topic Re: New Format in Q Talk

New Format

whezy — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:30:23 GMT

I HATE IT!!!!!! The entire new site is very user UN-friedly.....

Re: New Format

spikeysmom — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:33:20 GMT

I totally agree !!!!!

Re: New Format

Big Sister — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:56:00 GMT

I agree. It's just not fun anymore and I don't go on the forum much now at all.

QVC, is there any chance you may go back to the old forum?

Re: New Format

Adelina — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 02:18:05 GMT

This ship has sailed........

Re: New Format

Karnerblue — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 03:18:38 GMT

I enjoy it here more with the changes. As far as the format, it's just like everything else. Either be flexible and adapt to changes, and things will get easier.

Re: New Format

Kachina624 — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:35:42 GMT

I like the new forum. I can do many more things and do them easier. It takes awhile to adjust but once you become accustomed to the new way, you'll like it too.

Re: New Format

Sweetbay magnolia — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:18:29 GMT

It's not that much different. To me, it offers more options and is customizable. I had to rearrange my thinking a bit in order to understand it, that's all.

Really, we manage to have families and hold jobs . . . this is not hard. One apparently tech-savvy poster noted some time ago that this site may be more secure than the old one. I'm all for that.

Re: New Format

curlywhitedog — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:03:37 GMT

I agree, this forum is the worse forum ever. I visit a number of forums and none are as awful as this one is now.

For instance, does anyone know how to look back/find our previous posts? We used to just click on our "name" and there they were. Now they're nowhere to be found. If you get a heart then you can locate it that way but if there's no heart then I can't seem to figure out how to track my prior posts.

Can anyone help with this or is that feature now gone for good.

Maria

Re: New Format

Kachina624 — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:10:28 GMT

To see all your old posts, go to the top where the word "community" is in a box. Click on it and on the word "user", then put your user ID in the box to the left. A screen will come up with all of your stats. Find the one that lists your post total and click on the balloon. All your posts should magically appear.

The poster chynnaBlue has very kindly accumulated many helpful hints and you can click to find them on the bottom of any of her posts. You can find her posts using the method described above using HER user ID.

@ChynnaBlue

Re: New Format

Adelina — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:11:55 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
To see all your old posts, go to the top where the word "community" is in a box. Click on it and on the word "user", then put your user ID in the box to the left. A screen will come up with all of your stats. Find the one that lists your post total and click on the balloon. All your posts should magically appear.

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Thanks for re-posting this @Kachina624.

If one bothers to check Welcome Get Started, the Help menu, Tags created by posters, threads started by posters on particular topics etc, one can find the answers to most issues. The Social Team has stated over and over that they are working on some features that are not as easily accessible as they once were. For the time being there are solutions, if one takes the time to look or at least to ask the questions rather than complain. There is always someone out there, like Katchina in this instance, who is ready to help.

Re: New Format

KatieB — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:15:43 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I like the new forum. I can do many more things and do them easier. It takes awhile to adjust but once you become accustomed to the new way, you'll like it too.

What are the 'many new things' you can do with this new format? I think you can do less than you could before the changes.

Re: New Format

Adelina — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:24:34 GMT

@KatieB, this is one feature, for instance. I just notified you with the "@" feature.....

Re: New Format

Kachina624 — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:27:52 GMT

I'm an iPad user and I can now easily make paragraphs, insert links and post photos without going through a lot of rigamarole. I can also easily change the font, text color and size. It's much easier to use bold, italics or underline.

Re: New Format

buyornot — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:29:59 GMT

@Karnerblue wrote:
I enjoy it here more with the changes. As far as the format, it's just like everything else. Either be flexible and adapt to changes, and things will get easier.

I'm wondering what you enjoy MORE? As I write this-the text is hopping around!

Re: New Format

KatieB — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:01:26 GMT

@Adelina wrote:
@KatieB, this is one feature, for instance. I just notified you with the "@" feature.....

And what does that do?

Re: New Format

curlywhitedog — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:15:17 GMT

ThanksKachina, I appreciate your reply. I actually already tried that a few times but I thought maybe I was doing something wrong so I tried it again,according to your clear directions, and all I get are the posts where I have received hearts. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong...I just don't know, but thank you for trying to help, I appreciate it.

Maria

Re: New Format

ChynnaBlue — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:17:15 GMT

@curlywhitedog, here is how to find all of your old posts.

1. Enter your user name in the Search field.

2. Use the pull down menu to change the search criteria from Community to Users.

Here's an example with my own name:

3. Click the red GO button.

A page of search resulots will appear. If your name is similar to other names, you will see multiple results and have to search for your own.

4. In your own results, find the chat bubble with the number of posts next to it. Here is what mine looks like.

5. Click on the number of posts. Note: Clicking on the chat bubble icon will do nothing. Click on the number, as highlighted above.

6. A list of all of your past posts will appear. Any thread title appearing in bolded font means that there are unread posts in the thread.

If you want to create a shortcut to this page of all of your past posts, use the Favorites option in your web browser to save the results page to your Favorites. From then on, you would be able to click on the Favorites link and go straight to your previous posts.

You'll find this information and more in the thread linked in my signature below.

Re: New Format

ChynnaBlue — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:19:32 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
To see all your old posts, go to the top where the word "community" is in a box. Click on it and on the word "user", then put your user ID in the box to the left. A screen will come up with all of your stats. Find the one that lists your post total and click on the balloon. All your posts should magically appear.

The poster chynnaBlue has very kindly accumulated many helpful hints and you can click to find them on the bottom of any of her posts. You can find her posts using the method described above using HER user ID.

@ChynnaBlue

Thanks @Kachina624 for tagging me and throwing up the bat signal! I've added a post with pictures to see if that helps and added that post to the list found in my signature.

Re: New Format

Kachina624 — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:11:44 GMT

@ChynnaBlue. thanks Chynna. For some reason everyone seems to be baffled by this. I'm sure your graphics will help. I'm going to put your shortcut hint to immediate use.

Re: New Format

curlywhitedog — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:10:15 GMT

Chynna:

Just saw your detailed instructions, thanks so much. On my way to try them out. Fingers crossed.

Maria