Alternatives to Apple Support Communities

etresoft wrote:

People whose names are just single letters with spaces are particularly hard. "R C-R" and "K T" are well-hidden. You do have to use page two for them.

For me at least, the search tool will not allow me to refine a search on some phrase to restrict it to results for my user name. IOW, say I want to look for my posts with the phrase "Alternatives to Apple Support." I can enter "R C-R" in the "People" box, but it just ignores that because it isn't among the found set of user names.

etresoft wrote:

I suggest looking into RSS feeds a bit more closely. You are making a judgement based on a apparently erroneous assumptions. You can subscribe to RSS feeds in any web browser. You can choose to have them show up in your e-mail or as a toolbar link that gets a little "3" icon next to it when there have been 3 new posts. If you click on it, you get a list of subject lines and maybe some context if you want.

You can use whatever features you want. It just seems silly to rip on some feature and then describe how you want things to work in a way that sounds very much that the feature you just trashed.

I've done some checking and don't believe I will ever turn RSS feeds on (unless there is a major catastrophe); it really doesn't matter how a notification arrives or makes itself known - it is still a notification and I consider that an instrusion. I do not even allow Mail to check automatically - I do it manually whenever I feel like it. I can afford to do that - I do not run a business - so, it is of little consequence if I do not immediately answer an email. I do not need or care to feel connected 24 hours a day. I'm not sure how notifications could ever be a feature I am looking for.

So, it is possible that I did not express myself well enough; occasionally using a second language does not do justice to what I really wanted to say. But, thank you for your efforts.

OT: I had to compose this three separate times because I forgot to copy it continuously and the "extra" feature here now of simply having what you've typed vanish is still present. But, I finally got it done.

2) Find usernames as you typed them

You obviously have a better keyboard or touch - I have not found any username unless I go to a second page and input it there.

You don't see this?

Personally, I have found a well-formed Google search is often the most effective way to get info.

charlie

I have been on Apple Discussions since 2005 and you are the first person I can remember that ever thought the old search was great.

What are you searching for that you can't find?

Okay.

I was just trying to clarify whether or not that feature of ASC worked for you after you said:

I have not found any username unless I go to a second page and input it there.

I will get back to this later; right now, I am focused on several other things.

If English is not your main language then you are doing much better than some of us who only speak English ➕➕

Thank you; maybe that is because I had to learn it from the ground up - (she even made us learn Shakespearian English - ugghh!).