# Proposed realignment of local Straight Dope forums **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 14, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216 "2010-06-14T22:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/41 "2010-06-17T16:50:03Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Something glitched badly during the move. > > All the quote buttons, the Post Reply button, and the Quick Reply box are missing. There is no way to respond to any post in any thread. OK, we’ve got the Post Reply, Edit, and Quote buttons back. Still trying to figure out how to get the Quick Reply box restored. Sorry for the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/42 "2010-06-17T16:55:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > OK, the new Forum Jump pull-down is annoying. How do we turn off or minimize all the Site Areas junk? I don’t like having to scroll down to see all the forums. > > Or is this just me? What browser do you use? When I click on the Forum Jump pull-down, it is automatically positioned at my current forum, so I don’t have to scroll past the Site Areas links to go to another forum. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/43 "2010-06-17T17:18:25Z")
Got the Quick Reply box back. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/44 "2010-06-17T17:19:26Z")
Firefox. When I hit the Forum Jump button, it’s positioned at my current forum, but I then get the full pull-down menu, including forums I’m not allowed to use, like Who’s Online. There are six items under Site Areas, none of which I need or were ever there before, IIRC. Before I didn’t have to scroll down to get to The Pit or The Barn House. Now I do. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/45 "2010-06-17T21:53:38Z")
Gotcha. I can’t remember is this is new behaviour, but I also need to do some scrolling to get to the last two forums from the Forum Jump drop-down. More exercise for that mouse hand! Doesn’t your doctor tell you that you need more exercise? I know mine always does. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216/46 "2010-06-21T23:13:40Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Ed, man, I know you think this is the wave of the future and all, but I just don’t see it working. Who is going to stick with SD-Lite, or SD-Local, or whatever you want to call it, when the real thing is already thriving? MPSIMS and IMHO tend to catch a lot of the “What is there to do/Where should I eat in City X” type threads. The responses those threads draw come from Dopers scattered around the globe, that just happen to know something about the locale in question.. Everyone would still be able to search or post in any of the forums, presumably, so if some of threads of the “Where’s the best place for X food in \_\_\_\_?” type end up in City Edition, rather than MPSIMS or IMHO as they do today it’s no loss to anyone as the threads are still there, and completely accessible. Other than that we might have to reset some search defaults, or retrain ourselves to do our searching a little differently, I don’t see a huge problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-realignment-of-local-straight-dope-forums/543216.md?page=2)