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January 23, 2011 at 9:30 pm #2173483
TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Lockedby jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
Alright, so we’ve launched the new version of TechRepublic and we’re very pretty excited about. See:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/techrepublics-2011-upgrade-simpler-and-lot-more-social/7473On the other hand, we know that we’ve moved your cheese (see http://bit.ly/moved-my-cheese) and we realize that many of you who come here everyday are going to take a while to get used to the new layout.
However, we’d like your constructive feedback, and your help in running down bugs and alerting us to things we’ve inadvertently (or purposefully) changed that could have unintended consequences. Please post your feedback, bugs, errors, (and even applause) in this thread. If someone posts something that you agree with or were going to post then use the “+” voting button to vote it up. If someone posts something you disagree with then use the “-” voting button to vote it down.
Thanks in advance for helping us make the site better. We always appreciate your time and input.
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January 23, 2011 at 9:38 pm #2850052
Change your avatar
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
To a smiley face.
Might deflect the shilt that is sure to come.
Myself, I think you and your people done good.
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January 23, 2011 at 9:47 pm #2850051
50/50
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
As usual, TR uses a pleasing colour scheme, though a bit bland on a notebook without colour matching. Navigation is more complicated and will simply perpetuate the ongoing issue with people not finding their chosen content or posting in the wrong places.
NOTE: When you edit a comment, all previous formatting is lost and you have to space paragraphs all over again.
I’ve come to expect that though, no matter how many changes have been made and how many times TR asked for feedback to find out people want it simplied, it continues to look too busy and takes what would be very simple navigation and turn it into a confusing mess of links (techs, you can’t live with ’em and you can’t teach them what KISS means).
Oh hey, I just realised that, under a group of unrelated sidebars all offering links or ads, there is still a short Hot Discussions list (well a bunch of big blue bars with links anyway), hang on, it was on another page too, in a different place though.
Sorry but you guys could have done WAAAAAAAAAY better.
I know it takes a while to get comfortable with changes but this is just bad navigation gone worse. There’s no logical layout, it changes depending on what page you are on, ads and galleries are mixed with links.
The right side bar is just a mix of rubbish with no logical layout at all. The last layout was the best yet, after many changes, but this is just good potential made to look like a mess.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:13 pm #2848799
Ditto on the paragraph formatting.
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to 50/50
I’m using FF 3.6, if that makes any difference.
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January 23, 2011 at 10:05 pm #2850050
Can you believe it????
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Holy crap! Not only is my avatar missing, now I have to open a new account with another picture host. I only assume TR gets paid for image loads or something. So I grudgingly open an account with another hokey online host, pull my avatar from my current picture hosty, upload it and guess what? IT’S A DIFFERENT SIZE AVATAR NOW! So now I have to open in Fireworks, resize, trim redraw, all of my avatars (about 8 for the year) because, for some unknown reason, TR changed sizing and forces using their chosen avatar host. Thanks again fella’s! Oh hey, look at THAT, ANOTHER mess of links in a big blue bar at the bottom of the page, NIIIIICE layout guys, didi everyone design a panel at home and then they were all just thrown onto a page with no rhyme or reason? ICK! Of course, you have to scroll by a hideously balanced left white space with bar after bar of links on one side, in order to get to it though.
Why do people do this when simple site changes to an existing format offer a vast improvements without redesigning the whole page and then reworking a ghastly layout for a year until it becomes sorta usable again. To think that with the money and resources C-Net has, this is the best they can come up with, a website that works like it was designed by n00bs on crack.
I’ve seen some sketchy changes here over the years, this has got to be just an early April fools days joke though.
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January 23, 2011 at 10:35 pm #2850043
Get real
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Can you believe it????
You’re suggesting we get paid for image loads? Please. You’re a lot smarter than that. (But, then again, I did get a good laugh out of it.)
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January 23, 2011 at 11:13 pm #2850028
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January 24, 2011 at 6:57 am #2849952
How is it inconvenient?
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to So, it’s just a user inconvenience then?
All you need is an email address and an image, plus then you can not only use it on our site but others as well.
From our perspective, we get a service that scales images well and keeps up with the latest security and decency filtering in images.
Win-win from our perspective.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:16 am #2849942
From your perspective isn’t everyone’s perspective
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
Jason –
Gravatar should be an option, not a mandatory. Not everyone wants to set up a Gravatar account. I know I didn’t want to. It’s like the sites that use stupid OpenID for authentication… I now have a WordPress account that I’ll never use, just so I can post questions to StackOverflow. It supposedly cuts the clutter for users, but for folks who only need it for one site, it increases the clutter.
The better approach would be to push Gravatar, but have a fallback option using the old system.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:50 am #2849904
Sigh
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to From your perspective isn’t everyone’s perspective
I sighed when I realized I was forced to jopin another site, that offers free image storage for an email address, certainly an invitation to a flood of spam and junk mail from their ‘affiliates’ (anyone who wants to buy the addresses from them.
The main PO for me was the change in sizing though.
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January 24, 2011 at 11:36 am #2848829
I’ll be one of the blank avatars
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to From your perspective isn’t everyone’s perspective
I thought TR might be offering a new library of avatar images but nope.. the profile link lead me to the Gravatar site. It would be nice if TR offered a short list of directly hosted icons. With only two of many websites asking me to join Gravatar; I’ll be remaining a blank avatar likely.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm #2848797
At last, someone acknowledges the option.
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ll be one of the blank avatars
It’s not like an avatar is a requirement. If one doesn’t want to use avatar, the default silhouette is always an option.
I’d still like to see the TR flag as the default instead.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:47 pm #2848761
It was always heavily encouraged though
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ll be one of the blank avatars
TR used to encourage it. they did a points and (reward?) system once to get people to complete profiles and upload an avatar. I know people’s avatar’s as I would recognize faces in the real world. TR once wanted to encourage use of avatars and completing profiles (as many good sites force you to do before posting) as it cuts down on spammers. People won’t post spam links and run if it is a more involved registration process, thus you build a better community with fewer ‘post and runs’.
Now you have a choice, register with a new host, upload and reformat an avatar, welcoming more junk mail and spam, or don’t have an avatar. If the latter, why have them at all ,if they are all going to be blank avatars then there’s simply no point at all in using them to begin with, just list by user name.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:49 am #2848605
Same here
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ll be one of the blank avatars
I’m not interested in signing up for another site. Especially since I can’t just use a garbage email address, (or can I?)
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February 4, 2011 at 6:37 am #2847085
Me too
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to I’ll be one of the blank avatars
What could possibly be so hard about just letting us upload a small pic directly from our own PCs? FB does it and so do any number of other, smaller sites.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:54 am #2848604
I’m with you
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to From your perspective isn’t everyone’s perspective
I set up an account and I *might* find a value in it at some time in the future, but I would have liked to take my time thinking it through.
There are sites that I use that I don’t care to use a picture of me, others where I use a specific avatar for specific reasons, still others that I would prefer a more professional appearing pic. In my experience, one size rarely fits all.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:11 am #2848567
You actually can do that with Gravatar
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
Gravatar allows you to use a different picture on a per-site basis. It’s a good system, and I like it, but it’s not for everyone and it’s not a good thing that TR forces you to use it if you want to use a picture.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 4:47 pm #2849482
@Justin – Per site?
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
I know they allow per email address, but I didn’t see anything about per site.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm #2849467
@Nick – Yup, per site
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
NT
J.Ja
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January 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm #2849258
Yikes!
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
I just now went and checked a webcomic I’ve been folllowing, and the comments I wrote in the feedback section… and now they have this gravatar next to them!!
And it’s not like I’ve posted there through a login or anything, I just provided my email address in the comment form as required! :0
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January 26, 2011 at 2:56 pm #2849231
Hmmm.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
On that, and another note, I may stay blank.
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January 27, 2011 at 7:58 am #2849834
On the other hand…
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m with you
Yahoo provides throwaway email addresses, so I guess you could put one of those up for gravatar. It’ll still be accessable through yahoo, but it’s hopefully insulated…
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January 24, 2011 at 9:45 am #2849905
For people who have other, preferred image storage sites
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
Such as Windows Live, Picturetrail etc. you now have to download, reformat, upload images to a new server that you have to sign up for and await a flood of spam and junk mail from. It would have been somewhat palletable if the image size remained the same though. Lose lose from a users perspective.
If the average new visitor has an attention span of 12 seconds to find what they want, this is dead in the water before the champagne bottle breaks on the bow. Some lifers will take time to muddle through the birds nest of links and panels, but it is not at all inviting for new visitors.
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January 24, 2011 at 4:14 pm #2848746
RE: How is it inconvenient?
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
Well Jason for starters the sizes are different which requires you to resize or do without.
Then there is the slight issue of needing to join yet another site and spread what where previously Secure E Mail Address about. In the Past I was sure that TR wouldn’t be sharing my E Mail Address with anyone and they where the only ones to get most of those which can not be dumped at a moments notice.
Now there is a site Gravatar who has 2 of my E Mail Addresses that would be inconvenient to loose though not [b]Earth Shattering[/b] it would certainly be Inconvenient. The remainder they will never see and any Accounts that are already open or may be opened in the future will remain Blank.
Currently I’m not overly happy with the need to join yet another site just so I can post at TR with the same features that where in place previously. Maybe I’ll get used to the FB Look of things but currently at the moment I’m debating weather or not to continue using TR as it’s become inconvenient, hard to know where posts will end up particularly in Q&A Threads, Not Possible to Subscribe to Questions/Discussions without adding a post and seriously looks way too much like Face Book which I refuse to use. 😉
I’ve also just seen that the Contact TR Link that used to be on every page is no longer there nor is there a link to report Spam Posts so I’m assuming that this was just an oversight that will get changed when it gets brought to your attention. :0
Col
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January 24, 2011 at 5:00 pm #2848736
Looks like the spam button is still there
by michael jay · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to RE: How is it inconvenient?
it is now called flag, and it gives you several options as to how to report the post, cool, I like it.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:03 pm #2848691
Reporting spam posts
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to RE: How is it inconvenient?
It’s still there… at the bottom of the post is a link that says “Flag”.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:49 pm #2848706
Gravatar’s privacy policy
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
Here’s the link to Gravatar’s privacy policy:
http://en.gravatar.com/site/privacyIn short, they promise to “never rent, sell, or otherwise distribute or make public your email address.” We wouldn’t have used them unless they had such an unequivocal policy.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm #2848688
Policies can be changed at any time…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Gravatar’s privacy policy
… just ask Google.
Sorry, but there’s no defense on this one. Gravatar should be *an* option, not *the* option. Personally, I don’t mind Gravatar, but I’m standing up for the folks who have every right to not want to use it. Just let people host elsewhere, and offer defaults icons for folks as well.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 11:24 am #2848561
meaningless
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Gravatar’s privacy policy
I bet that policy doesn’t apply to governments, for instance.
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January 27, 2011 at 9:51 am #2849818
XKCD answered this as well
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Gravatar’s privacy policy
Have a look.
http://xkcd.com/792/
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January 25, 2011 at 11:26 am #2848559
multiple accounts
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
This is now my third or fourth Gravatar account, thanks to the fact I don’t use the same email address everywhere for purposes of keeping things separated.
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January 26, 2011 at 3:17 pm #2849226
Oy vey.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to multiple accounts
I am hoping that I can at least choose avatars per-site from the same email address as Justin mentions.
I am still really not happy with TR pulling the avatar from my existing Gravatar account automatically. A note that an existing Gravatar was detected and an offer to use it would have been just fine, if automated social connectivity was what they were shooting for. But the current behavior is just wrong.
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January 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm #2848521
So the pioneer spirit is quashed with your site?
by rmerchberger · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How is it inconvenient?
I never took the time to set up an avatar before, but I was considering it… until now.
Why should I fork over my email address(es) and to some extent my online identity, wade through a bunch of incomprehensible legaleze which becomes null & void when someone buys out gravatar next year anyway… when I have 3 (yea, count ’em 3) web servers in my basement on my own static IPs. I have the ability of hosting my own avatar [and my own email… another reason to not sign up “just anywhere” – extra spam… ] yet it’s not an option to host one’s own avatar?
A lot of the changes to the site I dislike immensely — mostly because I just don’t like change. [ I’m a serious subscriber to the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra. ] Any time that an option to host ones own images isn’t available sounds like there’s an underlying (and underhanded) motive (even if it’s just PHB foolishness) for the decision.
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January 26, 2011 at 11:04 am #2849289
there is some security basis for not hosting
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to So the pioneer spirit is quashed with your site?
I’ve considered it more than once:
step 1, host avatar image on my own managed server
step 2, give TR my avatar URL
step 3, collect the logs as all you other TR readers download my avatar image
step 4, (uh.. ok.. I got not setup four yet)
step 5, Profit!! (this is where figuring out step four comes in 😉 )I’m not really sure how much of a concern it is but it does present an option to collect information on fellow TR readers.
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January 26, 2011 at 11:27 am #2849282
Yeah I do it all the time :p
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to there is some security basis for not hosting
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January 23, 2011 at 10:15 pm #2850048
I’m missing my discussions…sort of
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I like the new profile layout. It’s easier to follow contacts, update newsletter subscriptions, and set preferences. However, I can’t seem to find an equivalent of the Updates listing from the old Workspace. Where is a list of the discussions I’ve subscribed to? I used this list to try to keep up with my subscribed discussions and now I can’t find it.
Am I looking in the wrong place? Or is construction just not finished yet?
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January 23, 2011 at 10:20 pm #2850047
It’s a joke
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m missing my discussions…sort of
Now go an edit your comment and see how well it is displayed without spaces or paragraphs. There is a mess of links in the bottom bar, scroll down past the ads and other junk in the right sidebar, you may find a page that disaplys your discussions, it’s not uniform, each page seems to offer a unique navigation set.
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January 24, 2011 at 5:28 am #2849971
The edit issue is a known bug
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It’s a joke
I’ve already run into it, and we’ve already been told they’re working on it.
As for the bottom of the page, most of that has always been there. It was just ignored except in rare cases when the targeted ads or recommended links didn’t make sense or were hilarious. I took a good look and It actually makes more sense than it used to.
The problem I’m having right now is that I’ve set my default thread view to Expanded, yet this thread is displayed collapsed and I can find no way to expand it.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:52 am #2849903
It has been there before but
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to The edit issue is a known bug
Was mainly redundant as far more logical navigation was available near the top of the page.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:58 am #2848856
I’m finding ‘Expanded’
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to The edit issue is a known bug
not nearly as useful as the old Print/View All, primarlly because the old way used the entire screen whilst the new way stays to a limited column size.
I do like that I can set my default view to expanded, however, and not have to click each comment to open and read.
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February 4, 2011 at 6:47 am #2847802
Expanded
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to The edit issue is a known bug
Try setting the default to collapsed, then back to expanded again.
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February 4, 2011 at 8:36 am #2847779
I think it’s a glitch in the new site code
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Expanded
If I select and individual post, I get collapsed. If I click on the thread title, I get my default selections.
Weird.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:20 am #2849937
Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
by stephen howard-sarin · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m missing my discussions…sort of
@NickNielsen: At the top-right of every page is a menu called “My Account.” (It’s in the blue bar.) Mouse over that menu and select “My Stuff,” and you’ll go to a page listing all the discussion threads you have participated in. Also available on that page are all your Q&As.
Scarily, mine go back to 2006!
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January 24, 2011 at 9:57 am #2849901
Buried links
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
It was more accessible and sensibly laid out before. It doesn’ matter though, TR always asks for feedback, defends all the changes against complaints and then leaves it as is anyway. The same thing happens every time there are changes, whether people like them or not. The mentality is ‘you’ll get used to it’ whether it works or not. It’s really just about ‘user issue’ feedback and will acting on botched script issues but if the layout was purple and yellow and deemed absolutely repulsive, TR has no intention on changing it, apparently they know what everyone wants.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:31 pm #2849466
thanks for your feedback and have a beer
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Buried links
Of course we can’t make everyone happy, but we’re working on it. We don’t pretend to be perfect and all knowing. If you have constructive feedback, we are listening and want you, the community to take a role in shaping this site. TR didn’t change a lot for a long time due to resources, but this is changing and the site will continue to evolve. Here’s your chance at being a productive, civil member of the community. It’s your choice.
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January 25, 2011 at 8:48 pm #2849416
David, can I have your kittens?
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to thanks for your feedback and have a beer
David’s right, you know. TR is in the impossible position of trying to please everyone.
There is a Google Docs link around page six (assuming you view 50 entries per page) that is attempting to gather up the issues in a way that will enable the tech team at TR to address them without things falling off radar.
Oh wait! I have the link right here… https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
The last TR update was so many years ago that I was still using a Nokia cell phone that closely resembled a brick. You didn’t get thumbs up, you got points for answering questions… if you were lucky. Peter Spande hadn’t been replaced by Jason Hiner yet, and we still wrote our own News.
In twenty years of working in technology, the only constant I have seen is the mandate, “Change or die”.
Oz, to be fair, TR has asked NUMEROUS times for feedback on what people want. I have personally started a few posts requesting such information. VERY often, all anyone got was crickets- INCLUDING me.
My opinion? They are doing their best. Realistically? They pay for the bandwidth and they assume all the risk. If they re-design my playground every few years, it’s a small price to pay.
That Google docs link? There is a page JUST for suggestions.
Edit for typos and poor sentence construction
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January 26, 2011 at 5:59 am #2849330
Thanks Tig
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to David, can I have your kittens?
Appreciate the perspective.
And, just for the record, I was part of the last big redesign in 2006, too — when we rolled out Workspace and a lot of community changes. Pete Spande was the general manager of TechRepublic at the time and I was the head of editorial. We’re organized a little differently now, but today David’s role is similar to Pete’s back then (only David’s role is even more focused on the site itself). Also, the editorial department is now in a separate branch of the organization, so David and I collaborate closely on the big picture strategy of the TechRepublic site. He’s a super-knowledgeable guy with a lot of great experience in UX and we’re lucky to have him on the team.
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February 4, 2011 at 6:55 am #2847798
2006
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Thanks Tig
And no one liked those changes either.
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February 4, 2011 at 6:53 am #2847799
Who, exactly, did you ask about this change beforehand?
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to thanks for your feedback and have a beer
Seriously, TR looks like a FB wannabe now. Did you invite a random sample of members to give their opinions? Did you do any mock-ups?
I honestly don’t think I can stand it. This is so ugly. Wouldn’t it be much more user-friendly to have a just plain text theme for serious business users?
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January 24, 2011 at 11:01 am #2848841
Ah, of course that’s much better than the old way.
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
There really should be a smiley that indicated sarcasm.
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January 24, 2011 at 4:23 pm #2848745
Stephen just a quick observation here
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
While it doesn’t directly impact on me I do have a few clients who are Color Blind so maybe I’m more sensitive to this issue but I can tell you any person that is Color Blind will simply loose most of the links up top when they are active.
That is taking into account if they can see them at all which most will not be able to. 😉
Col
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January 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm #2849645
Color Blind
by k6lw · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Stephen just a quick observation here
I’m color blind and don’t have any issues with the page color scheme. I do however dislike that I have to view it with ie as Opera 11 doesn’t like it.
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January 28, 2011 at 5:45 pm #2849619
Hmm. Have you cleared your cache?
by tobif · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Color Blind
My Opera 11 doesn’t complain. Maybe you have some old CSS-file in your cache?
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January 25, 2011 at 11:35 am #2848550
useless discussions list
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
Unfortunately, the list of discussions is completely useless now. It shows my own comments; it gives me absolutely nothing about most recent comments to discussions. No matter how much activity goes on in a discussion, nothing changes on my discussions list unless I make a comment myself — and even then, all it tells me is that I made a comment. Well, duh, I know I did, because I’m the person who made the comment.
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January 25, 2011 at 12:43 pm #2849548
Exactly my problem!
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to useless discussions list
I have NO WAY of keeping track of the conversations, short of waiting for the email alert, getting an RSS feed (I really hate RSS feeds for busy conversations, its inbox overload), or hitting refresh and hoping to notice what’s new, because the coloring of visited/unvisited doesn’t work.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 5:23 pm #2849468
queued a fix for the visited links
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Exactly my problem!
as a quick fix for what’s been seen and unseen. will review the conversation tracking outside of email and RSS. send me any ideas.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:32 pm #2849465
Thanks!
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to queued a fix for the visited links
That’s great, thanks!
J.Ja
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January 28, 2011 at 10:26 am #2849691
Don’t take RSS feeds to your Inbox
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Exactly my problem!
Even though I, too, convert my feeds to email, I deposit them into a different folder so I can scan them more quickly. They don’t mix well with correspondence.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:21 pm #2849470
interesting
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to useless discussions list
thanks for that perspective, will note it for feature improvements.
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January 26, 2011 at 11:19 am #2849286
what would it ideally show?
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to useless discussions list
so you expressed what you don’t like, so what elements would be useful to display?
thread title, who started it, who last commented? and/or contacts that last commented? link to your comment?
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January 26, 2011 at 12:46 pm #2849268
I think you have a solid start, it’s just the code behind found wanting
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to what would it ideally show?
Discussion, Contribution, Date, Posts, Votes
These are good columns. I think they just need to reflect different information. It seems to track comments user’s have posted into discussions rather than activity in discussions users are interested in.
Discussion; show me the discussion or article title. This allows me to track specific discussions rather than my own comments within discussions.
Contribution; optional though I’m not sure how it relates to discussions. I see how it relates to tracking user comments.. just not how it relates to tracking discussions.
Date; the date/time of the last comment. Date was there in the past, time was missing. With time now indicated, I can see if comments are newer then my last discussion scan even if my browser does not grew out the discussion link as “visited”.
Posts; number of posts in the discussion is good. Number of responses to my posts or number of posts since my last post could be handy information also. As is, it indicates how large a discussion is though so fair enough.
Votes; maybe this indicates how many votes a person has gotten in the discussion though votes really does refer more to a specific post.
Alternatively, maybe leave the display table as is; focusing on user posts. The user can see comments, if they’ve been voted up/down and Posts could refer to replies in the subthread versus total posts in discussion.
So, what happens if a post is added but not under one of my comment’s subthreads? Currently, I don’t see that update. Potentially, you add an additional column; just wide enough for a “new posts” icon. In this case, I’m getting the current information; my comment title, time/date, replies to it, it’s being voted up or down – which is all good stuff to know. I also get the indication of new discussion comments outside of my own and subthreads.
My other example would be OSNews.
The display is by comment not by discussion similar to the new TR layout versus the old. comments are in cronological order newest to oldest. With each comment, I see votes up/down and number of replies. Links provide direct access to the sub-thread starting with my own comment.
What OSNews system lacks is the overall discussion indicator. One must go back and scan down the discussion hoping to spot new comments in amongst the already read stuff.
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January 28, 2011 at 10:31 am #2849690
Thanks for listening
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to what would it ideally show?
Others should chime in, too, but here’s what I would like ideally:
One page, on which I can find, organized by discussion, an individual link to every comment *that I haven’t visited yet* on every discussion in which I have participated. Added bonus: a way to mark one of those comments as “read” without visiting it.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm #2849277
wait for this week’s visitor stats
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to useless discussions list
That’s the key problem that’s alienating me; I can’t track discussions I’m interested in. Lurking the “Hot discussions” list gives some indication when it’s time to check back on chatter but it’s not ideal. Hopefully it’s enough of a crutch to keep up while the TR devs finish polishing.
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January 26, 2011 at 4:37 pm #2849215
Nope
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
That page now only carries my last 100 posts. It doesn’t have thread titles, it only updates if I post.
I want to know when people post to discussions I’ve subscribed to.
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January 28, 2011 at 10:22 am #2849692
Scarily…
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Your discussions now available from *anywhere*
… mine only go back to 12/26/2010 — there must be some maximum on the number listed. I’ve been a member since the previous millennium.
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January 28, 2011 at 10:09 am #2849696
Add to that, not enough posts are shown
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m missing my discussions…sort of
for the few contacts that still show in my contacts. Four to five in each category, and categories aren’t clickable to display a full list of posts. Again, no indication per post what thread was posted in.
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January 23, 2011 at 10:37 pm #2850042
Damn
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I had a totally acerbic reply, but I was cast into some netherworld, now having to log in again. Is this an anomaly, or, is it designed?
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January 23, 2011 at 10:38 pm #2850041
I’ve had to log in
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Damn
several times so far. Good question.
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January 23, 2011 at 10:44 pm #2850037
Editing is iffy, still.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve had to log in
Can’t seem to edit that last one…
I’d really like to see who made the last post in a discussion or question. Frankly, seeing the same new name ruling the ‘last post’ column was a dead giveaway that the newbie was a spammer and made it much easier to notice them, as well as find their profile and get rid of their crud. I’ve also noticed, that when viewing a profile and clicking on a spammers post, I’m taken to the head of the thread, not the post I want to mark. In lengthy discussions/questions, this is going to make it a huge pita to find and get rid of spam posts.
I’ll have more in a few days. Pretty sure you can bet on that. 😀
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January 23, 2011 at 11:16 pm #2850026
Editing removes formatting
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Editing is iffy, still.
I can just people posting lengthy dialogue, properly spaced for easy reading, and then going in to fix a typo and all paragraph formatting is lost. Now that’s a PITA!
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January 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm #2848770
There was a prior issue with that.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Editing removes formatting
Since a tweak from wayback, editing a comment with HTML entities required re-typing the entity codes. This may have occurred with some other HTML formatting as well,. Haven’t even tried with this forum software yet.
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January 23, 2011 at 11:04 pm #2850032
Voting bug.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve had to log in
Voting kicks me out and makes me have to log back in.
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January 23, 2011 at 11:09 pm #2850029
That worked for me
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Voting bug.
That’s really odd, it seems like this kicked on/off thing is only happening to some people?
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 8:15 am #2849919
I’ve had to log on multiple times
by gsg · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That worked for me
On the old TR, this one, and other sites when I swapped to IE8 and tightened security and changed some cookie settings. I don’t know if that’s what would be causing it for others, but that’s what causes it for me. It’s an irritation, but I’ll put up with it in the interest of a little bit tighter security.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:29 am #2848557
a specific cookie
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve had to log on multiple times
There’s probably some specific cookie you need to accept to prevent that behavior — something that registers as a “third party site” origin for the cookie according to your browser, perhaps, even though it is likely to be some TechRepublic-associated property (just with a different domain name).
It seems that nobody designs Websites to make things easy for people who care about the technologies they use.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:36 pm #2849462
there may be some funk with cookies
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve had to log in
as some have noticed we changed domains with the redesign, tr.com.com tr.com, which may be causing some issues. or you have a legit bug! Try clearing your cookies and let us know if you still see login problems.
please let us know your browser, OS and steps to reproduce. thanks!!
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January 23, 2011 at 11:05 pm #2850031
I’m going to have to see what it’s like…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
… after the content issues are sorted out.
First and foremost, I know how much work goes into something like this… you guys know that I’m real familiar with what these kinds of projects are like. I don’t expect them to EVER be perfect or even go smoothly. The redesigned site I rolled out a few days ago was a year of work, and I’m very glad that my name wasn’t attached to most of the project because I’m not thrilled with it…
The overall job done here is something to be proud of, and a lot of the feedback folks have been giving was obviously taken into account, and it’s appreciated. So think of this as a “punch list”, not as a set of “wow, this sucks!” criticisms.
One of the things that’s really harsh on the eyes is this embedded effect on the text for all of the graphics. It’s adding a slight drop shadow on the inside of the “bezel” that makes it hard to see.
Throughout, many of the color choices are making it VERY hard to read. White numbers on a light green button, for example (the comment counts), or a light green on a light grey background (like right above the box I’m typing in right now). White text on light blue buttons. All of these buttons need a heavier weight font so that they are readable.
The over all issue is one of contrast. The left arrows on the “Media Gallery” to the right are invisible for all intents and purposes… and I’m using a very high end monitor!
On the other hand, I like the increased font size very much!
The content areas are, for all intents and purposes, SMALLER. Why? Because the font size is cranked to a readable level (finally). I have no clue how i am supposed to include code samples in articles or comments when there is less than 100 characters’ worth of width to work with. At least I use C# now where the whitespace didn’t matter, but for Ruby, Python, VB.NET, etc. code… let’s just say it’s not going to encourage folks to post sample code.
The top few navigation bars are totally illegible.
The highlighted item in the “Blogs/Discussions” nav covers up the pipe character to the right of the button.
I like the “Collapse” on the giant buttons over the article. I never used them, and it’s nice to be able to get those 150 pixels back.
The navigation, as is, is very poor. It will be extremely improved if the “blog” content goes into the main bins (“Mobile Development”, “Leadership”, etc.).
J.Ja
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January 23, 2011 at 11:06 pm #2850030
Log out/log in needed to post
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m going to have to see what it’s like…
I had to do a log out/log in to post. Maybe because I hadn’t logged into the new system yet.
J.Ja
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January 23, 2011 at 11:43 pm #2850018
Re: Code Samples
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m going to have to see what it’s like…
It looks like, at least in the blog posts, that code samples are actually displaying fairly nicely (in a colored box in a different font). That’s appreciated! Is there a way to tag content in a comment to be code too, like on Stack Overflow and MSDN?
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:26 am #2849935
Let’s see how it looks
by stephen howard-sarin · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Re: Code Samples
I am not a coder. I am not a coder. I am not a coder. But I know how to copy and paste, and use the “samp” tag.namespace Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Utility
{
public class CrmServiceUtility
{
public static CrmService GetCrmService()
{
return GetCrmService(null, null);
}public static CrmService GetCrmService(string organizationName)
{
return GetCrmService(null, organizationName);
}///
/// Set up the CRM Service.
////// My Organization
///CrmService configured with AD Authentication
public static CrmService GetCrmService(string crmServerUrl, string organizationName)
{
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January 24, 2011 at 7:33 am #2849932
The "samp" tag?
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Let’s see how it looks
Looks good.
How are we supposed to know about this? There needs to be a link near the comments box for formatting help. I’ve never used the formatting because I have no way of finding out how to do the formatting.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:37 am #2849927
Testing Samp
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Let’s see how it looks
Dim lTimeAtRes:
Dim sDisplayedValue:
Dim dtOne:
Dim C32Ext:
Set C32Ext = CreateObject(“Object”):
lTimeAtRes = 0:
sDisplayedValue = Mid(vReturnVal,4):
If sDisplayedValue <> “” then:
if isdate(sDisplayedValue) then:
‘Remove Date formating:
dtOne = DateSerial(mid(sDisplayedValue,7,4),mid(sDisplayedValue,4,2),left(sDisplayedValue,2)):
ltimeatres = datediff(“M”,Cdate(dtOne), Cdate(C32Ext.GetCRIVar(“SY_Today”))):
End if:
end if:
vReturnVal = 750:
If lTimeAtRes => 12 Then:
vReturnVal = 250:
End If:
If lTimeAtRes => 36 Then:
vReturnVal = 0:
End If:
Set C32Ext = Nothing:Fail
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January 24, 2011 at 7:45 am #2849924
Looking at it closer…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Let’s see how it looks
… it is completely unacceptable. It cuts off long lines.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 2:23 pm #2848769
It is also spilling its guts
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Looking at it closer…
out the bottom of the first sample “samp” posted.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:34 am #2849930
Testing code sample
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Re: Code Samples
Dim lTimeAtRes: Dim sDisplayedValue: Dim dtOne: Dim C32Ext: Set C32Ext = CreateObject("Object"): lTimeAtRes = 0: sDisplayedValue = Mid(vReturnVal,4): If sDisplayedValue <> "" then: if isdate(sDisplayedValue) then: 'Remove Date formating: dtOne = DateSerial(mid(sDisplayedValue,7,4),mid(sDisplayedValue,4,2),left(sDisplayedValue,2)): ltimeatres = datediff("M",Cdate(dtOne), Cdate(C32Ext.GetCRIVar("SY_Today"))): End if: end if: vReturnVal = 750: If lTimeAtRes => 12 Then: vReturnVal = 250: End If: If lTimeAtRes => 36 Then: vReturnVal = 0: End If: Set C32Ext = Nothing:
Dim lTimeAtRes:
Dim sDisplayedValue:
Dim dtOne:
Dim C32Ext:
Set C32Ext = CreateObject("Object"):
lTimeAtRes = 0:
sDisplayedValue = Mid(vReturnVal,4):
If sDisplayedValue <> "" then:
if isdate(sDisplayedValue) then:
'Remove Date formating:
dtOne = DateSerial(mid(sDisplayedValue,7,4),mid(sDisplayedValue,4,2),left(sDisplayedValue,2)):
ltimeatres = datediff("M",Cdate(dtOne), Cdate(C32Ext.GetCRIVar("SY_Today"))):
End if:
end if:
vReturnVal = 750:
If lTimeAtRes => 12 Then:
vReturnVal = 250:
End If:
If lTimeAtRes => 36 Then:
vReturnVal = 0:
End If:
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January 24, 2011 at 7:35 am #2849929
Humph, neither works properly
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Testing code sample
“Pre” nor “code” worked, both lost the formatting. What else can we do?
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January 24, 2011 at 7:43 am #2849925
Just do what everyone else does, please
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Humph, neither works properly
Every site I’ve been to has a way of putting in sample code that does nice formatting and coloring and such. Just use that system, whatever it is, please.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:49 am #2849923
How?
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Just do what everyone else does, please
I am used to using the pre tag…
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January 24, 2011 at 8:08 am #2849921
You aren’t everyone
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How?
Every site has their own list of what tags do and do not work. Some sites don’t allow HTML, but prefer their own markup language (like Markdown). You might know about using pre, but not everyone else does.
And the pre tag formats them wrong anyways… look what happens to long lines, they run off the edge. Pre is truly the wrong tag. The *right* tag for code samples would do the following:
* Maintain spaces, indentation, tabs, etc. as types.
* Wrap overflow text.
* Use a fixed width font.
* Set the block in some formatting that makes it obviously separate from the main text.J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 8:10 am #2849920
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January 24, 2011 at 8:35 am #2849916
Take a look at other sites
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How?
Go to StackOverflow or MSDN and see how they do it. It’s not just a matter of what we, the users should be doing. It’s a matter of what TR needs to do. They need to provide a facility to post code samples properly, and they need to provide explanatory text.
I’m not avoiding your question, I already answered it above. 🙂
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 11:44 am #2848544
re: line wrap
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to How?
I actually kinda like non-wrapping, as long as there’s a 100 column width box to use (or more), guaranteed for any reasonable display resolution (600×800 and up) and any reasonable screen zoom (150%), because it encourages people to write code with lines of a reasonable length. Then again, I don’t care much about Java, C#, and VB.NET — and I know line lengths tend to need to be much longer in those languages.
I guess I’m just being a little self-centered when I say “So what?” about line wrapping.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:00 pm #2848809
When TR finally gets that bit sorted…
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Just do what everyone else does, please
… I hope they’ll publish detailed instructions in an obvious location on how to post code. It would be really cool if they adopted an approach like the SyntaxHighlighterEvolved plugin, where you specify a code section with an optional language attribute, and it gets syntax-colored as well. The only thing I don’t like about that plugin is that it relies on JavaScript being enabled. Seems like the processing could be done server-side instead.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:45 am #2848541
Ideally . . .
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to When TR finally gets that bit sorted…
Ideally, it’d be something that allows dynamic updates (JavaScript driven, in other words) but degrades gracefully so that a page reload will achieve the same effect if JavaScript is restricted or unavailable for some reason. Unfortunately, it seems like almost everybody in the world has forgotten about the concept of graceful degradation of interfaces.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:55 pm #2849262
I’m missing a few things due to NoScript
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to When TR finally gets that bit sorted…
The full selection of display preferences and third party tracking options apear only when I enable scripts. It looks like most of the site runs fine with full NoScript in affect though.
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January 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm #2848726
Code looks great here!
by jerang- · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Humph, neither works properly
@SinisterSlay – your code here is formatted correctly with the pre tag!
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633-3412219 -
January 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm #2848686
Look again
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Code looks great here!
It’s cut off at the ends. It needs to wrap. In other testing, Chip’s shown that pre DOESN’T work the way we need it to.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 6:30 am #2848626
It also lost its tabbing
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Look again
In the old TR theme, scroll bars were automatically added with the pre tag to fix the chopping problem.
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January 23, 2011 at 11:15 pm #2850027
More items
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The votes shown in “My Stuff” seem to have no relationship to actual activity.
My picture in my bio box on my articles is missing.
In the bio box for authors, the normal right-click menu is broken.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 4:16 am #2849985
The votes shown in "My Stuff"
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to More items
Appear to be the sum of votes for the entire thread, not the votes for a particular post.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:50 am #2849956
I just noticed that too
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to The votes shown in "My Stuff"
It still makes no sense to the user why it would work that way… the only metric that anyone would care about is the number of votes on the post, not the thread.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 10:01 am #2848855
As does the sum
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to The votes shown in "My Stuff"
in the ‘front door’.
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January 23, 2011 at 11:17 pm #2850025
Even more items…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I can down vote my own comment. I can up vote my own comment. Both are broken.
Down voting a comment when it is at “0” seems to not update the display to say “-1”, but upvoting does.
J.Ja
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January 23, 2011 at 11:24 pm #2850023
Count yourself lucky, Justin
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I haven’t seen any activity with the “up” and the “down” vote. We could all go down in flames when it starts working.
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January 23, 2011 at 11:58 pm #2850014
Apostrophe problems
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The apostrophes are still messed up in many places. This is a Unicode issue, the system needs to replace the various apostrophe characters with the single one that HTML likes. A good example is the header on the poll here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/poll-are-microsofts-development-tools-headed-in-the-right-direction/3842
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 11:52 am #2848537
ARGH! No more smart quotes!
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Apostrophe problems
The problem is all those asinine “smart quotes” on the Web. Jeebus cries, people, this is a textual medium perused by technically oriented people; we need characters that can actually be trivially duplicated from a standard QWERTY keyboard whenever at all reasonable. Copying text from articles and pasting them in comments has been kind of a problem because of auto-replacement of totally printable characters with totally unprintable characters off and on here at TR, and it drives me up the wall. People are bending over backwards to do things that shouldn’t be done in the first place, putting ungodly amounts of effort into implementing systems to automatically change text so it’s less usable. It’s absurd.
Smart Quotes Considered Harmful
Read it for a start on understanding the problem, if you don’t already get it.
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January 25, 2011 at 12:46 pm #2849544
Smart quotes are killer in P&D
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to ARGH! No more smart quotes!
It’s especially important in the P&D section to not use smart quotes, because you need to be able to copy/paste into code and have it work. Many languages have a huge distinction between the apostrophe character and the backtick which is often what comes out when copying smart quotes and smart apostrophes. This is even more important for *Nix admins, now that I think about it…
J.Ja
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January 28, 2011 at 10:45 am #2849688
Smart quotes are the bane of technical sites
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Smart quotes are killer in P&D
Furthermore, the font used for rendering code samples needs to make clear distinctions between ‘ and `, as well as between all other characters — especially between members of the following sets:
0O
|l1
S$
.,
;:
Personally, I prefer when sites leave that up to the browser’s interpretation of the <code> tag — I can set that to Deja Vu Sans Mono and be happy.
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January 28, 2011 at 11:48 am #2849676
leaving it up to the browser
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Smart quotes are the bane of technical sites
That would involve just setting it to monospace in the CSS, and not setting any other options. Unfortunately, most users just use whatever defaults came with the browser, which in many cases is downright hideous — and would totally break up the look and feel of a Website.
In general, though, that’s much less a problem for code blocks than it is for other fonts being set to sans-serif or serif. In fact, I’d say that usually serif fonts are the biggest problem, because of how many people go with the default, and on MS Windows that’s generally Times New Roman (a downright awful font for digital display). It’s great for narrow-column justified text in black-on-white print media, though.
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January 24, 2011 at 12:09 am #2850009
Jason…
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The water cooler is a leper colony. Unseen, untrackable, a lawless waste for the unseemly.That might be cool, in a banished to hell -sort of way, but you’ll need to put a “My water cooler” list option on “My stuff”, otherwise it’s a given that we misfits will have to mingle with the posh people, just to keep track of each other and ourselves.
In English: Posts with the Off Topic tag don’t show up in the “My Stuff”, making the whole thing very unfriendly. There is a risk that people will just ignore the section, posting whatever in the discussions proper section in stead.That’s not a threat, simly a prediction 😀
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January 24, 2011 at 4:36 am #2849978
That could chase me away
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason…
While I read quite a few of the articles, most of my posting is done in the off-topic threads. If I have no easy way to track those threads, I’ll probably go back to lurking.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:26 am #2849908
Hey Nick, have you tried the "My Discussions" area?
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That could chase me away
Go to My Account | My Stuff | My Discussions
That should show you all of the discussions that you’re involved in, including anything “off-topic” in the Water Cooler. Let me know if it doesn’t work.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:02 am #2848639
All I see there are my posts
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Hey Nick, have you tried the "My Discussions" area?
What I’m looking for is a list of the discussions themselves, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to get that.
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January 25, 2011 at 4:58 pm #2849478
Follow-up
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Hey Nick, have you tried the "My Discussions" area?
Jason, the posts I’ve made in the Water Cooler discussions [u]do not[/u] appear in the badly mis-titled My Discussions (should be My Posts).
What I was expecting to find in My Discussions was the same thing we had before: a list of the discussions you have subscribed to, sorted chronologically by most-recent update, and including both the thread title and the title of the newest post.
But I’ve got expanded mode back now, with the Expand/Collapse option available. Thank you very much!
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January 28, 2011 at 8:38 am #2849706
My Discussions — expected behavior
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Follow-up
Thanks for the detail on how you’d prefer it to work. We’re noting this and considering it for the tweaking/tuning that we’re doing.
The Water Cooler discussions should be showing up in there, but sometimes it’s taking a long lag before they appear. This is a known bug that we will fix.
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January 28, 2011 at 11:23 am #2849679
That’s how it worked since the last update
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My Discussions — expected behavior
It’s really the most convenient way for me (and apparently Chad and others, too) to track the discussions I’m interested in. My off-line time due to work makes it nearly impossible for me to track activity using email or rss without dealing with a flood of email or feeds.
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January 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm #2849617
Still not seeing Water Cooler posts in My Discussions
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My Discussions — expected behavior
I AM getting the email updates, though.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:33 am #2849964
Very good feedback
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason…
Thank you Ansu. This is exactly the kind of feedback we’re looking for. We’ll see what we can do to help people track their water cooler threads. Stay tuned.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:32 am #2849907
Ansu, Water Cooler shouldn’t be blocked in "My Stuff"
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason…
You can track all of the discussions that you’re involved in at the My Discussions area.
Go to My Account | My Stuff | My Discussions
Do you not see your Water Cooler stuff in there? If that’s the case, then it’s a bug and not a feature. Let me know and we’ll investigate.
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January 24, 2011 at 11:43 am #2848828
That’s how I found out… it doesn’t show there.
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ansu, Water Cooler shouldn’t be blocked in "My Stuff"
I thought at first it only showed pre-update posts, but then I realized it just left out the OT discussions.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:38 pm #2848711
We’re tracking this one as a bug
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s how I found out… it doesn’t show there.
It is showing up sometimes and not showing at others. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:15 am #2850006
Saving an article to my favorites
by mlerner123 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Hi,
How can I save an article to my favorites on TechRepublic? I’m not talking about Internet Explorer’s Favorites (if I was, I would be thrown out of TR). I’m referring to the list of favorite articles that every TechRepublic member can build – it used to be that every article had a Save button which would add it that member’s list of saved aticles. I just read an article, but I don’t see that Save link, just links to 3rd-party sites.
I hope that TR didn’t get rid of that feature, since I use it often to access articles with good tips on any computer connected to the internet.
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January 24, 2011 at 5:04 am #2849974
Can’t expand the view
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Saving an article to my favorites
I’ve set my default view to “Expanded”, but threads are coming up in collapsed view, with no “Expand” button visible. I can change the number of posts per page, but now I have to click through each post.
Edit: It appears to be random and not dependent on how I accessed the thread.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:34 am #2849931
Two ways to favorite
by stephen howard-sarin · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Saving an article to my favorites
@michael: Here’s how to do it…
1) For articles, click the “more+” link in the sharing box on any article. There’s the option there to “Add to Favorites”
2) For discussion posts or Q&A, there’s a star icon and the word “Favorite” right under the content of the post.
Both work — I just tried ’em.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:32 am #2848609
It works now
by mlerner123 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Two ways to favorite
Stephen,
I’m pretty sure I tried that the other day and there was no Favorites option.
Anyway, I tried it now and it works.
Thanks for your help.
-Michael
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January 24, 2011 at 1:49 am #2850003
Commenting format.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Do not want.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:03 am #2848853
Would you
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Commenting format.
care to clarify that?
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January 24, 2011 at 3:15 pm #2848756
Certainly.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Would you
Prefs.:
1)Prefs not persistent.*
2)”Community prefs do not offer “All” as a default display number.
3) If I can’t set default blocking below -10, I may miss something, as this can be gamed and abused, etc.
4) “Expanded” does not stay expanded, and the option to expand disappears off the page once used.*
Layout:
1) Horrific waste of space. Too much white, too low-density. Should I get a sixty-inch widescreen and hang it vertically to read more than a few sentences?
2) Comment delineation (“boxes”) isn’t cute, it is more like a spill. Group it up and clearly box the comment, user info fields, and command links related to the post. Better separation in reply/answer view.
3)Who told you to automatically pull a Gravatar from an existing account? Not cool.
4)Never had to set a browser to not use font colors set by a site in order to see my typed text before.
5)”Longer” posts – now I’m typing in a four-line scroll box. Whatever.
6)”Read more”. A simply awful method of saving space on posts just so it can be wasted on this diffuse formatting.So, TR did go down the hideous path which ZDNet chose for their “forum”, which is exactly what I was afraid of when changes were first mentioned last summer. I seem to be sadly correct in predicting the outcomes of such announcements, now on the internet as well.
I probably forgot some clarifications while typing.
* = I assume for now this is just a bug.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:34 pm #2848662
RE: #3
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Certainly.
On posts that have been voted ‘collapsed’, there is an option to view it. I tried it on a couple of spam posts that had been negatively voted on. I was able to read them.
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January 30, 2011 at 11:15 pm #2848329
Tiny text field fixed. By SeaMonkey 2.1b1.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Certainly.
Someone was looking into the future, apparently. Re-sizable text entry fields FTW.
Hopefully a better browser when this is out of beta. It isn’t as “nice” as the 2.0 beta, which was even beyond RC-quality.
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January 24, 2011 at 4:25 pm #2848744
Additional.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Would you
The awful and undifferentiated “top rated” and “This just in” sections at top of the thread which have the non-persistent thread settings below. I just figured out what was going on up there.
-10 points for accessibility, if that is the reasoning behind the font size/kerning/etc.
edit: Also, font too light in thread lists. List even more ridiculously short than ever. “See more” function result is worse. At least we can page back farther (apparently, anyway), but the pages are far too short.
Accessibility can not have been a consideration, or the accessibility designers are clueless. So, I think it is all a “look”, rather than any form of accessibility driving this. Someone will have to claim one or the other, though, before I can explain the goal-fail.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:47 pm #2848678
"Accessibility"
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Additional.
What’s strange is that the big fonts seem to be a nod to accessibility, but then the color choices completely overwhelm it going in the wrong direction.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 5:45 pm #2848729
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January 25, 2011 at 2:52 pm #2849501
Slow page loads here, too.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Further: Ridiculous page load times. (nt)
I’m going to practice patience, assuming that there are still a lot of bugs to work out and lots of frantic behind the scenes activity…
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January 24, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2848723
More.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Would you
No thread reference in thread list where comments are displayed by comment title. How many times should I open one thread from this list?
“Pages”” Hating them even more than I had imagined. This is fine for a straight commenting thread, not a branched forum thread. What’s on which page now?
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January 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm #2848717
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January 24, 2011 at 6:52 pm #2848716
Last I looked
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to OK – some of the layout is looking a little better.
the tidying up hadn’t been done yet in Q&A. Hope they do… I spose I should check the WaterCooler.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm #2849273
Indeed, it is much better. I hope Q&A does get better "boundaries"
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Last I looked
around posts.
But I think many of the bits I had problems with have been improved.
But the pagination thing – yow.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:01 am #2850000
Software area now a pain to navigate
by f18adp · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I found the software area so useful and easy to navigate, now its awful, no filter for OS/Free/Date ect and the search section on the left is poor too. I simply wanted to search for backup software and its not possible unless you want to search 8000 pages manually.
I would put it back to how it was, unless there is more development on how it currently is. Or i am doing it wrong and cant see wood for trees?Andy
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January 24, 2011 at 4:34 am #2849980
Not happy
by 93961 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Disgsutingly not good. Requires tremendous improvement. Too Slow!!!??? Unable to find many things easily. Too BIG FONTS and ICONS in Many places.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:56 am #2849953
Big fonts good, icons bad
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Not happy
I like the big fonts, for accessibility reasons. Just because your eyes are good, doesn’t mean everyone’s are. Current recommendations are to keep Web fonts at the screen equivalent of 11 – 12 points. The font size is great.
I agree 100% on the icons. They are so prolific and all look identical, it’s hard to separate the important ones from the unimportant ones. They are not self explanatory in some cases. For example, if the “Comments” icon was meaningful, it wouldn’t need to have the word “Comments” on it. If an icon needs explanatory text, the icon needs to be changed to text or to something that doesn’t need text to be understood.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 1:06 pm #2848803
Fonts are too big for a unilateral non-option
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Big fonts good, icons bad
I don’t mind making larger fonts available for accessibility to those who need them, but I really don’t need to be able to measure the length of each serif on my notebook with a yardstick. It seems to me the only solution here is to allow users to scale fonts to their own choice. In the mean time, Vimperator has a nice ‘zoom’ command. 80% works well for most of the text, though the headers and such are still way too huge.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:26 pm #2848755
Time for a forum script.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Fonts are too big for a unilateral non-option
Never been big on user scripts for sites, but it may be a necessity. That, or TR can offer CSS switching to official alternative layouts.
Accessibility != lowest common denominator (or below). Internet should come through the intertubes, not feeding tubes.
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January 25, 2011 at 8:38 am #2848599
Having lousy eyesight
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Time for a forum script.
And an allergy to wearing my glasses, I have long been in the habit of setting my font size on my display to work for me as opposed to assuming that a forum admin would cater to my needs specifically. Accessibility is a great and wonderful thing, but it tends to be built in at the individual browser level and should be set from there.
My $0.02, YMMV
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January 26, 2011 at 12:26 pm #2849271
I ran into a guy on a help forum
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Having lousy eyesight
who insisted in typing in ALL CAPS because it was easier for him to read.
Both “normal” and “accessibility” browser settings have been around since, like, Mosaic. I’ll adjust the browser to work for me – why suffer or expect the internet to change for you? Don’t get me wrong – a lot of sites aren’t set up for accessibility settings, and need to be changed. But why go too far for some particular flavor of accessibility, especially if the “better” font style is now also lighter?
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January 24, 2011 at 10:02 am #2848854
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January 24, 2011 at 1:23 pm #2848794
Are Your Fonts Too Big?
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Not happy
Try Font-Reducer, the handy-dandy all-purpose way to make fonts, graphics, and almost all other web page features smaller! Just hold down either Control key while you spin the mouse wheel.
Brand new from the makers of Font Enlarger, the UL approved method of holding down the Control key while you spin the mouse wheel in the other direction!
Remember, if your fonts are enlarged for more than four hours, see your doctor.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:37 pm #2848788
Who me?
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Are Your Fonts Too Big?
No. My fonts are the same (small) for all websites, I’m not about to reduce font sizes for one website.
EDIT: Sorry I just realized there IS actualy a sort of tired layout, just the lines narely contrast to teh background so they are hard to see. What a farce this is, I’ve seen some poor changes made over the years but they are mostly minor feature removals etc, this joke of a redesign is just a complete kaibosh of a website. What an embarassment, a tech site with a practically unusable website.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:22 am #2849966
I hate it
by unhappyuser · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Bring back the old one. It’s much better.
EMD
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January 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm #2848793
Care to be a bit more specific?
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I hate it
EXACTLY what is it you dislike?
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January 24, 2011 at 1:43 pm #2848785
Better idea
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Care to be a bit more specific?
shorter list, what do I like about it……..mmmmmm……errrrrr….there’s GOT to be something….nope, nothing broken was fixed, everything else was screwed with just to make it different.
I guess after a year of coding, if you come up with somthing similar it doesn’t look good. Might as well screw up the whole site and then you can justify a year’s salary for tweaking and fixing, as it sits it’s a joke. Absolutely laughable in every sense of web design.“Can you be more specific?” To begin with, hire someone that actually knows how to layout a website and create a logical navigation system. This looks like it was created for a 12″ screen.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:29 pm #2848754
So, not an improvement?
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Better idea
Not like the improvements MS made to the Win/Office UIs? :0
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January 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm #2848786
Get used to it
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I hate it
It’s almost become an annual nightmare over the last few years. They tweak and fine tune until everything is working okay and everyone finally likes it, then they think they will recreate the wheel and screw it all up again. I hate it when some tech decides he can do better and tries to justify his worth, only to do far worse. I’d have canned the web developer in a heartbeat if this had gone live with the sites I manage.
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January 24, 2011 at 5:31 pm #2848733
Here’s the difference… [my defense of the awesome TechRepublic team]
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Get used to it
You’re talking about TechRepublic like it’s a little site with a single Web developer. This is a completely different animal than the kinds of sites you’ve worked on because of the scalability issues it takes build a site with 6+ million users/month and the responsibility we have to serve a large audience with a lot of different (and sometimes conflicting) needs and requests.
We have a team of over 30 people that have been working on this, getting lots of input from the TR community and implementing best practices from some of the Web’s most efficient and effective sites, including Google, Amazon, Digg, Slashdot, and more. In fact, we’ve got some great people on staff that have worked on these sites (some even pioneered well-known features at those sites). These are not amateurs and the work they’ve done on the new TechRepublic is the best relaunch that I’ve ever been a part of and I’ve been doing this for over a decade. It took tremendous discipline for our team to eliminate as much stuff as we did from TechRepublic. The result is a site that takes fewer clicks to navigate, loads faster, and puts content front and center.
That said, the biggest part of this migration is something that you can’t see. We’ve completely re-engineered our front-end platform so that we can upgrade the site in much more incremental ways rather than doing massive relaunch projects like this one. This is easier on the users (we don’t move their cheese as often), it keeps the site adaptive and flexible, and it provides regular improvements. This is going to enable us to do a lot more cool stuff in 2011, especially some nice additions in community.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:18 pm #2848685
We need less "cool stuff"…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s the difference… [my defense of the awesome TechRepublic team]
… and more of the stuff we specifically requested. Stuff like seeing what forum comments we’ve already read. The actions of the audience are a fundamental driver of the business, as we discussed. The end result of this project has not delivered the tools we asked for or the tools we need to continue our participation. It has made participation considerably harder. This new forum system is bordering on unusable. I can barely type responses since this box is so small only three sentences fit into it. I can’t easily see what I’ve read and what i haven’t read. I can’t easily subscribe to the conversations unless I’m starting a top level post.
I’ve posted an extraordinary number of bugs here, as have others, and all but a handful have not been responded to with either a “bug filed” message or a legitimate response showing why this is not a bug. I think that having someone from tech respond to these items in this fashion would go a long way in cooling the flames, because right now, it looks like we are being ignored. That’s not a good feeling for the folks who took their time testing this site and providing feedback, regardless of how it’s worded.
i know you’re on the defensive, I’ve been in your shoes on this kind of thing before. You didn’t write the code, and we all know that. But right now, we need someone to stand up as the voice of the community and get some actual COMMUNICATIONS going on, because right now, this is a mess. You’ve got a pile of angry people (note that other than a few minor comments regarding font size, NO ONE from the core users is happy!) who are either being ignored, or getting responses that feel like the feedback is not helpful. This is just going to make things worse. I highly suggest getting someone from the tech team on this. I’ve been involved in a fair number of disaster projects, and I promise you that the lack of communications from the tech team is causing a lot more problems than having someone lose the time to monitor and respond to this forum will cause.
Let’s not forget, many of the people in this forum are also industry experts, and I guarantee you that all of them are more expert in the care and feeding of the TechRepublic community than any of the devs you have working on the backend. After all, we’re the ones who use this site on a daily basis, not them. I’ll put one comment by Nick, Charlie, Tricia, Boxy, Santee, etc. above a dozen “expert opinions” from developers who’ve posted to this site twice in their life.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:57 pm #2848673
Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to We need less "cool stuff"…
These are all professionals perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
Thanks for sharing your input and feedback. We appreciate it. We can’t respond to every post, but we are certainly reading them and using them to help run down bugs and make tweaks to enhance usability. And we were just talking tonight about reporting back in this thread on some of the fixes and changes that we’re making.
It’s also time to take it easy on the melodrama. We haven’t changed THAT much in the community, because we know that it’s hard on the power users that have established patterns of working with the site. But, at the same time, we need to keep expanding and looking for ways to make this stuff easier and more approachable and more efficient (you and I can argue about the strategy and implementation of that endlessly, but let’s table it for now).
Ultimately, if there is stuff we can do to make things more effective and even in a few cases bring some features back (or find a compromise) then we’re always exploring that, but this is still day two. We’re getting lots of great and helpful input from users both publicly and privately and we’re continuing to forge ahead and make the site better.
Give it a few days. We’ll get stuff fixed and make more tweaks and then let’s see where we’re at.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:11 pm #2848664
I never said I was
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users
“Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users”
Did I say I was volunteering? I was actually meaning to suggest that you’d be a good choice for that. Seriously, we need someone to really track this (and the other similar threads) and act as the voice of the customer on the inside. That’s what I meant. I would have edited it but…
“And we were just talking tonight about reporting back in this thread on some of the fixes and changes that we’re making.”
That should be a very high priority, to be honest, and will go a long way in letting folks know that their feedback is not going into a black hole.
“It’s also time to take it easy on the melodrama.”
I think that only a few people are being melodramatic… I’m certainly trying my best to be objective, now that my shock from Sunday over the missing content has passed. 🙂 I think that, for the most part, people are trying to be objective, but you’re in the hot seat so it’s easy to feel like people are attacking a lot more than they are. TR is “home” for a lot of people, and they are going to take any kind of change pretty personally.
“Ultimately, if there is stuff we can do to make things more effective and even in a few cases bring some features back (or find a compromise) then we’re always exploring that, but this is still day two. We’re getting lots of great and helpful input from users both publicly and privately and we’re continuing to forge ahead and make the site better.”
I think that for the next big change, or even the small ones, it would be extraordinarily helpful to have members of the Top 100 actually work with it, hands on, and provide feedback throughout the process. We’re the customer, not the development team. You’re very lucky in that TechRepublic has a core group of active users who would gladly give some time to that. Take advantage of it! I am certain that a lot of the “wow, I can’t believe they did that!” feedback would have been avoided by running usability tests with a small group of actual users in advance.
Or, to put it this way… would you prefer a small focus group session scheduled for a few months before launch, with time baked in to adjust after the feedback is gotten? Or do you prefer these trials by fire every few years? Either way, you’re going to get the feedback and tweak later, why not build it into the development cycle and avoid this kind of pain?
J.Ja
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January 26, 2011 at 12:17 am #2849366
Well, to be fair . . .
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users
Justin has a point.
You said:
> We haven’t changed THAT much in the community, because we know that it’s hard on the power users that have established patterns of working with the site.
Speaking only for myself personally:
1. The last time there was a major site overhaul/redesign, my approach to keeping up with the site was rendered essentially unusable because mass management of email alerts evaporated.
2. Off and on over a couple of years, I mentioned this, though after a while I stopped struggling to keep up by way of that workflow (see below). Unfortunately, nobody did anything about how broken it was.
3. I finally switched my approach to doing things to a completely different, less efficient (for me) way of doing it, which involved visiting the Website to use the list of site updates. It worked well enough for me to just keep up with maybe half as many discussions for a given amount of time as I used to.
4. Visited link colors stopped working in many cases after some minor changes to the site. At first, this more than doubled the effort it takes to keep up with discussions, because I did not have a quick at-a-glance way to see what comments I had or had not read, which is kind of a problem for high-traffic discussions.
5. Eventually, I figured out the necessary arcane incantations that were required to actually get visited links to show up properly for me.
6. While the group at last summer’s TR in-person event discussed the coming changes, I brought up the horrific email alert management interface and the visited links issue. The software developer who was there (and maybe you too — I do not recall for sure) assured me that someone would be looking into these things, especially the visited links thing (though the other was more important).
7. On Sunday, the overhaul was rolled out. Neither of these problems was fixed. One of them was worse than before. In addition to that, the way I had been limping along (using the discussion updates page) without my previous means of keeping up with discussions (email alerts) had evaporated entirely.
I spent a couple of hours over the last couple days — a couple of hours; that is ridiculous — editing my email alert settings for discussion subscriptions in the hopes I would not fall out of discussions entirely while I waited for someone at CBSi to come up with something that might make it reasonable for me to keep up with discussions in the long run. Having to manage every discussion subscription separately is not a long-term solution, though. It is far too labor-intensive. It is temporary while I hope that it will be different from the last few years, when every time someone broke something I used on the site it would just stay broken. I went from being consistently among the top three active members to being peaking at about #10 at my best, and slipping down to 80 or so at other times. I really hope the fact it is now worse than that for me actually gets some attention.
. . . because this time I am not sure I can find a work-around that will work in the long term. I might just become one of those TR writers that never interact with the community, because community discussion is not a paying day job; I only have so much time.
So. Maybe you “haven’t changed THAT much” but, from my perspective, you changed a lot of what matters most (where “you” means “some set of people at CBSi and TR who made these decisions”, and not necessarily you personally).
I have received emails from others who are having similar problems, though. Maybe “we”, a dozen or so people, are the only people who have these problems — but I for one would not like to stay marginalized for long. I am waiting to see if things get better for usability from my perspective; hope springs eternal, and I hope the fact that I’m staring down the barrel of complete unusability of discussions in the long term (for me, at least) is just a temporary hiccup. On the other hand, if I am perceived to be in a minuscule, unimportant minority, I guess I cannot fault “you” guys if you decide the cost/benefit ratio is not high enough to fix my problems.
You say to “Give it a few days.” Fair enough. I will probably give it a few months, if need be — as long as I can reasonably hold out. If something does not change for me, though, the time will come eventually when I just stop trying to keep up with discussions.
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January 26, 2011 at 10:47 am #2849293
I nominate Justin’s comment as approved to speak for me
by nwallette · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users
I can’t think of a better way to say it, so: “What he said.”
My few piddly gripes with the site before were not addressed. I have much bigger problems with it now. Sometimes an expert can be so caught up in academic theory that the reality falls short.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:51 pm #2849265
You nailed it.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for the TR community or the core users
Sort of.
It’s also time to take it easy on the melodrama.
I promise to bring it in a little, if I have been overly theatrical. Hope I haven’t come off that way, but maybe I have.
We haven’t changed THAT much in the community, because we know that it’s hard on the power users that have established patterns of working with the site.
I think people have less of a problem with changing patterns and more of an issue with functions which no longer exist. I have to agree re: visited links, and the Q&A forum still has poor comment boundaries. And a weird thread structure, but I’m guessing that is fully intentional. Text entry boxes – I don’t get these. Four line scroll box?
But, at the same time, we need to keep expanding and looking for ways to make this stuff easier and more approachable and more efficient
That runs counter to everything in the prior sentence. You’ve changed a look (and probably a lot of important backend, which is great), but you have not at all improved approachability or ease of use, or efficiency. Just not seeing that at all. It wouldn’t look any more inviting to me as a new user, either, as opposed to a user who may be used to the “old ways”. Even the straight BNet comment format is more readable than the ZDNet and TR forum formats (but still with the ultra-skinny fonts that look nearly grey on a white background).
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January 24, 2011 at 6:30 am #2849965
Just logged in…
by jfuller05 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
and I will list the pros and cons of my experience.
Pros:
Profiles are organized better and include more information.
Overall, I think the site is organized better than before, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have to get used to it.Cons:
Contrast. Right now, I’m typing in this comment box and I the black text on the baby blue box is very irritating…maybe it’s just me?
Contrast throughout the site. Justin James covered it just fine in his comment.-
January 24, 2011 at 8:21 am #2849917
Contrast
by gsg · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Just logged in…
I’m having the same issues with the contrast. Not just in the comments, but the whole color scheme. Super light grey on white, with lighter grey, and I’m getting a lot of glare. I’d like to see some of the contrasting colors a bit deeper with the font nice and dark.
That said, other than a few minor things, I’m optimistic. Also, based on what they said the other day about their attempt to prevent the thread spamming, I’m hopeful that the evil spammers will be at least deterred, if not defeated.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:51 am #2849955
Conversation starter text
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
When there are no comments to a post yet, it says, “The discussion hasn???t started yet. Why don???t you begin it.” It should end with a question mark, not a period.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:51 pm #2848676
That’s a good example of the apos problem
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Conversation starter text
That text in the above comment was a copy/paste from the site… yet it doesn’t display right in my comment. 🙁
J.Ja
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January 28, 2011 at 11:54 am #2849674
That’s the stupid quotes.
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s a good example of the apos problem
For some reason, people call those “smart quotes”. They’re pretty stupid in a digital context.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:59 am #2849951
Some data updates, some doesn’t
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It’s a little weird that some of the content gets AJAX-y updated, but some doesn’t. When I make a new post, it shows on my screen immediately, but the comment count doesn’t change. When I vote up/down, the counter right next to the +/- buttons updates, but not the count in the listing below. Etc. It’s just kind of weird to see the site act in some ways on a non-postback basis, but not in other ways.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:02 am #2849950
Sharing on Facebook, picture broken
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
When I do a “Share” to Facebook, the pictures Facebook wants to use are all totally wrong. The default (using the src_image header or meta tag, if I recall) should be either the TR logo or the article author’s picture, not the first ad on the page.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:04 am #2849948
Author pictures
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The author’s picture should appear at the beginning of the article to help readers quickly identify if an article is by their favorite authors.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:06 am #2849945
Takeaway: great idea, formatting needed
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The “Takeaway” area is good and I like that it’s been tweaked a lot. But it’s nearly invisible, with the light grey text on the white background and the light green “Takeway” text. My eyes float right over it, and straight to the actual meat of the article, rendering it less useful than it could be.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:22 am #2849936
There’s takeaway?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Takeaway: great idea, formatting needed
Yay! Best site *ever*…
Oh wait, it’s not food 🙁
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January 24, 2011 at 10:04 am #2848852
Look on the bright side
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There’s takeaway?
For other IT website developers,it makes their websites much better.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:33 pm #2848753
That is exactly what comment fields do for me.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Takeaway: great idea, formatting needed
Until I disallow websites from setting font colors. Try posting in invisible ink. Not as fun as it might sound.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:08 am #2849944
"Top rated" is numeric!
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Look at the spam over by the water cooler, the OP has a -4, and yet it’s “Top rated”…
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January 28, 2011 at 12:00 pm #2849673
That’s really strange.
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to "Top rated" is numeric!
I wondered if this might be the result of using a character data type to store the numbers instead of a numeric data type, but even when sorted in ASCIIbetical order the dash character normally used to indicate a negative number comes before the full set of decimal digits.
I imagine there must be an attempt to do some kind of magical time-averaged heuristic going on, and it’s broken.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:18 am #2849940
Links need underlining
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
With all of the low contrast going on, links really need underlining to be more obvious and visible. Just making them blue doesn’t help them stand out, particularly to vision impaired users.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:19 am #2849938
Alerts email is broken
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The links in the alerts email are broken. The links in the alerts email for the individual comments are not linked. Judging by the alerts email itself, I’m guessing that this is one of the “work in progress” items, though.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 7:26 am #2849934
Its nice, a few complaints though
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Overall its good, but I dislike the new login screen, its not working with my auto fill anymore, cause its script triggered I can’t let the browser auto navigate to the page, fill in the login information, and submit. I haven’t tried the site at home yet where I have third party cookies turned off. Hopefully that glitch here has been fixed and I won’t have to login every time I visit the site.
Also, the new maximum number of comments view is a bit annoying, I preferred the more condensed, but show everything on 1 page view. This could be easily fixed by adding larger values into the drop down, such as 1000 comments or more.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:31 am #2849933
This Can’t Be Good…
by specialfx63 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
All of my links, data & articles that I saved have gone up in smoke….Can someone at least return the ashes?
Totally disappointed. >:[-
January 24, 2011 at 11:46 am #2848827
Try the favourites in My Stuff
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to This Can’t Be Good…
is your stuff there?
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January 26, 2011 at 5:09 am #2849338
Try this
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to This Can’t Be Good…
Check in My Stuff | My Favorites — According to our design, everything you’ve save in the past should be there; if it’s not, then it’s a bug and we’ll see if we can track it down; also, make sure you saved in the account you’re logging in with and not another account, that’s a common mistake.
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January 26, 2011 at 4:02 pm #2849223
This Can’t Be Good… Part 2
by bdfrazier · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Try this
I’m missing nearly all my saved article links also. I only use one account. I have only have 39 items showing under My Favorites. It appears most of the lucky 39 came from a Windows 7 project I created in 2009, but I need my links – all of them. Oh where or where have they gone? Please bring them back – I miss them. 🙁
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January 27, 2011 at 4:22 am #2849853
Mine also missing
by 93961 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to This Can’t Be Good… Part 2
I had saved many articles & Links. All are missing. I checked in My Stuff | My Favirites. None are there
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January 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm #2849667
URL for your Favorites list
by brandons · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Mine also missing
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January 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm #2848335
Negative
by 93961 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to URL for your Favorites list
It says “No favorites found!”. But I have saved many.
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January 24, 2011 at 7:42 am #2849926
Sorting Discussions by "Last Comment"
by keighlar · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I’m attempting to mimic the behavior of the discussion threads to show the last commented on at the top. This allows some of the less interesting topics to drop off the list and not clutter my field of vision. Before you think me a complete moron, I did figure out how to to do it; however, the setting doesn’t “stick.” Every time I navigate back to the main page I have to re-set these preferences. A bit irritating, and I imagine it will only get more so over time.
Am I missing something? I do not see anywhere to set this as a static preference.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:04 am #2849922
More broken "Facebook share" behavior
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I also noticed that when you do a FB share, it puts the count up (like it does for Tweets), but when your refresh the page, the count is blank.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 8:19 am #2849918
Just noticed the "last seen" on members that haven’t logged in yet
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Some of them say last seen 10 years ago 🙂
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January 25, 2011 at 7:49 pm #2849429
It looks like
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Just noticed the "last seen" on members that haven’t logged in yet
anyone who hasn’t logged in since the change is defaulted to their join year.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:37 am #2849914
Um…, Erm… Well… Oh!
by tony hopkinson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
This is going to take some getting use to, a lot of getting used to..
Can’t say if it’s better yet, but I think you’ve been a bit too radical, my TR trained intuition is now failing me badly.
I also can’t wait to try it on my wide screen monitor, I’ve a feeling it’s going to suck even more than it used to.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:26 am #2849909
Re: wide screen
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Um…, Erm… Well… Oh!
Tony –
On my 1900 x 1200 screen, 505 of the screen (horizontally) is unused. It just does the “hard code width and center the content” routine.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 10:20 am #2848846
Well it was bad
by tony hopkinson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Re: wide screen
Now it’s even more vertical, it’s going to be worse.
My works second monitor is 1680 X 1050
Submit button is on the bottom of it.
Bet it’s off screen at home….Just noticed the Collapse / Expand for the top panel, should be hide/show as it preserves the absolute position of the main window…
oops…
Brill
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January 24, 2011 at 11:32 am #2848832
Yeh.
by boxy fiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Well it was bad
At the least, viewing ‘Expanded’ needs to be widened considerably.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:35 pm #2848789
That whole column to the right,
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yeh.
containing ‘Keep Up With’, etc… is distracting to me at any rate when reading. Can it be lost in Expanded mode to make room for widening the left hand column containing posts? Or could a Print/View All be returned to our viewing options?
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January 24, 2011 at 1:37 pm #2848787
Also,
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That whole column to the right,
once I’ve posted the view collapses and there’s no sign of the option to Expand it again, despite my default being set at Expanded.
Sorry, couldn’t edit the original. That seems to be a sporadic issue.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:56 pm #2848780
Lost would work
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That whole column to the right,
Get rid of it or at least balance it left and right with the reading pane centered.. Whoever designed this, over a YEAR mind you, should be collecting welfare or greeting guests at WalMart, no design abilities at all. To think of how many skilled and creative people around here can’t find work and this wank has a job designing TR’s website? There oughtta be a law,
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January 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm #2848727
You still need to learn the difference between…
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Lost would work
attacking ideas and attacking people, and I’m getting tired of reminding you. We welcome your criticisms, input, and feedback about the site. However, attacking people and name-calling (such as “wank”) will get your posting privileges revoked. It’s in our Terms of Service and we are committed to keeping the discussions on TechRepublic civil and respectful. Consider this your official warning.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:42 pm #2848764
Um, option not even there in FireFox
by tony hopkinson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yeh.
So may be it’s a built in for Infernal Exploiter.
Oh well, if you are going t make an arse of something, at least make a big arse of it.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:13 am #2848850
That’s a great idea
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Um…, Erm… Well… Oh!
TR can offer a mouse with a low geared wheel to ease the scrolling, maybe a 1:30 ratio would work, of everyone can just change thier nmouse settings to scroll 10 lines at a ime.
If using a notebook though, you can just hit space to page down a few dozen times and try to figure out where you want to go.
The lack of horizontal real estate in a world where widescreens are standardized now, illustrates a utter lack of industry knowledge…hang on, isn’t that what TR boasts?
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January 24, 2011 at 1:18 pm #2848796
I agree it’s out of touch, but…
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s a great idea
… in the other direction. This looks very “rounded corners and lots of whitespace” oriented, which is fine for artsy sites or high-gloss marketing. Technically-oriented readers covet their screen real estate and keystrokes required to navigate. It’s those folks with whom they’re out of touch.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:02 pm #2848775
Not to be misunderstood
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I agree it’s out of touch, but…
I agree with you, but it takes a technical mind with no cretive capability to come up with this jumble of junk and think it’s a website and draws new visitors. YOU’VE designed websites, you know the 12 second rule for new visitor attention, most would click away form this mess in about 3. “OOOOOPS, wrong link, try the next one maybe it looks a little more usable.”
At first I thought it was a browser display issue, new website, not fully cross browser tested, tried with FF and its the same! Truly ghastly, if not one of the worst sites I’ve seen in ages. What a disaster! The new discussion layout and navigation is absolutely horrid!
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January 24, 2011 at 3:39 pm #2848752
Or
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I agree it’s out of touch, but…
A resumé, Nice formatting for that, but not for a forum or comment thread.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:44 am #2849906
A suggestion…
by trotter516 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Maybe I am the only one in the world who thinks this, but having to click each reply and then have it reload the page just to see the post (and ONLY that ONE post) is so archaic. A little Ajax or even just putting the posts there in full would help a LOT. This is the only site (that I visit) that is so backwards in this respect.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:56 am #2849902
You can expand all discussions.
by keighlar · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to A suggestion…
Either set it permanently through your Preferences (My Account –> Preferences), or use the “View” option at the top of each thread to toggle to ‘Expanded’ instead of ‘Collapsed.’
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January 24, 2011 at 10:06 am #2848851
That’s not the same
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to You can expand all discussions.
I don’t want to see them ALL expanded. I like the collapsed view, but when I see something I want to read, I don’t want a whole page reload, I want to see the comment I clicked on, and not lose my place in the tree.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 10:15 am #2848849
Ahhhhh….
by keighlar · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not the same
I see what you mean. Pardon my misunderstanding. 🙂 Definitely agreed on that point.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:20 am #2848845
Losing your place
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not the same
KEY PROBLEM THERE!
It has a next link, but you don’t know if it’s a reply to the previous post or the OP without again scrolling down and finding its place. It’s utter bollocks, a complete shite rebuild. They have made some bad changes in the past and slowly changed a link here or there to bring it into a semiusable state while it was completely rebuilt again but this is just hideous.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm #2848774
Hear here!
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to A suggestion…
It;s certainly one of a kind, makes me wonder why nobody else does it but I guess that is easy enough to see.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:42 pm #2848751
And focus on the top of the page
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to A suggestion…
rather than the opened comment. I don’t know why any site does this, but it is exacerbated by this format. Same problem the galleries always had – complete reload, but does not center on content.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:15 am #2848848
Signing up to email alerts is hard
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Signing up for email alerts on a conversation that exists, but you are not posting in reply to the original item is “painful” to put it mildly. The checkbox isn’t there, so you need to click the email subscribe button (which is like 30 x 30 and nearly invisible), then choose a bunch of options (which are not set to rational defaults), and then hope that the link takes you back from whence you came.
Please reinstate the simple “Subscribe to this conversation” link, and make the RSS subscription easier to get a hold of. Thanks!
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 10:26 am #2848843
I smell marketing..
by tony hopkinson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Even more ad and link space to scroll through before you find waht you came here for in the f’ing first place.
You want a laugh try Collapse/ Expand on that top banner thing…
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January 24, 2011 at 11:02 am #2848840
Nope
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I smell marketing..
This was primarily a usability redesign run by our product and editorial teams. We have actually reduced the number of ads, promotional units, and redundant text/graphics on our pages. That has allowed us to dedicate more of the pages to the content itself. The space on the page for content on blog posts, photo galleries, and videos is over 15% larger as a result. The idea is to let users immerse in the content more than all of the extraneous stuff on the pages. On blog posts, we’ve even removed the headers with photos of the editors and authors at the top of the blog because we know users care more about the content itself and want to get directly to it.
As you noted, with our top stories unit at the top of our pages, we’ve made it collapsible so that it’s more user-friendly.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:12 pm #2848771
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January 24, 2011 at 5:41 pm #2848730
Avatars in threads
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to However
We used this format because members have said repeatedly that they want easy ways to identify the people whose opinions they care about within a thread (in order to read their posts). And, by contrast, they want to avoid the trollish, arrogant posters who often resort to personal attacks and name-calling.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:05 pm #2848757
Acutually I noted that Collapse DID NOT
by tony hopkinson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Nope
work!
All it does is hide the three image panels, the rest of the page does not flow, I just get a big gap!On top of that, the option isn;t even there in FF!
And tell you web designers to stop using wide screen rotated 90 degrees!
At 1920×1080, I’m going to need Magoo glasses within a week, and I still can’t see your answer and my reply on one screen full!
Some thing like 60% of the real estate is outside the main ‘window, of that, half is unused!
Usability?
Message from user, are you kidding?
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January 24, 2011 at 2:09 pm #2848772
Apparently not
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I smell marketing..
That was my read too, but then I realized that anyone with any marketing ability couldn’t have designed it. No, the ads and banners, mixed in with headers, panels and other junk (facebook, twitter, digg, linkedin, feeds?) are simply there to make the page busy and ugly. It’s like they are looking for a way to fit the entire Internet into one page so nothing is missed. ‘Gross’ doesn’t count when you must try to include all the web’s content.
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January 24, 2011 at 11:13 am #2848838
Wow, who was your target audience, 5 year old chidren?
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
This is THE worst change in TR in all the years I’ve been on here. I haven’t considered usability yet, I’m only talking about appearance. I neither need nor want eye-candy, any chance you’ll consider offering a ‘plain-text-only’ theme as an option?
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January 24, 2011 at 12:04 pm #2848826
"alert me when new comments are made" only in comment form?
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
so, I found the “My Discussions” which seems to show my comments. What I want to see is the list of discussions I’m involved in updating based on other’s comments. I’m guessing those updates apear in the same location I haven’t anything recent enough (or everyone is busy with the new UI).
when I checked this discussion for the familiar “subscribe to this discussion” link, I could only find the comment form field “Alart me when new comments are made”. Is there a button I’m missing to “subscribe” a discussion without entering a comment to make use of the checkbox?
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January 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm #2848816
confirmd, I’m not seeing updates
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to "alert me when new comments are made" only in comment form?
I’ve got this discussion, as near as I can tell, flagged to notify me when comments are added. Two comments drop after my post starting with the one from The Generalist. If there is a notice in the My Account area, I’m not yet seeing it.
(I do like the addition of times beside the comment date though; I generally know if a time is after my last skim for new comments.)
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January 24, 2011 at 9:56 pm #2848674
It’s there…
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to "alert me when new comments are made" only in comment form?
… but you need to dig, it’s an email icon at the top, that says, “Follow this discussion”. But then you need to jump through hoops to use it. Hoops that ignore your default settings, it seems like. 🙁
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 10:19 am #2848582
how am I alerted when comments are added?
by neon samurai · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It’s there…
I think I see two different things here. At the discussion top I see “Follow Via: [rss] [email]”.. what I want is “Follow Via: My Stuff”. RSS is a nice option but I don’t want to require my web browser rss tracking. This would also mean a third party sync option or only having discussions tracked in one browser on one machine. Email is also a nice option but switching between browser and email client constantly is not optimal; even with the email provided link. I’m pretty much lurking on the site all day; Ideally, I should be able to log in, load the My Stuff page and see notices of activity in discussions of interest. I should be able to check back to the tab, refresh and know that there are new comments in a followed discussion.
The second thing is the “notify me” checkbox in the comment input form, but not this comment reply form. I’m not sure where those notice are supposed to arrive; I’ve seen some notices in email but nothing more then that.
That’s really my killer feature; being able to sit on a page and see notices that new comments are in my tracked discussions.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:15 am #2848563
Did you try "Favorite"?
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to how am I alerted when comments are added?
I haven’t tried the “Favorite” functionality, that might do what you want.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 5:01 pm #2849476
The Favorites area
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Did you try "Favorite"?
is the old Links section. No updates, just a list of threads.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:58 pm #2849452
No, it won’t
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Did you try "Favorite"?
It’s a simple list of ‘favorited’ discussions. No updates whatsoever. It’s what used to be the “Links” area.
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January 24, 2011 at 12:09 pm #2848825
Where did they hide it today?
by generalist · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
One of my favorite phrases when it comes to ‘upgrades’ is the phrase ‘Where did they hide it today?’
The TechRepublic ‘upgrade’ is making me ask the question for the same reasons the questions are asked when dealing with software upgrades. It would be nice to have a before and after map of how to get to things so I don’t have to spend a lot of time exploring.
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January 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm #2848817
I don’t like it
by unhappyuser · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Added a second time since the first one was removed. Bring back the old setup. EMD
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January 25, 2011 at 1:17 am #2848657
Agree
by deskhero · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I don’t like it
I like to print the full comments thread to PDF -(after the article itself) which I add to my knowledgebase.
Not so easy now and looks scrappy.
Also – EVEN MORE external javascript – at least a dozen different sources according to NoScript – I do not trust them by default, and only enable the bare minimum for the site to work. Apart from security concerns they slow my browser down.-
January 25, 2011 at 8:52 am #2848597
Yeh.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Agree
Print/View All was mightly handy. 🙂
As for NoScript, I think that’s what’s been kicking me out when I vote. Took me too long to figure that out…
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January 24, 2011 at 1:03 pm #2848808
‘Message has been deleted’
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
not showing on all deleted posts… 😉
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January 24, 2011 at 1:11 pm #2848800
One thing I do like…
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
… is the expanded conversation option. No more clicking in and out of responses!
But each response does take up too much space vertically, and not enough horizontally. I wish it was horizontally fluid (based on browser width).
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January 24, 2011 at 1:28 pm #2848791
Comment seem to post much faster.
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I’m seeing a much quicker refresh rate after I post a comment.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:34 pm #2848790
Peer Messages limited to Contacts??
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I notice a ‘Send a Message’ option under the ‘My Account’ link in the upper right. I also notice the ‘To’ field appears to be limited to those in ‘My Contacts’. Is that a correct perception? If so, is it limited to when both members have the other as a contact?
Also, on the Membership / Preferences tab, I’m unable to select ‘No’ for ‘Allow members to contact me’. I’m not really interested in disabling this option; I was just testing it to see if I could still send peer messages if I disabled it. Since I couldn’t disable it, I couldn’t test sending with it disabled. Since I didn’t use the word enough times in this paragraph already, here’s a few more: disabled, disabled, disabled. Or ‘challenged’, for the politically correct.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:49 pm #2848782
I came up against that also.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Peer Messages limited to Contacts??
Related, searching for a user name in the search box on any page displays a bazillion threads but no users. It would be useful if we could easily find users we haven’t added to our contacts.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:58 pm #2848759
Two sides to the coin
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Peer Messages limited to Contacts??
First of all I see your side completely but then I thought that it’s a good thing in another way. I sometimes get peer mail from people I have never uttered a word with, asking about something I mentioned 7 years ago that came up in their Google search.
I had one a few months ago from a guy who was looking for advice on stereo tuners. Sent me model numbers and prices of stuff he was looking at and asked for purchase advice.I got one teh other day from someone who was asking why I had a peer in my contacts list because of something he said. It included a link to ao conversation I’d not been following or posting to and asked me to delete him from my contacts and tell him what I thought. I read the linked post and it meant nothing to me, some tech stuff I knew nothing about. I replied and said I don’t have to agree with someone all the time to consider them an acquaintance or a friend and that I don’t let other people tell me who to befriend anyway! 😀 Gawd!
Anyone knows I don’t have a problem with offering advice or buying tips on stuff I work with but I get some bizarre emails from people here who I have never heard of before.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2848722
Response
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Two sides to the coin
I didn’t intend to give the impression I was complaining. Like you, I hope this really is a case of limiting peer mails to mutual Contacts. I too receive my share of e-mails from members I’ve never heard of before, making vague references to something I posted back when XP was cutting edge.
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January 24, 2011 at 1:57 pm #2848778
Clicking on a post made by one of my contacts
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
when viewing their profile to find their posts, takes me to the start of the discussion/question, not their post. Not useful. 🙁
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January 24, 2011 at 1:59 pm #2848776
That’s a bug
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Clicking on a post made by one of my contacts
Noted.
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January 24, 2011 at 2:47 pm #2848762
Thanks.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s a bug
I’ll practice some patience with that. 🙂
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January 24, 2011 at 2:45 pm #2848763
Oh no.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Pages? Oh, no.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:47 pm #2848750
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January 24, 2011 at 2:56 pm #2848760
In addition to ‘Ask for clarification’ in the QA forum
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
each reply needs a reply button. I’m seeing a lot of answers posted using ‘Ask for Clarification’, and those folks will never get a positive or negative vote out of their responses.
Additionally, once a thread gets long, and some over there do, it’s a royal pita to have to go back to the top of the thread to reply.
[i]add something[/i]
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January 24, 2011 at 3:50 pm #2848749
All grouped.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to In addition to ‘Ask for clarification’ in the QA forum
Answer, reply, flag, favorite, whatever, all in one line.
Expand, “read more” (ugh), show #, all in one spot.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm #2848758
PRINT / PREVIEW ALL POSTS?
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I don’t see the print / preview all posts option anywhere, I thought it might provide a better way to follow a discussion.
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January 24, 2011 at 3:55 pm #2848748
That, in itself, would "fix" a lot of issues.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to PRINT / PREVIEW ALL POSTS?
Providing “all” means all, and is not limited by “page” or “read more”.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:24 pm #2848721
Here’s how
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to PRINT / PREVIEW ALL POSTS?
Go to the main thread and change the View from “Collapsed” to “Expanded.”
For example, from here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633-
January 24, 2011 at 6:56 pm #2848715
No, Jason.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s how
We’re asking for the addition of Print/View All option, as it was. Expanded is not the same thing at all. Too much wasted screen space. Too, too vertical.
[i]clarify[/i]
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January 24, 2011 at 8:40 pm #2848702
That;s not even remotely close to the same thing
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s how
That jutst expands a couple of top level posts and lists the rest as individual links with avatars beside them (we don’t need avatars beside each heading, just when the post is opened, as before).
It’s not even close to having each and every post opened in a thread, with the ability to reply to and edit in the same view, not even on the same planet as the old print/preview option, which worked really well.Did anyone actually look at what worked in the old site instead of just how to add a load of other junk that nobody seems to have wantedanyway ?
Seriously Jason, this scrolls and works like a torrent website (rlslog etc.). It is horrendously bad, terribly laid out, navigation is all but non existent compared to anything that has been done over the last 10 years, it’s like Windows ME all over again, the whole thing’s just a big, bad mistake. Too bad, what a total screw up by the development/design team.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm #2848699
What it [i]does[/i] do
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That;s not even remotely close to the same thing
Just like before, is to reproduce your typos perfectly.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:51 pm #2848696
I won’t even bother trying to edit now.
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to What it [i]does[/i] do
When you edit a post all formatting is lost so f-it just keep bashing them keys and hit submit.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:04 pm #2848689
You know
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I won’t even bother trying to edit now.
I’d thought of it before…
That, there should be no editing possible. Make it, like, your diamond is forever.
Only thing you get to do is another post. You get to explain how you flew off the handle. Only, without flying off the handle again. If you can.
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January 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm #2849404
Edits and time to edit
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to You know
I moderate another forum that allows people only 30 minutes to edit their own post. Beyond that time limit, they have to reach out to a section moderator.
The rationale is that that once something has posted, people generally will respond. If the original post is edited to remove references to the response, it leaves the respondent looking like an *ss.
I would hazard a guess that I am a small minority on this, but I would love to see an “edit” time clock that would disable the ability to edit after a specified- and communicated- length of time.
Edit: Clarity
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January 25, 2011 at 6:37 am #2848625
HIghlight your post, Control + C
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I won’t even bother trying to edit now.
Then click edit, select the broken content, and press Control + V. BAM, your post is ready to be edited.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:59 pm #2848693
Your hyperbole…
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That;s not even remotely close to the same thing
makes it hard to take anything you say seriously. These kinds of melodramatic comments cause you to lose all credibility — even if and when you have something valid to communicate.
If you can’t stand the new TechRepublic that much then I’d suggest you take a break and come back when you can approach it with a clear head and less emotion.
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January 24, 2011 at 8:59 pm #2848694
On the subject of ‘Expanded’…
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s how
A default in my preferences for ‘all’ would be extremely helpful. As it is now, I have to choose ‘all’ for every thread I view, every time I view it.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:58 pm #2848672
There is a default for that
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On the subject of ‘Expanded’…
It’s in the settings somewhere, I stumbled on it by accident, so I can’t recall how to get there to share. 🙁
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 10:03 pm #2848667
Yeh, there is.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There is a default for that
My Account/Preferences. But ‘All’ is not an option.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:07 pm #2848665
That is a bug
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On the subject of ‘Expanded’…
It’s in your Community Preferences, there are only options to choose 25,50,100 and no option for All.
Its driving me nuts, too, so I’m pushing to get it fixed as soon as possible. 🙂
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January 25, 2011 at 5:43 am #2848630
Not working properly
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s how
I’ve set my default view to “Expanded”, but I’m viewing this thread in collapsed mode. There’s a “Show” option on the page, but no “Expand” option.
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January 24, 2011 at 4:51 pm #2848737
Search seems to be improved.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It should be, considering the monstrosity of a search box placed at the top of the lists.
Suggestion: retain the search form on the results page. Srsly, come on.
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January 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm #2849405
new search coming + need clarification
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Search seems to be improved.
We’re rolling out a google powered search solution in a couple weeks.
what do you mean by “retain the search form on the result page”? the form remains in the top right. Are you suggesting it should be somewhere else on the page? thanks for your feedback.
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January 28, 2011 at 11:19 am #2849682
User search.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to new search coming + need clarification
I’d like to be able to search by username.
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January 31, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2848233
Sorry, just caught this.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to new search coming + need clarification
At the time, once search results were displayed, there was no search terms entry box on the page. I see there is one at the page bottom now.
I would guess that it was just odd behavior during the initial shakedown.
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January 24, 2011 at 5:33 pm #2848732
Echoing other comments here…
by nwallette · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Everything is *SO* *BIG*.
It looks like someone with a small monitor and high resolution took their glasses off and then resized everything so they could still see it. It makes it very difficult to get a bird’s-eye view of the content all at once.
At 1280×1024, the size of the buttons and panels makes it impossible to view any page without having to scroll around. This would be hopelessly counter-productive on my iPhone.
You want a clean layout? Condense the objects and provide white space between them. Lots of visual separation. Right now, there’s just too much stuff everywhere. And the eye is drawn more to the rightmost “other stuff” column than the article.
Also, my biggest complaint ever about the article comments was that you had to click each and every one to read it. I’d prefer at least a couple levels of comments preloaded. If not expanded, then tucked away in an invisible DIV with a clickable expander. If not that, then AJAX-loaded. Reloading the entire page is a huge waste and makes for cumbersome reading.
At least before, though, you could see the hierarchy between comments. Now the comment tables are too bulky to take in. I can’t tell who started a thread because the original poster is about 1000 pixels north of the replies.
Can we start over?
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January 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm #2848698
That Power Users block is as annoying as hell
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Echoing other comments here…
You are scorlling down poorly contrasted test and links in a thread and keep seeing teh big blue block of nothing. Power Users, cool and all but does it need to be one o fthe most dominant blocks on the page? A tiny blue list ina text box would be just fine and less intrusive, actually, while I initially liked that they retained a colour scheme, the more I see it the uglier and mroe useless it all is.
FUGLY describes it well. If I had designed it, I’d be cleaning out my desk and collecting holiday pay right before it went live; run before they find our what you were paid to come up with!
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January 25, 2011 at 10:03 pm #2849396
great comments, thanks.
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Echoing other comments here…
lots of good points here. we’ll work on refining the layout over next quarter or two. It’s a big site, this will take time. The list of post launch features and tweaks is huge. we’ll keep coming back to you all to get feedback on what’s most important.
We’re working to improve the speed and loading of comments, including the use of ajax where it makes sense.
in the next several months we’ll be rolling out some mobile versions of the site as well. stay tuned.
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January 24, 2011 at 6:07 pm #2848724
Download Page And
by thechas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Well, like most everyone else, I do not like the larger font and the spread out information on the pages.
I check for new downloads every Saturday. Checking today I noticed a few things:
1. I can no longer tell what articles I have already downloaded.
2. The list of view all defaults to date order, but starts with a November 11th 2010 article. And, does not include the articles I downloaded this past Saturday.
3. When I click on the link to sort by date, I get a 404 error.
4. How come the content type pull-down does not have an All option?
5. The update did not fix the ability to download articles that I have links for and had reported as not downloading such as:
http://www.techrepublic.com/downloads/10-chrome-extensions-that-enhance-online-security/1832559On the plus side, my bookmarks to old articles do work.
I don’t like having to click through multiple pages to review all the posts on long discussion threads.
Do we really need a column inch of text to preview posts and articles?
Personally, I would prefer to return to one of the pre 2005 site layouts with more plain text and less graphics.
Chas
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January 24, 2011 at 8:50 pm #2848697
Perfect
by oz_media · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Download Page And
The layout before the last was awesome, the only problem that site has was peopl eposting in teh wrong forums but that happens anyway and here they’d just be completey lost anyway. Maybe that’s the idea, make it a maze nobody wants to navigate, get clicks and plenty of page loads as people click about aimlessly but you don’t have forums to moderate anymore!
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January 24, 2011 at 8:53 pm #2848695
No fear
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Perfect
You are incapable of being moderated.
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January 25, 2011 at 6:11 pm #2849447
Alert Emails
by thechas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Download Page And
I received 2 Alerts emails today.
The first one for the Q&A section was fine and the link worked and took me right to the question.The second for this thread had only one clickable link, and it ended up as a blank (white) page.
This was a text only email. I was able to copy and paste a link. But, it took a very long time to load the page.
Chas
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January 24, 2011 at 9:03 pm #2848690
clicking on +, – or poll selections goes to
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Page not found
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January 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm #2848687
Logs me out…
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to clicking on +, – or poll selections goes to
:^0
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January 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm #2848683
More broken right click menus
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Another oddity, when you look at the top level of the discussion thread, and it shows the top rated and newest posts, you can’t do a right click on them to get the “Open in New Tab” or “Open in New Window” options. This makes me leave that view, making it hard for me to spawn off a bunch of new tabs to read the new comments.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:31 pm #2848682
That’s not good.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to More broken right click menus
I open multiple discussion tabs that way, too.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:56 pm #2848675
force new tab with wheel click
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not good.
instead of right click > open link in new tab
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January 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm #2849507
Ctrl-click works as well
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to force new tab with wheel click
On the laptop, that’s my preferred method.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:00 pm #2848669
It’s only for the top stuff, luckily
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not good.
Thankfully, it’s only for the two posts at the top. But I *have* noticed the same thing in a number of other parts that have an AJAX behavior, the right click menu is butchered.
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:41 pm #2848680
Time for the GOOD stuff
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I know, it may look like i hate the new site. I don’t. I like many of the ideas it represents, but there are a lot of implementation details that I think were not done quite right. In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, let’s list some of the GOOD things about the new design:
* Bigger fonts. Yes, less content appears on the screen. That can be fixed by widening the center column. But with the bigger fonts, it’s a LOT easier to read, especially for vision impaired (a good part of the population.
* The collapsible areas. A number of areas that are less important are collapsible, giving the opportunity to get some pixels back.
* AJAX in some appropriate areas. Like the contact forms, nice touch.
* Improved search. The search is much improved. Not what I think it needs to be in some areas (I’ve posted separately on search issues), but it is much improved.
* Dropping the “.com.com”. That always annoyed me.
* If you are someone who is willing to use Gravatar, it *is* a good system. I understand why folks don’t like it (look at the Top 100 “Power Users”, a very small minority of them have Gravatar images, so clearly it’s not widespread in use already), but at the same time, I do like it as a system.
* Code formats slightly better. The code formatting is not what’s needed, but it is still better than what we had a week ago.
* Voting on comments, burying comments: much needed, and much appreciated.
* RSS feeds to monitor discussions is more obvious.
* When the main navigation areas get all of the content imported, they will be potentially much better than what was there before.
* Author disclosures: this is very important, and welcome.
* Identification of “staff” on avatars.
* Focus on the the users. While the “Power Users” box may be a bit too over the top, it’s a nice thought and representative of the thought process that went into the site.
Anyone else care to share the GOOD things they see in the new design?
J.Ja
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January 24, 2011 at 9:59 pm #2848671
What it does
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Time for the GOOD stuff
Is put us all on the same conversational plane.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:29 am #2848612
Posting is faster.
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Time for the GOOD stuff
Also, Replies now open within the discussion, directly under the post being commented on, instead of in a separate page.
Peer messaging appears to be limited to mutual Contacts, although I haven’t had any official confirmation of that yet.
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January 25, 2011 at 9:44 pm #2849401
Peer Messaging
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Posting is faster.
According to Jason, this will be addressed in User Preferences.
Check out https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2 for better information. Look on the Bugs sheet- Line 26.
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January 24, 2011 at 9:50 pm #2848677
So far…
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Larger fonts, YES! I was always having to CTRL/+ the previous format. Haven’t had to with the new.
Definitely like the voting on comments.
Thoroughly appreciate that the color scheme is not obnoxious.
Whether I’m in Discussions or Q&A, the Water Cooler shows on the opening page. Nice.
Expanded as a default is sweet. I hate clicking each post to open, and I didn’t always like responding from Print/View All as it was difficult to find the next spot up the tree when the posting limit had been reached.
I like the option to cruise Unanswered Questions. Nice.
I haven’t finished exploring yet. But I will post what I like in addition to what I don’t like. 🙂
(ooh – I may not do a lot of editing until that’s fixed :0 )
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January 25, 2011 at 11:01 am #2848574
I also like
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to So far…
being able to view posts that have been collapsed due to negative voting. ]:)
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January 25, 2011 at 10:09 pm #2849392
power to the users
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I also like
it’s our gift to users who can’t wait for stuff to be moderated, or want to tune out the noise. 🙂 you all can bury it or change your preferences to bury it faster.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:14 pm #2849390
thanks!
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to So far…
some like big font, some like small, collapsed/expanded, potatoes, tomatoes, we’re working on giving you all more control over how you consume the site. more to come!!
hot tip – changes to user ranking are coming, and those that are helping answer questions and contribute positively to the community will definitely get some points! so keep an eye on the unanswered questions!
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January 24, 2011 at 9:59 pm #2848670
expanded view collapses after reply
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I set the view to expanded in preferences
I’d rather scroll for miles than open each comment individuallyhowever, after a reply is posted the whole view collapses to the default titles only
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January 25, 2011 at 7:30 am #2848611
What browser?
by charliespencer · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to expanded view collapses after reply
I’m not seeing that effect.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:25 am #2848580
I’ve been getting that intermittently.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to What browser?
Using FF. Once I fully disable NoScript (don’t like having to do that, btw) the getting kicked out when I vote and collapsed after replying appears to have stopped.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:02 pm #2848668
Permission denied
by thecalguy · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Even though I’m logged in, I get “Permission denied” when I try to leave a comment.
(This one included).
I’ve now logged out and logged back in to see if works.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:04 pm #2849394
clear your cookies
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Permission denied
and log back in. you should be fine. it’s a known issue with changing domains and some changes to cookie handling. apologies.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:34 pm #2848663
IT Management * Development * IT Support * Data Center * Networks * Securit
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
links are not click-able
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January 24, 2011 at 10:42 pm #2848661
New Site/design
by freda · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
2 problems: getting easily at the download associated with a blog & The title or wording of pictures etc should be just below the picture not below all the thumb-nails
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January 25, 2011 at 12:25 am #2848659
Irony
by random2010 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
You say you got rid of a load of ad units, and yet, ironically, when I open the link to the article on the new site design all I could see was ad units, the title of the article near the bottom on on the left in a huge font and the first line of text. To read the article I had to ignore all the ad units and scroll down. Guess that will become instinctive soon enough 😉
Oh, and I had to take a few goes at posting this comment because it kept saying ‘permission denied’ in an ugly red box. Logging and and back in fixed the bug, but it was not a great first impression guys…!
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January 25, 2011 at 4:54 am #2848640
Jason, dear….
by gadgetgirl · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
going through My Account > contacts > I appear to have lost 90+ people….. (including YOU!)
How do we search for people?
(small list: on lunch, eating and typing…. 😉 )
GG
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January 25, 2011 at 5:52 am #2848629
That explains it
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason, dear….
I was wondering why you counted me as a contact last week, but are not following me this week…
How you been, luv?
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January 25, 2011 at 6:39 am #2848624
My usual is frantic
by gadgetgirl · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That explains it
but it’s been frantically frantic lately. Mainly home, but now work is ramping up again after the holidays.
I think I better send you an email…. I owe so many people catch up emails it just ain’t funny anymore. I’ll group email the “huggers” at the weekend.
(Promise)
😡
GG
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January 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm #2849506
I’ve heard that before ;)
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My usual is frantic
Looking forward to it.
Wrap-around hugs. 😡 😡
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January 25, 2011 at 6:46 am #2848623
Yikes
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason, dear….
I’m checking into it. Sorry about that!
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January 25, 2011 at 8:58 am #2848596
That explains a lot.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason, dear….
I tried to pm some peeps I [b]know[/b] are in My Contacts[/b], but couldn’t. :0
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January 25, 2011 at 5:38 am #2848631
You need a URL Icon on your home page, too.
by compumind · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It is not there, when I click on the site.
It should be to the left of the URL.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:08 am #2848615
I see it just fine…
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to You need a URL Icon on your home page, too.
Using Opera.
May be on your end…
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January 25, 2011 at 7:08 am #2848617
Downloads not properly linked
by jeremy barker · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Many blog posts state “This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic download”. Unfortunately the links no longer work and you get dumped into a general downloads page with no workable method of finding the download you wanted.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:23 am #2848614
Ugh, I don’t think I can stand this
by jackofalltech · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
After 10 years, this may be my last week on TR. I’m going to search for a tech site that still cares about looking professional.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:08 am #2848585
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January 25, 2011 at 7:26 am #2848613
The question forum needs some work
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
There are a number of visual issues as well as usability issues.
The key things I notice are, you can no longer answer specific posts, you can only ask for clarification, so if the OP asks a question, then a followup question, its hard to tell which answer is for which question. It is also hard for those finding TR from google, to tell which is the correct answer without the thumb system or some sort of “best answer” system. Personally I preferred the thumbs but the current system can work as well.
Secondly, the way it is displayed with the speech balloons, is hard to tell who posted what. Especially if there is a reply to one and it just appears below the previous posters name.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:48 am #2848606
Can you bring back the old ability to post pictures?
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Or at least have all pictures appear as thumbnails or something?
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January 25, 2011 at 8:24 am #2848602
Interesting
by tink! · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
This is my first visit to the new Tr. I’ll pitch in my 2 cents after I explore a bit I’m sure. 😀
BTW, I really did mean to be at the preview, but I totally had a brain fart and miscalculated Eastern time to Central time. Tried to get in 2 hours late!
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January 25, 2011 at 9:14 am #2848595
Gravatar
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
[i]We use the service Gravatar to display profile images. The process is very simple. Go to Gravatar.com and create an account with the same email address that you use at TechRepublic. Associate an avatar with your email address. Voila, you’re done. Your Gravatar will automatically show up on TechRepublic within about 10 minutes. Create one now[/i]
Or not.
I went out to Gravatar and uploaded an image that I wished to use. I found the site to be not terribly intuitive but I managed. That was about 30 minutes ago.
I have since logged out and logged back in to TR- a scary proposition as my old self seems to have gone away and I can only hope that my new self hangs around for a while. Still no love- I seem to not be able to set an avatar.
*sigh*
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January 25, 2011 at 9:47 am #2848592
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January 25, 2011 at 9:49 am #2848591
Thanks Tink!
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Well Tig
I still can’t see it. It should be a kitty buried under paper.
Very strange. At least it is visible to the community!
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January 25, 2011 at 12:08 pm #2848534
That it is Tig
by tink! · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Thanks Tink!
cute little kitty. Is that yours? or a public domain pic?
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January 25, 2011 at 12:20 pm #2848531
Public Domain
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That it is Tig
The kitten still moves too fast to get a decent pic and the older girls only play the cute card when I don’t have a handy camera.
What I don’t understand is why I can’t see my own avatar. I have no way of knowing what you are seeing. All I have to go by is what Gravatar shows me- which may or may not be what you see.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:37 pm #2849436
Did you try hosing down your browser?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Public Domain
Getting rid of all cache might help.
I am also getting compatibility issues, BTW.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:51 pm #2849428
I wiped cache and cookies
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Did you try hosing down your browser?
And everything else I could think of. Finally got to see my own avatar about 6.5 hours after loading it to Gravatar.
I use Safari on Mac and have yet to try reaching the site with either FF or Omni. Not sure I want to…
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January 25, 2011 at 2:33 pm #2849504
That’s what it is
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Thanks Tink!
Get that poor thing out of there before it gets crushed! 😀 Don’t know why you can’t see yours. I’m not having any trouble seeing mine. My peeve at the moment is not having the capability to view this thread expanded. I’ve set it as my default, but it’s displaying collapsed and there’s no view option to select. So I’m getting to go through it post…by post…by post…
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January 25, 2011 at 4:55 pm #2849480
Nick, have you tried
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s what it is
disabling NoScript? (Providing you’re using FF, of course) Worked at all sorts of minor annoyances for me.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:53 pm #2849427
Nick, I have tried to mimic that behavior
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s what it is
On Safari on Mac. No love, hon. Sorry.
Have you tried a browser other than FF?
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January 27, 2011 at 7:17 am #2849840
IE 7 works the same way
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Nick, I have tried to mimic that behavior
Thread is collapsed, with no option to expand. It only happens if I access the thread via link to a specific post. If I come in through the Discussions page and access the entire thread, it’s not a problem.
etu
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January 27, 2011 at 11:39 pm #2849737
I have that problem with IE
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to IE 7 works the same way
But not with Opera. Browsers are weird nowadays.
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January 25, 2011 at 9:46 am #2848593
Flow irritation
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
From the Discussion front door, I see the top two Water Cooler discussions- tres cool!
Here’s the issue I see… I have to click “View More” to see a full list of Water Cooler discussions. If I read one, I can’t easily navigate back to that full list. Near as I can tell, I have to go back to the Discussion front door, click again on the “View More” and then try to recall the last discussion I read. Some days, that is easy. Other days are not so much.
Like many posters, I enjoy the Water Cooler area as I like to think about topics other than tech and appreciate the insight that others bring to those topics. I can’t be the only person finding navigation difficult.
I would love to see a clickable that will take me back to the full list of Water Cooler topics. I haven’t tried this for other topics but if it is the same, I think a direct navigation option should be available there as well.
Edited to see what would happen…
Interesting- all formatting went away and my quote marks were suddenly problematic on editing. I’ve re-formatted but wonder what this is going to look like…
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January 25, 2011 at 7:39 pm #2849435
Agreed
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Flow irritation
It’s too hard to get there. That’s another thing that might cause a jailbreak 🙂
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January 25, 2011 at 9:57 am #2848588
Thumb Down for article
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The idea of having only the Thumb Up button for the article, is useless for any statistics.The new version doesn’t add a Thumb Down button for articles – which I was really looking forward to see included. Adding it, may allow others to judge the general contribution of an author.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:05 am #2848586
Using Gravatar for user’s image breaches personal privacy
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
These days, more and more web services lack the minimal respect for the user’s privacy, but not allowing the users to completely remove their accounts.
Gravatar is one example of such web services. Their explanation is surreal, at least: “Because of how our system works, we cannot delete accounts completely.” How the system works when it doesn’t have one user’s account, and why it cannot work anymore if that user decides to remove his account, these are qustions beyond any technical explanation.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:11 pm #2849474
TR never kept the user avatars
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Using Gravatar for user’s image breaches personal privacy
Outside the default avatar collection, all they ever stored was your link to the image file.
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January 26, 2011 at 8:36 am #2849311
Interesting
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TR never kept the user avatars
In the previous version, I quite remember adding my personal photo. I browsed the local drive and uploaded it somewhere inside Techrepublic systems. I suppose that they didn’t linked the image to my local drive, eh?
Anyway, I wasn’t asked to create a new account with another web service, as it is now. And, what really makes me angry is that Gravatar doesn’t delete the user accounts at request.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:36 am #2848578
View more.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Is pretty awful. I really don’t need to see a synopsis, just titles. Too little information takes too much space.
[i]Forums View More, that is[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 10:41 am #2848577
Adding Blogs, etc. to My Favorites List
by qageek55403 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
In the previous version of TR, I often saved articles and blog entries. I see they are still listed within my Favorites. What I don’t see is how to continue that practice in the new version. I see Add Favorite for discussion items, but not for the source document. What am I missing??
(Also received Permission Denied error; grrr!)
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January 25, 2011 at 10:43 am #2848576
Who likes my post?
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Not a quibble on how things are working now, just a thought for the back of your collective mind…
It would be interesting to know who is voting a post up or down. Don’t know how possible that would be to do, just think that it could be interesting.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:43 pm #2849433
Who is following me?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Who likes my post?
Not to sound paranoid; but I see a list of people whom I’m following, but I don’t see a list of people following me.
Having both would make it easier to fix the many cases of broken contact-hood, since they’re usually mutual if they’re for real.-
January 25, 2011 at 7:45 pm #2849432
That is missing, isn’t it? (nt)
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Who is following me?
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January 25, 2011 at 7:55 pm #2849426
I managed to lose ALL my contacts
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Who is following me?
As well as the old spelling of my name. *sigh*
I should be prompted to [i]accept[/i] someone as a contact before they are allowed to count me as a contact. Don’t know yet if that part works.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:10 am #2848568
QA Request for Clarification.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It’s great that these show up in my posts, [b]but[/b] They show up with no indication as to which thread and which post in that thread they apply, nor any indication what content is in the clarification. This makes keeping track of those requests impossible.
[i]close tag[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 11:14 am #2848564
The ampersand
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to QA Request for Clarification.
in my original showed up three times. :0
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January 25, 2011 at 11:12 am #2848566
Seriously? Feedback?
by kenone · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Huge! looks like it was designed for three year olds. Cludgy, Slow, you must be a big Java fan, No thumbs? No motivation. Can’t find anything. What’s inconvenient about the Gravatar site? Spending 20 minutes trying to come up with a new user name and password combo that they approved of only to discover that they have no stock icons available and then having to search through my PC to find something {Ahem} acceptable to use. Wasted half my morning, I’ll have my boss contact you with any questions.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:30 am #2848556
duplication
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Is there any chance you could summarize the feedback from the other discussion here so there’s a central repository of feedback, rather than leaving feedback that has already been offered in its own little largely-ignored ghetto?
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January 25, 2011 at 12:48 pm #2849542
Bug list too
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to duplication
I’d also like to be able to see the bug list, so I know what has already been reported.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 1:03 pm #2849531
A bug list or "Previously reported/suggested" list
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Bug list too
I’m tossing stuff out there as I run across it- things that I believe make navigating the new environment difficult or unwieldy and stuff that doesn’t seem to be working for me. It would be great if they could spawn a link from here to a subset of things that have already been mentioned.
Given my early onset Alzheimer’s, such a list would keep me from repeating everyone else’s input and hopefully provide the PTB with a list of what we are seeing, possibly even prioritized from the community’s opinion based on votes.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:56 pm #2849514
I’m looking into …
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to A bug list or "Previously reported/suggested" list
a way that we could publicly expose a bug list. It probably won’t be something on the TechRepublic site, but we might be able to do a shared Google Doc for those interested.
No promises yet, but I’m exploring the possibilities.
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January 25, 2011 at 3:47 pm #2849491
I’ll make your life easier
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m looking into …
I combed through this thread and pulled out everything that looks like a bug report or a suggestion. It’s a plain text document but I can slam it into any format you like that works on my Mac.
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January 25, 2011 at 4:17 pm #2849488
Thanks Tig!
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ll make your life easier
How about making it a Google Doc or a Google Spreadsheet? Then you can share it and allow others here to collaborate on editing it?
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January 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm #2849484
I could do that
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Thanks Tig!
I sent you the plain text that I pulled together. I’ll link the Google resource when I have it done.
ETA:
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January 25, 2011 at 5:36 pm #2849461
Awesome!
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ll make your life easier
You rock! I know that wasn’t fun or quick!
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 11:31 am #2848554
Page Navigation
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Since I can’t tell at a glance what I have already read, I find that I just head for the last page of responses. What isn’t working well for me is that I have to scroll to the bottom of the page in order to navigate through the pages.
Would it be possible to make page navigation available at the top of the page as well as the bottom? That would make it easier to get to the last page or wherever I have left off.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:44 am #2848543
We’ll look at this idea.
by brandons · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Page Navigation
Thanks for this feedback, it is really helpful for us to see.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:23 pm #2849523
What can the code do?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to We’ll look at this idea.
I accidentally made the code display a water cooler discussion as a Question (you can see how I explored that over at the water cooler (“Will you look at this?”).
But that made me think, perhaps the code can display threads in more ways than that? Would it be possible to develop a condensed view, with as many lines per screenful as is at all viable, and with increased indentation to reveal the thread structure better?
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January 25, 2011 at 1:28 pm #2849521
Shouldn’t take
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to What can the code do?
But a few hundred thousand more lines of code.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:47 am #2848540
Good Suggestion
by jfpsf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Page Navigation
I’ve asked the product team to add it to the list of changes
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January 25, 2011 at 12:50 pm #2849540
That’s not effective
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Page Navigation
That doesn’t help you to see the actual replies that people do to existing comments, which get inserted at the place that the response occurred.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 12:57 pm #2849535
I agree
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not effective
I would like to see the newest response that shows up on the front page of the discussion carry a hyperlink to where the response is added (See my comment, “Context is evereything”).
Having a page nav at the top of the page would let me just go to the last page of a discussion without having to scroll to the bottom of the page first.
The forum I moderate has a paged format that puts the page nav at both the top and bottom of the page and offers a “Jump To” option as well. “Jump To” is EXTREMELY useful for very long threads. I might not be looking for the most recent comment in the entire thread but rather a response to a comment whose page number I know or am pretty sure of.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:06 pm #2849530
I like the link idea, Tig
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I agree
I often wished in the old style that a latest post carried a parenthetical hint, like (close to the top), or (near the middle), or (at the bottom) for longish threads, like this one is getting to be. The hyperlink would take you right to it.
I also miss knowing [i]who[/i] made the latest post.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:21 pm #2849524
You beat me to it, Santee
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I like the link idea, Tig
I have missed not being able to see the name of the last commenter on a thread as well. There are people I tend to prioritize reading and I don’t want to have to search on that person in order to find their posts when I am actively reading the site.
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January 26, 2011 at 8:14 pm #2849882
Looks like they got that in.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I agree
[i]I would like to see the newest response that shows up on the front page of the discussion carry a hyperlink to where the response is added (See my comment, “Context is evereything”). [/i]
However. When I click on the link, it takes me to the post, but everything in the thread but that post is collapsed, despite my default setting of ‘Expanded’.
Nice to see you good folks working on navigational things, for sure. Thumbs up! 😀
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January 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm #2849533
It’s Effective For One Use Case
by jfpsf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to That’s not effective
We aren’t claiming that it would solve that problem, but if you just want to navigate by page, it would be helpful.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:56 am #2848536
Context is everything
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
When I click on an active discussion, the first thing I see is the top rated post and the next is the most recent post. When the top rated post is truncated, I can hit “Read Whole Comment” and see the whole of the post but I have no idea where to actually [i]find[/i] that post. The same thing goes for the most recent comment- I have to go digging to find it.
It would be great if the title appeared as a hyperlink to the actual post so that I can see what the post is in response to without having to go digging.
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January 25, 2011 at 12:07 pm #2848535
Worth noting, in this case
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Context is everything
the top rated post is rated negatively. Not sure how a negatively rated post is worth that much attention. (Whether I’d read those anyway or not)
If you’re simply counting vote clicks, there may wind up being a lot of that.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:18 pm #2849526
It’s worse than that…
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Worth noting, in this case
Top rated is consistently out of whack with any logic.
Sometimes -4 is better than +1 and sometimes +1 is better than +2.
Whatever algorithm is doing the comparison isn’t properly insulated.
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January 25, 2011 at 1:30 pm #2849519
In which case
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It’s worse than that…
there’s also a serious lag going on somewhere?
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January 25, 2011 at 7:49 pm #2849430
Maybe… or just paracelsus and nostradamus
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to In which case
messing around with arcane arithmetics again….
Look at the unofficial poll; last I looked it was 7 to 2 in favor of good, but bad was still “top” rated.
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January 25, 2011 at 6:53 pm #2849441
will investigate and caching
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Worth noting, in this case
thanks we’ll look into this, and verify the logic. it may also be the due to the different levels of caching for the site’s systems. We’re caching things more aggressively right now to make sure the site stays up as we tune everything.
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January 25, 2011 at 12:26 pm #2848527
Thanks for noting
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I saw that and wondered if I was going a bit strange. Or if it was something that only I was seeing. If the PTB are hoping that posts that fall beneath the negative rep tolerance don’t get read, why put them on the front of the discussion as “Top Rated”?
As with any change this sweeping, I know that there will be some “shake out” time.
ETA: This post should have been in reply to Boxfiddler above. Not sure why it ended up where it did.
*sigh* Off to reformat the entire post before saving…
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January 25, 2011 at 2:23 pm #2849508
With Discussions and QA ‘hidden’ at the top right
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
below the narrow blue bar, I suspect we’re going to be seeing even more Questions in Discussions from newbies. Had I not known to look around hard, I would have never seen them there. To deal more effectively with that long standing problem, those links need to be [b]WAY[/b] more noticeable.
[i]typo[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm #2849503
Now that’s interesting
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I’ve selected the ALL option for the thread because, like others, I’d rather scroll than click. But, since I can’t expand the posts, I have to click next on each post. But when the page redraws, it falls from all posts to 100.
Even more interesting, the All option doesn’t appear to be displaying all posts. Jason’s introduction isn’t visible at the top of the list.
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January 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm #2849483
Yes, sorry about that
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Now that’s interesting
This is something that’s not working right and is a bit frustrating. We’re going to make the UX for this part smoother and more intuitive.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:18 pm #2849471
It would appear to be fixed, Jason
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yes, sorry about that
I have both the Expand/Collapse option and a static page now. Search by date works, so I’m all set…for this discussion.
Now, if only I knew which of the other discussions I’ve subscribed to have been updated… 😉
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January 25, 2011 at 6:14 pm #2849445
Or not
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yes, sorry about that
I came into this discussion this time from the Discussions front page and everything is working fine. I clicked on a post title to spawn a second tab and guess what? Same old, same old: collapsed posts with no option to expand. Screen shot
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January 25, 2011 at 7:18 pm #2849439
Further info, if it helps
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Or not
This is the URL for the full, expanded thread: http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633?count=all&view=expanded&tag=discussion-thread;thread-sort
This is the URL for the thread, from Jason’s first post, as accessed from links to individual posts: http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633-3412071?tag=discussion-thread. This thread, on my system (WinXP SP3, FF 3.6.13, NoScript allowing all except Google-Analytics and admeld), displays collapsed, doesn’t give me the Expanded/Collapsed option, but allows me to display all posts.
Added: Interesting. Stripping out what appears to be the post number (‘-3412071’) and refreshing the page gives me everything I’m supposed to get.
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January 26, 2011 at 9:22 am #2849302
noted, work in progress
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Or not
thanks! There is definitely something wonky with the persistence of the community settings. We’re investigating.
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January 25, 2011 at 3:03 pm #2849499
And another quirk
by wdmilner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I left a comment in the other thread http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340622 so I won’t repeat it here.
Another annoyance (perhaps it is just me), is that I have to click “next” or specific comment links twice (double-click) or the page just sits there. This new interfacve may be “modern” and cutesy but it is a PITA, in colloquial acronyms.
For those who have login or permission denied messages when trying to psot comments, if you logout, delete all techrepublic.com and techrepublic.com.com cookies and then login in a new window the problems go away (or have so far).
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January 25, 2011 at 6:16 pm #2849443
Browser reset
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to And another quirk
Yes, we recommend resetting your browser to erase all TechRepublic cookies, cache, etc. from the old site.
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January 25, 2011 at 4:56 pm #2849479
It seems to me that the white background is too white
by michael jay · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Kinda too bright, after reading thru this thread, my eyes seem more tired than they should.
Any thoughts on a less bright white, turned down the brightness but still I think a less white, white would be better for reading.
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January 25, 2011 at 6:15 pm #2849444
It does get harder on the eyes
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It seems to me that the white background is too white
the longer one looks at it.
[i]Losing the blue post titles might help that. Or making it a deeper, ‘grayer’ blue, like what’s in the ‘Power Users’ box.[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 10:30 pm #2849386
Michael, I have really sensitive eyes
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It seems to me that the white background is too white
I have a pair of glasses that have a number four rose tint specifically for online use. They help a ton.
Still- the brighter background has caused me to use my sunglasses for reading the forum. The eye strain is pretty harsh.
Please submit this as a Suggestion here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
I haven’t yet but will add my name to your report if you get there before I do.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm #2849469
Can’t Edit, it just goes to blank screen…
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
the page vanishes is and the title in the tab just changed to a URL
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January 25, 2011 at 5:55 pm #2849454
That stinks, what OS and Browser are you using
by michael jay · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Can’t Edit, it just goes to blank screen…
At the moment I am on Ubuntu 10.04 with Firefox 3.6.13, editing works fine.
I had heard of folks having trouble with formating when editing but not just vanishing.
wait let me edit, the format problem is fixed?
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January 25, 2011 at 6:07 pm #2849449
If you’re using FF with NoScript,
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Can’t Edit, it just goes to blank screen…
try disabling NoScript. Fixed that problem for me.
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January 25, 2011 at 5:53 pm #2849455
Smart phone…
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Motorola Bravo, Android.
Doesn’t show all posts in a thread. Definitely the new format, didn’t have that problem with the old.
[i]typo[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 6:01 pm #2849451
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January 25, 2011 at 6:06 pm #2849450
Multiple missing posts
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Oh no
from multiple discussions. :0
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January 25, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2849448
I am reading posts in this thread that I thought
by michael jay · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Multiple missing posts
I read in the water cooler, I will have to look again.
No, guess I have bugs, not the site.
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January 25, 2011 at 8:04 pm #2849424
Weird
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Smart phone…
My Touch isn’t having that issue so far. Major difference is that my Touch uses the house wireless connection.
I have to wait until May to get an iPhone on Verizon. Early adoption would cost me around an additional $100 a month, so I’ll wait.
*sigh*
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January 25, 2011 at 8:28 pm #2849420
I was using the house wireless.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird
I should check the other way, too, though. It’s the last thread in a ‘section’ that’s missing.MJ’s post above you, for example. I’ll have to do some more fiddling in that area. I found the darned thing highly useful for alleviating boredom in several recent long drives.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:24 pm #2849389
Smart phones, wireless, and drop outs. Oh My!
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I was using the house wireless.
I’m seeing a lag in the last two hours or so between posting and smart device updating. I think that they are trying to stabilize things and possibly resulting in breaking others.
Please report this Bug here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
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January 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm #2849384
I’ll watch it for a day or two.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Smart phones, wireless, and drop outs. Oh My!
If it doesn’t resolve, I’ll add it. Or, if someone else posts similar. Surely I’m not the only smartphone user who checks into TR with it. :0
[i]botched ‘resolve'[/i]
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January 25, 2011 at 8:48 pm #2849415
Collapsed/Expanded erratic
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
To reproduce:
1. I set my preferences to be “Expanded”.
2. View thread
3. Set thread to “Collapsed”
4. Click a page number at the bottomResult: Go back to the first page, in expanded again. This is NOT consistent, I don’t know why. It’s a now and then kind of thing.
J.Ja
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January 25, 2011 at 10:13 pm #2849391
Justin please add this
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Collapsed/Expanded erratic
To the Bug sheet here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
I know they are working on the site- I have discovered new behaviors as well. If they are on the sheet, we can track resolution.
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January 26, 2011 at 11:58 pm #2849859
Jason or other admins!!!
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Justin please add this
Can you please make the post with the bug-sheet link sticky?
Mark it editors choice or something, so that it’ll be on the top of the first page.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:28 pm #2849387
noticed this as well
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Collapsed/Expanded erratic
Thanks for the repro steps. I noticed something funky with this tonight as well. Thought it was just my lack of sleep from launch day at first. 🙂 I’ll make sure it’s logged.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:36 pm #2849383
Get some rest.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to noticed this as well
There are a few good heads posting. And those of us who are fair heads, will keep posting, too.
It’s not going to smooth out overnight. I highly doubt any of us expect it to.
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January 25, 2011 at 9:24 pm #2849406
Yuck!
by tonythetiger · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Yuck!
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January 25, 2011 at 10:31 pm #2849385
Would love to hear your thoughts
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yuck!
The change is a lot to absorb all at once but if you could clarify your thoughts, it would be really helpful.
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January 25, 2011 at 10:06 pm #2849393
I’m suddenly being logged out
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Roughly every ten or so minutes.
I’ll add it to the Bug sheet.
Bug sheet is here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
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January 25, 2011 at 11:46 pm #2849368
Tigs you are being logged out
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m suddenly being logged out
Because No One loves you. :p
There couldn’t possible be a issue with the New Site Design as it’s been fully tested. :^0
God help me I’m sounding like a M$ Representative at a Product Launch. :_|
Col
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January 26, 2011 at 1:25 am #2849359
I know no one loves me
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Tigs you are being logged out
And I am past caring.
I think that the anomalies are to do with trying to keep the site stabile. I could be wrong.
I do believe that I have reached the magic place called “Exhausted”. I need to sleep now.
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January 26, 2011 at 8:49 am #2849308
clear your cookies
by david slade · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m suddenly being logged out
let us know if this helps. if there’s any steps to reproduce, or browser/OS let us know!
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January 26, 2011 at 1:40 pm #2849247
Thanks, David!
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to clear your cookies
I think that it was a temporary issue while your folks were working last night. The problem resolved by itself.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:19 pm #2849375
My Links Section IS Gone
by drmoon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
From Original Thread:
My Links
Please tell me you didn’t get rid of the My Links section! I had several articles bookmarked and tagged there and now I can’t find it under My Stuff anymore…[Reply from Jason Hiner]
It’s still there
Go to your profile. Go to My Stuff. Go to My Favorites (that’s what My Links has been renamed to).[My reply]
No, actually it’s not
Yes, I looked there already. I looked everywhere. All of my links are gone; there is nothing listed under My Favorites.
Can you tell me how I might get them back? Please?EDIT: Issue added to Bug Sheet (Bugs – line 39)
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January 26, 2011 at 1:11 am #2849361
Thank you!
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My Links Section IS Gone
A great report and hopefully identifiable and resolvable.
Appreciate you clear addition to the tracking sheet!
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January 25, 2011 at 11:35 pm #2849371
settings don’t propogate when navigating via links
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I’ve set my preference for expanded
but when I navigate via links in my stuff
the pages always open collapsed
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January 26, 2011 at 1:06 am #2849362
I have this issue noted
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to settings don’t propogate when navigating via links
As a bug that wants attention.
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January 25, 2011 at 11:42 pm #2849369
Jason could you send me a message on who to report issues to?
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I’ve been getting 2 lots of 2 E-Mails daily with supposedly listings of my postings here one the Normal PreUpdate one and a new one. The New one isn’t working it leads to a dead link. 😉
Col
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January 26, 2011 at 1:05 am #2849363
Col, anything you have reported here
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason could you send me a message on who to report issues to?
Made it’s way to the Bug/Suggestion spreadsheet located here: https://spreadsheets5.google.com/ccc?authkey=CJmbw7sB&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&hl=en&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
If I missed anything, let me know.
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January 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm #2849238
Tig’s I’m just getting some strange E-Mails from TR
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Col, anything you have reported here
One set works and the other is dead. Of course with a few days under it’s belt the one that is working is getting very small in content. 😀
It’s a Bit hard to post the contents of those E-Mail Alerts to the Spread Sheet if the Developers want to see the actual issue. 😉
But other than the most obvious thing with the Poor Contrast between the Links on the top of the page and maybe little site traffic I’m not seeing many new questions asked and I’m finding it very hard to keep up with things I have posted to.
Col
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January 26, 2011 at 5:09 pm #2849211
I’m getting the same thing, Col
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Tig’s I’m just getting some strange E-Mails from TR
The link I clicked on from the email gave me a blank page.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/103-340641-3413035&alertspromo=100901?tag=nl.rCOMBINEDStripping out everything from ‘&alerts’ and after gives me the post in question, but the thread is collapsed, with no option to expand it available.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/103-340641-3413035If I strip what appears to be the post number— -3413035 —I get the entire thread, expanded and legible…and responsive.
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January 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm #2849883
I’ve chunked it into the bug list
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Tig’s I’m just getting some strange E-Mails from TR
It’s on line 42. Add anything you’d like to my comments.
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January 26, 2011 at 5:17 am #2849334
Use the shared spreadsheet…
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Jason could you send me a message on who to report issues to?
Hey Col – Use the shared Bug Tracker spreadsheet that Tricia set up. The TR staff is following that and responding.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:37 am #2849365
Attention Jason
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I have an idea that might help everybody a bit. Here it is:
Set up a bug tracker.
Seriously. This solves several problems:
1. You would not have to deal so much with duplicate reports of the same problem.
2. When there are duplicate bugs filed, you can merge them or at least close one with a note to check the other.
3. When a bug starts getting attention from developers, it can be marked as such so that people feel like they are actually being heard and their problems are being addressed — so they stop complaining about something that should be fixed in short order.
4. When there is a reported issue that is not deemed suitable for fixing, an explanation can be posted in a central location so people will not keep requesting the same thing.
5. You get a brag list for concerns that have been addressed. Even if someone’s pet issue has not been addressed, knowing that others’ issues have been fixed helps them understand that the developers are accomplishing things, and they just have to wait for their issue’s turn.
I do not know how much say you have over something like the idea of using a public bug tracker, but maybe if you like the idea you can spitball it at a meeting, at least. Frankly, the only reason to avoid using a public bug tracker for a community-oriented site that comes to mind would be trying to hide the fact you do not want to serve community needs. I really doubt that is the case with TR, though; I just think that communications are breaking down somewhere, and the result is a pretty chaotic “feedback thread” with several disgruntled users making the majority of the notable noise — and understandably so, I think, given that breakdown in communication.
That’s how it looks to me, anyway. Hopefully my suggestion helps. I just want everyone to be happy at the end of the day.
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January 26, 2011 at 1:02 am #2849364
Umm… late to the game
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Attention Jason
Bug/suggestion tracker is located here: https://spreadsheets5.google.com/ccc?authkey=CJmbw7sB&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&hl=en&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
Hope this helps.
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January 26, 2011 at 5:28 am #2849332
We’re in luck…
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Attention Jason
Tig volunteered to compile the bugs and requests and asked her to put them in a publicly-shared Google Doc. The TR staff is tracking this and I’ve already responded with notes on several of the items in there. This will accomplish the noble goals you mentioned. And, thanks, we definitely appreciate the constructive feedback.
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January 27, 2011 at 10:20 pm #2849742
hmm
by apotheon · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to We’re in luck…
I hope a more permanent solution is coming in the future at some point, with a less cluttered interface. I’m not complaining about what Tigger_Two did; it’s a good stopgap, until TR/CBSi can provide something more permanent. I’ll see about making an effort to contribute to it starting tomorrow (it’s about bedtime for me now, and somehow I never got notice of these replies).
Thanks for trying out the idea of a bug tracker.
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January 26, 2011 at 1:50 am #2849353
Top of Screen, And Bottom of comment
by madsmaddad · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Every time I click on the next comment ina thread, Most of my screen is filled with all the Bumpf about Techrepublic and advertising, so I have to scroll down to see the comment. That is Poor.
Also at the bottom of each comment there used to be a ‘next’ tag, and this is gone, so that after I have read a comment I have to scroll up again to find the ‘next’ tag. Not Good.
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January 26, 2011 at 5:23 am #2849333
Not able to replicate this one
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Top of Screen, And Bottom of comment
Please clarify.
When I use the Next button (in Firefox) I just go to the next discussion. Are you saying you’re getting redirected back to the original article?
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January 26, 2011 at 5:16 pm #2849899
I think, Jason
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Not able to replicate this one
He’s referring to the individual comments in a discussion thread. The Next | Previous links used to be at the bottom of each post, to the right of the poster’s information. Now, they are at the top of the post. It does get to be a pain, if you are reading a long post, to have to scroll back to the top to proceed to the next post in the discussion.
@Madsmaddad, might I suggest expanding the discussion and reading the posts by scrolling through it? That option is now available. When it works, it’s awesome. You can also use the link at the right, just below the Search box, to collapse the TR hot links, if you like.
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January 26, 2011 at 3:40 am #2849343
Interesting
by roxy786 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
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January 26, 2011 at 5:41 am #2849331
One thing that is quite ridiculous
by neilb@uk · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
is that, when I click on a thread link, the page displayed doesn’t even show me the first post until I scroll down past “Top Rated” and “Just In”. Because of these and headers and adverts and the wonderful new spacious layout, the actual subject of the thread is a page and a half down.
I’ve no doubt that someone else has mentioned this – and almost certainly in this thread, but I haven’t read through because I have rubbed the skin off my index finger on the scroll wheel, zipping down the narrow track of the stuff I want to read and admiring the clean white space to the left and right (there’s a LOT of it).
God! It’s SO BRIGHT.
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January 26, 2011 at 8:43 am #2849310
Make the Q&A tabs persistent
by oldbaritone · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The tabs under Q&A are great, but after reading a thread and submitting a post, the only one-click way I have found to get back to the top level is to click the “Q&A” at the top of the page.
But when I do that, it always goes back to “Newest” – even if I was reading through one of the other tabs like “hottest” or “unanswered”
It would be nice to have a one-click way to get back to the top level of the tab I was already reading, instead of needing to start over again.
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January 26, 2011 at 10:36 am #2849295
OldBaritone
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Make the Q&A tabs persistent
Please add this to the Suggestion tab on the spreadsheet here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2
Thanks!
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January 26, 2011 at 8:45 am #2849309
Weird page count
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
At the bottom of the discussions, there is a series of page counters for as many pages may be using 50 comments per page.
Roght now there are 8 pages of comments. The counter shows:
1 … 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
I really don’t get the dots between 1 and 2. It looks very non-archimedean.
When there are 5 pages or less, the counting is like this:
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January 26, 2011 at 11:13 am #2849288
I can vote for my own post
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Should the user be able to vote for his own comment?
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January 26, 2011 at 1:34 pm #2849249
ScarF, that was supposed to have been fixed.
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I can vote for my own post
What OS and browser are you using?
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January 27, 2011 at 5:44 am #2849849
Let me try again
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to ScarF, that was supposed to have been fixed.
And, to answer your question, I use Win7 and IE8.
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January 27, 2011 at 5:45 am #2849848
Indeed,
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to ScarF, that was supposed to have been fixed.
Now it is fixed. Thanks.
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January 26, 2011 at 11:35 am #2849279
Found a funny glitch
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Set yourself a number of posts per page. Such as 100.
The, go into yoru address bar, find “count=100” and change it to “Count=0.5”You will now see several posts per page, but have twice as many pages as you have posts.
Lower is even more fun.
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January 26, 2011 at 12:04 pm #2849276
Now that
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Found a funny glitch
is mean… I mean, I think that must hurt the code! Think of its feelings! 🙂
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January 26, 2011 at 1:16 pm #2849251
Check out this picture
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Now that
Lots of pages 🙂
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5098/newbitmapimageud.png
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January 26, 2011 at 1:37 pm #2849248
Sinister did you log that
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Found a funny glitch
As a bug? Please include the URL to the screen shot if you have, along with your OS and browser.
Thanks!
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January 26, 2011 at 6:48 pm #2849888
Sort of, link is right here
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sinister did you log that
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January 26, 2011 at 1:05 pm #2849256
You might want to think about
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
tightening up the parameters on autofill as it applies to beginning a D/Q. Zombies are starting to surface. I’ll keep watching to try to see how marked the increase is.
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January 26, 2011 at 2:43 pm #2849235
Printer friendly and save as PDF Where?
by kdpawson · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Where have the print article and save as pdf buttons gone??
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January 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm #2849214
Wasted space
by dwdino · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Web pages are most efficient when little scrolling is required. With the oversized everything and massive amounts of whitespace, the quantity of scroll inputs has multiplied greatly.
On the forums, there is more junk occupying space then forum posts.
The previous format was much more space and workflow efficient.
Also, the color choices for the links at top is very poor. An off white background with lite blue links and white selected link? Extremely poor choice.
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January 28, 2011 at 10:51 am #2849687
If you’re using Firefox…
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Wasted space
… I have a Greasemonkey script that shrinks it all down. You could modify it to change the link color, too.
http://www.chipstips.com/?p=593
Right now it only works with the Expanded mode for discussions.
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January 26, 2011 at 5:20 pm #2849898
Can’t Post
by dogknees · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
For some reason I am not able to post to the site any more. Any ideas?
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January 26, 2011 at 5:25 pm #2849896
Well, Seems I Can
by dogknees · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Can’t Post
Can’t find items posted Monday or Tuesday. Now seems fine, but where are my posts?
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January 26, 2011 at 6:33 pm #2849890
My Account.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Well, Seems I Can
At the top right of the page. Hover your mouse and choose ‘My Stuff’ from the menu that displays. Or just click on it and then click on ‘My Stuff’.
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January 26, 2011 at 9:56 pm #2849868
Yes
by dogknees · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My Account.
That is where I’m going but there was nothing for several days. I had posted in that period, but now they seem to have diappeared.
It seems my ability to post comes and goes. These ones appear OK, but I tried to post a question about two hours ago and it failed. Again!
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January 26, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2849893
Older content Pages not found
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
ie. I’m looking at the google cahced version of
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=34&threadID=31941
clicking on the actual search result goes to page not found
using cached version goes to OP only
and I can’t get any further down the discussion than the OP
as clicking any post in it returns toPage Not found
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January 26, 2011 at 9:46 pm #2849871
Ok, re: spam, Water Cooler, Questions.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Please pay a visit to this link. :0
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/103-340761?tag=mantle_skin;content
[i]fix link[/i]
edit
Ok, I just looked in on that again, and it’s showing as a Discussion, with Requests for Clarification that show as ‘normal’ posts, with Reply AND Request for Clarification buttons.
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January 26, 2011 at 9:50 pm #2849870
Holy cow!
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ok, re: spam, Water Cooler, Questions.
Where are the tags? You know, the ones that used to be at the top of a Discussion/Question?
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January 27, 2011 at 7:45 am #2849835
There is no way
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Holy cow!
to combine other tags with off-topic.
For some reason that’s not allowed anymore.
So, now, when we want to discuss non-work, or just plain oddball applications of hard- or software or networking or other such, we’ll have to choose, IT tags or off-topic tags.I don’t know why off-topic posts can be accessed either from http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/ or /www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/ but that’s how it is. They seem to be in both folders at once… while totally synchronized. You can even choose “the answer” to the discussion you started yourself, if you access from the /questions/ folder…
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January 28, 2011 at 10:00 am #2849698
I’m not seeing tags on any Discussions or Questions, Ansu.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There is no way
I’m mostly assuming design. But maybe it’s a bug.
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January 28, 2011 at 1:25 pm #2849652
Holy mackerel!
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’m not seeing tags on any Discussions or Questions, Ansu.
You’re right. You can put them there, but they don’t show.
I also don’t see a way to search for discussions bearing a certain tag…
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January 26, 2011 at 9:52 pm #2849869
When I come into this Discussion via a link
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
from ‘My Stuff’, the Discussion is collapsed despite my ‘Expanded’ default setting. I’m pretty sure this has been mentioned previously, but holy cow finding it in a discussion of this size is way too time consuming.
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January 27, 2011 at 8:12 am #2849833
(temporary work around) Until They Fix it!
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to When I come into this Discussion via a link
access the thread via link in “Yer Stuff”
then click the thread title it will open up back at page one expanded
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January 27, 2011 at 3:31 am #2849854
Thanks loads
by sissy sue · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Now all I can see of the discussions is the subject. I can’t expand at all.
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January 27, 2011 at 6:04 am #2849846
Facebook link generates page error
by scarf · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
While loading the page:
I have the following error on the webpage:
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:57:43 UTCMessage: Syntax error
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?v=1.0&method=links.getStats&urls=%5B%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techrepublic.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-tips%2Ffive-tips-for-working-with-excel-sheet-protection%2F574%3Ftag%3Dnl.e101%22%5D&format=json&callback=fb_sharepro_renderThis may come because we are blocking FACEBOOK at the router’s level.
I still believe not being a great idea such a high integration with the social sites.
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January 27, 2011 at 9:19 am #2849825
First post issue
by justin james · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I noticed that when you put the first post onto a blog, it still says “The discussion hasn???t started yet. Why don???t you begin it.”
J.Ja
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January 27, 2011 at 12:57 pm #2849789
Sounds familiar…
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to First post issue
..That issue sounds strangely familiar to me.
-Tammy [_]3
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January 27, 2011 at 2:27 pm #2849780
Community Preferences Failed
by tink! · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
when I entered from the middle – i.e. I clicked my comment from “My Stuff” page. My default is set to expand and it didn’t. I had to go to the first page of the discussion before the preferences kicked in.
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January 28, 2011 at 9:58 am #2849699
Get that every time, too. (nt)
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Community Preferences Failed
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January 27, 2011 at 9:55 pm #2849747
I am growing to rather like
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
The 24-hour reference clock. It’s kinda like a miniature [i]pons asinorem[/i] — can’t get past it; too bad.
I so do not like, as if it has not been bruited enough, the identity absence of [i]who[/i] made the most recent post. Nor, once the post is opened, the poster provenance.
Provenance is so very helpful in the case of outright spam, not to mention the previous death-ray answer thereto, of which we are lately bereft.
Updating of most recent posts still needs work.
And, then, who in their right mind, decided to submerge Questions to subsidiary importance, below even the altogether Crass announcement of “Power Users”?
Get the three of them — Discussions, Questions, Water Closet — upfront and on equal par.
I dare you. I double-dare you.
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January 27, 2011 at 10:05 pm #2849744
‘Nail the Spammer’
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I am growing to rather like
is dead in the water. 🙁 No more points for boxy.
And whatever is going on with that ‘Take offline’ is bizarre. Please, don’t ask for detail. If I could figure it out, I wouldn’t use the term bizarre. :0
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January 31, 2011 at 1:32 pm #2848252
‘Take Offline’
by sterling “chip” camden · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to ‘Nail the Spammer’
Sounds to me like when you’re in a bar and they advise you to take your discussion ‘outside’.
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January 28, 2011 at 1:21 am #2849736
What? No death-ray?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I am growing to rather like
What then happens to posts we flag as spam?
Total agreement on the triune!
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January 28, 2011 at 9:56 am #2849700
Not a death ray thing.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to What? No death-ray?
A hunting thing.
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January 28, 2011 at 1:29 am #2849735
The WC Discussion as a Question bug…(DaaQ)
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Goes beyond the links at the top of the Q&A…
Here’s how to reproduce it for any WC discussion:
Go to the discussion in the Water Cooler : In the browser URL field, change /discussions/ to /questions/. Load the page, et voila: your DaaQ of choice.Here’s the link to my latest, the thread about the WC pic, where I just marked a post as The Answer. BTW, I had the option to choose one of my own contributions as the answer; that’s another thing to get rid of…
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/103-340623?tag=content;discussion-table
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January 28, 2011 at 4:51 am #2849719
Expanded threads
by darpoke · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
take up way too much space in this new roomy format, whether you restrict the entries/page or not. Could you display only the post for each post, perhaps, and have the voting and replies available only on mouseover, or something? Just trying to envisage a more efficient format. It looks great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s quite a lot to process visually and scrolling takes a lot longer now… Otherwise, I’m liking it!
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January 28, 2011 at 11:03 am #2849685
2 more things on viewing Threads
by tink! · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
1) There is no “View” option other than on the front page of the discussion. Really need to have that on each page so that you can expand from the last page or middle page etc. Members revisiting a thread don’t want to have to go to the front page first, they want to go to the place they left off at.
2) The page links are way down at the bottom. No big deal if you only show 25 posts, but when you show 50 or 100, and especially if you View Expanded, it’s annoying to have to scroll all the way down just to jump to the page you want. Would be nice if the page links were also at the top of the discussion pages. After all, regulars here know how quickly a thread gets into the hundreds of posts!
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January 28, 2011 at 11:33 am #2849677
Both have already been identified, Tink
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to 2 more things on viewing Threads
The Community Preferences only seem to apply correctly when you click on the title of the discussion; clicking any individual post collapses everything and doesn’t allow you to expand. I’m waiting for “All” to be made available as a view setting. As it is now, I have to select it each time I open a thread. It’s doesn’t make a difference in most threads, but in others (this one, for example) it makes all the difference in the world.
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January 28, 2011 at 2:44 pm #2849647
New Page Format
by k6lw · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Page doesn’t render correctly when using Opera 11.
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January 28, 2011 at 5:52 pm #2849618
What does this "Take offline" link do?
by tobif · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It seems that when your discussion tree goes deep enough, the “reply” link is replaced with a “take offline” one.
Does the “take offline” spawn a new discussion altogether?
Will there be some automatic linking forth and back if I do?
And, if that’s the case, why not have the possibility to “take offline” even higher up in the tree?
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January 28, 2011 at 6:18 pm #2849608
What the "Take off-line" link does
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to What does this "Take offline" link do?
Many discussions reach the maximum level, then continue at that level for tens of posts; we’ve both played in those types of threads. The reasoning, as I understand it, is that the topics in those “maxed out” discussions are quite often much different than the original topic of the thread. Clicking the “take off-line” link opens a new discussion in the Water Cooler, the new off-topic area. The off-topic discussion can then continue without making the original discussion thread too unwieldy to browse or load. A notation–This discussion has been taken off-line– is inserted at the point where the new discussion was spawned. The original discussion is accessible from the spawned discussion by clicking on the discussion title.
Interestingly, the same thing happens to discussions in the Water Cooler, where one would assume off-topic branches are not as much of an issue… ?:|
Happy weekend, Tobi.
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January 28, 2011 at 6:12 pm #2849613
Forums organization.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
To quote a friend, “One of the things I think Jason and the rest lost sight of in the planning for this upgrade was that most of those on TR (and almost all of the regulars) don’t track individual posts, they track discussion threads. And for those that do track posts, it’s not the post that matters, but the person who made it.”
Spot on. 😀
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January 28, 2011 at 6:27 pm #2849605
Your friend
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Forums organization.
Is uncommonly informed. Articulate, too.
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January 30, 2011 at 8:11 pm #2848354
Huh?
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Forums organization.
Don’t forget, we use the site, too. A lot. And, all of us track threads (not posts) just like you do. So, no, this isn’t accurate.
We actually had a new beefed-up feed in “My Stuff” that was going to help with this, but we had to pull it out at the last minute due to technical difficulties in UAT. However, we’re still working on getting it back on. Not having that has left a bit of a gap, admittedly.
To make a long story short, any pain that you feel, we feel the same because we use this site every day to track the discussions that are most pertinent to our areas of specialty.
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January 31, 2011 at 10:30 am #2848280
There’s a vast difference
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Huh?
between tracking content, and tracking people. While TR content is what originally drew me here, it’s the forum members who keep me here.
Vast difference.
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January 31, 2011 at 11:01 am #2848273
See Davette
by hal 9000 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There’s a vast difference
I knew that you loved me. <3
Col :^0 😀 :^0 😀
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January 31, 2011 at 2:19 pm #2848247
The silence on this issue, Jason, was deafening
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Huh?
All we saw from this side was that our primary means of tracking new posts in our subscribed discussions was gone, with no explanation. Many of us, I think, would have been less vocal about it if we had known a fix was in the works.
Looking forward to the solution.
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January 31, 2011 at 5:10 pm #2848239
Solution doubtful
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to The silence on this issue, Jason, was deafening
Has to do with muting, I think.
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February 3, 2011 at 9:13 pm #2847113
We know that you actively use the site
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Huh?
The problem is that many of us are trying as hard as we can to use it too, and are getting frustrated. At least, that is what I am hearing people say. Knowing that y’all are feeling the same pain isn’t really helpful.
What I am hearing Nick say is that the less we hear from the PTB, the more we are likely to shout about the problems that we see.
I find it extremely frustrating that I can’t see at a glance if there is a new post in a discussion that I have been involved in. I can’t tell who made a post. I either already know who [i]started[/i] a thread or can easily find out. What I don’t know at a casual glance is if someone added new information to a post… or if I care [b]more[/b] about that addition because that is a person I enjoy reading- who may or may not be in my contacts. P.S… The “Posts from My Contacts” tab has never been useful for me.
I understand- possibly more than many- how difficult it is to keep communication lanes open. You are trying to fix the issues and do that on the fly, while not asking your folks to work horrific hours. I know that is a difficult task. But we really NEED a way to communicate on a two way street.
If there is a way to facilitate better communication, I am willing to do all that I can to help with that. Tell me what that might look like from your perspective and I’m there.
Something else to consider is that you probably [b]don’t[/b] use the site the same [i]way[/i] that we do. Our pain may NOT be your pain. You care deeply about your specific AREAS, we care deeply about our specific PEOPLE.
Right now, it SEEMS like many of the things that we- the users- consider to be extremely important are being relegated to the “who cares” bin. I have no doubt that this is [b]not[/b] what you mean to communicate.
I think that all of us “get” that your primary interest is identifying and fixing bugs. This is a reasonable thing. But lack of feedback to things that currently exist as suggestions (and some that exist as bugs) isn’t helpful. As Nick put it, “The silence [is] deafening.”
How can I help to bridge this gap?
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January 29, 2011 at 2:49 am #2848501
Friends, let’s do backups!
by tobif · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Wow – Great job!
We really need to make sure nothing bad happens to such a useful document.
In the shared document, I went to menu
File – Download as – Excel document.
So I got a 42 kb snapshot a couple of minutes ago.
I suggest everyone, who notes this comment, does the same.after editing the shared document.
This way, if the document should get broken, chances are we’ll be in a better position to recreate the document.If I’m totally off on this one, please let me know. Before yesterday nights, I’ve never used Google docs before.
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January 29, 2011 at 5:15 am #2848492
my recommendation
by mzbcracker2 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
i’d recommend putting advanced articles about microsoft and cisco networkinhg, virtualization,security,linux,voip, storage and etc… . in fact at the moment you are perfect and great.i don’t know how to thank you.thanks…
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January 29, 2011 at 8:09 am #2848481
Problem in Search Section
by mzbcracker2 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
when we search something in the 2011 upgrade of site ,at first, every thing is okay and the result is shown.but when we go to the next page of results , no result is shown.for example i searched “voip configure” and there was 151 results.when i clicked page 2 or any page other than the first page , no search result was shown.the website is perfect but i found this problem in it.that can affect the efficiency of the search results.if possible correct the code of this part(search).
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January 29, 2011 at 3:59 pm #2848445
anyone else notice this? "Image Galleries show double thumbnails"
by who am i really · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
ie.
on this page:
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/tech-destruction-photos/498331?seq=1I see two sets of the thumbnails for the images
the first set is 5 wide,
and the second set is 8 wide
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January 30, 2011 at 9:02 pm #2848340
Them there
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
“Areas of specialty” — would they be pertinent to poignance, too? Or, has poignancy nothing to do with the “Information” of IT?
Edit: something else awry. My post was in direct reply to yours, Jason; only, it ends up down here.
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January 31, 2011 at 1:54 am #2848320
Microsoft could have done better
by john3347 · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
You guys must have spent a lot of sleepless nights to have screwed up something SOOOOO badly that wasn’t even broken to start with. Looks like the work of a crack team within Microsoft bowels. The only good thing about the “new look” is that now you have something that actually does desperately need fixing.
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January 31, 2011 at 6:17 am #2848310
Self-aggrandisement
by darpoke · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I was pleasantly surprised to find someone had voted my earlier comment +1 (thank you, unknown TR member!), but less pleasantly surprised to find I could ‘plus one’ myself. Now I am unable to ‘minus one’ to return my original vote status! I feel like Governor Elbridge Gerry himself… :-/
Might I suggest (i) that one is unable to vote at all on one’s own posts; and (ii) that if one votes one way or another on a post, that they are allowed to undo this action. It’s quite right to allow me to +1 a post only once (as long as I didn’t write it!) but I ought to be able to -1 it back to its original state, in case I mistakenly supported a sentiment with which I disagree – not so difficult to achieve given the proximity of the two discreetly small buttons.
It appears that voting is anonymous – quite rightly – but I would still hate for an accidental mouseclick to inadvertently strengthen apparent support for the rantings of some chump – sorry, esteemed TR colleague – especially given the frequency with which I have encountered such individuals among the fine people that make up this community. Why is it that they are often among the most vocal? Ah, a question for another time.
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January 31, 2011 at 6:38 am #2848305
HTTP 500 Error
by gechurch · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I must be alone because I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, but I subscribe to email alerts when new discussion posts are added, and for at least a week every one of these gives me an HTTP 500 (internal server error) message.
I have tried the links in mutliple browsers, and also from a terminal server that I’ve never visited TechRepublic on before. An example of a link that does it is:
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340163-3414420&alertspromo=100901?tag=nl.rCOMBINEDDoes anyone else have the same problem?
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January 31, 2011 at 2:13 pm #2848248
Already caught and posted in the bug list
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to HTTP 500 Error
I have found that stripping the tags from the end of the link (“&alertspromo=100901?tag=nl.rCOMBINED”) fixes the problem. It’s a pain, but it works.
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January 31, 2011 at 8:31 am #2848299
Test Post
by mckinnej · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Was getting Access Denied error on the new site when I tried to post comments. Testing to see if issue is resolved.
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January 31, 2011 at 8:40 pm #2848211
Bring back the Print/View All
by old-fart-iv · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Was much easier to read and follow discussions — Why remove/update/break a feature that was useful??
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January 31, 2011 at 8:48 pm #2848209
Not sure about this new layout
by hartkl · about 13 years, 2 months ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I have to say I am finding navigating this new layout is not as user friendly as it should be. I like to review the downloads and software section and finding it much harder to quickly review. Time is short in the day and I like to be able to quickly look over and pull out what I need and go. The old layout was much easier to navigate.
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February 2, 2011 at 1:36 pm #2847287
Were are my favorites/Saved blogs list?
by hckradm2005 · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Before in the old view I was able to view a list of saved items with key words that I have made Ex: Certain posts/blogs I found interesting towards PC Tool tips I would save a link/save them with the words PC Tools. Then when ever I wanted to see all the posts/blogs that I liked for PC Tools I would click on the link PC Tools.
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February 2, 2011 at 2:44 pm #2847272
Found new glitch, try and edit your profile contact info
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It will say your user name is already in use, of course it is, it is MY user name 🙂
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February 3, 2011 at 11:10 am #2847170
Already ran into that problem
by tigger_two · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Found new glitch, try and edit your profile contact info
Which is why my username now looks different.
*sigh*
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February 3, 2011 at 11:15 am #2847166
1 more thing
by tink! · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
(470+ posts – I am NOT reading through them to see if this is already posted)
I miss the “last posted by [i]TRMember[/i]” on the Discussions Home Page. It was an easy way to tell if someone had added something after you posted. Time and date CAN do that if one were to actually note the specific time you posted, but seriously…name of last poster would be much more helpful. 🙂
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February 3, 2011 at 11:53 am #2847156
Ah, but, Tink
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to 1 more thing
That would turn this place back into a bedlam of conflicting personalities as opposed to the sanitized version.
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February 3, 2011 at 5:30 pm #2847124
Yes Tink that would be helpful
by michael jay · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to 1 more thing
so as a workaround I find myself right clicking and opening the post in a new tab to find the last poster to the thread, time consuming, but better than losing your place in the discussions home page.
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February 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm #2847152
can’t delete double posts
by who am i really · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I attempted to reply in a discussion and the page froze
so I reloaded the page and tried again
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February 3, 2011 at 5:33 pm #2847123
Interesting point, you should be able to delete your own posts
by michael jay · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to can’t delete double posts
at least till someone replies to it.
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February 4, 2011 at 8:19 am #2847784
You’re tweaking the vote code, are you not?
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
It’s now erratic, with disappearing, reappearing votes.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/103-340969-3415902EDIT:not>now
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February 4, 2011 at 12:22 pm #2847747
Fixes to two bugs (contacts and favorites) … please help confirm
by jasonhiner · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
We’ve made a couple fixes in the past 24 hours.
You should now be able to see all of your contacts in your profile. It’s no longer limited to just 100 contacts, which is the way it had been since the upgrade.
Also, some of you had reported that your favorites were either completely or partially missing. They should all be restored now.
If you check profile and find that these bugs aren’t fixed, please let us know.
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February 5, 2011 at 9:38 am #2847601
I did not see that but
by michael jay · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fixes to two bugs (contacts and favorites) … please help confirm
I would guess that is because I had less than 100, but I would like to be able to see those who have added me as a contact.
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February 7, 2011 at 8:47 am #2889224
This Can’t Be Good… Follow up Kudos.
by specialfx63 · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Fixes to two bugs (contacts and favorites) … please help confirm
Reported my issues of missing articles and links to the Tech Republic Support staff and Lo and Behold, Monday a.m. , here they are! All restored. I know we are all quick to bash everything we don’t like. But a round of thanks is in order when things go right. Kudos and a thank you for the fast fix. 😉
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February 4, 2011 at 1:34 pm #2847732
font not dark enough
by cg it · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
in the Q&A and also Discussion sections, the font for when last post was made is way to light. Even with my bifocals, it’s tough to read….. can that be darkened up maybe one shade more? maybe make it blue or darker grey?
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February 4, 2011 at 1:40 pm #2847731
Tech Republic V4.0?
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I like the format, it is clean. I’ve been giving it a chance, because I know change is hard, and the old, clunky way may seem better simply because it is familiar.
But I am really missing the going into the “forums” and into “my posts” and seeing a nice cohesive, sequential list of MY posts in the old presentation format. I think the closest thing is going to My Account and selecting My Stuff which gives a reverse chronology, top-to-bottom, sequential list of forum posts. I’d be less interested in seeing the # of posts and votes in this list than a display of what forum topic the message was in response to – that is, the title of the ORIGINAL post that this discussion is attached to. Still easier to track your conversations here than on ZD-Net. 🙂
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February 7, 2011 at 7:39 am #2889231
No responses…
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Tech Republic V4.0?
So, is it in fact, the only way to track your posts is now the “My Stuff” area of “My Account”? Is there a better way to do this? I’ve having a lot of difficulty tracking conversations under the new format.
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February 8, 2011 at 10:47 am #2889063
We already beat this one up, Donavan
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Tech Republic V4.0?
This branch provides the management response, and ours to theirs.
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February 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm #2847469
Not liking a few things…
by rayjeff · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
I haven’t been paying attention to the news of the upgrade, as I’ve had alot going on since my last visit to TR, Imagine my surprise when I logged in today, I saw the change. I was surprised, as others have been about the missing avatar. I don’t think (as like others) I want to go through the process of having a picture on another website just to have it posted here. And the avatar I had, I don’t think I will be able to find it, as it was pre-2000 picture.
The main issues I have are with the listing of all of the posts a TR member makes. Umm, there is no listing anymore. All I see is the recent postings, but not a total listing of postings, as which are shown in the old layout.
I (like others) don’t like the Expanded/Collapse view. I like the Print/View of the old layout. It would’ve been nice to not be forced to use the current options like Gravatar and the old format.
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February 6, 2011 at 3:14 pm #2847465
It is what it is
by michael jay · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Not liking a few things…
Welcome to the new format, things are still being adjusted, and for now this is what we have.
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February 7, 2011 at 12:29 pm #2889192
The site editors and our readers:
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to It is what it is
have both expressed to me on numerous occasions that they appreciate that I and other site contributors engage in ongoing discussions in the forums that our blogs generate. A site that doesn’t facilitate my ability to easily track conversations makes it harder for me to do this. Currently that is the situation with the Tech Republic user forums. That is less than desirable, but it is what it is. Hopefully the adjustments that are made to the site will consider and accommodate this, will happen quickly and we’ll have more ability to easily track conversations in the future than what we have now.
To TR readers – the easiest way right now to track your conversations is to hover over “My Profile” in the blue bar at the top of the TR page. A drop down menu will appear. The 4th option down in the menu is “My Stuff” Click that link. That will bring up a list of your last 100 discussions. You can also change the tab to My Questions or My Favorites. It isn’t perfect, but it is the best alternative to the old “My Forums” display that I’ve been able to find for now.
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February 8, 2011 at 10:50 am #2889062
Minor correction
by nicknielsen · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to The site editors and our readers:
The My Stuff area provides a list of your last 100 [u]posts[/u], not the last 100 discussions you have participated in. As you have already noticed, there is no easy way to track subscribed discussions on the site itself.
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February 9, 2011 at 8:04 am #2888975
For me…
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Minor correction
My last 100 posts generally are the last 100 discussions I ahve participated in – so it does the job for me. But it is awkward, compared to how things used to work. I don’t think they should throw away the features they’ve added, but I don’t understand why they removed something that worked so well. I think otherwise I wouldn’t have any complaints at all about the new site format.
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February 9, 2011 at 8:02 am #2888976
Another new glitch
by slayer_ · about 13 years, 1 month ago
In reply to TechRepublic’s official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade
Lately, the site no longer highlights the post currently select. This makes it even harder to read the posts in a tree. Though I would prefer the posts open in line, rather than at the top of the page each time, I would at least like the post I am reading to be highlighted
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