MDC's software transition information **NEW THREAD** - Page 3  

When you subscribe to a forum, it automatically subscribes you to all subforums as well. I find that a bit of a pain when I'm going through my subscriptions.

 When you hover over Forums at the top, a drop down menu appears where you are supposed to click on the forum you want.  If I use this menu as soon as I load the page, it works fine.  But if I scroll down to read something, then back up to use the menu, the menu appears with a big space between the word Forums and the menu.  When the mouse goes into that space, the menu disappears, so it is impossible to use the menu.  I am adding a screenshot to show what I mean.  

 

I also discovered (while trying to add said screenshot) that when I hit the image button to add an image to my post, the whole screen greyed out, but the image choosing box was not on the screen.  I scrolled waaaaaaay up and eventually found it appeared from the BOTTOM of the screen as I scrolled UP.  Then after adding the photo I have to scroll way back down to see the post editor again.  I am using the post editor at the bottom of the thread.  Weird.  

 

I have Windows 7 and Chrome 7.0.517.44 (up to date).

 

Jessica -

Is there any way that somebody can post the list of known issues that have been reported by many users, plus the status of each?  It would be nice to know if somebody is looking at it to fix it now, or it is on the list for the future, or if it is staying the way it is.

 

That might help reduce the # of duplicate posts.

 

Common issues seem to be: PM's, hovering, back-button, subscriptions. (I am sure other people can add to the list)

 

Thanks!!
 

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 ETA ... okay, I just saw Georgia's summary.  But I still have not seen an answer for Hovering and Backbutton issues.  Are those being looked at, or are they AS IS?  Thanks!!

 

Hovering issue: Can't see the first sentence when hovering over the post title in Recent Activity.

 

Back button issue:  After clicking on and reading a post, the back button brings you to the top of the page, rather than the last post you clicked on.

 

Thanks!!

Edited by HappyMommy2 - 11/14/10 at 6:57am

Firefox on a Mac.  I have the same issue, and lately it's taking me to 1.5 posts above the last unread post.

 

Beta Activity Feed:  If I page down with the More tab at the bottom to get the next 20, read one of those threads, then hitting the back button takes me back to activity feed with just posts 1-20 on it, not the additional ones below it I'd already accessed.  This makes the Activity Feed pretty useless for how I use it.  Sticking to the 4 day old "classic" version. :wink

 

 

Not directed only at you as I saw this a lot on the last thread too....

Mac is not your OS. There are different versions (that can all up up to date on their own) just like Windows has XP, VIsta, and 7. You OS is going to be 10.4 (Tiger... to be precise, 10.4.11 would be up to date here), 10.5 (Leopard....10.5.8 is up to todate) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard.... 10.6.4 is utd. This will change, the other two won't.) Of course, there are earlier versions of both platforms but so few people are running them that I won't list them, unless specifically asked. You can see what your is by going to your  menu>About this Mac and see what it lists.

 

As far as checking your browser version, go to your Firefox/Safari/whatever browser you are using Menu (directly to the right of your  menu) > about (Safari/Firefox/whatver browser you are using). Safari 5.0.2 is utd currently and FF is 3.6.12 I believe.

I think that on the profile page the Public Message box would fit better under the user information instead of over on the right where it makes a big bunch of blank white screen.

Screen Shot to show better what I mean

Edited by MCatLvrMom2A&X - 11/14/10 at 3:53pm

no :nana??? NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

nana is my favourite all time smilie. mostly because it's a nice shade of green. any chance of getting a nice green-toned :raz ? Any chance of getting a reprieve for nana? a good behaviour bond? bail?

 

oh and it is Monday... but I'll continue to be patient because I live in the future.
 

 

ETA: is there some way to change the multiquote feature so that you can select all the posts one wants and then click "reply" rather than having to click "quote"? I usually start reading through a thread, clicking the "multi" as I go on the posts I want to reply to, but I can't tell when the last one will be, so when I get to the end, I'm clicking "quote" on the last post just to get to the reply box, even if I don't want to quote that post. then I delete the bit I didn't need. It's a do-able workaround, but still annoying.

Edited by majikfaerie - 11/14/10 at 4:04pm

zinemama, I have been having the same issue, and I thought maybe it was my math skills. It seems the issue here is that when we transitioned over from vBulletin to Huddler, the read v. unread v. how many posts unread status was not preserved. Essentially, the counts of how many posts which are new since the last time you visited have to start over since the conversion. In the Zero Stranger Anxiety thread, the thread began before the switch, and you had posted the10th post before the conversion. After the conversion, it was counting all of the posts in the thread as unread because you hadn't yet visited it on the new site. It's confusing, but the numbers should start reflecting accurate counts as members begin to read threads on the new system. I apologize for the confusion.

Sometimes when I multiquote, the quote appears after my comment....not every time, just sometimes.

I just wanted to say that except for the reviews the new site is really growing on me and I know once I figure everything out I'm going to love it.  Thanks mods!!

No.

Nana has been retired from action. You are welcome to email me so we can discuss this further though! administrator@mothering.com

If you are using Firefox then the work around is to switch from Rich Text Editor over to BB Code Editor found on your My Profile page under Edit account details
Screenshots

Can you describe the technical difficulties a bit more? What happens when you try to submit the new information? Is there an error message?

The explanation is that more formatting options, readability tends to decrease with lots of colors, alignment, sizes, etc. We realize there's a trade-off. Everyone now has the ability to personalize their username with a custom avatar and the ability to have three lines of signature text, unlimited smilies and the ability to feature galleries, lists, reviews, etc. Members will still be able to give their signatures a personal flair while still maintaining good readability for the most number of users. I'm really sorry to not be able to offer the colorful signature but this isn't something that is going to offered at this point in time.

This has been reported to the development team. Thanks for letting us know.

I think I understand the issue here. Is it that the browser back button takes you to the top of the page rather than the last place in the page you were looking at?

Can you please explain a bit more about what you are asking?

I know that the display of subscribed forums is not we are used to. In the activity feed display, the new software pulls in all the new threads from these forums into the feed so users can scan through all of that content with all the rest of their specific thread subscriptions as well. What you would like is a customized view of the forum index to see which of your favorite forums have new context so you can navigate there?

There's one more additional work around for the Firefox cursor bug - if you click into Source mode, and then click back to WYSIWYG mode, the cursor should reappear. This is one we're working on to hack around until Firefox fixes the bug. Until then, we would recommend trying out the BB Code Editor as it should be a lot less finicky for most browsers. I'm using BB Code, and I no longer have frequent posting problems. You can switch back and forth fairly easily if you need to post video or format. Please see my thread here.


We don't have the ability to do this on a per-user basis at the moment, but we do have some ability to customize the smilies that appear for everyone. This might mean losing the larger smilies though. We can take a look at the most popularly used smilies and then go from there.
This should be helped once we get our tagging system up and running on threads and wikis and this area starts filling up with real, related content.

In terms of lists, we think you might be looking at the lists on the user profile. That is a different feature than subscriptions.


Is this on editing a post? When a user defaults to using the Quick Reply editor (the one at the bottom of a thread page) by default rather than the full page editor (which loads on a new page), clicking the Edit button will bring you down to the bottom of the page as the editor flips from reply to edit. If you would like to load the full editor each time on a new page, rather than load the editor at the bottom of the thread page, we would recommend selecting that preference from Account Details (which is reached via the My Profile tab at the top). This will avoid the long scroll.




So this is from the Private Message center?

PMs can't currently be permanently deleted from the Trash folder. It's a known bug to the developers. It's annoying, but it shouldn't really impact a member in terms of their ability to store PMs or send them.
The Edit Post button opens the editor in the Quick Editor at the bottom of the page. It sounds like sometimes the page focus isn't working as well as other times. If it's really annoying, you can select to default to the Full Page Editor each time (via My Profile tab's Account Details area) which will open the editor on a new page.

Thanks, Honey693, that's definitely nice to hear.

That is correct.  If you click the "Back" button you are taken to the very top of the page rather than back to where you were actually at on the page.  It makes it very difficult to navigate back and forth.  Especially for the pages that are long and you are on the middle to lower part, go forward, then click "Back".  Very, Very annoying!

Oh, you know what i just noticed about quoting... in the old forum it would typically quote who the quote was from.  It seems to be all over the place- sometimes there are names, and sometimes not. 

It seems I'm always clicking the wrong box anyways... I have to remember to hit "quote" and not reply... but I think of 'reply' as in that I'm going to make a 'reply' the the post I am hitting the reply button on.... but it moves me down to the bottom of the page and then I have to go back up and find the post I was on.... but I'll get used to that (I hope).  I often don't really want to quote something, but I like to keep the post I'm reading in view...   Does the forum 'thread' post by how they are 'replied' to?   (I actually cannot process threaded forums like that (typically) so I usually default to a different view-style- but I was just curious how it works).

 

Also, I think this happened on the old forum too, but sometimes if it is a quote of a quote, then the quote space is blank- but this time, it actually reserves the space with no text there (so the blank space actually varies, which seems silly to not have the text there if it remembers how much text was there.

Now, that could just be the nature of how things are working right now, or how one is setting up the quoting, but I know it has made my head spin when I'm not quite sure who is quoting what and I think an issue might be useful to me.  I can't go back and see what the original post is to see what it was in reference to when the user name isn't there

 

And, just so you know, I wish I remembered what the nana smilie was like!  Of course our Nana lives on in our memories and has always been a very wonderful intelligent and sweet person... but nana also can sound more like what my daughter calls nursing- so I don't know what kind of nana has been sentenced...  Poor smilie- I'm sure there must be a remedy for that(-;

 

Thanks,
Jessica

(Who currently has a bum mouse and a computer on the fritz and an insistent cough so if a random sentence or word is goobleygook, please forgive me)

I just thought of a question. Since we can now post images in our posts would it be acceptable to use smile's that are not in the smile list that we find elsewhere on the net as long as they are not vulgar or crude of course. For example