Any chance the topic start date could be visible when viewing a forum? Makes it easier to spot new topics since last visit.
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Kirsty
ManagerJanuary 31, 2017 at 3:17 am #61780There’s a handy bunch of links on the right-hand panel, for new posts in the last day-to-month etc. That should achieve the result you seem to be after. Just below the search for topics links are recent posts, also very helpful.
In terms of seeing the day a topic was started, by clicking on the Comment on the AskWoody Lounge link on any topic, the top post shows the date/timestamp of the original posting, and a link to the full blog post. You will also see the timestamp directly under the topic heading, on the home page.
Happy browsing!
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PhotM
AskWoody LoungerJanuary 31, 2017 at 11:14 am #66910Woody,
Are you aware that this “Comments are closed.” appears on many pages where I have ‘Replied’ on, including this one.
What I would like to see at the top of the ‘Reply Pages’ is the original AskWoody Blog Post that the Replies are connected to, I believe like before. Is this possible or Coming?
Best Regards,
Crysta
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 31, 2017 at 12:27 pm #67511Yes, I noticed that about the “Comments are Closed” thing as well. It appears below the “Submit” button on all threads I’ve looked.
Also on seeing the day a topic was started. While clicking on the topic link will show you, it’s an extra step that could be removed by simply having it with the thread title right there for all to see. There’s plenty of extra space there to find a place for it, ya know? The more information that can be shown to people browsing the forums without any extra steps taken, the more user friendly it is. Anyway, just a thought.
I also miss how it would tell you (on the AskWoody home page) how many comments currently existed on a topic without clicking on anything. It is a matter of convenience is all and it’s now missing. For example, it used to say “No Comments” or it would say “X comments” with X being the number of comments that existed. Clicking on it would then open the comments section to the topic, but this has been replaced with a link that just says “Comment on the AskWoody Lounge”, so it’s less information that what was there before.
Just my 2cents.
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woody
ManagerJanuary 31, 2017 at 1:18 pm #67865Are you aware that this “Comments are closed.” appears on many pages where I have ‘Replied’ on, including this one.
Comments were closed on this Topic because I screwed up! I think it’s fixed now. Sorry. If you hit other Topics with comments closed, yell real loud.
I also miss how it would tell you (on the AskWoody home page) how many comments currently existed on a topic without clicking on anything. It is a matter of convenience is all and it’s now missing. For example, it used to say “No Comments” or it would say “X comments” with X being the number of comments that existed.
The number-of-comments link on the old AskWoody has been replaced with a link into the new Lounge. I don’t know of any way to show the number of replies in the new Lounge. Sorry!
What I would like to see at the top of the ‘Reply Pages’ is the original AskWoody Blog Post that the Replies are connected to, I believe like before. Is this possible or Coming?
Best I can do is a link, without reprogramming the innards of bbPress, I think.
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Kirsty
ManagerJanuary 31, 2017 at 8:36 pm #75158Comments were closed on this Topic … I think it’s fixed now.
I’m still seeing it everywhere, also mentioned a few hours ago.
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 31, 2017 at 10:47 pm #77603Woody, Note Time Stamp,
I am Posting as just me:
“Comments are closed.” at bottom…..
Best Regards,
Crysta
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anonymous
GuestFebruary 1, 2017 at 9:42 am #80563(different anonymous) +1 to adding the start date to the topic lists. If I have to click into each topic to find out how old it is, well, I won’t do that, so I will simply miss topics of interest rather than wade through lots of topics of no interest. The “handy list of links” isn’t helpful here. It does not give me a way to identify “necro posting” on old topics, which a start date would do.
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ManagerJanuary 31, 2017 at 4:18 pm #70285There are two ways to unsubscribe. The easiest is to click on the UnSubscribe link on the top of the topic page:
The other is through your profile – click on your user name (the hyperlink in the left of any of your posts), select Subscriptions from the menu on the left, and click the pink X button next to any topic you wish to unsubscribe to.
The Notify me of follow-up replies via email can also be selected/deselected on any post.
Hope that helps.
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ManagerJanuary 31, 2017 at 5:50 pm #72012There are two ways to unsubscribe. The easiest is to click on the UnSubscribe link on the top of the topic page:
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The other is through your profile – click on your user name (the hyperlink in the left of any of your posts), select Subscriptions from the menu on the left, and click the pink X button next to any topic you wish to unsubscribe to.
The Notify me of follow-up replies via email can also be selected/deselected on any post.
Hope that helps.
You can unsubscribe yourself – see the above instructions.
Thanks, Kristy!
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AskWoody PlusFebruary 1, 2017 at 12:24 am #78615Bravo!
Now all I need do is figure out who’s on first — that is, where to find what (yes, I know: on Second).
(Those not familiar with one of THE all-time classic routines of American humor, please visit http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml .)
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PhotM
AskWoody LoungerFebruary 1, 2017 at 11:10 am #81236I just found the switch. How does it look now?
(In case it isn’t obvious, I’m learning this stuff as I go along.
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That did it for me. Your doing fine, hope the input we give Helps,
I haven’t checked you “Restrictions” yet, though, still doing Email.Best Regards,
Crysta
PS When I ‘Clicked’ “Insert into ?Content?” it Submited the Post and gave me your Emogi in really large form????
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Kirsty
ManagerFebruary 1, 2017 at 4:43 pm #82226PS When I ‘Clicked’ “Instert into ?Content?” it Submited the Post and gave me your Emogi in really large form????
A problem noted in beta testing, but the previous method of changing its size manually doesn’t seem to be available.
Thks for noting that Comments are Closed has gone today – I’d not spotted that, until I read your post.1 user thanked author for this post.
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AskWoody PlusFebruary 3, 2017 at 11:30 pm #88591In the “old” blog at the top of each article there was a link to the comments section for the article. The link indicated the number of comments. I found this useful: if there no comments I could skip to the next article.
Now, in the “new” blog there is always a link titled Comment on the AskWoody Lounge with no indication as to whether there are any comments. Often I click the link only to find there are no comments to read. This is not a major deal, but it does get a little frustrating. I could save ten seconds by not clicking the link if I knew there were no comments yet :-).
So my suggestion is to add the number of comments in parentheses – e.g., Comment on the AskWoody Lounge (nn) where nn is the number of current comments (0 if none yet). Besides simply indicating whether there were any, or none at all, this would also indicate the popularity and/or controversy of the article in question.
Generally, I think the Lounge is a great improvement.
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Kirsty
ManagerFebruary 3, 2017 at 11:36 pm #88622@LH
This has been discussed here:The number-of-comments link on the old AskWoody has been replaced with a link into the new Lounge. I don’t know of any way to show the number of replies in the new Lounge. Sorry!
PhotM wrote:
What I would like to see at the top of the ‘Reply Pages’ is the original AskWoody Blog Post that the Replies are connected to, I believe like before. Is this possible or Coming?
Best I can do is a link, without reprogramming the innards of bbPress, I think.
Hope this helps.
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anonymous
GuestMarch 4, 2017 at 7:06 am #98783Recommendation #1: There are several places (“Recent Topics” list, and https://www.askwoody.com/forums/view/latest-topics/) where the date that is shown next to a given topic is confusing and misleading, in my opinion. In both of these cases, the date that is shown is the date of the most recent reply in the topic, not the date of the start of the topic (unless there are no replies). However, in both of these cases, the topics are ordered by topic start date. I recommend either changing this date to the start date of the topic, or, if that is not possible, then remove the date.
Recommendation #2: Change “Topics Freshness” to “Recently Active Topics”.
Recommendation #3: Make “Topics Freshness” link more prominent because it’s very useful.
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woody
ManagerMarch 4, 2017 at 7:26 am #98787Recommendation #1: There are several places (“Recent Topics” list, and https://www.askwoody.com/forums/view/latest-topics/) where the date that is shown next to a given topic is confusing and misleading, in my opinion. In both of these cases, the date that is shown is the date of the most recent reply in the topic, not the date of the start of the topic (unless there are no replies). However, in both of these cases, the topics are ordered by topic start date. I recommend either changing this date to the start date of the topic, or, if that is not possible, then remove the date.
I’ll have the devs look into it. The coffers are a bit low at the moment.
Recommendation #2: Change “Topics Freshness” to “Recently Active Topics”.
Done. Good idea.
Recommendation #3: Make “Topics Freshness” link more prominent because it’s very useful.
Great idea, but I don’t have a whole lot of control over the Search for Topics box. I can delete entries, if that’ll help, but I don’t see a way to move them around or bold any of them.
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ManagerMarch 29, 2017 at 9:52 am #105145Avatars are provided by WordPress/Gravatar. Here are the instructions
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/how-to-put-a-picture-avatar-on-your-replies/#post-27138
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ScotchJohn
AskWoody LoungerSeptember 27, 2019 at 8:42 am #1966374I couldn’t see this answered in this thread:
How do I mark all topics as read? I have just switched over to viewing Recent Topics on a different machine – my Surface 3 that I take when travelling – and I’m faced with pages of “unread” topics that I have already read on my normal machine.
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woody
ManagerSeptember 27, 2019 at 9:45 am #1966426Interesting. Are you logging on with the same username?
I don’t have that problem….
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