How to give feedback about the new site - Page 5

Many thanks. 

As an old stick-in-the-mud I was a bit concerned about moving from the old BBC Gardening forum to this one. I shouldn't have been. It's light, fresh and colourful (almst like myself) and I really enjoy the search facility. There is so much useful information stored in there. Well done!

Like Paul I am slightly long in the tooth and decided I would give up on the boards after beeb finally decided to end it all. I do have a very active interest in local History which keeps me quite busy. Out of curiosity after reading some of the comments by those who jumped ship and still reported on the old Beeb forum I did have a look see- and liked what I saw. People with queries in my fields of knowledge and so I too jumped ship. Still finding my way round and it is getting easier, I do have trouble trying to find any feed back to my posts, the Beeb had "your posts" facility which told you if there were answers, clicking on your name did the trick. Well I am here to stay and that may annoy some who know me but "hey" you cannot please them all.

Frank.

In My Forum Settings the options don't seem to be selectable. I can't see which options are enabled / disabled. I want to arrange it so that the past posting appears at the top of the thread. Is this still work in progress or am I being a bit dumb?

Thanks. 

Would it be possible to have a tick box so you can track a topic you are interested in but not want to post on. It would be quite handy. I like to read about things but not alwasy have anything useful to post on the thread.

I was pleased to discover this site. I am a member of a couple of other gardening sites, one of which is brill. I used to try to belong to the bbc message boards. but they were never up early enough for me to join in. I like the fact that there is an area for idle chit chat too. The msg boards got very silly with chat that followed on in topics, and the conversations became irrelevant to the subject.

I like this site and shall visit it more often.

I like what I have seen of the site very much and find it easy to use. The forum is great and the search facilities too.

So far just one thing is bugging me; in the forum when I move across a person's avatar a great black box instantly appears which is very annoying as I have to move right across the post to get rid of said box. Would it be possible, sometime, to make it so that you have to hover on the avatar for a second or two before the black box appears then you can easily get it but only when you want it?

Thanks

FloBear

This seems to be a glitch! 

http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/wisteria/2803.html

I know you are aware of the intermittent appearance of the 'view last post first' link on top left, but i have just noticed that on the following thread the link is visible, but doesn't take you beyond page 1 - at least not when I tried it just now. 

http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/april-in-your-garden/2602.html?lastunread=1&lastviewed=25077#lvm

While you're there Daniel, still can't upload jpgs from my PC. Have found an easy work around with photobucket which I've shared with others, but would be nice to be able to do it directly from pc.

Figrat, not sure if I can help, but when you click on the green tree just above my message (third icon from the right) you get the following window:

 You click 'select' and navigate to the file on your computer, and then click 'upload' . the file needs to be of a certain size in dimensions and bytes - I think 1 mb is the biggest - so you may need to downsize your file. Hope this is not a case of teaching grandma to suck eggs and you already know all this, and have a different problem that I have not helped with!! 

Daniel Haynes wrote (see)

Reply to Swedboy. Do you mean that you'd like to receive email alerts when particular threads are updated? As you will have noticed, it's currently only possible if you've contributed to the thread. The easiest way to track threads on a given subject is to use the search facility at the top of each page. Once a result is returned, it is possible to filter further by content type, one of the filters being forum posts. The advantage of this method is that it would display links to all forum posts on that subject, not just one. For example, here is a search result for forum posts relating to roses:

Forum posts relating to roses

Does this help?

Daniel
Editor, gardenersworld.com

Not really, That link need to be stored somewhere to be useful. I just would like to be able to follow a thread without posting on it. It might just be interesting or have usefull information that I want to read but not comment on.

On the Beeb site I used to 'ping' so I could keep track of interesting threads without posting.