Anyone else besides myself not see this one coming? Usually we got a heads up “sticky” prior to a major change like this.
I guess I’ll get used to the new format like I did the others. Hope Kalmbach restores the “last post” feature. Otherwise, it’ll be a lot of page wading for any relatively long threads.
Tom
I noticed a couple of hours of downtime, then this.
Paragraphs do not work in “Quick Reply” mode.
Quotes don’t seem to work at all.
The little pencil has been replaced with a real Edit button.
The font in normal Reply mode is N scale, while the font in Quick Reply is in HO Bold.
But, the annoying green pop-up is gone. For this I am truly grateful.
Complete surprise to me. I think I will like this new format
I think the main purpose was to make the right hand column with all the advertising another 1/8th. inch wider reducing the space for us to post… [:-^]
71.9
Let’s use this picture of a moose about to board the IRT subway to test photo insert:
OK, that worked.
The [*] are gone and we now have the join date. A nice trade off [:)]
At the bottom, the Edit, Reply and Quick reply buton placement is inconsistent. On one of my posts, they were properly right justified in frame. On another, the Quick Reply button was shifted almost completely out of the window.
For reference, this machine is Windows 7 and I’m using IE 8 on it.
Under the avatars, I now see home town and state information. I think that was missing from the previous forum software. I think it’s useful, so thanks for that.
I was able to edit this post to correct my shoddy spelling.
There’s also no way of knowning when a thread was started from a particular forum page. You actually have to view the first page of the specific thread to determine that.
Tom
Design of Experiments I: See if the mis-located buttons are related to the insertion of a picture:
Yes, there is much to be said for realistic prototype modeling.
And for experimentation. The buttons are correctly located for all my posts, except the two posts where I inserted pictures. Isn’t science wonderful.
Later Edit: The above is true of IE8 on my Windows 7 machine at work. However, things look just fine on my XP machine at home running Firefox.
Yea, I remember when my uncle used to load/unload those boxcars back in the 40s, MB. [:P]
Tom
I thought I was the only one with the highly sought after Geoffrey box car. [(-D]
Some day I will find a giraffe and cut a hole in the roof.
I just posted a reply on ShowMe and noticed a couple of things
I had thought ShowMe was on page 4 yesterday and it has 3 pages today. all the content appears to be there, so are there more replies per page??
When I posted me reply, some of the words on the right margin went off the page, it does not seem to be doing it here, so something with the picture format? I noticed the same on a couple of other ShowMe replies with pictures, but not all.
At least the post counts appear to be about right! [:)]
Jim,here is a giraffe, get out the drill!
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-20385
Just noticed something else, CNTR-V does not work for Paste. Need to select Edit/Paste from the toolbar. It highlighted what I had typed and overwrote it with the paste. Now to see if the link will work
So far, it’s only the MR forums that have changed – Trains and Garden Railways forums haven’t (yet).
Looks like Kalmbach is still working on some tweaks. My “Your Discussion” link displays the following:
I also don’t see any ability to change font color or size.
Tom
I worked hard for those stars—LOL I’m OK with the join date as that along with the question helps me know something about experience level when replying.
Great EDIT button. I just noticed that post counts are under the poster too. I like the shading for the area that is quoted as well. So far, no more annoying green bar and things work pretty well–it’s actually pretty good.
Richard
This is terrible. Reminds me of Yahoo and Facebook. The techies love messing with the users. I bet they are rolling in the aisles over this format. No more indication of incorrect spelling.
Rich
Here is a LION.
Where did they put Broadway?
I’m using Firefox 25.0.1 and Windows 8 and both the quote feature (highlighting the text you want in the quote and clicking the “Add Quote to your Post” button above the Post Body) and pasting (Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V) work fine for me.
Tom
George,
It looks like the number of posts per page has increasd to 30. (It was 15 before) With the prior format I think could change the number of posts per page. However, I don’t see whether or not you can do that with this new format. It’s possible that I’m thinking of another website though.
Tom