So far, the best feature of all, is I could actually join this one! I spent several months in limbo land waiting for my account to get verified which never happened due to not sending the confirmation emails, until the upgrade.
I like the forum a lot.
The one feature I think would be really handy is a polling feature. The electric unicycle forum has this and it can be very useful creating you own polls and everybody seeing th results, especially when the poll is thoughtfully created.
Every time someone freshly opens the unicyclist forum, there appears a big notification that is welcoming the old unicyclists forumās users to the new forum.
Itās been over a year now, and thus I propose: get rid of this big outdated notification for good.
That notification is not interesting for current and new users at all. For those using a browser that delete cookies between session, it shows up every visit.
Thereās also the globally sticky thread āWelcome to ā¦ā which might be a better location for such information.
I have four VAXes, microVAXes actually (or VAXen depending on how you want to pluralise it), they havenāt been powered up in a long long time and my VMS license will have expired. I also used to have a VAX-11/730 mini back in the mists of time ā but I think you probably mean something else
There are at least a couple ways to add a photo.
One is to use the Upload icon and select a photo from your computer.
Another way is to copy the URL (web address) of an image that is posted online and paste that URL directly into the message.
A problem Iāve noted a few times is that the quote feature does not work all the time. Note in my reply above that the screen shot shows a quote but that quote did not show up in my reply.
Other ways are drag and drop the picture from your computer in the text editor, or copy a picture to the clipboard and then paste it in the editor.
Full quotes from the previous posted message, when we are replying to the message, are automatically removed as there is no real purpose of having a message, and the same exact message underneath.
Iām not sure Iām clear enough, I still have troubles to explain myself in English
edit : Iāll let this official message speak for me:
The reason for a full quote is that sometimes there are multiple sub-subjects covered in one thread and it just makes it clear exactly what is being replied to. At least I know why some quotes are removed and I can work around that as needed.
The nice thing is, that you have two reply buttons. One at the bottom of the topic thats general. You reply to the whole topic without adressing a special person or post. The second one is beneath each post. Using this one, you reply especially to this post. If you have done so, discours will show it:
If there is no qouote, itās clear that you replied to the whole post and not to a single aspect of it. If your reply only refers to a certain aspect / sentence / paragraph, then quoting is the way to go.
I think, discourse with all of its hints and automatisms make, in the end, reading this forum much more uncompicated, fast and joyful.
One thing I think I havenāt seen mentioned is the CTRL+F search function. I absolutely hate that I canāt use the browser search function and it make me sure the forumās search function.
When I use the search function I want to be able to locate a word or a phrase in a page quickly. Now I canāt use this function anymore whenever Iām inside a thread.
Iāve looked for a way to disable this in the settings but couldnāt find anything.
Thatās one of the only annoyance I have with the forums so far. Iām glad they are back online. Thanks for all the work put into it and for the community to keep it alive. If only it could be as active as its golden days! Oh well