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I am not seeing Categories/Subjects on this forum. It appears to be one large forum. Am I missing something?

Howdy All,

Chris Brown is leading this project and is out sick today (probably pushed too hard launching thing thing...). He'll be back Monday to field bug requests and reply to the fresh stuff we've not addressed.

Meanwhile, I will mop up the gimmes.

#1.

Guest wrote:

johnnygoodman wrote:Please post any bugs or issues you see with the new design to this thread. Coders and a project lead are standing by to address them.

I can't access my profile, even with your "new" password. Am I banned?

Banned

You are not Banned, Banned. I think you are falling into the all to common phpbb trap of "getting the email, but not clicking the activation link". Done this one myself. Here's what I'd like you to try and report back the results:

1. Click Login
2. Click Forgot Password
3. Enter Username/Email Combo To Generate Email
4. Open email
5. Copy (highlight + ctrl + c) the temporary password
6. *** This is the one its easy to miss!!!*** Click the "activation" link inside the email
7. The link takes you to a "your temp password is activated" CPAPtalk page
8. Click Login
9. Type In Your Username
10. Paste that password
11. Hit Login (if religious, pray.)

This should get you in. If not, come on back and I'll try to rig something.

When posting a reply;
You get a choice of going to the post you just made or going back to the forum. This happens so fast that I don't have time to click on either one. I get sent to the reply I just posted. Could just a little more time be given for those of us who need it?

Brenda

I'm the guy responsible for the lack of delay. Here's my reasoning:

1. When I post, the odds that someone posted during that time or will post right after are very low - even on a super popular post.

2. After I post, its the top thing on main page CPAPtalk.

3. Therefore, if I post and am refreshed to the main page CPAPtalk, I can glance at my thread, see if I'm still the last to post and head on to other business.

4. If someone else posted, its easy to click right back in.

What I don't want it to have 2 seconds of my life stolen with each post I make. Yes, I could click the return to forum button, but I've got the "lazy because I know in 2 seconds it'll do it for me" thing going on.

I'm not opposed to either changing it back or building an option into profiles that lets people choose. However, before this work is done, I'd like the numbered argument for why it should be a slow refresh.

Why do some topics have the scrolling icon and some show the avatars?

Short Answer: If you post your avatar, that shows. If not, the default scrolling icons show.

Long Answer: All you VFW guys please bear with me - here goes some mushy reasoning. CPAPtalk is a warm place in a sea of cold websites. The secret sauce is all of you. People put themselves out there with threads like "2 Days Into CPAP and Struggling", which is hard to do in front of a bunch of strangers, and we come back with our stories, our advice, our support. A few years ago people started posting their real pictures (or real baby pictures) to CPAPtalk as their avatar. I thought this was an awesome development. I think it is critical that newbies see as many smiling faces of successful CPAP users as possible.

Cut to the redesign - we thought it was important that we have big bold titles right on the main page. However, all of those red and blue circles weren't getting it done. CPAPtalk was cold. We wanted to tell people about CPAPtalk very quickly, and we didn't have space for 1000 words, so we put your pictures up there.

The good with this approach is that everyone who comes to CPAPtalk can now "get it" quickly. The bad is that sometimes you get the standard icons and sometimes you get faces. Its not very consistent design.

I pushed for us to launch it this way and see how people reacted before making further mods. We are seriously considering printing blank when no avatar is listed, showing avatars when they are available and using the "take me to the newest post in a thread I haven't read" little box to the left of the title for people who want to see everything they've not read.

It'll be a while on this though, we're squashing other bugs.

Bigger font: doesn't always work on the first click. You have to click it a number of times before it finally increases in size. Smaller font seems to work on the first click each time.

This works for me, although it can take a second or two the first time I click it. I bet small is going "fast" because you are clicking big first.

That said, it could be a browser thing. If you are in firefox, you can use ctrl + plus and ctrl + minus to do the same thing. I tend to use these because they are on my keyboard and thus faster. Hope this helps, hard one to solve for sure.

I miss the guests being "Also posted as" especially when I have been accidently guested and too lazy to back out and re-sign in.

Hrm, I liked this feature too. I didn't know it went away in the new phpbb. I will figure out how hard it would be to hack this back in. Can't have Babs posting logged in now, can we?

BoomersRock wrote:I am not seeing Categories/Subjects on this forum. It appears to be one large forum. Am I missing something?

First off, the Boomers do not rock. Gig 'em Aggies!

Secondly, we're an odd bunch in that we like having all the discussion take place on one central, very active board. For organization, we've created a "Popular Tags" section, which shows on the left of the third blue box down. They allow things to be organized by keywords, even though they are all in the same category.

Here is more on tagging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_Cloud

Johnny

Thanks for the quick response Johnny. I wouldn't mind being refreshed to the main page after posting, but I get refreshed to the post I just made. Since I already know what I wrote, I don't need to see it again.

Brenda

bdp522 wrote:Thanks for the quick response Johnny. I wouldn't mind being refreshed to the main page after posting, but I get refreshed to the post I just made. Since I already know what I wrote, I don't need to see it again.

Brenda

Ah. I agree. Chris, lets get this one added.

Howdy,

Feedback request - when I am PM'in and posting on CPAPtalk, I sometimes hit the "you can't post again so soon after your last message". This is to hold spam down, but it feels overly sensitive.

Does anyone else hit this? Perhaps we could say "if you have over 50 posts and have been registered for more than 6 months, you can send stuff more frequently"?

Johnny

I get that sometimes too. Some of us answer alot of questions in a row. Having to wait to respond to a question can be a pain.
I like the idea of 50 posts and 6 months. It would make it much easier.

Thanks

Brenda

I just noticed that suddenly I'm unable to edit my posts ... Where did my EDIT button go?

I've also noticed that refreshing seems to be a lot slower than before.

Hmmm ... well ok, seems like I can edit this one but not any of my other previous posts, oh well nothing is perfect I guess

OK thanks ... I now seem to have my edit button back.

That seems to be the bug as now I cannot edit the previous post above anymore.

johnnygoodman wrote:Howdy,

Feedback request - when I am PM'in and posting on CPAPtalk, I sometimes hit the "you can't post again so soon after your last message". This is to hold spam down, but it feels overly sensitive.

Does anyone else hit this? Perhaps we could say "if you have over 50 posts and have been registered for more than 6 months, you can send stuff more frequently"?

Johnny

I hit this a lot, especially if I'm trying to edit something I've just posted, and then I cannot get the edit to go through. Very annoying. Would love for you to find a fix for it

bdp522 wrote:Thanks for the quick response Johnny. I wouldn't mind being refreshed to the main page after posting, but I get refreshed to the post I just made. Since I already know what I wrote, I don't need to see it again.

Agreed! I would love it if it refreshed back to the main page, without delay. After posting, I don't really need to see my own post or the same thread again.
(For me it also currently refreshes back to the post I just made).

johnnygoodman wrote:Secondly, we're an odd bunch in that we like having all the discussion take place on one central, very active board. For organization, we've created a "Popular Tags" section, which shows on the left of the third blue box down. They allow things to be organized by keywords, even though they are all in the same category.

YES YES YES KEEP IT ALL IN ONE CATEGORY! Too often on forums they try to make it all organized and divide things up into different categories, but with the way threads and discussions wander around on THIS forum, it will be very confusing if there are multiple categories of boards. The TAGS idea is really good!

johnnygoodman wrote:Chris Brown is leading this project and is out sick today (probably pushed too hard launching thing thing...). He'll be back Monday to field bug requests and reply to the fresh stuff we've not addressed.

Meanwhile, I will mop up the gimmes.

Hope he'll be feeling better soon. THANK YOU again to Chris Brown, Johnny Goodman, and all the code monkeys who have done a WONDERFUL job on the new forum. !!!!

johnnygoodman wrote:

When posting a reply;
You get a choice of going to the post you just made or going back to the forum. This happens so fast that I don't have time to click on either one. I get sent to the reply I just posted. Could just a little more time be given for those of us who need it?

Brenda

I'm the guy responsible for the lack of delay. Here's my reasoning:

1. When I post, the odds that someone posted during that time or will post right after are very low - even on a super popular post.

2. After I post, its the top thing on main page CPAPtalk.

3. Therefore, if I post and am refreshed to the main page CPAPtalk, I can glance at my thread, see if I'm still the last to post and head on to other business.

4. If someone else posted, its easy to click right back in.

What I don't want it to have 2 seconds of my life stolen with each post I make. Yes, I could click the return to forum button, but I've got the "lazy because I know in 2 seconds it'll do it for me" thing going on.

I'm not opposed to either changing it back or building an option into profiles that lets people choose. However, before this work is done, I'd like the numbered argument for why it should be a slow refresh.

I really like your new way. Please keep it. I also really like to do a quick review of what I posted to make sure those quotes did make it the way I want it, since I often edit the quotes to reduce the clutter and focus on the point of a msg I am replying to.

Please try to edit a post again. I think you have like 70 days to edit your post. One of our super user change a setting that prevent editing and should be fixed now.
Testing cpap cpap.com cpappedia http://www.test.com

Hi, Babette here. Haven't read through this whole thread, but thought I'd post anyway.

I'm deeply disappointed to find the old "Red FAQ" section has been deleted. It was a great way for us to direct newbies to pertinent information.

I would really like to see it re-instated.

Other than that, the changes really don't do alot for me. I was fine with the old board. The new board is just "prettier" and not necessary easier to use.

Cheers,
Babette

TrinhVu wrote:Please try to edit a post again. I think you have like 70 days to edit your post. One of our super user change a setting that prevent editing and should be fixed now.
Testing cpap cpap.com cpappedia http://www.test.com

Yes it works now ... many thanks!

How about putting a small LEGEND for the ICONS on the MAIN page?

Like what's with the broken orange thing with an arrow - next to the subject on the main page? Probably unread threads?
Or the Circle avatar - there's the red one, and the black one, and ones with a star next to it?? What does it all mean?