I was pleased to see the list of notifications wasn't so spread out. Thought it was a return to old version. But now you can't mark as read only selected messages which you'll have read when you go through the whole post. Now you can only mark ALL as read. To go through and read each one separately will take forever. I've had trouble keeping up as it is, but at least I could read a post, then mark as read all the other notifications for that post. Going through one by one will take forever. I give up.
Yes, this is the latest inconvenience but it only happened to me late this afternoon. All was ok at lunch time. What on earth is the point of all these changes. Does somebody get badges for winding up the customers?
I'm sure they are doing their best with limited resources. Sigh.
Anhaga, using only my cellphone I just read and reply. This new forum format has produced some new challenges. No more capitalization start of a sentence. No have the of the name of the person you are responding to. but who cares!!!!
I sent an appeal to Moderator today pleading for the original format to be reinstated. No joy so far but this arrangement is tedious. If someone would give an explanation for these infuriating changes I could be more accepting but they just seem to happen arbitrarily.
The point I made in my appeal is that, formerly, we could click on the latest post in any thread and the older, as yet unread, posts would come up then could all be marked as read in one go. Now we have to go through them all individually. Why?
Yup - that has just registered with me. What a b£**%^ pain!!!!!
I have just been through the entire amkoffee thread - but I can't delete them as read. Back to my emails. I've been on holiday and have some 200 posts on both forums to catch up with. What with the HU forum email notifications not working at all (no direct link to the post) I have had to work through every single thread and read them all to find replies even to me. And now this.
Seriously thinking about retiring...
The capitalization is driving me mad. I notice a lot of people just give up and carry on in caps!
Oh no, Eileen. You can't retire. And if you can't make head nor tail of it there's no hope for me.
I noticed that too. I thought it was me. The typing has become very odd and parts are appearing where they shouldn't. If I offend somebody I apologise in advance as I may not notice. I keep correcting it but it's driving me up the wall.
please don't give up Anhaga...I agree it's SO frustrating...but you're needed here!
If they bring back a more functional version of the "mark as read" page I'll be very very happy. I just feel so discouraged now. For example, a few more notifications and this reply of yours would have disappeared onto the next page and I wouldn't be able to see it until I'd opened more recent posts. (insert "rolling eyes" emoticon here)
I don't bother with Notifications and have opted out of receiving emails about them; I log onto the forum on desktop computer and then decide which topics I want to look at
The header indicates how many replies have been made and when the last one was, that's sufficient info for me.
That is what I have always done. My point is I have now read all of the replies to a very long post, and I would like to mark them as read without having to go back into the thread for each message, but can only do that by deleting all on the page - not all of which are in that particular thread and I may not have read those yet. You used to be able to go through and mark as read any post or reply and it was a good way of keeping on top of things. This is a very active forum and I follow all the posts. I'm now literally days behind in getting rid of read posts and replies because I simply haven't got the time. To make matters worse I can't scroll to the next page as that option's gone too.
I feel discouraged, too Anhaga. I'm going to have to at least take a holiday from here unless things improve. I may be retired and old but I do still have a life to lead and need more time to lead it these days.
Just to add to my joy I've just had to un-install and re-install Google Chrome which just refused to open. Not connected with problems here. Sorry if that's a digression but I need to, as my sister says, throw a strop somewhere.
I can understand the wish to throw a strop. I know of someone who when they answer their phone tells me they are at their computer and just want to throw it out the window. I half expect them to tell me they have a broken and at least I'll know the reason.
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gotcha! I've had the same problem in being "lucky" enough to catch a reply before it fell into Cyberspace!! (insert whatever emoji you feel appropriate!!😵😝😱)
Like Anhaga I read every post - I have just been away for a week or so and have a couple of hundred posts between the 2 forums to catch up on despite having been able to do quite a bit while away. By a quick check at my email notification I may not bother going to the forum - but I do look at everything. Otherwise I can't be sure I've offered an opinion on something important - now that may be me being very arrogant about my own importance but it has been my charitable work for the last 10 years.
I do realise that not everyone is so keen - but when I have just written a treatise on a topic and a regular contributor asks about the same thing again a couple of days later I do feel a tad aggrieved they hadn't looked at the last post. And now the forum has this ridiculous "nesting" it isn't a case of just going to the end of the thread and working back to the last post you read as it used to be - new replies can be in the middle of the thread and must be looked for.
I would love to see the notification pane reintroduce to that rather useless space to the right of my computer screen so I don't have to toggle back and forwards between displays. It really is infuriating when there were some really good things a year or so ago that have been chucked out with the bathwater - twice now.
New, improved???? Is it heck...
I wanted to report my own post for feedback - and I can only report it as "Inappropriate". Which it isn't. That's another new backward step unless my memory has gone...