[Redoak49]

Before I retired, when we had major projects, we worked seven days a week until everything was working properly.

 

[Admin]

Before I retired, when we had major projects, we worked seven days a week until everything was working properly.

I hope you are not suggesting I should not be allowed time off.

I spent the weekend with my grandkids because as it turns out, I do have a life (sometimes) outside of my work.

I promise to be back early tomorrow morning to review the questions.

There is a history of harassment/cyber bullying on LJ for sure! And I have asked several times for more robust blocking tools but have been told they WOULD NOT be made available. I don't think flagging is the right way to handle it but the powers that be insist that is the way it will be handled.

Bullying is forbidden in this community. Anyone found to be bullying will be removed, so yes, reporting it is exactly how it needs to be handled.

- Cricket

 

[Admin]

Reminder...

Take A Deep Breath

I need y'all to take a deep breath. I fully understand that change is hard, especially when it involves how to do something within the new forum software. I need you to trust that we are working behind the scenes to make some of the features work better for this community.

Please Consider The Following

• Please take the time to read the FAQs.
• We will get through this one step at a time, and I will be right here with you every step of the way.
• Do not pile on the same feedback over and over again. If someone has already provided the feedback, quoting and agreeing multiple times does not help, it simply makes it more difficult for the members to find the answers to the questions they have asked.
• Although I love that y'all are working together to help each other, for now, please let ME respond to the questions, so we don't increase confusion.

 

[RichT]

I spent the weekend with my grandkids because as it turns out, I do have a life (sometimes) outside of my work.
- Cricket

A 29 y/o with grandkids? Who are you trying to fool?

 

[Admin]

A 29 y/o with grandkids? Who are you trying to fool?

Since my oldest daughter is 40, that would be quite the trick.

 

[EricFai]

Good for you Cricket, time with the grandkids is a wonderful thing.

 

[DavePolaschek]

Take A Deep Breath

We don’t need a deep breath. It’s not as if we’re all a-flutter with the vapours.

VerticalScope doesn’t think enough of Lumberjocks to have someone around to answer questions on the weekends, when most people are using the site.

It’s not that change is hard, it’s that VerticalScope did a half-assed job on the conversion, and isn’t fixing the problems they introduced. It’s like my neighbor’s house where the roofers put holes in her roof, and now aren’t coming over to fix things because there’s snow on the roof that’s melting and running into her house.

I figure she’s got every reason to be upset.

 

[Admin]

We don’t need a deep breath. It’s not as if we’re all a-flutter with the vapours.

VerticalScope doesn’t think enough of Lumberjocks to have someone around to answer questions on the weekends, when most people are using the site.

It’s not that change is hard, it’s that VerticalScope did a half-assed job on the conversion, and isn’t fixing the problems they introduced. It’s like my neighbor’s house where the roofers put holes in her roof, and now aren’t coming over to fix things because there’s snow on the roof that’s melting and running into her house.

I figure she’s got every reason to be upset.

Respectfully, there were no emergencies or fires on the site over the holiday weekend. I did check each morning. You also had a site Admin (my personal backup) who was active over the weekend if anything was urgent.

- Cricket

 

[EricFai]

Cricket, thank you for posting a page with the resolved issues.

 

[Admin]

Updated FAQs have been added as a sticky at the top of Site Help and Suggestions

Updated Community FAQ

Navigating The Site Navigating Thread Listings How To Find New Posts How To Filter New Posts To Only Display Specific Section(s) How To Keep Your Favorite Forum Sections at the Top How To Mark All Forums Read How To Find Your Profile Setting Your Location How To Find Account Settings &...

www.lumberjocks.com

 

[RonStewart]

One thing I find confusing about the new site is that it's difficult to understand the scope of certain UI elements. That probably doesn't make sense, so I'll explain with an example.

Note the navigation bar on the home page. It's near the top of the page, so it's clear that it operates at global scope--it's going to show me all the journals, projects, etc. on the entire site. That makes perfect sense.

Now look at the bar when I or someone else views my showcase. It's below Items by Ron Stewart, but it still operates at global scope and shows all of the projects, journals, etc. on the entire site. That makes no sense to me because of its location. Since it's below my items, I would expect it to operate at local scope and show just my projects, or my journals, or my reviews. (I guess it would be weird for me to have more than one workshop, but whatever...)

The same is true for the Filters dropdown menu that's just underneath the navigation bar. Maybe I can use that to show just my projects, for example. Nope, it still operates at global scope. Okay, what if I enter my name into the Created By field in the filter (and Projects as the prefix)? That stops showing all of the sites projects, but it shows just one of mine.

If UI elements are going to operate at global scope, I think it would be better if they appeared near the top of the page. I still think there should be an easy way to see just a member's reviews or projects. (I'm guessing there's a way to do it with a search, but why should that be necessary?)

Ron

 

[Admin]

If you go to your profile, you can find all of your Showcase items which include, Journals, Projects, and Workshops. Click on the number.

Also, if you hover over any avatar within a thread, you can find their information.

 

[Redoak49]

In the projects, you can hover over the name in responses. However, it does not work for the original poster ???

 

[Admin]

In the projects, you can hover over the name in responses. However, it does not work for the original poster ???

Projects are a totally different feature.

 

[RonStewart]

If you go to your profile, you can find all of your Showcase items which include, Journals, Projects, and Workshops. Click on the number.

<rest of reply omitted for brevity>

Thanks for your reply, @Cricket, but I know how to get to my and other members’ showcases. I was trying to make two points About usability.

(1) The location of web page elements matters. Specifically, if a navigation bar is going to operate at a global level, it makes sense for it to be closer to the top of the page, not underneath a giant label “Items by Joe User”. It would also make sense for its position be the consistent across all pages.

(2) After I click on Joe User’s showcase, my mental model is that I’ve entered a specific context, and I expect any filters or navigation to drill further in that context, showing me just Joe’s content and not that of all other members.

Your team got it right with replies. If I view and filter a member‘s replies, the filter automatically fills in the Posted By field so I can find only that member’s replies by default. Maybe that’s all you need to do to fix the showcase filter I mentioned in #2 above--auto-fill the Created By field in the filter so I see only the results relevant to that member.

 

[OzarkJim]

Cricket,
Have you given any consideration to a punch list as suggested by several members?

 

[John Smith_inFL]

Jim - give this a look and see if it helps you.

Resolved Issues

Which Issues Have Been Resolved Site Speed & Errors The site speed issues (and error messages) were resolved. Showcase Issues Showcase was loading very slowly. Resolved Showcase was divided into Categories. Journals, Projects, and Workshops. Pagination issues were reported for the Showcase...

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[Oldtool]

Go to your profile and click on the About tab and

Go to your profile and click on the About tab and scroll down to Following and Followers.

View attachment 3859994

Those are your buddies.

Cricket,
My question was in response to an instructional suggestion by someone ( i think "111") to permit finding current activities by my buddies. I knew how to find the list of those I follow, but to bring up this list, then click on each buddy one at a time & bring up his current activity is rather time consuming & often without obtaining any new posts.

Let me make this easy for me to understand if I can use this site as I did prior, that being viewing each & every post, comment and project by a buddy;

Will this site ever begin sending email notifications to me every time a buddy posts, yes or no?

Thank you.

 

[Redoak49]

I do not understand......projects are a different feature. Would it be difficult so that anywhere on the site you can click on a members name.and bring up their info ????

 

[RonStewart]

This is a simple bug report.

One of my old projects (Giraffe Bookcase) that was automatically converted has a gallery of 27 photos at the bottom.

I added am embedded gallery/library at the top of the post that contains the overview photos of the completed project. I don't need the equivalent photos in the gallery at the bottom any longer, so I try these steps:

1. Edit the post.
2. Scroll down the the end where the photos I want to delete are.
3. Press the Delete button to the right of the photo to delete it.

The message "You may only attach 25 files" displays (even though I'm deleting, not adding).

Fortunately, if I go ahead and save changes, the photo is deleted. That is, the steps work, but the error message is confusing.

Edited to add: I repeated the above steps to delete the unwanted photos. Eventually, the misleading message stopped displaying and the photo was deleted as expected.