Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The forum's new look and features
I see that we can sort the topics in various folders.
Might be quite helpful, would be great if all our lists were sorted in categories such as "critic list", "forum polls", "hall of acclaim", "useless trolls involving at a moment or another a debate about the Beatles" etc.
Damn. In my opinion the changes on the appearance of the forum are simply tragic. Especially the problems about pasting text from a Word file. I ALWAYS write first in Word because of the orthographic corrector. I don't usually write in English and the help from the corrector is essential for me. I'm afraid that this fact alone could reduce drastically my participation in the forum.
I even used to keep all my posts in Word files, for instance I got a file named HOA where I copy and paste the year before and overwrite the new votes and You Tube links for the current “year”.
And please, someone can explain to me how can I include now photographs, you tube videos and links to other pages with that bb code? In my new votes for the backstage wing for HOA I've already included many pictures that now I don't know how to attach.
Moreover I don't like at all the now look. I used to hate many other forums with flashy looks and colours and used to love the simple but elegant look of our forum. And the centred text is absurd. Must I download Firefox in order to avoid it? And, yes, it takes longer to display it. Grrrr...
Henrik, I wish you could change it back and keep the old familiar (but friendly) format. But if you can't (and I'm afraid so) please help me with that damn bb code posting.
And, argh, the links I kept for the previous threads don't work anymore... Please, Henrik, send me the adress of Bravenet, I'm going to send them a bomb by mail
I have started to like the new forum a bit more but still have mixed feelings. Somewhere inbetween Honorio and Netjade...
I really hope that the centered text in IE is just a child disease. And the thing that worries me a bit is that there will be a lot of replies to previous posts that will "disappear" in the middle of the threads. For example VanillaFire1000's newly added list of albums and songs from 1972.
It looks a lot better than it did yesterday. I like bbcode a lot more than html just because I know it and it's easy.
The only thing I don't really like is when you quote somebody it shows up right below that post (at least it did yesterday). Any way to change that in the settings?
The only thing I don't really like is when you quote somebody it shows up right below that post (at least it did yesterday). Any way to change that in the settings?
John, that's the concern I tried to express as well. There's no way to change this now, but let's hope that some of these new features will be optional in the future.
Heh, one bug, on the listing of each different section, it says the last post was 39 years ago.
39 years ago, by the way, is 0 Unix time. So when it is looking for the time of the last post made in each section, something is obviously returning 0.
Very good! And I like the gray-purplish layout better. Thanks and keep it up with the improvements!
Regarding the overview of AM polls, I agree that it would be good to create a separate category for that. And I saw that pop elton already started collecting the new links to the several forum poll pages, very good too!
Would it be a good idea to collect those links in a file, like e.g. Excel or something, and then post that file as well? Does somebody have that already available or started that? To have it in a file makes it easier to add new links, or be prepared for the next major bravenet web change ...
Alternatively we could also use the beforementioned google spreadsheets for this overview of links and start this later this year ...?
Regarding the overview of AM polls, I agree that it would be good to create a separate category for that.
I second that.
Andre
And I saw that pop elton already started collecting the new links to the several forum poll pages, very good too!
Thanks. If Henrik creates new category for polls (and maybe move old polls to there) it may change the paths again. So maybe it's better continue after that.
Andre
Would it be a good idea to collect those links in a file, like e.g. Excel or something, and then post that file as well? Does somebody have that already available or started that? To have it in a file makes it easier to add new links, or be prepared for the next major bravenet web change ...
Alternatively we could also use the beforementioned google spreadsheets for this overview of links and start this later this year ...?
Google spreadsheet sounds fine to me. It's easy to share with each other. I can create a document.
What's that about the number of replies with the new format? For instance I only count 7 replies in the popelton thread about new links to our polls while in the main page this thread is marked with 13 replies. Are there other 6 replies missing? Or is it a question about editing and deleting replies?
What's that about the number of replies with the new format? For instance I only count 7 replies in the popelton thread about new links to our polls while in the main page this thread is marked with 13 replies. Are there other 6 replies missing? Or is it a question about editing and deleting replies?
It seems to be about editing and deleting replies. Which shouldn't be counted, of course. It seems as if someone at Bravenet pushed the "release new forum" button a little too early...
Well, Nicolas, not completely. If you made the previews in Excel you avoid the problems with the apostrophe (') and with the quotation mark ("). If I write in Word instead using the apostrophe the program uses by default right single quotation marks. For instance if I write "you're right" normally I obtain youââ¬â¢re right. Same with quotation marks. And I've been always using quotation marks for my lists!! They always went like this: THE BAND "The Last Waltz".
But there is another problem (that I don't know how to solve) about the accents, not a problem in English but in Spanish. I'm a snob, I know, but I've always hated when the people writes with orthographic mistakes (in my own language, of course, I would like not to commit mistakes when I write in English). And this damn bb code format forces me to write in Spanish without the accents!! For instance, if I write correctly America it will show as América. You know, in Spanish we put an acute accent on the "e", just like that
Well, forget it. I don't know why but if I write with an accent it will show incorrectly in the "preview message" but not in the definitive message.
América, América, América, América, América. I feel like I've just discovered América.
Henrik, there's a problem with the link from the Home page to the forum page.
When clicking on "Forum", I am asked my login and password as if I was the site administrator
Same here. I posted on this yesterday in the off-topic forum but no one goes there, apparently.
I can only access the forum via the link at the bottom of the homepage.
One and a half month away from here, and what a surprise do I have when coming to the site again! Now we may find some things strange, but in some months we will wonder how could we like those old features in the past!
Hey, so many interesting threads to catch up with!!! It looks like the activity here is being strong!