Official upgrade issue thread!

[pgriz]

ooh .. I finally found the

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or which ever user you are wanting to find what threads they started.
At the bottom of the "Postings" tab of the User Profile

Yeah, I found what I was looking for too. But after "they" redecorate, it's always takes a little while to discover which cubbyhole they now put the sugar bowl in, and where I can find the potato peeler.

 

[407370]

The "Upload A File" button still does not work with Win7 & Firefox, so I cannot post pictures.

ditto





Ahh I can post a link from photobucket but not upload a pic unless I use Chrome

 

[shefjr]

I have noticed that on firefox I'm not always able to view threads that I have commented on. They are no where to be found yet I can find them on the safari browser.

I would also like to be able to see the posts that I have participated in with out having to either watch a thread or hover a mouse over my name and... Why can't there just be a tab for that?

 

[snerd]

I have noticed that on firefox I'm not always able to view threads that I have commented on. They are no where to be found yet I can find them on the safari browser.

I would also like to be able to see the posts that I have participated in with out having to either watch a thread or hover a mouse over my name and... Why can't there just be a tab for that?

I use the "New Posts" link as my bookmark to get here. It lists new posts since my last visit. If you look at the Title of the thread, you'll see the Avatar of the OP. In threads that you have participated, your Avatar will be imposed, smaller, over the Ops Avatar. That's a quick, dirty workaround if you want to use it.

 

[vintagesnaps]

So we're on our own to figure out these things it seems (thanks astroNikon and pgriz).

This design leaves me with 1/3 less of my screen viewable horizontally, it's not good for me on a laptop. I'm not finding this better to use; if anything it seems more time consuming (going to the end of a thread then having to backtrack, etc.).

I think it would help if the Forum Foundry would have one person in charge of this instead of different admins on and off so that our problems get addressed.

 

[shefjr]

I have noticed that on firefox I'm not always able to view threads that I have commented on. They are no where to be found yet I can find them on the safari browser.

I would also like to be able to see the posts that I have participated in with out having to either watch a thread or hover a mouse over my name and... Why can't there just be a tab for that?

I use the "New Posts" link as my bookmark to get here. It lists new posts since my last visit. If you look at the Title of the thread, you'll see the Avatar of the OP. In threads that you have participated, your Avatar will be imposed, smaller, over the Ops Avatar. That's a quick, dirty workaround if you want to use it.

I use the "new post" every time I'm on TPF. This kind of goes to my point though. For example, when I respond to this message I can guarantee that when I click the "new post" tab this very thread will not be there. It seems to for some reason not update after a quick reply.
Additionally, I'm not on TPF with enough frequency to be able to search the "new post" tab and so therefore, it is an inconvenience to have to search through pages and pages to find a post that I have responded to. That seems silly when I had the app for TPF I hit one little tab and saw every post that I had responded to.

 

[SCraig]

In addition to having to confirm that one actually wants to mark all forums read (why would one click the "Mark All Forums Read" button if they didn't?) the posts aren't always all marked as read. Several times I've come back later after marking everything as read only to see a list of posts that "Have not been changed since your last visit ......."

 

[shefjr]

In addition to having to confirm that one actually wants to mark all forums read (why would one click the "Mark All Forums Read" button if they didn't?) the posts aren't always all marked as read. Several times I've come back later after marking everything as read only to see a list of posts that "Have not been changed since your last visit ......."

I have run into that issue as well. I think that they have abandoned this thread though because no one has been here to respond to anyone since Thursday now. Or they just don't feel the need to address anything more... Not really sure.

 

[SCraig]

I'm not sure either, John. Seems to me they are either to busy to worry about it or just not interested. Not sure which.

 

[limr]

It's hard to say why, but we do seem to have been orphaned all of a sudden.

So if anyone is still listening, I just clicked on a link for a thread called "Where you work." It's in Photo Themes and I'd never seen it before. Started in 2005, got a little spurt of activity in 2013, and then resurrected today. I clicked on the link and was brought to the first post from today, not the beginning of the thread.

This isn't the first time this has happened and I must say that it's really disruptive and annoying. It would be nice to know what to expect when I click on a link, but I never really know where in the thread it's going to drop me.

Is this happening to anyone else? Is it a browser thing?

 

[mmaria]

Seems to me they are either to busy to worry about it or just not interested. Not sure which.

imo... not interested

 

[ffadmin]

In actual reality....wrong. The biggest issue is that there's no way for us, or the software, to make it possible to make the forum work exactly how each individual wants it to work. It just can't be done. For example, I've NEVER used "New Posts" to find content; I just scroll through various sections looking for thread titles that might interest me. Everyone has their own method for reading these sites, and we chose the software we thought offered the best, all-around experience.

There's also nothing that says you can't PM either me or any other admin here, if you feel your issue requires instant attention. We'll get an email immediately notifying us that we have a new PM here. I'd prefer to think you guys would let us try to work through those issues that we can, but if you can't wait--or are insulted by waiting--hit me up. I'll reply, even if it's only to say "I have no idea".

 

[ekool]

I have noticed that on firefox I'm not always able to view threads that I have commented on. They are no where to be found yet I can find them on the safari browser.

I would also like to be able to see the posts that I have participated in with out having to either watch a thread or hover a mouse over my name and... Why can't there just be a tab for that?

I use the "New Posts" link as my bookmark to get here. It lists new posts since my last visit. If you look at the Title of the thread, you'll see the Avatar of the OP. In threads that you have participated, your Avatar will be imposed, smaller, over the Ops Avatar. That's a quick, dirty workaround if you want to use it.

I use the "new post" every time I'm on TPF. This kind of goes to my point though. For example, when I respond to this message I can guarantee that when I click the "new post" tab this very thread will not be there. It seems to for some reason not update after a quick reply.
Additionally, I'm not on TPF with enough frequency to be able to search the "new post" tab and so therefore, it is an inconvenience to have to search through pages and pages to find a post that I have responded to. That seems silly when I had the app for TPF I hit one little tab and saw every post that I had responded to.

The way that new posts work is that only threads with new content will show up on it. If you were the last person to post in a thread, you've read everything in that thread, and thusly -- its not new to you anymore. That is the way it is supposed to work.

The active topics will show you all the recent threads, even if they aren't new... they'll just be bolded if they are new.

 

[sm4him]

In actual reality....wrong. The biggest issue is that there's no way for us, or the software, to make it possible to make the forum work exactly how each individual wants it to work. It just can't be done. For example, I've NEVER used "New Posts" to find content; I just scroll through various sections looking for thread titles that might interest me. Everyone has their own method for reading these sites, and we chose the software we thought offered the best, all-around experience.

There's also nothing that says you can't PM either me or any other admin here, if you feel your issue requires instant attention. We'll get an email immediately notifying us that we have a new PM here. I'd prefer to think you guys would let us try to work through those issues that we can, but if you can't wait--or are insulted by waiting--hit me up. I'll reply, even if it's only to say "I have no idea".

Understood. I, for one, don't *expect* everything to work the way *I* want it to--it didn't before, and it doesn't now.
And in the days immediately following the upgrade, the mods and admin did SUCH a superb job of communicating and listening/responding to issues, that I felt like at least all the bugs would get worked out--and, for the most part, they have been. Overall, I commend you all on a very smooth transition.

MY biggest issue is not that it doesn't work the way I want it to, but rather how drastically the communication fell off after the initial push. I asked the SAME question twice, and then AstroNikon asked the same question, and only after I replied to him and said that I'd asked the same thing with no response was there FINALLY a response of some sort from an admin. I first asked my question on Sept. 11 (post 94), then again later that day, figuring it had probably just gotten missed in the glut (post 153). There was NEVER so much as an "I have no idea" from anyone "official" and none of the regular members seemed to know, so the matter was left completely unresolved. Finally, on Sept. 17, AstroNikon asked the same question (post 248) which I replied to in post 252. On Sept. 18, a full week after the question was first posed, an admin (you, actually) came along and gave a response, which did in fact clear up my issue.

It would NOT have been a big deal to me if there was no way to DO what I wanted to do--the big deal was that nobody was responding to me at all.
Yes, I could have PM'ed someone--but my own personal policy about that is that my issue has to be pretty critical to actually try to contact one of you directly about it, and this issue didn't qualify. Still, I just found it a bit annoying that it took a full week for someone to respond at all.

Lest that sound like a rant (which I suppose it was), let me back and reiterate what I said earlier--overall, you all have done a bang up job on this upgrade transition phase.
It would just be nice to have someone responding to us--at least to questions in this thread-- in a bit more timely manner for a while longer.

 

[limr]

In actual reality....wrong. The biggest issue is that there's no way for us, or the software, to make it possible to make the forum work exactly how each individual wants it to work. It just can't be done. For example, I've NEVER used "New Posts" to find content; I just scroll through various sections looking for thread titles that might interest me. Everyone has their own method for reading these sites, and we chose the software we thought offered the best, all-around experience.

There's also nothing that says you can't PM either me or any other admin here, if you feel your issue requires instant attention. We'll get an email immediately notifying us that we have a new PM here. I'd prefer to think you guys would let us try to work through those issues that we can, but if you can't wait--or are insulted by waiting--hit me up. I'll reply, even if it's only to say "I have no idea".

All reasonable and valid points. I can't speak for anyone else but for my part, it just felt weird that for several days, we had instant replies here on this thread - even if it was "Sorry, we just can't do that particular change." Then suddenly, there was nothing at all. Abrupt radio silence. And we didn't know why because it was such a contrast to the previous few days.

Most folks are just trying to figure out how to use the new format the way they used the old one. I don't mean the same exact procedures, but some of us like "New Posts" and other like to peruse forums, and others like to check their own activity to follow their own threads. I didn't like most of us we were saying "Make this work to fit my needs!" but rather, "This is how I used the old format - can I still use it this way, and if so, what is the new way to do that?"

I think just a little heads-up - like the one just given, but a few days earlier - would have been nice so that we would know for future reference that PMs would be a better choice than posting in this thread.