The forum has lost its usefulness...

We're all struggling a bit with the new layout. However, I suspect that, over time, we'll figure out how to do most things. It's taken me most of the evening but I think I finally figured out how to see which threads have new content.

How do I tell which threads have new content since I last visited?

You can always click the "Following" button at the top of a thread and you'll get email notifications of new posts.

Best of luck.

Agreed. I can hardly read it the printing is so small and the page that updates is missing

Ditto.

Me neither.

how do you tell if a question has been answered?

i Always scan for questions with no responses to see if I can offer a solution.

this isn't a functional forum anymore.

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Meg St._Clair wrote:

We're all struggling a bit with the new layout. However, I suspect that, over time, we'll figure out how to do most things. It's taken me most of the evening but I think I finally figured out how to see which threads have new content.

How do I tell which threads have new content since I last visited?

You can always click the "Following" button at the top of a thread and you'll get email notifications of new posts.

Best of luck.

Why should we have to struggle? Personally, I have better things to do!

lizdance40 wrote:

how do you tell if a question has been answered?

i Always scan for questions with no responses to see if I can offer a solution.

A lot of the improvements appear to be intended to more effectively help those who come here seeking answers, and less for those seeking to help them. If you look at it from that perspective it makes sense.

Those of us who remain interested in helping will just have to adapt. There will always be helpful newcomers, who won't have to.

You probably know this trick now, but if you add "/content" to the end of the URL in the Safari browser when you go to the Using iPad forum, you will get a more customized view that looks like this. The type that you see in bold letters indicates that another response has been added to that discussion. You can see the. Liked, Bookmarked, Number of responses icon (the speech bubble) and how many people have viewed the thread.

IF you tap on your avatar in the upper left corner, then tap on your username under the avatar in the window that pops up, you will be taken to a profile page where you can make several different selections. When I tap on Demo under the Steeler avatar in this screen shot that you see here.....

It takes me to this page where you can select from several different options. If you tap on the Content heading and then tap on Participated in the left column, you can follow the discussions that you have participated in. You can select the other options and experiment to see what they do as well.

If you long press on any of the headings, you can open those options in another tab and you can have different tabs open with the Using iPad page, your Activity Page, the Participated Content Page and tabs for any other forums that you participate in. I created a number of these pages and put them in a folder in my Safari bookmarks for easy access when I come back to the ASC forums.

I Don't like this new forum any more than you folks but this is what we have now and I am learning to make the best of it. There are so many bugs and things that were omitted that it's almost laughable that Apple would roll this site out like this. In any event, this should get you started, I hope.

You can always check out the basic tutorial here.

Tutorials

OR or look for more help here.

Using Apple Support Communities

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Excellent post, Demo! Very helpful explanation.

John Galt's observation is also quite interesting. Does put some perspective on things.

Some of us have been around for a couple of different forum makeovers. It's a lot like the roll out of a new version of iOS. It can be deeply unsettlining but it's generally not all bad. Things change. Learning how to deal with change is one of the most useful skills one can acquire.

Thanks Meg. Like you, I am trying my best to learn and adapt. It seems that there is a bit more to learn and adapt to this time around. Hopefully the bugs will be ironed out and some of the lost features will be added back, but until then, we will continue to plod along until we get the hang of it.

The pages that Demo pointed out can also be accessed by choosing 'Content' at the top right of the page. It took me all evening to find out how to cancel EMail notification to a thread I had been following. Don't ask me how that is done as I've already forgotten. It will certainly take time to get used to this new format. Personally, I think it was a step backwards. Hopefully, Apple will improve things that need to be changed as time goes on. In the meantime, if you need me, I can be found digging my way around the fine print!

frazzm737 wrote:

It took me all evening to find out how to cancel EMail notification to a thread I had been following. Don't ask me how that is done as I've already forgotten.

Cick the check mark labeled "Following" at the top of the thread. If it's bright blue, you're following it. You can also go to Content on your own profile page, select "Following", then click on the gear at the right of a thread and click on Following.

Thanks, Meg! I found a much more difficult and time-consuming way to accomplish such a simple task. I hope I will remember your instructions...

frazzm737 wrote:

Thanks, Meg! I found a much more difficult and time-consuming way to accomplish such a simple task. I hope I will remember your instructions...

Ha ha! Finding the hardest way to do something is usually my job.