Posted on 03/04/2008 7:42:50 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
PLEASE don't just erase this thread; after all, I'm now just finding out another problem here - I can't start a thread but from the "Home" page, and it always assumes you're posting to "News/Activism". So there is no way I can go to Bloggers/Personal as I had intended, apparently.
So there's 1 problem and question - what happened there?
And what happened that some things have changed - including, I can't seem to get the various "forums" to show me latest posts as opposed to whole threads? (This was a question the other day right when things changed; should've pinged it because I can't find it now to see if questions are answered.) That's another problem - where is a forum for technical problems and questions? As it is, I can't think of alot of words for "problems" as Key Words to try to bring up other relevant threads, instead of making my own. So forgive me if this is repetitive.
I think that putting a post function by each subject was a really good idea!
Yeah. That part looks pretty slick.
I just wish there was a way to view the latest posts by those categories. (at least I haven't found a way to do that). It was nice before to be able to limit viewing to "news" without seeing the comments to chat/other threads. When things like the Oscars or Live Election threads come up, it's cumbersome to sift through all that.
In the top left, wasn’t there an option to “browse”? Now it says comments.
BUMP to that! I second that motion.
Thank you!
It’s also called........
RSS (Rich Site Summary), a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
But it never defaults to that. You can use the “button”, but it will only do that the 1 time you’re there. Apparently, no more defaulting - the default seems just plain IS “latest articles”, and you can’t change it.
I, for one, probably do take my FReepin’ a little too seriously. FR is my number one site to visit.
Thanks!!
Really Simple Syndication. I use it in my Firefox to check up on the latest stories without having to visit FR.
Try this in Firefox (if you have it). Click on the RSS link and it will show stories. There will be a button that says "Subscribe Now" and it will add a drop down in your bookmarks bar. If its not there, click View > Toolbars > Bookmarks toolbar and then you will see it.
Then all you have to do is click the drop down and all the latest stories show.
I can’t either and I thought something was wrong with me (blind or dumb!) that I couldn’t find “post” Finally I found it, on the home page, but then it posted in News.
blushing. duhhhhh
I see now. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's my big question, too. I always used that before, and the lack of it is driving me nuts!
if you get an answer please let me know - I have been wondering the same thing.
No answers are offered even when the mods are pinged, so this must be the way it is going to stay. It is much less convenient than it used to be since I don’t like looking at comments from all the forums at once.
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The news forum comments drown all the other forum comments out when all the comments are lumped together. I don’t see how taking the comments from individual forums away can possibly be any sort of improvement, unless it is desired to cut down on traffic on those other forums, which of course doesn’t make much sense so it could be I just don’t know how to get the comments from just one forum yet.
Freegards
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