The forum has changed!

[Crankin]

Thankfully, I changed it back to the default style. I hated that dark blue. The change is bad enough, but at least this looks a little like the old forum.
I understand needing to upgrade so stuff doesn't crash, but for what I do on the forum (read posts in the regular threads, no subscribing or looking at things that are only new), I don't see any change in the way I use TE.

[malkin]

If you're looking for feedback...

I'm bugged by having to click to get to a log in
and I think the User name banner above each post takes up too much vertical space--so that my whole screen only shows 2 or 3 posts at a time. It makes for a lot of scrolling down.

No deal breakers though. Good work.

[administrator]

Thankfully, I changed it back to the default style. I hated that dark blue. The change is bad enough, but at least this looks a little like the old forum.
I understand needing to upgrade so stuff doesn't crash, but for what I do on the forum (read posts in the regular threads, no subscribing or looking at things that are only new), I don't see any change in the way I use TE.

Hi Crankin,

The primary reason behind the upgrade is to stay on the current version so we can continue to get security updates.

There isn't much in the way of new functionality that we are using (there is a "blogging" feature and some Facebook integration that I haven't turned on -- it can post to your facebook page whenever you post here -- didn't think anyone would really want that!)

[Catrin]

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There isn't much in the way of new functionality that we are using (there is a "blogging" feature and some Facebook integration that I haven't turned on -- it can post to your facebook page whenever you post here -- didn't think anyone would really want that!)

Egads - nope

[TsPoet]

Egads - nope

That's exactly what I thought.
But, then when I thought of FB, I thought it would be easy to just "like" your post, LOL

[Crankin]

I would never want anything I say here posted on FB!
I just have a hard time with visual changes

[jessmarimba]

Now this thing keeps telling me posts that I read 2-3 days ago are "new" (even though I've logged in about, oh, 10 times since then). Weird. Too confusing for such a crazy day!

[administrator]

Hi Jess,

Please let me know if this keeps happening to posts you read going forward. A few hours ago I, in an effort to get "ignored threads" working, I switched a setting to keep track of read posts in the database instead of using a cookie file on your computer. That change is probably what is causing the behavior you are seeing. However, posts you read going forward from now should properly get marked as read - let me know if they don't!

Thanks,
Jeff