Hey guys [I]–until they get this whole issue resolved with getting the names for the poster of a post resolved, might I suggest that you put your forum name in your post title?
As I did there, it will be a way to know who’s posting what.
Now if we can get those old links restored…[&]
'K, I’m confused, why do you need to know before clicking who started the thread? Do you ignore certain individual’s posts?
Once you click on the link, you can clearly see who posted what.
And what do you mean “old links restored”?
Good Idea Karl. I’m sure all things will work out. I logged on this morning and decided to search out some of my threads…Eewwwwe, I still have a grin.
Terry.
Bill, it’s one of the things that many people were complaining about–it helps to identify a certain ongoing WIP when someone changes the original title, like I do, when I post a new update. For instance, I"ll start out with “DML Hetzer” and then change it to “Fighting Compartment finished” and then “Weathering Done” and so on.
Seeing the name of the familiar “regulars” here helps you identify the posts when they change or you don’t have a lot of time and want to locate a certain build.
Dude! Don’t be so cynical! I never ignore anyone here! [:O]
The “old links restored” means all the old bookmarked posts that everyone has to use for reference – all my tutorials, for instance, and others as well that I find very useful–like wbill76’s and scratchmod’s, for instance.
Ah, I see. I confess I never did see the reason for altering the first post name, when you could alter any subsequent post you author.
With all the bellyaching going on today, my cynicism organ is working overtime! Sorry!! That’s why I said I was confused! [A]
Bookmarked posts will be bye-bye, I’m sure. I’ve always just made a browser bookmark direct to each thread I wanted to never lose.
I thought you meant the older posts, which are just “hidden” from the default view.
While I was posting the above response, I noticed that we now have the ability to add tags to the posts. If you were to add “Doog’s Tutorials” (or how about Doogtorial? [:D]) as a tag to your posts, then people could just search for the tag!
This is the biggest loss and snafu, in my opinion. I can’t locate any of my older posts that are before like, say, late November or so? If they weren’t active, they’ve proven impossible to “Search”–I just can’t raise them. Like you, I also had maybe 100 more or so bookmarked?
I can’t find many of the older, important posts. I spent an hour last night fruitlessly fooling around with the Search feature, and got maybe two of my old posts back.
MORE THAN ANYTHING I would like this problem fixed.
Wilco…[Y]
PS…nothing happened today because FSM’s office was closed due to weather…I tried to call
Rounds Complete!!
That may be just how the forum defaults the date filter. In each specific forum (Armor or Aircraft) if you select the “Sorting and Filtering” you can change the date filter from the default “last two months” to forever if you want. That will return ALL the old posts. You’ll have to do that for each forum, I think?
Hi Bill,
It doesn’t appear to really matter how the filtering is configured. we know all the old posts are there, but there certainly appears to be an issue with the search function not finding things that are known to be there.
For example, if you put in M113 or M1A1 into the search box and select “all” as a date criteria for the search, it will only find a handful of what should be thousands of results.
There’s an awful lot of information out there in the forums which is at present not easily accessible because the search function isn’t finding it. I think this needs to be addressed as a matter of priority over other cosmetic/aesthetic issues.
Yeah but…
The search function on the old site didn’t work all that well. I find most search functions on forums to be less than optimal.
I just set Armor to Show all and can access posts from 2002. It’s all still there, just hidden behind a filter that defaults to only the last two months.
The biggest problem with the new forum, as far as Im concerned is I cant open my current WIP thread!!! I did finally after 30 tries and it took a LONG time, nothing I can work with at all, but it’s still there. Can you guys open it?(Clash in Tunisia in Dioramas) Besides to whole laundry list of other huge problems created by this lame changover, that one had really got me unhappy.
Oh and seeing the posters name next to the thread is critical…it’s far more importaint than the title after you get to know the members. It’s not so much a matter of ignoring as it is of there’s only so much time to spend and some members posts I won’t miss, others I can.
Hi Bill,
Yes, I know the search function in the old forum didn’t work too well, and when it did work, what it found was a bit hard to work with (eg. it would find an iteration of the search term and partially display a post, but clicking on it, you might have to search through a 30 page thread to find the exact post).
But this one barely works at all.
Certainly you can see all the posts in a particular forum if you set the appropriate filtering, and you can see all of one’s posts if you click on the xx posts beside their name when you view a user’s profile, but at the moment, searching for specific terms is yielding very few results when we know there should be many more.