Forum file tree question...

Why does every step in the forum index file tree take you all the way back to the overall forum?

There is is no intermediate point. You go from individual thread, back to the full forum index.

I believe that,"once upon a time" , you could back out a single step from a thread to it's parent category. (IE, from a thread about the VLC media player, to the sub forum, "software".

Is it supposed to be, "all or nothing"?

Um, is there anything that can be, or anybody willing to do something about the new emoticons? IMO (if that means anything), these are pretty incoherent. Plus, I dearly miss the "rolleyes" and "suspicious" jobbies. The ever popular, "facepalm" would be great too.

I know that with the old VBulletin software, there is a full range of interesting custom possibilities.

Sorry, but it's still not "right". (Whatever "right" means). If you're looking at a thread in "Hardware", then clicking "Hardware" in the file tree, should take you to a list of current threads in that category. Under the current protocol, clicking anything in the file path, damned near takes you back to the Firefox start page. (OK, that's maybe a bit of an exaggeration).

So, the file path works as listed on the way into an individual thread, and doesn't on the way out. Is that an aberration, or the grand scheme of things?

That notwithstanding, the emoticons are still almost undecipherable.

"Wants" is almost too strong a term. I come as a supplicant saying, "wouldn't it be cool if you were looking at a thread in say, "Mobile Computing", and when you clicked back to that sub-forum, "Mobile Computing", what you would see, is a list of currently active threads of that sub-forum. This makes sense as different members have different interests and different areas of expertise.

That said, I'd likely be one of the first people to campaign with a platform of, "quit complaining, it's only one extra click".

VBulletin does indeed provide that function, so the question mutates to this, (as per Julio's post), "what, if anything, would we have to give up to enable that functionality"? Or perhaps, "is it more trouble than it would be worth", since I freely admit, I have no idea how to go about it...... <Now can you honestly tell me, that's as good as "confused" could be made to look?

"Editorial and Site Feedback" is a category location within the main forum page. I would guess "Site Feedback and Suggestions" is only one sub-level from the main page.

Yes, it does. In my own defense, I was declared insane here quite a while ago, let's run with that.

Although, I would almost swear it wasn't, (or hasn't), been working like that. Maybe I was doing it wrong....maybe Firefox was crashed, perhaps I was under the influence of any one of a number controlled substances. The possibilities are endless. In any event I'm (truly) sorry for the bother.

I suppose it could have been a cache error in my browser? (pure wild guess / speculation)

Never mind, we don't have to change anything.

However, the emoticons still suck....(the contrast level seems woefully low). But here again, no need to pay me any mind.

I'm jealous, I haven't been declared yet but I'm working on it.

On the emoticons, I agree with captain. A few more would be nice. As it is there are so few, its hardly worth using them.

I did indeed edit that post several times after submitting it.

The "post posting" editing appears that it likely suspect that is causing the multiple alerts.

Which begets the question, "is the issue time dependent"? You have to wonder if I edited a post I made today, sometime tomorrow, would it still trigger an additional alert?

The emoticons still suck!

I edited this 4 times after the initial post, how many alerts have you received?

There, I "liked you", and quoted you.

What happens if you still only get one notification? Does that mean the software is afraid of you, or my PHD in "forensic incompetence", is finally starting to pay off....?

Edit.....

Otra vez....

And one more for good measure.....

I just thought I'd post this as an update on my original , "complaint".

Yesterday I lost the whole right column, (Current topics, user leader board, online now, etc.).

I had it in IE, but not in Firefox. Later, I lost it in IE as well!

So, I closed the browsers, ran CCleaner, rebooted, and voila, everything returned!

So, I just thought I'd drop you a line to let you know the problems I was having, were most likely related to browser cache issues. My bad, as the children say.

In my own defense, I wasn't hallucinating, it seemed very real at the time! But then again, so did the entire1970's....

OK Matthew here's the thing. Once I lose the right side info bar, it comes back if it "feels like it", without rhyme or reason. I tried zooming out until the view was a 1/3rd of the screen, no joy.

With that said, I'm getting pages with and without the side bar.

My monitor is in portrait orientation, so the resolution is 1920 vertical, and 1080 horizontal!

Don't know if that matters or not. Don't know if they're working on it ATM.

Right now, it's toggling back and forth between side bar, (in whole forum page), and no side bar, (in this thread page). Zooming out is having no effect..!