Forum Issues And Suggestions

[desi]

I don't know if it's because the quotes are being done incorrectly in this conversation, or if the new design is wonky. But I cannot tell where the quotes end - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Learn-Thai-In-One-Simple-t371187.html

[tomat]

I don't know if it's because the quotes are being done incorrectly in this conversation, or if the new design is wonky. But I cannot tell where the quotes end - Learn Thai In One Simple Step - Thailand Forum

Quotes in the old 3+ million posts are still being converted to the new format, it's a lengthy procedure

[desi]

Quotes in the old 3+ million posts are still being converted to the new format, it's a lengthy procedure

Whooooh... sounds like someone has a job for a good long while

[tomat]

Hi Kan, other members report this <snip>.

It is visible for me regardless of which browser I use.

Hi 'sbk',

Any chance of a sneak preview then ?

Sawadee

Hi Kan

I test the forum with 6 browsers and this is how it looks in all of them:

But I will try today and play around with different IE7 versions and see if I can get the divider to not show.

[cyb]

While trying to access my pm's I briefly had animatics personal messages visible Then I was told I could not view another persons profile.

[dantilley]

ISSUE:

The "Local Moderators" are now moderators of every forum rather than the few that they were before. I realise this may be a deliberate change of course...

[dantilley]

ISSUE:

If you have an ampersand in your location field in your member profile, it shows up as &

[dantilley]

ISSUE:

When in the advanced topic editor, there's a link at the bottom entitled "Try switching to our basic uploader". Clicking this takes you to the options / settings page.

[harrry]

ISSUE

I notice that the Report button now requires a message to be sent too. This is probably no needed as in cases such as the message I was trying to report (A link to bankok Post) is self evident. I noww there are times I may report a message about LM or something like that but would not waste time writing messages.

Edited June 9, 2010 by harrry

[paulchiangmai]

Always looked forward to opening my e.mail account, selecting Thaivisa forum that was sent to me everyday and then spending the next few hours reading it. Now nothing. Where is my Thaivisa e.mail? Where has it gone? This morning I signed up again and put in the same user name and password and it came up that these were available. What are you up to, please restore my e.mail Thaivisa.

[george]

ISSUE:

When in the advanced topic editor, there's a link at the bottom entitled "Try switching to our basic uploader". Clicking this takes you to the options / settings page.

And on that Settings page you can change to basic uploader"

[eggomaniac]

Always looked forward to opening my e.mail account, selecting Thaivisa forum that was sent to me everyday and then spending the next few hours reading it. Now nothing. Where is my Thaivisa e.mail? Where has it gone? This morning I signed up again and put in the same user name and password and it came up that these were available. What are you up to, please restore my e.mail Thaivisa.

It never did come everyday? sometimes 3 times per day, sometimes every 3 days...

lately, They have gotten better at the Headlines not being misleading.

hmm,,, it would be GREAT if the email Notification included the first few sentences!

[eggomaniac]

While trying to access my pm's I briefly had animatics personal messages visible Then I was told I could not view another persons profile.

hope it wasn't one of my love letters to him!?

you know what would be GREAT,,, if you to a Post like this one which is either A. a joke or B. meant to be a joke...

if you could click Do NOT save in My Contents...

It would ALSO be great if one could remove Posts from My Contents that one is not at all interested in., or at least shove to Archive..

It would be GREAT if My Contents would when I last Posted, not when someone Posts from a Thread from weeks or months ago.

[MikeyIdea]

ISSUE: Albeit an old one I think.

Subscriptions I make disappear automatically after some time. Bad idea. I am mostly active in the Family forum and there are many old threads there that people reply to . I can help better if I get email notification when it happens, I don't check new threads when travelling so I miss replies

[eggomaniac]

web guy is aware of the resizing issue.

edit: of your photo that is, neverdie.

i get a lot of emails about resizing! Does that work here too?

[dantilley]

Subscriptions I make disappear automatically after some time. Bad idea. I am mostly active in the Family forum and there are many old threads there that people reply to . I can help better if I get email notification when it happens, I don't check new threads when travelling so I miss replies

2nd this...

[janderton]

a problem concerning posts which date is antecedent to "the switch":

is pretty hard to me to distinguish where the quote end...

example

on this #3664006

QUOTE (Bo 7% @ 2010-06-02 10:50:21) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi

You mention your son was "snatched" from the nursery.

I would really like to hear how that's possible and which nursery?

Did you have a list of people allowed to pick up your son and if so, who signed for him ?

Anyway, as a father, I too feel saddened by your situation.

All the best of luck.

list of people allowed?

signature?

....who would guess which is Bo 7%'s last quoted line and my first line written?(not to consulting the original post by clicking on snapback, and having a good memory)

[george]

a problem concerning posts which date is antecedent to "the switch":

is pretty hard to me to distinguish where the quote end...

We are currently converting millions of forum posts to the new quote format, will take a day or two.

[Daewoo]

Issue: Search Toolbar covering "View New Content" button. Where is "My Assistant" Button?

I know it is probably a setting with IE, but currently, as per the attached screen shot, the search box covers over the View New Content button. My Profile button and My Settings button are almost invisible. I can not find the "My Asisstant" button so that I can look for my recent posts.

[Pib]

Issue: How to add "PM This Member" and "Add As Friend" icons to my avatar area?

I see most people have Add As Friend, PM This Member, and View Blog icons beneath their User ID/Avatar. I only have the View Blog icon and I can't figure out how to add the PM This Member icon. I did go to Settings, Notificaitons and ensured the setting was correct to allow member to PM me.

Edit: Well, I use to have a View Blog icon but apparently that has disappeared after viewing this post. Now I don't have any icons under my User ID/avatar area.

You have all three mentioned icons under your name, but for obvious reasons it is not possible to PM yourself nor add yourself as a friend

I sure "don't" see them. Are you saying the member himself can not see the icons but everyone else can? If the member himself can not see them, then how does he confirm he got the feature(s) added through adjustment of his settings?

P.S. Edit: after posting above, I looked at the post and there are no icons. So my question above stands (i.e., that is, the member himself can not see the icons but everyone else can?). I also noticed that when "logged off", you don't see icons for anyone except for those who have a gallery setup and then only a Gallery icon shows for them...no other icons. Advance thanks for educating me on exactly who can see the icons and when they are seen. Cheers and Thanks.

Edited June 9, 2010 by Pib

[PoorSucker]

Issue: How to add "PM This Member" and "Add As Friend" icons to my avatar area?

I see most people have Add As Friend, PM This Member, and View Blog icons beneath their User ID/Avatar. I only have the View Blog icon and I can't figure out how to add the PM This Member icon. I did go to Settings, Notificaitons and ensured the setting was correct to allow member to PM me.

Edit: Well, I use to have a View Blog icon but apparently that has disappeared after viewing this post. Now I don't have any icons under my User ID/avatar area.

You have all three mentioned icons under your name, but for obvious reasons it is not possible to PM yourself nor add yourself as a friend

I sure "don't" see them. Are you saying the member himself can not see the icons but everyone else can? If the member himself can not see them, then how does he confirm he got the feature(s) added through adjustment of his settings?

P.S. Edit: after posting above, I looked at the post and there are no icons. So my question above stands (i.e., that is, the member himself can not see the icons but everyone else can?). Cheers and Thanks.

Yes, I can see your icons.

[eggomaniac]

Issue: Search Toolbar covering "View New Content" button. Where is "My Assistant" Button?

I know it is probably a setting with IE, but currently, as per the attached screen shot, the search box covers over the View New Content button. My Profile button and My Settings button are almost invisible. I can not find the "My Asisstant" button so that I can look for my recent posts.

beside your name there is a little arrow,, Click it and click My Contents,,, you have more posts to look at than just the 10 that my assisatnt had,, I like that,, but they are orderwed by when somone else Replies which I don't like

SUGGESTION; allow us to Delete or Archive Posts in My Contents... OR even at Reply let us choose not to add to My Contents,,,

This Post would be a perfect example, if there was another 'ADDReply without filing button, i would select that...

[sbk]

You cant see add as friend icons under your own avatar because you can't add yourself as a friend, same with PMing yourself. Check someone else's profile and see if you see them there.

[Pib]

You cant see add as friend icons under your own avatar because you can't add yourself as a friend, same with PMing yourself. Check someone else's profile and see if you see them there.

Ok, thanks for confirming I won't be able to see certain icons under my avatar. And thanks for a few earlier responses from others saying they can see my icons.

When checking someone else's profile I can see the icons, but not sure what that has to do with me not being able to see the icons I thought I should be able to see.

Summary: I guess I can see all the icons I'm suppose to see...I just thought I should be seeing those icons under my avatar I had the questions about, but I have now been "straighten-out/educated" on that. ***Continue the great work on fine tuning the new forum software and answering the questions from the members....both sober and not-so-sober ones...and I fit in both categories during the day. Big thanks and cheers.***

[wpcoe]

ISSUE: Every thread on every forum has a "Go to first unread post" icon, even old threads that have no unread posts.

I've been away from thaivisa.com for over a week, and finally got a block of time so I could sit and catch up on my reading -- and dang! -- I can't tell which threads are new ones with unread posts.

If that is W.A.D., then a SUGGESTION: change the design. If not W.A.D., any idea when it'll be corrected?

Also, I agree with another suggestion from above: In the main forum list, making the forum names in bold (or another color?) would make them stand out.

[GarryP]

It has probably been written about before but as I am coming down with a cold I can't be bothered checking all the posts.

In the view new content screen it lets you know when the latest post in each thread was posted with wording like "a minute ago", "2 minutes ago", etc. What would be more helpful would be the actual time that the last post was posted. Then if I minimize the TV screen and leave it for a few minutes before maximizing the TV screen again, I could check the time of the last post against the clock on my computer and know whether it is worthwhile refreshing the screen or leaving it for a few more minutes. As it is, if I left the computer for an hour or so, upon coming back it would still indicate that the latest thread was only posted "one minute ago" and there would be no cross reference as to whether that was a 30 minute minute or a 2 hour minute.

I hope you get what I am trying to say. If you don't I will blame it on the cold.

[Tywais]

I like that,, but they are orderwed by when somone else Replies which I don't like

Note this box:

[dantilley]

ISSUE:

There's a drop down list at the bottom of the page with just one item, "Thaivisa". What is this supposed to be used for?

[dantilley]

ISSUE:

Also, there is no indication of who's reading a topic, as there used to be on the old version. I used to find that quite useful.

[MikeyIdea]

ISSUE:

Also, there is no indication of who's reading a topic, as there used to be on the old version. I used to find that quite useful.

Absolutely, may we have the list of who currently reads the thread back please