Official upgrade issue thread!

[limr]

Get out of my head, Sharon!

 

[wicked]

Sorry guys. we haven't forgotten nor are we ignoring you, this forum or the issues you are having. To be honest with you, most of us admins are also new to this software. We started switching to this new software just a couple months ago on some of our most popular sites and we too are also learning as we go. We will try to address everyone's issues/questions and suggestions as best as we can in a timely manner but please do be patient with us as we are doing out best to accomodate and help all the communities we have that have been upgraded to the new software.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[terri]

Sorry guys. we haven't forgotten nor are we ignoring you, this forum or the issues you are having. To be honest with you, most of us admins are also new to this software. We started switching to this new software just a couple months ago on some of our most popular sites and we too are also learning as we go. We will try to address everyone's issues/questions and suggestions as best as we can in a timely manner but please do be patient with us as we are doing out best to accomodate and help all the communities we have that have been upgraded to the new software.

Thanks,
Mike

Hear, hear!

Also - this seems a good time to mention this - our members need to be aware that the "report post" feature does not act the same way it did under the old vB software. It gets routed differently. Our admin/tech team is aware of this, as well, and are exploring our options. I can speak for the entire moderating team when I say that we are very used to getting email notifications of reported posts, plus having those reports get routed to a particular area for us to see together and resolve quickly. However, the routing does not work the same way with our new software, so we have been learning new ways to work behind the scenes, too. We're all learning various aspects of it.

Getting used to new software takes a while. I've been on this forum 11 years now, and the last time we had a big upheaval was when the former owner went from phpBB to vBulletin. We've since gotten so used to it these last several years, we forget there are other options.

Bottom line: if you know you have reported a post and don't see any resolution, please feel free to PM any of us on the team. Sharon wrote up there that she's hesitant to appear to be making a fuss over "her" issue, but I can assure you, we want and need you to let us know about everything. If you've noticed an issue, chances are good others have noticed it, too, and are waiting for a response.

We'll get through it!

 

[sm4him]

Get out of my head, Sharon!

If *I* am in your head, you are in deep, deep trouble!!

 

[limr]

Get out of my head, Sharon!

If *I* am in your head, you are in deep, deep trouble!!

I'm not so sure. It might be the other way around. It's kinda kooky all up in here sometimes.

 

[sm4him]

Get out of my head, Sharon!

If *I* am in your head, you are in deep, deep trouble!!

I'm not so sure. It might be the other way around. It's kinda kooky all up in here sometimes.

Trust me; it's a scary, scary place up here in my head. And then there's the voices...ALL those voices...LOL

 

[limr]

Trust me; it's a scary, scary place up here in my head. And then there's the voices...ALL those voices...LOL

Hey, party!! It's sounding like we might keep each other good company in the same head!

 

[pgriz]

Well, since the admins and mods seem to have abandoned this thread, I suggest we use it to discuss politics, religion, and similar consensus-building topics, as it seems to be the one place where we, the inmates, are being left alone and on our own. Sharon, how about you and all the voices you have accompanying you, join me and Leonore for some, um, rabble-rousing? Robbins can join us with the usual pitchforks and torches, and Mishele can contribute the other hardware... Hey - it could be fun!!

 

[shefjr]

Well, since the admins and mods seem to have abandoned this thread, I suggest we use it to discuss politics, religion, and similar consensus-building topics, as it seems to be the one place where we, the inmates, are being left alone and on our own. Sharon, how about you and all the voices you have accompanying you, join me and Leonore for some, um, rabble-rousing? Robbins can join us with the usual pitchforks and torches, and Mishele can contribute the other hardware... Hey - it could be fun!!

Reported!
Oh wait! It could take a while before they see that I reported you. Lol!

 

[vintagesnaps]

What's going on in Leonore's and Sharon's heads was already getting scary lol - now pgriz is conjuring up pitchforks and whips and chains (or something!) - and it's not even Halloween yet!

I'm glad at least someone from TPF posted something because I've been on and seen staff on, and no one seemed to be checking in here - doesn't this thread say to post our problems here??

Mine still needs to be addressed, I've unchecked all the boxes to not get Alerts at least 4-5 times; it shows Changes Saved but when I get back on I get Alerts again.

My other issue is that the right hand column takes up 1/3 of my screen (horizontally) - yes, I measured! lol - and I don't need to view anything in that column all the time (or any of the time for that matter). It's the downsizing of the message board space that isn't good.

 

[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.

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.

BTW, I'm picking up what you are putting down but, the thing is that the "new post " used to always work in chronological order and not what posts are new to me and now it doesn't. Just another thing I have to get used to.

 

[limr]

Well, since the admins and mods seem to have abandoned this thread, I suggest we use it to discuss politics, religion, and similar consensus-building topics, as it seems to be the one place where we, the inmates, are being left alone and on our own. Sharon, how about you and all the voices you have accompanying you, join me and Leonore for some, um, rabble-rousing? Robbins can join us with the usual pitchforks and torches, and Mishele can contribute the other hardware... Hey - it could be fun!!

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Discuss!

 

[pgriz]

Ah, Leonore, that was an early example of aspirational projection. "Holy" to discourage asking too many questions, "Roman" to steal a bit of historical glory, and "empire" because... ya gotta dream!

 

[limr]

I think they were aliens!

 

[mishele]

What's going on in here?!!!