If people here liked change, they wouldn't be into Gregorian chant and the EF!

Seriously though, this has good potential: it finally looks good on a mobile browser!

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Another aesthetic comment: Although I'm quite used to virtually all blogs putting the posts on the left, with a column on the right for other information, I'm equally used to many forums doing exactly the reverse (such as was done in the previous incarnation of this forum). This variance in style serves as a kind of "signal" to the user just what she/he is looking at and doing, and such visual cues, however subtle or not, tend to make it easier for the user.

One last thing, on a different point: Is the "Announcement" designation really necessary for job postings? That such threads are already "Closed" seems enough. And I doubt that we want to keep seeing these announcement piling up at the top of the list of threads. If it is deemed desirable to have them at the top for a short while (a week?), then that is a different matter.

Sorry if I seem so picky, but as manager of CPDL's ChoralWiki, experience has made me rather sensitive to such things regarding appearance, etc. I am happy that performance speed seems to have improved over the old version, and - like marajoy - I do adjust to change, even when at first some of it seems annoying.

Q: Is there an RSS feed for the forum?

A: Yes, but I don't think it's a very useful one.

The forum software provides an RSS feed

http://musicasacra.com/forum/discussions/feed.rss

It lists the discussions with the newest comments. However, it does not include the comments themselves, so it's not useful for RSS readers that automatically download content. Also, in the feed, the discussions may appear to be out of sequence because the list shows their original start dates.

Q: If there's multiple pages, would it be possible to have page numbers on top of all the posts too? Right now there's no way to tell which page you're on (and if the top post is the first post) unless you scroll to the bottom.

A: That would be handy, but the product as it stands doesn't have that feature. If you want to go to the forum at vanillaforums.org and propose it there, maybe someone will take up the idea and add it to the software.

Q: How can I run a search based on the title of a discussion thread?

A: Here's a tip for using the Google search feature on the forum.

To search the titles of threads, add the keyword
allintitle:
before your search terms.

The old forum software had a feature for searching subject lines, but the new one doesn't have that feature. This Google search keyword should have approximately the same effect. I hope it's useful.

I had my Kindle crash on me, so I've been recovering. The one big annoyance is that this Forum is now displaying in full screen format. Cleared the history/cache/cookies. Rebooted, rebooted. Logged out, logged in. Nothing seems to set it back to mobile mode.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: I reset my browser from "automatic" to "mobile" mode, and that fixed it. *Whew* Pilot error.

If I remember right, the threads in the "participated discussions" list are sorted according to the date of the last update (that was a customization I put in), so the newly posted threads should be at the top of the list. As far as I know, there isn't an option to specifically mark the threads that have new comments.

Just to save needless trial and error:

purple text for humor?

is obtained using

<font color=purple>purple text for humor?</font>

(the last yellow line was enclosed in a code directive).

It would greatly help if we knew just what html code works and what doesn't.

@Gavin, that would require changing code in the forum software. (I have enough to do already; I should be practicing!)

On the other hand, if you have two browsers on your mobile device, you can switch one to use the forum in desktop format. Hope that helps!

Before, it was just indented.

When the forum software displays time, which timezone is used? Timezone of the place where the server stays or timezone of the user (which is in my case far, far away)?

I wonder if it's doing timezones based on IP address, because I never entered mine, and I'm in CST, and seeing 4:07 and 5:08 for the last two posts.

Actually, I bet it's something like that, because I logged out, and saw the same times as you, chonak.

Edit: For the record, this post shows up as 6:23 when I'm logged in.

Windows 2000 and later can use UTC as the basic system time.[ The system registry contains time zone information that includes the offset from UTC and rules that indicate the start and end dates for daylight saving in each zone. Interaction with the user normally uses local time, and application software is able to calculate the time in various zones. Terminal Servers allow remote computers to redirect their time zone settings to the Terminal Server so that users see the correct time for their time zone in their desktop/application sessions. Terminal Services uses the server base time on the Terminal Server and the client time zone information to calculate the time in the session.

Something similar happens with Unix systems.

chonak,

I have run into a glitch!

My email address has changed. I have attempted several times to change my email address using "edit my account". When I type in the new email address and submit the change, the system simply displays the little circular do-ma-whid-git AND never
finishes. What am I missing? Is there another way to change my email address?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Deo gratias!
Felicity