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My first impressions. What I like:

 

1) I like the Kudo icon being closer to the posting user, makes it more obvious. But I think it would still help for the Icon to be labeled with "Give Kudo" or something like that.

 

2) I like the Reply button being near the bottom of the post. This helps particularly for the longer posts so you don't have to scroll back up.

 

3) I like the overall look and feel in general better than it was previously.

 

What I don't like:

 

1) As someone said above the default font appears to be a bit small. Though it works for me since I tend to use pretty small fonts anyway, it could stand to be increased 1 or 2 sizes.

 

2) Hitting Cancel sometimes takes you back to the wrong page! In just about 20 minutes of doing a bit of testing I have found that if you reply to a post and then hit Cancel, it sometimes takes you back to the wrong page. In a couple of cases already I responded to a post, hit Cancel and it took me back to my PROFILE page instead of the thread! In another case hitting Cancel actually took me back to a different thread altogether!

 

3) PM Icon - as someone said above, sorry but this is bad. Many users were missing the indicator that they had a PM as it was, now unfortunately it will be FAR easier to miss than before. It is simply too small and there is NO indicator of a PM except a tiny number changes to 1 or something. I sent myself a few test PM's and this just does not work, way too easy to miss.

 

4) Tags - I miss having a snapshot of my tags on my main profile page. Now I have to hit My Settings > Tagging > Tags to see my list of tags. Can't we go back to having this on the main profile page? Or at the very least have a link which takes you directly to your full tag list?

 

5) Attachments vs Images - I and others had suggested before either having images be able to be uploaded via the Add Attachments link (and somehow added to the workflow for getting approved by a moderator) or at the least having better help available so that users know the difference between the two and which one to use. I'm not seeing much/if any change here. The natural inclination will be to hit Add Attachments even for images, intead of the green tree symbol. If you add a JPG from Add Attachments you don't know there is a problem until you hit Post and then it tells you that you have a bad extension but offers NO help on how to attach the image properly.

 

6) When you hit Reply and then write your reply and hit Post, it takes you back to the beginning of the page instead of to the post from which you hit Reply like it did before. A bit annoying. :smileysurprised:

 

I'll add more as I have a chance to look around more.

 

Thanks

Allen

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Is it just me or does the color suddenly change after the first few lines of my last post?

 

Looks kind of silly. :smileywink:

 

Allen

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My last post did the color thing again.

 

Why does it seem that only MY posts are changing to a bright yellow color after the first few lines??

 

OK, now I'm really confused! After I edited the post following my LONG post, the color change in the large post went away but my next post then had a color change.

 

Then I edited the second one after my long post, and the color change on my previous post then went away! It seems like the last post in a series that I do has a color change. So now THIS post has a color change after the first few lines.

 

Is this by design or something?

 

Thanks

Allen

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We've been robbed on the Reply Editor toolbar! Where is my Indent / Unindent tool that I use in most messages to differentiate extracts and instructions ....

 

Maybe the numbered indents work now?

 

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  • Four
  • Five
  • Six

Well that's something but I want my indent back.

 

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    are duplicated above and below the message you are reading in Threaded VIew anyway but the ones you use most

     

     

     when you are in a thread are only below the message so often out of sight and needing scrolling.

     

    Part of Spell check button is behind Preview.

     

    Plus all the other points, especially the PM icon.

      NOTE Tony -- Invalid HTML coding flag has NOT been fixed ......
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    AllenM wrote:

    My last post did the color thing again.

     

    Why does it seem that only MY posts are changing to a bright yellow color after the first few lines??

     

    OK, now I'm really confused! After I edited the post following my LONG post, the color change in the large post went away but my next post then had a color change.

     

    Then I edited the second one after my long post, and the color change on my previous post then went away! It seems like the last post in a series that I do has a color change. So now THIS post has a color change after the first few lines.

     

    Is this by design or something?

     

    Thanks

    Allen

     

    This sounds like which post has focus in the thread.     Experiment with with the options menu and 'Highlight this post' and see if you can duplicate the effect.   Remember the post with focus is the one that will be highlighted if you you the current URL in a link.

     

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    My guess is that the yellow/orangy color was to show  that you were reading the new/unread post. That's what it appears to me anyway, cause after I read it, it goes away and sometimes there will be more than one unread post and those will have it also.

     

    {Edit} After trying out a couple things... I assumed it was new post indicator.. Cause I click to jump to the newest posts from the main page. But in reality it is just as Allen_K describes. It's just  means that a particular post is recieving the focus.

     

    As for someone mentioning the "Mark all read" on the main community page....There is a link for it on the main page, scroll down and on the right there will be "Quick Links" that will have the links to mark all read or unread.

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    Is anyone else missing their image gallery? How are we supposed to access and modify our images unless it's through some complicated URL-modifying process in the browser's address bar?

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    Hi Allen,

     

    The problem was that I did NOT select Highlight from the options menu except for just now after you suggested playing around with it.

     

    Rayofsunshine, thanks but I don't think this explains it. First I was in fact the poster which means my post by definition cannot be new. Secondly, if that were the reason then a page refresh should have eliminated the color change but it does NOT.

     

    EDIT: So NOW that I posted a brand new reply the color change on my previous post went away finally! Something definitely not quite right here.

     

    Once you refresh the page, the post is no longer new.

     

    Thanks

    Allen

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    Hi Yaso,

     

    Yes you are correct. I am not seeing it either. :smileysurprised:

     

    Allen

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    We are aware of the Image Gallery issue and it will be resolved shortly, although probably not today.

    You can still add images to your gallery by uploading an image in a post.

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    AllenM wrote:

     

    The problem was that I did NOT select Highlight from the options menu except for just now after you suggested playing around with it.

     

     

    As before, one post in the thread always has focus, perhaps with the gradients it's just more obvious which post is highlighted now.

     

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    shannons wrote:

    We are aware of the Image Gallery issue and it will be resolved shortly, although probably not today.

    You can still add images to your gallery by uploading an image in a post.

     

    Thanks, Shannon. Nice smiley ;-D

     

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    Concerning the avatars, we have preserved your old avatar if you wish to continue using it. The new avatars are larger, hence the reason the (old)avatar is positioned in the right hand corner and filled in with gray.

     

    Note:  Once you change your old avatar, you can not get it back.

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    New font size for forum listings and topic listings in Norton Community is WAY TOO SMALL--

    -Please change it back to the way it was, which was just right.

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    Changes    Changes   Changes

    Where's my line thing that I finally learned how to use when I wanted to copy what someone said from another post.??? Looks like I am going to have to try and learn a new method again.:(

    Looks like we going to have to change our macros that say to post your attachment right under the post button. I will have to remember to do make those changes........

    Under the attachments space, it now says Remove....Is that to remove your post or the attachment?

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     Need more contrast between some of the text and background.

    i.e. darker font color's

    A bit ' wishy washy ' in places.

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    Hi all:

     

    This Forum update makes everything look much smaller.

     

    I actually have to squint now, compared to the previous version of the Forum Software. :smileysad:

     

    Three things that stand out:

     

    1) The small KUDOS icon on the left hand side is not complete, only 2/3 of it is displayed. There isn't any text displayed that could elict a response from a user even to give it. Just looks like a yellow background white a white star.

     

     What about changing KUDOS to "CLICK TO COMPLIMENT HERE?"

     

    2) The indicator lights for friends/users online or offline are practically indistinguishable. I now have to read the actual text, which IMO, is very confusing.

     

    3) The Solution button is too close to the adjoining button and is of the same color  and size - hard to differentiate - one misplaced click and that's it.

     

    New things take time to refine.

     

    Just my opinion... :0)

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    Changes are always hard to adjust to.....Can I ask are there more improvements coming or is this it and now we just wait for the fine tuning as issues come up?

    Darn I did not realize I have now lost my little kitty for ever...with my avatar change:smileysad:(not that bad:smileywink:)

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    Hi everyone,

     

    I'm very sorry for the problems you've been seeing with the update. We're working hard to address all of these issues quickly. We should be getting some new features soon, which is why we wanted to upgrade to this newer version. Thanks for your patience and your feedback on the problems.

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    No need to apologize you told us this was going to happen and there are always teething problems at the start.I appreciate that you listen to us and do make changes that we like.

    cheers