Hi all,
I figured that while the new forum is getting up to speed, it might be useful to have a single thread in which we can pop any bugs/errors we notice with the forums - then the admins can review it and fix them up.
I’ll start with one I’ve just noticed - I checked the box to have replies to my wheel quartering thread emailed oto me, but didn’t receive any email notification for the two replies I’ve gotten so far.
Cheers,
tbdanny
In the Post Message window, a new paragraph leaves a space between the paragraphs. When posted it all runs together… It should be one way or the other.
(new paragraph) 73
(another new paragraph) See what I mean?
What happened to the Inbox? All I see is Conversations, how you supposed to know you have a new PM?
Motley,
The number in brackets next to the conversations is the number of unread messages in your conversations. It seems that all of mine were marked as unread during the changeover.
Cheers,
tbdanny
Ahhhhh why wonder, thanks!
Seems to be using straight HTML for messages now. Just like when creating a web page, spaces mean nothing. Doesn’t use codes like before either, at least for tag lines - mine wiped the link for my web page, and when I edited it and put in the [ u r l ] tag it didn’t work, I had to highlight it and click the Link button to make it a link. Bototm line, the space betwene paragraphs thing I do not think is a bug, it’s simply the way it works.
Hmm let’s see what this does
You can edit directly in HTML, so   might work. Or not. Oh wait, I forgot I put it BEFORE the “Hmm let’s see what this does” so yes, it does appear to work.
–Randy
I used to be able to “toggle back and forth” easily between the TRAINS magazine forums and the MRR forums. I see no way to do that now easily. There is a button at the very top right side toolbar that says “trains.com Sites” that I assumed would allow me to pick the other magazine’s forums, but it apparently is a dead link? Am I missing something?
I don’t see a place to look for coming events, look up mrr organizations or hobby shops.
That’s what I’ve missed so ar.
Have fun,
Top Left you will see Home >> Forums>>
Click on Forums, and it will take you to the list of forums.
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Test.
Well hey, the great news is I no longer have to hardcode html formatting tags using Safari. Thanks for making the website Mac-friendly again!
Boy do I feel like a dunce Ray! Thank you. I saw that earlier and was gonna try that but I had to sign off and go somewhere and forgot all about it and didn’t pay any attention to it again. I knew that. I was looking for the mag covers to click on to take to that mag’s page and forums.[banghead]
Then again, I DO have a natural blonde streak down the back of what’s left of my hair so I guess I am entitled to a “blonde moment” every now and again as I are one. [:-^]
cowman;
Very Top Right side of Page, under Resourses.
Although Mr B. said the link didn’t work for him, it worked for me, Good Luck! [Y]
John
If I go back and edit a post the forum crashes after I click post.
Not really a bug but I DO wish the default for the “email me replies to this post” was OFF.
Edit: figured out how to get rid of it, in your profile set the Send Notifications under the email section to Off.
–Randy
I’m reading through the posts on this thread and I’ve yet to see any “bugs” reported. Instead of just putting up anything that just doesn’t look right, why not try the site out for a couple of days and see if any real problems occur. Most of the things here are just simple options one can choose or omit.
This may be an IE6 thing. The “Resources” link at the top is a pull-down menu. It works fine at home using Firefox, but here at work we are expected to do space-age technology with stone-age tools.
At the bottom of the page, there is a big blue area with a lot of links in white. When you click on a link, it remembers you were there and changes the color of the link to…blue. It’s not quite the same blue, but close enough that the “visited” link is almost invisible. A contrasting color would really work better.
When I do Edits, I get an error message and I have to re-navigate back to where I was, but the edit does take.
The “lock” icon is now dual-purpose and confusing. It can either mean that the entire thread is locked…or that someone ticked the Locked: Do not allow replies box at the bottom of their post.
I clicked on the reply button in jasperofzeal’s post to write this. I guess I’ll see whether it posts or not.
Tom
[Edit: Posted fine.]
Add my “Edit error” message to the fray. While it does post the error message, it DOES make the edits to the posting. It’s just annoying, and hopefully the powers that be will correct it in short order (at least, I hope so).
I just checked my regular e-mail inbox.
Please, please, PLEASE default “email me when someone replies” to OFF.
I second this motion. Having to unselect email option every time we post is annoying.