Site updates--Thank you!
The latest updates to the site to give us control over post ordering and the number of posts on a page are great!
(You may have to do a 'screen refresh' to get the updated style sheets, I did.)
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- Reply by tarragonmh on January 06, 2012 at 7:18 pm
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Hmmm, I'm seeing the option, I make my choices and click submit, then I get an error message....
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- Reply by berwynbaker on January 06, 2012 at 7:59 pm
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Mike, thanks for the tip about refreshing the page. It worked for me.
Thank You KA for giving us a choice on the order of the postings hopefully, this will make all of us happy. bb
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- Reply by berwynbaker on January 06, 2012 at 8:04 pm
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Swirth, I played with the first option. If you choose compressed, you only see the first few words of the posting and the name of the person who posted it. The expanded choice shows the entire posting. bb
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- Reply by pjh on January 06, 2012 at 9:47 pm
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Yes, definitely do a screen refresh. Actually, we're kinda still working on this... we were discussing today whether it's useful to have the collapsed view. I voted yes, as I think it's nice, if you were trying to get to a particular person's comment in a long thread, to be able to quickly find the person's name. What do you guys think? Keep both expanded and collapsed views?
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- Reply by Mike Nolan on January 06, 2012 at 11:09 pm
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I suspect most of the time I will use the flat/expanded option, but the collapsed one is very nice too.
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- Reply by tarragonmh on January 07, 2012 at 12:58 am
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I have refreshed the screen a few times, still get an error message when I try to submit my choices. If I can get it to work I think I'll like it!
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- Reply by Mike Nolan on January 07, 2012 at 2:09 am
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I think it's throwing the error message but also saving the updated preferences, probably a bug they'll need to fix, hopefully soon.
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- Reply by ZenSojourner on January 07, 2012 at 3:06 am
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I think it would be most useful if "collapsed" mode showed all posts collapsed EXCEPT new posts! If possible....
But this is a great improvement already! Thanks!
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- Reply by Mike Nolan on January 07, 2012 at 3:36 am
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The problem is that 'new' is a relative term. What's new to you (if you haven't checked for new messages since yesterday) may not be what's new to me (if I checked an hour ago.)
That requires keeping detailed logs for each person of which forums, threads or individual posts they've looked at, and that doesn't cover people (members or non-members) who aren't signed in.
A timestamp on the collapsed format might be helpful, though.
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- Reply by cwcdesign on January 07, 2012 at 6:02 am
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I'm so pleased to see all this hard work in action. I also got the error message and will try refreshing the screen.
Is anyone else getting a large white space between the original post and the options? Or is it just my computer?
Thanks, PJ and crew
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- Reply by berwynbaker on January 07, 2012 at 6:35 am
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I got that large white space until I saved my choices and refreshed the page then the white space disappeared. bb
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- Reply by ZenSojourner on January 07, 2012 at 8:25 am
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Mike, they already do that. When you go to your personal page on the right there under your threads, it'll say "2 new" or "5 new" or whatever. The info's already there.
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- Reply by Mike Nolan on January 07, 2012 at 2:36 pm
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i don't find those indicators fully reliable, and that still only works for members who are signed in.
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- Reply by Mike Nolan on January 07, 2012 at 3:00 pm
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Do a screen refresh, that should get rid of the big empty space before the first post.
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- Reply by mrscindy on January 07, 2012 at 5:04 pm
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When I logged in today, I was plesantly surprised to see the change. This will be a big help, I think. Again, it is something to get used to, but I think it will be a step forward.
Thanks, KAF!
~Cindy 😃
Edit: How do you do a 'screen refresh'? I don't see that option. I'm using an iPad, if that makes a difference.
~C
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- Reply by RonB on January 07, 2012 at 6:45 pm
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Cindy - the refresh button is at the end of the address box at the top of the page. The address box is where you see:
"http://community.kingarthurflour.com/comment/reply/12264/33353"
I use Firefox, and the symbol is a 3/4 circle with an arrowhead on the end. Just click on that to refresh ~ Ron
BTW - I think the "Do not send notifications for this update" just means you will not get an email for your own response even if you have subscribed to the topic ~ R
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- Reply by ZenSojourner on January 07, 2012 at 7:37 pm
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Hmmm, they've always been reliable enough for me - its just that once it takes you to the first new message, it doesn't indicate where the OTHER new messages are - but it "knows", eg it's in the database somewhere.
And yeah, you have to be signed in, that's pretty standard for this kind of thing. I don't see that as a problem.
There may very well be OTHER problems. But if it were possible on THEIR end, it sure would solve the whole "I can't find the new messages" thing on OUR end.
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- Reply by ZenSojourner on January 07, 2012 at 7:40 pm
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I think Ctl-F5 does a forced refresh
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