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Post by whollygoats on Aug 14, 2013 19:35:23 GMT
With the latest incarnation of EF, I'm reasonably content with the "Participated" button and finding those threads where I have recently posted some snarky comments.
However....
I have not yet found the equivalent to the earlier incarnation's "New Posts", where others have created new threads which _might_ interest me. Is there such an animal in this version? Or, am I required to nose around in every category, checking as to whether new posts have been created? I'm aware that at the 'Home' site, each and every forum has a listing of the thread with the most recent post, but that is of very limited use if there has been a spate of activity and scads of new threads have been generated.
Clue me in, eh?
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Post by Miisa on Aug 14, 2013 19:48:53 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2013 2:13:17 GMT
Nice linky....Too bad I can't find it on the bottom of ANY page on this new format. Just what is it you are calling the 'front page'? 'Home' doesn't have it.
So far, I'm not impressed with the new crap.
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Post by Miisa on Aug 15, 2013 4:58:13 GMT
In some skins the links are not super-obvious, but at least for me it's there:
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 15, 2013 7:52:40 GMT
Yes, I have it there too on the homepage. But like Miisa, I've bookmarked that link amd actually find it more convenient than the new post link we used to have as it means it "floats" at the top, never have to scroll to get to new posts.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 15, 2013 8:40:34 GMT
I still keep going to the top of the page, out of habit, but pressing the home key to get to the top is hardly a chore!
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2013 18:21:19 GMT
Okay....So, thanks to the highlighted screen capture, I've figured out that it is a linky buried in the highly unlikely 'Threads & Posts' sub-category of 'Forum Information & Statistics' rather than as a freestanding 'Recent Threads' category. The problem here was my expectation.
Now, several have referred to 'bookmarking'. I see the Bookmark category and can enter it, but how do I bookmark the 'Threads and Posts' link? I'm not seeing any "BOOKMARK THIS SUCKER" button. How is it that I get something ON the bookmarks list?
I suspect the density between my ears is increasing exponentially at this point. 'Intuitive', my arse.
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Post by Miisa on Aug 15, 2013 18:32:15 GMT
It depends on your browser and how you display your bookmarks. I have a bar right under the address bar where I put all my favourite book marks in icon form, and a page can be put there by simply dragging from the block before the addy to the bookmarks bar. Or you can have a dropdown bookmark menu, but less convenient if it's something you use all the time like that.
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Post by tangent on Aug 15, 2013 20:00:38 GMT
*boggles mind at vast number of bookmark icons* *tries to work out what they are and gives up*
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 15, 2013 20:01:05 GMT
The bookmarking referred to is a browser bookmark and not a feature of the forum. You can usually do it by dragging the icon in the address bar into the bookmarks bar on your browser (which you have to turn on in browsers such as Chrome). You could always make it your home page...
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Post by Kye on Aug 15, 2013 20:03:15 GMT
I didn't know that before! I would always go into my drop down menu. Now I've got a couple floating up where I need them.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 15, 2013 20:09:47 GMT
*boggles mind at vast number of bookmark icons* *tries to work out what they are and gives up* I have Too Many Tabs installed as well, which adds rows of bookmark-type links as well! It is very handy as it allows you to close and page and go back to it later, but not have to keep adding and removing bookmarks. You can only see two rows, but the mouse wheel scrolls up and down the seven I have active.
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 15, 2013 20:12:18 GMT
I didn't know that before! I would always go into my drop down menu. Now I've got a couple floating up where I need them. This is why I get so annoyed with computers these days... they have all these things added to make things easier for users, but the total lack of documentation or training just means it sits there, slowing the computer down, completely unused!
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Post by Miisa on Aug 15, 2013 20:18:10 GMT
*boggles mind at vast number of bookmark icons* *tries to work out what they are and gives up* There are a couple I don't really use any more, but most of the ones in the picture I use daily. But need to tidy up the ones I don't, just spotted old EF in the pic!
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 15, 2013 20:26:07 GMT
You should see how far each of all those rows of tabs scroll in the pic I posted! ...and that's only one of my three open windows! ...in that browser!
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Post by JoeP on Aug 15, 2013 21:19:17 GMT
*boggles mind at vast number of bookmark icons* *tries to work out what they are and gives up*
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Post by tangent on Aug 15, 2013 21:35:23 GMT
Very good attempt
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Post by Miisa on Aug 16, 2013 8:57:34 GMT
I have most of my faves at the very beginning or very end of the bar, about half visible in the pic I snapped.
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Post by JoeP on Aug 16, 2013 9:43:59 GMT
I'm glad to see that you've removed most of the ones I didn't know.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 16, 2013 10:06:02 GMT
Ah space weather, I watched that website religiously for about a year and half before our trip to Tromso, Norway.
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Post by tangent on Aug 16, 2013 14:07:54 GMT
Hm, interesting.
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Post by Miisa on Aug 16, 2013 14:11:57 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2013 14:15:19 GMT
It depends on your browser and how you display your bookmarks. I have a bar right under the address bar where I put all my favourite book marks in icon form, and a page can be put there by simply dragging from the block before the addy to the bookmarks bar. Or you can have a dropdown bookmark menu, but less convenient if it's something you use all the time like that. In my browser? Firefox? Then why is there a 'Bookmarks' tab on EF, along the same line as the 'Home' tab, just under the name logo on the EF banner? The browser tabs are all outside of the EF page entirely...so where did the single item bookmarked under 'Bookmark' in EF come from? And....the stuff in the 'Bookmark' tab doesn't have all those colorful icons like you show, but just EF threads (well, a thread). Like I say, none of this is 'intuitive' at all....the program designers have failed miserably, as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by tangent on Aug 16, 2013 14:23:38 GMT
... where I put all my favourite book marks in icon form... To get them in icon form do you go into properties and blank out the title?
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Post by Miisa on Aug 16, 2013 14:36:15 GMT
I stopped using Firefox as they won't let you change enough about your toolbars and changing anything there big time. But here goes. First, make sure you have a bookmarks toolbar in use, my little latop has FF in Finnish (another thing it won't let me change, grr), but it should be at orange tab, settings, tick on something like "bookmark bar" Then go to page you want to bookmark And drag from the little icon before the addy to the bookmarks bar: Yes, the bookmark will be on your browse, all the time, not on the EF page. I have no idea where you find a bookmark link on the ef page, unless you mean your browser's. But that will put it in the bookmarks folder or sidebar, which can be a hassle to get to/use if you use it several times a day.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 16, 2013 14:42:09 GMT
It might also be called favourites.
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Post by Miisa on Aug 16, 2013 14:44:46 GMT
... where I put all my favourite book marks in icon form... To get them in icon form do you go into properties and blank out the title? In Opera I can choose to display the icon + text, just text, or just the icon, which I choose to make room for more. FF has this in theory, but it doesn't seem to work, it is always icon + text, which takes up too much space for me. I tend to use it as a "current places I like" for pages I know will want to come back to in the near future, but would never find in the thousands of bookmarks I have accumulated over the years in my full bookmarks sidebar.
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Post by Miisa on Aug 16, 2013 14:45:23 GMT
It might also be called favourites. Yep, could well be.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 16, 2013 14:47:06 GMT
Or if it's American it's probably "Favorites"
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2013 15:29:28 GMT
Well, on the page I use for EF, right at the top, just on the lowest part of the EF banner, there are a list of links across, which read:
"Home Help Search Calendar Members Profile Bookmarks Messages"
Just underneath this list is the indicators of what I am currently using, but that is outside of the banner and terminates in the right side of the page, just before the "Participated" button.
That "Bookmarks" link, when clicked, shows a single EF thread which somehow was placed there for later retreival...I know not how, but would like to.
These are NOT browser links, but board links.
I don't want to bookmark EF on my browser (as I don't need to), I want to bookmark threads within EF.
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