ken anderson. Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 anyone remember what the old forum site looked like....only a few days with this new one ,but its growing on me already and i'm sure a lot of others........in a few weeks may be time for a poll...who likes/dislikes the new forum? ken anderson...ne..1..new forum dept. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Manuel Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 What old site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil McCavity Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Why? This is what we have now regardless of likes and dislikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Some old sights at our club Ken, can't remember them either. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 With the average age of the clientele give it a week and we'll have forgotten there ever was another site ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 I have been trying to remember the old site and after a lot of thinking I can only come up with three items. Must be an age thing? On the right were two links Latest Posts and More Posts. I remember them because I used them all the time. The third was when I logged in a menu was populated on the top bar. Beyond that I do not have a clue. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 People that are not here also comes to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 No need to struggle to remember the old site in all it's glory. Here it is from December, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. There's the signature content squeezed into a narrow strip over towards the left hand side of the page . However you're not really getting the full benefit of the wide white borders on both sides of the page, since the saved image doesn't fill the screen, but if you visit the Wayback Machine you will see that they are there. There's the boxes showing the most recent posts over to the right hand side and the adverts - which is the cause of the content being squeezed into a narrow strip and you'll also see that even leaving the banner off the top, by scrolling down -only a fraction of the large number of individual folders is able to be shown. That's the static image -without getting into the intricacies of actually posting. Want to put a You Tube video in a post -it's easy, just go to the video, open up the ember video text box and manually edit the width parameter to 450 and then copy and paste the link= simple! Want to put a link to another site -that's easy too -merely select the Link button -which opens the link entry box and you can then cut and paste the URL into the box - don't forget to select the text that you want to display though, or you will have the highly informative text string "Link" displayed. Want to put a picture in? That's easy too, merely upload the picture to your personal album and then you'll be able to go back and use the insert image from album button. You have already created an album, haven't you? Thankfully all that is now history and in a few months time it will all be forgotten. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, leccyflyer said: No need to struggle to remember the old site in all it's glory. Here it is from December, courtesy of the Wayback Machine...... Thankfully all that is now history and in a few months time it will all be forgotten. ? Spot on ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 3 hours ago, leccyflyer said: No need to struggle to remember the old site in all it's glory. Here it is from December, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. There's the signature content squeezed into a narrow strip over towards the left hand side of the page . However you're not really getting the full benefit of the wide white borders on both sides of the page, since the saved image doesn't fill the screen, but if you visit the Wayback Machine you will see that they are there. There's the boxes showing the most recent posts over to the right hand side and the adverts - which is the cause of the content being squeezed into a narrow strip and you'll also see that even leaving the banner off the top, by scrolling down -only a fraction of the large number of individual folders is able to be shown. That's the static image -without getting into the intricacies of actually posting. Want to put a You Tube video in a post -it's easy, just go to the video, open up the ember video text box and manually edit the width parameter to 450 and then copy and paste the link= simple! Want to put a link to another site -that's easy too -merely select the Link button -which opens the link entry box and you can then cut and paste the URL into the box - don't forget to select the text that you want to display though, or you will have the highly informative text string "Link" displayed. Want to put a picture in? That's easy too, merely upload the picture to your personal album and then you'll be able to go back and use the insert image from album button. You have already created an album, haven't you? Thankfully all that is now history and in a few months time it will all be forgotten. ? All true and very welcome, however other unwelcome (by me) elements have been introduced. I don't recall having to wade through 10 screens of topics on the home page or just 3 one line posts per page, or every picture filling best part of my screen whether I want it or not. It may present better on a smartphone but on my PC the continuous scrolling through wasted space really, really Erks me big style. And why still a double space with a return, doesn't in any WP I have ever used. (Yes you can hold the shift key while pressing return - but WHY?) Progress - certainly but can't help feeling that my PC viewing has been s p r e a d o u t way more than it needed to be. I don't use a SM but do notice that name, avatar and gumph are in a narrow top band where as on a PC its widely spaced down one edge making the frame far lager than necessary of a simple one liner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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