heck ya but we cant save our fav's anymore !😢You can start with some of mine
Community Feedback: New Forum Software Is Live!
We are excited to announce that we are live on our new forum platform!
It’s been a long time coming. Let’s face it. Sometimes older forum technology lags behind other parts of the internet. Although seeing the same format for a long time is comforting, the member experience shouldn’t include dealing with outdated, unsafe, slow software.
The transition to a new platform will never be 100% smooth but the days of dealing with out of date forum software are over. We have teams dedicated to building a world-class community for you. The development has been steady with regular software releases since May 2019. Asking members for feedback and coming up with ideas for improvement is what we want.
Speed and Reliability Are Key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.
New Homepage Experience
Our algorithm will serve a personal customized feed based on your prior engagement with content on the site. If you’ve liked and or commented, or are following certain topics that are of interest to you, similar content will appear at the top of the homepage.
Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, to help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.
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Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing over the first few days after migrating. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.
Finding Your Way Around
We have made the design clean and simple to use. Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.
The first icon is for what’s new on the site.
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Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.
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Clicking the list icon next to “NEW” will bring you to the full forum listing.
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Clicking your avatar will give you a drop-down menu for all things related to your account.
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You can also navigate more by clicking the 3 vertical dots.
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Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it in the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.
Save Bookmarks
Now you can save your favorite discussion threads and posts! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.
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We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
Please keep all feedback, questions, concerns, requests for help, etc. regarding the new platform right here in this Feedback thread. This will help us make sure not to miss a request for help and also let us pass along your thoughts to our Product team. The Admins and I will be here to help along the way taking note of your comments.
- Community Management Team
It’s been a long time coming. Let’s face it. Sometimes older forum technology lags behind other parts of the internet. Although seeing the same format for a long time is comforting, the member experience shouldn’t include dealing with outdated, unsafe, slow software.
The transition to a new platform will never be 100% smooth but the days of dealing with out of date forum software are over. We have teams dedicated to building a world-class community for you. The development has been steady with regular software releases since May 2019. Asking members for feedback and coming up with ideas for improvement is what we want.
Speed and Reliability Are Key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.
New Homepage Experience
Our algorithm will serve a personal customized feed based on your prior engagement with content on the site. If you’ve liked and or commented, or are following certain topics that are of interest to you, similar content will appear at the top of the homepage.
Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, to help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.
Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing over the first few days after migrating. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.
Finding Your Way Around
We have made the design clean and simple to use. Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.
The first icon is for what’s new on the site.
Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.
Clicking the list icon next to “NEW” will bring you to the full forum listing.
Clicking your avatar will give you a drop-down menu for all things related to your account.
You can also navigate more by clicking the 3 vertical dots.
Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it in the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.
Save Bookmarks
Now you can save your favorite discussion threads and posts! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.
We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
- Following - Thread subscriptions, and Watched are now known as Following
- Conversations - Private Messages or PMs are now conversations and can be accessed from the user avatar drop-down in the main navigation
- Showcase - Showcase is designed for users to "showcase" items/projects through the use of uploaded images, text descriptions and custom content categories. It’s a way to visually and textually provide detailed information on the content you wish to share. The showcase would be similar to a catalog, whereas the gallery would be like a photo album. It can be accessed from the drop-down menu with the 3 dots.
Please keep all feedback, questions, concerns, requests for help, etc. regarding the new platform right here in this Feedback thread. This will help us make sure not to miss a request for help and also let us pass along your thoughts to our Product team. The Admins and I will be here to help along the way taking note of your comments.
- Community Management Team
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yeah bill but i dont remember who's projects i liked and saved.many were things i wanted to do someday.or get inspiration from.not bringing our fav's over was totally ignorant.one of the biggest complaints since the transfer.
not the same my friend
Anyone else noticed that the cover images for the member projects seem kind of low res and "dull"?
The cover image size seems to be 150x113 pixels.
I resized my original cover image to the same size. Below you can see the difference in a screenshot I made.
Left= image in projects page, right = my own resized image (zoom level 100%)
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The zoom level in my browser (Chrome) is set to 100% but somehow the image on the project page seems blurred and low quality even though it is displayed as larger (maybe that's the problem?).
It would be nice if this could be fixed since I think a lot of people make some effort to create nice images of their projects but then the cover image will not make the project stand out and does not reveal enough detail which in turn does not attract clicks which I suppose is the whole meaning with the project page.
The cover image size seems to be 150x113 pixels.
I resized my original cover image to the same size. Below you can see the difference in a screenshot I made.
Left= image in projects page, right = my own resized image (zoom level 100%)
The zoom level in my browser (Chrome) is set to 100% but somehow the image on the project page seems blurred and low quality even though it is displayed as larger (maybe that's the problem?).
It would be nice if this could be fixed since I think a lot of people make some effort to create nice images of their projects but then the cover image will not make the project stand out and does not reveal enough detail which in turn does not attract clicks which I suppose is the whole meaning with the project page.
Hey, seems that this is your lucky day!yeah if i could remember who i got them from !!!!
There is a snapshot of your old favorites (I found mine too):
pottz's Favorites @ LumberJocks.com ~ woodworking community
web.archive.org
yeah i found that on the way back machine but it's only 4 pages of about 18 or more. 😢Hey, seems that this is your lucky day!
There is a snapshot of your old favorites (I found mine too):
pottz's Favorites @ LumberJocks.com ~ woodworking community
Alerts are not set up for Showcase at this time.
Miscellaneous Showcases Tips
Showcase Categories Journals Projects Workshops Showcase Sidebar Feature If you click to open a project, you will see additional projects in the sidebar. This feature will also display for Journals and Workshops. How To Follow Member Showcases To use the Follow feature within Showcase...
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Site Help and Suggestions is a FORUM.
Community Feedback: New Forum Software Is Live! is a THREAD where we have asked for all feedback, comments, and questions about the new format be posted here to this thread.
Please forgive my slow response. It was my birthday Friday, and I took the entire weekend off to spend some time doing absolutely nothing.
I am not finding your unanswered question. Feel free to ask again, or I can keep looking for it.
One last time.we shouldn't have to do this. did they not think we would want to keep fav's weve been saving for years ? this is my biggest gripe about the switch.they can make this happen,if they care enough to spend the "money" to make it happen. and trust me.it's all about the money
It was not a case of not WANTING to save the favorites. We could not migrate them because of how they were set up. Months went into migrating this site.
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