Official TUGBBS upgrade complaint/suggestion thread!

[Luanne]

I miss the dropdown where you could select the forum you wanted to go to. Am I missing it somewhere?

 

[TUGBrian]

the little arrow icon at the top and bottom right of the page provides this for you. it looks like a box with an arrow pointing at the 2 oclock position.

 

[DaveNV]

I miss the dropdown where you could select the forum you wanted to go to. Am I missing it somewhere?

Are you referring to the Forums tab on the top left of the screen? (Just under the big TUG BBS banner heading.) If you click it, it shows the forums in a list.

Dave

 

[TUGBrian]

unhid the subforums, they should now show up on the main forums page as clickable links.

 

[tashamen]

I have a few people on my "Ignore" list. In the past I would see the threads where they had posted, but not what they said. Now if one of them starts a thread, I don't see the thread at all. I discovered this by accident by looking on the right hand side on the Index page where it shows the "Latest" post which was on a thread started by one of my Ignores.

Not that this necessarily needs to be addressed - I doubt that I really need to see these threads - just thought it curious.

 

[TUGBrian]

I think thats how its supposed to work.

if they actually start the thread, it wont show...but if they reply in an existing thread it just wont show that post.

 

[Passepartout]

that doesn't work for me, still can't access from Ipad

Notice that when I said that Tapatalk worked, it was on the 17th when 'New' TUG went live. It has since been disabled awaiting Tapatalk support.

 

[Passepartout]

I have a few people on my "Ignore" list. In the past I would see the threads where they had posted, but not what they said. Now if one of them starts a thread, I don't see the thread at all. I discovered this by accident by looking on the right hand side on the Index page where it shows the "Latest" post which was on a thread started by one of my Ignores.

Not that this necessarily needs to be addressed - I doubt that I really need to see these threads - just thought it curious.

If you want to ignore them, IGNORE THEM. The only reason to put someone on 'ignore' is if you don't want/care to follow them.

 

[Luanne]

the little arrow icon at the top and bottom right of the page provides this for you. it looks like a box with an arrow pointing at the 2 oclock position.

Yes, that is kind of what I was looking for. It's just not intuitive (at least to me).

 

[Luanne]

Are you referring to the Forums tab on the top left of the screen? (Just under the big TUG BBS banner heading.) If you click it, it shows the forums in a list.

Dave

Nope, not this one. The answer Brian gave was more what I was looking for. But, thanks for trying to help.

 

[jme]

There are 4 topic forums which I peruse exclusively every day. Two more I maybe, maybe
look at only rarely, and the rest never.

Would it be possible to place at the top of each page opened a short list of say, the top 3 or 4 forums which we use routinely?

For instance, for me, it would be Marriott, East Coast, Lounge, and Rentals Offered. Then I could click on any of them quickly without having to use the aforementioned options, which has always been a bummer, imho.

I like shortcuts when online!!!

 

[TUGBrian]

There are 4 topic forums which I peruse exclusively every day. Two more I maybe, maybe
look at only rarely, and the rest never.

Would it be possible to place at the top of each page opened a short list of say, the top 3 or 4 forums which we use routinely?

For instance, for me, it would be Marriott, East Coast, Lounge, and Rentals Offered. Then I could click on any of them quickly without having to use the aforementioned options, which has always been a bummer, imho.

I like shortcuts when online!!!

not really sure about this one, but ill give it some thought.

 

[SmithOp]

There are 4 topic forums which I peruse exclusively every day. Two more I maybe, maybe
look at only rarely, and the rest never.

Would it be possible to place at the top of each page opened a short list of say, the top 3 or 4 forums which we use routinely?

For instance, for me, it would be Marriott, East Coast, Lounge, and Rentals Offered. Then I could click on any of them quickly without having to use the aforementioned options, which has always been a bummer, imho.

I like shortcuts when online!!!

How about using the Watched Forums shortcut, just add the 4 you like to the watch list. Here's mine.

 

[DavidnRobin]

I use to be able to go directly to last post in a thread using the 'double-arrow' - how is this done now?
(Useful for long threads)
I see where the page numbers are, but what about very last post?
Sorry if this was answered already.

 

[TUGBrian]

I use to be able to go directly to last post in a thread using the 'double-arrow' - how is this done now?
(Useful for long threads)
I see where the page numbers are, but what about very last post?
Sorry if this was answered already.

should always display a box with the last page in the thread all the way to the right, this essentially replaces the >> in vbulletin.

alternatively if you are on the last page, it should always have a box for the first page at the left so you can go back to the OP if you like.

 

[Makai Guy]

There are 4 topic forums which I peruse exclusively every day. Two more I maybe, maybe
look at only rarely, and the rest never.

Would it be possible to place at the top of each page opened a short list of say, the top 3 or 4 forums which we use routinely?

For instance, for me, it would be Marriott, East Coast, Lounge, and Rentals Offered. Then I could click on any of them quickly without having to use the aforementioned options, which has always been a bummer, imho.

I like shortcuts when online!!!

In XF these are "watched" forums.

When in a forum you want to single out, look just above the right corner of the thread list. There is a fairly small "Watch Forum" link.

When you click it, it gives you the chance to choose from several notification options (including "none") for being notified about posts in this forum.

Now, with the top menu "Forum" item selected, there will be a lighter color sub-menu. One of the options on this sub-menu is "Watched Forums".

Click that and you'll get a page showing only those forums you've chosen to watch.

I also only follow four forums most of the time, so I've got all four of them set as watched. Once on that watched forums page, I set a bookmark to it so that becomes my entry point for the board. [ http://tugbbs.com/forums/index.php?watched/forums ]

Once you've set a forum to be watched, the "Watch Forum" link toggles to "Unwatch Forum" - click that to remove it from your watch list.

You can do something similar with individual threads.

 

[TUGBrian]

ok, had to go back to smaller avatars till i figure out why that is "Breaking" the mobile style display...going back seems to make the mobile version of the site display the way it should and not have everything all scrunched up!

 

[Makai Guy]

I noticed that our real names appear in our profile information. I already deleted mine (I like to keep things somewhat private online) is this a default that can be changed?

Took a while but I found where this is located in the code and have removed it. Real Name is now not shown in the publicly-viewable Profile | Information tab. You may safely re-enter your real name in your profile.

The main reason we like having a real name is to help when somebody that has forgotten their chosen username and password comes to us for help. Real name is a big help in locating their account. Of course lots of people put in incomplete or bogus names. Potentially this could come back to bite them if they need help and also have forgotten what they put in for real name.

 

[DaveNV]

Took a while but I found where this is located in the code and have removed it. Real Name is now not shown in the publicly-viewable Profile | Information tab. You may safely re-enter your real name in your profile.

Doug, you may want to check again. I still see a lot of Real Names being displayed.

Dave

 

[pedro47]

In the old format the forum threads looked betty on my table in the landscape form now it's better in the portrait format.

 

[dwojo]

could you provide an example of what you find frustrating so we could attempt to address it?

Foremost is the new posts no longer lets me now what forum it was posted in when scanning through them. It has caused me to log in once every few days instead of every day.

 

[TUGBrian]

Foremost is the new posts no longer lets me now what forum it was posted in when scanning through them. It has caused me to log in once every few days instead of every day.

it does display the forum name right below the title of the thread.

 

[davidvel]

Doug, you may want to check again. I still see a lot of Real Names being displayed.

Dave

Yes, people's real names show up in their profile.

 

[MULTIZ321]

I read Tug on 4 Devices - my home PC, my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Smartphone, my Samsung Galaxy Tab A Android Tablet (7") and my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet.

The reading experience is best on my home PC and the Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet. When I open a Thread on these two devices I can see the number of Replies and the number of Views on the Right hand side of the screen.

However, I can only see number of Replies on the Tab A Android Tablet and my Smartphone. I cannot see number of views on these two devices. Hopefully there is a fix for this.

Doug and Brian, thanks so much for the hard work you are doing to get Xenforo working us. Thanks also for fixing the Smartphone display from a couple of words per line to a more natural read.

Richard

 

[Makai Guy]

Doug, you may want to check again. I still see a lot of Real Names being displayed.

Dave

You may be seeing old pages cached in your browser from before the change. Try refreshing the page.

Yes, people's real names show up in their profile.

What do you see if you click on the poster's name or avatar in a post (yours or anyone else's) then choose Profile Page from the popup? This should take you to that poster's public profile page. The Information tab there is where the real name was being shown, and where I got it removed. If you can see anyone's real name anywhere on this public profile, please let me know.

Now hover your cursor over your own name in the blue menu bar at the top of the page (don't click). This should pop up a window with a bunch of links to parts of your profile. In this popup if you click on your name, your avatar, or the "Your profile page" link at the top of this popup, it takes you to that same public profile page, as seen by everybody else.

If instead you click on one of the other links below that (or CLICK on your name in the menu bar instead of just hovering over it), you'll go to your own private profile pages, where you can enter/edit your data. These pages of your profile are not publicly viewable -- you see them but nobody else has access. The Real Name field is on the Personal Details screen there.

If you're seeing a real name field displayed anywhere else, please report back with instructions on how to get there and we'll try to see what else has to be modified.