Xenforo - New Forum Software & Server

No sweat Mark, I am used to it and don't mind at all. At least you did not use the feminine form Michelle or Michèle (no offense intended for the female members )

Michel

 

Fonts look fine to me, good for my old eyes. Thanks to those who have laboured long and hard on the move. - don't like American spell checkers though!
Roy

 

Right, all finished tweaking my setup now.
Thanks and congratulations to the techies and the Mods who have made this changeover relatively smooth.

When the dust has settled we'll have a more versatile interface that's more worthy of the fantastic resources the user-base delivers - the old place was decidedly creaky.

 

Probably a consequence of the new structure but 'old' Google search results aren't finding the old threads in their new locations. That will presumably sort itself out eventually but do we know if Google is scanning us as efficiently as it was before?

 

Looks like it, Google just found a couple of posts made by myself this morning.

 

It's shiny and new I like shiny things :p

Well done chaps.

 

Another remark regarding formatting/display of posts:

When posting verbatim transcriptions of documents, I try to keep the original presentation, including alignment of paragraphs etc.
It is also often needed to type tables or similar data to be displayed in columns.
For lack of a better tool, I used multiple spaces to obtain aligned columns. But with the new Software, these multiple spaces are still there, but are now displayed as a single one, thus turning clear tables/columns into unintelligible clusters of data.
Is it possible to retain the display of multiple blanks so as to keep the original format of old posts?

Another point: all the different fonts I selected to highlight different sources now seem to have been changed to the new default one.

Is there any way to display the text as typed by the poster, including in old posts? This should be possible, because when I click "edit" on old posts the original format as I typed it is still there. It's only the way it is displayed with the new software that is changed. I find it quite disheartening to see that tables and transcripts I took great care to make readable are now turned into obscure lumps of characters .

Sorry if this sounds unpleasant and if I do not join the apparent general enthusiasm for the new Software. I'm pleased to know that life is easier now for the forum owners and moderators, and I'm probably being unfair but so far I have failed to see any visible improvement for me as a user . But then I have to admit that I have not explored all the possibilities of the new Software, which hopefully will compensate what I am visibly the only one to consider drawbacks .


Michel

 

Michel

Have you tried the new search facility ?

I genuinely feel that this item alone is worth the hassle of the changeover.

Ron

 

What are these alerts? I clicked on it, and found I had been awarded a trophy for something good I evidently did on Monday pm
Somebody having a joke?
As far as I remember Monday pm I was recovering from an outing with family visitors.

 

Hi Ron,

Yes, I did, and although it does respond faster (well, astoundingly fast to be honest), the choice of displaying as threads is lost, which I find regrettable, because it's not use to get lightning fast responses if one has to spend an eternity browsing through post after post of already known threads before getting to a yet unknown thread.

Maybe this could be easily fixed by adding a "View as threads" as there used to be in the old version?

Or quite possibly this option exists and I did not find it ?

Michel

 

Thanks dbf - I understand (I think.)

 

They're a bit pointless as pretty much all longer-term posters achieve all available trophies in a pretty short time. Then, given that a large number of people have this maximum 'score' (113, I think), the first page of users ranked by total points is filled with identical scores (I don't know it which order they are then displayed), so everybody visible is tied first and everybody else is shunted off the list and not displayed - silly game.

Michel, did you not find when 'viewing results by thread' that absolute monster posts that took minutes to scroll through (rolls of honour or grave sites, for instance) made the function annoying?

Searching now brings up thread titles and individual posts (which is displayed faintly on the far right of the results) and you can skim over the type that is likely to be less helpful.

I fully appreciate that what works for one person can be an nuisance for another. Personally, I quickly got immensely frustrated with email notifications and thread subscriptions (and use them only to alert me to personal messages), but other people seem to rely on them.

 

Tom, & Geoff thanks very much for the info. Will talk to chap in the shop about down sizing .
Make that two drams..
Regards
Stu.

 

Michel

Unless I've got it wrong you can view the search results as threads viz the bottom of the search options:

Order By:

• Most Recent
• Most Replies
• Relevance

Display results as threads

Ron

 

Tried to contact Von Poop. Easier said than done as I was not able to find the 'send' icon.
Comments more than appreciated.
Thanks

 

As chat disappeared ?