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Not able to reply to VE's thread (I think because you can't reply to ANY of the topics on that forum)

 so I thought I would try and start one.

 

1. None of the youtube video links work.

2. blogs gone, which you know already.

3. cannot find any of my old content 

4. everything seems to be double spaced

5. Question: is this upgrade for people using the site on cells and other small devices? just curious. It is much harder to read on my computer.

 

Thank you VE for everything you do!!!  

I hate change but...I am SURE this will be for the better, right?

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As I understand it, the upgrade is ongoing and will be ongoing for a few days as the board rebuilds itself. Some things are broken now but should sort themselves out over the next few days.

​Thank you!

This is kind of fun. :-}

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... and this what I meant by going on a bug safari.

jt is right - it'll take about a week until we really know what we're dealing with. I'm not sure where your post went, though.

water, this mobile site looks different as well. Previously it was a skin. Now it's the full site redesigned and optimized for smaller screens.

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My post somehow disappeared. 

... and this what I meant by going on a bug safari.

jt is right - it'll take about a week until we really know what we're dealing with. I'm not sure where your post went, though.

​I'll catch the posts here!!

 

Also, for the todo list:

* No status for anything before today. 

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I can't scroll through reply boxes using an iPad, which makes editing longer posts or PMs impossible. On the plus side, I now have access to emoticons and different fonts.

 

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Any way to move processing of blogs up in the queue?

​I've filed a support request.

I can't scroll through reply boxes using an iPad, which makes editing longer posts or PMs impossible. On the plus side, I now have access to emoticons and different fonts.

 

​How old an ipad?  That's likely an Apple bug.

 

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Thanks, VE.

I'm using chrome on OS 10.9.5...I'll try Safari and Firefox too throughout the day just to see what I see, as well as iphone.

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Any way to move processing of blogs up in the queue?

​I've filed a support request.

I can't scroll through reply boxes using an iPad, which makes editing longer posts or PMs impossible. On the plus side, I now have access to emoticons and different fonts.

 

​How old an ipad?  That's likely an Apple bug.

 

It's a late 2012 model. I also can't find my signature. Where is that located now?

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My post somehow disappeared. 

​I've been restarting apache and/or mysql every 15-20 minutes for the past several hours as I try to get things optimized.  Stuff is going to get lost when I'm doing that.  

Those who were around for the last major update of IPB have seen this all before.  It took a couple years to work out all the major bugs last time and I expect that to be the case again.

 

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Any way to move processing of blogs up in the queue?

​I've filed a support request.

I can't scroll through reply boxes using an iPad, which makes editing longer posts or PMs impossible. On the plus side, I now have access to emoticons and different fonts.

 

​How old an ipad?  That's likely an Apple bug.

 

It's a late 2012 model. I also can't find my signature. Where is that located now?

​I just disabled signatures, status updates and profile responses in an attempt to give other stuff that's rebuilding priority.

 

The whole site is pretty much going to be morphing into its new form over the course of the next week.  

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All old content of any kind has to be rebuilt, and it's going to take a while.  In the past they gave us an upgrade script to run while the site was down for several hours.  This time the site is going to slowly rebuild itself while it's still available for use.

 

 

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When using chrome on mobile, you cannot see the last message of a pm.  There also doesn't seem to be obvious alerts that you have received a pm

 

​Check your notification settings.  

Old PMs are being rebuilt like everything else.  They should look normal after that.  The new normal anyway.

 

 

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Signatures don't work on mobile view, which is what you'd seeing on a iPad. You can see then in desktop version. There should be a toggle somewhere but I can't remember where I saw it. 

Memory problems make this a never-ending search quest. 

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All old content of any kind has to be rebuilt, and it's going to take a while.  In the past they gave us an upgrade script to run while the site was down for several hours.  This time the site is going to slowly rebuild itself while it's still available for use.

 

 

​Thank you!!! Just knowing that it is still around is lovely.

I was worrit that somehow all the old content was wiped out or something. but that is my "all is ruined" voice.

thank you again VE!  It must be all kinds of hard to upgrade a board that is full of crayzee people.

 

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I view from an iPad so I guess I'm using the mobile version and I'm having trouble. The main ways I navigate - my content and new content are gone.  Not sure what they're being replaced with.  I see there's a dropdown where I can navigate to followed content, so maybe that's the replacement for my content.  Not everything's there though I think. Probably being rebuilt.

anyway that's what I'm seeing FWIW.  Good luck. 

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I view from an iPad so I guess I'm using the mobile version and I'm having trouble. The main ways I navigate - my content and new content are gone.  Not sure what they're being replaced with.  I see there's a dropdown where I can navigate to followed content, so maybe that's the replacement for my content.  Not everything's there though I think. Probably being rebuilt.

anyway that's what I'm seeing FWIW.  Good luck. 

I get new content on ipad. It's right underneath the search box.

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Have the blog privacy settings changed?  My blog and other blogs that were previously visible only to other members, seem to be visible to anyone viewing the site / possibly the internet.  

Is there some setting that I/we have to change?

 

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Private blogs are still private if you check your settings.

Unfortunately, there's no marking on blogs to indicate if they are private or not.

Does that make sense?

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Private blogs are still private if you check your settings.

Unfortunately, there's no marking on blogs to indicate if they are private or not.

Does that make sense?

​yes!! I think.

I can't tell if they are private but if I see them that does not mean they are NOT private. 164.gif

lol

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Yeah, I just checked my private blog, and it still exists as a private club blog. However, I'm noticing that there are just two types of blogs now - private club and everyone. VE said above that he fixed it so that "everyone" now just means members and not guests which is very good. Thanks, VE!

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I view from an iPad so I guess I'm using the mobile version and I'm having trouble. The main ways I navigate - my content and new content are gone.  Not sure what they're being replaced with.  I see there's a dropdown where I can navigate to followed content, so maybe that's the replacement for my content.  Not everything's there though I think. Probably being rebuilt.

anyway that's what I'm seeing FWIW.  Good luck. 

​The only difference between the standard and mobile view is that mobile users can't view the sidebar.  There's a new content link right under the search box.

The new software uses some fairly cutting edge javascript so if you're on a tablet that's several years old it might not be able to display it.

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I can't do anything properly on my phone. The entire forum constantly freezes and the menu button at the top of the page, on the right side, the one that is the 3 lines, doesn't work at all, it just makes the page go darker. 

I'm having a hell of a time typing. I'm really disappointed about the blogs, it was my only real reason for staying here and I can't use it, or see any of my profile. 

I guess I'll just not come back for a week or 2. I would log out but can't. 

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I can't do anything properly on my phone. The entire forum constantly freezes and the menu button at the top of the page, on the right side, the one that is the 3 lines, doesn't work at all, it just makes the page go darker. 

I'm having a hell of a time typing. I'm really disappointed about the blogs, it was my only real reason for staying here and I can't use it, or see any of my profile. 

I guess I'll just not come back for a week or 2. I would log out but can't. 

​What kind of phone?

It doesn't look like things are going to work real well on most older mobile devices.

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is there a mobile version of this compatible with Chrome for android?

​There is no mobile version.  The one version is designed to scale to any display.  The ads kinda screw it up some though.  Once you get off the main index screen it should be a lot better.

 

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Does the menu button bring up a list of menu items for you HB?

My screen also dims, but I have to swipe the screen from left to right in order to see the full menu screen.

Then I have to swipe left to right to see the list of notifications.

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I'm going to keep trying to get it working better for mobile.  I have some idea of what to do but it's going to be a whole day project and I'm pretty much spent at the moment.

Gimmie a couple weeks here.  If I could fix this stuff instantly I'd be too gainfully employed to have time to run the site at all.

 

 

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1. I'm assuming that private blogs remain private at this stage? I don't see any marker that a private blog is private. 

2. Last upgrade (maybe the time before), a change happened in the private blogs that caused some consternation at the time. That is, that mods were able to read private blogs, irrespective of whether access was granted by the blog owner. We agreed at the time that mods would be honour bound not to read unless the blogger had granted access. This policy seems to have worked okay and, as always, I commend the mods for their work here. 

As we are in a brave new world, I am wondering if it is still the case that mods can potentially read our blogs irrespective of permission. Or does the upgrade take us back to the old days when only those who were on the blog owner's access list could read a private blog?

 

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1. I'm assuming that private blogs remain private at this stage? I don't see any marker that a private blog is private. 

2. Last upgrade (maybe the time before), a change happened in the private blogs that caused some consternation at the time. That is, that mods were able to read private blogs, irrespective of whether access was granted by the blog owner. We agreed at the time that mods would be honour bound not to read unless the blogger had granted access. This policy seems to have worked okay and, as always, I commend the mods for their work here. 

As we are in a brave new world, I am wondering if it is still the case that mods can potentially read our blogs irrespective of permission. Or does the upgrade take us back to the old days when only those who were on the blog owner's access list could read a private blog?

 

​We're in the process of figuring out what we can and can't see regarding the blogs.  Admins have never had any way to distinguish what blogs are what.  It's a contributing factor in why I don't read blogs much.

 

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I'm guessing they are gone for the moment, but should come back.  Somebody will make a mod to put them back if nothing else.  

I haven't taken the first look at blog mods for this version.

This is a really young platform.  It took nearly five years for the last version of IPB to get to where it was.  Everything that's missing will be back eventually.

Unless you're paying for $5k enterprise web applications, this is the pattern web software development has always followed.  The developers work on it for years until it's finished then start over once browser, database and programming language development make it obsolete.  Following design trends that keep search engines happy is also a factor.  

In case anyone didn't notice, we're presently showing ads for Asian mail order bride sites.  Using outdated web technology doesn't encourage advertisers.

If a website stays the same for more than a couple years, it gets left behind.

 

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Maybe it is Chrome, but I cannot go from one page to another on a topic. Clicking on the page numbers on the bottom doesn't work. I only see the last or the first page in a topic. 

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In case anyone didn't notice, we're presently showing ads for Asian mail order bride sites.  Using outdated web technology doesn't encourage advertisers.

If a website stays the same for more than a couple years, it gets left behind.

 

​Are you sure that's not just targeted advertising pushing adds on you for something you often search for? *wink*

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In the previous version, you clicked on My Content to see the topics you posted in and what were the last posts.

I cannot figure out how to do that now. I can see only what I posted. 

I cannot try different options because I get the error code saying I must wait after everything i do, whether it is posting or looking for my content. Then the page gets stuck and I am back at start gate, not knowing what to try.

 

 

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water, the system is continuing to rebuild in the background and might be slow and prone to errors. That might be the cause of some of your problems. Not sure about the My Content issue though because I never used it even under the old software.

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water, if you look at the sidebar on the left you can choose what type of new content you want to see. The default seems to be only your own, but you can change that. 

Yeah, the whole not being able to see middle pages is annoying but I suspect that it's because that part of the database is currently rebuilding. Or at least, it was rebuilding when I checked a few hours ago.

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Having the same problem with moving from one page to the next, but I'll be patient. There's no sidebar? But that could be the antiquated iPad I have.

Thank you, VE, for all your hard work. But god, can I say that change really fucks with me?

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Thank you Rosie. I did not see that option, I'll check again.

(Checked again and cannot find anyway to view my content by topic no matter who the last post was from.)

Thank you JT, I am not known for my patience. lol  I use the "My Content" to check and see if someone responded on a topic I posted in. It only shows the topics I posted in but shows them all, no matter who responded last. 

btw: Checked out the boards on hubs pc, not logged in.

You can see all of our profiles, all of our activity as a guest. In the older software, that was blocked unless you logged into CB's.  Is it possible to change that at some point? 

btw:

THANK YOU VE for all you do, and thank you to ALL THE MODS!

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needed to rant more. :-}
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I have a galaxy S4 phone and the old version worked really well on it, the new update doesn't.

I understand there's still a lot going on so I just kinda wanted to mention it and....that's it.

Site on my tablet looks great though, very fresh and clean. I like it :) Great job!

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I view from an iPad so I guess I'm using the mobile version and I'm having trouble. The main ways I navigate - my content and new content are gone. 

​The only difference between the standard and mobile view is that mobile users can't view the sidebar.  There's a new content link right under the search box.

 

The new software uses some fairly cutting edge javascript so if you're on a tablet that's several years old it might not be able to display it.

I have an iPad mini a year and a half old with updated iOS, Safari, etc. So not a dinosaur.

I  tried on three different browsers.  All I see at the top on any of them is the star, magnifying glass and menu dropdown.  Nothing else. I'm attaching a screenshot.

On Safari I also can't reply.  

Not trying to pressure just reporting in. 

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Hey VE, whenever you get around to it can you see about bringing back the link/button that takes you to the first UNREAD post in a thread? Some of these long ones get pretty annoying to scroll through.

Kate - the star icon is the new content button. The one with 3 lines is the menu, where you can jump to blogs, for example. Magnifying glass is the search feature. If you click the star it will show you new content since your last visit.

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Kate - the star icon is the new content button. The one with 3 lines is the menu, where you can jump to blogs, for example. Magnifying glass is the search feature. If you click the star it will show you new content since your last visit.

Gah - you're right it does.  Sorry! Ignore me! And thanks!

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In case anyone didn't notice, we're presently showing ads for Asian mail order bride sites.  Using outdated web technology doesn't encourage advertisers.

If a website stays the same for more than a couple years, it gets left behind.

 

​Are you sure that's not just targeted advertising pushing adds on you for something you often search for? *wink*

​Don't they sell women from Russia anymore? Russian women are hot. They have to be, to survive the winters.

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I can't sign in using my Winbook tablet running windows 8.1 and whatever the current version of IE is. It won't let me put a cursor in the box.

It works in Chrome.

I hate windows, it could be I'm doing something something wrong (this is a goof around machine for me to decide if it's worth buying a tablet).

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I can't comment on my blog for some reason. And every time I go to my blog the page says "Aw snap, can't load this page", or something similar. This is in Chrome for Android. 

Another thing is if I can type, the words often double up or do some other crazy thing for no reason, and the place for typing constantly freezes (so does every other page). 

Right now my phone is behaving like it has been slowed down a heap. Very weird considering it runs on KitKat 4.4.2 and I have only had it for a few months. 

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I can't sign in using my Winbook tablet running windows 8.1 and whatever the current version of IE is. It won't let me put a cursor in the box.

It works in Chrome.

I hate windows, it could be I'm doing something something wrong (this is a goof around machine for me to decide if it's worth buying a tablet).

​Is this a surface tablet?

 

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I can't sign in using my Winbook tablet running windows 8.1 and whatever the current version of IE is. It won't let me put a cursor in the box.

It works in Chrome.

I hate windows, it could be I'm doing something something wrong (this is a goof around machine for me to decide if it's worth buying a tablet).

​Is this a surface tablet?

 

​No, literally called a Winbook

http://www.amazon.com/Winbook-TW700-Tablet-full-size-Microsoft/dp/B00QDJ2FUK

But it runs windows 8.1

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I can't sign in using my Winbook tablet running windows 8.1 and whatever the current version of IE is. It won't let me put a cursor in the box.

It works in Chrome.

I hate windows, it could be I'm doing something something wrong (this is a goof around machine for me to decide if it's worth buying a tablet).

​Is this a surface tablet?

 

​No, literally called a Winbook

http://www.amazon.com/Winbook-TW700-Tablet-full-size-Microsoft/dp/B00QDJ2FUK

But it runs windows 8.1

​Can you give me any more info on what happens when you try to log in?

Can you create a new user?

Can you login via twitter or FB?

 

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I view from an iPad so I guess I'm using the mobile version and I'm having trouble. The main ways I navigate - my content and new content are gone. 

​The only difference between the standard and mobile view is that mobile users can't view the sidebar.  There's a new content link right under the search box.

 

The new software uses some fairly cutting edge javascript so if you're on a tablet that's several years old it might not be able to display it.

I have an iPad mini a year and a half old with updated iOS, Safari, etc. So not a dinosaur.

I  tried on three different browsers.  All I see at the top on any of them is the star, magnifying glass and menu dropdown.  Nothing else. I'm attaching a screenshot.

On Safari I also can't reply.  

Not trying to pressure just reporting in. 

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It's the star icon.  It should also let you set which filters you want to use on what you view.

 

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Does the star icon only appear on the mobile version? I can't seem to find it on my computer.

I am really having a hard time with this upgrade. I feel so lost here. Trying not to get depressed about this, but I feel like my crazyboards  is gone replaced with an impostor who only shows me what he wants when he wants. 

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I can comment on my blog now, and the typing issue seems less of a problem. 

I figured out how to find my notifications and such, also, so that's good. 

I might have to check the state of my CPU, though, I don't know if that is dysfunctional. 

Last time I was here, before my nap, the pages didn't have the number buttons on them, but I haven't checked that yet, so I don't know about that yet. 

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You get the star on mobile or after you resize your screen to a small enough size.

The whole thing uses "responsive design" which means everything adapts itself to the size of your display, automatically changing page elements as needed.

 

 

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I can't sign in using my Winbook tablet running windows 8.1 and whatever the current version of IE is. It won't let me put a cursor in the box.

It works in Chrome.

I hate windows, it could be I'm doing something something wrong (this is a goof around machine for me to decide if it's worth buying a tablet).

​Is this a surface tablet?

 

​No, literally called a Winbook

http://www.amazon.com/Winbook-TW700-Tablet-full-size-Microsoft/dp/B00QDJ2FUK

But it runs windows 8.1

​Can you give me any more info on what happens when you try to log in?

Can you create a new user?

Can you login via twitter or FB?

 

​It seems to work fine tonight.

What WAS happening was if I tapped the box labelled username, the keyboard would pop up, the box would clear and show a cursor and then half a second later the cursor would disappear and the box would show its default state and my keyboard would disappear.

Somehow you fixed it already!

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I can't reply to the New Content thread - this belongs there:

By default it only looks to topics you've posted in.  You have to change the settings for it.  There should be something on the left that lets you do that.

 

I've been looking for that something on the left. I don't think there is a way to change this. Hopefully, I am wrong.

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On the left-facing sidebar under *New Content are several options including: all new content; topics; blog entries; images. A bit further down the screen are selections for filters and time period.

If that does not give you enough options use the More button and select activity stream...

ETA: I am probably in the minority as I like the new interfaces and options. I am less than thrilled by the "allow more time" when going from one page to the next, but can work with that restriction.

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I'm with Indigo - the flood control is super annoying but the rest of it is pretty slick now that I'm more used to it. 

And thanks to whoever told me that trick about clicking on the star/circle to get to the first unread post. I'm happy now.

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Am I the only one who when I hit the 'New Content' tab, can't go to the second page?

I get a notice to 'Wait X seconds before making this request' or something along those lines.  

So I'm not trying to ignore people, I just can't see a lot of new content.  

I'm using chrome, if it matters.  

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Am I the only one who when I hit the 'New Content' tab, can't go to the second page?

I get a notice to 'Wait X seconds before making this request' or something along those lines.  

So I'm not trying to ignore people, I just can't see a lot of new content.  

I'm using chrome, if it matters.  

​Every move I make I get a time out. 

Just now it was only for 4 secs. 

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You need to select the correct options in the left column for New Content to work as it used to.  

The rebuild is done and Google is saying our mobile usability rocks.   Everything is faster for me than it used to be in every browser I've tried including on my Kindle Fire.

 

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couple of issues.

1. Guests can see our profiles 

2. When you go to "Activity Stream" you cannot look at anything because you immediately get a time out.

3. there is no New Content choice for guests

4. Still VERY slow on my PC at work

5. Why is everything still double spaced?

6. Why do I have to wait a minute to post a blog entry if I have just posted a reply to a topic? Is there no way to stop this?

 

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#2 and #6 are flood control issues. Before you click on a new page or new function count to 20...

#4 would seem to be the computer, not the site software.

Everything is not double spaced. Double space occurs when enter on your computer is used. I rather like it as it prevents those annoying wall-o-text posts, at least sometime.

Guests can see and can use the Activity Stream function without difficulty. That seems to be a minor complaint until every other complaint is fixed.

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This version of the software was written with the computers and browsers people are going to be using three years from now in mind more than the ones people were using three years ago.  It's an early version of a platform that's intended to still be in use a long time from now.  People with older hardware, particularly mobile hardware, might have trouble using it.

It works fine on my laptop which is a glorified netbook. 

Older tablets have already been identified as a problem.  

 

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