Yellowbox
Level 6
(10,455 points)
Q: Using the new-look forums, asking for positive comments
Dear Fellow Users,
I am starting a discussion on how to make the most of this revised website for Apple Support Communities. Please keep this discussion positive. Please confine complaints to one of the many negative threads.
Remember that many of these changes are the result of feedback to Apple. We may have got what we wished for.
Gains:
- Spell checker in the Reply box;
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New ways of working:
- The blue dot has gone. I can't tell which discussions I have or haven't read.
Tip by deggie. In the home page of a forum, click to the right of the address bar of your browser, add /content at the end of the URL. Press enter. You will see three options across the page just above the threads: All Content, User Tips and Discussions. Click on Discussions. Threads with new content will have titles that are in bold. Now save that page in your browser bookmarks. For example, my bookmark for the 'Using Apple Support Communities' forum, shows this URL:
And the view is Bold for unread
- The forums keep logging me off after a period of inactivity.
Good. That may stop the spammers posting multiple messages that have nothing to do with the purpose of a forum.
More gains or workarounds, anyone?
Regards,
Ian.
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ChitlinsCC
Level 5
(7,635 points)
ReWoP wrote:
i know...looking for positive only but.......i dont understand how to use the new forum...before,,if i clicked on FCPX discussion i would see post from the most recent with how many views and replies.....now i cant get the same thing in the new forum...please help!!! this is frustrating ...........was so simple before,,,now its terrible...
I feel your pain...
This is my workaround posted in another thread and is helping me cope:
Doctor9fan,
You said (formatting is mine for comments in context):
On a personal note the problems for me are as follows:can't see which are new posts or which have been updated,
This frustrated me as well.My workaround, oddly enough, is eMail Client, eMail Foldering, eMail Rules and eMail Notifications from here.
WorkFlow goes like this:
1. Turn on eMail notifications (duh)
2. Follow posts (ditto duh)
3. To organize latest replies, In eMail Client,
1. create Inbox folders to taste
2. create rules to sort incoming mail into tasty folders
3. sort views to taste
4. read the post
5. if I wanna reply, click link that jumps to the post on the page ( do my replying)
6. I choose to delete the email, which
7. selects the next email automatically
8. repeat 3.1 - 3.7 until
Command + Click & Command + W are my best friends
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In case this issue rears its ugly head for you (i bet it will, has for nearly everyone else)
The "View More" insect (I am watching my language, kinda over did it at first)
From Ian's User Tip - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7311
- From https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6414838
(This my workaround - CCC)
PROBLEM: When I use the 'View More' button, then the browser 'Back' button, then 'View More' again, I do not get the next oldest page but an older one. This makes viewing older posts very cumbersome.
Click the 'View More' as many times as you want, yielding a really long list.
Use that page as kind of a Base Camp.
Instead of a plain Click on a link and BrowserBack to navigate, try command Click to open a new tab with the target link.
When done, close the Tab - and you are back where you started.
The link you command Clicked will likely be Underlined to remind which you clicked.
You may even find that you like this better. I like the idea of a Base Camp. We can go 'Home'.
Happy Helping!!!
CCC
