JayKay PE]

Have you tried re-uploading your avatar image? That fixed the non-moving gifs. I'm wondering if it will fix the background color issue.

Oooo that seems to have worked. I literally saved my avatar directly from EB and reuploaded. Super weird, since I didn't change the pic in any way.

 

[Angie]

Also the site seems signifigantly faster than before.

Also the site seems significantly faster than before.

But fewer options under "Advanced Search"

Finally more formatting options
edit: all my various colors got lost in my spoiler format... LOL

Did you see the other tabs? I missed them the first 10 or 12 times I used the search on this version of the software.

 

[matt267 PE]

I Know if you have an engineering degree that this stuff should take you 1/2 the time of a non-engineer to adapt to and keep on going.

You must be new here.

 

[Angie]

Are you all a bunch of slow discharging capacitors or do are you a resistor with a high resistance to change?

But, my favorite term - do I need to get a toroid to cut the spurious noise in the system?
(I am not an engineer, but my son in law is a EE, and I grew up with ham radio and that electronics around me).

and @matt267 PE I'm really new here, only about 3rd or 4th day.

 

[matt267 PE]

do I need to get a toroid to cut the spurious noise in the system?

Is that like a ban hammer?

 

[Angie]

It could be if you're being spurious in a thread.

 

[matt267 PE]

I'm really new here, only about 3rd or 4th day.

Noob.

Welcome.

 

[Angie]

Thank you.

 

[matt267 PE]

It could be if you're being spurious in a thread.

Not me, every one of my posts have been top quality.

 

[envirotex]

This isn't actually the first (or second) time this board has been through a format change. It'll be fine. I'm glad @Road Guy doesn't have to string us along every where he goes anymore...

 

[leggo PE]

I'm still really missing the "go to next active thread" button that used to exist at the bottom of every thread, no matter the forum.

I'm not seeing a way to jump from one thread to the next without going back to the base forum. Can this be addressed, @Angie?

 

[Angie]

I have passed your request along to see if it can be done.

 

[Unintended Max P.E.]

What was done to you? You get new software, extra help almost daily and @Road Guy gets to enjoy the forum and you guys more. I Know if you have an engineering degree that this stuff should take you 1/2 the time of a non-engineer to adapt to and keep on going.

That's a humongous assumption.