You know, God himself said “good enough” after only six days. Maybe the Web designers at Kalmbach should follow his example.
I agree with schlimm, the order of topics is awkward. I have to scroll to three different places to find the HO topics. Having them grouped by as they were in the old setup would be more user friendly.
Progress is always change, but change is not always progress.
Pages are still incredibly slow to load. Seems like sometimes the site freezes up. Takes about 20 seconds for the page to load and display.
I wonder if anybody at Kalmbach actually tried out this site software before committing to it. I find it hard to believe anyone would see this new forum or the way it operates as an improvement, unless there are many pointy-haired (reference from Dilbert) managers involved in the decision-making process.
In conclusion, if I were to first visit this site today, I would have soon given up on it and probably never returned.
I’m having trouble with the replies–the message box doesn’t appear today. Tweak away, folks!
Perhaps a shaded background (very light shading) for the areas outside the posts would be a good idea, in view of what Zugman has said.
CShaveRR (9-1):
How did you get a space line between paragraphs? I sure can’t!
Why am I limited to only 1 size of font and 1 shade of color when I post anything here? My first post with “On This Date in Railroad History” is what I am talking about. I would have included my monicker name in maroon lettering had I been able to do so, but no!
Anyone else wake up with 50,000 emails from trains about replies to threads? Is it a default thing to automatically be enrolled for the emails?
Works better with Chrome, too.
Haven’t you heard of those religions where artists will produce some “perfect” object (clay pot, stained glass window, etc.) and then deliberately damage it so that they do not become like a god for having produced perfection? Yes, they don’t realize that “man” cannot ever produce something that is actually “Perfect” but they have this silly fear that they might.
Anyway, it sure seems that some programmers have converted to that religion and thus must inject flaws in their software so as to not chance becomming a god.
Actually, the problem is often because the programmer, as well as the beta-tester, is often sitting very near the main computer server where the program that is being tested resides. Thus they are not subject to delay times caused by intermediary servers and transmission machinery. Also, the software group often has the latest, greatest, wizz-bang hardware on which to do the development and thus does not see that routines they have written are inherantly slow on the “average” hardware that the software will actually run on.
There is also the fact that often the software is tested using a very small database to work against. What works with the “test database” may seem quick and responsive to the tester, but suddenly becomes a drudge when the program is mated with a “working database” that is 10’s of 1000’s of times larger.
I have been a programmer for nigh onto 45 years and I have run into those problems MANY times. My neat-o program that is nimble and agile becomes a lumbering dinasaur when unleashed on the user community – for all those reasons listed above.
I tried, where I worked, to convince management and my co-workers that the programmers and beta-testers should have
Sure you can… ya just gotta hit the Enter key TWICE to get it to happen.
I now see THREE lines between my “sure you can” line and this one, but when it displays to you, you will see only one.
I now see SIX lines between my 2nd line and this one because I hit the Enter key THREE times.
It used to be called, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), but now it is WYSINQWYG (What You See Is Not Quite What You Get)!
On the page where you type your reply you should see a 2 line tool bar just above the space you type in and on the upper left there should be three drop-down selection boxes. The first one is where you define the Font you want to use (it says, “Font family” now) and next to it to the right is one that is labeled “Font size” and if you click on the downward point triangle/arrow you can select a new size (from 1 to 7). To the right of that is one that says “Paragraph”. I have not messed with that so I won’t attempt to explain it here. But, next to that is an icon of the letter “A” and another downward pointing triangle/arrow. If you clck on it, a box will open up where you can pick a different color for the text.
I find it best to type all I intend to do, spell check it, verify that it looks pretty much like I want it to, including line spacing, and then I highlight the text I want to be in a different font, size, color or bold/italic/underlined and then use the tool bar icons to set the text for those attributes. Here, I’ll copy this paragraph and alter the copy using the icons now (just to test it and see if my blathering is right!)
I find it best to type all I intend to do, spell check it, verify that it looks pretty much like I want it to, including line spacing, and then I highlight the text I want to be in a differ
I wonder if maybe you were using something different than the “Reply” link at the top of the posting, like maybe you used the “Quick Reply” at the bottom. I see the same tool bar using the bottom link so it should work this way too. I’ll mess this paragraph up and see if it does.
Looks like it does now, do you see the colors and font changes when it gets posted?
Sunnyland: We’ll continue to post links to the forums in the weekly e-mail newsletter. We couldn’t this week due to the timing coinciding with the upgrade.
STOP ALREADY!!!
I tried a search on the new home page. It was unsuccessful (not too surprising) and now Google has told me it was unsuccessful at least a dozen times…even after I left this site and started viewing another.
Advice to all. DO NOT SEARCH!!
Yep, I got a bunch too. There is a link/button at the top of the thread page that says, “Stop emailing replies to me” (in a red oval button). Click on it and you should not get the e-mails. There MAY be some setting in your Profile that will change the automatic “subscription” feature, but I haven’t looked yet. You will get e-mails for every new post to any thread you have made a reply to unless you click that button (or find a profile setup that cancels the automatic subcription feature).
Hang on…
I just clicked on the “Edit” link over on the right side where my icon is displayed (had to scroll down a bit) right next to the words “Public Profile”. In the page that is displayed, scroll down to “Email configuration” and I THINK!!! if you change the 4th entry’s selection boxes to “No” you will disable the automatic feature… then if you really want to get e-mails when someone replies to a specific thread you will probably see a button that says you want to get the e-mails (instead of the “Stop” one). Try it!
EDIT: Be sure to click the UPDATE PROFILE button at the bottom of the page!
thanks… I just tried hitting “no” to ‘receive notifications’. We’ll see what that does.
These options are confusing enough, that I’m almost convinced they were written by the same people that write RR rulebooks.
Oooo… Hey, I just clicked on the “Forum Alerts” text over by my icon on the right and got a list of all the individual threads I am presently subscribed to, and to the right of each one is a “Remove” button to disable notifications of each one. Nice feature.
Also, at the top is a link (reads “Click here”) that lists all of the various forums so that I can subscribe (get an e-mail) to every topic in a whole forum if I wish.
Other interesting features from that list on the right…
Conversations - is a list of your “Private Messages” you may have had in the past with other members.
Your Friends - I am so sad, it says I don’t have any friends!
Your Forum Discussions - is a list of all the threads you have made a posting to.
Your Favorites - I’ve never played favourites, so I am not sure what this is for. I assume there is some way to mark threads as a favourite one and this would be a list of them so you can find them easily.
I tried unsubscribing that way a few times. But every time I reply, it must re-subscribe me.