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4247 messages, Last post on Nov 04, 2009 at 6:08 PM
You are in the Automotive News & Views Forum. Your Hosts are steve_ & claires
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The topics will be listed by recent activity (most recently posted to at the top). It will take a few days for this to "settle" in. You can also select how you want the discussions listed by clicking on "Preferences" at the top of the screen next to "Welcome guitarzan". For the topics you have visited...I'm not sure if you are referring to the "View History" list that was in the old system or not. At any rate, "View History" (which showed you everyplace that you had been) was a feature of the old system and you won't have the same feature here (sorry!). |
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You can look in the Help located on the left side to look through what the features are. We purposely did not add any enhancements for the re-launch as we figured the move itself would be traumatic enought! We will be rolling in features to this system once we get the initial bugs out. Many of the features are ones that will compliment your experience in the boards. For example - we now have the ability to "move" a discussion from one board to another. Sometimes a discussion would get started in the wrong place and we couldn't move it so we would have to delete it. |
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(growl) Well, I understand about changing the flow; its like verbal communication which, once said, can't be unsaid. But as for editing a post objectionable after its been read by a host: is that really likely to happen? OK. New question. With the old software, I used the "spell check" feature not to check my spelling, but rather to make sure any link or bold/italicized font changes actually worked like I wanted them to. In other words, when "spell checking", the post looked exactly like it would when actually posted. However, when I spell check with the new software, it doesn't do that. It shows all the html tags without boding, italicizing, or whatever. Is there anyway to view what your post will actually appear like before posting it? |
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I find it incredibly inconvenient that Placemarks were done away with. With them, I could check Town Hall anywhere, anytime, and catch up with my favorite topics. Now I have to come to this start page and root through hundreds of topics to find the ones I'm interested in? How is this better than the old Town Hall? If you make things more convenient for people, they will appreciate it. If you make things less convenient, they'll go somewhere else or stop using your service. |
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| Place marks were the only thing that kept me coming back to read the latest developments in my favorite topics. BRING THEM BACK!!! | |
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Editting is always a tricky and sticky issue...sad to say that I have actually seen many cases where a user will go back and change what they have said and then it just gets difficult to track who said what, when, etc. So, the best way to avoid that is by just saying "No edits". Users can't edit their posts and Hosts can't edit user's posts (or their own). On the Spell Check issue - the old system used Spell Check like a "preview" function. I understand what you are asking. Let me play around a bit and see what I can come up with for you. |
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Well, I can see that I will be typing on this issue quite a bit. WE HAD NO CHOICE. Placemarks was a function of the old system. We are no longer using the old system. We looked for a replacement system that had the feature Placemarks and we could not find one. (Actually, we did find one with something like placemarks but it was missing almost all of the other features or needs that Town Hall requires). I hear you loud and clear. While I cannot promise you that Placemarks will be in/back within a week or two, I can tell you that we are looking at how we can get this feature in fast and effectively. However, please note that if we do get a feature like Placemarks installed, it will not bring back the items that you had placemarked in the old system. I will swear here and now that we will be working on this with the tech group and will keep you posted as to the progress on this. Short of getting the fire-stomping bugs out, placemarking is at the top of the "To Do" list. Fair enough? |
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I tried to get the topics to organize to some semblance of an order I had grown accustomed to. What a joke! Why were the orders that the old forum had not retained?? It took me 10 minutes to find the "check engine" and "TSB" topics,which my patience was to a point where I didn't really care if I read any or not. If you cannot go back and edit your post, then at least put it so you can preview the post before actually posting it. Seriously.Put the topics back in the same order as the old forum. I am not going to sift thru the garbage to get to what I am interested. Hey, if you aren't interested in hearing what the people who frequent Edmon's have to say and don't want to try and accomodate them,that is fine.But,you are going to lose alot of people if you don't take a look at it and try and make some compromises. BTW,what is this spellcheck thing? A joke? |
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Ok,THAT IS IT!!!! I am really done now. I just spent an hour trying to post a message,it kept asking for my password. I kept giving it AND I was already logged in. I had to re-register to even get to post. Then the stupid thing posted the message by itself with the new registered name. I'm done. fastdriver-Good luck buddy.You are a better person than me, I don't have the time for this. Pat-good luck,hope the best for you. You know where to find me. 0patience |
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Can we preview a post before posting? (nevermind - I found that when I spellchecked) How would you recommend we find our way around without place marks? Can you give us a run-down on some new features? What is the Board Search feature searching on? The text of the topic, the name of the topic, a poster within the topic? I typed in Hosts and got about 30 hits. I was just trying to find Talk to the Hosts so I could ask these questions. I'm sure we will all get used to this, but right now, I'm feeling very lost like everyone else. Is there a help feature somewhere that explains the software and the features? |
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