Community Chat

[LilacTree]

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

Hi LilacTree-----------I pretty much will stick with my regular forums also. What used to be Wellness/Sports---Electronics(which used to be Electronic Talk---Community Chat(formally known as Viewpoints), and an occasional visit to Among Friends. Plan on sticking with my same way of posting and on any topic that looks interesting to me. As always, I will say very directly what I have to say, and let things be as they will be. My best to you and yours---------hckynut(john)

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I posted a few days ago to dmod about the lack of a sports forum.  As you may have noticed I think I have posted in that forum once or twice over the many years I've been here.  However, I felt bad for those of you for whom that forum is an important place.  I think it is mixed in with the Wellness forum and I hope they change that soon.

And I have to admit I am no longer knowledgeable enough to post in the Electronics forum anymore, although a decade ago, I would have been a regular there!

Perhaps we should just keep doing what we were doing, as you said, John.  It will either be acceptable or it won't be.  I think I am trying too hard to conform and that's why I am drawing blanks most days!!

You have yourself a good day also! 

[Zita]

I'm pretty good with computers and technology, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to start a new post. It used to be one could just hit "post" and start a new thread.

Help, anyone!

[NickNack1]

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@Zita wrote:

I'm pretty good with computers and technology, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to start a new post. It used to be one could just hit "post" and start a new thread.

Help, anyone!

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@Zita, when you're on the main page of the forum that you want to post in, "New Message" is in red on the left side of the page just above the titles of the posts.

[debic]

There's a big red "New Message" above the posts in the gray box for me on the left side.

I go through phases where I post.   I read more than I post.

[lovescats]

If you type your user name in the search box then next to it community is really a drop down box where you can select users and find all your posts there.

[LilacTree]

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@lovescats wrote:
If you type your user name in the search box then next to it community is really a drop down box where you can select users and find all your posts there.

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Yes I do that also when I just want to review my posts, which is not often.

It is still no adequate replacement for "My Activity" in the old BB, which automatically listed all of your most recent posts.

[HisElk]

Just wanted to say hi to Lilac tree.  One of the forums I read and post in is what used to be the Entertainment, now Books, TV and Movies.

OT, I haven't seen the poster Romary lately; I've enjoyed reading her posts and hope she's ok.

Still here reading and trying to get used to this new and improved stuff.

[hckynutjohn]

Zita wrote:

I'm pretty good with computers and technology, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to start a new post. It used to be one could just hit "post" and start a new thread.

Help, anyone!

Zita,

Knowing computers certainly helps, but!! When someone throws an untested/brand new software update at you, or me? It has nothing to do with me building my own computers or your knowledge of computers. Those that run and/or built this website decided to make ALL of us "free beta testers" for their desire to change this BB. 

Most companies that sell any new software

programs usually have employee "beta

testers", or hire some that are in this line of

work. Some are even able to get "volunteer

free beta testers" before they put there products out to us, the general public. 

The same is also done for most "new and/or upgraded hardware".  Here they seemed to have decided to let those that post here find the bugs in their new(and way too complex)so-called "upgrade".  Remember the $billion launch of the .gov website? This is close to the same, but on a much, much smaller version.

My wife worked forclose to 30 years as a Medical/Dental insurance company analyst, the ones that authorize or deny submitted claims by doctors and patients.

They often installed new programs to maybe expedite this process, but when they did? Each Analyst would have a personal employee that knew the "in's and outs" of the new programs, and they worked with her for at least a week to make sure she knew it fully and also understood how everything jn the program worked as touted. She was not a  "beta tester", which could have taken her months to learn it by the old "trial and error" method.

Z

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[Zita]

Thanks for your help in posting!

[Montana]

I usually post in Beauty. Wellness, Electronics, Community Chat and Gamers. But I would post in other forums if there are topics that interest me.

With the new forums, I have discovered the fun of Gaming.
Funny because I never even thought about checking it out before. It is giving my brain a good workout.