ConnieB
My girls with Anthony Daniels, SW Convention 2012
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2007
I hope that everyone will be patient with the Webmaster(s).....they have quite the daunting task here! My hubby is in IT and said it would be near impossible for them to move an entire forum the size of DIS to a new platform in less than a day.....and yet here we are! Does everything work.....nope, not yet...but it will. Is it different....oh yeah, but it is NOT insurmountable. I hate new software (funny coming from the wife of an IT dude, but seriously, I'm still using Frontpage for my website, because I don't want to learn something new if it ain't broke).
BUT.....this is the new reality for DIS, so I'll learn it....and I'll panic a little as I can't do something (like my subscriptions, which I would have cried if they were gone.....and I thought they were because they are NOT in the same place as the old board....but they ARE there, I found them....on the bar below my name but on the left, now called "Watched Threads". )
Let's try being patient with Webmaster....let him know what you miss, what you can't find and make suggestions (not demands) for improvements. I hope HIS patience holds out....but I have noticed several times when he has said things like "hadn't thought of that"....one in particular was to the color choices, someone with low vision needed more contrast...ok, in the zillion things he had to consider, he'd not thought of that one....but he's going to work on it. Does that mean it will be fixed today....maybe, but more likely it's on a mile long list of things he has to fix/tweak/find/create.....he even suggested reminding him. So give him a chance! At least we have our beloved boards up....and in a couple weeks everything will be running smoother and the tweaks will be made and by summer we'll have forgotten that there even WAS an old board.
Feature that I love!!!! as I type this long message it keeps saying "draft saved".....so no more long posts where something glitches and I lose the whole response! YEAH!!
BUT.....this is the new reality for DIS, so I'll learn it....and I'll panic a little as I can't do something (like my subscriptions, which I would have cried if they were gone.....and I thought they were because they are NOT in the same place as the old board....but they ARE there, I found them....on the bar below my name but on the left, now called "Watched Threads". )
Let's try being patient with Webmaster....let him know what you miss, what you can't find and make suggestions (not demands) for improvements. I hope HIS patience holds out....but I have noticed several times when he has said things like "hadn't thought of that"....one in particular was to the color choices, someone with low vision needed more contrast...ok, in the zillion things he had to consider, he'd not thought of that one....but he's going to work on it. Does that mean it will be fixed today....maybe, but more likely it's on a mile long list of things he has to fix/tweak/find/create.....he even suggested reminding him. So give him a chance! At least we have our beloved boards up....and in a couple weeks everything will be running smoother and the tweaks will be made and by summer we'll have forgotten that there even WAS an old board.
Feature that I love!!!! as I type this long message it keeps saying "draft saved".....so no more long posts where something glitches and I lose the whole response! YEAH!!