Announcing the NI Discussion Forums Upgrade

[smercurio_fc]

UI Comment:

• The making of the first unread post's backrgound gray is really silly in my opinion, and adds absolutely nothing. In fact, it just makes things more confusing. For example, in this post rolf's message was the first unread message, but my message was marked as the solution. I had gotten to it by clicking on the link in the thread lists under the "New" column. So, it took me to rolf's message. rolf's message was gray, but my message was marked as the solution, but it wasn't very obvious.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Overall, not a bad look. So far, the location of the 'Post' button is the biggest irritant.

[JÞB]

Autosave – We all know how frustrating it is to be typing a post and then something happens and your browser crashes or you accidentally navigate away from your message!  The forum will now autosave your message as you create it.  As you are creating your message, you will see the time that the draft was last autosaved just above the right corner of the editor window. If you do end up with a crash or otherwise abandon the message, you will find a link to your saved message on your profile page.  You can also delete the drafts from your profile page if they are no longer needed.

Love it

a couple of notes-  UGH I can't get below my PNG to talk about my missing KUDOS revieved in my statistics on my profile-  AND BLOGS?

[Laura F.]

Images and attachments should now be fixed.  You may need to refresh your page or close / reopen the browser if it's not working for you yet.

Thanks for all the feedback thus far - I will reply to everyone later today.

[Ben]

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@Jeff Bohrer wrote:

Autosave – We all know how frustrating it is to be typing a post and then something happens and your browser crashes or you accidentally navigate away from your message!  The forum will now autosave your message as you create it.  As you are creating your message, you will see the time that the draft was last autosaved just above the right corner of the editor window. If you do end up with a crash or otherwise abandon the message, you will find a link to your saved message on your profile page.  You can also delete the drafts from your profile page if they are no longer needed.

Love it

I hit reply then hit quote.

Had to do a bunch of CR to get below the quted stuff.

The sorting is going to hurt me.

I relied on my tags being listed in alphbetical order but now they appear to be sorted first on count and alpha within each count group.

Previously they were alpha order and the boldness showed the frequency of use.

None of the setting in profile see to work to change the layout.

What do I have to do to get them in alphabeticl order and still show the counts?

Ben

[elset191]

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Ben wrote:

I hit reply then hit quote.

Had to do a bunch of CR to get below the quted stuff.

Ben

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Judging by the format of your post, it seems the CR's were unnecessary.  Got a giant gap between the picture and your actual post.

[altenbach]

If I do a "View all" on my recent posts, I really miss the bolding of threads with new messages. Now everything is plain and I need to look at the numbers in the last column to see what got updated. This is tedious!

Can we have the bold back?

Please! 😄

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Where are the aforementioned Advanced Search options?

-AK2DM

[Ben]

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@altenbach wrote:

If I do a "View all" on my recent posts, I really miss the bolding of threads with new messages. Now everything is plain and I need to look at the numbers in the last column to see what got updated. This is tedious!

Can we have the bold back?

Please! 😄

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Yes Please!

I use 100 posts per page to be able to keep track of the weeks activity.

THe BOLD was very helpful in finding the posts that someone has finally replied to.

Ben

[smercurio_fc]

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@altenbach wrote:

If I do a "View all" on my recent posts, I really miss the bolding of threads with new messages. Now everything is plain and I need to look at the numbers in the last column to see what got updated. This is tedious!

Can we have the bold back?

Please! 😄

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This may have to do with the font setting? Just a guess, since I've already seen one problem with setting the font to small and not seeing bolded threads.