Message board, I hope I can express myself without anyone getting upset.
The new format was not accepted well by many at first and was a topic for a while but now most seem to have accepted it. Many issues/dislikes were discussed at first and a few “silent“ changes were made. AJ has yet to respond to any inquiries as to why the change was made in the first place.. It seems it’s still is not accepted by most as evidenced by the lack of use recently.
I have not accepted the new format yet and I have a few issues I’d like to bring up.
1) When you reply to a post the message replying to cannot be seen, of course if you hit back arrow to view it again, etc. you loose what you have wrote so far, gone, nadda, no undo, no back space will bring it back (a problem on the old format as well) GONE. So you have to start over. Myself, I find it helpful to be able to view the post you are replying to as it was on the old format.
2) There seems to be a time-out feature, after a certain period typing, your post goes away, what you wrote goes away and it kicks back to front page, you have to start over. I tried 4 times this morning to write this thread and each time it got stopped when almost finished. Finally I decided the best way (only way) was to write it in word and cut and paste it to the message board. At first I thought I was hitting a key by mistake, but I;m convinced now it’s a “timed out” feature.
3) On the new format, threads that you open are not shown as “read” like the old message board, so it makes it difficult to determine a new message from an old when you log on..
If people are happy with the format, fine, but if you’re not, speak up so maybe AJ will address it or respond.
Big John
(this message written I word, 1 attempt, start to finish)
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John,
Concerning your hang-up of not seeing what you are replying to, use the Quote button and the Quote will show up like here, then you can reply. BTW, this is a common method on other BB that have this feature available.
When you reply to a post, the post you are replying to shows up below the form where you type in your message. All you need to do is scroll down to see it so I don't know what the problem is.
Not sure why I never noticed that before, guess I'm not very observevant. It's hard to believe that it's been there all along, because I looked, what a dummy.
Not sure why I never noticed that before, guess I'm not very observevant. It's hard to believe that it's been there all along, because I looked, what a dummy.
I spend a lot of time on this message board and have gotten great information and met a number of great fisherman. That said, I would like to also make a few comments, some have been said several times.
1. Cannot determine new or read messages. Although the new label disappears at some time, it is often still there even after the message has been read.
2. The biggest problem I have is after you have read a thread and want to go to the next one, it brings you back to the very first post. Does anyone have a remedy for this?
I do not want people to think that I am the annoying wife of Salmonitis..I am not. I just felt after reading the posts this morning that I needed to let everyone know how hard Aj works on this site in order to make it a great website to visit. I realize that you all know this and appreciate it. However, Aj does not like a lot of the new things that came with the new look Bravenet has decided to go with either and he's working hard on changing it. Believe me, I hear it daily and what people say and what he sees does not go unnoticed! So, be patient and hopefully with the suggestions people made to him and the concerns with how it works, Aj will be able to work with Bravenet to get it more user friendly. I agree with White Cap when he says that he's loyal to this site and only wants to make it better..I am not only loyal to this site, but Salmonitis too.
Don't be to hard on yourself John. You are not alone with your frustrations of Bravenet. Primitive at best I say. But hopefully like politics when the term is up they are gone. Haha..had to get that in.