wb47 posted:In the old format, I could find threads that I had posted to They could be found by clicking on my profile. I can't seem to find this now. Can anyone help me on this? Thanks
I was looking for this too. It's still there. Go to your Profile page, then just below the avatar click on Activity for your posts.
Well Done Rich I have had too many go live days in my life so I understand the process. Looks good to me and I will be use to it by the time we get the weekend photo topic up tomorrow morning.
Sleep better tonight Rich you deserve it.
The contrast colors are much improved and considerably easier on older eyes - font sizes throughout are still too small in almost every area still making it a challenge. For example, all of the stuff in the Recent Posts column is too small. I've got a pretty large screen monitor and it's set at 130% and that helps on the actual posts.
Hi Rich,
Now I know why you get the “big bucks” and you are really earning them yesterday and today. Thank you for all of your efforts in refining the semi-disaster Hoopla created. I really appreciate all the effort you and your staff put into this site and the OGR magazine.
Please reinstate the ICONS showing each of the various forums. They are distinctive, standout, and are much easier to use than having to scroll through a list of “near look a likes” to find the forum you want to use. If they are there and I am missing them on a desktop, please advise. Thanks in advance.
BREAKING NEWS! Just got an email from the Pope. He says he can canonize and raise to sainthood any individual through whose intersession two miracles occur. He added that if through your intersession with the “Hoopla demons” and this site is “cured” - you only have one more miracle to go.
It's hard for me to get used to. Every time some programmer changes things to what they think is better, it seems worse for me. Now I have to make several clicks to edit a reply instead of one. I am not liking the look of the thing either. The text box is so small, you have to scroll to see your entire reply. 
I'll admit, it does look and work better on my smarty-phone than the old forum.
As far as the desktop computer: Much better than yesterday afternoon, especially on the eyes. Even spellchecker is working now on Firefox.
Still not quite used to everything, but I'm working things out.
Rusty
For me the Blue text on a gray backround is hard to see. I suffer from AMD and the new format is definitely more difficult to see for me. Hope you can find a way to help
It looks good to me Rich! Though I would have to agree that the topic likes should be at the top of the page if possible.
Much improved, Thanks! 
C&O Allie posted:Rich,
First off, thanks for working on this - I know it's a big job when upgrades such as this happen. Would it be possible to put dividers between the Forum Lists as well as the different topics, maybe like below? I think it would help greatly with the readability of the forum and finding information.
Allan, you nailed it! You put into visual form what I am suggestion is missing from the pages.
This simple thing of delineation makes a HUGE difference in ease of use and on the eyes when scanning the page for topics to read.
Again, thanks Rich for working your behind off to get Hoop.la to come around for all of us!
I like the overall format, like the font style and overall feel - Very Apple. Clean - simple - bright
Nicely done - Hey Lionel - Hey MTH - Hey Atlas - look at this site - one click
Thought I should take a minute and provide some positive feedback as I was very critical 24 hours ago. The boxes, gray background and the wider formatting are all notable user friendly improvements, Thanks very much Rich, for responding to our complaints so quickly. Chris A
Looks good to me!
I'm trying to keep an open mind about this, but tis difficult. If this question has been answered I missed it. Why aren't the posts marked as read anymore. It is quite frustrating trying to remember what you have seen and what you haven't. A bolder type face would not be unwelcome for older eyes.
Thanks,
George Lasley
Goerge I said the samething last night and have not got a reply from Rich yet!
Yes, it's all very pretty, are there any directions that come with this? Can anyone tell me where I can find the layout building section? Thanks, Rich
Just a side thought--anyway to increase the font size of the header/labels/subtitles/ whatchamacallits?
Is there a search feature? I cannot find it. Very useful.
I may have missed this - what is the significance of the red dot and blue circle next to our names?
Personally, I like the look of the old site much better. I think it was easier to navigate.
JDA posted:Personally, I like the look of the old site much better. I think it was easier to navigate.
I understand you are frustrated, but comments like this serve no useful purpose here. If you have something specific to share as to your preferences, what you like, what you DON'T like, etc. that's fine and I want to hear that.
Lionel Grandpa posted:I may have missed this - what is the significance of the red dot and blue circle next to our names?
It indicates if that member is on-line. Red Dot = On Line. Blue Circle = not on line.
George Lasley posted:I'm trying to keep an open mind about this, but tis difficult. If this question has been answered I missed it. Why aren't the posts marked as read anymore. It is quite frustrating trying to remember what you have seen and what you haven't. A bolder type face would not be unwelcome for older eyes.
This is something that was not included in this new design. I have contacted Hoopla tech about how to add CSS to put it back in.
chessie1971 posted:Goerge I said the same thing last night and have not got a reply from Rich yet!
Chessie, I guess I missed your post. Sorry.
Bob Shaw posted:Is there a search feature? I cannot find it. Very useful.
The search icon is just to the right of the Terms of Service item in the blue tool bar at the top. Looks like a little magnifying glass.
Rich, Two other suggestions for consideration..... I would like to see the Post Topic on the first line, and the "buttons" for Open, Closed, New, Replies underneath the Title... The Post/Thread Title would stand out better and be easier to scan with your eyes if it was BOLDFACE type... Also, I believe formatting each post with its own outlined box would also improve readability... If you could make the member photo slightly smaller, more like the size of the member's photos in the Recent Posts section on the right hand side and put it inside the box frame it would very likely compress the depth of each post reducing the amount of scrolling down required. I know I am suggesting format changes that make it more like the old forum format, but it really was easier on the eyes and easier to read/scan for posts. Thanks for all the work, and changes you have made in just the last 36 hours.
Hi Ad Man - I am glad that the new design did not bring in things like Pop-up Ads and Ghostery Ads. Those ghost ads can follow a user all over the internet and are very annoying.
OGR Webmaster posted:Bob Shaw posted:Is there a search feature? I cannot find it. Very useful.
The search icon is just to the right of the Terms of Service item in the blue tool bar at the top. Looks like a little magnifying glass.
There's also a Search button on the blue bar at the bottom of each page.
On multi page threads there is an orange 'Next' button at the bottom right of the thread. On the listing of forum topics there is no button. Any chance one can be added?
PSU1980 posted:I like the overall format, like the font style and overall feel - Very Apple. Clean - simple - bright
Nicely done - Hey Lionel - Hey MTH - Hey Atlas - look at this site - one click
PSU1980 posted:I like the overall format, like the font style and overall feel - Very Apple. Clean - simple - bright
Nicely done - Hey Lionel - Hey MTH - Hey Atlas - look at this site - one click
ahh, this is so much better than yesterday, not so much "white noise" on either side of the screen. Well done Rich and the gang.
Rich,
I like the continuing tweaks to the new forum layout. Looks good on both my large monitor and nook hd+.
Just looked at the search feature and see that it does not include a way to search by forum member or by specific forum - I found both of these features to be most helpful when I did searches on the old site. Any chance you these additional search features can be added back to the search function?
- Nevermind, I just realized that all I needed to do was click on the down arrow beside the word everything at the top left of the search screen.
Ok, here are a couple of specifics. When one clicks on recent posts one gets a nice size presentation. When one clicks on the Forum topics you keep the same very narrow page. Why?
The sign in doesn't last very long. Why?
And it should help you to know many like the old font and web site. Why change? For a few that look at it on the phone?
Birwin posted:Rich,
I like the continuing tweaks to the new forum layout. Looks good on both my large monitor and nook hd+.
Just looked at the search feature and see that it does not include a way to search by forum member or by specific forum - I found both of these features to be most helpful when I did searches on the old site. Any chance you these additional search features can be added back to the search function? - Nevermind, just realized that all I needed to do was click on the down arrow beside the word everything at the top left of the search screen.
Not sure which you are using, mobile or PC, but on mobile the search function under the 3 lines top left has the advanced search parameters and on the PC view it's under the magnifying glass in the blue bar.
trainroomgary posted:Hi Ad Man - I am glad that the new design did not bring in things like Pop-up Ads and Ghostery Ads...
The OGR Ad Man had nothing to do with this format change.
Ron H posted:Ok, here are a couple of specifics. When one clicks on recent posts one gets a nice size presentation. When one clicks on the Forum topics you keep the same very narrow page. Why?
I do not see that behavior on any of the computers I have used to test this. That is five PCs, two iPads and an Iphone 6.
The sign in doesn't last very long. Why?
I don't know what you mean...
And it should help you to know many like the old font and web site. Why change? For a few that look at it on the phone?
Almost HALF of our traffic here is now on tablets and smart phones. That traffic segment is growing, while the number of people using a desktop or laptop computer is dropping.
PSU1980 posted:I like the overall format, like the font style and overall feel - Very Apple. Clean - simple - bright
Nicely done - Hey Lionel - Hey MTH - Hey Atlas - look at this site - one click
PSU1980 posted:I like the overall format, like the font style and overall feel - Very Apple. Clean - simple - bright
Nicely done - Hey Lionel - Hey MTH - Hey Atlas - look at this site - one click
Hey, don't knock the MTH site - it is the only revision that works 99% flawlessly - use all the time with ease. Lionel's site - 99% useless - stopped going there and blood pressure went down. This site will continue to improve - count on Rich to deal with the "Hoopla demons". If they don't get with the "program" he will see that they will have to go to a proctologist to have their heads retrieved.
Twelve pages. Tell you what - this needs to be split up, so folks can see answers.
For instance, how do we post photos - as of right now the old method worketh not.
I like the new single click stuff - now if I can just retrain myself.
And I like that the button for mindless repeating of others' posts is now two clicks away instead of one.
Nobody wants to read twelve pages just to get to an answer for a specific problem - well, at least not this nobody.
OGR Webmaster posted:Almost HALF of our traffic here is now on tablets and smart phones. That traffic segment is growing, while the number of people using a desktop or laptop computer is dropping.
How does OGR or Hoopla know what type of device we use to access the forum?
Bob Snyder posted:Sorry, Rich - it only prints the first page of posts in a given topic.
If you have a long, multi-page thread that you want to print, set the number of posts to appear on one page to the maximum of 200. In all but the longest of threads, all the posts will be on one page. Then print it and you'll have the whole thing in one file.
OGR Webmaster posted:Steamer posted:...the bright white background is hurting my eyes.
FIXED...with some further tweaking to come.
Thank you, it's SO much better!
OGR Webmaster posted:Bob Snyder posted:Sorry, Rich - it only prints the first page of posts in a given topic.
If you have a long, multi-page thread that you want to print, set the number of posts to appear on one page to the maximum of 200. In all but the longest of threads, all the posts will be on one page. Then print it and you'll have the whole thing in one file.
I feel bad continuing to bother you with this, and maybe someone else can reply. Still having a problem. I have tried three topics with multi-page threads. I scroll down to change the number of posts-per-page, but the higher number is always in "black" and does NOT permit me to click on it to change. Over on the right I have the option to go to the next page, but moving to the next page seems contrary to your explanation. I've logged off and back on, hoping this will reset something. No help. It seems to be consistently failing for me. I thought maybe it should be changed while in the "print" option, but that isn't possible. Most likely it is user error, but I've been fooling around with this for quite a while, and don't know where I'm going wrong.
I do agree that being able to print up to 200 posts in one shot will cover nearly all situations - if ONLY I can make it work for me. "nod"
Thank you.
Rich, I'm liking it now that the white is gone. Haven't tried it on my android today but I think the pictures on my home computer are better, easier to read text and I don't mind the spacing so i'm happy with everything so far and your earned a lot of people's respect with how you stayed on top of everything and keep upgrading your upgrade..... Keep up the good work....
A happy reader......
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