So this is the new forum layout. Not sure how I feel about it yet. Perhaps I am too old and have a high RC (Resistance to Change) factor. Perhaps when I re-learn how to navigate I will think better of it
Kevin
Well it seems mostly cosmetical, the layout isn´t so much different.
The “Resources” link at the top doesn’t work for me. Of course, our IT department at work is still living in the Cenozoic Era and I have to use IE6, which is at best semi-retired.
Is anyone else having trouble with that link with a modern (post-Transition) browser?
Not loading well on my end, and I am on fast cable. Sometimes I have to turn of the firewall to get get it to load or post.
Cuda Ken
Seems to work for me for what I would use. I checked out some of the links, not all, but the ones I did worked. I have AOL and high speed cable RoadRunner from Time Warner Cable.
OK, I do systems integration for a living, so please look on these posts as helpful suggestions for improvement, not simply rivet-counting for the sake of rivet-counting.
When I posted a reply, I first went to a page that said “Your reply has been posted.” Then I had to click another link to get back to the thread. That’s annoying and a waste of bandwidth. With “Quick Reply,” that didn’t happen.
When I’m typing a reply, a carriage return double-spaces to the next paragraph. The thread, though, doesn’t recognize the double-space, and instead single-spaces the paragraphs. I can manually double-space with 2 CRs, as I’ve done here, but it would be a lot more user-friendly if the reply that gets posted looks like the reply that the member typed in.
That’s something I mentioned from previwing the beta version. Quick Reply is great. No more reloading. I dunno about you but on the old one after I replied it reloaded the thread, but it did NOT show my post until I re-clicked on the thread. SO I don’t see a difference here, just a new feature that DOES immediately refresh.
–Randy
I see it did break links in sig files though…have to fix that up.
–Randy
The menu is horribly confusing, the individual forums used to be grouped by magazine (general interest area), now they are all intermixed. Makes it very hard to quickly review the topics in which you are interested.
So far have only found change, no improvement, some less favorable format.
On my DSL it’s taking twice as long to load a page than the last version, (which took twice as long as the version before that). The look is fine. I don’t need the new post confirmation, that takes another 15-20 seconds and two extra clicks. There’s also a delay with the “more” drop-down menu just to get to edit or quote and extra clicks again. The more they try to clean it up or “streamline” the more of a pia it is to get around. And I don’t like the default email replies.
My posts are gone…oh well.
David B
I went right to the MR forums and didn’t see where anything had been intermixed unless I am missing something.
As to Jay’s comment, it seems to take a little longer to load.
What I don’t like is the box below the reply which says ‘Email me replies to this post.’ It seems that is a good way for clogging up my email so wish it was an option.
I’m using Iceweasel (rebranded Firefox) 3.5.10 on Debian Linux. [:D]
Preview does not show smilies as graphics, only text. That is not good.
When I tried to edit an earlier post, The Post button result in an error message from the server. The edit failed.
Edit: This post contains four paragraphs with blank line separators, which show in edit and preview modes, but they are not showing as such after posting. Also not good
Nope…they are still there…
David B
If you go to the root level of FOrums, it has all the General Discussions togetherm then specific ones. It used to have the Model Railroader forums listed, then Trains, then Garden Railways, etc.
I don;t go anywhere but the MRR forums so I never noticed it either. ANd there is no need to go back to the top level to switch forums, at the top it shows your current location and if you click on Model Railroad Forums instead of one to the left which is just Forums, it lists just the 4 MRR forums.
–Randy
The thing that seems to hang the reload is the Popular Tags window. There’s a delay afterit refreshes the topics/thread and that is the last element to be displayed. Liek it’s doing a live query every time you refresh. Does anyone even use that? I’ve never looked at it before. Do I CARE what the most used tag keywords are?
–Randy
Dave,
If you click on the “Home” link (at the top left corner) it will take you here. You’ll find the Forum Discussion heading about 1/3 the way down.
Tom
I also had the error when trying to edit my post. When I tried to edit my profile I also got an error: only 512 characters allowed in the signature. I counted them, I only had 240.
Down at the bottom of the page there is a link to “Photo Galleries.”
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/media/g/mrr-layouts/default.aspx
It appears to be a page where users can post photos, and I would assume link back to the post to add a photo to a thread, without having to have an outside photo-hosting site.
I uploaded a photo, which seemed to go OK. However, it then came back and said that it would not be visible until it was approved by a moderator. So, I can’t test whether I can link back or not. I’ll look at it tomorrow and see if any action was taken. Depending on how popular the site gets, there could be a lot of photos “awaiting moderation” and a significant amount of effort for someone.
The link is in white letters on a dark blue background. When you click it, though, it signifies “been there, done that” by setting the letters to only a slightly darker shade of blue. It then becomes very close to invisible. A different contrasting color, like maybe yellow, to indicate links that have been clicked would be preferable.
I wonder if I can (finally) use Opera to post on this Forum?
Will there be line breaks?
The suspense!
Justin