This new Forum layout.

[menehune]

Hello menehune,

The "My Subscriptions" tab on the main page of the forum lists the threads you have subscribed to. By default, it is filtered to threads with activity within the last month. You can use the "Filter" settings on the right-hand side to change the Time filter from "Month" to "All Time". Use the "Show More" at the bottom of the list to load more threads.

Tried that. The 90% missing estimate came from setting filter to "All" and hitting the "Show More" button until nothing else loaded. Roughly 2 dozen posts. If I navigate to my profile I see a subscriptions link that shows 238. I chose only notification via panel, no email.

[Lenny Forziati]

I am struggling to access screenshots and attachments from older posts....it seems that data has been lost in the conversion. Any chance that will be reconnected to the newer version of the forum? There are older solutions that still provide help and I had several bookmarked that I can't fully utilize anymore. Thanks

We are working to restore attachments and images

[Tom Cone Jr]

Sarah, sorry to be dense. Can't find a "new topics" button. There's a "new topic" button in a forum, but that seems designed to begin a new thread. Did you mean to say "latest activity" or "latest activities" ? That works within a forum, but doesn't seem related to posts I've already reviewed. The system used to track which posts I've read, and gave me a list of new posts, in all forums, that I hadn't read yet. I could then "mark all read" and so they would not be displayed for me at next log on, when I again selected "new posts". Very handy.

[Al Buchholz]

Sarah, sorry to be dense. Can't find a "new topics" button. There's a "new topic" button in a forum, but that seems designed to begin a new thread. Did you mean to say "latest activity" or "latest activities" ? That works within a forum, but doesn't seem related to posts I've already reviewed. The system used to track which posts I've read, and gave me a list of new posts, in all forums, that I hadn't read yet. I could then "mark all read" and so they would not be displayed for me at next log on, when I again selected "new posts". Very handy.

Tom

I'd added a link to show the NewTopicsButton that works for me.

The Mark All Posts Read is now called Mark Channels Read and is located at the bottom of the main forum page.

https://forum.alphasoftware.com/

Let me know if you can't see it. It's way down at the bottom and I'm wondering if everyone can see it or just those magical volunteers... I'll email you an image that I see incase there is some special there...

[Tom Cone Jr]

Al, thanks. I see a New Topics radiobutton inside the Subscriptions Filter. But nowhere else. Must be missing something.

I found the Mark Channels Read button at bottom of main forum page, as you said.

Thanks.

[Al Buchholz]

Al, thanks. I see a New Topics radiobutton inside the Subscriptions Filter. But nowhere else. Must be missing something.

I found the Mark Channels Read button at bottom of main forum page, as you said.

Thanks.

Some how the link got screwed up. Here it is again. And it worked properly when I edited the previous post.......

http://bookwood.com/a5mb/NewTopicsButton.jpg

Note the red outlined button.

Not sure where this is...
I see a New Topics radiobutton inside the Subscriptions Filter.

[cozzitech]

I'm sure y'all are getting inundated with stuff regarding the new layout, so sorry to add to it, but in my settings, I should be getting emails on replies to my posts, yet I am not getting any email responses, and when I edit my settings, it says I did not enter an Alpha License Number, yet I cannot seem to find that field. Am I missing it?

[psidewater]

Thanks for all of your feedback. There are some great new features that come with the upgraded software but unfortunately, the upgrade has not been as easy as they claimed it would be. We're working to fix a lot of the problems that you've identified, Lenny has been staying up nights on these issues.

We do really appreciate the feedback, we want to make the forum more useful and productive for our customers so keep it coming. We may not be able to implement all of your requests now but over time we will do our best to continually improve.

[glenschild]

One really useful feature on the "old" setup was the ability to set my preferences so that the latest post in a thread always appeared at the top of page one. ie: date order descending. Please bring this back!!

[madtowng]

I can and do appreciate upgrades that are done with attention to minimize negative effects from the upgrade. A separate test site before abandoning
the previous version so kinks can be ironed out would be even better.
It would be so nice to have the old, working forum back until the new version is ready to take over, at least with all the things that made the former
forum useful (attachments, email notification of a response to a topic, the ability to view new posts as well as to have them acknowledged as read).
My goal is for this to be constructive criticism.

[Ted Giles]

@psidewater.
There are always consequenses for any action, so make Lenny a cup of cocoa.
I can visualise where this is going, and we will all get used to it in time.
What I did like was your comment "not as easy as they said it would be"
Now, where have I heard that before?
If they offer you a used car, run away.

[Ted Giles]

Still not getting notifications when someone responds to a post I have conrptributed to. This is important to me so I can pick up on the road if necessary.
In my Profile, I get a message that I haven't entered a valid Alpha License number. Why? The profile change saved eventually.
Signature has preceding letters.

[madtowng]

Ted,
As wacky as this may sound, you might want to confirm the data in your profile.
I have been receiving emails regarding replies to posts I've contributed to, including your reply from yesterday.

[Ted Giles]

Well I got this one so maybe it's fixed or my profile check has worked as you suggested. Pity it wasn't suggested by Alpha though.

[Al Buchholz]

So after looking for awhile I found the setting to get the latest posts when viewing a thread.

See here if the upload didn't work. http://bookwood.com/a5mb/A5MBAccount...atestPosts.jpg


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