Posted on 03/30/2002 4:00:16 PM PST by Texaggie79
This is Horrible. I can't stand this. I actually have to look to the other side of the page for the exact same links. There is different look to the site. This is just wrong. I'm calling my psychic!!!!!
It now tells me right when I get in if I have replies! That's so wrong! I liked to click on self search every minute to check if anything was new. I can't believe we have a choice of what topics we have on our sidebar!!! I want to be forced to accept Breaking News and Front Page only!!!
Change makes me paranoid!!! I can't stand having to take 2 minutes to get readjusted to the format. I'm gone GOOD BYE
Acltually, Mark is my name......
You've shown that you are resistant to change on this, and many other, boo-hoo threads.
milk/marshmello/white
I like the right sidebar. I like having the General Interest and News Activism options in the upper right. I like the generally clean look and style.
THANKS TONS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/656482/posts
provides a thread which should be helpful. I'll look around a bit . . . probably the opening screen . . . my shortcut is linked to the latest posts screen. . .
In the upper left corner you should see "Free Republic" in bold blue. Click on it. The opening screen comes up. Go down the left sidebar until you see logoff or some such. Click it. etc.
Actually, RonDog, I am really frustrated. I really can't figure out the new format and can't find my way around very well. I wish it would be simpler to understand like it was before.You are not alone!
Fortunately, Jim and John are working on it. As I posted on another thread:
Message from JIM ROBINSON about the "Easter revisons" to FR's BETA launch:"So this whole effort was to find the perfect FONT??? And perfect headline color? I am still annoyed and liked FR much better a month ago before all the changes..." - alisasny
"Acually, the exercise had nothing to do with finding the perfect font. We are in the process of expanding the forum software. We are going to be adding several new forums and new features over the coming weeks.Hooray for Plan B! Free Republic RULES!!! (Particularly now that you can READ it again.)
We added the left side menu bar so we would have a place to list the new forums as well as the new navigational tools that will be needed for the new features we are adding. We did not want to eat too far into the right hand sidebars so we added the new area. And we introduced the blue colored background (and flag image) to act as a separater to separate the new side bar from the text area. We also added a box around the center text area for the same reason.
Many people said the flag background made the page harder to read so we removed it. No big deal and no loss. They also said the font was too small, so we increased it. The blue background and the box around the center text was thought to make the page look too busy, so we went to an all white background, removed the box and left more white space as the separater.This actully would have worked very well for what we were trying to accomplish, however, we found that it would not work out for our WebTV users. Seems their browser is not very wide and our new left side menu was pushing their right sidebars off the page.
Ok, so we punt and go to plan B. We remove the left side menu and move most of the navigation tools back to the top of the page. We've now gone from two lines of navigational tools to three lines, and we've moved the list of forums back to the right sidebar. So, we will now try to find places to squeeze in the new links for our additional new features as we add them, without making any additional drastic layout changes. I think the current layout is functional and not all that cluttered or "artsy fartsy" as at least one complainant claimed.
Hopefully, it will work out well for most people.Sorry about the fire drill. Just keeping everyone alert. Hah!
Thanks, Jim"
See also:Freeper Help Thread (Ask Any Questions For The New Format)
Posted on 3/30/02 11:57 AM Pacific by Texaggie79
Ask any questions you have about the new forum here.
The correspondent box on the old interface allowed searches to be constrained in a way that is impossible using any of the current search functions. Using search syntax such as "to:SarahW" or "by:tinfoilcase" now only results in an error message.
Please also put a toggle in the self-search that allows a user to select which messages are seen. ("by", "to", "all")
MORE good news about the "Find in Forum" box at the top of each Latest Posts page:
It will now let you search articles by KEYWORD!!!This is a HUGE improvement, particularly once we have the ability to ADD keywords to articles.
I hardly ever used the search button (aka "experimental search engine) because it took longer to click on the button, leave the profile page, get to search form, fill in the form, and run the search than it did to simply type "by:freepername" or "to:freepername in the quick search.
(Not to mention, the search form had no way to find messages *to* any given freeper.)
The "to:freepername" search was fully functional up until Saturday. Only you have to enter the special syntax in the quick search box.
I was very relieved when the "experimental search engine" was finally implemented, to find that I didn't have to use it. The quick search still had full utility.
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