I really, really miss the old forum....

[skiloff]

Goldmine, I experience that on occasion, too.  I believe it happens when your connection isn't all that quick and the page is still loading the images for the editing bars.  It will bounce around until everything is loaded the way it should be.  At least, that is my assumption.

[Anonymous]

Theis forum is a piece of ****!!   I just typed a whole response and hit the ENTER key to go to another paragraph and it went to a member profile page.  I was talking about how the page jumps and is getting on my nerves.  I notice below after I type a word where DONE is on the bottom left it reads Searching for links that begin with 'S' or the last letter at the end of my words.  And all the while the page continues jumping and driving me crazy.    I am so aggravated that I am going to perhaps stay on the Atlas forum where thse problems do not exist like  The page jumping, The pain in the butt way to post pictures like on the old forum and lastly difficulty of seeing what a members last post were like it used to be in the members profile.  Any ideas on the page jumping

[Railphotog]

"Everyone in the world is out of step but me!"

[ukguy]

Well I guess maybe I will say something after biting my tongue for a while...... the 'new' forum works OK for me, no glitches, everything still 'works' the same. ie posting pics from rail images, quoting, read threads changing colour ..... in my view things that have changed are the built in features..... it seems that even though we have got a new colour scheme to spruce up the place we have actually lost more than we have gained with this new 'improved' version of the forum ..... I'm still waiting to find some great new developement hidden under a secret subscriber link somewhere...... ie :

Seeing whos on the forum when I am    
Seeing who is in the same thread as I am
Seeing the entire thread when I write a reply .... this is my biggest gripe
A plethera of posters either arent here anymore or are too busy bitching about problems on the new forum to make it an enjoyable visit.
Maybe its just me but the atmosphere (to me) definately seems to have changed

I was gonna quote PC   "I'm going to the train room" but I couldnt scroll to his post and copy it,,, oh well.

As for gramatical correctness.... lets leave that for another bitching thread all of its own, thats just plain downright off topic for this thread

As always, have fun & be safe
Karl

[marknewton]

tstage wrote:

<" Mark N,

Your using a FREE forum...and all you need to do is download a FREE 4MB browser to rectify the issues...I guess I just don't understand your beef.">

And I guess I don't understand your lack of comprehension.

Whether the forum and the browser are free or not is utterly irrelevant. I've mentioned earlier in the thread why I won't/can't change browsers - but to recap, I use a drawing application that WON'T run under OS10, and the suggested browser WON'T run under OS9.1. Since the drawing program is integral to both my job and my modelling, I'm not going to give it up just to have a different browser to view ONE forum.

But since you make such an issue of being free - on principle alone, I object to being effectively denied the freedom to use a product of my choosing by an third party, in this case the forum software developers. I would have thought that as an American, you'd understand that?

All the best,

Mark.

[trainfan1221]

Aah..another "This forum stinks" topic.  I am not a huge fan of the new design either.  But I have gotten used to it, largely because I have no choice.  After awhile you just deal with the changes.  I think the fact that to post you have to act like you are personally replying to the last poster is a bit strange though.

[marknewton]

runton wrote:

<"Boycott a company because they offer a free product which works on most mainstream computers but won't work on yours without you having to load a specific software program to use said free product to its fullest? Great! It isn't Kalmbach's problem that YOUR system / browser of choice doesn't function properly with their FREE product.">

You know, I hadn't expected such a facile response to my comments. I wasn't going to reply, but your supercilious tone got the better of me.

You make a big issue of things like the forum and browsers being free, as if that were relevant. It's not. As a consumer in a free market economy I'm free to take my business elsewhere if I don't like the product or service. And I'm free to express my reasons for doing so.

I'm free to point out that it *IS* Kalmbach's problem if potential customers for their products and their advertisers products are turned away by a software problem that didn't previously exist. As another poster quite wisely noted, this forum, and indeed the whole Trains.com website, is a shop window for Kalmbach, and their advertisers. What sort of shop obscures the window to prevent certain customers from seeing inside?

<"And you're going to stomp away in a snit because YOU would have use a different browser that WILL work properly.">

I'm in a 'snit' as you put it because I'd rather be free to use a browser of my choosing, not one forced upon me by the forum developers. And FWIW, my current browser *DOES* work properly, on every other website I visit, bar this one. It was this forum that was changed, remember?

<"Someone is trying to help solve YOUR problem for YOU, and the best you can do is a snide, churlish reply. Well aren't you just the salt of the earth?">

Are they? I haven't seen anything to suggest that. All I've seen is the rather arrogant instruction to change browsers and/or platform.

(And mate, I wouldn't be accusing me of being "snide and churlish", if this is how you reply to a post that wasn't addressed to you in the first place. :-)

All the best,

Mark.

[IRONROOSTER]

...
I think the fact that to post you have to act like you are personally replying to the last poster is a bit strange though.

I agree that is strange. 

Enjoy
Paul

[marknewton]

Railphotog wrote:

< "Everyone in the world is out of step but me!">

Have you not been paying attention? There are known compatibility problems with the forum software and certain browsers/platforms. Who do you reckon is out of step?

[Bergie]

Sorry guys, but this has degraded far enough so I'm locking it.

If you have specific problems, please, please, please e-mail me directly. If you post a question directed at me in the forum there's a chance it will be missed.

Bergie