“This is the first time Lantern2 has posted — let’s welcome them to our community!”
Hey, welcome to the community.
FWIW, I did the “forgot my password” thing, got the email, clicked the link–and was able to continue using my old password with no issues. That part of the transition, at least, was painless.
That worked for me this morning, but this afternoon it did not. I could have mis-typed something. That’s happening to me more and more as I get old, drunk, and blinder.
It actually autofilled for me like on the old site. I didn’t have to type anything.
Yup. It even let me keep my old password, which doesn’t follow the stated rules. 
I like that when I come back to a thread that has since expanded, I land on where I left off & can see how it’s grown.
With any new change, I’d give it some time before deciding. You won’t know in a day whether a new format doesn’t have things you prefer.
There’s a lot of change, and very little of it improves the usability of the site for me. Thus far I find the UI to be cluttered and non-intuitive, and we’re now stuck with the infinitely-loathed infinite scroll.
It’s also pretty infuriating how Discourse overrides a basic browser function like CTRL+F to “find in page” and forces you into a topic search.
“You could just learn to do blah blah blah instead”. Yes, I know, thanks. I was just hoping that there would be a basic intuitive experience and then I could move on to the more advanced features later.
This site is supposed to help me waste my employer’s time. If it starts wasting my time, then I may not stick around for the long haul.
I used ******** as my password, which I didn’t think would work, but it did!
ETA: How did it do that (hid my password)?
So far, the phone interface is working better for me than the computer. Too bad it’s so hard to type on a phone.
Indeed … but there was a similar learning curve for the original board, too. At least for me. And there were features I never really learned about or used until I had been on the old board for over a decade.
I really hate how so many sites have added badges. They’re an attempt to gamify the site by providing us with badges for an “incentive”, hoping it will encourage us interact with the site more in order to collect more badges. I’m already here, damnit, I don’t need the “incentive” of a stupid little icon!
Is that different from the old version? I guess it sometimes “got confused”, but I think that was the intended functionality. And it often worked for me.
My monitor at work is some ridiculously small square thing and this site STILL wastes 2/3s of the space by displaying the posts in a narrow band down the center.
Ah, crap, really? That sucks! If I want to find a particular person’s post in a thread, that’s the fastest way to do it. I am (obviously) going to have to check that out now.
ETA: OK, I take that back. It apparently works the same as the browser Ctrl+F. No idea why they felt a need to have something specific to the site, but as long as it lets me find things on the page I’m viewing, I guess I can’t bitch. Much. I wonder what happens when you’re searching in the list of threads, though …
In Firefox, at least, pressing Control+F twice will get you the standard browser page search. Haven’t tried it with any other browser.
So your password isn’t 8 asterisks? Damn, there go my plans.
I believe Discourse just caches the section of the thread you’re viewing at the moment. The Ctrl+F function of the browser will likely only be able to search whatever happens to be loaded in the internal page at the time. So if you scroll to the bottom and then do a browser Ctrl+F, you’ll only be able to find the text towards the bottom. It won’t match the text at the top of the thread unless the that part of the thread happens to be in the internal page at the time. Basically, you can likely just use browser search for the text on the screen and maybe a small bit that’s just off the screen.
The non-intuitive nature of quoting posts will likely be a continual issue. I’m guessing every new person is going to have the same problem. Most random people won’t intuitively know what to do or be able to easily figure it out. To be consistent with pretty much every message board, the Discourse reply function should automatically quote the post. That way newbies aren’t confused. If advanced users want to have reply not include the text, they can do an advanced action. But the basic task of reply with quote should be dead simple and obvious so that a newbie can do it from the first time.
Well, I was thinking in particular of the clever little bar on the right…