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• A few cosmetic changes…

  Posted on March 28, 2017 at 06:26 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Looking around the Lounge this morning, you’ll discover a few changes.

  Perhaps most notably the “Vote Up” system is gone, along with its henchperson the “Karma” score. My experience with the system wasn’t good, with general bugginess (or perhaps I never understood it) combined with overall lack of direction (voting a reply “up” doesn’t move it up in a topic).

  We’ve also disabled the package that was supposed to improve indexing of the content inside replies. It broke some links – and I didn’t notice an improvement in reply indexing on Google or Bing.

  As always, I’m interested in hearing your suggestions for improving the Lounge. Remember that I want to keep it very, very simple – and the budget is tiny.

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• You can now ask questions on AskWoody

  Posted on January 31, 2017 at 19:59 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’ve been waiting for this moment for years.

  The bare-bones forum framework just went up. You can post questions about Windows and Surface – and, soon, Office – by clicking on the links in the upper right, by looking at the How to ask questions in the Lounge FAQ, or by stepping through the forums themselves (hint: Use the AskWoody Support link on the right sidebar).

  We’re just getting started, so don’t be too surprised if some things don’t work right. The AskWoody MVPs have helped enormously. Anything bad you see is just my fault.

  Post away!

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