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05-23-2007, 06:37 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I don't know if it's a pro or a con, but I find it a total crack up that Google Ads seem to think Retired = Dead and are giving us ads about funeral homes and cemetery plots! 
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05-23-2007, 06:51 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
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And I learned that jaw bone decay may be caused by a drug side effect. That's probably relevant for a lot of us.
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05-23-2007, 07:07 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 14,404
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Originally Posted by Khan
Another forum I frequent switched to this software in January.
8)
I like it. I find it an improvement. And I have had no problems.
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(adopts high-pitched, mocking tone) "Andy I like it, I find it an improvement. And I have no problems." Kahn, how about trying to keep faith with your fellow prisoners here, huh?! Are you getting part of the new ad revenues or something? 
And Sheryl--wow, you get your dog picture and now you think everything is fine. I think he does, too (or is that his rear leg I'm seeing?).
(The forum change is not going down well with me).
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05-24-2007, 09:11 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 987
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I would like to enter my great big thmbs down.
I can find no convenient way to navigate throught the threads and messages that even remotely resembles how I used to do it. I've screwed around with it a lot--had login problems right off the bat.
Am I missing something or are the "next" and "previous" buttons missing? I used to go to the oldest unread message in a thread with a "new" on it and hit previous until I got back up to the top. Can no longer do that. It's not nearly as easy to see what has been read and what has not....
I'm sure I will get used to it, but it sure seems like a step backward to me.
edit...ok, I found the equivalent to next and previous....but I still fail to see how this is any improvement whatsoever to the user
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05-24-2007, 09:21 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,250
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I too miss the link that checks the posts we responded to.
Thank you for putting the avatars back where this group thinks they belong 
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05-24-2007, 10:00 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samclem
(adopts high-pitched, mocking tone)
And Sheryl--wow, you get your dog picture and now you think everything is fine. I think he does, too (or is that his rear leg I'm seeing?).
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If Milo's happy, Everybody should be happy. 
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05-24-2007, 01:41 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 495
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Is there a "mark all posts as read" button? I can't find one.
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Yelnad --"What you're paying for is an education, not a room at the Sheraton,and sometimes that education is uncomfortable."- Jim Terhune, Dean of Student Affairs, Colgate University
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05-24-2007, 01:43 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yelnad
Is there a "mark all posts as read" button? I can't find one.
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Go up to Quick Links and it's on the drop-down menu.
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05-24-2007, 01:46 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 495
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Ah ha! Thanks.
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Yelnad --"What you're paying for is an education, not a room at the Sheraton,and sometimes that education is uncomfortable."- Jim Terhune, Dean of Student Affairs, Colgate University
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05-24-2007, 01:50 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 495
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Oh smack! That marks the ENTIRE forum as read!!
Is there a way to just mark particular sections of the forum as read? Like "Young Dreamers" for instance?
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Yelnad --"What you're paying for is an education, not a room at the Sheraton,and sometimes that education is uncomfortable."- Jim Terhune, Dean of Student Affairs, Colgate University
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05-24-2007, 01:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
Posts: 3,228
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yelnad
Oh smack! That marks the ENTIRE forum as read!!
Is there a way to just mark particular sections of the forum as read? Like "Young Dreamers" for instance?
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Yes, there is. Go to the forums main page http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/ and just double-click the icon on the left side (that looks like a bulletin board) beside the particular section you're wanting to mark as read....like "Young Dreamers".
Hope that's what you meant!
goonie
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05-24-2007, 02:02 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dallas, Tx
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yelnad
Is there a way to just mark particular sections of the forum as read? Like "Young Dreamers" for instance?
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Yes, please see the attachment for how to do this...
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05-24-2007, 02:03 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dallas, Tx
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Goonie
double-click the icon on the left side (that looks like a bulletin board) beside the particular section you're wanting to mark as read....like "Young Dreamers".
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Wow, that's slick, I did not know about that trick. I knew they were adding lots of AJAX stuff. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
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05-24-2007, 02:08 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 897
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Search feature sucks.
Can't even use AND ... it always defaults to OR
For instance, try searching for "Vanguard Money Market" and see how relevant the results are.
-CC
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It means for every point you make, your level drops. Kinda like you're startin' from the top..." "Society" - Eddie Vedder
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05-24-2007, 03:34 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Leesburg, VA
Posts: 904
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I like the new SW. I am used to it because it is used on many other forums that I hang out on.
Mike D.
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05-24-2007, 08:05 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
Posts: 3,228
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy R
Wow, that's slick, I did not know about that trick. I knew they were adding lots of AJAX stuff. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
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I just came upon it by sheer accident! I just started clicking around on stuff to see what would happen. :
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05-28-2007, 11:04 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,713
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Pros:
-I like the divisor that indicates "new new" unread threads and just "new" unread threads
- The "similar threads" is intriguing even though unreliable.
Neutral/getting used to:
-I see that someone has created a subcription folder for me that contains threads I have posted to so far under the new format. I'll bookmark that page to replace my old "read unread replies" bookmark. Thanks!
-Ads - don't bother me.
-It seems the search function, for me, works as it should (eg., "treasury bills" -w/o quotes- yields fewer results than just "treasury", not more)
Cons:
-Quick link for "today's posts" good.. but would like to see something broader, maybe an extra menu item for "this week's posts", to substitute for the 'recent' posts on the old board? I don't always visit every day (it just seems like it).
-Extra space still annoying, but I have learned to minimize it by turning off signatures and avatars in the User CP. There's still more space than necessary for the posts, but at least I can fit a bit more on the screen. For a while I toyed with reading the threads in their print version! I also switched posts per page to the max (40, I think) to minimize jumping around.
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05-28-2007, 07:21 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Lou-evil
Posts: 2,025
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I have had some serious problems with the new software. I log on and then as I browse through a thread I get dropped from the forum. I log in again, it accepts and then I get dropped again, again & again. What is up with this?
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"These walls are kind of funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them"
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06-01-2007, 10:08 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 7,113
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My whine of the day: I am in the middle of composing one of my more thoughtful comments, move my cursor up the the spell check tool and a da*n ad pops up. I back arrow, my thoughts are GONE.
ARRAH !!!!!
This is more than annoying. Whatever the perceived weakness of our other software this is enough for me to say GO BACK!
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06-01-2007, 10:11 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dallas, Tx
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brat
I am in the middle of composing one of my more thoughtful comments, move my cursor up the the spell check tool and a da*n ad pops up. I back arrow, my thoughts are GONE.
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I can assure you that no pop-up ads are being delivered from our site. If you had a pop-up ad you may want to check your system for adware. Here are some free tools for this:
Ad-Aware SE Personal - Lavasoft
The home of Spybot-S&D!
Andy
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