I’m doing some reorganizing of the side menu to make the site better in the long run. First off thank you to all that make the forums a happy and hea
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Remember too as you post a question to either tick the box “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” or – if you just want to watch the topic and not post, remember to click subscribe at the top of the topic. Either method will ensure that you get an alert when someone someone posts.
Naturally, this only applies to logged in posters, not anonymous site visitors…
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I don’t like it. Just my opinion. Probably won’t visit as often.
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Time for a new host?
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It’s new, it’s different, so of course I didn’t like it…
… for about all of 5 seconds when I decided to take Susan’s suggestion of going to “New Posts: Last Day”. I can update that page whenever I want with the refresh button, which is what I used to do on the home page, but now I actually get the new posts for the last 24 hours instead of only the last 20 or 30 new posts. After each listed topic there’s a small orange circle with a triangle in it. Click that and you’ll go to the first new reply you haven’t read.
So, give it 5 seconds – 10 max. You’ll like it. IMHO an excellent change.
Edit: The circle is more brown than orange, until you hover your pointer over it, and it’s a greater than sign rather than a triangle inside the circle.
The “Recent Replies” list is the first and usually the only place I check at AskWoody.com. Without requiring additional clicks, it presents a concise rundown, not only of what’s hot in the last few hours, but also of new topics that have been posted.
The first link in what is now the top list, “Search for Topics”, is labeled “Most popular topics”. (BTW, how does “Most popular topics” differ conceptually from the list for “Topics with most replies”?) I just took a screenshot of the list that appears when clicking on that link:
Note that one of these “popular” topics last had a post 5 hours ago, and another one had a post a week ago: the rest haven’t had anything added to them in months or even years. In what sense are these topics “popular”? Maybe at one point they were, but certainly not now. How about renaming this list “Longest Threads” and putting it toward the bottom of the list?
As for that category, “New posts since last visit”–what counts as the “last visit”? Typically, I leave browser tabs open to the AskWoody.com home page, and then refresh every so often to see what’s new in terms of replies. Will I now have to actually leave the site (e.g., close the browser tab) and open a new tab in order to make it a “new visit” so that I can see the posts that are new since the last time I checked?
I might be about to become really unpopular here after I have said what I am going to say about this sidebar radical reorganizing, but I am 100% with DrBonzo. The “Recent Replies” has not been great for me (since around the time of, or not long after the”Swallowing of the Whale”), because now suddenly a supposedly terrifying something comes up and all notices of comments posted before the last two hours disappear buried in an endless series of later comments on the same one scary issue in just the one thread.
I much prefer to use, and I do use, “New posts: Last x days”, where all those 00 (that’s the infinity sign) comments on a bad Windows patch, for example, get collapsed to just the one entry by the last person who commented on that issue and I can see what else has come up sometime between right now and less than very, very recently. If either the last person, or the thread that last person commented on, interests me, then I connect to that last comment to that thread, scan this last comment, if I find it interesting enough, I read it in detail, from top to bottom, and then go scrolling upwards from there.
Now, what I do not understand is why this reorganization of the sidebar is the one alternative to never again anybody being able to access AskWoody. Susan?
Also, DrBonzo: What little triangle? I see nothing like that in “New posts: Last x days.”
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DrBonzo: I just check this out and it is as you have explained. Thanks.
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Maybe it’s always been that way, but “Recent Topics” on the sidebar are not in chronological order. It would make more sense if they were.
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I think it would be useful to have the recent replies on a link for those who use it – I do sometimes.
cheers, Paul
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Excellent, the two queries we need in an easy to find location.
Maybe just call it “Recent Replies” rather than “Posts with Recent Replies”.
cheers, Paul
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The main change I’ve noticed this week is the lack as yet of any “front page” article on Tuesday’s June Windows Updates (apart from a bit about the News and Interests feature). A subscriber has started a topic on a sub-forum, which you have to go looking and clicking for, but usually we’d have an early listing of the critical fixes and other updates on the front page as soon as they became known, which is where I suspect most followers of the site start and end their visits most of the time.
On the matter of re-organisation, I certainly miss the “recent replies” widget but only when I’m on the front page. Susan reports that the performance hit derives at least in part from the fact that it is on every page, but is that strictly necessary? Has any consideration been given to having it appear only on the home page?
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I just added that as another short cut on the side. (thanks)
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I’m reminded every time I login to this forum that I’m not a Plus Member.
I can however, without a Plus Membership, use the site, but I can’t get the most recent AskWoody Plus Newsletters, and I won’t be able to download Master Patch Lists. I’m also asked to help keep the site alive and become a Plus Member and to remember the ‘site’ is on a donation model, so I only pay what I think it’s worth.Perhaps those that currently want to contribute to the ‘sites’ admin should pay more to help with maintenance/repairs/upgrades etc! ?
Personally, in maybe 27 years of forum use as a viewer and a contributing member, I can’t recall ever being asked to donate any money towards the forum’s ‘upkeep’ with the exception of this one.
I have never needed or wanted AskWoody Plus Newsletters, and I have managed just fine without any Master Patch Lists over the years so there is no incentive for me or others to pay anything.
I’m not sure if the admin is aware that all that they are making available to those that donate, is ‘generously’ being uploaded by some kind ‘Plus Member(s)’ to servers which generally hold illegal/pirated content and it is made available for free for all to download should they want to. Obviously, the location of this ‘free’ content needs to be known, but it’s not too hard to find.Hollywood has spent Billions of $ over the years trying to prevent copied/pirated dramas/movies/music/DVDs/BDs etc from being uploaded, then downloaded, but they cannot and never will stop it. Where there’s a will . . . . . !
With that in mind, perhaps a different ‘business’ model should be considered to secure Askwoody’s future, as trusting ‘some’ that donate for its survival is not always a good practice.When a forum becomes very popular and a ‘business’ opportunity is on the horizon with its own staff, then the model chosen has to reflect the current and future ambitions of the creators/administrators/staff/etc.
I’ve seen many, forums over the years having issues one way or another and often it is too many forums, within forums, within forums, too many links to all those forums, that contribute to the massive, un-need databases and eventually their chosen software will creak and groan and not cope very well.
It’s the members/donors/viewers that suffer and when their concerns are not seriously ‘heard’, the very same, loyal members/donors/viewers will simply go elsewhere for a better, more reliable experience.
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Surely you can afford $10 to help out – and lose the reminder
I don’t think this forum would appreciate any help I could offer.
What reminder?
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Just noticed this morning that the first few words of text that showed when you hovered over the Recent Topics is gone. Is this also part of the new changes? It’s not a really big deal but I did like that nice feature of the site.
Also: Recent Replies no longer exists on the side bar anymore.
Also: Just now I noticed that this post didn’t come up in the Recent Topics.
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Yes, I know that now. It’s a bigger change than I thought.
I’m just so accustomed to going on this site and knowing how to use it. I didn’t notice at first and should have read all of Susan’s re-organizing post.
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I also really miss hovering over each reply link under Recent Replies on the side to read the first line of each reply. I guess I will be visiting many more pages if recent reply links stay missing from the home page.
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As someone who has done a decent amount of database management in the past, it pains me to see that the sidebar was coded this way with no regard for processing requirements. It’s bad for server costs and bad for page load time.
It would be much better to, upon the posting of a reply, save the ID of that reply in a ‘recent posts’ table in the forum database, and delete the earliest reply in that table at the same time. Then, when a page is loaded, instead of going through and sorting every post, simply load the reply IDs from the ‘recent posts’ table.
The same should really be done for Recent Topics, too.
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This doesn’t help:
And that is from just this topic. This site is cobbled together from two cookie-cutter site developer kits, WordPress and bbPress sharing a huge database, in addition to being very dated.
Are either of the underlying frameworks fully updated? I have a tendency to doubt that, bearing in mind the mindset of the site itself.
Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.We were all once "Average Users".-
Yes it’s fully up to date. I test first on a testing site and then deploy here. WordPress is one of the most attacked web sites on the universe therefore I do not delay here. I do risk based patching based on what I’m protecting. This site has a very short window between code released and installed as a result.
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It’s in the plans but everyone has to understand that there is a lot of complexity and custom items in the theme that means that there will be a lot of testing and planning before a change is made. Throw in bbpress and bottom line, yes, we are planning this but it’s not going to happen tomorrow.
It may not look visually complex, but it really is behind the scenes.
You also realize that every time I make any sort of change I get tons of complaints 🙂
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I’d like to see a link for “My favorite posts”. I don’t mean “my posts that are my favorite” here, although there’s nothing that would prohibit that. What I mean, in contrast, is “posts that are my favorites.”
For example, there are posts that you’d like to keep track of because they all relate to the same subject, but they are posted in a myriad of topics. Many of these posts aren’t even your posts, but instead are those of others. And you might not have even posted alongside those who have posted in the topic. I don’t see any way to keep track of the posts themselves, except, perhaps by marking the topics as a “favorite” and then wading through the entire topic to find the post that you want to keep track of. And I don’t see any way, once at a topic, to search within the topic for a specific poster or a specific term to help you find what you are looking for.
Let’s have a link for “favorite posts“!
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I’d like to see a link for “My favorite posts”. I don’t mean “my posts that are my favorite” here, although there’s nothing that would prohibit that. What I mean, in contrast, is “posts that are my favorites.”
??? Not what you want??
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What’s the definition of “active” there, as it includes topics with no posts for up to nine years?
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I just clicked on that “My active topics” link. It appears to list only topics that I have started.
This is marginally useful, but it’s far cry from the “Recent Replies” list that was eliminated. The set of topics that a user has started is far smaller than the set of topics that a user has participated in, which in turn is far smaller than the set of topics that a user might be monitoring, quietly or otherwise.
The least inadequate substitute that I’ve found for Recent Replies is “New posts: Last day”, which tells you if there are new replies in current topics–presumably, new replies since the last time the user refreshed that page.
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As I’ve said before the recent replies code was not designed for a site of our size. It’s frustrating to me to have to not be able to come up with a view that helps you, I’ll put a short cut to View: New posts: Last day @ AskWoody on the side.
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I put favorite topics as a short cut in case that helps. The issue is that any sorting by replies is very inefficient and causes a drag on the database.
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To find out what is going on, in general in this site and also in particular in some threads I am interested in, I use “New posts: last day”, or “New posts: Last three days”, depending on how far back I think I need to go, and to me that is quite enough. I am not sure how the alternatives may be more helpful.
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Are suddenly all links, as well as the “N users thanked the author of this post” notices, gone all blue, from being brown since the beginning of time? Or is it just me? I have tried with two different browsers: Waterfox and Chrome, and in both all those things were blue instead of the usual brown.
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I see them blue too.
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All links seems to be “default style”. Looks like classes are put into comment..
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Here are the links before I clicked on “New Posts: Last Month” The link is blue.
Here are the results after clicking on the link. I am at the “New Posts: Last Month” page.
Here is how it looks in the “Search for Topics” afterwards: Blue has changed to brown.
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We’re rolling out standard html link colors to signify clicked on links and unclicked. It’s also designed for better contrast.
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Here is what I see:
- Unclicked links (i.e. not marked visited in the cache) are a shade of blue.
- Clicked links are a slightly diff shade of blue. [OscarCP: Hitting your browser’s back button might not display the visited color in all cases. Or, also possible: there isn’t enough contrast between the shades of blue and they look the same to you.]
- Hover color is brown.
I def suggest more contrast between the visited and unvisited blues. I’m on a 32″ high-res monitor and can barely see the diff w/ my old eyes…
It’s also a best practice to make the visited, unvisited, and hover link colors a site-wide standard (absent a compelling design reason otherwise — I don’t see one?).
Susan: as always, thank you for continuing to refine the UI and make your site even easier to use!
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It’s true, there’s not a perceptive contrast in color — especially between the hover color and the ‘previously clicked link’ color — at least, in Firefox on my monitor. The ‘clicked link’ blue color does stand out, though.
This is browser-dependent!
Using Waterfox “Current” (latest “G3” version), I just did the same thing that WCHS did, but I am still seeing all links in the same color of bright blue:
But using Chrome (and the same result with Safari):
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Ah. Yep, you’ll always get a sub-standard user experience if you stray from vanilla Chrome, Firefox, Safari & Edge.
I use Firefox with NoScript for a very secure, very frustrating browsing experience. I have to switch to vanilla Chrome at least once per day and any time I need to use Developer tools.
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It wasn’t broken so why all the “fixes?”
I prefer the old over the new.
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I am using Firefox and I keep it updated. I get logged out of AskWoody in Firefox quite often, too; I don’t ever log myself out. It just happens. I always have 3 tabs open – and often more than that.
I have thought that this was due to the fact that I had been inactive for some ordained time – no replies, no searches, no navigating — and so AskWoody kicked me off.
I checked the FF permissions for the AskWoody site (click on the padlock next to the AskWoody URL, click on the arrow for “connection secure”, click ‘more information”, click on the ‘Permissions’ tab). It has ‘use default’ for the Set Cookies permission. I have no idea what the default is – can’t find that info anywhere.
Since @Alex5723 says it’s the browser cookies settings that signs you out, I am going to change it to “Allow” to see if this will keep me logged in indefinitely, no matter whether I am or have been actively engaged with the site or have been inactively engaged with site over some period of time.
I will report back if I find that I still get involuntarily logged out.
My edit: I’ve just seen Susan’s post today 3:29 pm about WordPress updates, which may reset things so I will keep that in mind.
But, if the web site itself has a cookie time out, does that mean that it’s impossible to remain logged in indefinitely, even if no WordPress updates have occurred?
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Firefox’s Storage Inspector can shed light on cookies. Procedure:
- Visit a page.
- <SHIFT> <F9>
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspector
I forget how to do it in Chrome, but it’s equally easy.
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I have never had indefinite logins? The default WordPress session length is 48 hours (assuming you keep your browser tab open), and checking the remember box gets you two weeks.
I have never paid attention to how long AskWoody gives me, though? Not more than two weeks, I’m pretty sure.
None of my many WordPress sites allow non-privileged logged-in users, though, so I’m not up on the details for a site like AskWoody…
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Since you say that you never log out of the site on your own by clicking the “Log Out” button(s), all I can think of, then, is that maybe the cookie or cookies existing in your browser might be considered outdated by the AskWoody servers at some point, which would then log you out of the site automatically.
Time was, I remember being able to see the actual properties of the individual cookies stored by Firefox (and before that Netscape Communicator/Netscape Navigator). I seem to recall most of them having expiration dates but, IIRC, the dates were WELL into the future by many months to about a year into the future.
As far as any situation with “stale” cookies goes with this site, I would think that either Susan, PK, or Kirsty would be able to shed any light on that particular theory, or debunk that theory in its entirety.
Bottom line is, since you’re occasionally (and irritatingly) finding yourself logged out of this site without having logged your own self out by any of your own actions, then the only thing that remains is that somehow, the server isn’t reading the cookie that’s been set in your browser.
An additional theory: Perhaps Pale Moon is having an undocumented issue with properly presenting the cookie to the site (or properly handling and keeping the cookie) after a certain amount of time, or having a hard time with the cookie(s) when you have more than a certain number of tabs open on this site simultaneously. Again, this is only a guess because I don’t use Pale Moon, I use Firefox on its Release Channel.
EDIT: At this point, I feel that perhaps this part of the overall discussion (about using Pale Moon and being randomly and unwillingly logged off this site) should be carried over to a new thread, as it seems to me that we’re on the edge of getting off-topic.
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Keep in mind that while the web site itself has a cookie time out (I forget what it is, I’ll have to look it up), I just installed a WordPress update this week which will also reset things. So if there’s changes on the back end that impact a part of the site, it may kick a re-log in.
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Shhh don’t jinx the technology gods.
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Isn’t the topic THE SIDE MENU, which is where logging in/off takes place and where links are found. Big topic.
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OscarCP,
Well, there are two different styles in use: one for the meat of the page, and one for the sidebar.
I see what you see on the main part of the page. On the sidebar, I see unvisited blue and visited blue-purple. And, hover brown. But, I’m old — if someone told me that visited blue-purple is actually a shade of brown or something else, I wouldn’t argue.
For a good UX, the unvisited/visited/hover colors should all contrast well and match the scheme. And, there should only be one set in use on both the main page and the sidebar unless there is a compelling reason to violate that rule.
I always use a Web palette selector or phone a friend who has graphic design skills — my kids will tell you that I am not good at color selection…
I’m sure you’re right about the change intentions. Unfortunately, you are using a non-standard browser that no one is going to worry about while designing. [Same here, since I have NoScript installed w/ Firefox. But, CSS stuff on AskWoody will work fine for me.]
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kewlputergeerk: “It’s unreasonable to expect site designers to code around a few fringe users. ”
My answer is that:
(1) Having all links brown was working for everyone here and nobody I ever noticed was consistently complaining about that. Whether the browser used was marginal or had five stars in some obscure catalog, all-brown worked just fine with all browsers.
(2) I never heard loud (or soft) wailings of despair coming from “developers”, whoever these might be, on account of having only brown links in AskWoody.
(3) In this case, the site designers need not do anything about the way things were. No crowd was vociferously demonstrating in the streets demanding such a change. They chose to make it off their own bat, to “fix” a non-problem. And created, in the process, a previously inexistent issue that, while not serious, is nevertheless an annoying one.
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I guess your con vote and my pro vote cancel each other out, OscarCP. We cast our votes — now we’ll see how the election turns out…
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Actually web designers recommend that you stay with the standards of blue. People know that it’s the standard “click here”. Please note this is a work in process and we’re not done yet.
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Firefox’s Storage Inspector can shed light on cookies. Procedure:
- Visit a page.
- <SHIFT> <F9>
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspector
I forget how to do it in Chrome, but it’s equally easy.
The combination of <shift> + F9 didn’t do anything in Pale Moon, it was as if I hadn’t pressed any keys.
However, the link you provided to the Mozilla developers’ page gave me enough clues to find what appears to be the desired list of cookie properties. The key combo in this case was Tools Menu –> Page Info –> Security –> View Cookies.
Once there, I saw the cookies for the page containing this thread we’re reading. There is a total of 30 cookies (!), some of which expired in the past (!!), some “at end of session,” some in the next couple of days, and then three that expire on August 7, about two weeks from now. The time frame for these last ones seems to jibe, more or less, with my observations of how much time typically transpires before I have to sign back in to this site. I note that the names of two of these cookies begin with “wordpress_sec” and the third one starts with “wordpress_logged_in”.
Maybe the solution to this mystery lies in those cookies.
Anyway, I don’t want the thread to keep drifting off-topic even if Susan reassures us that that’s par for the course. 🙂
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Cybertooth: “Anyway, I don’t want the thread to keep drifting off-topic even if Susan reassures us that that’s par for the course.”
Actually this thread is about the changes, any changes, being introduced to the way AskWoody functions and that people believe are worth commenting on. To see why I am writing this, just go to the top, to the start of this thread, and scroll down to see what the comments are about. As the changes that people have been noticing and discusing have been several, so far, if you consider each to be a “topic”, then there have been several topics under discussion already, and cookies, for example, is just one of those. Any further changes that people may notice and find worth commenting about, logically speaking, also belong in this thread. That is why this is, by now, such a long thread. And Susan statement on “drift” is one way of describing this. So, as I see it, to be off topic here is NOT to comment on some recent change that merits a comment.
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The way forum software works under the hood, OscarCP:
–Your profile db record holds your sig.
–The post records hold the content of your posts.
–When it’s time to paint your post on the screen, the post box is drawn from your current profile and the post text is dropped into the box. So, your sig does not actually live in the post record (where it would waste bytes).
I guess mixing the old and the new can make for an interesting dichotomy in some cases!
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