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So did you have a question, or are you all set?

If that would be too confusing, then the topic matters in the types of forums I am thinking of would be way above their heads as well. It would most likely be a non-issue.

P.S. Here's the same area BEFORE I click into that text box. Is this what you are seeing?

Like this? Here is the bottom of a typical page as I see it. It expands to look like this after clicking inside the box to reply, using the Firefox browser.

Hey Diane, this reply is for you too. http://forums.tcm.com/topic/156731-update-sucks/?do=findComment&comment=1599826

I think recent-posts-first is probably a relatively newer idea. I see it mostly in social media places like Twitter, Facebook, and the comments sections on news websites. With the exception of the former TCM forum, all the forums that I can think of that I have posted on had oldest-posts-first, and that goes back to the late 1990s. One exception to that would be the very primitive forums that had threaded posting, like IMDB's old forum, where the threads allowed for sub-conversations and tangential ordering. In my opinion, oldest-post-first is more natural to read through for a developing idea or a single problem being solved by the community over time and perhaps 20-30 pages long - including many diagrams and pictures (which would definitely be revisited in the future by newcomers), whereas newest-post-first is more conducive to news tickers and recent events (ie. recent deaths, premieres, quick questions). I have been on here about three years and learned to use newest-post-first. That struck me as being odd, as it was a first for me on a topical forum such as this, it is apparently normal for some others so I stood corrected. In this context it didn't seem to matter that much. I could go either way, just because I don't usually try to follow old conversations in order on here. On other forums I use, old conversations are often the meat and potatoes, still very fresh and still very relevant for somebody. Not so much here. This place tends to be more ephemeral in normal use.

Now that you have this figured out, I'll just throw this in for a laugh or two. This is from Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965), which has a little bit of everything. Including a nice little Vespa ride with Chad & Jeremy sound-alike music. I have put the start mark a few minutes ahead for perspective. https://youtu.be/kgxhEq8w9xw?t=2240

Vivaldi, a new browser from the Norwegians who brought us the Opera browser years ago - before it was sold to the Chinese. During its formative years (early 2000s to 2011 or so), Opera had it's own rendering engine (Presto), but then succumbed to using Google's Chromium engine. Then there must have been some bad corporate politics to say the least, because it looks like the original CEO and developers just picked up left. They formed their own company - Vivaldi. This was only about a year ago. So for the Chromium/Blink rendering engine actually you have your choice of Opera (new Chinese-owned Opera) or Vivaldi (original developers and former CEO of Opera during their best years). Maybe there are others. I found Vivaldi's default skin a bit ugly, as the tabs change color according to web page visited. So you get some harsh colors. That can quickly be disabled in the settings though. I have mine dialed in to look more like Firefox. Both Firefox and Vivaldi have minor telemetry options that can be disabled in the settings too. My main browser is Firefox, I consider the others as backups or experimental - with things moving as fast as they are now you just never know...

Yeah, when all else fails a new browser would solve it. Sounds like she has an older computer though. That is why I was starting small. P.S. Tikisoo's could be a Mac, based on browser theme seen on screen capture in another post. No idea on OS version, that would be key. From there it is just matching up with the system requirements.

Hi Tikisoo. You didn't mention which browser and browser version you have, but it sounds a bit like a Javascript or Jquery issue. You try clearing your browser history since the upgrade?

They might not need to. The platform software (Apache Tomcat) is something else that underlies all of that. It now appears that a small change has been made, which indicates they have begun to address that. I will look at this again later. But yes, I have observed this for a while, due to the streaming issues. They have had the same outdated version for as long as I have looked, and nothing has changed until now.

http://forums.tcm.com/topic/156569-re-forum-update-10172017/?do=findComment&comment=1597945 Having said that, I see a small bit of evidence that something else, platform software, is getting upgraded now. In turn, that may improve the streaming experience (depending on which system the streaming service lives).

How damn hard can it be. P.S. Not to sound as if I am complaining, the devs have made a lot of headway so far. It tends to be a thankless job until everything is absolutely perfect and they are long gone.

As per user-account uploads (dragging image file from local computer to composed post), it is looking like a 3MB capacity per user profile still. your "My Attachments" folder (you need to be logged in to view): http://forums.tcm.com/attachments/ That will soon fill up and you will need to delete some pics to make room. So no unlimited posting of images without "hotlinking" pics from an outside website (in other words nothing has really changed here).

If anyone is reading this and still wants to kill the huge emojis (this will work on the Firefox and Chrome families of browsers (and I now see also Safari - see here: https://adblockplus.org/en/safari ) http://forums.tcm.com/topic/156569-re-forum-update-10172017/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-1597754

Now you can reference a comment by its URL link. On the old board that should have been possible, but the reverse-order seemed to either be an incomplete feature, or else it was an incomplete hackjob. They reversed the posts, but didn't think to reverse the numbering.

This sounds similar to the end-of-line character sequence, where you can get different results on different programs: Windows - Lines end with both a <CR> followed by a <LF> character Linux - Lines end with only a <LF> character Macintosh (Mac OSX) - Lines end with only a <LF> character Macintosh (old) - Lines end with only a <CR> character https://confluence.qps.nl/display/KBE/Differences+in+end+of+line+characters+Mac%2C+Windows%2C+and+Linux Also see character 10 (\n) and character 13 (\r) here: http://www.asciitable.com/ So my guess is that they are using an editor that produces non-Windows EOL characters, and guess who doesn't follow anyone else's rules. You can imagine my shock... No EOL character would produce that as a result across the board (no pun intended), so they have to be using something in order for it to be working in Chrome (and Firefox - as it is okay for me). Without actually having looked at this case, I consider this to be a software vendor issue. Cough cough...Microsoft...wheeez. Easy fix: don't use Internet Exploder.

Cool! Wonder if there is a small quota like the old board had. That could influence how people use it, and how much crap like this gets posted.

It existed last night for a short time, up on the top right like the old forums. Then it was removed. Also I noticed the "code" formatting item from the text formatting toolbar disappear last night after I used it, later to be replaced (I see it now, it looks like "<>"). So there is definitely some activity going on.

It could be that the old forum software had reached end-of-life, no longer to be supported with security patches. Or possibly the older code presented a burden to their system and held them back from other upgrades. I refuse to believe that they added the obnoxious emojis though, as opposed to it being "out-of-box". Most of the problems so far just seem to be "out of the box" or "as-is" features so far. Many forums do a large amount of customizations in order to get to where they are at.

Yawn. All that does is encourage some to increase their volume of frivolous posting. Totally grade school.

Text browsing could make a comeback after all... :razz: P.S. They are still working on it. Maybe they went live too soon for this crowd. Devs: If the Kyle In Hollywood stuff from the old site is actually missing, put it in.

On Firefox the ad-blocker is an "add-on", an extra little bit that you download with the browser and install onto it. There are hundreds of different add-ons available, and they allow power users to develop features to add to the browser, exactly the way they want, without the browser needing any additional work. The most essential add-ons are free and available to the general public. Just not sure on Safari. P.S. Plug-ins would be things like Flash videos, embedded PDFs, and other junk that normally clutter up a web page. Plug-ins are used to display things, whereas Add-ons/Extensions are used to customize the browser.

I don't know, I don't have a Mac. Are you able to add a configurable ad-blocker in Safari?

Forum Developers: could we please have the page numbering modified a bit? Right now the multi-page numbering is something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >> Could it be more like this?? 1 2 3 Prev Next 31 32 33 Or maybe this? << < 1 2 3 ... 31 32 33 > >> That seems to be the norm for a forwards-oriented site, it allows one to see at a glance how many pages there are in the thread, and easily jump in at the second or third-to-last page.