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by oz_media

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The site change has just become unavigatable (word?) My Discussions has gone to hell in a handbasket.

I have read about suspicions of them purposely making it hard to get into off-topic posts, but I find it a bit hard to believe, for several reasons.

1)It also makes it just as hard to follow relevant technical discussions.

2)Contact posts can be used to track off topic banter anyway. So if you just wanted to haggle on with one peer, you just follow that peer's posts.

3)They know very well that it is that large group of peers that offer the site so many page views and banner impressions, they aren't stupid and they know how to make money (you may have to click the little X to close the ad covering the rest of this post).

4)TRI, they have always responded to many of our comments with positive action. I think they may still rework some bugs such as the discussions issues, that just buries them by listing a heading for every post made to a thread; as opposed to just having the most recently updated thread and total number of posts beside it (I think it was Max who noted that in another thread), it's just the worst glitch yet.

Funny enough though, their interest in the feedback seems to have hushed a little.

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by cg it

the only way to keep track is to save the thread or make a post so it shows up in the workplace.

No doubt they'll do something to tweek it

I'll tell you what though, I'll bet the Questions side of the forums will end up vacant as no one [well none of the top guys who post answers/suggestors] will offer suggestions cuz their all over at the discussion side. It'll end up people with questions will post em in the discussions side where all the action is.

by maxwell edison

...wasting time on this site. Now, I'm wasting time trying to get back to wasting time. I think it's time to just log off and quit wasting my time. (And I didn't even get a mug for all those tech points!)

by fungus-among-us

"(And I didn't even get a mug for all those tech points!)"

I found TR when I was looking for an answer to technical question. I found it in the Tech Q&A section. Once I found my answer, I hung around to return the favor. It was the primary reason I kept coming back to the TR. The new site design has me pulling hair outta my head (not that I can spare very much). I think I'm done with this place. I'll go back to the "tech" forums I've visited in the past... at least there the thread were easier to find/reply/keep track of.

Maxwell, it's not much, but you can have ALL my TR tech points... maybe you can use them to change TR back to the site I once enjoyed visiting.

It's been real folks... have great lives.
Fungus... OUT!

by maxwell edison

Thanks, but no thanks. I've got more than I know what to do with .... make that "had more". I posted a few 50,000 point questions, and man did that generate both interest and good feedback. But no more.

We once had a discussion about what to do with them, and I thought the best suggestion was mine (of course), and I suggested that we use them as chips in an on-line poker game. Oh well, no poker and no mug. (Actually I could have received a mug at one point in time, but I passed on giving up my personal information.)

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=202592&messageID=2109070

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=202592&messageID=2109313

P.S. These guys either aren't listening or perhaps they're just not listening to me. It's interesting that none of my messages have been replied to by the PTB.

by oz_media

No I won't, I lied. Do you know how many times I had to beg for that baby even after winning the contest to get one?

by onbliss

...think you made impressions in people's mind. People might not say it openly, but even the staunchest opponents in discussions have an influence on each other. Small dents are definitely made.

And what fun would it be to you Max, if you had converted all to your point of view. :D

by oz_media

Max, in all fairness, I know we don't see eye to eye on much but you are one of the last old timers around here. We've lost Chas, Guru et all.

Despite my rants, I welcome your comments, much of the time anyway, otherwise I'd have nothing to rebut?! :)

You know TR has had growing pains and there have been some site changes that make us all want to leave, but they fix things and we hang in there, I honestly have to say I'd be sorry to see you go. While I do argue many of your points, you do have some interesting points too.

by protiusx

I hope not. I enjoy reading your posts. I must admit though I have thought of the same thing. Perhaps it is time to move along. I haven't read anyting from Neil since the change. Maybe he's chucked it in as well.

by maxwell edison

Neil has been vacationing in the United States. He has no idea how close I came to meeting him in Las Vegas. (About this |__| close.) There are just a hand-full of weeks during the year when I can't drop everything and go, and that was one of them.

by oz_media

Meow, ROAAAAR!!!!

Very well done sir.

Max, you gotta laugh at that one. The sarcasm alone is worth a laugh.

by onbliss

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by techexec2

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by onbliss

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by Member 25348569

Crab stuffed mushrooms, rare sixteen oz rib-eye, strawberries Romanoff...

I'm currently in the Holiday Express at Kayenta Az (for Monument Valley). They wanted $12 per day for internet in Vegas! It's free here so first chance to post.

I was going to blog or start a thread on my jouney around but I don't know if anyone would read it as you all seem to have the grumps with the "new" site. The blog seems to be out as I'm not one of the Blog Gods.

Anyway, Mum's arthritic hip flared up so she could hardly walk two days before and we nearly called it off but we got here, I've hired a wheelchair and we're getting around pretty well.

Vegas was - well - Vegas.

Death Valley was awesome. Better than we both expected although I reckon that I left half of my left lung pushing Ma up Zabriskie Point (diet, woman!).

The Grand Canyon was up to it's publicity. Yep, "Grand" will do it. Very helpful park ranger gave us the secret Illuminati codes that got the car through all of the barriers. The Riff-Raff were forced to use the shuttle bus. People kept coming up to us and asking how we got the car in. For those who came up when the wheelchair was obvious, I took replying "I break your lumbar spine - that's all there is to it".

Monument Valley also exceeded expectations by miles. The car was blue and is now pink with dust.

My only quibble. It's so DAMN COLD!!! Snowed at the Canyon and around 45F here now.

Off to get a meal.. more later if I can find out WHER TO PUT IT!

by jdclyde

so we can follow along with your exploits!

Hope mum is having a grand time, and remember to take lots of pics and even have people use your camera so you can hope in the pic for a proper family shot!

Will TRY to watch for your posts, but keeping tabs isn't as easy right now.

by oz_media

In HOT DISCUSSIONS, you would expect to see "HOT" discussions.

'How To Hack'
Some weenie from Flordia with absolutely NO replies (as expected)listed as number 2 for Hot Discussions.

I'd say we have some f*&$%d up code here. :)

by oz_media

You know very well that Jay's a good dude, just having some fun, very eloquently and far more tame than anything we would have offered.

But what's up with you lately anyway? I could see that same comment coming from either one of us any day. Cheer up already! You seem really edgy and upset with everything this past week.

by maxwell edison

See the messages below, and you'll see that I was this close (|__|) to flying out to Las Vegas just to visit with Neil, but "other things" in my life kept me from doing it -- "other things" kept me from doing what I really wanted to do. I'm one who wants total control over my own life, and last week I didn't have it. It pisses me off. And it really pisses me off because it's of my own making. Now understand that it's not just that one thing, per se, but the underlying reasons behind it.

And then, TR went and screwed up a perfectly good Web site! Nothing like kicking the cat when you're pissed off!

by techexec2

I think he is saying to add entries in the HOSTS file to redirect certain domains to localhost. The certain domains would be those that you don't want to appear in your browser.

Essentially the same result as NOSCRIPT:
Suppressing undesirable content by domain.

by oz_media

Yeah I'd be pssed too. As you know, I also have control of my life and do whatever the hell I want to when I want to do it, for the most part; we all have to make some sacrifices sometimes, even if just to keep people happy (but then again, that would be my choice too I suppose).

yeah a trip to Vegas to meet a nice, home-bred, dry-sarcastic, Brit would definitely be fun.

After my day today, I don't think I care abotu much now, I'm sorta numb. It was a real headwrecker but I think my feet are on the ground now and I got a grip on it enough to relax a bit. I ca nappreciate having a bad day and then turnign to your water cooler to relax and it's all f*&#$d up.

Id be pissed too.

Oh well, there's always next time. And when you're all grown up like us, there always IS a next time beacause I feel we create our own destiny, as you have proven yourself.

Here's an idea, because your plans were screwed up this time; go see Neil in jolly old England! Get some rock (candy)and some of those greasy F&C's in newspaper, and have him show you around.

by maxwell edison

You know I'm involved in scouts, and the World Scout Jamboree in 2007 is in ........ wanna' guess?
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Yep, the UK! (And the birth place of the Boy Scouts.)

I've never been there. Neither has my son. I wonder......

by oz_media

That would be SO cool!!!!
I have been out of scouting for a few years now, gawd, more than 10!!!

I was in Venturers (ages 15-17 if I remember right) at WJ83 in Kananaskis AB., that was pretty wild. Wild enough that I remember it very well, we had a day trip to Banff and it was one of my first trips ot Alberta, man was I stunned! What beautiful province.

I know when I was just a wee lad, my brother's troop went to a major jamboree in the UK (while we were still living there of course) I don't remember if it was a WJ or not.

I would most definitely be very jealous of such an opportunity, definitely make it a goal for you and your son, I'm sure HE'LL never forget it that's for sure.

'WJ - UK', it's almost a good tour shirt.

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