Administrator Popular Post Architecht Posted February 15, 2017 Administrator Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2017 Hi all, This is a little jump-start package of tips to help people navigate the boards quickly. FIRST - YOU MAY WANT TO TURN ON SIGNATURES (while logged in, click "Forums" -> "My Settings" -> "Signature Settings" in the main menu) SECOND - YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE YOUR THEME (under the "theme" drop down at the very bottom of pages and on the left) THIRD - YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE THE WIDTH OF THE SITE (by clicking the pencil icon at the top) Customize those preferences as you like THEN: GETTING TO UNREAD POSTS IN A THREAD You just click on the black dot / star to the left of the thread title to go directly to the new stuff. You will notice that there is a red line separating the new stuff from the stuff already read. (p.s. it's a star if you have posted in that thread yourself) GOING TO UNREAD REPLIES IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE This doesn't work. The vendor removed the ability to do this. Currently don't know if they have plans to fix it.Click the black dot from the pop-up you get from the envelope at the top. NOTE: This currently does NOT work from the full InBox page. We have filed a feature request to fix this.For the technically minded among you, you CAN just paste this: ?latest=1 onto the end of the URL for a private message and it jumps you there, but that's a pretty difficult way to handle it. Better to just use the black dot from the envelope view. REPLYING TO A POST AND THEN GOING BACK TO READING You can hit the Quote link at the bottom of each message to reply. After you save your reply, you'll be at the end of the thread staring at your new message, but you might not have read all the remaining messages in the thread. Just click the swoopy arrow on the right side of the post you quoted and you'll jump directly back to where you left off. GOING TO THE TOP OF A PAGE In the lower right hand corner of your screen you will see a red arrow inside of a circle. If you click that you'll be automatically sent to the top. GOING DIRECTLY TO THE LIST OF FORUMS There are a few ways to do this. First, you can use the bread crumbs in the upper left / lower left of the page that show you where you're at, and just click on the level you'd like to visit. Second, you can go to the top of the page, click "categories" and move around that way. GOING STRAIGHT TO A SINGLE FORUM On most pages directly to the right of the breadcrumbs you can find a link that says "Jump To". This allows you to pick a forum from the drop down, click away and hit Go and jump directly there. VIEWING LOTS OF POSTS IN A SINGLE LIST In the menu at the top you will find "activity streams". This offers you various ways to view new content across mulitple forums in a single list. NOTE the expanded / condensed view in the upper right of these pages. ALSO NOTE: Under "My Activity Streams" is the ability to create your own stream, made up of just the forums you care about. It's really sweet.MAKE SURE you click on the gear icon next to choices like content types to get cool extra options, like narrowing by the forum. JUMPING TO NOTIFICATIONS When you get a pop up alert, like about a private message or being quoted - you can click it and go straight there. EMOTICONS Hover over emoticons where ever you see them for a reminder of the text code to quickly add them to a post without needing to click on the emoticons menu. ALSO, use the "categories" drop down in the emoticons menu to quickly find the one you are looking for. FOLLOWING A CONVERSATION If you read a quote in a post and then the reply, but you don't understand the context, use the swoopy arrow on the quote to go to the post they replied to, and see what THAT post quoted. Keeping doing that until you're all caught up. MAKING A POST SOMEWHERE WITHOUT HAVING TO JUMP THERE FIRST Use the Create menu at the top to quickly make a new piece of content WHEREVER you would like to make it, without having to navigate to that section first. SEARCH Hover over the magnifying glass at the top on the right for a quick search box you can click in, without having to use the whole search form. Click it to get a more advanced search. NOTE: a search will currently only search the most recent FOUR of years of content - if you need to find older content you can use a google search with this as the first search term-- Site:www.cgccomics.com/boards QUOTING PART OF A POST Highlight some text in a post if you only want to quote SOME of it, OR if you want to quote that post AND whatever they quoted then highlight ALL of it. Then hover over your selection and click the quote hover menu. HOVERING Lots of things give you features by hovering. You can see the first and last post in a thread by hovering over it. You can ignore a user by hovering over them (no, not me!). Try hovering. You never know what coolness you will find. EMBEDING YOUTUBE Just paste the link. The boards will embed it for you like magic. READING THE NEXT UNREAD POST Underneath the reply box once you have reached the end of a thread, to the right is a link that will just move you to the next unread thread. To the LEFT is a link that takes you back to the topic list. JUMPING TO DIFFERENT SPOTS ON A THREAD (credit: LazyBoy) Clicking on the thread title takes you to the start of the thread. Clicking on the circle (or star) 1 takes you to the first unread post. Clicking on the page number 2 takes you to the start of the that page. Clicking on the time of the last post 3 takes you to the last post. RESPONDING PIECE BY PIECE TO A QUOTED POST Put your cursor into their text just after the part you want to respond to and hit enter twice. This will split up the quoted post so you can respond to various pieces. I made this text an announcement so that it can be see across all the forums, but I'll post it here too so you guys can compl uh, ask questions about how to do other things. MagnetoWasRight, MusterMark, MBFan and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameIsLegion Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 you should just make that whole post into your sig line. Architecht 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitmusicblue Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 perfecto, wizard !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted February 15, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted February 15, 2017 34 minutes ago, Architecht said: READING THE NEXT UNREAD POST Underneath the reply box once you have reached the end of a thread, to the right is a link that will just move you to the next unread thread. To the LEFT is a link that takes you back to the topic list. Added this Jayman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Popular Post Architecht Posted February 16, 2017 Author Administrator Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2017 Turned on the Like button (in the quote bar on the right). Let's see if I can get 50 likes on the thread starting post, and see what it looks like when a very liked post gets highlighted! Plus, I really think this content will help people. ender, Bunky Brian, tomo and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazyboy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 18 minutes ago, Architecht said: Turned on the Like button (in the quote bar on the right). Let's see if I can get 50 likes on the thread starting post, and see what it looks like when a very liked post gets highlighted! Plus, I really think this content will help people. Yes, this is great! It should at least cut down on some of the repetitive questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 (edited) I'm curious if the "like" button is going to give off notifications to other board members, I want to "like" stuff, but too many notifications at one time may annoy.... I like to like stuff haha if only I was so popular to be annoyed myself My apoligies in advance to those whom suffer my kindness wrath EDIT: on second thought I shall declare my sarcasm because I don't know if it was deteced, I sense that people are going to get the "ignore" button from people; liking and notifications-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited February 16, 2017 by ADAMANTIUM Architecht 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted February 16, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted February 16, 2017 33 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said: I'm curious if the "like" button is going to give off notifications to other board members, I want to "like" stuff, but too many notifications at one time may annoy.... I like to like stuff haha if only I was so popular to be annoyed myself My apoligies in advance to those whom suffer my kindness wrath EDIT: on second thought I shall declare my sarcasm because I don't know if it was deteced, I sense that people are going to get the "ignore" button from people; liking and notifications-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can adjust whether you want to be notified of Likes on the notification settings page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Should I use "protection" while short-cutting "navigation"?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethal_Collector Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Jerome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RWB Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 How do we remove the wasted space on the right column? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 How do we prevent the obnoxious pushed notifications pop-up? Firefox has instructions but they don't work for your site. Overall, a rather klunky re-imaging that might look fine on toy phones, but is sloppy on a large monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted February 20, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted February 20, 2017 7 minutes ago, RWB said: How do we prevent the obnoxious pushed notifications pop-up? Firefox has instructions but they don't work for your site. Overall, a rather klunky re-imaging that might look fine on toy phones, but is sloppy on a large monitor. Just go to your notifications settings and adjust them how you would like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 14 hours ago, Architecht said: 14 hours ago, RWB said: How do we prevent the obnoxious pushed notifications pop-up? Firefox has instructions but they don't work for your site. Overall, a rather klunky re-imaging that might look fine on toy phones, but is sloppy on a large monitor. Just go to your notifications settings and adjust them how you would like them. I can't seem to find the toy phone tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Being one that likes upgrades, I'm ok with the new format. Have a technical question. How do I make the <> button function correctly. For instance, I have html code that I want to convert to the proper format. Here is the code I insert after pressing the <> button: <b>Wonder Woman #101</b><br> October 1958 <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101_zpsofq3irnv.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101_zpsofq3irnv.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo ww101_zpsofq3irnv.jpg"></a> <br><br> Although I haven't rated any of these issues, this issue would get high marks for art and story. Pure SA fantasy at its best!<br><br> First story: "Undersea Trap!" <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101a_zpssuytbzuz.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101a_zpssuytbzuz.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101a_zpssuytbzuz.png"></a> <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101b_zpsetp8rkjv.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101b_zpsetp8rkjv.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101b_zpsetp8rkjv.png"></a> <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101c_zpsxdbz78ch.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101c_zpsxdbz78ch.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101c_zpsxdbz78ch.png"></a> <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101d_zpsvam8hw9q.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101d_zpsvam8hw9q.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101d_zpsvam8hw9q.png"></a> <br><br> Second Story: "Fun House of Time!" <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101e_zpspkedssww.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101e_zpspkedssww.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101e_zpspkedssww.png"></a> <br><br> <a href="http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101f_zpstnkvrhxu.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101f_zpstnkvrhxu.png" border="0" alt=" photo ww101f_zpstnkvrhxu.png"></a> <br><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted February 21, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted February 21, 2017 4 hours ago, tabcom said: Being one that likes upgrades, I'm ok with the new format. Have a technical question. How do I make the <> button function correctly. For instance, I have html code that I want to convert to the proper format. Here is the code I insert after pressing the <> button: The code tags are for displaying code without having it render. Actual HTML is disallowed on the boards in order to prevent hacking / abuse --- not that you would do it, but it's kind of an everything or nothing proposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 (edited) Is it possible html posting is disabled? I guessed it as you were posting. Edited February 21, 2017 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted February 21, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted February 21, 2017 1 minute ago, tabcom said: Is it possible html posting is disabled? You could convert it to IPB code like the code below - and can even use a converter like this one. [b]Wonder Woman #101[/b] October 1958 [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101_zpsofq3irnv.jpg.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101_zpsofq3irnv.jpg][/url] Although I haven't rated any of these issues, this issue would get high marks for art and story. Pure SA fantasy at its best! First story: "Undersea Trap!" [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101a_zpssuytbzuz.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101a_zpssuytbzuz.png][/url] [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101b_zpsetp8rkjv.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101b_zpsetp8rkjv.png][/url] [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101c_zpsxdbz78ch.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101c_zpsxdbz78ch.png][/url] [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101d_zpsvam8hw9q.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101d_zpsvam8hw9q.png][/url] Second Story: "Fun House of Time!" [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101e_zpspkedssww.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101e_zpspkedssww.png][/url] [url=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/tabcom/media/SA%20WW/101/ww101f_zpstnkvrhxu.png.html][img=https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/tabcom/SA%20WW/101/ww101f_zpstnkvrhxu.png][/url] Which looks like this: Wonder Woman #101 October 1958 Although I haven't rated any of these issues, this issue would get high marks for art and story. Pure SA fantasy at its best! First story: "Undersea Trap!" Second Story: "Fun House of Time!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 (edited) Great! Thanks for the tip. IPB works for me. Edited February 21, 2017 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
