# This new site sucks! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 18, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916 "2020-06-18T18:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/182 "2020-06-24T22:39:19Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Go to Preferences \>\> Emails and set what you do and do not want to get. That did not help with me, I kept getting them anyway. I had to click on an unsubscribe link in one of the emails. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/183 "2020-06-24T22:51:20Z")
Thanks, finally got it. If I didn’t feel dumb before, I sure feel dumb now. 😷 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/184 "2020-06-24T22:53:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Thanks, finally got it. If I didn’t feel dumb before, I sure feel dumb now. 😷  Glad it’s working for you! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/185 "2020-06-24T22:54:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > > Go to Preferences \>\> Emails and set what you do and do not want to get. > > That did not help with me, I kept getting them anyway. I had to click on an unsubscribe link in one of the emails. I think that’s what I wound up doing, too, right after the changeover. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/186 "2020-06-25T06:20:27Z")
This still blows. The slide bar takes up a quarter of the screen. So the space for posts gets shrunk necessitating more scrolling. The ‘latest’ on the category page takes up half the page and don’t me started on all the poster icons muddying up the topic page. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/187 "2020-06-25T06:34:50Z")
@Typo_Negative, try the Sam’ Simple theme. The categories page is more useful and doesn’t have all the poster icons. However it doesn’t (yet anyway, last I looked) have the mouse-over previews. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/188 "2020-06-25T13:27:51Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I don’t understand how that has any effect on reading the board or why people are so upset by them? They feel condescending. And getting useless notifications is a little distracting. And when you are new, and everything you do earn you a NEW BADGE it can be a lot distracting. But you get past that point fairly quickly, and then they are only a little distracting and easy to ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/189 "2020-06-26T07:58:05Z")
Whoever designed this deserves to be fucked with a burned stick. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/190 "2020-06-26T08:37:33Z")
It ain’t so bad. I dumb as a box of rocks about tech and I’m only mildly pissed occasionally. You folks are so smart it shouldn’t be this hard. Go slow, make a few boo-boos edit or live with it and move on. The @GreysonCarlisle tutorial is excellent. I havn’t exactly read it but I hear it’s good 😌 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/191 "2020-06-26T08:42:09Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > All I gots to say is, get rid of the fucking badges. > > Guess I can understand how you must feel, what with you not having lots of badges like _I_ do. Me too, me too. I’m a _devotee_, top that shit, right there. Umm, I mean , you too can achieve my high status if you work hard and apply yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/192 "2020-06-26T14:27:35Z")
How do I get to the last page of, say, this 190+post thread (that I havent read yet)? ETA: Other than, of course, continuing on from this post. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/193 "2020-06-26T14:30:48Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > How do I get to the last page of, say, this 190+post thread (that I havent read yet)? > > ETA: Other than, of course, continuing on from this post There is no paging here, only scroll. 😁 You should be taken to the last post you read. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/194 "2020-06-26T14:31:10Z")
The scroll bar to the right of the posts, pull it will the mouse to the bottom and you’re at the last post. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/195 "2020-06-26T14:38:33Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > How do I get to the last page of, say, this 190+post thread (that I havent read yet)? There is a simple way. See what the number of the last post is. Then, in the address bar, add (by typing) slash and the number of the last post. For example, this thread (or topic) shows this in the address bar: h t t p s : / / b o a r d s . s t r a i g h t d o p e . c o m / t / t h i s - n e w - s i t e - s u c k s / 8 5 5 9 1 6 To get to page 193 (which is the last page right now) I should add /193 and get b o a r d s . s t r a i g h t d o p e . c o m / t / t h i s - n e w - s i t e - s u c k s / 8 5 5 9 1 6 / 1 9 3 Do this and press enter. You will instantly find yourself at the last post. I do this all the time. ETA: I added space between the characters of the link so that you can actually see it. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/196 "2020-06-26T15:28:39Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > How do I get to the last page of, say, this 190+post thread (that I havent read yet)? Click on the post and hit the ‘end’ key has always worked for me. There was another poster who said it took them partway - but not all the way - down. But I’ve never had a problem with it. The other techniques mentioned above work too, if that doesn’t for some reason. Also, ‘Home’ always goes to the top. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/197 "2020-06-26T15:29:14Z")
> [@PlaceboTarget](#): > > To get to page 193 To be clear, you mean _post_ 193. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/198 "2020-06-26T15:30:28Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > To be clear, you mean _post_ 193. I don’t know why I said page. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/199 "2020-06-26T16:07:34Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > This still blows. The slide bar takes up a quarter of the screen. So the space for posts gets shrunk necessitating more scrolling. Discourse Classic now spans the width of the screen, with the scroll bar hugging the right edge. And you can mouseover a thread title. Still too many avatars, though. Sam’s Simple is the only one I tried that removed those. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/200 "2020-06-26T16:18:58Z")
Not for me. Same proportions as SD Light. There’s still considerable empty space on both sides. I’d like for the row of avatars to be eliminated also. They’re too small to see most of 'em, there’s a lot of posters with the generic initial and no one cares who the most frequent posters are. Just list the OP and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916/201 "2020-06-26T16:52:46Z")
The easiest way is to **press the # key** (jump to post number) and then enter 999 or a large number. It will take you to the last post in the thread. It will also show you the exact number of posts in thread, but it’s quicker to type 999 or something larger than the number of the last post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-new-site-sucks/855916.md?page=11)