New forum features

[steven]

Here is a brief explanation of some of the new features, more will be added later today.

Social Bookmarking of Threads
Threads can now be easily submitted to websites like digg and del.icio.us, more will be added later today.

User-Created Social Groups
You can now create, join, and participate in Social Groups on the forum. Check out https://www.woodworkforums.com/groups/melbourne-woodworkers for an example.

New Member Profile Page
The layout out of the member profile pages is now much nicer. It includes your friends, social groups, public messages, stats, visitors, photo albums.

User Picture Galleries
You can create your own albums and upload photo’s to share with everyone else. Once you’ve uploaded the photos they will appear on your profile page and you can share them with your friends or Social Groups.

Public Messaging
This works like private messaging, except the message is public and will appear on user profile pages.

Friendships Between Members
You can now generate a list of reciprocal friendships.

Attachment Viewing
Attachments now open in a lightbox instead of a pop up window, this is both faster and should avoid problems some users had with popup blockers.

Tagging
You can add tags to a thread or post to help identify it in a search more easily as seen at the bottom of this page. Wikipedia has a bit on tagging that's worth a read. Click HERE to view.

[mcarthur]

That change to attachment viewing stuffs things up when you want to print the picture. One of the things I do is print a page to PDF to save the information (never know when things aren't going to be available, and it's good to have access offline). With the old way, you could get the bigger image up in a separate page and then print it (to PDF) as usual. I can't seem to find a way to do this with the new popup method - can anyone help? Since I found this method of printing-to-save on the lists, I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses it...

Thanks
Rob

[echnidna]

I save interesting pages too.

click on the new popup and it will open up as an attachment like it did before, then its easy to save

[steven]

That change to attachment viewing stuffs things up when you want to print the picture. One of the things I do is print a page to PDF to save the information (never know when things aren't going to be available, and it's good to have access offline). With the old way, you could get the bigger image up in a separate page and then print it (to PDF) as usual. I can't seem to find a way to do this with the new popup method - can anyone help? Since I found this method of printing-to-save on the lists, I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses it...

Thanks
Rob

Hi Rob

If you click the image again it will open in its own window like the old attachement viewer.

regards

[funkychicken]

User-Created Social Groups
You can now create, join, and participate in Social Groups on the forum. Check out https://www.woodworkforums.com/groups/melbourne-woodworkers for an example.

Friendships Between Members
You can now generate a list of reciprocal friendships.

What is this... Myspace?? geeez

[mcarthur]

Doh ! Thanks Steven and echidna.

Rob

[mcarthur]

What is this... Myspace?? geeez

There may be quite a few "friendships" that aren't reciprocal as well . (good on management for trying new things though!)

[Sturdee]

Steven,

There is something wrong with the Notices section " Notices G'day Sturdee.. Our in house Google Custom Search can help you find stuff quicky. Click HERE for more info"

for when I click on it I get the folowing even though the screen says that I'm logged in :

Message Sturdee, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.




Peter.

[bitingmidge]

Back to the pics for a bit;

When a post has heaps of pics, to save time waiting for them to download, I "control-clicked" each one previously to open each in a new tab. Now I have to open it, then control-click, or is there something I'm missing.

Is there a simple way of opening five or six images without going through the popup process now?

Cheers, (and thanks!)

P

[silentC]

I "control-clicked" each one previously to open each in a new tab

Still works that way for me....
Buy a PC!!!

[silentC]

Damn, spoke too soon. It only works the old way if you CTRL-Click before the page has finished loading (this happens with those light box viewers by default).

Definitely a step backwards in my opinion.

[steven]

Back to the pics for a bit;

When a post has heaps of pics, to save time waiting for them to download, I "control-clicked" each one previously to open each in a new tab. Now I have to open it, then control-click, or is there something I'm missing.

Is there a simple way of opening five or six images without going through the popup process now?

Cheers, (and thanks!)

P

I'll see what I can do about this.

cheers

[wheelinround]

Looks great as i said in another thread

agree with pics maybe a "Next Pic" to view the rest when members have more than 1 photo.

[jchappo]

Steven,

There is something wrong with the Notices section " Notices G'day Sturdee.. Our in house Google Custom Search can help you find stuff quicky. Click HERE for more info"

for when I click on it I get the folowing even though the screen says that I'm logged in :
~snip~

Me too

[mcarthur]

Returning to the images again , something I'd really like would be a version, like Show Printable Version but it wouldn't have to remove everything else, that had all of the images inline and at full size. Then when I wanted to save a thread, I could just click on that and it would format it so that either a) all replies are shown or b) the top n are shown for some user-defined n (like 1 = original only, or 5), and all attachments/images are shown inline at full size. This would really help (me!).

Thanks
Rob