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Posted by Rastafarr on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:21 PM

I like it!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:31 PM

Rastafarr
I like it!

I could get used to it.

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Posted by kbkchooch on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:37 PM

bogp40

The bottom of the page, is missing any "back to top" or forum redirection like the one at the top. You will have to scroll your way back to top.

 
I agree, that is gonna be a PITA, and backround & font color choices are gone too.Grumpy
 
but 
 
Pics post ok
 
And that annoying green bar is gone too.Smile, Wink & Grin
 
All & all its still usable, just different  Dots - Sign
 
Its still better than any of the Yahoo groups I belong too. They just underwent a revamp last month and they truly suck Bang Head 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:51 PM

kbkchooch
and backround & font color choices are gone too.

I noticed that right off!Crying That well and truly sucks.Dead I can still use BBCode to change font colors though.

 

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Thursday, November 21, 2013 12:03 AM

I'll complain if necessary, but for now I think I like the look, seems to have good functionality, and the popup banner is GONE! High five.Yes Oh, and the old MSN smileys are still here? Rock on.

 

Ooh. No preview. Put that on the list.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, November 21, 2013 12:54 AM

HECK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Surprise

No speel chekk, no font colours, or highlighting, no direct link to the last post, and while I've managed to change font size I appear to be stuck in BOLD.!!! (Probably finger trouble on my part).Embarrassed

BUT,  is it my imagination  or has the Search Function actually improved ?????

And, most importantly, we still have a forum. Big Smile  Thank you Kalmbach. Hmm I think.

 ......and I've managed to insert a photo.BeerBig Smile

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:10 AM

trainboyH16-44
Ooh. No preview. Put that on the list.

Oh but there is a preview. Bottom of the toolbar. The magnifying glass icon next to the smiley icon. However when I click it I get a 'Group Not Found' message, so it's totally worthless.

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Posted by Kyle on Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:48 AM

HECK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Surprise

No speel chekk, no font colours, or highlighting, no direct link to the last post, and while I've managed to change font size I appear to be stuck in BOLD.!!! (Probably finger trouble on my part).Embarrassed

BUT,  is it my imagination  or has the Search Function actually improved ?????

And, most importantly, we still have a forum. Big Smile  Thank you Kalmbach. Hmm I think.

 ......and I've managed to insert a photo.BeerBig Smile

Cheers, the Bear.

 

 

 

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO SPELL CHECK???  Are you on the same forum as me???  I HATE THE SPELL CHECK, IT NOT ONLY DOESN'T WORK, IT MAKES CORRECT WORDS A BUNCH O LETTERS THAT DON'T FORM WORDS!!!  I have a quote I heard on the news that they used to describe the Obama care website, "I would call this a train wreck but that would be unfair to the train wreck!" It is my new favorite quote

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:37 AM

Kyle

It seems like the larger post run off the screen, I can't see the text on the right side, only the left one.  Iabsolutely hate the spell check, it seems like it is to make nonsense words, and put several words together.  . Did I mention I HATE THE SPELL CHECK, IT DOESN'T WORK!!!

 

Where IS the spell check on here???

I have had trouble with the old spell check for a while, but DO NOT SEE IT here?

The "preview post" shows up  with a "group not found " answer...I thought maybe the spell check was there????

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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:57 AM

Kyle
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO SPELL CHECK???  Are you on the same forum as me???

Gidday Kyle, I think I must be, otherwise how did you quote me??? Smile, Wink & Grin I'm with Galaxy on this one, if there is a spell check function, then it ain't working for me. Not that it matters too much, I will just not have to be so lazy.Zzz

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:07 AM

This thread is already getting quite long, so this issue may have already been raised.

I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

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Posted by zstripe on Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:06 AM

richhotrain

This thread is already getting quite long, so this issue may have already been raised.

I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

Rich

 

Rich,

It appears,to be working fine for me! Who know's? Will probably take awhile, to get the bugs out.

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Posted by mlehman on Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:23 AM

howmus
2. If you let your curser accidentally move over the black bar at the top just below the nerdy looking guy leaning on sonething, it pulls down a large thingy with all kinds of useless info for you to figure out how to get out of.... Or move your curser half way down the page for it to magically disapear... How about making that something you have to click on to make show up?

Yes, this is especially irritating. The navigation menu for the entire MR website pops up way too easy, as it's a big fat bar with huge font.

On the other hand, the Forum navigation menu just below it is in tiny font and a hard target to hit because it is so.

Maybe it's just a font size issue? Or a Firefox one (FF 25.0.1 in use here.)

This is an even bigger problem because of the length of posts on the page and no Forum navigation or Back to the Top at the bottom of the page as I and othrs mentioned earlier.

Also note that if you post a reply in a thread, you can't just use Backspace to navigate as you may end up with a double-posting if you're not careful, another irriattion with the lack of what's mentioned above.

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Posted by zstripe on Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:42 AM

Mike,

I have been going, around,the black bar, from the left side, or if I want to go through the bar, I do it fast, no hessitation and it works all the time. I also,have been using,my return fuction,to go back to the top,or to another thread. Works fine for me that way, a lot of other forums, I'm on,do it that way, so I guess, I am used to it.

As far as a spell checker, I'm not certain, but there may not be one. At least I could not find it.

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Posted by HaroldA on Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:48 AM

I have been looking around the new site this morning and I like it.  Seems very clean and so far, everything works.  To me, a vast improvement as everything seems organized and no popups.  Thanks MR!!

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Posted by NP2626 on Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:58 AM

Neil is right, expect change and with that change there will always be a re-inventing of the wheel.   Even though the wheel's design was pretty much "Hashed-Out" a while back, technology forces it's re-re-re-invention regularly.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:02 AM

richhotrain

This thread is already getting quite long, so this issue may have already been raised.

I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

Rich

 

Working great for me! I can qoute just part of it by highlighting the text I've chosen and click add quote.

 

richhotrain
I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

Nothing to it.

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Posted by Soo Line fan on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:02 AM

 

 

You guys have probablly found more issues in a day than the tech team did in a week Bow

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:17 AM
jeffrey-wimberly wrote the following post 13 minutes ago:
 
richhotrain

This thread is already getting quite long, so this issue may have already been raised.

I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

Rich

 

 

 

Working great for me! I can qoute just part of it by highlighting the text I've chosen and click add quote.

 

 

 
richhotrain
I am unable to "Add Quote to your Post" when I click on the box to add the quote to my reply.

 

Nothing to it.

 
I just copied and pasted these quotes from Jeff.
 
Nothing else that I do will copy the quoted stuff into the blank reply box.
 

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:19 AM

And when I click on the Emoticons, it places them at the beginning of my reply, not where I actually want them placed.

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:20 AM

You guys have probablly found more issues in a day than the tech team did in a week Bow

Isn't that the way it always works?   LOL

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Posted by kbkchooch on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:21 AM

No spell check here either!Grumpy

 


 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:41 AM

Soo Line fan
You guys have probablly found more issues in a day than the tech team did in a week Bow

No doubt. The tech team don't have to depend on this being their way of keeping up with what's going on on this site.

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Posted by moelarrycurly4 on Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:39 AM

test test is this thing on?

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:35 AM

WOW!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:39 AM

I'm using Firefox. I've come across some problems concerning this new setup.

New things for the complaint list:

Email notification isn't working, at least not for PM's so far as I know. Probably not for other stuff either. When I click 'Email notifications' in my profile I get an error.

I can't log out. Even if I wanted to I can't do it. I tried and all I got was a server error. Looks like I'm stuck here. Good thing I use 'tab' browsing.

 

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:39 AM

This format carries over into archived copy - and therein I found a major rub.

A while back I spent the best part of an hour putting together a 'sort of' sketch of my benchwork design, using punctuation marks.  The new format narrowed the field - and ground that diagram into meaningless hamburger.  Bummer,,,

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:22 AM

I like the simplicity of it but want the 'last post' button back.  Would you guys please look in your desk drawers and find it!  Wink

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Posted by Adelie on Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:29 AM

Soo Line fan

 

 

You guys have probablly found more issues in a day than the tech team did in a week Bow

 

That's usually the way it is.  The system I work most closely with for a living can be tested for months on end, and let them release it to the sites who use it and we get trouble reports starting almost immediately.  Sometimes, those sites fall off and back to the old release.  Running any software in "live mode" always exposes bugs.

Or, as somebody once said, "just when you think you have idiot-proofed your software, somebody designs a better idiot."

Last week I installed all the patches from Microsoft on my laptop, including IE 11.  It appeared half the desktop gadgets were gone, with one being there but in a blurry pink color.  Turns out IE11 creates a problem when the display magnification in Windows (at least Windows 7, maybe others) is set to something other than 100%.  I have seen nothing to rival that with the new forum.

I'm using Firefox 25.0.1 on the Windows 7 with all patches current and have had no technical problems I can see.  The ability to jump to the last post in a thread would be appreciated.  Somebody said the new look is clean, and I agree with that.  Somebody also mentioned they thought the search function works better.  That would be a big help.

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Posted by Pruitt on Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:02 AM

Aw, come on folks!

WHAT A BUNCH OF WHINERS!

Not really - just testing!

 Hmmm. My smiley didn't appear...

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