New format?

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:18 am

I must live under a rock, I missed the reason we have this new format , what's going on with that?

You know how old people hate change.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:41 am

We've been bouncing this post to the top for several days...

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=68460

Don't worry, we're doing our best to get it back to "normal".

In the meantime, the update took care of some maintenance issues. That's a good thing for those of us in the background.

wecsoger · Post by **wecsoger** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:20 am

This will be interesting. Hoping updated software will keep me logged in longer than one or two days.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:20 pm

Wow....

I saw something like this after eating a mushroom.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:47 pm

Glad it is not just me. The pink forum rules will help us all get in touch with our feminine sides ...

Mainehunter · Post by **Mainehunter** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:58 pm

Other forums that I go on have this style format and I like it

Mainehunter

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:30 pm

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Me likey - Thanks Paul/David, for keeping us in business.

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JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:20 pm

Old folks just naturally resist change, especially when I have to hunt all over the page to read stuff. But I sure do thank ya'll for the work you do here so we can have this fine place to gather and visit.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:07 pm

Yea, I agree with Jerry.......it usually takes me about a year to get used to something and then booooommmm!.....I'm lost again. I should in the groove in about 6-8 months...be patient with my stupidity.----6

gundownunder · Post by **gundownunder** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:10 am

OK, so this new site is SLIGHTLY Kaput.
The banner at the top of the page now reads
"
paco
kell
y's
lev
ergu
ns.c
om
"
Sorry guys, I appreciate all your hard work, but this one needs to go back on the drawing board.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:10 am

gundownunder wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:10 am OK, so this new site is SLIGHTLY Kaput.
The banner at the top of the page now reads
"
paco
kell
y's
lev
ergu
ns.c
om
"
Sorry guys, I appreciate all your hard work, but this one needs to go back on the drawing board.

This is a labor of love, not a job. We're doing what we can when we can. Dave is taking time out of his work day to do this. Give him a break.

harry · Post by **harry** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:01 am

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:40 am

Paul, we appreciate everything you guys do. I hope you know that!

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:14 am

Yeah, I noticed a color change and the skewed heading, but BFD! Perhaps the fellers that don't like the colors or "feminist" hues are the same ones that polish their brass to high gloss (looks over content, or like we used to say in the '60s; "all show and no go")...

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:58 pm

BlaineG wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:20 pm Wow....
I saw something like this after eating a mushroom.

I was thinking the same thing! What the heck did I eat?!?

walks with gun · Post by **walks with gun** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:46 pm

Yep, this format is much harder to make out, I actually have to pat attention to what I'm doing, don't know if I care much for that.

wecsoger · Post by **wecsoger** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:01 pm

Something is more than wildly different about this new software. I've been on the board multiple times in the last two days and I'm still logged in every time.

This have never happened before.

Not that I'm complaining too much.

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:48 am

I notice that at least from a phone you have to be in General Topics to start a New Topic. There appears no option for that in Active Topics.

Takes a bit of looking and working to get used to any new format. With the inevitable --- Ah, that's where that is., or Oh, that's how you do that.

Is it possible to have the feature that shows the original poster of a topic in the list of topics?

Again, Dave thanks for your work. And here you go, this one is to you!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:46 am

It's just the poster info being on the right side of the screen that has me discombobulated...

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:43 am

Griff wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:46 am It's just the poster info being on the right side of the screen that has me discombobulated...

I think most of us lean to the right

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:17 pm

Thanks uys for doing the work. I appreciate it. Every day is a new day for me. Last year I got to hide my own Easter eggs.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 8:16 pm

Borregos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:43 am
Griff wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:46 amIt's just the poster info being on the right side of the screen that has me discombobulated...
I think most of us lean to the right

I, on the other hand, tend to read from left to right...

piller · Post by **piller** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:13 pm

Griff, I usually read that way, too. After a long day of answering the question of what time we close, or, are my prescriptions ready, which the phone system JUST TOLD the caller the answer before they could talk to me, I might start reading right to left and upside down.

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:26 am

WOW...I like it, a lot... :)

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:07 am

It is taking some getting used to, but it is much easier to read from a mobile device. I don't do much posting from anything other than the computer....yet.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:44 pm

How the heck do I get rid of the annoying popup when I mark things read? It's almost, but not quite, as bad as when you tell you computer or a forum to do something and it asks if you really, really, really want to. I know it all started with folks inadvertently Formatting C. But do that once and you'll learn.

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:32 pm

How do you tell if you read a thread? Before if you read a thread it would no longer be in bold type. Nothing changes so it is hard to make out when I check back in what threads are new and which ones I have read. Just trying figure out where I left off the last time I checked in.

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:38 pm

It will have a new messages icon to the left if it's received any since the last time you were on that thread. The old format did too.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:43 am

jeepnik wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:44 pm How the heck do I get rid of the annoying popup when I mark things read? It's almost, but not quite, as bad as when you tell you computer or a forum to do something and it asks if you really, really, really want to. I know it all started with folks inadvertently Formatting C. But do that once and you'll learn.

I'm looking into it, haven't found the switch to flip yet. There may not BE a switch, which would account for my not yet finding it.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:54 am

BenT wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:32 pm How do you tell if you read a thread? Before if you read a thread it would no longer be in bold type. Nothing changes so it is hard to make out when I check back in what threads are new and which ones I have read. Just trying figure out where I left off the last time I checked in.

When you go into a forum, General Discussion for example, you can scroll down the page and look at the left side of the list of topics. You'll see a round icon with something that vaguely resembles a bell (to my eyes on my monitor). If it's yellow/orange, you've not visited that topic since the last post. If it's empty ("white") then you've visited that topic and nothing has been posted since then.

What I tend to do is click the "Mark topics read" link at the top right corner after I've read the topics that catch my eye. This keeps a shorter list of topics to read the next time I log in and it shows what's currently active with the rest of the folk here.

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:56 am

jnyork wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:18 am You know how old people hate change.

You are a bit more polite about that then I normally would be !

I figure once you get past 55 polite kinda went out the door for stuff that irritates me

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:47 am

some great new features. up above just below the pinko banner is a spanner. Ok, a wrench. opening the drop-down gives a bookmark option and a print view option that formats for printing by stripping all the stuff you don't really want to print when you want to print. I go "print to file" and direct the doc into the folder where I want it to roost, select "pdf" format and Bang! the topic is in a readable, printable format that can be emailed, stored for centuries, or ignored. love this feature.

this change alone makes it all worthwhile. I missed the reply with quote and a kind hearted soul pointed out the obvious to me. I wonder if it's possible to make those clues a little higher contrast. for some reason veryvery light gray doesn't pop out visually against the white background. perhaps there's a contrast control slider or switch for that.

down below the last post is another option, sort direction, that allows the last post to be on top or on the bottom. another worthwhile feature. I think this was buried in the user profile space.

it takes some time to adjust muscle memory to the new trigger location. eventually the new will supplant the old and we can stop thinking about the next click again.

I suspect part of the upgrade has to do with security stuff in the application itself. The world keeps spinning anyway, and the script kiddies try to keep up with and "modernize" even the old stuff that keeps working. Just look at what they call Jeeps these days.

KUDOS to the staff and team and doers of goodness on this forum. May you all continue to thrive and flourish. Thank you'All

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:57 am

Grizz, that's life.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:44 am

It is definitely easier to use on an Android phone.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:54 am

I keep waiting for someone to comment on a long held desire by some that was finally fulfilled in this update... so far no go. We'll have to see what we can do about the color scheme, etc. Don't know of any theme editors for PHPBB and am not confident enough to attempt tweaking it freehand.

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:18 am

It is possible to post directly from the images on your phone.

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:54 am

And I just discovered it is easier to put in quotes to reply to from multiple folks than in the old format. Just starting to learn about the good things in the new format. I'm liking this. Thanks for the good work!

Batman1939 · Post by **Batman1939** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:07 pm

I appreciate ALL the efforts of the volunteer support staff!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH GENTLEMEN !!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:57 pm

Just poke around and punch new buttons....you Auld Pharts will figger it out.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:15 pm

The first few days that I logged on was just like the old way Now I stay logged on, every time I log in I am logged on. Is it something I did or is that how it works now? Old minds want to know!!!!!

Post by **AmBraCol** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:59 pm

JerryB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:15 pm The first few days that I logged on was just like the old way Now I stay logged on, every time I log in I am logged on. Is it something I did or is that how it works now? Old minds want to know!!!!!

That's a matter of the cookies and how your browser handles them. If you don't WANT to stay logged in, you can log out and then un check the box that says "stay logged in" or something to that effect when you log in again.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:18 pm

OK thanks, is there any problems that can come up by staying logged in??

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:32 am

JerryB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:18 pm OK thanks, is there any problems that can come up by staying logged in??

To my way of thinking, only if you log in from somewhere other than your office or home or if you don't trust others that have access to your computer. In my case it's just my wife and I at home and we each have our own computer so mostly I just stay logged in.

There's another side to this as well. If anything happens to me and she needs to let folks know, she can get in and post something along the lines of "This is Paul's wife and..."

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:10 am

BlaineG wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:57 pm
Just poke around and punch new buttons....you Auld Pharts will figger it out.

NOOOoooo ! ! - Your computer will explode !

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M. M. Wright · Post by **M. M. Wright** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:04 am

I'm getting comfortable with the new format at this point and I'm 78 now. Yeah, I can hide my own Easter eggs, wear black socks with shorts and fish whatever day I want to.

Thanks guys for taking care of us. I for one greatly appreciate you.

hayabusa · Post by **hayabusa** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:54 pm

I like the New Format.

hayabusa