Forum Upgrade - Any Issues?

rsewill · Jun 19, 2012

kiotiken said:
HEY, I'm no longer able to view "My Home" from my Android tablet. I do not want to be forced into the TBN app. I have plenty of screen space on my tablet and have always viewed TBN through Firefox or Opera.

You may want to give the TBN app a try. It's great on my Apple iPad!

buck12 · Jun 20, 2012

rsewill said:
You may want to give the TBN app a try. It's great on my Apple iPad!

It was a great app before the upgrade. Since the upgrade the participated tab only shows threads I started instead all threads I participated in.

clemsonfor · Jun 20, 2012

Also noticed the quick reply this mourn. Its a bit faster, and as long as you have all options i dont mind, although i like seeing all the smileies (spelling) at once. On the old Hearth.com you could quick reply or full reply, if you did quick and typed a message longer than the screen it would go on forever and before it word wrapped thus causing the screen to have to be side scrolled as you read. I hated that but they got it fixed in thier new upgrade a few months back.

AND the QUICK NAVIGATION drop down box at the end of threads IS STILL SCREWED UP!!!!!!!! I cant see anything as it dissappears behindthe text box for the thread. THIS IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING!

MarkV · Jun 20, 2012

Muhammad, I tried to reply to a thread with the "Reply With Quote" button and was told the message was too short and needed 5 more character. The message was several paragraphs long. I added another sentence but still got the same message. I am on a Mac.

MarkV

aczlan · Jun 20, 2012

clemsonfor said:
AND the QUICK NAVIGATION drop down box at the end of threads IS STILL SCREWED UP!!!!!!!! I cant see anything as it dissappears behindthe text box for the thread. THIS IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING!

What browser is this on? I dont see that behavior in Firefox 13, Chrome 20 or IE 9.0.
Might try a forced refresh (Ctrl+F5 in Firefox) and see if there is an old file sticking in there.

Aaron Z

Soundguy · Jun 20, 2012

MarkV said:
Muhammad, I tried to reply to a thread with the "Reply With Quote" button and was told the message was too short and needed 5 more character. The message was several paragraphs long. I added another sentence but still got the same message. I am on a Mac.

MarkV

check to make sure your message didn't fall within a set of quotes.. if it does.. the forum thinks it's aprt of the original quote.

btdt...

Soundguy · Jun 20, 2012

California said:
Wow PTSD flashback. I had suppressed the awful memory of having to set those variables (as well as unique IP) on each user's NIC. Go under desk/open case/pull card/set jumpers/fail-to-boot/set-something-else/try again, and it seemed like everyone's PC in the whole office needed a different unique magic combination of settings before it would run. For the second generation of NICs we bought, we paid the $100 premium each to get DHCP-aware cards.

I expect Muhammad is facing similar, just with different variables to manipulate. Hopefully all on-screen and not inside the hardware.

I agree.. likely all done via soft settings now. hard to find any hardware selectable stuff much. heck.. with cable select / sata hdd's not evenmuch master slave stuff anymore.

I can remember when we transitioned from an arcnet to an ethernet.. and went to cards that were bnc only needing terminators.. and used some ipx/spx/netbios stuff.. half the machines would not come up.. or see the network.. take them into another progam that was network aware.. it would see the network.. exit out, and then try to login tot he network and then it would magically work. and then later inthe day someone would want to re-arange their desk and instead of poping the T off the back of their machine they's break the daisy chain or something.

then i remember when we went 10bt and the hubs. that was nice.. then oops.. 10 / 100 segments.. argh.. got to have a SWITCH.. ARGH..

fun stuff back in the early days of iron mongering....

clemsonfor · Jun 20, 2012

aczlan said:
What browser is this on? I dont see that behavior in Firefox 13, Chrome 20 or IE 9.0.
Might try a forced refresh (Ctrl+F5 in Firefox) and see if there is an old file sticking in there.

Aaron Z

I am using IE7. This is a work PC and they will not run the newer version at least till i get a new PC in the next months or so. We dont have Chrome or mozilla. Have restricted downloads (meaning nothing can be downloaded and saved) and they say the new IE has to many bugs to have implemented it?

Soundguy said:
check to make sure your message didn't fall within a set of quotes.. if it does.. the forum thinks it's aprt of the original quote.

btdt...

Have made that mistake before, that being putting my reply within the original quote.

LD1 · Jun 20, 2012

One thing I noticed and havent seen mentioned yet....

I dont like the default on the search function that automatically sorts by relevance. I like the old default that sorted by date. Maybe I am the only one???? But I think the new default will bring back old threads from years ago.

I also (and I dont know if others do) like to search my name on occasion. Because TBN is FAR to busy for me to catch every thread, I like searching my name to see if I come up if someone mentioned me in a thread. Like "ask so and so" or "so and so should be along shortly". There are several threads that I have missed where I was mentioned to be asked for advise, but I have found them by searching my name.:thumbsup: