house keeping

[Lorchen]

We should have our own emoticons: TQS star-shaped ones!

Lorchen (dreaming)

[Lorchen]

Margo, honey, have you contacted our computer genius to see if he can help you?

[Margo]

Yeah, Ritzy! I used to bug him a lot about it, but he never had any answers. I assumed it was just my old laptop with some functions set up wrong. But last month I had to get a new one (yeah....that was a PITA!) and I still can't see "posts since last visit". I do get some of the red "bells" now....but not all the time!! Weird!!

[Margo]

Have you tried using the "mark all forums read" on the bottom left side of the page? When I use that, I can return as often as I want and the bells at the side turn red when there's a new post. Only thing is, you need to read all the forum, because if you go elsewhere and comeback, the bell thingie doesn't work.

Jean in Windsor, ON

[Margo]

Well, well, well.....there is a place I wasn't aware of!! :shock:

Do you just click it when you have finished reading the forum???

Is that what causes the red bell thingy's to show up the next time you sign on???

[Margo]

I don't click anything and the little things are red when I sign on to the forum so I know where new posts are. I also noted when I finish reading a topic and someone posts while I am still in the forum it will turn red so I can read that one before I leave. Sandi in FL

[Margo]

Well, phooey! I just can't get a red bell thingy....I'm still thinking there must be some setting on my computer that is blocking that function. Thanks for the suggestions!

[gran5]

As usual when I logged onto the forum this morning, there were no "bells" even though there were new posts. Now when I log on later, there will be "bells" for new stuff. Weird!!!

[gran5]

It's funny, I see them as sheets of paper turning orange when there has been a post written. :roll:

[Lorchen]

But Amo, once a thread had reached a certain number of messages, your sheets of paper start to swing back and forth, like little orange bells.

Lorchen

[eileenkny]

Sorry Alex, no way will I give you a list of 6. My opinion: Look at all the low traffic subjects. Quite a number of them can be easily amalgamated into one, for example 'New Books' and 'New Patterns'.

Lorchen

I have to agree here. Look at the topics that haven't been posted to in a year or more; they can go. On the other hand, please check out the "Suggest a New Category" forum. Many of these deserve to be on the main list-they're posted to almost every day.
eileenkny

[Lorchen]

It's nice to see that some 'spring cleaning' of the forum categories has taken place. To the hard-working invisible 'fairies' at TQS: Thank you very much!

Lorchen

[Lorchen]

I agree--thank you for all your hard work!

[Margo]

I think the new forum is going to be really good! I also want to share a recent discovery I made. As some of you know I have been whining since the beginning of TQS that a lot of the forum functions just did not work for me. Well, in the last couple of weeks I have switched browsers, and now everything seems to be working just fine!! I had always used AOL, even though my favorite computer geek REALLY tried to get me to change a long time ago! I am now using Google Chrome, and am finding that a lot of things I had trouble with seemed to be tied into the AOL browser. ops:

So...if you are having difficulty...try changing your browser!

Also...the new TQS photo upload is GREAT!!

[bunny9]

I too am finding the new forum easy to navigate & love the option of controlling our own options in the Control Panel-thanks TQS.