It’s not visible. In fact, I don’t see your 11:57 post on Latest Posts. Maybe it will come up when I post this.
This is the corner it belongs in, <em>BUT</em> it’s not going to get much traffic now. It should have been done when the changeover first happened. People listed their issues in other threads. So if they were “taking notes,” does this list of issues supercede those lists of issues from previous threads now? That’s a great way to cut down on the issues to fix. Were all the previous posts all for naught? Perhaps so. I wonder how the site traffic/page views/posts have changed since the changeover. Perhaps a significant number of posters have just given up and moved on. Or, like me, come to CC much less than I used to. Are the parents the ones with the most issues? Perhaps, as someone posted somewhere else, they do not really care about maintaining posters over time. Of course there is still the issue of the mods…make it too difficult for them, and they should quit. After all, they are uncompensated volunteers.
Stop pinning stuff just because Roger Dooley authored it. And don’t give us the nonsense that these are “hot/on fire threads” when they aren’t.
When I look at my replies, I need to see whether something else has been posted, or not. It’s as simple as that. The “x new” is good, but needs to be applied to my replies as well as the thread itself.
It seems that the change was made for maintenance reasons that we can not see for better functionality of the system but I also think that there was this need or want to be able to link to social media. I am wondering how much marketing or research was done before hand to determine if linking to social media was necessary for a forum where most people prefer to stay anonymous. I think the anonymous nature of the forums is what is appealing to those who have questions.
My biggest beef is not being able to subscribe/bookmark sub forums. Specifically colleges. I work with high school students in helping them with their college choices and I really can’t put the time into clicking on each college any longer. I only have so much time I squeeze in here and there to help these students out and I am not going to be able to help the large numbers of students as much as before. It’s a shame.
Even going to a college forum site - the yellow dots from before that showed if anything new was posted was very user friendly. I just feel like CC is not user friendly anymore.
Also, why do some threads get the fire icon and others don’t? How is that determined and who puts that on there? They are very biased.
+1000 Half the time they’re articles that have already produced more than one thread.
Mine are the usual:
-bring back something that shows there are new posts without having to go to the thread (I miss my yellow dots)!
-Reduce white space
-Give us the option of whether or not to have drafts. It makes writing on my phone impossible half the time because the draft save message goes over where I’m typing.
^^ Same here @ drafts. It also happens whenever someone replies to a bookmarked thread. The notification covers my ENTIRE reply box.
Geez, people, there are exact dates and times on every post. Just mouse over the post date and it gives you everything.
Also, we need a way to “mark all as read” again, and preferably a way to clearly mark threads in which we have posts in the thread list of the subfora like the red stars from before.
^^ That’s not a good option if you’re scanning down a page of posts.
I can’t mouse over on my IPad.
If the exact times and dates exist when you mouse over them, it shouldn’t be that hard for the technical crew to make them visible at all times. It seems that the programming would be more complicated to change the time/date display after a certain amount of time has elapsed. But I’m not a tech person, so maybe I’m mistaken.
^ Somewhere there is a programmer who is proud that he came up with a cool algorithm to map an absolute time string into something more and more vague as it ages.
It’s not really what most people want IMO, but hey, what do I know.
The full timestamp is in the page, it shows up as a tooltip when you hover - no trip to the server happens or anything like that. So it would (should be anyway) trivial to change it to always showing the full timestamp.
Folks…you can NOT “hover” when using a tablet or smart phone. Sorry…not possible. And if I were a betting person, I’d say many people are using mobile devices with NO hovering capability. Post numbers are NOT an unreasonable request.
Same issue on Latest Posts, after the clock hits midnight, time changes to date.
How do we delete drafts?
Go to my drafts and move the mouse around on the upper right on the post. Eventually, an x will appear.
Is there a way to do it on a phone?
I have an android. This may work. Go to Drafts, touch lightly to the right of the title, not on it. A grey x appears. Touch again and it turns black, then again and it deletes.
:(( If you touch the thread title, better touch the x fast or it will take you to the thread. .
To recapitulate on comments I’ve made on the previous threads:
Add me to the folks who’d like a larger font for poster’s name, member since XXX, location & page numbers. It gives context and helps me to assess credibilty. I also like having the time on posts marked “yesterday” but don’t know how hard that would be to return.
Also noticed that the emoticon icon on the upper right corner of the text box (as in what I’m typing in right now) covers part of my text. It disappears once the message is posted, but covers the last three letters on the first line I type in a post.
Again, thank you all for the great feedback. I know it sounds repetitive, but we are centralizing your requests, prioritizing them, and work with the tech team to improve your experience on the site. I do not think it makes sense to post daily updates—as some of the work requires a bit more time to be properly implemented and we want these updates to be relevant. As promised, we will keep you informed. We will continue to share news whenever the case.
Even if we do not communicate on a daily basis, the admin team is closely monitoring the forum activity, while working with the tech team behind the scene. Thank you all for the support and understanding!