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  • Fruitcake
    Fruitcake Posts: 59,463 Forumite
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    edited 8 February 2020 at 12:18PM
    LadyDee said:
    The posts are so big and spread out - so much white, and the posts are very deep - I can only see 7 threads on my laptop screen.  Seems so much wasted space.   
    I have temporarily reduced my screen size by Zooming out 20%. I can now see more threads/posts but it doesn't help with the wasted space (or my poor eyesight).
    I married my cousin. I had to...
    I don't have a sister. :D
    All my screwdrivers are cordless.
    "You're Safety Is My Primary Concern Dear" - Laks
  • Fruitcake
    Fruitcake Posts: 59,463 Forumite
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    edited 8 February 2020 at 12:28PM
    Nice one Tigs. :smile: 

    The Quick Links function seems to have disappeared as well. 
    I married my cousin. I had to...
    I don't have a sister. :D
    All my screwdrivers are cordless.
    "You're Safety Is My Primary Concern Dear" - Laks
  • Please get rid of Favourited. There is no such word. If you can "bookmark" a thread you can "bookmark" a forum.
    Please can we have an obvious "mark all read" as I think a lot of the problems are caused by everyone seeing gazillions of stuff which isn't actually new. 
    The purple New isn't clear whether the thread is new, or there are new unread posts. 
    Thank you. 
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • maman
    maman Posts: 29,709 Forumite
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    taka said:
    Patr100 said:
    taka said:
    Another thing I just noticed is everyone seems to have their number of posts listed twice under their avatar on the LHS eg Robatwork
    5.6K posts
    Posts: 5,620 Forumite

    Well everyone except me... who it just shows as
     Posts: 3,362
     
    I agree with butterflymum re the badges need a bit of tweeking. Mine are currently showing 10 & 9 yr anniversary badges (why both?). It also shows that I've made my 1st and 10th forum posts :D  Errm I made them in 2007 long before badges started if I remember correctly and have made several thousand since!
    Your post is showing the 3.3K as well, at least for everyone except you.
    Wierd it now shows 3.4k for me too and my badges have changed again! :DOdd If you try and type after a emoji you get a pop up with more emojis including ones not in the drop down choice above this posting box! :dizzy:
    I wanted to just quote the post that's in bold but got all of this when I simply clicked quote on taka's post.
    It seems that by typing a colon, a choice of emojis comes up. Which is a pain if you actually want to use a colon followed by a letter. Sometimes it shows on the screen, sometimes it just appears after posting. Surely it had to be easier to choose from a list of emojis? I think emojis are an important part of posting as it's a way you can get expression and inference into a post. 
    Anyone know how to multi quote? Use colour? find your own old posts?

  • Swipe
    Swipe Posts: 5,613 Forumite
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    edited 8 February 2020 at 1:14PM
    Please provide a 'mark forum as read' button
    Also, it would be good if a link could be provided to the forums category section at the top of each page as it did before e.g.
    Forum Home >> Household & Travel >> energy
    rather than just
    Forum Home >> energy

  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,769 Forumite
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    maman said:
    maman said:
    MSE_Tine said:

    Welcome to the new MSE Forum! :money:

    We hope you’ve had a good chance to settle in and look around the new place.

    After almost 17 years with our previous Forum tech, we have moved 1.9 million user accounts and 47 million posts across to this new technology with all sorts of improvements to it (and many more planned for the coming weeks, months and years).

    We are sure there are a few things we may have missed in the move too - 17 years of extensions, redecorating and patching things up means, in spite of our best efforts, there may have been some things we didn’t realise might get broken along the way. And there’s always the tiniest chance of a few creaks and cracks in the finish.

    If you notice anything that seems broken or unfinished as you use the new Forum, please let us know here.

    To be completely honest, some things will be different because they have to be - a lot has changed since our previous tech was built - but we’ll do our best to sort as much as we can. If a snag you’ve found has already been mentioned, you don’t need to post it again as it will already be on our list (and to keep things manageable we may need to remove duplicates).

    Please make sure to include as much information as you can in your snag feedback - a link to the page where the problem is, a screenshot if you can and a description of what it is the snag stops you from doing. One of our team will message you if more information is needed.

    Many thanks and welcome once again...here’s to the next 17+ years of the MSE Forum,

    MSE Forum Team


    UPDATE: THINGS WE ARE AWARE OF (TO HELP YOU SEE AT A GLANCE WHAT YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL US ABOUT)

    • Mobile & Tablet view issues
    • Inability to Enter/Skip competitions from the list view
    • Inability to sort Competition threads by Title
    • Format of the date stamp on 'latest post' (quick tip: hover over the date to see the full date and time [but rest assured, we're reviewing this])
    • Request to return post numbers on individual posts. 
    It would be extremely helpful if this first post on the thread was updated with all the snags that we've found.
    Scrolling through, I've now found a more recent update. But why not list the snags NOW rather than in the next few days. Surely the mse team are working this weekend or is it a case of 'light blue touchpaper'.....
    I suspect that number of comments on a specific issue may well be used to help with prioritisation ☺️ - and some things may in any case be fixed by Monday morning as there is obviously work still ongoing given the amount that has changed just this morning. 

    Lots of the the issues here could have been addressed by a basic user guide (obviously not everyone would have read it, but it would have helped the majority and given something for them to point the remainder to.

    On a positive note, it hasn’t taken most people long to get the hang things enough to work out what they don’t like, so hopefully we’ll all start finding things we DO like!
  • eskbanker
    eskbanker Posts: 37,079 Forumite
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    Swipe said:
    Please provide a 'mark forum as read' button
    Certainly on the desktop version this is achieved by clicking on the profile icon at top right, under which there's a 'mark all viewed' option.
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Can someone sort out the cursor appearing inside a quote box if you delete text to re-write something else.
    There seems to be no way of getting outside the quote box apart from leaving the thread and starting again.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
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