Hello,

As you can see, we have put the new bulletin boards live.

The migration went smoothly, though it look at little longer than I expected it to!

If you notice any problems on the boards, please post below.

J.

Kayak,

Thank you. The gel too, you are thoughtful (the liquid stuff runs all over my fingers and makes a horrible mess)

Priscilla,

Your jumping wotsit is back again.

J.

Thanks Jon.

Re Priscilla's #309 and your reply #312, in "the good ol' days" accessing a thread jumped you to the last post you had read - ie, the last post read was displayed as the first post next time you went to that thread. This gave you a little reminder of where you were, and also confidence that you hadn't missed anything.

The new system (prior to the present fault) takes you to the first unread post. A number of posters requested a return to the old way, to which your (AM) answer was that you could tell where you were from the post numbers.

It is virtually impossible to remember post numbers when accessing many threads several times a day, whereas a reminder of the last post read was invaluable.

Please consider returning to that method.

Thank you, JT.

Piptrader: I think I love you.

Priscilla - aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh XXXXX:-))

Jon - cancel by last suggestion - the board is operating in a different way now, which may satisfy Priscilla and me. Will ponder it for a while!

Edit: yes, this is even better than the "ol' days", since you now have all the current page's posts available to view, but you are automatically scrolled to the latest you haven't read. Thankyou.

Piptrader,

I think there's still some confusion as to the use of the term 'jump'.

With 'jumping to a particular post in a thread', I use the #lastread anchor on the URL which causes the browser to scroll down the page to a particular point in the page and that is what I think of with using 'jumping'.

Is that what you mean too?

If it is, then it's done. It'll now auto-scroll to the previous post that you read.

J.

Except when said previous post is the last post on a page...

Jon - Yes, I think that's what I meant:-)

I'm happy now, except that...

Opening this thread this time, I only got the header post, and your post #321, but not #320. I think this is because a new page of posts has started. Does that make sense, and is it intentional?

edit: Kayak has put it more succinctly!

Piptrader,

Yes, it's becuase a new pages of posts has started.

Other than that it's working as advertised :)

J.

Ok thanks Jon - I think the benefits of having all the posts on a page available (with autoscrolling to the last read one) outweigh the disadvantage of losing the last post read if it's the last post on a page.

Click here

Yes that's better

Piptrader,

I was hoping you'd say that :)

Martini,

Good.

J.

The Search and All Posts boxes have a little tail in the bottom right hand corner.

Specs supplied on request ;-)

I will let JT know

Kayak,

Never mind eh?

There's not much I can do about it...

Kayak,

Regarding your post about <, > and other & © values not appearing correctly when you edit stuff, that's been fixed.

J.

All,

As I think all the issues with these boards have been resolved, I'm going to unpin this thread on the main thread page.

Feel free to continue posting any observations regarding these boards here though.

J.

A new word enters the lexicon: "unpin" :)

MM - I'm afraid all the world's dictionaries got there before you:-)

MM,

It would seem that he is right.