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Community Feedback: New Forum Software Is Live!

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We are excited to announce that we are live on our new forum platform!

It’s been a long time coming. Let’s face it. Sometimes older forum technology lags behind other parts of the internet. Although seeing the same format for a long time is comforting, the member experience shouldn’t include dealing with outdated, unsafe, slow software.

The transition to a new platform will never be 100% smooth but the days of dealing with out of date forum software are over. We have teams dedicated to building a world-class community for you. The development has been steady with regular software releases since May 2019. Asking members for feedback and coming up with ideas for improvement is what we want.

Speed and Reliability Are Key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.

New Homepage Experience
Our algorithm will serve a personal customized feed based on your prior engagement with content on the site. If you’ve liked and or commented, or are following certain topics that are of interest to you, similar content will appear at the top of the homepage.

Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, to help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.

Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing over the first few days after migrating. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.

Finding Your Way Around
We have made the design clean and simple to use. Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.

The first icon is for what’s new on the site.

Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.

Clicking the list icon next to “NEW” will bring you to the full forum listing.

Clicking your avatar will give you a drop-down menu for all things related to your account.

You can also navigate more by clicking the 3 vertical dots.

Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it in the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.

Save Bookmarks
Now you can save your favorite discussion threads and posts! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.

We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
  • Following - Thread subscriptions, and Watched are now known as Following
  • Conversations - Private Messages or PMs are now conversations and can be accessed from the user avatar drop-down in the main navigation
  • Showcase - Showcase is designed for users to "showcase" items/projects through the use of uploaded images, text descriptions and custom content categories. It’s a way to visually and textually provide detailed information on the content you wish to share. The showcase would be similar to a catalog, whereas the gallery would be like a photo album. It can be accessed from the drop-down menu with the 3 dots.
Take a tour and look around! Check out the Help section for some quick FAQs about the new platform.

Please keep all feedback, questions, concerns, requests for help, etc. regarding the new platform right here in this Feedback thread. This will help us make sure not to miss a request for help and also let us pass along your thoughts to our Product team. The Admins and I will be here to help along the way taking note of your comments.

- Community Management Team
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Is there a way to sign out?
Yes.

Click on your Avatar in the Talk Classical Menu Bar (it's probably next to the three vertical dots)

That will give you a drop down menu, and "Log Out" is at the bottom.
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Is there a way to sign out?
Click on your avatar at the top of the screen and "Log Out" is one of the options.

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QUESTION

How many videos may we embed in a single post/comment?

Not too long ago it was changed from four to five, but I just tried to put four vids in a single comment, and the first two showed up as links only.

Thanks.
Is there any way to access the blogs? Trout's Recommended Recordings blog is very useful for me, and I'm not able to access it any more.

The old link:
Next stop - the flute

Now goes to a random forum post.
Is there any way to access the blogs? Trout's Recommended Recordings blog is very useful for me, and I'm not able to access it any more.

The old link:
Next stop - the flute

Now goes to a random forum post.
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Unfortunately though, the blogs now have a new url, so that means that any old link will not work. On the positive side, the search function in the new lay-out is excellent, so it should be easy ti find any blog you're looking for.
Ah! New features on an old familiar friend. Another reminder that I'm a dinosaur. Fortunately, I can still take comfort in my records, turntable and tubed amplifier. And if I really need to hear somebody's voice, the black rotary phone with the curly cord is close at hand to my listening chair, a vintage "La-Z-Boy" rocker/recliner. Yeah ... I'll be okay.
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Do we have the feature that shows the thread in bold letters when there is a new post you haven't seen?
Do we have the feature that shows the thread in bold letters when there is a new post you haven't seen?
"NEW", in the forum title bar will show all threads with new content. Threads without new content will not show up at all in that list.
Do we have the feature that shows the thread in bold letters when there is a new post you haven't seen?
If you are looking for new posts in threads you are following, click on your avatar in the title bar and then "Following". Threads with new content will show bold.
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I got it straightened out. i signed out of the wrong account and logged in on the correct one. Thank you.
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Where is our "Friends" list?
Where is our "Friends" list?
Click on your avatar in the title bar, then account settings. On the left of the next screen you will see a list of options. One of those is "Following". That pertains to members, not threads and is the equivalent of the old "Friends" list.
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Ah! New features on an old familiar friend. Another reminder that I'm a dinosaur. Fortunately, I can still take comfort in my records, turntable and tubed amplifier. And if I really need to hear somebody's voice, the black rotary phone with the curly cord is close at hand to my listening chair, a vintage "La-Z-Boy" rocker/recliner. Yeah ... I'll be okay.
You might need your zimmer frame too if you're going to stagger round to find what you used to know. I'm getting there...slowly.
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Is there a place that shows who is online, like the bottom of the screen in the previous site?
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I'm a bit sorry that the Community Forum is now the Off-Topic Discussion. It doesn't seem half as welcoming.
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Wow, I must have smoked some really good stuff today. You would not believe what the site looks like to me right now.
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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.
Sorry but I strongly dislike this new software, I find it awkward to navigate. I visit 6 other forums 2 or 3 times daily with no problems, prior to this new software I enjoyed this forum and previously MIMF (which has also moved to this abomination). I don't have problems with ads, I use Adblock plus which works very well.
I note that Fora includes Xenforo software, yet it looks nothing like other Xenforo forums I use.
Until such time as I hear TC is using a better software I will not be visiting.
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It looks good and seems (so far) to be easy to navigate. Well done.

I used to like that you could see who posted the most recent post (and when) in the list of forums/sub-forums and that you could select go to first unread post in any thread. These features seem to be gone?

Also, I do worry about there being a new upper class membership ("Premium"). It is fine to be able to pay to avoid ads but some of the other privileges seems destined to lock ordinary members out of some discussions. I don't like that!
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