Thanks El ....I’m sure we will cope 

@Saint posted:

Dry your tears Renton ....you’ll be fine 

@Baz posted:

Dry your tears Renton ....you’ll be fine 

I will? 

@Saint posted:

I will? 

Listen , we are coping with the pandemic , so a few forum changes will be a doddle 

@Baz posted:

Listen , we are coping with the pandemic , so a few forum changes will be a doddle 

Ooh tough love - i like it  

Hi, all:

Yes, sorry I didn't mention it--I initially thought it would be a small enough update that it would hardly be noticeable, but the forum page change I just found out about yesterday. To me, it looks more like it did before the "card mode" change we did, but I'll be interested to see what you guys think. I'm guessing the other changes that El Loro mentioned won't impact you all much?

Any outage will be minimal, sounds like--so minimal that we are just doing it "sometime today", and not during a specific time frame. That just means that you may encounter a little blip in service, and then it will be fine.

I'll check in after the update to see if anything needs tweaking.

Also, I love that Baz is administering tough love.  

@Lori posted:

Hi, all:

Yes, sorry I didn't mention it--I initially thought it would be a small enough update that it would hardly be noticeable, but the forum page change I just found out about yesterday. To me, it looks more like it did before the "card mode" change we did, but I'll be interested to see what you guys think. I'm guessing the other changes that El Loro mentioned won't impact you all much?

Any outage will be minimal, sounds like--so minimal that we are just doing it "sometime today", and not during a specific time frame. That just means that you may encounter a little blip in service, and then it will be fine.

I'll check in after the update to see if anything needs tweaking.

Also, I love that Baz is administering tough love.  

Thanks Lori 

@Saint posted:

Ooh tough love - i like it  

Lori, thanks

As you say, changes 1 and 2 in my post won't have much impact. Change 3 is the reason I thought I'd create this topic as that seems to be the change which could have more of an impact.

I can’t see any difference yet 

Ok ....first question.....is there an easy way to get to the last post please ?

Update has gone through and the change is HUGE.

Oh wow this looks awful - i know i dislike change but this is worse

@Baz posted:

Ok ....first question.....is there an easy way to get to the last post please ?

From where, Baz?

If there's any new replies on a topic there's a bell symbol by the title so click on that to get there.

At this time under each topic title, it shows the latest 3 replies with the most recent first. Unless the reply is very short such as an emoticon there's a [more]. Click on that [more] and you'll get to that reply. So that's how to get to the last reply quickly if there's no bell symbol.

Can't say I like it one bit as it's giving me a headache looking at it

What about it is giving you a headache, @El Loro?

I don't know why, it just is, Lori.

It may be just me.

@El Loro posted:

If there's any new replies on a topic there's a bell symbol by the title so click on that to get there.

At this time under each topic title, it shows the latest 3 replies with the most recent first. Unless the reply is very short such as an emoticon there's a [more]. Click on that [more] and you'll get to that reply. So that's how to get to the last reply quickly if there's no bell symbol.

Can't say I like it one bit as it's giving me a headache looking at it

Thanks El .....and ditto

@Baz if you are on the home page you'll see the most recent topics at the top. If you want to read the whole topic, you click the "read more" button, but the most recent replies are already there for you, without having to click it. Then click the [more] link to go to that last reply.

Does that help?

@El Loro AND @Baz if you come up with more specific feedback about it, I might be able to improve it?

I know change is hard, and I'm thinking we'll get used to it. It's new enough for me that I have to work at figuring things out myself, but we've done it before, and we can do it again!

@Lori posted:

@Baz if you are on the home page you'll see the most recent topics at the top. If you want to read the whole topic, you click the "read more" button, but the most recent replies are already there for you, without having to click it. Then click the [more] link to go to that last reply.

Does that help?

I have just sussed that before coming here

There's way too much info on the front page (home screen of BB) creating huge blocks of info we don't need

Can it be stremlined?

@Lori posted:

@Baz if you are on the home page you'll see the most recent topics at the top. If you want to read the whole topic, you click the "read more" button, but the most recent replies are already there for you, without having to click it. Then click the [more] link to go to that last reply.

Does that help?

Thank Lori ....but I never go to the home page .....

@Saint posted:

There's way too much info on the front page (home screen of BB) creating huge blocks of info we don't need

Can it be stremlined?

What Renton said

@Baz posted:

What Renton said

That's right Baz - so some tough love next.

Get that page back to "user friendly" "intuitive" simplicity or i'll go back to my old ways of being offensive and claiming it's meant in jest (or something)  .

Yours, Saint

@Baz posted:

What Renton said

I have a couple of meetings back-to-back, but I'll take a look a bit later and see if there's anything I can do.

worked 

Part of the problem is that previously one could find a particular topic quickly. A list of topics might be a couple of screens per page. Now you have to scroll through 22/23 screens per page. If you reduce the number of replies shown it reduces the number of screens to scroll though but then you lose the ability to click on a [More] to get through to the last reply.

At present, each of the 3 replies under the topic title can show up to 7 lines of the reply. If fewer lines of each reply were shown then there wouldn't be as many screens to scroll through.

Though even if the number of lines was reduced down to 1 line there would still be a lot of screens to scroll through. And the [More] is essential to be available where there's no bell symbol to signify unread replies.

Well, there isn't anything I can do about that, @El Loro.

I think we all need some time to process the new look, before I look at any changes (and tbh, I'm not sure what changes I can make, that would make a difference to you.)

@Sprout posted:

If we can cope with Covid Sprout we can deal with this

The only thing I don't like is that you can't create a surprise thread now.

That's me and Velvet done for.

Maybe that's a positive for the rest of you.

@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

The only thing I don't like is that you can't create a surprise thread now.

That's me and Velvet done for.

Maybe that's a positive for the rest of you.

@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

The only thing I don't like is that you can't create a surprise thread now.

That's me and Velvet done for.

Maybe that's a positive for the rest of you.

@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

The only thing I don't like is that you can't create a surprise thread now.

That's me and Velvet done for.

Maybe that's a positive for the rest of you.

What does that even mean? What's a "surprise thread"?

@El Loro posted:

Though even if the number of lines was reduced down to 1 line there would still be a lot of screens to scroll through. And the [More] is essential to be available where there's no bell symbol to signify unread replies.

I may be wrong, but I get the impression that the bell, works in the same way as the orange 'NEW' disc did. If it's there then clicking on it takes you to YOUR last red post..........and if there's no bell then that means there are no new and unread posts!

The order that the FM names are under the thread title signify last post/2nd last post etc so clicking on the 1st name takes you to the end of the thread. So, it's the same as the tiny avatars that we had previously.

Clicking on the thread title takes you to the start of the thread.

Thus it looks pretty much as it was before , just with new wrapping paper!