Published on 12, July, 2020
Is it just me, or does anyone else have difficulty,sometimes, knowing to whom a comment is directed? This is one of the worst forum software I've used in the 28 years I've been online.
Th' trouble wit youse people is ya justs ain'ts gratefuls!
The trouble with girraffes is that bloody great neck, you cant see over it, makes the riding really difficult...
I agree that the layout isn't the best and can be confusing. I tend to assume that if a comment states it is 'in reply to' a member, then it is generally intended for that person. If the words 'in reply to' aren't visible, then I assume the comment is intended for the member who started the discussion, and/or the community as a whole.
Hopefully, when the current site is eventually updated, the forum layout will be considerably easier to understand.
Unless they have their setting on allowing PMs from anyone
first friend
then PM
Thanks HMO, it should be easy to do with instructions given when you go to the PM icon, which isn't very clear either, it does seem a roundabout way of doing it?
You can send PMs, you just need to add that person as a friend first.
I don't like it at all.
I'd prefer a more traditional message board.
I’m so glad it isn’t just me! I don’t use any other forums so thought I was just not getting it. Thanks for bringing this up firemonkey and to everyone for their thoughts
Yes. It's awful.
When it’s set on “newest” then it has the older ones the further down you go. But then if there’s a reply to a comment then it has the replies below (until it reaches over 3 reply threads then it goes upwards so you have to read the conversation backwards sort of). But they can also get out of order after that 3 replies thing. I don’t know how to explain it very clearly
you can also click the thing at the top of a reply where it says “[time] ago in reply to [person]” and then it will send you to the exact comment they are replying to.
I have come to like it. One thing to make it easier is to set the order to oldest
This will make the uppiti-up-up and down-didi-down down of replies a little less confusing.
No it's not just you, it is truely terrible and confusing, there are conversstions within conversations and it seems several going on at once.
It also seems difficult to contact anyone with a PM, I wonder if they actually want us to discuss things or make friends off site? My impression is they don't and seeing as making friends is difficult for us it seems a bit mean.
Definitely - it's terrible, despite the filtering options.