Welcome to our new platform

brulaw

Plus one on the ' Well done ' , Like anything new it takes a while to settle down and to get used to , the team at gg HQ have put a lot of effort into the new platform and it's starting to pay off .

dtuxcomp

elli87 Great advice

Thank you, we are all trying to help one another get used to the changes 🙂

dtuxcomp

bvbc Wow this is going to take some getting used to, but well done to all involved.

It's quite a change at first so if you get stuck on anything just shout for help, we're all pitching in as we learn 🙂

dtuxcomp

greenfrogman Not if sure if I like the no page view way as I norm have it set to 50 posts per page now it's just a scroll bar (at least the site is screwing with text I am inputting as it completely broke mobile or chrome desktop auto correct on lithium forum you had old server)

The new infinite scroll is a great feature once you get used to it, on desktop there's a navigation section to the right of the thread which lets you see where you are in the thread, jump to the top or bottom and quickly scroll up and down, you can also access that on the mobile version, might be in the 3 dots menu, not sure.

dtuxcomp

rebelyell Those red box error messages are slowly thinning out, I find most of them can be ignored until each bug is fixed. When you've made your list post it somewhere on the forum and please give me an @ mention, I'll see if I can help you with some of it 🙂 or point you to fixes.

m0dcm

Why are the games coming up under General Discussions? This is the annoying part of the site! Is there any way you can keep the games to games and not both thread tags?
It's like putting Orange with chocolate... Terrible!
Other than that I'm happy with the new home....

Dave

harrrrrry

m0dcm

Yes, go to https://community.giffgaff.com/t/forum-games and change the Follow dropdown to Hiding/

chaaaan

Wow this is going to take some getting used to, but well done to all involved.

dtuxcomp

chaaaan

alexmccarthy1212

It does take a little bit of getting used to, but it's a lot better system underneath it all. If you get stuck or lost at all just shout for help, we're all learning as we go at different paces so there's bound to be someone who can help you out 🙂

alexmccarthy1212

arlettak

Personally, I prefer the previous look but I can understand the need for change. Only time will tell.

Thanks to all

alexmccarthy1212

dtuxcomp

Out of curiosty did they previously launch sort of a beta test platform for us to try out? I have seen alot of complaints against the new platform. Especially, the new kudos system.

m0dcm

That's the best part @dtuxcomp I'm not following the games at all, and I've double checked, just can't understand why I'm seeing annoying Games threads in with the general discussion thread tags, this never happened on the old platform, just on here.
Dave

harrrrrry

m0dcm I'm not following the games at al

The choice you need is Hiding rather than Not Following.

dtuxcomp

m0dcm I'm not following the games at all, and I've double checked,

As harrrrrry says, you need to go into the options for the games thread and select hiding I've done it and it means you don't see the main feed full of them, you can still go into the games threads section so it's perfect.

If you've not done it yet and are stuck let me know and I'll walk you through it, it's easier to do than it is to explain 🙂

m0dcm

dtuxcomp Cheers that helped a lot, will give this info to @daweski1981 so she doesn't see half the rubbish I like 😀 ah photos of the curtains etc soon to in a project thread and I'll tag you also 😀

Dave

dtuxcomp

m0dcm photos of the curtains etc soon to in a project thread and I'll tag you also

Brilliant mate, look forward to seeing them, still trying to catch up with all the pics of my daft projects but getting nowhere fast 🙂

7whales

Tuesday evening Sept. 10, I started a lengthy thread about 9/11/2001 and how it changed the world and affected me, while asking how, if at all, it affected others.
Compared it to Pearl Harbor too, on Dec. 7, 1941.

When done, and I hit the "Post Reply" button, all I got was the dreaded red, "What happened......", and told to refresh the page to have it post. That didn't work after several tries, and I couldn't copy and past since all that attempt brought up was the last two sentences and nothing more.

Won't bother to post any long posts as it seems to be a waste of time for me and my time is shortening every day.

Therefore I've given up on trying to post much on GG. Will stop by to read sometimes, and wonder at the amazing posts of numerals.

BTW, start backcounting from -3.

Waste of time.

7whales.

dtuxcomp

7whales Hi mate, sorry you lost a long post 🙁 I generally ignore those red box error messages, they are gradually being hunted down anyway. It's a bit belated but if you are planning to write a long -ish post I'd suggest either posting the first few lines then using edit to expand it once it's posted safe or occasionally highlight all the post and copy it to the clipboard in case it vanishes, on my system I can do that with

[Ctrl]a [Ctrl]c

That selects all and then copies it to the clipboard.

If you mean the notifications can show as negative numbers it's been reported, my personal best is -4 but I've been beaten by @jesi23 with -5 🙁 I think it was Jesi anyway 😉 🙂

I hope you are both doing ok, if you need to chat anytime give me a shout mate.

harrrrrry

7whales

If you have firefox, there's a useful extension Textarea Cache which automatically saves everything you write in a textarea (including flarum's compose area):

It works on most sites, not just giffgaff, and you can retrieve any recent text from the list and repost it, but I'm not sure if it works in mobile firefox.

frenchielove

7whales very sad to hear this, we can only hope it gets better and better, hope you are both well 🤗

jesi23

@7whales dtuxcomp If you mean the notifications can show as negative numbers it's been reported, my personal best is -4 but I've been beaten by @jesi23 with -5 🙁 I think it was Jesi anyway 😉 🙂

Yes, I had a -5 notifications (validated with screenshot!)

I think they might have solved that bug?

I hope you continue to post. The number of times I lost posts which didn’t save in Lithium when I was partially logged out was very frustrating. If anything, this platform is more stable than Lithium was after the so called ‘mobile responsive’ site was foisted on us just before Greg_b left us as Head of Community.

🤡

7whales

dtuxcomp

Morning@dtuxcomp, I hadn't needed to copy and paste too often on the former website, although I did so sometimes so as not to have to try re-writing a longish reply.

This new website is leaving me wondering why the need for so many extra clicks and steps, jut to reply to a comment, either directly to a person or in general. Easier previously, at least to me, imo.

7whales.

dtuxcomp

harrrrrry If you have firefox, there's a useful extension Textarea Cache which automatically saves everything you write in a textarea (including flarum's compose area):

Wow, nice find, I'll give that a try as I use Firefox exclusively, is it in the normal FF add-ons ?

EDIT:- Found it, yep it's there in the main add-ons menu.

2nd EDIT:- After a couple of browser restarts while I was doing other stuff it must have kicked in as it's now keeping a copy of each post 🙂 Well worth installing on Firefox, or seeking out an alternate for the other main browsers, although I could see anyone on a multi user set up might want to look into how secure it is and whether each user has their own cache.

janetihill

Sorry to hear about this

dtuxcomp

jesi23 I had a -5 notifications (validated with screenshot!)

Thank you, I knew someone had beaten my score but wasn't certain who it was, I do remember seeing the screen short you posted so can confirm your high score 😉 🙂

jesi23 The number of times I lost posts which didn’t save in Lithium

Snap, it got so bad sometimes, I'd either draft a long post in a text editor or keep using the save trick I mentioned above.

7whales

jesi23

Hi Jesi,

In all actuality, my post with the -3 in it had no real reference to a particular (what sounds like) rating system on here. Just a backhanded comment on the large number of posts on GD telling us to count up to, or down to, or sideways too, which is not of much interest to those seeking anything better to comment on, on GG. Guess it might be a way of trying to get Kudo's for posts on here, but to me it seems like a waste of good space meant for more interesting postings. Word is "Post Padding" I think.

7whales.