New Forum Software questions not in Help/FAQs

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

No apologies necessary Michael. It’s all good 🙂👍🏽

Ketan at ARC.

Wow… the emojis work too.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

In trying to find posts that I have made and posted in the past, I looked in (my) ‘Profile’ and see this message,

You do not have the required user role to view this user list.

What am I doing wrong?

Ian P

[SillyOldOrdinaryMemberParticipant @sillyoldordinarymember]

[SillyOldOrdinaryMemberParticipant @sillyoldordinarymember]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

SOD Activity (orange) is a Moderator thing

When a Member opens their profile it lists activity but only on the new forum, no easy way to find your own posts from the old site. More suggestions in the other Creative Comments thread and how to search

[Mike HurleyParticipant @mikehurley60381]

On 21 October 2023 at 16:44 Ian P said
I know that images and albums from the old site have not been carried over but have all the old posts been lost?

Put another way, how do I find my posts (I’m logged in) or posts from another member?

Ian P

Although not obviously ‘up front’ on the new site, you can still locate previous articles complete with images etc simply by using the search facility.

For example – I was a bit horrified when I first logged onto the new site to find everything seemed to have reverted to 0, particularly as I was part way through following an article by JasonB! After a while I remembered the articles title and did a search and bingo the complete, lengthy document was there in all its glory. Phew!

HTH Mike

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

On the old forum I was able to set it up to go to the latest post on a topic e.g straight to page 12 not page 1.

Is that facility available now?

Keep at it guys.  With your sterling work I’m sure we will get there in the end.

Thanks,

Rod

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Rod we don’t have that option

 

What we have at the moment is if you use latest activity list clicking the topic (thread) will take you to the last post

Also if looking down one of the forum heading lists if you click the time above the name of the last person posting that will also take you to the last page. Slight problem if it was a multiple of 25 as that takes you to the top of the next page and not such an easy route back to the previous

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

IanP, Click “forums” along the green bar and then you will get the list of forum headings, there is a box to type in and a big blue button “search” just at the top right of that list just below FAQs/help

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Thanks Jason, I can see that now.

Is there a petition I can sign to reinstate the old forum software?

That is a serious question. I know you and everyone else is doing their best to fix the numerous problems but the most expedient solution might be to revert until a new and usable site can be launched. I feel that if the current site continues broadly as it is then members will be leaving in droves.

Ian P

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I think a few of us moderators are the top signatories already. Lesser of the two evils

It was becoming unstable and insecure so could have broken at any time and then hard to recover the data and a long downtime while an alternative was found. So unlikely to be brought back.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Peak4 and all others looking for their old posts, see my separate thread as to where they can be found.

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