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The "Recent Threads" Section of the Home page does not base itself on whether or not you viewed the threads - only on what threads were most recently posted. If the forum were idle for a week and you checked in every day, the same threads would still be listed.Steve said:When on the "Home" page it would be nice if "previously viewed" posts in the "Last Post" column were not displayed in bold typeface.
If you enter a thread by clicking on the thread topic, you will be taken to the top of the post list. You should find, directly under theI'm still trying to determine the least keystroke method for determining which posts are new in threads I'm actually interested in and minimizing the potential for stumbling through previously viewed posts (this is just a declarative statement).
User CP -> Edit Options -> Thread Display Options -> Number of Posts to Show Per Page should do the trick.Maybe I just haven't found the right menu, help file, or radio button yet, but I would like an option to change the number of posts displayed per page since ideally I would like to display all posts in a given thread on one
As mentioned above, see Display Options - either Hybrid Mode or Threaded Mode.track of what I am looking at and can more readily tie a given reply post to its related "parent" post especially when the thread starts getting the creeps and it doesn't look like this software has the ability to display "nested" threads, i.e., replies that are replies to replies to replies that may or may not be within the scope of the original post.
gkainz said:Steve,
In my total experience of 1 day here (well, going on the 2nd now), here's what I've found (YMMV). I use the "Quick Links" menu above and select "New Posts". I also change the "Display Mode" to "Threaded". Now, in the first box, the new posts in the thread have an orange colored folder icon while the read posts are blue icons.
Thank you - we hope so too.Steve said:The initial impression is a willingness on the part of the forum providers to at least be polite enough to go beyond mere lipservice in addressing user concerns in a timely manner and offer hope that the forum's long term viability will be ensured by maintaining it as a flexible, dynamic environment able to adapt as new possibilities for improvement are identified.
To make the "New Posts" list the "Point of Entry" or POA, add this link to your favorites or bookmarks: http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/search.php?do=getnewIt would be nice to be able to customize the personal preferences to have the site open upon login to a page that lists only unread posts without having to go through the upper tier forum post listing page initially,
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Maybe there is a way for me to do this outside of the website using my browser settings, but at my age I'm lucky to find that little blue "e" on my desktop when it comes to getting around on the internet.
Now you've hit on one of the biggest weak spots, in my opinion, of how this particular software works.Oh, and one other thing....the time and date displayed for "My last visit" seems to be the time and date of my current visit, not my last visit before my current visit...sort of like the problem I have with people saying "next weekend" vs "this weekend"...but what do I know.
Toby said:Here's another thing I haven't figured out: when I want to quote someone in my reply, and I hit the "quote" button, I get not actual quotes, but words in brackets, like /QUOTE . Something like that. And my reply ends up looking sloppy -- no nice, gray boxes like the ones other people have, with the quote embedded, just text that could be mistaken for my own words. I don't always want to quote their whole post, just a little part, but when I slice out a part, it ends up looking like it was written by me, unless I remember to go up and put " marks around it.
[QUOTE]Someone's long original Message[/QUOTE]
You start typing your reply here.
[QUOTE]Someone's long [/QUOTE]
You start typing your reply here.
[QUOTE]original Message[/QUOTE]
And continue typing your reply here.
You start typing your reply here.Someone's long
And continue typing your reply here.original Message
I don't like this behavior - and vBulletin has made it clear that it understands that almost NOBODY likes this behavior -
Keep in mind that the timer is based on INACTIVITY for fifteen minutes, not just fifteen minutes period. If you're wandering around the site, the timer resets every time you click to somewhere off the page you're on.mdreger said:Well my last attempt to post this message, via the "quick post" method at the bottom of the page was lost.
Anyway, add my name to the list of individuals that dislike this behavior.
If this site is intended to grow to anywhere near the size of the AOPA posting community, it will be simply too cumbersome to re-read entire threads to find the newest posts, just because the software has determined "nothing is new" because I have been on site for more than fifteen minutes.
Steve, how are those trees doing? Do you need to stop and smell the trees?Steve said:I guess there is hope for me and my evil twin.
Steve said:A Forum dedicated to Airshows and Expos might be useful for them that like to congregate at such things
Steve said:And does mounting a jet engine on a Suzuki dirt bike qualify as an airshow act. Inquiring minds want to know.
Steve said:Not to appear as ignoring or ignorant of comments from the friendly natives I just want to say thanks, Dr. B., Carol, Chip, and Toby. I can already tell the neighborhood is kind to dumb animals. And yes, that is my new airplane. It flies great, but the monthly rent on the aircraft carrier hangar deck is outrageous.
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If you can get Ms. Turner to record the soundbyte, I can set it up. However, I think our other users would be confused to hear Ms. Turner calling them Steve...Steve said:Now what would be nice is to log on to the message board and get a really pretty female voice like Kathleen Turner saying "Welcome Back, Steve...
We are considering adding a "Cool Places to Fly" forum to cover topics like good $100 hamburger joints and fly-ins, air-shows, museums, etc. There is also our Links Database, accessible via the Home page (and soon via the Quick Links menu, but that's not set up yet), which will take you to our ordered listing of aviation related links. I don't think we have an "Air-Shows and Fly-In's" category - yet - but we might need to add one.A Forum dedicated to Airshows and Expos might be useful for them that like to congregate at such things and compare notes on which T-6 did the best Cuban-8 or whether Air Force blue or Navy blue is the truest blue when they do their 6 ship delta diamond photo pass. And does mounting a jet engine on a Suzuki dirt bike qualify as an airshow act. Inquiring minds want to know.
Not necessarily. MS gets 'picked' on by leaving wide, gaping holes between the browser and OS integration in an effort to make the web an extension of your desktop.Steve said:I've tried the mozilla lizard, the netscape (started by a fellow MS'ian who donated $100 Mbucks to Ole Miss not long ago), the firefox, the mosaic, the opera, even the safari and I've managed to get them all to lock up eventually. MS gets picked on because it holds something like 90% of the market share. Hackers would do the same to apple/linux/unix/atari basic if they were similarly prominent.
Are you remembering to mark forums as read after you finish reading them?And the way "New Posts" are displayed now a lot of the results really aren't new to me and so I can do just as well going through Forum by Forum using the path at the top of the page to find New Posts, which may or may not have a boldface font just like the non-New Posts to find the posts that are new to me.