New Forum Questions and Discussion

calico20hill

CollaretteQueen That was all so long ago! I am sure it was a random seedling from another collarette in my patch but I have no idea now what it might have been!

mr_blown_dry

CiCiVacation For a general use forum, I understand it. It's the default so previous posts can't be changed to make later replies have a different meaning and so quotes don't go out of sync with the posts quoted.

Not all forum users are as nice and polite as the ones on this one. 👼

User 1: I love A La Mode!
User 2: I love it, too!
User 1: <edits original post> ==> I love Cafe Au Lait!
User 3: <thinks> Hmm, I better watch out for User 2, they like Cafe Au Lait.

SteveM

I think we should ban User 2 from the forum. 🙂

Krista

SteveM as well as user 1!

mr_blown_dry

SteveM Krista
🔨 Ban hammer deployed @ User 2. (And User 1!)

Bessie

Having the ability to modify a post allowed me today to have one post versus three. I made a short discussion, modified post to add an image much later, modified again to add additional information. I think having the added functionality of modifications of discussions has its advantages, but there will be inherent disadvantages that most of the time will be harmless. But, in terms of "risk" of the change, we're not discussing topics, such as prescribing doses of medication, that if given the wrong dose, can kill you.

blown_dry

shakes head

PNWGal

Why it's useful to include a quote if you are referring to a particular post.

blown_dry

PNWGal Why it's useful to include a quote if you are referring to a particular post.

Smart!

calico20hill

SteveM Love your qoute about "Blind farmers". I was diagnosed with a rare eye condition a couple of years ago and it constantly trips me up with things like mispelling "Calico" but accidently doubling the "l" and my eyes not sorting it out. So my name on here is supposed to be "calico20hill" but about 3 days after I set it up, I reallized I had gotten an extra "l" iin it and my eyes didn't sort it out.)Amanda, is there any way to take the extra "l" out of callico and make it calico20hill? I catch a lot of others too that look like mispellings but are really mis-seeing. It does keep me humble.....

blown_dry

Done. 🙂

calico20hill

blown_dry THANK YOU!

Krista

Hi! I'm wondering if there might be a way to "freeze" (so to speak) the title of the discussion at the top of the screen when you're at the most recent comment in a thread. The title of the forum remains when scrolling but I've found it cumbersome to scroll all the way to the beginning of our growing threads to try to remind my forgetful brain which discussion I'm in. And if I just need to be more organized and less forgetful, I can face that truth so please only consider this if it's a super easy adjustment.

mr_blown_dry

Krista It's possible to sticky it at the top by tweaking the style sheet but I haven't delved into it at all to know where the style for the discussion header is actually located in it.

Doing so might eat up a lot of screen real estate on mobile but the height could be reduced, too, if the screen is mobile width...

Immediate Solutions

Desktop

The discussion title appears in the title bar at the top of the browser window and on the browser tab.
Mouse to the left of the screen and a sidebar will appear with a discussion list. The discussion you are in will be highlighted.
- If you'd like to keep it there, click the push pin icon and it will sticky it to the side. Handy for navigation, too.

Mobile

The best I have is to tap reply to a post or discussion and the discussion title will be shown at the top of the reply window. You can then tap the X to leave the reply window.

There is another solution. Bear in mind, I have been reliably informed by @blown_dry that my ideas of forum nettiquette are more suited to technical forums with much higher numbers of users and may be at odds with the culture of this particular forum. I'll hide it here so as not to shock the faint of heart: The real solution is to start new discussions for new topics in the appropriate forum, so as to mitigate the number of uber long discussions.

Krista

mr_blown_dry Thank you very much, I appreciate all of these alternatives! They were very helpful and some I hadn't discovered yet, thank you. Also, encouragement to open new discussions was needed - I have been hesitant to open new ones until now. Thanks very much!

blown_dry

I want to second @mr_blown_dry as far as inviting people to create new threads. I know I opened a lot in the beginning to get it going, but I'm very happy to see other avatars next to the discussions. But stakes are low.

Krista

I must be doing something wrong, hoping for help creating a private discussion. For some reason, I was unable to add a user when I tried to create one with @calico20hill. Here are my screenshots to help identify where I went wrong:

calico20hill

Krista, does this come in only to you? Or are we live on the forum?

Krista

calico20hill Aw we are live here, I reached out to you through messenger though so we won't skip a beat!

blown_dry I'm sorry for being computer illiterate - which screen will I find the three dots in the right corner that will allow me to open a new discussion?

mr_blown_dry

Krista
@blown_dry and I were thinking along the same lines. (She'd say, "It's been thirrrty yearrrrss!" 🙂)

You aren't blocked specifically, Noni has turned on, possibly by accident, "Block private discussions." Neither of us was seeing the problem because users can't block private discussions from Admins.

calico20hill
You can enable them again, if you like.

Go to your Settings:
Scroll down to Privacy and turn off the "Block private discussions" toggle switch:

If you have trouble, let me know, it looks like I can change it by directly editing your user account in the database.

blown_dry

I'm not sure what is wrong. It is working for me. Maybe mouse over or hold down on her user icon and select the three dots in the right corner to start a discussion that way. That will remove the search aspect.

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