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Functionality of this forum ?

Turtle

Hi, fairly new to the forum and still trying to find my way around so just wondering can someone answer the following concerns ?   : 

1. Is there somewhere in the main menu of NAS that takes you directly to this Community/discussion/forum ?

2. I've noticed that if wanting to reply to a discussion there are, most of the time either, no means to do so or, at best you can only reply generally to the OP.

3. Sometimes you can and cannot reply to the OP but there are no means to reply back to individuals because there is no ' reply ' tab showing for either or, or both. 

4. There doesn't seem to be a ' Home ' tab to get back to the main discussion/forum/community page after visiting your own profile page or that of others for example. 

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  • In response to Deepthought.

    Thanks for taking the time to explain your solutions. Very much appreciated.  Unfortunately, there is often no main reply tab visible but thankfully and eventually, it did make an appearance here so I could reply. Are you saying there is a specific way to activate this if not showing on screen ?

    Regarding replying to individuals, I have tried your method and I think it may have been successful only on the first individual response though not on any others.

    With your vote suggestion I didn't see any difference at all.

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  • In response to Deepthought.

    Thanks for taking the time to explain your solutions. Very much appreciated.  Unfortunately, there is often no main reply tab visible but thankfully and eventually, it did make an appearance here so I could reply. Are you saying there is a specific way to activate this if not showing on screen ?

    Regarding replying to individuals, I have tried your method and I think it may have been successful only on the first individual response though not on any others.

    With your vote suggestion I didn't see any difference at all.

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  • in reply to Turtle
    Turtle said:
    Thanks for taking the time to explain your solutions. Very much appreciated.  Unfortunately, there is often no main reply tab visible but thankfully and eventually, it did make an appearance here so I could reply. Are you saying there is a specific way to activate this if not showing on screen ?

    I was not stating as much but the next logical progression is that it would be the case, with the basic gist being that the system treats everybody as a visitor to this website of forums, rather than as a signed in member ~ until that is we activate something at the top of page; such as I have just discovered applies also with the forum search engine involving the 'magnifying-glass' icon to the bottom-right of the top panel:

    It seems to be a case of having to (in figurative terms) 'wake the webpage system up' by activating something at the top of the page and scrolling down and up to whatever extent, and thereby triggering membership functionality rather than just remaining as if a visitor.  
    Turtle said:
    Regarding replying to individuals, I have tried your method and I think it may have been successful only on the first individual response though not on any others.
    Well at least it may of been one improvement, and one can only hope perhaps that more will follow.
    Turtle said:
    With your vote suggestion I didn't see any difference at all.

    It all appears to depend on which technological device one has.

  • in reply to Turtle

    I'm sometimes finding that scrolling to the very bottom of the page and then back up to where you want to reply makes the buttons appear.

    I'm pretty disgusted with the functionality of this forum - it's a technology that was completely sorted in the mid '90s - so how come this recent update is sooooooo useless?