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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BarryII... Good ideas, but unfortunately, I doubt that it will happen in the short term (if ever). As explained before, the tech team has other higher priorities like maintaining the WCG infrastructure, fixing WU bugs and getting new projects online (like the alpha/beta testing). The current forum software is a tad archaic, but it gets the job done, which is to provide a communication mechanism for the crunchers.
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The software is only functional for people who have been around so long that it's many idiosyncrasies are already understood. I've mentioned this before but after coming back to this forum after giving up on it for many years, even I had trouble reacclimating. For people that are used to more modern software, IOW virtually anything else currently in use, trying to post here has to a mind numbing experience.
----------------------------------------And honestly, IBM should be embarrassed by this piece of crap. It barely serves it's intended purpose which is really just to deal with technical issues. In terms of encouraging people to communicate and connect, it is virtually useless. Merely the fact that it lacks any PM capability is proof enough for that statement. It would be one thing if updating the forum was even on the todo list but we've been explicitly told that it's not. So don't give people the impression that this is EVER going to be a possibility. I'm sure though once we get down to 40 or 50k active users some moron at IBM will once again demand that another survey be done which will again ask for no user input in composing the survey and the results will be precisely the same. After all, what makes more sense than doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?   |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1684 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi twilyth,
----------------------------------------in order to be able to understand better your expectations, I would appreciate if you could describe which kind of improvement you would like to see. I am also using as reader or contributor other community sites and I do not have the feeling that mvn is "soooo bad". Contributing regularly on LinkedIn, I miss the flexibility we have here in particular regarding the ability to correct or to remove posts (at LinkedIn it is only possible for 10 minutes). Maybe the mvn terminology needs to be mastered for post creation and edition. But it is the case by each software (including MS Office). I am not sure that mvn is the reason for limiting member activity on the forum. Probably many people are not willing or interested to post messages as long as they could find the answer to their questions. In all cases, I would be very interested to read your expectations to the forum software. For my-self, I am maybe already "too" old for expecting much more than we currently have (for example I was happier with the conventional GUI of Office XP than with the ribbon I did never succeed to enjoy. It is also the reason for me to appreciate LibreOffice). Cheers, Yves |
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Former Member
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Another *real* issue with the forums: I've exhausted the 32K character limit on the Start Here Forum index post [stickied everywhere]... can not cram in one more item, and this is already economizing on descriptions and converting all links to bit.ly. Maybe by changing all the 'Rev. Mmm dd,yy' entries to just 'Mmm dd,yy' to indicate the last change can gain back a few hundred. A painful exercise I'll have to do in a ASCII text editor
 Maybe there's a handy volunteer(s) who could redo this in ASCII. Will be happy to merge improvements. It's searchable [type and search on the go feature of any web page browser does this, "Search for text when I start typing" in FF under options > Advanced > General tab]. Work with what we have, else you'll just be bonking your head through [steel] doors all the time.  |
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Former Member
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This forum's robots.txt seems to be disallowing browsershots.org. I wanted to get a screen capture from MSIE 10 to see whether [I]anyone[/I] (yeah, like italics is gonna work...) using IE can get this forum on the first try without a 500 error.
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Former Member
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We can of course construct complaints about everything, where tags in many places are in small and not in capital ;>)
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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This forum's robots.txt seems to be disallowing browsershots.org. I wanted to get a screen capture from MSIE 10 to see whether [I]anyone[/I] (yeah, like italics is gonna work...) using IE can get this forum on the first try without a 500 error. For screen shots, try Greenshot . It's a system wide utility so it doesn't matter where it's used. It's like a customizable version of prtscrn. It defaults to uploading anonymously to imgur but it keeps a catalog of all of your uploads and allows you to delete ones you don't want anymore. |
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Former Member
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It defaults to uploading anonymously to imgur I have zero apps on my cellphone because I don't trust what they'll do. So...IDK |
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