Forum down for almost 2 days for this? What a crock. Too much wasted vertical space with duplicate info (change page thingy for example). Not to mention all the white - have to turn down the brightness on my monitor (and there goes the calibration for when I do Photoshop).

And what's this whole supermember/superuser thing about anyway? Where does one see this?

And what's this whole supermember/superuser thing about anyway? Where does one see this?

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They fixed that, gone now.

bitflipper

Not too crazy about the new layout, but it's quite similar to other forums so I'm sure I'll get used to it.

First dislike: the user name and avatar box is wider, which means that when I zoom in to where I like (for my bad eyes), the posts' text now scrolls off the screen, requiring a lower zoom level and making the text harder to read.

Second dislike: the message dialog cannot be dragged to my other screen. That makes it harder to reference the thread you're replying to, requiring you to drag the dialog to the side to copy and paste text from another post or another page. The edit and reply buttons also slide off the screen.

Third dislike: when typing long replies, it's necessary to scroll the dialog down which moves the toolbar out of the viewable region, so you have to do a lot of up-and-down scrolling to format text or insert message icons. Learn the keyboard shortcuts.

Fourth dislike: the spellchecker does not work well. I just ran it against the above text, and it suggested that "toolbar" should be spelled "tollbar". Did CJ write this spellchecker? Furthermore, after closing the spell check dialog, the reply dialog defaults to its original size, which is rather small.

Minor bug: "<message edited by bitflipper on 0 mins. ago>" is sloppy programming. Just say "last edit: 0 mins. ago" and don't attempt to make it grammatically-sensible.

However, they did fix an annoying bug in the reply dialog: when you format text (e.g. italic or bold), the textbox no longer scrolls back to the top but remains in place.

I hate not being able to drag the reply window to a different monitor. It also seems to disappear completely if you minimize it to look for something else.

+1 to "Just say "last edit: 0 mins. ago" and don't attempt to make it grammatically-sensible."!

Also, does anyone know how to get directly to the "advanced" search page? So far all I see to do is use the little search box then click "Perform Another Search" so I can see all the options.

Another thing I haven't figured out is how to see a complete Members list. It seems you can only see a list of who's online. It was useful to see everybody if I forgot a thread title but remembered who I wanted to reply to.

Thanks-

-Susan

Two days......... Two bloody days!

mumpcake
First, having the poster displayed below the thread title means that you can see half as many headers as before.  On the thread page, there is so much crap displayed, that on my screen (1440 x 900) if a group of people were putting up "+1" posts, I could only fit two on the screen at a time.

 
I hear you I'll see what can be done to improve this

Hi Jack,
 

jackn2mpu

Forum down for almost 2 days for this? What a crock. Too much wasted vertical space with duplicate info (change page thingy for example). Not to mention all the white - have to turn down the brightness on my monitor (and there goes the calibration for when I do Photoshop).

 
Sorry to hear you hate our forum so much  In the coming days we will be improving some of this.  RE: the delayed outage, behind the scenes was a pretty massive change that took longer than anticipated and the size of our forum (1.5 million+ posts, 54,000 + users also contributed).  Hopefully if you can bear with us through a little growing pain you'll like it.
 

And what's this whole supermember/superuser thing about anyway? Where does one see this?

It's fixed now
 
Best,

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]

RE: the delayed outage, behind the scenes was a pretty massive change that took longer than anticipated and the size of our forum (1.5 million+ posts, 54,000 + users also contributed). 

 

I thought it took so long because you had to type them all out again Willy
 
 

Susan G

Another strange thing I'm seeing here is that posts I get via e-mail are all truncated. I used to be able to see the complete posts in my subscribed threads.

-Susan

Noted - I'll check it out.

Thanks,

Susan G

Also, does anyone know how to get directly to the "advanced" search page? 

Just click the Search magnifier lens or Search Forum words, instead of in the box that comes up when you hover the cursor over the Search Forum area.

LOL I see your edit, I was just about to post.
 
Yeah it's different to get to the Advanced Search.

ORIGINAL: bitflipper

the spellchecker does not work well. I just ran it against the above text, and it suggested that "toolbar" should be spelled "tollbar". Did CJ write this spellchecker?

LOL.

But I'm happy we now have a built in spell checker. Makes me look more smart or smartier or smarter.
 
The only minor gripe I have is that it seems to take pages longer to complete loading.

I can't figure out why it's just big enough that I have to scroll a little right to catch the whole page...is there an option to fix this somewhere.
My text size in IE8 is set to medium and my display size in windows 7 is set to normal and all other web pages look fine.
Thanks,
Randy

g_randybrown

I can't figure out why it's just big enough that I have to scroll a little right to catch the whole page...is there an option to fix this somewhere. ...

What I've noted (using Firefox 3.0.11) is that the horizontal scroll bar is there no matter how large you make the window.
But typically there is nothing to see if you scroll it.  The text seems to wrap itself as you make the window smaller up to a certain point.  If you make the window width too small the text just start running off the right side of the window.

--Larry

Hi Janet-

I agree with Susan--I like to be able to read all the posts in my email.

Yes, it's weird, isn't it? I find myself going "But, but, but -- what happened then?"

Willy's on it, though.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

Thanks-

-Susan

P.S. I do like the Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I for emphasis. If we could use those before, I didn't know it. Also, as bitflipper said earlier it's nice that the cursor stays put after you insert an emoticon.

larrymcg

I can't seem to update my signature.  I save it but it doesn't take.  When I save a box comes up that says Signature Max 255 Characters but it doesn't say there is an error.  I have made the signature much smaller than it has been but it still won't update.

Can others update their signatures?

--Larry

Nope. I tried to chage the case of one letter.
 
Y'all are stuck with my signature.