Your Help Needed - Evalutating NEW Forum Software

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It feels warm and fuzzy!

Wait!!... One of the lions has escaped again...



... and so Robs little experiment in domesticating big cats comes to a sticky but interesting shade of red (pantone reference pending) end

 

[Nifty]

... see you guys on the other side!!!

 

[Tudor]

I had problems accessing http://www.printerknowledge.com yesterday and today. It said "Coming soon", even though I got redirected here from nifty... Clicking on "inkjet printers", "Forums" or "Home" had the same result as accessing the site by address. It only went away after a Ctrl+F5 on the page. Thought it may help someone in the same situation...

 

[Nifty]

Thanks! You probably had the site cached in your browser. Hopefully not too many will get stuck with the same problem!

 

[Tudor]

Is there an option to set the number of posts/page, topics/page? I can't find it.

 

[Nifty]

Unfortunately there isn't, but it is a big item on our todo list!

 

[Tudor]

Thank you, I would rather have all posts on a page, than clicking next, next, next...
Congrats on the new site/look!

 

[Nifty]

@Tudor WOOT! I got my first post like!! Thanks!

 

[The Hat]

Rob
I am still totaly lost so far I keep reading old posts all the time,
on the old Nifty site you could see at a glance all of the current and latest post.
I need to get more because I am going round in circles here.
Hopefully it will get better.

I was also used to all the latest posts on one page, now it’s like a Ruddy Phone book.
It’s a new voyage of discovery and I am finding things that weren’t there before,
I do like the new site but I think you should have put a map in here with “YOU ARE HERE “

These tabs still don’t work for me..

 

[stratman]

Rob
I am still totaly lost so far I keep reading old posts all the time,
on the old Nifty site you could see at a glance all of the current and latest post.
I need to get more because I am going round in circles here.
Hopefully it will get better.

I was also used to all the latest posts on one page, now it’s like a Ruddy Phone book.
It’s a new voyage of discovery and I am finding things that weren’t there before,
I do like the new site but I think you should have put a map in here with “YOU ARE HERE “

These tabs still don’t work for me..
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There's a "New Posts" selection at the top of the page. Unfortunately, the new software is not aware of what you read in the old software so you will need to either go through all the "new" posts or use mark forums as read to, hopefully, reset the tracking so that subsequent posts will go to the actual next unread new post in a thread. At least that's intuitively how this should work.

Big visual change in this new software, and I still like the clean appearance of the old software, but there are more goodies to tap into and I can get used to the new.

In all, I think the comparison between the old and new web site is like my recent move from Windows XP to Windows 8 - new look, new options, more power.

@Nifty - Thank you for the new site! How cool is this @ function! Awesome touch. Has anyone asked if they can revert to a "Classic Nifty-Stuff" appearance?