Posts Disappearing

[tonyc1]

I don't see any of that on my screen. All i see is fast reply and simlar topics in brown bars. Maybe because i use Fire Fox it's not there.

Yeah, I'm the same! Perhaps it is Firefox

[Johanna]

You have to look on the main forum page that lists all the forums, not the individual topics themselves. http://leatherworker.net/forum/

Under the last forum is a toolbar over top of the "Who is online" "New Members Today" section. There are three choices on that toolbar, and one is "get active topics", on the left. It works in Firefox, IE and every other browser that I know of.

~J

[Eaglestroker]

I was trying to figure it out. If you click the 'forum' tab it only appears on the main forums page. I'm using Firefox as well.

[dirtclod]

Found it. Thanks for explaining where it is.

[tonyc1]

Likewise. Many thanks.

[Johanna]

That's my job. Trying to simplify life on the computer for the average leatherworker. I love you all, even when you overcomplicate things. Please hit me with any questions or suggestions how to make this place work better for you. I'll do the best I can to help.

Johanna

[electrathon]

That's my job. Trying to simplify life on the computer for the average leatherworker. I love you all, even when you overcomplicate things. Please hit me with any questions or suggestions how to make this place work better for you. I'll do the best I can to help.

Johanna

How about as an idea of simplification:

I think many, many people look at nothing on the forum but the new content link. The forum is so overloaded with categories it would take forever to navigate daily any other way. Once we look at the post it is lost forever. Even if you remember it, it is very difficult to sort through all the pages and locate it.

The active content link is a better step to being able to relocate a post. But, it is not convenient to click on (I am sure most regulars do not know about it and even fewer newbies do). Coupled with the fact that now you have to keep reloading the main page of a slow running forum, it is in a horribly inconvenient place, not good.

So: I doubt many people want the posts to disappear like they do in the new content link. Likely most everyone would feel the active content link is what we need. How about just swapping the two? Those wanting to loose track of the posts they are following can then locate and use the new content link and those wanting to keep track of the links will click on the active content link that is now in a convenient location.

Aaron

[Denise]

I keep the active content link in my favorites and click on it directly that way. Works for me!

[TwinOaks]

I'm okay with it just the way it is.

When I check this in the mornings, there's typically between 30 and 60 new posts. When I log back in after work, I hit the new content button and see what's changed....i.e. new posts in the threads I am following. If I click on the the daily active content, I have to scan though the entire list to see if one or two threads have any replies. With the new content, I can pop in on this site, see if any new replies have been made and respond or if there's nothing new in one of the threads I'm following, it isn't on the list and I go back to what I was doing.

[Johanna]

Aaron, why do you say this site is slow? Our logs don't show anything unusual, and I haven't had any complaints about speed since we upgraded to the dedicated server. Tell me more.

~J