New Forum Snagging

zugzwang · 7 February 2020 at 4:23PM

How do I search just the thread I'm reading?

spendaholic · 7 February 2020 at 4:32PM

1. My avatar has loaded as a jpg instead of a gif. Can't we use gifs any more?
2. I don't want an email every time MSE does something. Hoping we can turn this feature off somewhere.
3. As others have noted, spacing is an issue. Presume that will look better once posted.
4. We used to be able to preview our messages before posting. Haven't found that feature yet.
5. I've been receiving emails all day today (launch day), but whenever I clicked the link, it came to an error page. Presuming that was part of the upload. I came in the long way in the end.
6. I found the "edit message". That's good, because someone said earlier that they couldn't edit their message.
7. This looks a lot like the interface many of us rejected when the forum went into beta testing before. Then we had the option to return to the old look. It doesn't look like we can do that now, and I don't believe that the current interface is very inclusive, and that will put some off. It's not very easy to read, the colours are too white, there is too much white space on the page.
8. EDIT: The spacing is HORRIBLE, as it's spaced out in the editing screen, but all bunched together in the viewing screen. Far too cluttered. We need a WISYWIG option.
9. Can't find the emoticons for my signature ...
10. Can't go to message last read, or last message in thread.
11. Subscribed threads (competitions): Can't see our thanks or our skips, so no idea which was the last competition we saw or entered.
12. Search is completely pap. It used to be so quick to just type in a term, choose entire threads or just post titles, and voila! There they were. How do you search so simply now?

So far, it's not looking great and seems to be more of a backward step. There are more hoops to jump through and it's harder to do anything. Not very inclusive or user friendly. Hopefully, it's all teething trouble. BUT ... it's up to you guys, obviously, as it's a free service for us. I just don't think I'll be visiting as often if it doesn't improve.

spadoosh · 7 February 2020 at 4:33PM

zugzwang said:

I read one thread every day, but I don't want to read all of the thread every day.
But I can't see a way to click to the latest post on a thread any more.

The forum will automatically take you to the last post that you viewed. It will not recognise when you last viewed it using the old forum, so for the first time you go through a post you will have to go to the bottom manually, from then on when you click on the post, it will take you to the post that you last viewed.

Tuppence11 · 7 February 2020 at 4:35PM

I am at a complete loss as to understand how this new set-up works. Please could someone explain, in words of one syllable, aa though talking to an idiot? I found myself trying to enter competitions that I then noticed were from back in 2018! This needs an easy lay-out so that new competitions are clearly visible as soon as they posted and people aren't following old threads! Regular, weekly comps should be included in this daily list too - have them separately too, if you like, but it's too much to have to keep going to different places, here and there, to find what used to be in one easy-to-understand list. This is why people dislike change ; we're told it's going to make everything better and easier, with bells and whistles on - only it rarely does. It's a change for the worse. Hence the old maxim: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!

Ed_Jogg · 7 February 2020 at 4:44PM

Small and not very urgent problem: sorry that I haven't trawled through twelve pages of comments to see if this has been reported before, but I do have a screengrab...

First time using the new forum to view a thread that was created very recently.

You will notice that the date above the title is a bit odd!

Image: https://us-noi.v-cdn.net/6031891/uploads/editor/j3/xzh47hux3l9y.jpg

Here's a link to the thread, in case it's of any help:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6099331/dell-laptop-battery-buying-advice

Doshwaster · 7 February 2020 at 4:46PM

The same thing happens every time a website or application is redesigned - immediately people hate it and demand the old version back but within a couple of weeks everyone gets used to it and then the old design looks prehistoric. There are bound to be some teething problems as it is a big step up from in-house testing to giving live with thousands of users, all with different usage patterns, devices and browsers.

The key improvement for me is that the site is finally usable on a mobile phone.

DonnySaver · 7 February 2020 at 5:14PM

Found another ...

The "New Posts" button used to be readily available so you could quickly get back to the "new posts" page. Now you have to click backwards until you see it again?