CliffordK

A couple of new "quirks" I've found.

The quick reply is only on the last page. So, you have to go through all the pages to get it.

Quote works, and you can simply delete what you don't want.

FBOATSB

Infinite scrolling on full site; how do turn on infinite scrolling on mobile site? Or can you?

Jim from Boston

Quote:

Originally Posted by gugie

Mentions/quote notification should be #1 priority. It generates more use.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rollfast

You mean that more people possibly view your profile?

I killed that stuff off in the last version and never lacked for people looking at that, same for quotes.

Let's get the posting and editing features up and running right first? Mentions etc. were the last things added into it anyway.

As one who quotes frequently, I would hope that invites more subscribers to read my posts, rather than visit my profile.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wphamilton

At last I'm enshrined in a Jim from Boston quote chain, feels like the big time! Thank you…Ride on.

TejanoTrackie 

himespau 

I imagine that he means that those of us who get e-mail notification of quotes and mentions are more likely to come back more frequently because our interest has been piqued to wonder what people are saying about our comments not that we want to look at the profiles of people. And mentioning someone draws their attention to the thread in which they've been mentioned, which they might not otherwise visit, again bringing up the number of visits. More page views => more revenue.

Kapusta

locolobo13 

I skimmed instead of reading this thread. Noticed a couple of others mentioning problems uploading photos from URL. Just tried the same thing. The photo uploader wouldn't accept the BBCode from Flickr. Nor a direct url. But when I copied the BBCode directly into the post and added the IMG tags manually it worked. See post 2946 in this thread https://www.bikeforums.net/foo/70937...hy-ii-117.html.

locolobo13 

Thanks. That worked.

Rollfast

I don't know what infinite scroll looks like on a PC but this is a huge problem...the bottom bar design.

Forget trying to post the screenshot.

If you don't scroll down enough you can easily mistake the teal Quick Reply and Reply button in the bottom bar for the ones you need to use in the POST (composing not editing as far as I could tell).

This only opens a new windows and messes all your effort up. If you are lucky it was auto-saved and can be somewhat easily reconstructed, but it's frustrating and counterintuitive.

Rollfast

And I used the correct routine to post an attachment from my computer, which worked previously for that picture of a blue 1955 Plymouth Savoy.

mtnbud

Me too. I'm having no luck loading photos. I also tried URL links through my Google photos account and those URLs won't load.

Charles Wahl

I'm going to cast my vote to resuscitate the date of original post (start date of a thread) on the left-hand side. Zombie threads are mainly a nuisance. If they really come back and generate some interest, then I might look at one if I see it's regained traction. But opening the thread, in order to see when it started, is not an acceptable substitute. If you don't think that this is important to forum participants, then I suggest you review posts #6, 12, 65, 74, 121, 141, 145 and 146 in this thread alone, and many more in the two Classic & Vintage threads concerned with the skin change (namely AAAaaaagh! Can we PLEASE revert back to yesterday? and Damn, what this?).
Thank you,
Charles Wahl

wrk101

This is a fail IMHO. A lot of us migrated to photo sites like Flickr to handle photo loading to this site, and now it doesn't work.

dedhed

The return of the date of original thread start would be nice. Thanks for all you do to keep this site up & running for us whiners.

jimmuller 

Dropdown panels are irritating on any website (even though a lot of newspaper sites use them now).

Wasted screen space is a waste of screen space.

Infinite scroll should never be a default.

Many of these features can be controlled but finding where or how is not so easy. Like this very thread, for example.

Can we please see the date a thread was started???? Please please please?

Must we have such a tiny font as the default?

3alarmer 

...it's working pretty well for me on a Windows machine using 7, with Chrome as the browser.
Working a lot faster than it was before too. It does look different, but not unlike the BF prior to the reversion to the older software that happened a year or two ago.

The image loading thingy is definitely an improvement. Thanks for that.

CliffordK

Are there images in the first post of this thread? All I see are broken links.

https://www.bikeforums.net/20307454-post1.html

As mentioned, Puppy Linux, Chrome, and Javascript turned off (otherwise BF freezes my computer, too many resources).

One thing, Google has traditionally been unable to parse/link photos to Bike Forums, presumably due to the non-standard format of the links. It makes searching for old photos harder, and perhaps decreases functionality of the website in general.

ryansu

Text and pictures now run off the right side of the page for me but there is no horizontal scroll bar for me to see it, the text and pictures and text just disappear, like my view have been cropped. If I go down to 50% on the zoom I can see it all but that is not optimal and for probably 50% of the pictures I am only seeing half of the photo. If I choose to click on the picture then it comes up in a sort of photo preview and I can see it fine but I never had to do that before.

Rollfast

Use cut and paste. Google changed the way you can post images from their searches as well, due to complaints from some third parties and a settlement (mainly Getty Images).

Rollfast

Did you have something I didn't, or are you thinking of another site? The date of the OPs post DOES show, in the STARTING POST. If you use the link to whatever post, OP or nor you will see that date in the original version that was quoted.

Is this a MOBILE problem? You all seem to be asking for something that never existed in the way you think, and I've been here for nearly eleven years.

jimmuller 

I have no idea what you have so I can't answer your first question. No, I am not thinking of another site. This is BikeForums,net, isn't it? Are you suggesting I'm accidentally posting a complaint about, say, WashingtonPost.com or Google.com to BikeForums???

If you look at a thread from either Subscribed Threads or from a particular forum, it used to show when the thread was started. Now it doesn't. It shows when the last entry was posted, but that's different.

I read BF with both Windows7/Firefox and Galaxy S7/Chrome. I always switch to Full Site when using the S7. As far as I know this is neither browser-specific not device-specific.

Rollfast

That explains it. I wasn't grasping it was about Subscribed threads.

Why is is a big deal anyway? If you no longer are interested in the thread just unsubscribe.

And as a matter of practicality I never subscribe to entire forums. I tend to look over the latest posts listed in the parent directory then choose from those or go right into a forum to seem what is listed with some current posts. I get at least 2 dozen email notifications (weekly, on Sundays) and go through them, mostly in that email, then scroll down and usually click the unsubscribe link BF places at the bottom if I have no further interest. There are still several I keep notifications for, these are regular interests like threads in Foo.

If I subscribed to an entire forum I would be lost, swamped. On the other hand, I know where I was when I last left that thread and can refer to page ONE to go back and refresh.

If you have stuff from 2008 do go back and unsubscribe from that. I tend to recognize what I know recently. You can just kill the subscriptions option and start fresh again as a RESET as well.

Just keep managing your subscriptions. If you're done, leave the thread.

ColonelSanders

The date of the first post in a thread isn't visible when you look at the listing of posts produced when you clock on "Today's posts" from the Quick Links menu.


Whilst I don't see the loss of this as a major problem, who wants to lose a feature that was there before the update?


So I would like to see that feature come back and hopefully more colour schemes will be offered in the future, so I can choose the Yellow colour I associate with this forum.

himespau 

I go to new posts to see what's currently being discussed an if any of that interests me. The previous versions all had the start date of any threads so I could see if someone had resurrected a zombie thread before I clicked into it no matter how interesting the title. Now I have to click into it, look at the date, see if I want to proceed or click back out. A few mouse clicks and a couple seconds of my time, but its an added frustration that didn't used to be here.

L Arnold

Pretty difficult to scroll down in a long response thread like this.

Main thing though, Put a Link to the Forum Set (ie Folding Bikes) at the bottom of the page as well as the top of the page.
It used to be like that, but the bottom of page link is not there for me on Windows Right now.

Very Brave. Keep it up. The system has been an Anachronisim really. Hey, thats OK.
Thanks for working on it though.