Official TUGBBS upgrade complaint/suggestion thread!

[TUGBrian]

no, the forum wont do that on its own.

you could configure it to notify you via email when this happens, which should alert your phone though!

 

[dioxide45]

no, the forum wont do that on its own.

you could configure it to notify you via email when this happens, which should alert your phone though!

I think the problem in the old forum is that there was no way to get an immediate email of a new post in a forum. Thus many people started to use Tapatalk. The Sightings forum was one of the forums where people wanted instant email notification of new posts. I don't know if the XF forum allows for instant email notification.

 

[TUGBrian]

if you click the link at the top right hand corner of a thread and choose "watch thread" it should alert you to all new posts in the thread.

when you do this you get the choice to receive an alert "with email" or "without"

 

[Makai Guy]

when you do this you get the choice to receive an alert "with email" or "without"

It looks like this (click image to see full size):

 

[Richelle]

I get about 100+ emails a day. I cannot set the phone to alert me, when I get an email. It would drive me crazy.

 

[dmharris]

Brian, love the sans serif font! THANKS!!

 

[NiteMaire]

Issue seems to be fixed. Thanks!

Brian, I have the same issue...the picture doesn't do it justice. My Samsung Note shows about 2 words per line and they appear to be right justified. Lots of wasted space and a simple post takes up (too) many lines. It's neither user friendly (too much scrolling and too difficult to read posts) nor aesthetically pleasing.

The issue clears up for me when I turn my phone horizontally...so at least that is working.

 

[Passepartout]

Just saw something new. On the 'Forums' screen, on the right side, under Members Online Now, I saw this:

1. presley,
2. Sponge,
3. DVC Mike,
4. MelissaI,
5. DonM
6. ... and 78 more

Total: 619 (members: 89, guests: 437, robots: 93)

ROBOTS? What robots? Never have seen that before.

Jim

 

[dwojo]

could you provide an example of what you find frustrating so we could attempt to address it?[/QUOTE I navigated the new posts by looking to see what forum they were in. Finding relevant posts was easy that way. Now that is not easy due to the heading being hard to see, so I scroll through maybe 2 pages of new posts and have to move on.

 

[TUGBrian]

Just saw something new. On the 'Forums' screen, on the right side, under Members Online Now, I saw this:

1. presley,
2. Sponge,
3. DVC Mike,
4. MelissaI,
5. DonM
6. ... and 78 more

Total: 619 (members: 89, guests: 437, robots: 93)

ROBOTS? What robots? Never have seen that before.

Jim

robots are search engine spiders that browse sites to index the pages.

 

[TUGBrian]

I still dont quite follow the complaint dwojo?

 

[pedro47]

I liked that little green mark in the left corner to tell everyone you are online.

 

[Passepartout]

robots are search engine spiders that browse sites to index the pages.

Hmmm. Learn something every day.

 

[DaveNV]

Hmmm. Learn something every day.

Jim, "bots" are the unmanned Internet spacecraft that read through the website, indexing everything they see, and they relay the info to search engines. So when you Google something, that's how it knows which web pages to return to you. Your search term got a "hit" on XYZ website, due to the 'bot reading it.

Back in the day, when a website was created, it had to be submitted to search engines for review, so it would be found when people searched for it. Things have gone more upscale lately. Things like placement of the webpage in the search results can make a huge difference in directing web traffic to the page. Keywords and web visitor traffic can mean more than specific terms found on the page. And that's why you don't always see the "www." name as the first hit. Other sites that are a better fit for the search term may be listed first, because they have higher placement.

It's all a plan to make website developers richer than anybody, while the unwashed masses sit back and are amazed at how their computer knew to show them THAT webpage. The magic of computers...

Dave

 

[Passepartout]

Thanks Dave. Somehow, my life is more complete now, just knowing this.

 

[DaveNV]

Thanks Dave. Somehow, my life is more complete now, just knowing this.

And if you're not joking, my friend, you need a much bigger life.

Dave

 

[Passepartout]

And if you're not joking, my friend, you need a much bigger life.

Can't you feel your leg being pulled on? But I can't disagree that my horizons have closed in a bit lately. Between cancelling a couple of trips, DW's health/activity ability decreasing and a certain event of the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, there's more introspectasion at our house than for a while. I have hopes that this too will pass.

Thanks for the boot where it will do the most good.

 

[dioxide45]

I liked that little green mark in the left corner to tell everyone you are online.

vBulletin had the same type of thing. A little green light for those online. I actually think it was a littler better. It stood out better than the little green triangle that can blend in with the background of the avatar.

 

[amycurl]

Have we fixed the Tapatalk issue yet? I am still getting an error message when trying to log in via Tapatalk on my iPad. Makes me sad, as reading Tug before falling asleep is one way I unplug my brain. #mightbetoomuchinformation

 

[TUGBrian]

no, we have not yet resolved the problem with tapatalk that breaks the forum.

is the look of the mobile site on your ipad not working?

 

[easyrider]

I have to admit that the changes you guys made seems to make for a better vibe. It is like getting a new toy. Thanks.

Bill

 

[theo]

In attempting to delete some old Private Messages (now apparently called "conversations" in the XenForo software) I was unable to do so.
Not a big deal, just an observation. Not ruling out "operator error", but I didn't actually see or find a "delete"option for selected "conversations".

 

[amycurl]

no, we have not yet resolved the problem with tapatalk that breaks the forum.

is the look of the mobile site on your ipad not working?

No, but I'll try it. After I posted this question, I found the series of posts talking about the ways you're trying to optimize it for tablets/mobile. Thanks!

 

[DaveNV]

In attempting to delete some old Private Messages (now apparently called "conversations" in the XenForo software) I was unable to do so.
Not a big deal, just an observation. Not ruling out "operator error", but I didn't actually see or find a "delete"option for selected "conversations".

I think it's the option to "Leave Conversation." When you highlight the header or open the message, the option to Leave Conversation is offered a couple of ways. If you leave it, you'll be warned it will be removed from your list, and you'll have the option of receiving future replies to the message thread or ignoring them. Not sure if it actually deletes the message, but it's the closest I can see to remove it from your message list.

Dave

 

[dwojo]

I still dont quite follow the complaint dwojo?[/. I am not tech savy enough to explain it any better so I will try working around my issues and let my membership expire.