Could This (new discussion format) Be Any Worse?

Like many here I may not be happy with what Apple is doing but that does not make me anti-Mac.

I can also manage to navigate the new "improved" site (which "mysteriously" many can't) so that would just be another ridiculous assertion on your part.

It is no help to anyone to just perpetually gloss over bad design decisions. Bad design decisions that Blind Freddy can see, even if you can't.

Cheers

Peter

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that only the person you're replying to can reply to you.

That is not correct. You can reply to anyone who has posted in the particular thread you want. All you need to do is hit the reply button under a person's post.

Just got another user in the Pages forum, telling us all about water damage in their Macbook Pro.

Peter

Thank you, that is what I thought. I wrote that after replying to a person and being told to mind my own business. It seemed special rules had just been invented.

See Hiroto 's excellent modifications to the 'content' list. Look at the greened post in:

Am I missing something in the recommended list?

for example, here is what I see in the Technologies discussion.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_technologies/content

Aloha RC. Thanks for the info. Looking at Hiroto's changes other then the person who asked the question it looks like the same list you can get on turingtest2 site map. Unfortunately with just an iPad I doubt I could implement the suggested changes. Keep up the good work. The forum could stand a few more positive contributions right about now. Bob.

Mac OS X Technologies

bobseufert wrote:

Looking at Hiroto's changes other then the person who asked the question it looks like the same list you can get on turingtest2 site map.

For those that missed it, the link to turingtest2's list is Site map of Communities and Categories (https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463). It appears in the 'user tips' section of Using Apple Support Communities (https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities), but since currently you have to know about the workaround of adding a "/content" suffix to the community links to see the "User Tips" tab (like https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities/content for this one), you might find it more convenient to bookmark a link to his list.

For User Tips you can also tap content at the top of this page then User tips. I haven't figured out how to add / content to anything, all i get is a definition of the word content. I bookmarked turingtest2's site map the moment I first saw it, good advice, thanks.

You just add /content to the end of the URL so it'll look like this:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/desktop_computers/imac_intel/content

rather than this:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/desktop_computers/imac_intel

Got it. On the iPad you have to tap the URL field twice then /content. Thank you.

bobseufert wrote:

For User Tips you can also tap content at the top of this page then User tips.

True, but that gets you to a listing of every user tip for every Community in all of ASC. Like babowa said, adding "/content" to the end of a community URL will get you to the Community-specific page, & it will have a tab for the User Tips specific to that community, along with a count of how many there are. For example:

I saw your earlier post and thought I might add links to the relevant User Tip views to the site map... Probably won't get to it until tomorrow though.

tt2

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks again for that. I've added in links to the user tip area for each community that has one, together with the counts. The review also helped me spot a couple of errors with links to non-nested areas.

tt2

turingtest2 wrote:

Thanks again for that. I've added in links to the user tip area for each community that has one, together with the counts. The review also helped me spot a couple of errors with links to non-nested areas.

Hey, we all owe you many thanks for putting in all the work to make that guide.