tstage wrote:Do you have a link to the bug page that you mentioned? With that said, does anyone here who has Mozilla Firefox had any of the above-mentioned problems?Tom
Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
Have fun with your trains
Add my vote to the "this forum upgrade is really a step backwards" group!
I have more trouble posting on this forum now under the new régime. I typically type my post in a word processor program and then cut and paste it into the post section. Often the formatting does not carry over exactly and cleanly as it used to in the past. I now have to edit my post and resize the length of each line, or copy the post from the word processor program and paste into a text editor program, then reformat it there before copying again into the Model Railroader Forum post. Way too much work to get a simple post to work.
I just want it to work as a more "user friendly" forum!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
river_eagle wrote: tstage wrote:Maybe all you IE users could install and try Mozilla Firefox as an alternative browser and see if that doesn't help eliminate some things. Here's the link:http://www.mozilla.com/firefoxThankfully, I have not experienced ANY of the problems you all have mentioned with posting pics or editing. You can have more than one browser program installed on your computer and choose either/or when viewing sites on the Internet. I've been using Firefox for nearly 2 years now and highly recommend it.Hope that's a help for some of you...TomActually over on the forum providers site the "bugs" page showed loads of problems and trouble with firefox and this format.
tstage wrote:Maybe all you IE users could install and try Mozilla Firefox as an alternative browser and see if that doesn't help eliminate some things. Here's the link:http://www.mozilla.com/firefoxThankfully, I have not experienced ANY of the problems you all have mentioned with posting pics or editing. You can have more than one browser program installed on your computer and choose either/or when viewing sites on the Internet. I've been using Firefox for nearly 2 years now and highly recommend it.Hope that's a help for some of you...Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Jrin,
Do you have the email when replies to your post option enabled in your profile? Just a thought. If you do, sorry to bother... then there is a bug. The other option is to use the "My Forums" option and you will see all forums you are participating in
Brian
I don't know how much difference it makes but...
I have always checked my links by opening them in another browser window before posting. Then I simply copy and paste the link from the address window. This technique works just fine on every forum I participate in (except Yahoo when the URL is too long), and both the new and old trains.com. Works with IE6 and Firefox, both at work (which is really locked down) and at home. And I know the link is good because I just tried it.
my thoughts, your choices
Fred W
I'm going to agree with Chip on this one but for another reason. Kalmbach is spending a nominal amount of money on this forum (software licenses, hardware, Bergie's salary, etc.). However, much of this spending is conditioned on the number of eyeballs viewing the pages on this forum. If you haven't already noticed, scroll down to the bottom of this page and take a look at that banner from Atlas, BLI, whoever. Product companies are paying Kalmbach for the right to drop those ads into the forum pages. As fewer of us use the forum, the less advertising revenue Kalmbach can charge for the rights to banner these pages.
It is in the company's financial interest to make sure the forum is useable to their community of customers. In a sense, we are all paying for this forum (with out time) in the same way we pay for TV by enduring commercials (OK, I confess, I don't watch commercials anymore because of TiVo ). Given that Kalmbach is paying for this forum software on a monthly licence, they have incentive to listen to our pleas and drive the vendor who makes it to fix the thing. Otherwise, they are throwing money down a rathole.
My
I'm guess I'm in the minority, but I do like the new forum. It's much faster (Yahoo is the slow one now), and the quote feature works really nicely (for me). I rarely post pictures so I can't say whether that's gotten harder or easier. I don't miss the polls or the stars and I prefer the reduced number of posts draining less of my time. But I don't want to lose the sage advice provided by a lot of the old timers either. And the search is as bad or even worse than ever.
That said, I would hope that Kalmbach would fix whatever it is that is not working for a LOT of common configurations. Or at the very least, prevail on the software makers to put up a temporary support line and permanent FAQ/trouble-shooting web pages. They ought to have a good idea of what user configurations are having problems by now (hint: Mac, IE7, Netscape).
Electrolove, thanks for sending your summary of your problems directly to Bergie.
yours in training
CNJ831 wrote:It should not be up to the subscribers to wade through all the inadequecies of this new forum attempting to get it universally operable. I certainly don't blame Tom for leaving. It seems many others have as well. Not a word has been heard from Bergie, posts have dropped off big time (and note, almost no photo contributions this weekend too...think there are no wide problems?), and a lot of the real modelers are leaving, or already have left, this forum. In my book, it's time for the powers that be to wake up and deal with the situation. CNJ831
CNJ831
It's a rare day when I agree with Mr 831.
I daresay, the move to this software has proven a nightmare for Klambach. Perhaps, they have completely over-shot their budget and have to "breathe" a bit before sending their software engineers back in.
But if people like Tom are leaving--and I consider Tom a great asset to this forum--something is broken.
I left on vacation a couple days after the software switch and came back two weeks later. There was a significant difference. When I left there was excitement about the new software. When I returned, it was a though the life was drained from the forum. Posts were down. The number of people on the forum were single digits, not the 30-50 we used to see constantly.
And the posts were boring.
Not because the posters had nothing intelligent to say, it that the fun was gone from them. The interaction of old friends is missing.
Edit: I just noticed that in the week that I've been back I've posted 16 times. Compare that to the 11/day that I've averaged since I joined.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
andrechapelon wrote: selector sez: I can't seem to post pictures using XP and IE 6. Previously, all I needed were the bracket IMG prefix and suffix and my image URL from railimages. Something has changed. I'm also using XP and IE 6 and had no problem with posting a picture doing exactly what you say you're doing, except from Photobucket. The photo is of the old SP station in Monterey. [ i m g ]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/andrechapelon/1aa97eca.jpg[ / i m g ] (just copying the URL) With the spaces removed: It works fine for me. Could the problem be at your end rather than at MR's site? Andre
selector sez:
I can't seem to post pictures using XP and IE 6. Previously, all I needed were the bracket IMG prefix and suffix and my image URL from railimages. Something has changed.
I'm also using XP and IE 6 and had no problem with posting a picture doing exactly what you say you're doing, except from Photobucket. The photo is of the old SP station in Monterey.
[ i m g ]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/andrechapelon/1aa97eca.jpg[ / i m g ] (just copying the URL)
With the spaces removed:
It works fine for me. Could the problem be at your end rather than at MR's site?
Andre
Beats me, Andre. I am doing nothing different, so unless something funny is going on with railimages or with the software here.... Maybe I should get a photobucket account and see how that works.
-Crandell