It appears to work better than the previous forum - pages seem quicker to load than on the old forum!
It looks more tidy.
Good choice of stock avatars.
Minus points:
The font size is too small (like many of us on chemo, I have watery/sore eyes - recently lost most of my eyelashes which doesn’t help) - though as I type this reply, the font size seems larger than when I read the posts without logging in!
My uploaded avatar picture is much smaller than on the old forum.
And yes, I miss the Latest Posts, though I tend at look at the Secondaries section mostly.
But I was not involved in the extensive testing carried out by BCC before the forums were launched. Some of you must have asked for Latest Posts to be removed - and maybe some of you were asked about the font size and said you liked it.
features lacking - ‘latest posts’ Like lots of us I really miss this feature and can’t believe nobody in the test group wanted it to be kept.
font is too small and light- do we have the option to change it?
Is there anything to indicate when you have posted on a thread? Other forums have this feature as an arrow or different colouring on the icon beside the thread title.
Some more thoughts about this forum and this section.
1. At the moment this section “Welcome to the forum” is being used for two different purposes, (a) by people who have just signed up to the BCC forums, and (b) by those of us who have been using the forums for some time - I joined in Feb 2007 when we first got broadband! - and this might be causing some confusion. The sub-section “Forum site feedback” should maybe have its own separate section?
2. There has been much discussion about the Latest Posts section. I do understand the reasons why things were changed (though I personally think it should be restored). If you look in Latest Posts for a section, yes, you will see the latest posts — but again, if there have been several posts to the same thread, it appears several times… sigh… and there are only 5 “latest posts” anyway, and no button for “previous latest posts”!
What we need is “active threads”, I think. Anyone else understand what I am getting at?
When the last forum was introduced there was a whole of stream of people saying they wanted the latest post facility reintroduced - and after much teething trouble it was eventually reinstated. So why has it been done away with now ; (
Hi Bcc, I was just wondering whether we are supposed to get a email notification whenever we have a personal message (PM) ? As I don’t seem to be receiving any emails regarding PMs, even though often when I log in I will have a PM, I also didn’t get any email notifications for PMs on the last forum , though I still get all email notifications re any threads that I’ve subscribed too, Its a bit annoying sometimes ,as if I don’t log in regularly, I don’t know about any Pms that I may have ,and then I am late replying to them which I feel awful about.
Thanks for any help with this ,Linda x :womanfrustrated:
Hi Linda
I can only apologise and it’s not intentional I assure you, I have out your queries in my report and hopefully one of the team will be able to help you tomorrow, sorry for the delays in replying to you
Best wishes
Lucy BCC
Thanks, Anna! Here’s a few biscuits to pass around the team
I did wonder, when I posted about my old sent messages reappearing, why I hadn’t had an email notification of my recent message but I only noticed it when I logged in to post on another thread (I usually read the forums when I’m not logged in).
Here’s another issue that maybe the tech team could put on their to-do list? The font size when I’m typing this message is significantly larger than the font size of (text body of) posts which I read when I’m logged out. They should be the same, I think? Some of us users posted previously about the font change, which happened before the new forum went live.
I put in a request a few weeks ago for advice (was it on a thread called ‘Reconstruction Week’ and I asked if anyone had any ideas for what to do with redundant prostheses- Now I am looking for any answers and cannot find where the thread has gone- agh! I find this forum impossible to navigate easily- agh! This is probably why I stopped using it when it all changed- and will stop using it again! Agh!
I haven’t been here for a while and it’s all changed. I am afraid I found the old version of this Forum difficult to use, but now it’s worse! The category sections seem random and why these coloured blocks? Why not a normal vertical list?
Was trying to find a forum section on reconstruction but there doesn’t seem to be one.
I am sorry that you are having trouble finding your way around, the reconstruction threads are in ‘surgery’ in the ‘Going through treatment’ section on the home page, hope that helps
Help pls, despite seemingly having reregistered on my desk top computer i cant find “me” nor messages or posts i have made. To search on my phone is tricky and impractical.please help , thank you
