Return to green layout help please

grannybiker

sleepyjones said:

@grannybiker The VANS competition ended yesterday so it is now in Game Over, the Game Over section doesn't have the Skipped / Entered options (at the moment, hopefully).  All of the Entered / Skipped (on the main board) have come over from the old site, so if you entered it on the old site you should see it in this forum as entered (unless it's in Game Over)

Thank-you, that makes sense.
However, the lack of entered / skipped boxes on comp boxes can still be problematic.  For example, today I received a parcel full of cat treats with a card reading, "Congratulations from Webbox!". While I'm delighted for a win, and our son's cat may now decide I'm not the !!!!!! equivalent of Cruella De Ville, I can't find who to thank. Search brings up several competitions with Webbox, but absolutely no idea which I won.  I only enter via MSE or directly via emails or on Facebook / Twitter as things appear in my feed or I'm tagged, so it must be one of them, but which....?

grannybiker

  New forum allowed me to use the cat word it used to censor 
Will it also allow Scunthorpe and Mafia?  
ETA, (Actually, it didn't on refreshing...)  Allows the town, but not the secret group that rhymes with raffia

robertjmca

Come on peeps... lets give the site a chance. Yes it's frustrating, but if the heart of the comps forum waltz off 'cos they don't like change'... then the rest of us who REALLY appreciate your comp finding skills will be left in limbo.

The site was what it was... not because of the layout... but because of the tireless work of the people who posted the comps... from the dozens a day people to the twice a year people.

I have (over the years) seen sites change format many times... it takes a while... then all of a sudden you realise that you've got the hang of it... and all the niggles have been ironed out.

Anyway... neglected my wine glass for long enough.

Best of luck to you all... HANG IN THERE !!

Robbie.

That is all :-)

claireblaney123

im really struggling with this layout, ive been one her for years, but i think im going to leave the site, you cant see what comps you have entered without clicking on them, the search :'doesnt work properly, this has to be the worst forum ever!!!!! what the hell was they thinking, its very very sad you can't thank people for posting im not going to mention the new way of doing it because its ridiculous 

chickadeedee

So disappointed with this new layout, there was nothing wrong with the old one. Can't get comps in date order, search doesn't work properly, I'm gutted its changed, huge thanks to all that posted comps in the past, but I think its time to find another comping website :-(

unklep

I’m another who feels sad at the new forum style. The old style was easier to navigate and seemed to fill the screen. This style seems to waste half the screen. Very sad to say but could be the end.. have already had to re-register and have lost all my old history 

mjm3346

robertjmca said:

Come on peeps... lets give the site a chance. Yes it's frustrating, but if the heart of the comps forum waltz off 'cos they don't like change'..

Not liking change is one thing but the loss of almost all useful functionality is far more than that
Tick and cross that worked from the index and showed on search results
Simple forum sorts to display by thread title, thread start time etc
A thanks button that worked and showed you had used it
Thread titles that would show part of the thread when hovered over
and that's just 4 things 
20 competitions on the old forum would take me 20 to 25 secs to mark them off - without using "bookmark" to partially get round the skip failure it took nearly 6 minutes when I tried on this one

flyingbug

I can not work out how to tick to say you have entered a competition ,I  definitely do not like  the new forum style ,I  am really struggling to use  the competition pages.I guess I must be to old to use this site now 

Short-n-Sweet

I am not a fan of the new site. I have avoided it until now and trying to do a few so sorry if this has been mentioned but is there no longer a preview when you hover over a thread title? I used to like being able to see some of the thread before clicking it as certain websites I don't bother with.

mjm3346

flyingbug said:

I can not work out how to tick to say you have entered a competition ,I  definitely do not like  the new forum style ,I  am really struggling to use  the competition pages.I guess I must be to old to use this site now 

There is an entered button on threads on the main comp board right next to the skipped one.