Susan, What I see on the e-mail notification is:

Susan G: Re:Forum Enhancement Consolidation......

So I think I see what you see.

--Larry

I don't know if you've noticed, but Spellcheck has gone insane. The suggestions for normal words were quite bizarre.

Thanks Willy!  We knew you were workin' on stuff!

One thing that's still weird is that when you start a new thread, you don't get email notifications of subsequent posts until you post in that thread again. 

Thanks again! 

Willy:
Thanks much for the update and the work being done.
How do I tell whether it's FF's spell check or the forum's spell check that's causing the problem? I'm running FF 3.5.2 on a Mac and other than obvious mistakes I make there's been nothing in normal spelling that gets flagged. There's some words that apparently neither spell check has in it's vocabulary but that's to be expected.

re: the forum going down - there's been a number of denial of service attacks to different services the last few days (Twitter amongst them) that I just chalked it up to that.

Hi Willy-

a) Date/time formatting has been tweaked, once over 2 days you'll get the month/day format everyone knows and loves.

Thanks for that, but is there any reason it can't just revert to the old format for all posts? Is there a benefit to the new format that I'm missing? I suppose I can be persuaded if it's what the majority wants, but I don't see why eg. "1 day and 10 hrs. ago" or "2 mins. ago" is preferable or more useful.

Another thanks for all your hard work on these issues!

-Susan

Just checked my time zone pref and it had changed by 3 hours to GMT-10 from GMT-7.

Hi-

Since we don't have the "In reply to" for each post back yet I thought I'd try "Tree" mode, but that doesn't work for me either. I see the OP and its immediate replies, but I can't follow the conversation unless the posts are quoted or attributed.

Please bring back "In reply to"!

Thanks-

-Susan

EDIT: Ok, I see now I can Prev<>Next that Tree window, but it's very time-consuming since there are only 4 posts or so listed at a time. What am I missing, or is this really the way it works now?

Susan G


Hi-

Since we don't have the "In reply to" for each post back yet I thought I'd try "Tree" mode, but that doesn't work for me either. I see the OP and its immediate replies, but I can't follow the conversation unless the posts are quoted or attributed.

Please bring back "In reply to"!

Thanks-

-Susan

EDIT: Ok, I see now I can Prev<>Next that Tree window, but it's very time-consuming since there are only 4 posts or so listed at a time. What am I missing, or is this really the way it works now?

Susan:
Yeah, that's bogus at best. Another forum I visit from time to time for Reason (Prop's own forum) uses tree mode exclusively and it's nice because it shows as much of the thread list that will fit on screen. Obviously if the thread is long you'll have some scrolling to do.

And for Pete's sake why can't we have consistent time stamps on forum posts? First we had the relative time when the forum software was initially bought online. Then after much time we had actual time of day. And all seemed well. Then it's noticed that the time stamps vary from thread to thread as to actual time. Meaning if I post in one thread I get a certain time. If I then post in another thread almost immediately I get a time that may be different by not seconds (which would be understandable) but by whole hours. It's as if the time set in the user Control Panel is changing on the fly. In my case I have mine set at GMT-4 hours for East Coast US time. Last night (Wednesday night) I made some posts and some were 3 hours into the future from my time pref and at least 1 was an hour in the past from my time pref. Checked my time pref setting and it hadn't changed.

And now I see that in the same thread (this one for example) we have both relative time and actual time-of-day intertwined. To be exact: blipp, who posted just before me, has actual time-of-day and Susan G. has relative time (so many hours ago versus a specific time).

Can't we get ALL these things fixed, please?
Still not fixed:
No email notification if one starts a thread unless that poster posts again in the thread
Quoting problems (no 'in response to' for example along with the other problems cited here)
Some way to collapse the stickies part of the window like we can forum lists and the icon legend lists
And one I don't know if it's been mentioned: some way to move the post reply entry window off to the side so one can see the page underneath.
And many more I haven't mentioned
Edit for additional info: Because there isn't any way to see what time stamp will show in a post I didn't know if the problem still existed, but the time stamp for this post is 3 hours in the future and my preference in the user cp has not changed from GMT-4 hours (i.e. East Coast US time)
Added to the to be fixed list:
still no 'in response to'
still nothing to say a post has been edited

Susan G

blipp


The "Mark forum read" feature does'nt work at all for me. Anyones else having the same problem?

Doesn't work for me either.

The "Go to first unread post" icon appears on some forums sometimes, but this is very inconsistent.

-Susan

That's the most maddening thing - things don't work the same across the board (pardon the pun). You can look at one thread and everything's okay, but another is totally screwed up. Remember in my post just previous to this about how blipp had actual time of day and Susan had relative time? Well they are both relative time as of my typing this (which is approx. 11:53AM East Coast US time).

Susan G


What annoys me about the new forum is that it's a lot less efficient than the old forum. It was down for a while today due to "scheduled" maintenance, and I thought "Good, they're gonna take care of some of our issues", but if they did I don't know what they were.

I can't say I've seen any improvements at all, and we've documented lots of features here that are missing or working inconsistently. Hopefully they'll be addressed, but in the meantime I won't be spending much time here. It's just too frustrating and time-consuming.

-Susan

Susan:
I know exactly how you feel. Willy & I have been PM'ing back and forth on this issue and while I can't publicly say what we've discussed because I don't have his permission to make that info public, I have the feeling that things won't really ever be fixed the way we want them to be fixed. I really don't want to put out in public my true & exact feelings on this because doing so (calling out a music vendor on legit concerns EWQL and Doug Rogers specifically) got me black-balled from their forums. Regrettably I wasn't the only one who got banned and I'd rather that not happen here.

The joy I used to have coming here, hanging out and possibly helping people has gone.

BEATZM1D10T


Are you all for real? I have never seen so much complaining over a free forum. Do you two seriously have so much time, and is this forum so important to you, where you can spend every living moment on here? Aren't you supposed to be busy recording? Complaints about minor time stamping, e-mail replies, etc etc etc. If everything was so bad why isn't there floods of messages on this thread?

Answer....the new forum is pretty nice compared to the old and busted one.

You forget...that it's free. But, you know...there is some helpful stuff on here from time to time.

Willy asked for suggestions on how to improve the forum overall. All you are doing is nitpicking. I'd rather have Cakewalks web team update the other support pages, which are ultimately more helpful than a bunch of perpetual "why I has dropoutz?" on the forum here.

Any response to the personal attack on me has been responded to in PM.

As to the rest, here goes:
We post the problems here so Willy or whomever that is working on the problems can get a better handle on things. One thing I've learned in working with software is you can never have too much input when something goes south.

Susan:
You said exactly what needed to be said. Make it works as well as it did before. Certainly we recognize some things may work different, but that doesn't mean they can't come close to what was.

For a good running forum, surf on over to the MOTU forums at http://www.motunation.com/forum/index.php and you'll see what I consider the best looking and running thing out there.

jackn2mpu

For a good running forum, surf on over to the MOTU forums at http://www.motunation.com/forum/index.php and you'll see what I consider the best looking and running thing out there.

phpBB forum software is very nice, I like it :-) however.... unfortunately it is the most hacked into and trashed by hackers (I've seen the results on another site I use to post at, believe me it's not good at all), the hackers also had access to user-accounts. *Google = phpBB Hacked* Millions of phpBB forums software are a popular target for hackers and especically known sites that use them, millions of such forums had been trashed by hackers. To lower the risk of such an attack the software (phpBB forum) admin passwords (forum and server) must be strong, the webhost must also have good security features and the forum software must be updated regularly as soon as updates are available but if mods and custom themes are included? it can be a PITA having to setup all that up again as updates are installed. Willy has already said CW looked into other forum software(s) and I can bet my last dollar phpBB was one of them since phpBB is one of the most used forum software out there, lol  I'm not surprised considering it's free.

Honestly I don't find any major issues with this forum, the issues are minor, I use Linux O/S with Firefox and it works a much better compared to MS with IE or FFox. Like all software, they all have minor annoyances, phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, SMF, the list goes on and on. That said, to weigh up the pros n cons the most important is 'security' and IMHO I guess CW does whatever possible to ensure it's customers/users accounts are not at high risk. Bottom line.... it's a matter of weighing up features/function vs. security, IMHO security should be the highest priority when deciding on which forum software to use.

Hi Jack-

Could be no one has an answer to your question. We all run into that here.

Yes, I realize that. I just thought it was ironic that the forum you mentioned as a model was the one I've never had a reply on! I know that's neither here nor there as far as the forum software itself is concerned, though.

I haven't checked what they use, but the Image-Line forums are very clean and easy to navigate, too. Edit: I just checked, and apparently it's their own "EZGenerator".

Thanks-

-Susan

Susan G

blipp


The "Mark forum read" feature does'nt work at all for me. Anyones else having the same problem?

Doesn't work for me either.

The "Go to first unread post" icon appears on some forums sometimes, but this is very inconsistent.

-Susan

The "mark forum read" feature back to not working again after the recent scheduled maintainance.  It was working again before that.