Permit me to be the first to complain about the incredibly slow loading times for the threads.
I tried a few other sites (for comparison) that I know are slow, and theuy are loading with their usual speed, so it’s not my computer or ISP.
And I tried (twice) to edit one of my posts, and after about 60 seconds of waiting all I got was an error message.
I hate to sound like a cranky old man, but I’m not seeing any improvement s. In fact, the new organization scheme seems less logical than before, i.e., all General sub-forums are grouped together rather than grouping by Trains, Model Railroader, etc. Check that! It seemed that way when I first went on, then reverted to the old scheme.
Yes. In addition, in replying to a previous post on the passenger thread, I was unable to excerpt just the line I wanted from his post, in the old style. It highlighted OK, but would not replicate in the reply portion.
Why is Zardoz’s semaphore talking?
Exactly. I noticed that also, but thought i had done something wrong.
Eleanor Roosevelt gives it two thumbs up…
I ain’t crazy about this. Way too much white. The messages, the buttons, the signatures are all too blended together in a sea of white. I’m also not crazy about the message telling me that I made a reply when I made a reply. Cause, you know, I kind of figured that out on my own when I made the reply.
Oh well, worth what I pay for it, I guess.
Now I have to get myself some cheap sunglasses.
I miss the new forum threads on the Trains e-mail newsletter. I could always read over the news and then drop down to the bottom and see what was posted on forums. This will be a little more confusing and harder to find. Progress and change isn’t always easy.
Zardoz sez:
And I tried (twice) to edit one of my posts, and after about 60 seconds of waiting all I got was an error message.
He’s right about that…but once you’ve given up on it, you’ll find that your message has been properly edited.
Folks are right–the “quote” thing doesn’t work very well, hence my solution above, done with good ol’ copy-and-paste.
Now, we have one problem that may just be mine: every time I’m typing away here, I get stopped cold by a message that says,
SLOW SCRIPT
A script on the page “Reply to Post - Trains Magazine - Online Community: Forums and Blogs” (http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/AddPost.aspx?ReplyToPostID=1963500&Quote=False) is making Safari unresponsive. Do you want to continue running the script, or stop it?
I “continue”, because it doesn’t seem to matter what I say about it–if I “stop”, the message just comes up more quickly.
When I accessed the new site, all the topic titles were in a dark red text color. I read the ones that I found of interest and those titles changed to a light gray color. I then clicked on the “Mark All Read” link and all of the remaining titles changed to a light gray.
There have now been new posts to the subjects and I have not read those new postings, but the title text is still the light gray color.
Other forums that have something like this feature of marking threads that have new content that I have not read change the text color back to indicate that I have not read them.
Is this forum supposed to have that feature (seems like it should given the “Mark All Read” link)? Is it possibly broken?
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG![:'(]
SHEESH![soapbox]
This going to take some getting used to!
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BOOOOOOOOO!!!
If this is progress, sign me up for a shift at the buggy whip factory.
Bring back the old format!
Well…at least us Safari users can have the full edit tools suite again without having to lie and say we are running, say, FireFox.[:D] At least a little progress.
In other respects, it just takes a little getting used to the changes, I guess.
BTW, I haven’t noticed any particular slowing the two or three times I have been on this afternoon/evening, so things might be getting back in order in the Trains Mag Bat Cave.
Yes also happened to me! In addition when editing my own post and hit the backspace key I get a web page has expired message. Never had that happen before. And what is that box that you can check “Locked: Do not allow replies”. ?? MEAN??
I am terribly tempted to click that “Locked: Do not allow replies” box just to see what happens! I assume it is actually for moderators to use to lock a thread, but maybe it is to keep people from quoting a particular comment in a thread.
Oh well nothin’ ventured, nothing gained… I just clicked in the box and will click the Post button at the end of this typing.
Well, at the bottom of the previous missive from me, it says “Locked” but if I go to my previous entry I seem to be able to make a post, so maybe it does just Lock a particular entry. Oh well…
Looks like you could scare off some responses to a posting by clicking on that checkbox. I bet you could completely lock a thread in the first posting… blather something and keep anyone from responding to it. Hmmmm… Probably not good.
What happened to the blank line between paragraphs on years and years of past posts?
[Second paragraph] Now all the old post’s paragraphs run together!
[Third paragraph] I guess NEW posts (like this one) don’t have that problem …
[Fourth paragraph, as an edit] Whoops … I guess new posts have that problem too!
Yeah, I’ve tried twice to edit a post this morning, to no avail. Still get the message that the forum is down, or there is an error.