adrian.crossan

paulo
Problem with that is it still leaves all the blank space where the sig would be, so just adds to the acres of blank space.

Try the Essentials Only view. The Full Version includes the user info on the left which consumes vertical space, creating your acres under short messages.

Yes there is that option, but it seems to increase the amount of white. At least the grey breaks it up a little. I guess it depends to some extent which version of the old software you used. Mine was set to the blue version, so the new version seems quite hard on your eyes by comparison. It's definitely better overall, just wish it was easier to look at. Much like X2 ;)

One behavior of the old version that I liked, that this new version doesn't seem to follow, is the clearing of old threads that I've intentionally skipped.
 
That is, when I visited the forum, I'd run down the list of newly updated threads and click on the ones that interested me. After I'd leave the forum and come back a bit later, ALL of the threads from that previous visit (including the ones I didn't care to read) would be cleared (marked as read). I liked this. It made clearer the things that were newly posted since my last visit, rather than scanning through and keeping a closer eye out for the first thread down the list that's not in bold to tell me where I left off before. If I want that same behavior now, however, I'll need to click "mark forum read" after each time I read the threads I'm interested in. Not difficult, but not as convenient as before.
 
I may be the only person who cared about this behavior though...

dimelives1
...when I visited the forum, I'd run down the list of newly updated threads and click on the ones that interested me. After I'd leave the forum and come back a bit later, ALL of the threads from that previous visit (including the ones I didn't care to read) would be cleared (marked as read). I liked this...
 
I may be the only person who cared about this behavior though...

This didn't usually work properly for me. Often threads that I had just read were marked as unread.

Tried to post three times the other day - gave up.  If this appears it'll be a miracle.
I'll leave things for a couple of weeks.

It's a miracle!!!!

dimelives1
One behavior of the old version that I liked, that this new version doesn't seem to follow, is the clearing of old threads that I've intentionally skipped.

 
That used to drive me crazy   (and there's a Mark Forum as Read button for this)
 
I'd have a few minutes to read a few posts then have to go away.  When I'd come back all posts were marked read and I had to backtrack from the end of a thread to the last post I remembered having read.
 
Am I the only one who still can't insert a link without using bbcodes ?
The icons are grayed out on the toolbar.  The insert image button works.  (I'm on Firefox).
 

 
 
 

Paul P
 
Am I the only one who still can't insert a link without using bbcodes ?
The icons are grayed out on the toolbar.  The insert image button works.  (I'm on Firefox).
 

insert url, press enter.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 Duplicate - and no I didn't press submit more than once !

 
Got it.  It's automatic.  Thanks.

Yes, the forum is experiencing issues.  I cannot post anything lately.
 
P.S. If this posts, please consider it irony, rather than dramatization.