What are your favourite 'features' on the new site

[Meg]

@Twink55

I know exactly what you mean Meg, but at least we are trying!

@Twink55 …and some more than others
sorry couldn’t resist that old one

[Twink55]

Once again Meg, I know exactly what you mean !

[Donkeyman]

Is that a sort of spying function then BAZ ??
Seems like somebody going thro your office waste paper basket a bit ??

Donkeyman!

[Donkeyman]

So it’s not only me Meg??
I feel about better now!!

Donkeyman!

[swimfeeders]

Hi

Still working my way around.

I am hoping to do a quote and post a photo sometime soon.

I do enjoy still being able to chat to people however, I do not feel cut out.

[Omah]

@swimfeeders

I am hoping to do a quote and post a photo sometime soon.

Here’s the latest info on quoting:

Azz

16h

To quote a person’s post or part of their post

@Dextrous63

Highlight the text you want to quote and a QUOTE button comes up. Hit that.

To quote text that you have typed or pasted into the reply box

@caricature

In the reply box on the top left corner there is a speech bubble this also will quote text (highlight the text first then hit that icon)

Also, if you want put a single line of text as a ‘quote’ just add a > at the start of the line, eg:

>I want this shown as a quote

Will display as:

I want this shown as a quote

You can also use the old fashioned [QUOTE] tags.

Cool huh?

[Omah]

@swimfeeders

I am hoping to do a quote and post a photo sometime soon.

Posting a photo can be as easy as doing a “copy image” from your PC screen, as I’ve done here:

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But it’s more likely that you will want to do more than that - it’s probable that @Azz or another FM will provide more comprehensive instructions soon …

[Baz46]

@d00d

@Baz46

That feature is definitely very comprehensive isn’t it – showing the last 100 revisions really is quite something!

Usually I read my posts before posting, I cannot abide typos in my own posts. That goes very much against the grain, my working life was spent ensuring those types of errors did not get through on final products. Old habits die very hard, useless spell checkers that need to go back to school don’t exactly help either!

This plus so many other features we did not have on the old OFF site is very impressive and all thanks to Azz.

yes, except it doesn’t show the precise time, which is useful when someone edits their post after someone has commented on it.

I guess that might be useful in some of the more contentious threads, perhaps debates and discussions, where a post is deliberately edited after posting what might be a rather dubious comment. Although those are few and far between as most of the threads / posts are not like that so really accurate timing is not required.

[Baz46]

@Donkeyman

Is that a sort of spying function then BAZ ??
Seems like somebody going thro your office waste paper basket a bit ??

Donkeyman!

Not quite sure what you mean DM, checked previous posts but couldn’t find anything similar to your reference, perhaps quote that post if possible?

[Azz]

It’s great to see you all discovering new features and enjoying the site more and more - and it’s only been days since we made the switch over

@Bruce

This thread shows the last message as 48/49. What has happened to the missing message? I don’t have anybody on “Ignore” (it’s against my religion). Another example:

It’s possible that that counter did not get updated when someone posted a reply while you were on the page - on this forum, when you are on a thread and someone posts while you are there, it shows up right there and then - same with post edits - it gives you a ‘live’ update

If it happens again try refreshing the page, it should hopefully show the latest number on that counter then

[Meg]

@Baz46

I often edit my posts, not for any dubious reasons though, and didn’t realise that the number of times an edit is done comes up at the top of the post! It’s all very clever isn’t it and all down to the new forum.

@Baz46 you are not alone Baz I have lots of edits nothing sinister though. For some reason I don’t notice mistakes when I read through a post but a minute later I see them.
Not all edits are so innocent though, one member used to watch when Mods were around to read it then post something nasty about the site or a member and quickly delete it befor a mod could and the editing time expired leaving a ‘blank post’ .
It surprising what some people find ‘amusing’ , it won’t be possible to do that now

[Dextrous63]

@Meg - it was amusingly ironic to actually see your edit on that post happen in “real time”. Wouldn’t have been possible on the old site.

[Meg]

@Dextrous63

it was amusingly ironic to actually see your edit on that post happen in “real time”. Wouldn’t have been possible on the old site.

@Dextrous63 that’s fine by me Dex nothing to hide here .

[pauline3]

@Meg

@Baz46

I often edit my posts, not for any dubious reasons though, and didn’t realise that the number of times an edit is done comes up at the top of the post! It’s all very clever isn’t it and all down to the new forum.

@Baz46 you are not alone Baz I have lots of edits nothing sinister though. For some reason I don’t notice mistakes when I read through a post but a minute later I see them.
Not all edits are so innocent though, one member used to watch when Mods were around to read it then post something nasty about the site or a member and quickly delete it befor a mod could and the editing time expired leaving a ‘blank post’ .
It surprising what some people find ‘amusing’ , it won’t be possible to do that now

Of all the years I have been on this site, I have never seen you and Mags logged in on the old site.

I can see you both logged in on this new site.

[Dextrous63]

@pauline3

Of all the years I have been on this site, I have never seen you and Mags logged in on the old site.

I can see you both logged in on this new site.

Their status as mods necessitated it. If we knew they were around and watching, it might have affected how we posted.

[Meg]

@pauline3

Of all the years I have been on this site, I have never seen you and Mags logged in on the old site.

I can see you both logged in on this new site.

@pauline3 That is so Pauline however if we could be seen to be posting in threads I think it could be safely assumed that we were on line.

[pauline3]

@Dextrous63

@pauline3

Of all the years I have been on this site, I have never seen you and Mags logged in on the old site.

I can see you both logged in on this new site.

Their status as mods necessitated it. If we knew they were around and watching, it might have affected how we posted.

Sorry Dex…I sincerely don’t understand your logic,

[Meg]

There is an odd feature, the little ‘settings’ wheel in the post menu has something called hide details

Summary

This text will be hidden (boo! …what is this )

I am not quite sure what purpose this has unless it is to summarise /shorten a very long post before quoting it ,

@Dextrous63 ETA in case Dex is watching I have edited this post to add the word
post which I missed out

[Dextrous63]

@pauline3

Sorry Dex…I sincerely don’t understand your logic,

When you were at school, did you behave differently when a teacher was in the room compared to when you knew for a fact (s)he wasn’t?

[pauline3]

@Dextrous63

@pauline3

Sorry Dex…I sincerely don’t understand your logic,

When you were at school, did you behave differently when a teacher was in the room compared to when you knew for a fact (s)he wasn’t?

Sorry Dex, your thinking/ teaching is completely alien to me, I truly don’t understand you, ……

Edited, because it didn’t make sense.