Members tonyc1 Posted October 13, 2011 Members Report Posted October 13, 2011 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 Quote
Moderator Johanna Posted October 13, 2011 Moderator Report Posted October 13, 2011 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 Quote You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
Members Eaglestroker Posted October 13, 2011 Members Report Posted October 13, 2011 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. Quote
dirtclod Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Found it. Thanks for explaining where it is. Quote I'm old enough to know that i don't know everything.
Members tonyc1 Posted October 13, 2011 Members Report Posted October 13, 2011 Likewise. Many thanks. Quote
Moderator Johanna Posted October 13, 2011 Moderator Report Posted October 13, 2011 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 Quote You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
electrathon Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 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 Quote
Contributing Member Denise Posted October 13, 2011 Contributing Member Report Posted October 13, 2011 I keep the active content link in my favorites and click on it directly that way. Works for me! Quote
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted October 13, 2011 Contributing Member Report Posted October 13, 2011 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. Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
Moderator Johanna Posted October 13, 2011 Moderator Report Posted October 13, 2011 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 Quote You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
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