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Well, Aazza, I struggle with the idea that quoting everything to have a conversation is a legitimate way of communicating on the boards. I have to tell you, I'm left flabbergasted as to understanding why the "reply to user/poster" button would be dropped. I mean, come now, it defies belief, to say the least. Ok. Here I am now and I appreciate the opportunity to feed-back to the crew some constructive remarks regarding the new boards. First and foremost though, I wish to again reiterate my firm belief that Toms is heading in the right direction in ever opening up "the world of computers" to lay users like myself. Simple, concise and succinct articles that address "video cards" etc, are fantastic for average joe users like me. The recent "best vid cards for july" article is an excellent example of this in action. I'm all for change, but let's get it right, eh.

Toms boards is the only online community that I'm an active member of. I take pride in the community that we have here so I can assure all that my feedback is most certainly sincere.

1. The reply to user/poster button is a must have, I believe.
2. The log-in font is ridiculously small. Buttons need to be larger for major tasks: quoting, pm'ing, profile, contacts list, help, etc...
3. The previous forums were easier on the eye; the overall layout was in a cool blue that is easy on the eye.
4. Make the code and user-friendliness of profile changing etc as easy as possible for new users. The new profile screen is not user-friendly in my book. The previous one was.
5. In all changes, the one thing that should be at the top of the list is this: does this particular change make the boards more user-friendly for both new and old users?
6. The post count should remain in under the user name. It's sparse there now without it and I thought it was a cool feature to have, if for no other reason that it meant a newbie thought twice about cheaply slagging off against the regs.

There's some tweaking to come, for sure, I believe.
 


Just press the post reply button, it looks like this:

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The first change was definately a good one... the new software was a definate improvement over the old. However, this one I'm not so sure about. I suppose I can get used to it, but I still preferred the iForumz layout... all it needed was a bit of tweaking.
 
For all those who keep saying the reply-to-a-post button is at the bottom left, that's NOT the button we're talking about! We want a button that will create an "in-reply-to" type of post; that is, a reply which indicates the specific previous post it's in response to (just like we had before). The current function just adds a reply on the bottom of the thread without any context.
 

you can click on "xxxx wrote: " to jump back to the original post
 

(Trying out the quote function 😉 )

Two comments on this suggestion:

1) This "click to jump back" feature is neat/cool idea, but seems to have a major flaw that prevents its use in practice: how does one then get back to the post that has the "xxxx wrote: " in it?

2) Using the "Reply, quoting post" function as a "Reply to this post" function is very cumbersome: one must manually delete everything in the quote except for the "xxxx wrote: " part, or clutter up the thread by leaving in unnecessary quotes. The functionality we're looking for here could be implemented as just a truncated version of the "reply, quoting post" function that instead of including "xxxx wrote:" and the quote, instead just includes something like: "In reply to xxxx:" and no quote.

BTW, thanks for your attention/responses to these threads, joce.

 

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1) Usually I'm using the back button of the navigator (or the very left bouton of my mouse in my case).

You can also click on "Message quoted xxx times" to get the list of posts which have explicitely quoted or post

2) Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering what function you really wanted. So it would require an extra icon ? (removing the original quote function is not a good idea since it has its utility in many context)
 

Although the icon is not really explicit, first I thought it was the icon to send a PM 😀
I definitly prefer the silk icon theme, but unfortunately it contains some buttons in french :/
 

Yes, an additional icon for a slimmed-down quoted reply; this would just include the name/clickable link and not the whole post text. Such a function would pretty much replace the old post-specific "Reply to" function.
 
The envelope with the arrow is a perfect icon for "Reply to". In fact, to me, it just says "Reply to" and not quote. Change the quote to a chat bubble and use the envelope with arrow for reply.
 


I disagree. An envelope means EMAIL, not reply. It's confusing enough as it is already!
 
An envelope with an arrow means reply. 😛

I agree that an envelope alone means email. When I see the envelope with an arrow though, I automatically think "reply" not "quote"... which is what it is. If they insist on using icons rather than text buttons, at least that small change would be a marked improvement.
 
One other beef (and probably only since i've been here for more than 5 years) - The join date looks like it got lossed in the shuffle! Everyone apparently joined the forums before I was born (including myself). 🙁

I am liking the quick reply though...
 
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