Let’s not get all high and mighty about ‘stealing’ time from work, many office jobs aren’t exactly 8 non stop hours of work, like spinning a wrench on an assembly line.
At one of my jobs, I often spent a lot of time on hold calling various counterparties on trades, not much else to do while waiting for them to research.
Another job involved monitoring trade flow between my brokerage firm and the exchange at night and overnight, sure there was a couple hours of reports to run, but if it was a smooth night, there was nothing to do besides watch late night sports or read the SDMB.
Nice thought but that’s not how software works. You can’t just suggest to the admin that something happens and it happens. Someone has to program that, test it, and roll it out across all users (meaning, other boards).
Huh? What about their posts suggests they think it does work that way? They seem to be just making a suggestion, not unlike all the others that have been specifically asked for.
And I do not think they are rolling out all the changes on the SDMB to all the other forums. Especially not the themes, which I suspect are all they’d have to change to change those infoboxes.
The post they posted makes me think that they (Seanette) thinks showing/hiding images should be user configurable. What do you think they meant by that? User configurations are part of the software.
I don’t think Discourse is creating software-wide settings just for the SDMB. They are allowing the SDMB to customize its own global settings just like any customer can. But if there’s not already a user-level setting for “allow/disalow embedded images” then it has to be built, and if you build it for one customer, it goes out to all of them.
Themes themselves are already a feature of Discourse that allows customers to make global changes to the view, and offer them as options on a user level.
The more that I use Discourse, the more that I like it. There was a bit of a learning curve to figure out some things but it was very easy. The Moderators have done a fantastic job of fixing things as they are discovered. My expectations have been greatly exceeded.
SDMB was my online home, one of the first sites on the internet I ever liked, and still, after close to 20 years, one of the few sites I needed to check on an almost daily basis.
The fact that the format nary changed over all those years really fostered the flow of information. Now, I find myself with little motivation to come here - the glove doesn’t fit anymore, and the touch is off, clumsy and distracted.
We’ll see how it goes, but I have a feeling I’ll be here maybe 20 % of the time I used to be.
I wouldn’t even consider leaving, although after 19 years the format change is a bit disorienting. I’ve put a lot of time in here, I met my wife here, I have a lot of friends here, and someone has to start the annual Steelers thread so people have something to bitch about. I’ll figure this out like I do everything else and it will be just fine.
I’m not looking to leave, I’m trying to adapt to what there is to adapt to, but the pleasure/satisfaction I get visiting here with this new format is MUCH less than it was with the old one. Already I find myself visiting much less, or leaving the site after visiting two or three threads. I did not expect that.
I’m another user not interested in figuring this out. I took a week off the board, and am still not sure I want to go through all this. Too much white space, emojis, ads, etc. I can’t find anything.
For those of you who are disenchanted, everyone uses these boards differently, but take it from the Luddite who started this thread - at this point I would not express an opinion as to whether I liked the old or new formats better. Took me a while to figure our a way to switch among forums and to move w/in threads, but now that I have, the new setup serves my purposes just as well as the old.
I think I even prefer the little numbers on my icon in the top left, letting me know when someone responded to a thread I posted in. And I haven’t yet cared to figure out when/why/where it lists other threads I read/posted in, but I’ve used that.
Haven’t seen any ads - which is better than the old one. (On EDIT - I just saw a small ad. So unobtrusive, I hadn’t even noticed it.
And I like the line which indicates the posts that have seen action since I last checked in.
Of course, I do NOTHING other than post. Once in a great while I’ll attach a photo. But I was able to figure out ways to quote/link/bold/etc w/ no difficulty. I RARELY use my phone - so I readily admit it could be worse for those who do. And I couldn’t care less about white space, formatting, customizing, etc.
If you truly gave a shit about the old board, I strongly suspect that with a tad more time/effort, you’ll find that it is still here.
(Gosh - does such optimism make anyone ELSE feel like puking?!)
I was a bit confused at first, but now that I’m used to the new interface I like it much more than the vBulletin one. It’s easier to find what I’m looking for and I like the way links are being processed.
Well, I just got logged out again (after logging in quite without problems this AM) and needed to log back in via requesting an email with a log-in code, as trying directly just got me the message that I wasn’t using a valid name or password. That still happening regularly to anyone else this late after the move?
