topic Re: I miss the old forum in General Topics

I miss the old forum

ED — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:39:28 GMT

Everyone keeps saying that the new forum looks clean and shiny. It does but is it very user friendly? I have my doubts. I'm going to start with the "My profile" menu.

My Photos: You are shown big preview of your previously uploaded photos. If you have used these photos previosly chances are pretty small that you will use them again since it was a scenario for that particular post. You can always find previous posts and copy that photo or save it. Takes up too much space too.

Kudos from and Kudos given to: Interesting? It depends probably who you ask but it's not really that interesting.

Latest posts: Looks like this for me

If i click "View all" I get 10 pages with previous posts. Where can I see all my started posts in a nice overview that we had on the old forum? I don't wish to go through 10+ pages to find my old content.

Another thing, while I'm writing this post the banner at top of this forum keeps flashing and changing between the three banners. Please stop it, at least when writing posts and have it only on start page maybe. It hurts my eyes.

Other things:

-Start page with recents posts. Now it depends on a really good subject title to catch readers since you can't see any of the content or photos inside. I guess it won't change otherwise it wouldn't look clean. I wish also that posts could have own page with just posts, without all the menus surrounding the post which takes up too much attention and space.

-Replying to posts. When you read a post and want to reply to a certain users reply inside the post, it gets just posted right below. It's hard to see that it was an answer to that certain user. It's a flat structure and not nested. Any setting that can set it to be nested?

-Inserting photos in posts. In the old forum you could just paste the screenshot directly into the post. Now you have to save it first and then choose from your Photos. Time consuming. Is there a setting that can change this?

I hope that I don't sound too grumpy and that it's only a matter of time before I get used to this new forum :). Is there something that you miss from the old forum?

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:55:23 GMT

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

The good news is that, unlike the previous community, the current one gives us the power to change a lot of what you've highlighted here. In general, we are still dialing in the design, so please bear with us.

There is a personal setting to change the “linear layout”. I believe there’s an issue with CSS that is making the “threaded” message view appear not so much.

I’ve inquired specifically about the pasting photo thing because I use that a whole lot as well 😊

Re: I miss the old forum

_Val_ — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:12:17 GMT

We are still in the process to improve this forum, so let's revisit your points in a couple of weeks, when we clean up the most urgent things.

Thanks

Val

Re: I miss the old forum

ED — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:17:38 GMT

Hi Dameon,

Thank you for your understanding and nice reply.

Another thing when you try to paste photos directly into the body content when writing/replying a post it's being stopped also by the IPS protection and flagged as these: (happened yesterday)

Re: I miss the old forum

Sven_Glock — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:53:21 GMT

I am missing the possibility to paste screenshots directly in my post whithout uploading pictures.

It was one of my favorite features in the old forum.

Is this on the roadmap, too?

Re: I miss the old forum

Pablo_Barriga — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:04:12 GMT

I miss my bookmarks , and my old score

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:03:23 GMT

Points/Ranks are done a bit differently in Lithium.
There is no "single score" that can be displayed.
That said your rank is influenced entirely by your activity on the community.
I did write a post about this a bit ago, but I probably need to create a new one now that we have migrated.

Re: I miss the old forum

JozkoMrkvicka — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:44:31 GMT

Actually, you can paste screenshot without saving it.

Here is how:

1. Click on Photos:

2. Simply paste the screenshot in the newly opened window (ctrl +v). Make sure that you have screenshot in the clipboard.

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 02:46:18 GMT

Your bookmarks, I will send you offline in email.

Your rank in the current community (Silver) is equivalent to your level in the old (Level 7).

Re: I miss the old forum

JozkoMrkvicka — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:08:35 GMT

In previous platform, you have been notified once someone replied to any thread you did some action (reply, like,...). I have created my very first thread in new platform, and I wasnt even notified that someone replied to thread I have created ?!
The same applied to thread I have replied already. No notification of new comment.

Looks like notifications are seen only for "kudos" ?

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:16:54 GMT

There’s a few issues at play here:

When you create a post there should be an option to receive an email when someone replies. This option doesn’t show on message creation but it does on replies.
Even if you do tick the box, it looks like no one is receiving these emails (mail configuration issue somewhere).
Some actions that should receive notifications aren’t. Not sure this is one of them or not.

In any case, we’re looking into it.

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:19:10 GMT

That one’s a good tip. Not exactly like it was before of course.

Re: I miss the old forum

JozkoMrkvicka — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:42:27 GMT

Workaround how to be notified:

Result within "Notification feed":

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:41:59 GMT

I can set it as the default for everyone. That assumes email notifications work…

Re: I miss the old forum

JozkoMrkvicka — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:52:12 GMT

@PhoneBoy just subscribe to topics you would like to receive notification and job done 🙂

Re: I miss the old forum

Sven_Glock — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:28:28 GMT

Ok, thanks for this hint.

This is better than uploading pictures - even if it is not better than in the old forum.

Small test:

Works for me

Re: I miss the old forum

Maarten_Sjouw — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:20:51 GMT

Ranking at this moment is only shown in the upper levels like Cloud, Network, General Topics and Management.
I fully agree to remove that moving banner from all screens except the home page, pleeeeeeeeeeeease!
When will we get a speed improvement on posts page loading.
Last bit, can we please get a preference for the setting of the "Most Popular / Most recent / Featured Posts" lists?

Re: I miss the old forum

JozkoMrkvicka — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:35:34 GMT

@ED wrote:

Everyone keeps saying that the new forum looks clean and shiny. It does but is it very user friendly? I have my doubts. I'm going to start with the "My profile" menu.

My Photos: You are shown big preview of your previously uploaded photos. If you have used these photos previosly chances are pretty small that you will use them again since it was a scenario for that particular post. You can always find previous posts and copy that photo or save it. Takes up too much space too.

Kudos from and Kudos given to: Interesting? It depends probably who you ask but it's not really that interesting.

Latest posts: Looks like this for me

If i click "View all" I get 10 pages with previous posts. Where can I see all my started posts in a nice overview that we had on the old forum? I don't wish to go through 10+ pages to find my old content.

Another thing, while I'm writing this post the banner at top of this forum keeps flashing and changing between the three banners. Please stop it, at least when writing posts and have it only on start page maybe. It hurts my eyes.

Other things:

-Start page with recents posts. Now it depends on a really good subject title to catch readers since you can't see any of the content or photos inside. I guess it won't change otherwise it wouldn't look clean. I wish also that posts could have own page with just posts, without all the menus surrounding the post which takes up too much attention and space.

-Replying to posts. When you read a post and want to reply to a certain users reply inside the post, it gets just posted right below. It's hard to see that it was an answer to that certain user. It's a flat structure and not nested. Any setting that can set it to be nested?

-Inserting photos in posts. In the old forum you could just paste the screenshot directly into the post. Now you have to save it first and then choose from your Photos. Time consuming. Is there a setting that can change this?

I hope that I don't sound too grumpy and that it's only a matter of time before I get used to this new forum :). Is there something that you miss from the old forum?

@PhoneBoy

If you will quote something, it will go right below to the quoted message (just did it in this post), very similar like it was before. Try to quote this one and you will see.

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:38:53 GMT

@PhoneBoy

If you will quote something, it will go right below to the quoted message (just did it in this post), very similar like it was before. Try to quote this one and you will see.

It does and it brings the "replied to" message into the text editor, which you can edit as necessary. Is this an issue?

Re: I miss the old forum

PhoneBoy — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:38:55 GMT

@PhoneBoy

If you will quote something, it will go right below to the quoted message (just did it in this post), very similar like it was before. Try to quote this one and you will see.

It does and it brings the "replied to" message into the text editor, which you can edit as necessary. Is this an issue?