New Forum Format - How to Edit, How to Get Emails if Replies are Made, which posts are "new"???

winesteven

Call me old fashioned (because i am), but for the life of me, I cannot figure out with the new format how to edit a post or reply of mine, how to arrange to get emails if someone replies to a post I want to follow, and how to easily see if a post is "new" (or not). At the moment, i don't like it AT ALL, as it is not intuitive one bit!

Steve

MFeld

As you requested, I’m calling you - old fashioned.

The edit option isn’t functioning for anyone, yet. I don’t know about the other questions you asked about but I’m sure someone else will.

Swampboy

I think we need to suck it up for the weekend.
In the past I've noticed corrections or glitch fixes happen Mondays.
It'll be a stressful weekend for folks on the BST

winesteven

So are we all Beta Testers because they chose not to test it before launch? It really seems that way. If they had professionals design it and test it in advance, we wouldn’t have these issues, would we?

MasonG

@winesteven said:
If they had professionals design it and test it in advance, we wouldn’t have these issues, would we?

While I'm not saying there should be no testing, I would suspect with the almost uncountable possible combinations of hardware/software and operating systems that currently exist, there is no practical way to test every one of them.

winesteven

@MasonG said:

@winesteven said:
If they had professionals design it and test it in advance, we wouldn’t have these issues, would we?

While I'm not saying there should be no testing, I would suspect with the almost uncountable possible combinations of hardware/software and operating systems that currently exist, there is no practical way to test every one of them.

It’s hard to believe they tested any. I’ve tried these functions on a common iPad, and on my Dell Desktop.

MasonG

@winesteven said:
It’s hard to believe they tested any.

I haven't tried everything but have noticed that the edit feature doesn't work, so there's that. Overall, it seems to mostly work so they must have tested some of it and the majority of the complaints seem to be due to formatting and visual differences vs. the older forum.

I'm not ready yet to ask for my money back.

FlyingAl

Steve, this new update hurts even my young brain who grew up on modern tech.

It’s just a poor design in general.

TrickleCharge

Post carefully, if you make a typo you wunt be eble to change it.

messydesk

New forum is simply a dumpster fire at the moment. I wouldn't expect anything to get fixed or improved over the weekend, either.

Desert Moon

One word - YIKES!!!!!!!

PerryHall

@TrickleCharge said:
Post carefully, if you make a typo you wunt be eble to change it.

Agree. That's why I suggested that everyone carefully proofread their comments before they post them.

P0CKETCHANGE

.> @PerryHall said:

@TrickleCharge said:
Post carefully, if you make a typo you wunt be eble to change it.

Agree. That's why I suggested that everyone carefully proofread their comments before they post them.

Cougar’s worst nightmare.

MasonG

I always poofread.

Harlequin

The no editing now is especially terrible for the BST as now you have to make a new post every time something sells if you are posting multiple items and buyers will have to dig through it all to see what's sold and what's not. I had that issue earlier and found it to be a big inconvenience! 😎

lordmarcovan

I’ve despised this software platform in general (especially the Markdown formatting) ever since they rolled it out ten years ago. If the ability to edit has indeed gone away, I will hate it even more. But I guess it’s bad form to gripe about free stuff, so I’ll shut up about that now. I do hope CU eventually switches over to a better platform.


I mostly moved over to CoinTalk after 2016, primarily due to my distaste for this platform. The XenForo platform CoinTalk uses is vastly better, except for two things: one, users can’t edit their posts after about 24 hours or so. Two, CoinTalk is absolutely polluted with distracting ads, but if you are a Suppoter ($29/year), you don’t see them, and I’ve heard a good ad blocker takes care of them too.


Both CU and CT are good sites when it comes to the people and the knowledge base.

lordmarcovan

Yep. The gear icon doesn’t work. Ugh.

MsMorrisine

@lordmarcovan said:
Yep. The gear icon doesn’t work. Ugh.

they are aware it is broken

jesbroken

Let's give our hosts a break. Once a complaint is posted, I feel sure they will note it and attempt to repair it. Listing it over and over just makes the issue boring. If you have same problem as poster then just hit agree. Saves the boredom of reading same thing over and over. Beat me up, instead, I'm sure many would enjiy it and then it
becomes a fun string. BTW, I was able to edit this post after previewing it. Not the same as once posted. JMO.
Jim

lordmarcovan

Yes, I'm afraid I could not restrain myself from grumbling since I have always disliked this software.

But to be fair, I do indeed note that overall this is a nice free thing that our hosts provide for us, so I do apologize for the kvetching and will say that this community has been very important to me over the past quarter-century, and I am very grateful for that. So I do keep that in perspective.

Oh, and speaking of that quarter-century thing, I have a 25th anniversary giveaway still going, as of this post. Come enter it if you haven't already:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1125296/lordm-giveaway-151-25th-anniversary-random-drawing-after-10-1-26/p1

joeykoins

Yep, it seams like everything everyone has posted so far, has effected us all?
Although, here are a couple more...
One, I'm guessing, there appears to be "New" management in some sort?
Maybe? I can be wrong?
And two...
Another complaint issue, is the fact that now, all categories are coming out together?
My "Sports cards" are mixed with my "Coins".
It's hard enough to physically keep my inventory separate.
Let alone, here on the Forum?
Lol

joeykoins

Lol
"Edit"
"It seems..."
Lol
Sorry.

joeykoins

Oops...
My bad!
I was wrong about all categories together.
They're fine. OK, carry on...

Bikergeek

@MasonG said:

@winesteven said:
If they had professionals design it and test it in advance, we wouldn’t have these issues, would we?

While I'm not saying there should be no testing, I would suspect with the almost uncountable possible combinations of hardware/software and operating systems that currently exist, there is no practical way to test every one of them.

You are a nice person to give them grace, but in fact there are oodles of way to test a website's functionality before you roll it out to your user base. Automated tests can be written once and run many times to check back-end and front-end functions. There are regression suites, "smoke tests," and Netflix even deploys things like "chaos monkey" which not only tests in a controlled test environment but in production, to see how well its systems recover from events. There is a methodology called TDD - Test Driven Development - that says write the test first and see that it fails, then write the code and see that the test runs. Finally: there are Testers, who are actual humans who know how a system works, operate under formal Quality Control/Quality Assurance Plans, and who write and execute Test Scripts, and report failures to the developers - and then retest.

But most of all I suspect some of us would have been willing participants in focus groups, even providing feedback and bug reports, if someone had just asked. I would have.

Imagine going to click on "buy now" at Amazon or eBay, and it not working. Or hitting "search" on Google, and having no results come up. Or popping your popcorn and getting a beverage, plopping down in your comfy chair, and selecting a new episode of your favorite show on Netflix - only to have no video load. (Well, I guess you still get to eat that delicious popcorn).

SDSportsFan

I've just now seen this new format, and all I have to say is:

W T F ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Give us back the old format..........P L E A S E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

This new format is VERY DIFFICULT on the eyes!

Steve

MasonG

@Bikergeek said:
Imagine going to click on "buy now" at Amazon or eBay, and it not working. Or hitting "search" on Google, and having no results come up. Or popping your popcorn and getting a beverage, plopping down in your comfy chair, and selecting a new episode of your favorite show on Netflix - only to have no video load. (Well, I guess you still get to eat that delicious popcorn).

If I was paying for a service and not getting it I'd be unhappy, that's for sure. That, however, is not what's happening here. From what I've seen, it appears the virtual furniture has been rearranged somewhat and there are some functions (such as post editing) that currently don't work. It doesn't cost anything except your time to use the message board and everybody is free to not spend any more of it than they choose, if the experience is not to their liking.

As always, YMMV.

Bikergeek

@MasonG said:

@Bikergeek said:
Imagine going to click on "buy now" at Amazon or eBay, and it not working. Or hitting "search" on Google, and having no results come up. Or popping your popcorn and getting a beverage, plopping down in your comfy chair, and selecting a new episode of your favorite show on Netflix - only to have no video load. (Well, I guess you still get to eat that delicious popcorn).

If I was paying for a service and not getting it I'd be unhappy, that's for sure. That, however, is not what's happening here. From what I've seen, it appears the virtual furniture has been rearranged somewhat and there are some functions (such as post editing) that currently don't work. It doesn't cost anything except your time to use the message board and everybody is free to not spend any more of it than they choose, if the experience is not to their liking.

As always, YMMV.

Ah, you assume I pay for my Netflix!

Just kidding... of course I do... ahem. And yeah, this is still a good neighborhood, even if some of the sidewalks are cracked and the streetlights flicker a bit.

Tramp

Can't see where my last comments were made to what post. Just where I was the OP.

Tramp

@Tramp said:
Can't see where my last comments were made to what post. Just where I was the OP.

Never mind, found it.

oreville

I do not understand why businesses spend money on programmers. Programmers are getting sloppier and sloppier. Even CAC Grading botched up their Coin marketplace.

joeykoins

@joeykoins said:
Oops...
My bad!
I was wrong about all categories together.
They're fine. OK, carry on...

Oops, again.
Sorry, I was, right in my saying that "ALL Categories" are thrown into one setting!
I actually see the proof.