[elgar's ghost]

I think I will adapt to the new look far quicker than when I first joined the site in 2010. Great work by all concerned, and well worth waiting for. The visuals are especially impressive.

 

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Good evening. Are we still able to edit posts?

 

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Thanks - trust me to miss that!

p.s. I also second Malx's suggestion of individual flags for E, S, NI and W if it was possible.

 

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When a list of threads with new posts is on-screen is there, like before, any indication to show that you have already posted in any of them? Thanks in advance for any answers.

 

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When a list of threads with new posts is on-screen is there, like before, any indication to show that you have already posted in any of them? Thanks in advance for any answers.

Still waiting for a reply if anyone can help.

 

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I can put up with most ads but I seriously dislike those that distract you by giving the effect of emerging from the screen because an image embedded in the ad expands and then contracts again. I'm going to get Edge to add an ad-block.

 

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Well, the ad block is working well enough for me without the need to upgrade to the Premium option. I would suggest to TC members who don't want to upgrade to consider an ad block option if the ads are too much of an irritant.

 

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Sorry - post now irrelevant. Please ignore.

 

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"The layout is horrendous with so much wasted space. Nearly 1/2 of the screen is taken up by the left and right columns, the right having no useful information in it at all. (I have a very effective ad blocker which removes the annoying ads)."

I don't think I actually posted that!!!

 

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If I press the "mark all read' button to clear the screen how come all thirteen pages of threads reappear when I press "new"??

 

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I haven't had any problem with it. There's one thing you might not be doing. When you click on "mark all read", a small (but not tiny) screen shows up and asks if you really want to make all those threads disappear.

Tried that, but when I hit the speech bubble-type "new" button on the top right they still all come back. It's fairly minor, I suppose, but I'd like to clear the decks once a day like before.

 

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I like the new format very much. The odd frustration I may have is probably down to getting used to something different, rather than something not being as good.

However, there is one distraction as far as I'm concerned. A lot of the posted images are huge. There seems to just be a choice between thumbnail (too small) and actual size.

Can something be done to limit//adjust the size of the uploaded images?

I don't know if this helps, Henry, but when I add an image by my favoured "insert image" option via URL code the image can be dragged to any size you want if you left click on it first (before actually posting, obviously). I have a feeling this couldn't be done under the old system so this was a good thing for me to stumble on.

 

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I will try that myself, but how comes most people are posting enormous images? Or is it my set-up?

I think some folk always have - maybe they copied the image directly from source rather than with a link but didn't know how (or if) the image could be reduced. One thing I did notice under the old system was that the more large images there were the longer it could take for a page to load.

 

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On the left is what the image looks like if you just hold down your mouse and drag and drop it from one site to this one without resizing it - (Without the use of URLs - Just a straight drag and drop)

On the right is the same image - after being dragged and dropped - except I left-clicked once on the image and and moved the re-sizing arrows which appear on the corners of the image.- You can make the photo larger or smaller depending upon your requirements.

On the previous version of TC, you had to use the insert image and supply the URL unless you were using a photo management site like imgur.com, which quite frankly, was and is, a right PITA.

Embedded videos are huge also but if there's a way to resize them I've yet to find it.

I've just followed what you said and played about with taking images directly onto a draft post and resizing them. I'm assuming that we won't need to use the insert image facility at all now - this way is just that little bit quicker and less fuss. Good man yourself!

 

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The adverts taking up 1/3 of my screen to the right is not something I can live with, Classical Music fora is a hobby not something that I need to set me off for the day! And please don't even suggest a "premium" upgrade! It has been wonderful but I guess all good things etc., etc.,

I know you acknowledged my post about ads earlier. I really would suggest you look to see if your chosen browser offers an ad-block feature. I don't usually have many kind words for my browser (Edge) but the ad-block has worked like a charm here. And at least TC hasn't erected a wall bleating about how they need the revenue like some sites have when they see that an ad-block has been created.

 

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Just another quickie - is there still a search option that can be used within individual threads?

 

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At the top of any page you're on - Click on "Search Community" - A dropdown box will appear - Click on "Advanced Search" - "Search Discussions" is set by default - Right underneath is "Keywords" - To the right of that is an empty search box with "Search Titles Only" right underneath - Put a check in the box and then type the name of the thread or just a keyword or two that you want to search in that first search box - Click "Search" on the very bottom. of the page.

You can also search for members, by date, and within forums.

Thank you again. The process isn't quite as simple as it was before but it certainly got me to where I wanted to go.

 

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Thanks for going the extra yard anyway. I'll content myself with your first explanation as that did work for me but I'm surprised a search option isn't readily apparent on each thread as I thought it would be a standard feature to retain bearing in mind the level of this upgrade.

EDIT: In a nutshell, then, it says how to search within a thread but the search box on the thread itself just hasn't been set up yet?

 

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One of the little annoyances of living in a digital world is being assaulted continuously with "recommendations" of things someone somewhere assumes we will "like" - or, most likely, will purchase if only we're reminded often enough. In my experience, most things "recommended" for me are of no interest to me and amount to nothing more than irksome claims on my time and attention.

TC's new format is visually attractive and shouldn't take too much getting used to for most of us. I gather there are some functional improvements too (a better search function, for example). What is definitely not an improvement is being confronted immediately upon opening the site with a screenful of things "Recommended for you."

I'm quite certain that the nonexistent beings who are making these recommendations don't know me or my interests well enough to recommend anything to me. My recommendation to them is that they spare themselves the nonexistent trouble of figuring out my daily needs and just give me the forum contents straightaway, exactly as they did when the forum was aesthetically uninteresting and wasted not a second of my time in getting to the point.

I find that a bit strange as well, Woodduck - it's as if there's been some kind of cross-contamination with one of Amazon's more annoying features.

 

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We should start a community thread detailing the most preposterous and inappropriate recommendations we've been offered. As I write I'm being badgered to join 888Casino. I've been in a casino once in my life in Prague when I was drunk with my producer before a recording session. That was in pre-digital life, how the hell did they find out?

Until I uploaded the Microsoft Edge ad block I was getting an unsettling amount of ads for female underwear. They began - unsolicited, I must add - by cropping up on a political forum of which I wasn't even a member of and then they started to follow me here. Is that something to do with the cookies, do you think?