Suggestion to admin
May 11, 2016 15:11:46 #
This site is clearly important to many people, both contributors and owners.
How about tracking and publishing usage stat changes prior to, during and after the change to the new format?
Run some online surveys - SurveyMonkey - or similar.
There are some good things about the new format, but also we are beginning to see some significant issues being raised.
So, to the UHH membership, let's start with an informal survey. If interested please respond to this post in the following way:
1) What do you like about the new format and why?
2) What do you not like and why?
3) What are the top 3 suggestions you would make to improve the UHH format for your personal situation and why?
4) Any other comments or recommendations.
Please use just those four categories, please be polite, and constructive, but above all try to provide objective and actionable commentary and be as concise as you can.
OK, let's see if this has any value or not.
How about tracking and publishing usage stat changes prior to, during and after the change to the new format?
Run some online surveys - SurveyMonkey - or similar.
There are some good things about the new format, but also we are beginning to see some significant issues being raised.
So, to the UHH membership, let's start with an informal survey. If interested please respond to this post in the following way:
1) What do you like about the new format and why?
2) What do you not like and why?
3) What are the top 3 suggestions you would make to improve the UHH format for your personal situation and why?
4) Any other comments or recommendations.
Please use just those four categories, please be polite, and constructive, but above all try to provide objective and actionable commentary and be as concise as you can.
OK, let's see if this has any value or not.
May 11, 2016 15:18:44 #
SharpShooter wrote:
A survey wouldn't hurt anything. Leith out knowing, I'm just assuming that this change will be for a while, a living document, to be added and subtracted from as the bugs/deficiencies are found.
That's just what I would think!!!
Like taking away the Avatars from the main pages. There's plenty of room for them without making any additional physical changes.
SS
That's just what I would think!!!
Like taking away the Avatars from the main pages. There's plenty of room for them without making any additional physical changes.
SS
May 11, 2016 15:33:39 #
Yep, please see SS's last comment since a quote of a quote doesn't flow through....
May 11, 2016 18:15:55 #
Really like the new format on my phone and tablet -
Overall, to me, the new format is clean and organized -
Suggested improvement:
Search function:
1} sort by newest
2} return the advanced search function
3} search all the articles, not just the titles - similar to a web search engine
Mass deletion option in Bookmarks
That's all I have for now...
Update -
Ability to delete own posts
Overall, to me, the new format is clean and organized -
Suggested improvement:
Search function:
1} sort by newest
2} return the advanced search function
3} search all the articles, not just the titles - similar to a web search engine
Mass deletion option in Bookmarks
That's all I have for now...
Update -
Ability to delete own posts
May 12, 2016 23:08:46 #
This is a classic example of why we should have ability to delete our own posts - http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-388733-1.html
May 13, 2016 00:30:00 #
May 13, 2016 07:48:14 #
Peterff wrote:
This site is clearly important to many people, bot... (show quote)
Ignore feature is stupid.
May 13, 2016 07:59:24 #
1) Like : you can add attachments in PM's ... the ignore list will surely help some.
2) Dislike : pretty much everything else ... harder to navigate and get what I'm looking for ... search function opens with oldest 1st
............... lost the links at the end of a page to go back to main topic ... wish I could turn off active topics and just open to main screen as before.
2) Dislike : pretty much everything else ... harder to navigate and get what I'm looking for ... search function opens with oldest 1st
............... lost the links at the end of a page to go back to main topic ... wish I could turn off active topics and just open to main screen as before.
May 13, 2016 08:15:21 #
While it's good to have an IGNORE LIST and it's good that anyone on your ignore list can't post in topics you've created. The IGNORE list leaves out one critical step:
I suggest that when someone is put on your ignore list that you will NOT be able to see ANY of their posts. There is a reason that one is put on an IGNORE list.
I suggest that when someone is put on your ignore list that you will NOT be able to see ANY of their posts. There is a reason that one is put on an IGNORE list.
May 13, 2016 09:52:53 #
Heather Iles
Loc: UK, Somerset
ptcanon3ti wrote:
While it's good to have an IGNORE LIST and it's good that anyone on your ignore list can't post in topics you've created. The IGNORE list leaves out one critical step:
I suggest that when someone is put on your ignore list that you will NOT be able to see ANY of their posts. There is a reason that one is put on an IGNORE list.
I suggest that when someone is put on your ignore list that you will NOT be able to see ANY of their posts. There is a reason that one is put on an IGNORE list.
You have a point in your second paragraph, but I think that one is going to be difficult to avoid at this stage. I have already seen it happened on the new forum and "held my breath", but it was ok.
May 13, 2016 11:36:41 #
Regarding the new software, I just ran into a bit of a glitch. I don't know if this was an issue with the old software or just started with the new software upgrade, but I just noticed it. There was a post in which the OP had posted quite a long rant and I wanted to do a "Quote Reply." But when I clicked the Quote Reply Button, it did NOT put the OP's text in the quote tags, but just gave me a completely blank edit window. What I had hoped to do was have all the text from OP in the quote tags, then edit out all but the portion I was going to respond to.
Is there some size limit beyond which you can't use Quote Reply? Here is the thread in question: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-388807-1.html
Try to "Quote Reply" the OP and see if it puts the quoted text in your edit window? (And yes, I know I could manually cut and past and put the text in quote tags).
Is there some size limit beyond which you can't use Quote Reply? Here is the thread in question: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-388807-1.html
Try to "Quote Reply" the OP and see if it puts the quoted text in your edit window? (And yes, I know I could manually cut and past and put the text in quote tags).
May 13, 2016 11:57:40 #
Basil wrote:
Regarding the new software, I just ran into a bit ... (show quote)
It just worked for me on your post in this thread.
It also appears to work on the OP (me), pasted from a separate window:
Peterff wrote:
This site is clearly important to many people, bot... (show quote)
Maybe it was a temporary thing, but it seems to work now if I understood your comment correctly.
May 13, 2016 12:02:01 #
Peterff wrote:
Maybe it was a temporary thing, but it seems to work now if I understood your comment correctly.
I'm not sure if you understood or not, but go to THIS specific thread: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-388807-1.html
Then click on the "Quote Reply" link on the First Post in that thread (Original post in that thread) and tell me if it puts all the text from that post in your edit window, surrounded by quote tags, or do you only get an empty edit window with no text quoted?
May 13, 2016 12:30:21 #
There is a limit of 5000 characters per post.
If you are quoting a post that has more than 4000 characters, then the quote is discarded.
This is done to free up some space in the text box. Otherwise, the quoted text would take up the entire text box character limit and you wouldn't be able to enter the response.
I'll think of a more elegant solution. But for now, the quote is simply discarded for posts with more than 4000 characters. As if you clicked Reply instead of Quote Reply.
But thanks for letting me know. Trying to edit out a portion of a quoted text for a long post is a valid use-case. So I'll need to think about handling it.
If you are quoting a post that has more than 4000 characters, then the quote is discarded.
This is done to free up some space in the text box. Otherwise, the quoted text would take up the entire text box character limit and you wouldn't be able to enter the response.
I'll think of a more elegant solution. But for now, the quote is simply discarded for posts with more than 4000 characters. As if you clicked Reply instead of Quote Reply.
But thanks for letting me know. Trying to edit out a portion of a quoted text for a long post is a valid use-case. So I'll need to think about handling it.
May 13, 2016 12:37:52 #
Admin wrote:
There is a limit of 5000 characters per post. br ... (show quote)
That would explain it. Suggestion: Allow all the text, including the quoted text, to be placed in the Edit Box initially, but when saving the post, issue a big yellow warning "You have exceeded the maximum number of 5000 characters Allowed" "Please edit your text or quoted text to reduce the number of characters to 5000 or less."
In my case, had it put the quoted text in the edit box initially, I was planning to edit it down to just a few lines since I was only really replying to a portion of the OP's post, and didn't need to quote the whole thing.
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