Brand new community forum design - 3/30/21

Ps56k2

well... guess we have a totally new forum design to figure out, use, and support.

Pretty amazing that it happenedd in the middle of the day - not even overnight -

AND ... no warning, no Announcement, no Alert - nothing.... just ... here we are -
all FULL WIDTH and things moved all around -

Chris_QPW

For what it is worth, it looks nicer on my phone. 

Ps56k2

Chris_QPW said:

For what it is worth, it looks nicer on my phone. 

The web server can tell what agent is being used - and can send a totally different screen depending upon which browser, screen size, and platform is being used....

My laptop yields this -

Your browser name is : Netscape
Your browser version is : 5.0 (Windows)
Browser version number is : 5
Your browser code name is : Mozilla
Your user agent is : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0
Your browser supports JavaScript version : 1.5
Your platform is : Windows NT
Java Enabled : No
Cookies Enabled (IE only) : unknown
Browser language (IE only) : undefined
Browser minor version (IE only) : undefined

Screen resolution : 1280 x 800
Color depth : 24 bit
Available screen width (NS only) : 1070
Available screen height (NS only) : 532
CPU (IE only) : undefined

.......   and my iPhone....

Your browser name is : Netscape
Your browser version is : 5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser version number is : 5
Your browser code name is : Mozilla
Your user agent is : Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Your browser supports JavaScript version : 1.7
Your platform is : unknown
Java Enabled : No
Cookies Enabled (IE only) : unknown
Browser language (IE only) : undefined
Browser minor version (IE only) : undefined

Screen resolution : 375 x 812
Color depth : 32 bit
Available screen width (NS only) : 980
Available screen height (NS only) : 1659
CPU (IE only) : undefined

Chris_QPW

There is also two interfaces when is the standard web interface and then there's some mobile web interface.

The new mobile web interface is a little cleaner.  They haven't really changed any of the functionality just the interface.

The mobile interface doesn't have as many controls like being able to mark all the threads has read at the same time.

Haven't checked out the full standard web interface yet since I'm not at home since this changed.

Ps56k2

Yeah the mobile is clean and nice 

mshiggins

Ps56k2 said:

Yeah the mobile is clean and nice 

The main page is overflowing.  

Chris_QPW

I'm now on my home computer and I notice a control that I always use is gone.  There was a control to mark account the thread as read.   It wasn't on the mobile version, but it was on the standard web site.
It one of my main workflows.  Read through all that I'm interested in, and then mark the rest "read", and then when I come back and can quickly tell the ones that are new.

Has anyone found a way to do this on the new software?

volvogirl

Ah Ha!  On my desktop the ones I've read are now dim/grey and ones that I haven't read or have a new post on them are BOLD and it says "1 new" in blue in a box.  Just have to get used to the changes.

Chris_QPW

volvogirl said:

Ah Ha!  On my desktop the ones I've read are now dim/grey and ones that I haven't read or have a new post on them are BOLD and it says "1 new" in blue in a box.  Just have to get used to the changes.

That is true for me too, but there use to be a "Mark all read" in the menu at the top right of the window.  That menu is now gone.

I don't read every thread.  It was nice to read through the ones I was concerned about and then mark all read.
That eliminated a lot of reading the headers again to see if there was anything new to look at when I came in again.

Chris_QPW

I notice that on the announcements there is a ... and if you click that you get a "Dismiss".  Clicking that makes the announcement not appear when you refresh the window, which is nice.  I don't have to scroll over the announcements every time come in.

But is isn't on the normal topics/threads.  I wonder if it could be added?

Chris_QPW

I just noticed they also dropped the ability to look at your "comments".

It is something I would use to find a thread that I had commented on and wanted to reference it.
Now that is gone.

Ps56k2

yeah - mentioned in the other thread....

Jim_Harman

My Discussions is just ones you have started.

Try clicking the magnifying glass at the left of the search bar to open the Advanced search.

Then enter your name in the Author box at the right and click on Filter, leaving everything else blank, or narrowing the search if you want.

Quicken Sarah

Chris_QPW said:

I just noticed they also dropped the ability to look at your "comments".

It is something I would use to find a thread that I had commented on and wanted to reference it.
Now that is gone.

Hello @Chris_QPW

I apologize for any confusion, but the option to view your comments and your discussions is still available from your Profile.  It's just been moved to the right side of the view.


Hope this helps,

Sarah

Chris_QPW

Jim is right on both counts and I know I can use the search, but it was easier when there was a link/page dedicated to it.  I guess I will just end up creating a shortcut to the search configured to show the newest comments by me.

Chris_QPW

Quicken Sarah said:

Chris_QPW said:

I just noticed they also dropped the ability to look at your "comments".

It is something I would use to find a thread that I had commented on and wanted to reference it.
Now that is gone.

Hello @Chris_QPW

I apologize for any confusion, but the option to view your comments and your discussions is still available from your Profile.  It's just been moved to the right side of the view.


Hope this helps,

Sarah

Thanks Sarah, that is what I was looking for.

Jim_Harman

@Quicken Sarah

We SUs don't have the Comments option.

Chris_QPW

Jim_Harman said:

@Quicken Sarah

We SUs don't have the Comments option.

It took me a couple of tries to find it:
Click on your profile icon.
Then Edit Profile.
And then You will see this:


Now click on PROFILE

Obvious, right?  

Quicken Sarah

@Jim_Harman

I took the liberty of reviewing and I see the Comments option when viewing your profile



Do you mind testing this again for me, by please clicking on your icon at the top right, click on your profile picture in the menu that opens which will open your profile page.



You should then see the comments on the right, above the badges.

Sarah

Chris_QPW

Fast way.  Click your profile icon in the upper right, now click the one in the menu that pops down (the one showing in your screenshot).

Jim_Harman

Got it, thanks. Not very intuitive.

Ps56k2

and it shows up really weirdly on my desktop FF browser -

Chris_QPW

Yeah what do you mean not intuitive, it only took a moderator's post and three tries to find it.  

Jim_Harman

At least they could change the mouse-over prompt for the profile picture to View Detailed Profile or something rather than just your name.

Ps56k2

BTW - was there any kind of Announcement
pertaining to the totally new forum design rollout - in the middle of the day -

@Quicken Sarah

Quicken Sarah

@Ps56k2

One was posted in the Lounge - https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7891107/fyi-community-maintenance-tomorrow-3-30-21#latest

Sarah

UKR

Oh geez, with all these changes, why does it feel to my avatar, as if the water is getting deeper with every turn of the road?

UKR

Why not add a "My Comments" selection right here, in the Quick Links selection at the bottom of every discussion?

"My Discussions" is there, "My Comments" could and should be right there, too. No need to hunt and peck in the profile ...

Just need to scroll down a little ...

Jim_Harman

Interesting - I don't get the Quick Links menu at the bottom unless I make the browser window narrow. With a wide window, the menu moves to the right at the very top of the page - not very useful when viewing a long discussion.

The same thing happens when viewing recent discussions - wide window puts the Quick Links at the top right (where I want it when viewing the discussion topics), narrow moves it to the bottom where the oldest discussions are (not very useful)  

Maybe that is why they put the Quick Links at the right - so the part you are reading won't jump around if you change the window width.

Chris_QPW

On the plus side the Ask a Question is now on all pages and easy to find.

smayer97

Doesn't this site layout remind anyone of the old Intuit QLC forum?