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echo wrote: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?

Wulfman wrote:

echo wrote: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?

Try holding your mouse pointer over them and see if a description shows up.

Den

frapilu wrote:wow, lotta things to comment on.

- I have often hit that message that you can't post again so soon. Annoying!!!!
- I usually use preview before posting so I don't need to see the page yet again after I've submitted so I vote to be brought to the main page
- I like the list the way it is. I don't want any categorizing or stuff like that.
- what's a yahoo bot?
- Hope Chris feels better soon. He's been doing a great job.
- Johnny, your messages made me chuckle. You're doing a great job too.

Can't remember anything else that was asked/discussed for now. I'm at work so doing this while multitasking so I'll check again later at home.

France

OldLincoln wrote:This is the issue I have with screen size. Note the page header & button images. The font size adjustment doesn't change those. I often visit another site that just upgraded without these issues - and I am not putting anybody down - http://forums.mozillazine.org/. I really appreciate what you guys are doing and understand the work you're putting in. I don't care if this gets fixed for the next several days or a month, but it does affect users.

johnnygoodman wrote:

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.

hobbs wrote:Like my wife says, I can never find anything!

How do you tell which topics have new posts in them since the last visit?

Babette wrote:Okay.....

new-cpap-user.php?page=start

SNORT! How much did ya'll have to bribe Johnny for THAT ONE?

LOL,
Babs

Babette wrote:WOW.... I didn't know you could send one of those through international mail. I was sure Homeland Security would block it....

LOL,
Babs