Is there a reason we can't up or down vote anymore? Or is that going to be restored?
@founder - whenever you roll out a big update, it helps to give a summary of what's changed. I like the look but it seems like a lot of functionality is gone.
Founder should initiate a fee-per-click for up and down votes. Twentyfive will have to go clean lobbies for McD's to continue his cyberstalking and harassment.
^Founder should initiate a fee-per-click for up and down votes. Gay-majn-oops will have to go clean lobbies for McD's to continue his cyberstalking and harassment.
Somewhat agree with the OP. Appreciate the effort but prefer the prior look and functionality. I liked the photos on the profile page, the quick link panel on the left, and the icons for the clubs and for the members which livened up the appearance (vs. just plain text). I guess wait patiently and see...
I figure the upgrade is just taking time. No one intentionally wants to lose features so I'm giving the team a benefit of waiting but I for sure see why people are getting frustrated. A little bit more communication on progress would go a long way to helping with that.
I have enjoyed the site over the years throughout its many iterations and I'm sure I will with the new version as well. A couple of questions though: is this a new new site or continuation of the changes begun last year? It seemed like just about everything had come back recently. I was definitely enjoying the fact that dancers were posting their pictures and locations with some regularity. I do appreciate the fact that our old comments are once again available. Also, I've been a member for about a decade. Maybe some old-timers could answer this question. Has the forum posts always been chronologic versus threaded? Sometimes it seems like it would be better to have the form threaded to respond to a specific post versus the ^^ stuff that happens now. The threads could then be expanded and collapsed, imagine if we could collapse whole sections of threads that were hijacked by members that just can't seem to get along. Just some thoughts.
I had just understood, making an assumption, that this "new" version of the site is not in its intended form yet. A few aspects are not functional -- clickable maps, the entire feed link, the date stamp on personal messages -- so it makes sense to me that either something is wrong or something isn't finished. Either way I think waiting makes the most sense. Really, it takes a bit of sad chutzpah to complain about it since Founder does so much to make this thing accessible to all of us.
To answer a recent question, forum posts used to be accessible either in threaded form (going to "discussions" and sorting by date of first comment), or in hierarchical form (going to "forums"), or in (what you call) chronological form (going to "discussions" and sorting by date of most recent comment). I suspect most of that is coming back soon enough.
I guess I did a poor job in phrasing my question. I know the discussions could be sorted by dated posted or last comment. What I am talking about is the way most forums are formatted so if I respond to someone's post, my post goes beneath theirs rather than at the end of the line. ie. If I wanted to respond to 5footguy's "haters gon hate" with"shake it off" it would appear indented below his post and not way down here as the last comment. I have always felt it was kind of clunky to have to put ^^^^ to indicate I am responding to a post 4 posts up.
Mostly I am just curious, not trying to complain. Without having written a review in quite a while or paid the monthly fee, I have no right to critique.
Regarding the "threading" question, yes, now I understand what you're referring to. (For example, Reddit will thread and sub-thread the replies hierarchically as you are describing.) Personally I don't recall that TUSCL's discussions ever had that feature, though it's possible way back. I like the current one-size-fits-all linear discussion, maybe because it can help discourage trolling (viz. argumentative replies "feel" like they're addressing the whole thread and all its participants, rather than just one intended victim, unless the troll cut-and-pastes a quote, thus requiring greater care, one thing highly discouraging to trolls; we have a lot of childish trolls here in the first place, so I'm all for mitigating).
In fact, I recall (over my time here since, literally, the 1990s) a lot of modifications. I think there have been at least four overall major design changes, during many of which there have been hiatuses such as we are currently experiencing. I do also think I remember a few, but only a few, now lost actions or data which the site has simply abandoned. But mostly the site gains rather than loses functions, so I think the most recent full version had the most functions of any version, as the general trend has always been upwards in overall usefulness.
One minor thing I miss is "tag lines" which used to appear across the masthead. Some were hilarious. On the top of the page in an otherwise blank space, unrelated to anything else, there would randomly appear and change at each refresh an enjoyable little quote, like "we won't tell your wife" or "who took all my money" or "saving marriages since 1999" or "we support single moms." :)
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@founder - whenever you roll out a big update, it helps to give a summary of what's changed. I like the look but it seems like a lot of functionality is gone.
— Romans 8:25
To answer a recent question, forum posts used to be accessible either in threaded form (going to "discussions" and sorting by date of first comment), or in hierarchical form (going to "forums"), or in (what you call) chronological form (going to "discussions" and sorting by date of most recent comment). I suspect most of that is coming back soon enough.
Patience grasshopper ...
Mostly I am just curious, not trying to complain. Without having written a review in quite a while or paid the monthly fee, I have no right to critique.
Regarding the "threading" question, yes, now I understand what you're referring to. (For example, Reddit will thread and sub-thread the replies hierarchically as you are describing.) Personally I don't recall that TUSCL's discussions ever had that feature, though it's possible way back. I like the current one-size-fits-all linear discussion, maybe because it can help discourage trolling (viz. argumentative replies "feel" like they're addressing the whole thread and all its participants, rather than just one intended victim, unless the troll cut-and-pastes a quote, thus requiring greater care, one thing highly discouraging to trolls; we have a lot of childish trolls here in the first place, so I'm all for mitigating).
In fact, I recall (over my time here since, literally, the 1990s) a lot of modifications. I think there have been at least four overall major design changes, during many of which there have been hiatuses such as we are currently experiencing. I do also think I remember a few, but only a few, now lost actions or data which the site has simply abandoned. But mostly the site gains rather than loses functions, so I think the most recent full version had the most functions of any version, as the general trend has always been upwards in overall usefulness.
One minor thing I miss is "tag lines" which used to appear across the masthead. Some were hilarious. On the top of the page in an otherwise blank space, unrelated to anything else, there would randomly appear and change at each refresh an enjoyable little quote, like "we won't tell your wife" or "who took all my money" or "saving marriages since 1999" or "we support single moms." :)