The new Forum

[IRONROOSTER]

Well, I like the new forum's visual appearance.  The re-registration went very smoothly.  Kudoes to Bergie.  Now I have to root around and find out to do the avatar.
Enjoy
Paul

[mecovey]

Great job. I like the look and feel of the new site. I've poked around a little and everything seems intuitive. oops-I had to edit this. (Somehow I got an angry symbol)

[Milwhiawatha]

Its nice, could have offered more to the ssubscribers than product reviews but oh well. Took awhile to figure out how to reply but I did it (minds been gone today) as for signature etc I wanna figure that out so my messeges arent so dull. 

[bnnrailroad]

Great so far. I do see one issue and that is the fact that some of us (myself included) have pictures in our signatures which are now cut off.

 

Other then that....the site looks good!!

[jbloch]

Looks pretty nice.  I do miss the log of who's on the forum at any particular time.

Jim

[tommyr]

I like it! Great job.

Tom

[howmus]

Velly intulesting...............  I have been looking and looking for the pull down menu that everyone has been talking about to add smileys.  Nowhere to be found. So, I bring up Firefox, which is my alternate browser.  Still no pulldown menu....  So I bring up my old copy of Icky Exploiter for the Mac.....  No pull down menus there either.  Hmmmm.  While I am trying to figure this out, I get an update message from Firefox.  So, I download and intall it (only takes a minute).  Firefox booted back up by itself, I navigate to the forum, click on reply and whalla!  There is the pulldown menu and the page is formatted a bit different.  So, I guess I will have to use Firefox when I want to do fancy stuff in my posts.  Pain!     (I prefer using Safari!)

[Charlie]

Boy, I couldn't unlock my previous screenname psngrtrn, so I am now Charlie. Same thing happended to me on Fine Scale Modeler

I like the site

Ch

[ho doctor]

    Hey!!   This looks great. Keep up the good work, MRR.

[grayfox1119]

Very nice design Bergie, re-registration went [blue] AOk,[/blue] I see you have PM ( private message) tab as well as email reply tab, very handy location. Still searching for the [red] HOW TO [/red] tab/location, that would have been nice to have as a tab or under a drop-down menu. I don't miss the stars, the smiley faces, and other adds like BD etc, were nice though, are they hiding somewhere?

[grayfox1119]

Ahh, I see that the old codes DON't work [red] [/red] etc. tsk, tsk

[wgnrr]

My question is...

How do you get those photos on the left side of your post? Do they have to be a certain size?

Thanks in Advance!

 

The same old wgnrr-non changed when everything else changes.

 

Phil

[dougfearon]

It is good to see the forum up and running again. re registering was very easy, my great big thanks to Bergie and all the staff.

[topgun3208]

the new forum looks great, thanks Bergie

[bnsfncoal]

Hey Phil,

Ive been wondering the same thing. So far I've found that you must enable avatar on your profile page and select the graphic you want. But I'm not sure how small, Ive tried a bunch and they always look fuzzy. Signature picture is 150 pixels high as was told to me earlier on this post and that worked well. Can someone help!!

Guy

 

[GAPPLEG]

Yep here we are, just got in, really changed, I'm lost. got to go out and look around.

[Billba]

The new forums and website look interesting.    I think I'll snoop around for a while. 

[Anonymous]

Are there polls? That was the first thing I was going to do...

[daveinga]

Great looking site.   Much easier to read.

[oleirish]

Hello!Every one.I think I'am here?????????

Jim

[rrinker]

 Not bad, now that I knwo where the smileys are. Now I need to come up with an avatar. SpaceMouse went and used one close to the one I use on another forum hehe - that one there is the little kitty with the sniper rifle. Guess I'll resize the Reading logo from my web page, makes more sense than a kitty sniper here LOL

Font size and color codes work like a lot of other boards I'm on. In fact I think the add-in for Firefox that puts the codes in a right-click menu will work here, have to try that. Oops, I must have unisntalled that one because I never used it. DOH! Still it's easy to change colors at the top. And right back again.

Glad the old posts have made it, looks like everythign is here, Excellent job by the staff (or is the 'staff' just Bergie?). Either way, great job. Like it or not, Snitz was an oddball among forum software.

                                    --Randy

[jacon12]

The only way I could get the site to load was to download Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer.  With IE I get the 404 error message.  Anyone know what that's all about?

Anyway, the site looks good.  Gonna take a little while to get used to the format, but overall I like it.

Jarrell

[tstage]

The only way I could get the site to load was to download Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer.  With IE I get the 404 error message.  Anyone know what that's all about?

Anyway, the site looks good.  Gonna take a little while to get used to the format, but overall I like it.

Jarrell

Jarrell,

You're better off with Firefox anyway.

Tom

[howmus]

The only way I could get the site to load was to download Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer.  With IE I get the 404 error message.  Anyone know what that's all about?

Anyway, the site looks good.  Gonna take a little while to get used to the format, but overall I like it.

Jarrell

You may have to clear the cashe in IE.  Try that and see if works.  I think this site was written with coding that works best in IE (ugh!).  Actually just use Firefox, it is a much better browser anyway!

On the Mac side, I just got an update for Firefox, and it is running like lightning!  Way faster than Safari which is way faster than IE........

[ereimer]

to Bergie and others at MR & trains.com ... excellent work , the forum looks great and the switchover was fast (actually happened in the predicted timeframe!!!) . re-registering was an easy process for me so i'm happy

the new look is great . i miss the quick reply window but the <123> at the bottom of the page makes up for it , i really like having arrow keys to scroll through the pages of replies on a forum .

i can't figure out how to insert an link to another web page . i clicked on the create link icon and paste in the URL , hit OK and nothing happens . wierd . maybe i need a browser update (running firefox and the smileys work ok)

keep up the great work !

[SOU Fan]

I'm back this is surely different. i'm not sure if I like ot better or not. Oh BTW how do you post except by hitting the reply button on somebody elses post.

[jeffers_mz]

Hey, Bergie gets stars..No Fair. 

 

I gave the topic stars, so I hope that is good enough!!

Heheheh, I gave myself stars. It's just like the olden days!

 

Ummm, no, actually it's even better!

 

Unauthorized starz, wooHOO!

 

:-)

[chateauricher]

Well, I made it back unscathed.  Now, like the rest of you, I have to figure out how all the new bells and whistles work.  At least I'll have something to help pass the time while I'm at work.  It can get quite quiet at the reception/security desk of a nursing home at night.

I do like the new text formatting options -- far simpler than before.

I am curious to see how the PM functions work; but, alas, there usually aren't that many of you online in the middle of the night.

I do miss having the ability to see a list of the last topics I created or replied to.  I used to use that to see if any new posts were made since my last visit.

But overall, a painfree change-over.  Bergie and his team deserve an all-expenses-paid vacation for all their hard work.  Perhaps round-trip tickets for the Silver & Blue class on VIA Rail's The Canadian.  Or Easterly Class on The Ocean.

[jeffers_mz]

If you try to use the old bookmark it won't work. This is a different URL than before.

 

If that's not the problem, just ignore me.

 

:-)

[SOU Fan]

If you try to use the old bookmark it won't work. This is a different URL than before.

 

If that's not the problem, just ignore me.

 

:-)

 

I figured that out.