Yep, very slow loading here as well. I trust the crew at Kalmbach are listening and will have it fixed in no time.
Help!!! I want to turn off the G— D---- e-mail alerts permanently and just get ones I designate. I dont’t want to get them and I tried to send a message on the contact us icon and got reply that site does not exits anymore.
ZUGMAN: You will probably have to turn off the notifications by clicking the link at the top of the page for this thread because it is already turned on by the automatic setting that was in effect when you posted the first time. You should have gotten any future threads disabled by changing the profile setting, but that is only for future posts to threads.
See several replies above in this thread for how to fix this. There are a couple of ways to do it.
Just surmising here and trying to help… Did you maybe the first time click on the “Not Read” link? I see that when viewing the list that way all the subforums of the major forum get lumped together. The 2nd time maybe you were looking at an individual subforum.
I also see a bug wherein the “Not Read” list does not have a method for marking the list as “Read” when viewing in the Not Read list. There is a link/button (at the top) to click when viewing individual forums to “Mark All Read”, but it does not seem to work the way “I think” it should (as I think I described elsewhere in this “Non-official” problem reporting thread).
Here is hoping they get around to fixing this kind of stuff. These features are REALLY nice – when they work!
How do you select font type and font size?
I want to post in verdana 10 pt.
I guess if you want a paragraph break, you have to triple space.
Look near the top of page 3 of this thread for a posting from me with one paragraph all colorful and with various font sizes and stuff… I explain how there. Verdana is one of the fonts available in the list when I look, I have to assume it will be there for you, too. 10 pt is font size “2”, which is the default size for this forum when I see it on my PC. Is yours too small or too large?
I have to ask, why do you want to change from the standard font (and possibly size, as well)? I guess I don’t mind it if someone changes from the “usual” to emphasize some point, but I sure hope you leave it well enough alone for just regular postings. Many folk don’t like to see a multitude of font changes and sizes from one post to the next, especially if they have poor eyesight.
If you think the font is too small for your eyes then you really should find a way for the normal size font to be enlarged only on your PC rather than making only your words appear HUGE for everybody. There are features of various browsers and Winders itself to do that and there are add-ons for browsers and operating systems that will increase the size of ALL text on the screen for those with poor eyesight (or tiny monitors!).
I have a one-line tool bar above my message compost
Hmmm… you don’t see this?
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You say you have only one line of tools… are any of them like what I show above… I circled the general area of interest…???
I agree that Verdana is somewhat better for text display but there are those that will argue with us about that. And apparently the person in charge of this forum selected whatever this is (I think it is maybe Arial), or maybe they just left it as it happened to be when they created the code.
As for the text size, it is already 10pt. which isn’t too bad on my laptop monitor sitting, of all places, on top of my lap! I do have a second (identical) laptop computer on a couch next to me that is running some video surveilance software and that is just a wee bit too far away (about twice the distance) to read the text in the size that the surveilance software has selected (which I believe to be 10pt.)… I have to squint to see which camera I want to pick from the list of cameras to be displayed on the main window.
Wonder why you don’t see the entire tool bar (or at least a different one than I do)?
So far load times haven’t been a problem for me. Technically, I think we’re seeing mostly bad access times - when the back end server eventually finds all of the topic pieces it usually sends them to me quicker than before.
However, Reply and Edit functions are abysmally slow as ever.The cursor lag is incredible, reminds me of using an old ASCII terminal on a 1200 baud modem 30 years ago.
Note that Kalmbach, unlike most SMBs and individuals, has chosen proprietary forum software that runs on MS Windows O/S, SQL Server and IIS. GAACK! [banghead] No wonder it runs like frozen dog poop.
BTW I haven’t found the Signature Edit function - didn’t it used to be in the Public Profile?
Also, some dialogs like Change Avatar do Not have a visible close (X) button. I’m using the latest Firefox.
Yah, the Contact Us links seem to be broken. I guess that they don’t want any direct feedback. Except from this forum …
Using Firefox on the Mac Mini (ugh) and it loads fine. My other computers using windows take forever to load.
Click on the word “(Edit)” next to the words Public Profile to edit the avitar and signature.
Something has been changed. Now when I bring up the site I get the MR site with topics listed the way they were on the old site, However none of the other categories like garden RR and others appear. I like this listing but do wonder what happened to the other categories.
No, I don’t have that top tool bar that starts of the left with font family. I used to have it with the previous forum, but now all I have is the second tool bar that starts with bold, italic, and underline.
As far as fonts go, I don’t mind if the forum has a default font of something I would not use as long as I have the option to change it to my preference. Also, 10 pt. Verdana is considerably larger than this font.
As far as individual preferences go, I know everybody has their own. But I want to use the o
Well, here’s 10pt veranda…
And this is the default. I think this is slightly easier to read than the above…
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I have no problem with loading or access times at the moment.
I sent an e-mail complaining that I couldn’t find anyplace on the home page to click on to go directly to “Forums.” After much fumbling around I discovered them under “Community,” but I never would have guessed that.
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That looks way smaller than 10 pt. Verdana. When I compare it to text in Word, it looks like 8 pt. Verdana. Although when I look at it while writing this message, as a quote from your message, it looks like it should. But then when I preview it, it gets much smaller.
That is basically what I have noticed happening. If I paste text into the message composition box that was written as a word document, it comes in the same size as the word document. But when I preview it, it gets smaller, and when I post it, it is at that smaller size.
I find this new updated site is confusing
Where are the different discussion threads???, I can’t find them
My PC has been down for a week, so I get it back up online, and this is what I find.
Is anyone else felling like I am?
Here is 10 pt. Verdana.
I’m done with these forums, going over and staying on MRH
I liked it the way it was. MR really messed it up this time!!!
Their magazine is good, but this new website is ridiculous!
I’m not going to waste my time on this ridiculous site anymore.
I am saying goodbye to a lot of great model railroad fans
MR had a good thing going with the way the forums USED TO BE!
I’m gone!
The K4Kid
Model Railroad Hobbyist site
According to my computer and browser, this is 10 pt veranda.
This is 12
This is 14