Site Changes?

Re: Site Changes?

John K Jordan

Dale, did the setting at the right of the menu banner (just under the search box) accidentally get changed from "guestbook" to "single message"?

Re: Site Changes?

Nick Stagg

Are you kidding me???

I've been on this site almost every day for 10 years and I didn't know that you could read ALL the responses at once . All this time I've been clicking on each response!!

Thanks for the tip!!

Sheesh! +1 Me too, Exactly

Re: Site Changes?

John Veerkamp

This will happen if your cookies got deleted . You will need to change it to guestbook for each forum here.

Re: Site Changes?

TomD

It is cool theyhave the choice I guess, but what gets me is why the Guestbook isn, t the default. Does anyone want to have to go forward and backwards just to read the next message. If it is key to ad views, well the site needs to be supported somehow.

Re: Site Changes?

John K Jordan

> ...why the Guestbook isn, t the default.

I agree. The only value I can imagine is the ability to quickly scan the thread titles and poster names either to pick-and-choose (to avoid a lot of scrolling) or to see which messages are responses to particular messages (a weakness in this forum design). However, both of these are available in the Index view.

BTW, I use these parameters in each forum:

- Threaded List

- Guestbook

- UBB Order

JKJ

Re: Sheesh! +1 Me too, Exactly

Don Orr

Duuuh-me too. Thanks for learnin me sumthin today.

Never saw that before.

Re: Perhaps designed for early modem speeds

Dave Paine

TetraBBS has been around a long time. Bulletin boards date back to when modems were the likes of 300 BPS. Back then we needed to see the titles since it would take too long to display everything.

I expect TetraBBS just did not change the conservative default.

I leave my default at single, even though I have decent broadband speed. I like to see the titles and decide which reply to read.

Re: Perhaps designed for early modem speeds

John K Jordan

>TetraBBS has been around a long time. Bulletin boards date back

>to when modems were the likes of 300 BPS.

That is an excellent point. I remember my first BBS access was with a homemade modem at 110 baud using a refurbished teletype as a terminal. Chunka-chunka-chunka... Later I built a CRT monitor from a kit and got a 300 baud modem - wow!

Can you imagine browsing today's text- and image-bloated web pages over those speeds?!

JKJ

Re: Site Changes?

Dale Gillaspy

Yep, that was it....I guess you have to be 3% smarter than whatever it is you are working with. Looks like I didn't pass that test....thanks John.

Re: Site Changes?

Robert Lalonde

Me too! What a great tip. Thanks.

Re: Site Changes?

Dick Hines

Well.That sure makes life easier.

Guestbook default

Ellis Walentine

I'm looking into changing the default setting from single message to guestbook. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ellis

Re: Site Changes?

AZ in Colorado Springs

Oh, how cool. I never knew of the guest book setting. Awesome

FWIW...

GaryG in MD

I far prefer the "strategic" view provided by "single message" mode.

I hate scrolling, and I read only those replies which I actively choose. ...GG

Re: FWIW...

John K Jordan

>I hate scrolling, and I read only those replies which I actively choose

I'm glad the options are there! (Plus the other options in "Set Preferences")

I also like to pick and choose, but I'm satisfied with doing it from the Index mode. The same information is there and clicking on a chosen reply brings it up plus a few before and after. An Alt-arrow or click to go back to the index. The only thing that is missing doing it this way is the highlight on the message. But even with the single message mode I found it somewhat annoying to have to constantly scroll up and down between that message text and the threaded list of titles/names/dates below. For me, scrolling down a long thread is easier. Now I would certainly hate it if I scrolled with a mouse...

But I do see the value and sometimes switch to the single message mode when picking through very long threads, especially if it is a long thread I haven't been following.

I suspect much is what we get used to. For years I was lead tech support and moderator on a major 3D graphics/animation forum - I used that board so much that I began to hate anything that was different! This board does have some peculiarities but I like it better than some others I visit these days.

JKJ

Re: Guestbook default

Bill Blasic

That would be great Ellis.

Re: FWIW...

Stuart Johnson

I use posted since last visit, threaded list, single message, oldest first. It takes just a minute with a ctrl, click to open as many as I want in new tabs. The next time I come back I only see new posts.

Re: Site Changes?

Don Tewell

Nick, me too. I think I like this a lot better.