Oh, believe me. I've made that a rule a long time ago. Although I'm amazed how I still have better grammar and spelling while drunk than many people have while sober (at least I assume they aren't high at the time).
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Oh, believe me. I've made that a rule a long time ago. Although I'm amazed how I still have better grammar and spelling while drunk than many people have while sober (at least I assume they aren't high at the time).
See, here's a good example. I tried to edit my post and somehow I ended up quoting myself instead and now I can't delete this mess and have to make it a blank post if I want to get rid of it. I'm not even sure how I did it because I know I didn't click any links on the right hand side.
I understand that, but with a forum this big, it gets misused more than you would think.
Maybe they could try a trial phase, if Xenforo allows for maybe not deleting a deleted post entirely if someone misuses it, thus warnings can be given out for those doing that.
But first let's finish the heavy work and then get to personal wishes on which many agree via dedicated threads, in a week or so.
Just because for now it is being "ignored" does not mean at a later and calmer time, after WWDC, this topic cannot be discussed under better circumstances.
Amber (orange) stars are ambiguous
Who awards those stars, and why?
If amber stars appear on the same screen as yellow stars, will the difference in colour be easily perceived by readers?
Who awards those stars, and why?
If amber stars appear on the same screen as yellow stars, will the difference in colour be easily perceived by readers?
Which amber stars?
And the link in your "profile popup" (http://ur1.ca/mqf2d / https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21402730) shows this:
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Thanks Arn for the colour change to the prefixes in the Marketplace. That makes it a million times easier to go searching through the ads. Keep up the great work. The forums are really starting to come together. I can only imagine the amount of work you people are putting in behind the scenes.
Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering how that went across. We can color up other prefixes too in other sections, but it made sense in marketplace.
My problems with the Changes to the site: I use Forum Spy almost exclusively, it is the page I have bookmarked and the page that I use each time I visit the site. It has two serious problems that impact me and anyone else that works this way. Previously this function provided “Real Time plus History” the present site provides “Real Time plus Future”.
What I mean is that on the old site I could go to this page and see very quickly a summary of the headline of each post plus a number of pages of recent post that I cold scroll through. It enabled me to see if anything trending was of interest to me to read or respond too. In addition since it was a summary of headlines each screen showed me multiple “More than Ten” posts.
This function now shows only live plus future post, so a visit to this page initially shows one post and it slowly fills with any future posts. The amount you can see on each screen is also very limited because of the layout of each post and the number of blank lines in each of them. In Fact each screen can accommodate five items at most.
This may be progress but its not working for me. While a quick visit to the site multiple times per day worked for me previously this site no longer works for me.
What I mean is that on the old site I could go to this page and see very quickly a summary of the headline of each post plus a number of pages of recent post that I cold scroll through. It enabled me to see if anything trending was of interest to me to read or respond too. In addition since it was a summary of headlines each screen showed me multiple “More than Ten” posts.
This function now shows only live plus future post, so a visit to this page initially shows one post and it slowly fills with any future posts. The amount you can see on each screen is also very limited because of the layout of each post and the number of blank lines in each of them. In Fact each screen can accommodate five items at most.
This may be progress but its not working for me. While a quick visit to the site multiple times per day worked for me previously this site no longer works for me.
Yep, it's very much just quick and dirty to get something up. I talked a little more about it here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/forum-spy-for-early-use.1889012/
I like the recent changes (adding back of info, decreasing the size of the report button). I wonder, would it be possible to bring the post count back on the same line as the join date?
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Haven't seen something like this reported yet, but since there are quite many threads about the new forum, it is kinda difficult to keep up.
When looking at the Trophy thread I came upon this thread via the SIMILAR THREADS thing at the bottom: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wtf.17022/
Looks kinda strange, nothing life threatening though, since it is an old thread, but maybe it is a sign of something.
Haven't seen something like this reported yet, but since there are quite many threads about the new forum, it is kinda difficult to keep up.
When looking at the Trophy thread I came upon this thread via the SIMILAR THREADS thing at the bottom: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wtf.17022/
Looks kinda strange, nothing life threatening though, since it is an old thread, but maybe it is a sign of something.
Thanks. Yep. Seems old redirects ended up like that. The thread still exists somewhere else. Thanks for heads up but ya, not life threatening.
I love how I accidentally tap on the big dumb ads at the bottom of the thread when I'm scrolling on mobile. Thanks.
I like them. Finally, I can have an avatar that isn't so tiny you can't hardly tell what it is. Since they sit on the left out of the message area, I see no impairment what-so-ever.
Honestly, I'm 100% the opposite here. I feel like I'm scrolling too much as it is (i.e. I HATE sites that have hundreds of pages that just keep endlessly loading like blogs. It's awful; it's stupid and it's a waste of bandwidth worldwide along with all the zillions of tricks to try and get you to look at 100 ads per page). It's far easier to click "next page" and have shorter loads.
(anyone notice that the smilies only appear at the bottom of the post and so if you post is over a page long, you have to scroll down your browser page just to click on one? They should go on the side of the window, IMO).I'm "guessing" that those that like endless "blog" style pages like them because they're using a track pad and track pads pretty much suck for clicking compared to a mouse and thus the three finger scroll seems "easier" for that reason to such users. Yes, I said it. Trackpads are lousy for navigating old school. That's why I believe there's this massive trend towards "swipes" and other gestures. It's not because swipes are great per se. It's because trackpads suck for quick navigation without them. Gestures give the illusion that trackpads don't suck (and boy do some people believe they are awesome) by having shortcuts that are faster than a mouse or keyboard, but actually pointing and clicking is absolutely clunky compared to a good mouse in terms of speed and effort to quickly click on even the smallest links. Try to game with a trackpad. Not happening. Suffice to say I use a mouse (a Microsoft one at that) on my desktop and my notebook as well.
Not compatible with Reader (Safari). I wish for that
No one on Earth should use Safari, IMO (bad layout, slow to load initially and many updates require an entire OS update to even get them). I DREAD using it and the only time I've EVER used it is on one or two secure sites that aren't compatible with Firefox for some bizarre reason. Apple won't update Safari for older versions of OSX and that is the #1 reason NO ONE should use it. That is unacceptable behavior from Apple. I'm tired of being "forced" to upgrade OSX just to get a newer update to Mail or Safari at some point when I can't stand Yosemite, in particular. So I abandoned Mail as well and now use Thunderbird, which happily updates under Mavericks. Firefox went rogue as well for theming, (turning itself into a Chrome Clone), but thankfully it's possible to restore the old look with a few add-ons.
Fonzie says, Exacta-mundo! Long page sites are particularly annoying on older iOS devices (e.g. even a Gen 4 iPod Touch regularly takes all day and often crashes on many of today's sites with endless social links, "tab ads" that take up all the iPod Touch's screen real estate and often all I'm trying to read/see on a given site is a TEXT article. If the sites used just TEXT, they would load like lightening even on a freaking Apple Newton, but alas, they use every high bandwidth "trick" imaginable for reasons ranging from ease of site construction, flash looks to try and force ads that plugins have long since disabled. You shouldn't need a 12-CPU Mac Pro to load a web page....
one issue i have encountered with the mobile set up (iphone) was that i accidentally double posted a few times. that didn't happen before.
is there any specific reason the EDIT button has not been migrated to the left like the REPORT button?
btw, the icon-only for the REPORT is much better
btw, the icon-only for the REPORT is much better
Not sure why.... It doesn't appear to be scoring the post like a point system. All it would do is give you the option of having your name listed as disliking the post.
I can appreciate the concept if that's what you want. But I think in general, the thought is to encourage positive interaction. As opposed to a list of 60 people who don't like you. There are some people in this forum who have a tendency to follow each other's posts and comment negatively about each other frequently. And I'm not going to get into names. But, we all see it. For that reason, I wouldn't encourage building what could be perceived as a "hate list".
We'd likely just see the same names grouping together in an opposition list against certain people they like to disagree with.
I think it's better to keep the views positive. But, we all have our opinions.
I've noticed the new forums don't automatically add a quick second post to the previous post (creating a single post when one posts twice in quick succession where you are the next poster as if you were multi-quoting) like the old forums did.
There's a plugin that allows that. I'm just being cautious about adding too many third party plugins to start since we have other things that need to be fixed, I don't want to introduce too many other issues.
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