Love the new format,find it much easier to read etc! One problem and I'm computer dumb so bear with me! I can't figure out how to post a new topic! Someone please tell me, but gently, my self esteem is already at a low point just having to ask!
It's now a multi-step process. Click the POST in the upper right of the topic listing of each forum and you'll get this selection. Obviously, you want to then click Topic to post a new topic.
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I like the new look a lot better, both on phone and PC. The avatars are large enough to actually see whom is pictured in it and the when using the phone the list doesn't go all the way back to the top after viewing a post. Two thumbs up from me.
Many thanks John, always enjoy your posts, and you have preserved what's left of my self-esteem !!!
OGR Webmaster posted:.... but I did write a lot of COBOL code back in another life.....
Hmmmm..... I remember having a different life like that with Assembly language, and Cobol, and Fortran, and PL/1, and Algol 60, and then I decided not to go into a computer science career.....
BTW, everything is much improved on the home PC both visually and functionally. But on the Kindle Fire which is what I use when traveling --> still has no visible or functioning tool bar - just a blue band and none of the tool bar on posting / replying to posts....
Sorry John, I am using a not so smart phone and I am not showing the screen set up you sent. I too am getting just a blue bar with topic on it no post as you show! My wife will try to figure it out for me. She is a former special ed teacher which is one of the reasons I married her! I need patience and nurturing!
I strictly do the forum on a real computer, trying to deal with a tiny phone screen is just too painful for any long term enjoyment. In addition, how could I type decent sized replies using a glass keyboard. 
Got it John, thanks so much for taking the time! Problem now is I forgot what I wanted to post! Lol
On Mac safari 5.1.1, if it matters, anyone else not have a 'next' button to go to the next page of replies anymore? is this on purpose, or another glitch? Guess I'm used to having a the links something like: "First page, 1, 2, 3, ... Last page, Next page"
Never mind all appears to be working right again.
Looks quite different on iPad but I'll get used to it.
I forget what model this is but OS version is latest & greatest.
I have a strange solution to one problem. In Firefox 42 I went to Tools/Options/Content/Colors. Changed the override to always. Now all my forum visits are highlighted-posts, topics, menu bar. But, and I mean but, the colors are gone from the Firefox options box where I originally changed it. It's all black and white, no colors in the option block. I also have nothing but white background as I am typing this. Menu Bar is only blue type, as are screen names. Ads are all colors and so are some posted pictures. Bottom Menu Bar is blue with white letters. If someone could tell me how to do a screen shot, I could demonstrate. So I have highlighted visits, but lost a lot. Other web sites seem similar. I don't know if this will help fix the problem, but I am just offering it in case it helps get it back like it used to be.
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David, are you using an iPhone 4 or a 4S? It could make a difference.
Rich, just a basic iPhone 4. Do you think that's too old a device to be compatible with this new forum software?
For the record, I ran into another glitch on the iPhone4 today too. When I looked at Mike Reagan's response to a question I posed in the "Ask Mike" thread, he included a PDF attachment. When I tapped on it expecting it to open, nothing happened. Interestingly, when I clicked on the "Hide Attachment" button, the attachment disappeared and was replaced with a "Show Attachment" button. However, when I tapped on that button, I couldn't get anything else to work on that page. Seemed to freeze up solid. My only option was to hit the "back" arrow in the browser. That got me back to where I could do something with Safari again. 
BTW, on my Mac desktop, when I click on the PDF attachment, it is saved immediately to my downloads folder. I'm pretty sure with the old software, it would open the PDF using Adobe Reader... and that's what typically happens by default with other web applications. Sometimes I'm presented with a screen with two options: open with Adobe Reader, or save the file to disk. Never got that option here... it just downloaded the attachment to disk after clicking on the attachment filename in the post.
David
I don't know if an iPhone 4 is too old or not. I'll ask the Hoopla guys. I will also run that PDF scenario by them. What you have described doesn't sound right.
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Submitted to Hoopla Tech Support a few minutes ago.
This is why we need green in the text color chart. "Go Green"
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so i guess its time to upgrade my phone....
OGR Webmaster posted:jason.b.swann@gmail.com
THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE!
Hoopla Version 2 is a major upgrade to this forum software. The upgrade will change this forum to a "Responsive Design" which means it RESPONDS to the screen size you are using to view the forum and displays the pages properly on your smaller device. Using the forum on smaller tablets and phones will become MUCH easier.
NICE! Eexcept for the hard to read blue letters on a blue background.
Where are you seeing blue letters on a blue background? I don't have those colors set anywhere.
Yes, one of my favorite things the new version does on my I phone is that when looking at a thread while you are into a topic and you are finished with that particular thread, you hit the back button and it does not revert all the way back to the top of the topic list.
This is my first time on the forum since the upgrade, although I was already signed in on my home computer I do not see a tab to sign in when I use another device I may not have used before. Did I miss the tab?
My problem is I post this. Then I get back on some time later and of course this post has "fallen off" the column of the main page and I can't find it. I listed an item for sale prior to the update and if anyone did respond I have no clue.
HOW DO I FIND MY PAST POSTINGS?
I like the new forum, the only problem I have & I had it with the old version is when I click on first unread post I don't always get the first unread post & have to scroll up to find the first one. This happens mainly on a new post & it will go to the last post instead of the first post, & when it is an old topic & a new post shows up. When that happens it will go to a post that may of been posted in January instead of today. I read the forum every day so that should not cause the probleml
Any help would be appreciated
Ken M
Kudos for any attempts at improvement. Old one was great for me but I love the new look and I'm sure it will work on my Vic 20. Hahaha. Thanks again.
John C. posted:HOW DO I FIND MY PAST POSTINGS?
Rich,
You've made terrific progress with the adjustments, thank you! I do have a question about posting pictures. When I post from my iPad 3, unless my picture is very small (anything under 1.5MB) it just says uploading..., when I post a 4MB picture from my Macbook Pro, it loads immediately. Can you ask Hoopla if this is a known issue?
Thanks,
Andy
Ken M posted:I like the new forum, the only problem I have & I had it with the old version is when I click on first unread post I don't always get the first unread post & have to scroll up to find the first one.
This is the way it's supposed to work. When you click on a thread in the Recent Posts list, it will take you to the most recent post in that thread. It has been that way since day 1.
Steamfan77 posted:Rich,
You've made terrific progress with the adjustments, thank you! I do have a question about posting pictures. When I post from my iPad 3, unless my picture is very small (anything under 1.5MB) it just says uploading..., when I post a 4MB picture from my Macbook Pro, it loads immediately. Can you ask Hoopla if this is a known issue?
Thanks,
Andy
Submitted to Hoopla Tech Support...
OGR Webmaster posted:I don't know if an iPhone 4 is too old or not. I'll ask the Hoopla guys. I will also run that PDF scenario by them. What you have described doesn't sound right.
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Thanks Rich. I noticed a similar glitch using my iPad (2nd generation). I was able to toggle the hide/show attachment button just fine, but nothing happens when I click on the attachment itself. Pretty certain I could view a PDF attachment with the older version of forum sofware.
Anybody else running into this? Check out Trainworld's "Ask Mike Reagan" thread, and see his answer to my question about 18" aluminum passenger cars.
David
David, I just successfully downloaded that PDF on my iPad 2. It behaved exactly as I expected it to, offering me the option to open it in iBooks or Goodreader, which is another app I have on my IPad for managing PDF files.
I also tried this on my wife's old iPad 1 and it worked OK there, too. A little slower, but it worked.
Ken M posted:I like the new forum, the only problem I have & I had it with the old version is when I click on first unread post I don't always get the first unread post & have to scroll up to find the first one. This happens mainly on a new post & it will go to the last post instead of the first post, & when it is an old topic & a new post shows up. When that happens it will go to a post that may of been posted in January instead of today. I read the forum every day so that should not cause the probleml
Any help would be appreciated
Ken M
Try clicking on the NEW in the forum index next to the thread, it'll take you to the last unread post as you expect. If you click on the title, it takes you to the first post in the thread. AFIAK, that always worked that way.
eddiem posted:eddiem posted:eddiem posted:Rich,
Any way to add the forum that each RECENT POST is in, so it would look like this?
THE FORUM UPGRADE
1 minute ago [in the Hi-Rail, O27 and Traditional 3-Rail O Gauge Forum]
That would be very helpful and probably just needs a field added in the Recent posts subroutine...
Ed
Fingers Crossed.......
Still hoping.....
Rich, Any chance of this happening?
There should be a widget for Recent Posts. Seems like adding a variable that stores forum name would do it. The variable would be near where the Topic Title is stored....
This is where it happens.... in a widget (subroutine) named "widget h-forum-topics-widget"
<aside class="h-widget-section">
<div id="widgetSection">
<div id="widget_46059622109215640" class="widget h-forum-topics-widget">
<div id="widgetBox_46059622109215640" class="widget-box">
<header class="widget-header">
<h3>RECENT POSTS</h3>
</header>
<div class="small-font h-widget-body">
<div class="line-item margin-bottom-15 h-widget-topic-row"><div class="row">
<div class="small-12 columns text-left break-word">
<div class="line-item"><a href="https://ogrforum.com/topic/will-this-change-your-thinking-about-smoke-fluid?reply=lastReply#lastReply">Will this affect your choice of whose smoke fluid to use?</a><br/>
<time datetime="2015-12-06T16:20:32" class="datetime h-widget-row-date"><span title="12/6/15 11:20 AM">8 seconds ago</span></time> * Which forum it's from info goes here *
Ed
OGR Webmaster posted:David, I just successfully downloaded that PDF on my iPad 2. It behaved exactly as I expected it to, offering me the option to open it in iBooks or Goodreader, which is another app I have on my IPad for managing PDF files.
I also tried this on my wife's old iPad 1 and it worked OK there, too. A little slower, but it worked.
Hmmm... interesting and puzzling... I don't have anything like iBooks or Goodreader loaded on my iPad -- just whatever Apple includes to support viewing PDF files. I've kept the iPad fairly vanilla. So I will double-check the iOS level I'm running... may be V7.x or something and I see iOS 9.x is more "current". Perhaps that has something to do with it? Will post any change of status here later tonight.
David
David, are you sure you don't have iBooks? I think it comes standard on the iPad. If you don't have another PDF app, I think a downloaded PDF automatically goes into iBooks.
My wife's old iPad 1 is running IOS 4.3, so I don't think an older OS is the problem.
WEBMASTER:
WHY am I getting all these individual reply messages? All I want is a daily digest!
OGR Webmaster posted:David, I just successfully downloaded that PDF on my iPad 2. It behaved exactly as I expected it to, offering me the option to open it in iBooks or Goodreader, which is another app I have on my IPad for managing PDF files.
I also tried this on my wife's old iPad 1 and it worked OK there, too. A little slower, but it worked.
Did did you find on the iPad1 it was slow to refresh and sluggish when scrolling down a long posting? I also have an iPad mini and everything is fine for a later model.
Also, with the early generation iPad I found that when I pressed 'take action' it just throws me totally off the forum. Is this something that members using older iPads are going to have to accept or is it something Hoopla can have a look at?
I think the selection I copied below on the bottom of the page needs to be right after the advertising as well or ad search inside the white bar with HOME / FORUM LIST / THE FORUM UPGRADE / EDIT REPLY / SEARCH.
I like to search the site and having to find it after the page loads is a pain.
Kent Loudon posted:WEBMASTER:
WHY am I getting all these individual reply messages? All I want is a daily digest!
Go to your profile and change your email preferences to Daily Digest. This is not something that I can do nor is it something that has anything to do with this upgrade.
Ukaflyer posted:Did did you find on the iPad1 it was slow to refresh and sluggish when scrolling down a long posting? I also have an iPad mini and everything is fine for a later model.
Also, with the early generation iPad I found that when I pressed 'take action' it just throws me totally off the forum. Is this something that members using older iPads are going to have to accept or is it something Hoopla can have a look at?
I did not see either of these behaviors on the old iPad 1. EVERYTHING was slower on it, which is to be expected. However, everything worked OK.
Ukaflyer posted:Did did you find on the iPad1 it was slow to refresh and sluggish when scrolling down a long posting? I also have an iPad mini and everything is fine for a later model.
Also, with the early generation iPad I found that when I pressed 'take action' it just throws me totally off the forum. Is this something that members using older iPads are going to have to accept or is it something Hoopla can have a look at?
I did not see either of these behaviors on the old iPad 1. EVERYTHING was slower on it, which is to be expected. However, everything worked OK.
The iPad I have has an OS of 5.1.1 which is the last available one for this model. The slowness on it was not on the old version of the forum and everything else I go to is still OK.
If I use the post reply button that is fine, just the take action it has a hissy with. I can just flip between the two when needed.
ADCX Rob posted:John C. posted:HOW DO I FIND MY PAST POSTINGS?
Thank you! At least I can enjoy the Forum at home. This upgrade totally screwed up my phone. When I get on the board my connection literally dies--it disconnects and I'm taken off of the Internet.
Rich - while I'm still getting used to the 'new' forum layout, I think it is an improvement (at least as viewed on my Mac computer monitor). I do have a couple of suggestions for you to consider - one thing the old forum version had was a change in the font color for the titles of posts already viewed. I find/found that to be useful, especially if I was tracking posts that are of interest and wanted to see what new information had been added. It made it easier to pick out those posts I had already opened.
A second observation/suggestion - the 'Recent posts' column on the right hand side of the screen takes up a lot of real estate width-wise. On my monitor (12.25 " high x 21.75 " wide) its about 1/3 of the screen. I don't remember the previous version taking up that much of the width. Since the post titles already wrap to the next line, you could consider making the column narrower, as there is a fair amount of vertical space between the entries. Maybe this is something within my control? If so, I don't know how to adjust it.
another Rich
