Problem children / punch list for fixes / TIPS AND TRICKS

[bordelond]

@Senegoid

It took me several tries to get my password reset, and I think I see what the problem was – it had to do with confusing instructions in the “Reset Password” dialog that I mis-understood, and I wonder how many others might make the same mistake?

I clicked on “Forgot my Password”, which took me to the “Reset Password” dialog. This had a message something like “A confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”, and an OK button at the bottom. I took this to mean I should wait to get that e-mail, then come back here and click on the button. No e-mail ever showed up.

Eventually, I clicked on the OK button and got my e-mail. So when it says “A confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”, it means “Click on the OK button and THEN a confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”.

This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well.

[peccavi]

OK. I really don’t like being logged out after a few minutes. Can we set the log out time to something reasonable, like a week?

[bordelond]

@AHunter3

I’ve been logged out about four times, although oddly the first three times I could click a “Refresh” button and get right back in. Bit of an interruption though. The fourth time I actually had to log in for realsies and do a search for posts I’d posted to to get back to this thread.

Been logged off twice so far over the last 15 minutes or so.

First time, I left the site, came back and logged back in.

The second time, I just stayed on the boards as an “un-logged-in” user … and after a minute or so, it showed that I was logged in again. No action on my part required.

[Senegoid]

@bordelond

This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well.

Did you figure that out immediately, or did you, like me, take a while to get it? Was it just me? :smack:

[Roderick_Femm]

I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this.

[bordelond]

@Senegoid

@bordelond

This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well.

Did you figure that out immediately, or did you, like me, take a while to get it? Was it just me? :smack:

I’d run across similar “Forgot password” schemes on other sites, so I just clicked OK without thinking about it.

What did trip me up initially on this site was that I expected Discourse to still know out old passwords … my expectation is that it would accept our old passwords but THEN prompt us for a password change. That’s not what happens.

[bordelond]

@Roderick_Femm

I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this.

IMHO, this is a feature worth keeping. On a board like ours, it will be useful.

[Senegoid]

@Roderick_Femm

I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this.

Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense?

[peccavi]

@bordelond

@Roderick_Femm

I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this.

IMHO, this is a feature worth keeping. On a board like ours, it will be useful.

Unless there is a “Dislike” feature, I don’t like the “Like”.

[Wallet]

If possible, please address Skypist’s first problem - the clusterfuck thread is now closed! (“more than 10,000 posts”)
Can anything be done to save this thread??

[bordelond]

@Senegoid

@Roderick_Femm

I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this.

Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense?

I know likes have been discussed on the old board in the past … might be time for a renewed discussion in a new thread.

[bordelond]

@peccavi

Unless there is a “Dislike” feature, I don’t like the “Like”.

What many boards do is offer a range of responses – not simply “likes”. There can be “thanks”, “love that”, “I doubt that”, “come on, that’s terrible”, etc. Some boards even have custom icons that convey responses through board inside jokes.

[erysichthon]

What I’ve noticed so far:

Polls aren’t showing up in poll threads.

List formatting (bulleted/numbered) isn’t displaying properly.

I noticed that some smilies aren’t displaying (maybe all of them; I haven’t done an inventory). I’ve also used the [del] tag in the past and that isn’t working either.

[bordelond]

@Senegoid

Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense?

I’ve already done like a dozen of them

[Dewey_Finn]

Took me a while to get the login email but I finally did. So I’m in but I never set the password.

[bordelond]

@Senegoid

But this page:
https://boards.straightdope.com/c/main/6
looks much more like the forums index page we are accustomed to.

Not only does this LOOK much more like the old board … when clicking on the forum names on this page, the forums display a lot more like the old boards, too.

What’s not needed are the line-up of avatars at the right. Just skip all that.

[Suburban_Plankton]

@Senegoid

What’s with the blue dot that appears next to the time of post that disappears after a few seconds?

After a bit of trial-and-error, I was able to determine that blue dot indicates that the post is unread. From what I can tell, the site appears to consider a post “read” once it’s been visible on your screen for about a second…so I’m not sure if that’s a “useful feature” or not.

The site does seem to automatically take you to the first unread post when you open a thread, so I guess that’s good.

[Suburban_Plankton]

@bordelond

What’s not needed are the line-up of avatars at the right. Just skip all that.

I changed to the “Sam’s Simple Theme”; it makes the forum pages much less cluttered.

[Skypist]

@Dewey_Finn

Took me a while to get the login email but I finally did. So I’m in but I never set the password.

Me either. I’m unclear if my password is still the same as it was on the old site or what.

[Senegoid]

@Suburban_Plankton

I changed to the “Sam’s Simple Theme”; it makes the forum pages much less cluttered.

Where do I go to set themes?