Forum Change

Thanks @Betty for the update. I worked in SW development for over 30 years, and know the headaches of trying to update software that used technology that the vendor no longer supports, and then dealing with user complaints about how it doesn't work like the old releases!

Not that I'm going to refrain from griping about things that seem problematic for users. 💢

Now that I'm old and retired, I feel totally empowered to act like an end-user! 🤣

On the plus side, I do like the plethora of emojis that are now easily accessible. 👍️

It looks good to me. It keeps my eyes focused, and it even makes different posts more distinct. That's my own preference, though. You may want to add a poll for it.

Thanks for the feedback @amusedmonkey. We'll definitely mull over some of the feedback in this thread and come up with some surveys or polls for some future changes.

I don't know if this is by design or a bug, but when I quoted your post earlier it replaced the image with a non-clickable link.

The yellow stars were for bookmarked threads/discussions @paperpudding. I was not seeing those at first, but then found that these are still there (on the far right-hand side of the discussions list) but now look like a bookmark instead of a star. It appears as a black outline for threads you have not bookmarked, and is solid blue for those you have bookmarked, like so:

Also, why is everything double-spaced

all of a sudden? And please bring back the BBcode

that let us italicize and bold things. And the spoiler function so we can hide large posts and pictures to make scrolling through things faster.

@Betty The copy paste functionality behaves in a strange manner. Many of us do challenges where we copy our post prior post and add the new days information. The paste is putting adding line breaks. Why? Paste should leave the format the same.

I'm not against change but change should be an improvement and this is not.

Yeah, @paperpudding I understand what you're saying. I do a lot of my online posting via my computer, and the phone interface looks a good bit different.

In both the computer and phone interface renderings, you get a 'new' indication on each listed discussion if there were any posts since your last visit. The number of new posts is no longer provided. 😕

On my computer, the Quick Links lets me access 'My Bookmarks' list via a panel located near the top right of the page:

On my (Android) phone the Quick Links appear when I scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.

In each instance the 'My Bookmarks' link replaces the functionality of the yellow star to show the list. On the phone it isn't as convenient as the old way, but it is there.

@MyFitnessPal
What text editor are you now using?
This editor doesn't seem to support the same set of features as the old one.
Or perhaps it does now, but didn't a while ago?
I appreciate that change.
(I take it back. BBCode is not being processed consistently in other discussions!)

@Betty

I too was a SW developer for over 30 years. Frankly, I would have thought you would have implemented this magnitude of a change on a test server first. If any alpha or beta testing was done, it was sorely lacking.

That said, we are where we are. I hope you will enable BBCode in the editor so that we can use not only italic, bold and strikethrough, but also [u]underline[/], [color=blue]text color[/color], left/center/right, etc. And please tell us what text editor is being used so that we can research which BBCode features it supports.