Steve Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 What a lovely thing to say, thank you Spiral! "First of all I'd like to thank..." 2
SueFinanceManager Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 What a lovely thing to say, thank you Spiral! "First of all I'd like to thank..." me me me.....I know I didn't do anything because I was out of the office yesterday leaving you and Matt in peace and quiet to do the upgrade but it must be great to be thanked in an Oscar acceptance speach ::1a
AnonyMouse_19762 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) Woohoo - very 'posh' - wonder if I can find my way around :unsure: Oh - where's my avatar? :unsure: Oh thank you very much to which ever of the 'clever people' for finding my avatar :1b hmmm....she's not moving? :lol: Edited March 1, 2012 by sunnyday
Steve Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 That would be Matt Sunnyday - he's working on reviving the cat now! 2
AnonyMouse_8466 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 That would be Matt Sunnyday - he's working on reviving the cat now! Is this the kind of thing you mean? http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=seQDXPDa0J0 4
SueFinanceManager Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 The cat is back chasing the butterfly. Gold star for Matt 1
AnonyMouse_3735 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 definitely.. my cat is no longer fat... much better.. thanks
Guest Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Not even going to attempt a cut and paste a quote! I wrote a long reply about the things I don't like and got a spinning uploading icon-gave up in the end and was late for work. I don't like the spread out layout. The amount of scrolling required makes me feel queezy. I can only view 2 post boxes at a time-with quotes and photo's its only one.Annoying if you want to get the point of a thread and not read chit chat or endless quotes. The post reply box on the bottom of each page -thats not the end of the thread so you may reply and miss something important said later on and you reply is misplaced or out of context The teeny tiny page buttons and text for icons yet the posting boxes are so big and most of what you view is blank background-a lot of wasted space I'm accessing now on a PC with keyboard and mouse so easier to navigate but with the laptop and finger it was so hard. One of the problems is there are so many sections and subsections on the forum main page.Could the main headings be on the main index page with drop down access to sub sections to condense things? I too mainly used the new post icon instead of wadding through the index I appreciate that a lot of work is involved with building a forum. Yes I have run a forum and built and designed my own website. I could say I don't mean to criticise but I am aware thats how it reads-very critical and mean spirited but you asked for views and these are mine. I used to love nipping on morning and night for a relaxing read a bit like picking up a magazine with more meaning but I'm not finding it pleasing to view.
AnonyMouse_8282 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 My 'new content' doesn't work anymore... It all worked fine yesterday :huh: Other than that - i don't like change- but I'll soon get over it.... ::1a ::1a
AnonyMouse_19762 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 The cat is back chasing the butterfly. Woohoo!!!!!!! Thank you very much!
AnonyMouse_30147 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 please help how did you all get your avatars back? I don't even know how I got one in the first place - well, I do, I once followed a link from a post on here....
AnonyMouse_30147 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 When I logged on I wrote somewhere that I couldn't find the new content button. I've now found the new content button and ended up here but now realised I don't know where I wrote my help I'm lost and can't find anything message... so if anyone finds a random message it belongs to me 1
AnonyMouse_79 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Ive found your post, sue, in your status update but Ive no idea how you got there so cant help at all on that. Perhaps someone more knowledgable will be along soon to tell us all!
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 suebear - if you look at the very top of the page there's your name! If you click it a drop down menu arrives and one of the options is 'my profile' you should be able to update your avatar in there
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Oh and thank you Steve for the 'return to top of page' arrow at the very bottom. I'm impressed you managed it so quickly!
AnonyMouse_1999 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 i have received two daily digest emails (didn't know i signed up for that) not that I mind of course but one is discussions from 2006 and the other from 2008. Yours confused of suffolk!!
Steve Posted March 2, 2012 Author Posted March 2, 2012 Oh that's very interesting Gezabel. And unexpected (as far as I'm concerned)... Has anyone else been in receipt of old mail? It's a bit like those stories of 30 year old postcards being delivered by the Royal Mail - the forum software was given a good old shake-up a couple of days ago, so it's quite possible it's found some bags of stuff in dusty rooms and decided to sort them out. 2
Steve Posted March 2, 2012 Author Posted March 2, 2012 You're welcome Cait - although I confess I just asked Matt about it for you and he sorted it out!
AnonyMouse_79 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Oh and thank you Steve for the 'return to top of page' arrow at the very bottom. I'm impressed you managed it so quickly! I've never noticed that before! Looks like a very useful re-instatement though.
AnonyMouse_7172 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 ... there's a joke to be shared about finding old bags in cupboards but I won't put it on here. It made me smile when I told it to myself 1
Guest Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 I haven't had old mail but I do seem to get an email evetrytime someone replies to a thread I've posted in, rather than one email and then no more until I've checked the thread again. I've checked my notifications settings but maybe I've done it wrong :rolleyes:
Steve Posted March 2, 2012 Author Posted March 2, 2012 The new notifications page is quite lengthy but very flexible Holly, might be worth checking you've checked all the correct boxes. You can of course elect to have the topic notifications arrive simply in the notifications function at the top of the page, which is quite intuitive. For anyone who hasn't found their notification options page, you can find it here.
AnonyMouse_30128 Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 hello steve...i'm quite liking the new layout...need to get used to it a bit. seem to be having a problem with replies though...if i take too much time replying ( and i often do)the reply gets 'stuck' and just starts saving and doesn't stop...so that i have to copy and paste or lose the reply...any thoughts??
Steve Posted March 3, 2012 Author Posted March 3, 2012 Hmm. Not at the moment - I'll see if I get the same problem and also talk to Matt about it.
AnonyMouse_3307 Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 I do like it - much cleaner and crisper. However when you get to a page like this: http://eyfs.info/index.php Then it's not very intuitive as to h9ow you get back to the new pages......hope that makes sense. Cx
Steve Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 Hi Catma - Yes I see what you mean. We left the rest of the site with the old appearance, along with the old menu (down the left hand side) so that we didn't completely bewilder the more occasional visitors to the FSF. Although the 'Forum Index' menu item points back to the new forum area of the site I can see that it's less obvious than it used to be. We will be changing the design of the rest of the site as well, so that eventually it will all operate from the same menu, but thought a two stage process would help make this first jump less of a shock! :1b
AnonyMouse_79 Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Love the new post notification when you are replying and someone else gets there first!
Guest Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 finleysmaid is having the same problem i had so glad its not just me. The comment catja made is also in line with what i was saying. Both received a comment back.
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