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[NickRW]

The thread which announces the new forum software invites replies - but I can't reply to it.

 

My squirrel pic has disappeared :(

 

Pages with hand diagrams load slowly

 

How do you do hidden text?

 

Pinned topics are merely at the top of the list, rather than separated - meaning that you have to scan past them.

 

Don't like the colours - don't want red on a screen I have to read.

 

Nick

[Gerardo]

The thread which announces the new forum software invites replies - but I can't reply to it.

 

Right, like the old one, the BBO Announcements Forum is read only.

 

My squirrel pic has disappeared :(

 

Yes, sorry. Looking for a way to restore those.

 

Pages with hand diagrams load slowly

 

True, they are slower than text, or images. Unclear whether they can be improved.

How do you do hidden text?

 

[spoiler]hidden text[/spoiler]

or

[hidden]hidden text[/hidden]

(as in the old forums) but no button. Using the Full Editor, it is an entry under Other Styles.

 

 

But presentation has changed.

 

 

Pinned topics are merely at the top of the list, rather than separated - meaning that you have to scan past them.

 

Hmm, don't understand this one.

 

Don't like the colours - don't want red on a screen I have to read.

 

Nick

[NickRW]

Right, like the old one, the BBO Announcements Forum is read only.

 

Ah, yes - but the announcement never the less invited replies

 

 

 

Re the pics:

Yes, sorry. Looking for a way to restore those.

Thanks - I liked the pics.

 

 

Re: the slow load

True, they are slower than text, or images. Unclear whether they can be improved.

 

Well, I didn't find anything wrong with the old way of doing it. Perhaps you can revert the change if it can't be improved.

 

 

Re: hidden text

[spoiler]hidden text[/spoiler]

or

[hidden]hidden text[/hidden]

(as in the old forums) but no button. Using the Full Editor, it is an entry under Other Styles.

 

 

But presentation has changed.

 

 

Thanks. I am generally using an old browser and do not want to upgrade it to use this fancy editor.

 

Re: Pinned topics

Hmm, don't understand this one.

 

You currently have pinned topics merely at the top of the page. The old forum had them at the top of the page and separated out, boxed off. It was easy on the eye to ignore them. Now I have to scan down the page. This is not an improvement.

 

Also, doing this reply shows that you're not doing nested quotes of old posts - another downgrade.

 

And I still don't like large areas of red on the screen. It is not easy on the eye. If we must have this new forum can we have other skins without red.

 

Nick

[Fluffy]

the tens are gone from the old diagrams I think

 

 

User's info/profile ocupies a very large area, if that can be fixed it would be better IMO

[aguahombre]

A lot of work went into fixing what wasn't broken.

[Free]

The new forums look nice, but it's a bit searching for all kinds of stuff as with all new things.

 

Some minor points of critique:

- Still no suit symbols in polls (the new poll functionalities are really awesome however!)

- People with long interests in their profile screw up the view if they post short replies.

- Too bad all profile pictures are gone, and mine isn't displayed. Profile pictures make the forums more readable imo.

- quoting a (old?) hand diagram seems to be a problem, it doesn't look nice. The multiquote is great!

[Cascade]

the tens are gone from the old diagrams I think

 

Yes the Tens seem to be missing.

 

And I am not sure how to add x's to the new diagrams.

[gwnn]

Is there any way to restore at least part of the old palette? This one feels a little bit like a parrot to me. I know, I know, it's just my unfamiliarity and ignorance, but is there any way?

[Aberlour10]

Is the option for creating a new poll off at the moment?

As I joined to the new forums yesterday I saw it working.

 

or I can't only find it again?

[hotShot]

Is the option for creating a new poll off at the moment?

As I joined to the new forums yesterday I saw it working.

 

or I can't only find it again?

Don't you have the Poll Button if you create a new topic?

[Aberlour10]

Don't you have the Poll Button if you create a new topic?

 

No, it isn't displayed today

[Gerardo]

Ah, yes - but the announcement never the less invited replies

 

 

 

Re the pics:

 

Thanks - I liked the pics.

 

 

Re: the slow load

 

 

Well, I didn't find anything wrong with the old way of doing it. Perhaps you can revert the change if it can't be improved.

 

 

Re: hidden text

 

 

Thanks. I am generally using an old browser and do not want to upgrade it to use this fancy editor.

 

Re: Pinned topics

 

 

You currently have pinned topics merely at the top of the page. The old forum had them at the top of the page and separated out, boxed off. It was easy on the eye to ignore them. Now I have to scan down the page. This is not an improvement.

 

Also, doing this reply shows that you're not doing nested quotes of old posts - another downgrade.

 

And I still don't like large areas of red on the screen. It is not easy on the eye. If we must have this new forum can we have other skins without red.

 

Nick

 

Using HandViewer to show hands was a goal for us for quite some time.

Hand Edition/Showing followed that.

Think at this point would be easier to find a way to make them show faster.

 

Full Editor is just an another option, the editor showed at first displays a limited number of options (not including Other Styles). there is a "Use Full Editor" option if you are not using it.

 

There is also a fancier editor, with browser requirements, but that is a separate issue.

 

Not sure what you meant by nested quotes. I broke your message adding headers by hand, to answer each point separately.

 

Will look into the Pinned issue. I usually use View New Content, so I missed it.

 

The new forums look nice, but it's a bit searching for all kinds of stuff as with all new things.

 

Some minor points of critique:

- Still no suit symbols in polls (the new poll functionalities are really awesome however!)

- People with long interests in their profile screw up the view if they post short replies.

- Too bad all profile pictures are gone, and mine isn't displayed. Profile pictures make the forums more readable imo.

- quoting a (old?) hand diagram seems to be a problem, it doesn't look nice. The multiquote is great!

 

 

Yes the Tens seem to be missing.

 

And I am not sure how to add x's to the new diagrams.

 

Tens are displayed as 10.

No UI support for Xs, but diagrams support them, just change the resulting bbcode to include them.

 

 

 

 

Is the option for creating a new poll off at the moment?

As I joined to the new forums yesterday I saw it working.

 

or I can't only find it again?

 

Polls are on. When you create a topic there is a "Manage Topic Poll" button.

[Aberlour10]

Polls are on. When you create a topic there is a "Manage Topic Poll" button.

 

After I deleted all cookies on my PC and restarted I get this button displayed now.

[billw55]

At a quick glance, this looks pretty good. I'm not fond of the thick red bar across the top, but I can live with it. Hand diagrams look much better.

 

A couple of real problems:

 

Previously my password for the forums was different from my password to log into BBO to play. Now they are the same. I don't like that at all: password duplication is one of the most basic security blunders.

 

Also, there doesn't seem to be a button to mark an individual subforum as read (or at least I am not finding it). The only thing I found was the tiny "mark board as read" link at the very bottom, but this marked the entire forums as read, which is not what I wanted at all. Previously there was a "mark this forum as read" button.

 

 

edit: aha, found the "mark this forum as read" button, in the right side of the ugly red bar.

Edited October 20, 2010 by billw55

[Rain]

Btw good point, edited the announcement post to point here for anyone with comments.

 

We'll try to make this able to take pictures/avatars very soon. The old ones may be gone, Gerardo has a better idea on whether they can be retrieved and linked to each name, but don't have your hopes up.

[billw55]

Also I really like the visual hand editor. Much easier to enter hands from scratch.

 

Still, what I was really hoping for was a "import from myhands" function. Basically, a button that pulls up a search of my played hands for the last (say) one week, I choose one, and it loads into the editor automatically, auction, play, and all. Probably should mask player names though.

[kgr]

I had:

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?act=idx

As my bookmark.

And there you get message

"We are in the process of upgrading our forums, please try again later!"

=> It would be better to change that.

[Fluffy]

I've been here for so many years, yet I am just reading those pinned posts for the first time :), by mistake, but for the first time nevertheless.

 

If pinned documents on a different color is avaible that would be nice.

[TimG]

If pinned documents on a different color is avaible that would be nice.

I agree that something should be done to set the pinned posts apart from the rest. The light green "pinned" isn't bold enough for my, especially when a light green "poll" appears in the same area.

[TimG]

How does "MultiQuote" work. Nothing seems to happen when I click on the button.

 

In the previous forum, when I clicked "mark this forum read" i was taken back to the main index, now I appear in the forum just marked as read. I can't find a preference option that would change this, but I might just not be looking in the right place.

[wyman]

I've been here for so many years, yet I am just reading those pinned posts for the first time :), by mistake, but for the first time nevertheless.

 

If pinned documents on a different color is avaible that would be nice.

 

 

How does "MultiQuote" work. Nothing seems to happen when I click on the button.

 

In the previous forum, when I clicked "mark this forum read" i was taken back to the main index, now I appear in the forum just marked as read. I can't find a preference option that would change this, but I might just not be looking in the right place.

 

Click multiquote on all the messages you wish to quote. Then click "add reply" (at bottom). If the forum is looking for suggestions, this should also work if I click MQ on a few posts, then click "reply" on someone's post (but it doesn't yet, at least not for me).

[TimG]

How does "MultiQuote" work. Nothing seems to happen when I click on the button.

 

 

Click multiquote on all the messages you wish to quote. Then click "add reply" (at bottom). If the forum is looking for suggestions, this should also work if I click MQ on a few posts, then click "reply" on someone's post (but it doesn't yet, at least not for me).

 

Thanks.

 

Do we have to manually nest quotes?

[jillybean]

Also I really like the visual hand editor. Much easier to enter hands from scratch.

 

Still, what I was really hoping for was a "import from myhands" function. Basically, a button that pulls up a search of my played hands for the last (say) one week, I choose one, and it loads into the editor automatically, auction, play, and all. Probably should mask player names though.

 

That would be fantastic but perhaps not easily done or it would have been included.

[dake50]

Keep the garbage out whatever sign-in, relearn, refamiliarize I need to do.

 

Thanks.

[wyman]

Thanks.

 

Do we have to manually nest quotes?

 

looks that way. Kind of makes sense in the context of multiquote, but kind of a PITA also. From another forum, I'm used to not nesting quotes, so not that big a deal IYAM.