I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Mods , here is my story. I alternate between 2 pc desktops with internet explorer. I see nice calm hues that are easy on the eyes. Text coumn much too short. I like the font.
I have an android smartphone - mobile experience is an improvement, definitely.

HOWEVER: One annoying part about ther mobile version is that you have to keep pressing on "Menu" in order to get the drop-down list of topics. Could the menu just stayed dropper down?

But - the only small font is the posting box at the bottom - everything else looks the same as home.

Thanks, Athena. But it cuts things out when you enlarge the font.

Otter, here are my screen grabs of the navigation tabs and the empty space on the left.

Riley, thanks!  The trouble I've been having is with Firefox, so earlier this afternoon I logged on with Safari.  Voila!  Everything looked like it should, with nav bars and the gray column and drop-down menu -- just like your screen shots.  Oddly, it's a very old version of Safari that came with this Mac laptop and has never been updated... yet, it works better for the Boards than my more recent version of Firefox.

Athena, after you said you saw the nav bars disappear when you increased the font size with CTRL+, I tried the opposite.  I clicked CTRL- a whole bunch of times, thinking maybe I could get the nav bars to appear (much like the Mods said to try resetting or decreasing the zoom).  Nada.  The print got smaller and smaller and finally reached a maximum smallness, but no nav bars showed up.

I'm getting neutral about it all.  I figure if I'd just landed here today, I wouldn't have known there were changes unless I stumbled across the threads in the "Comments" forum.  But, as a newbie, it's not likely I would be wandering around in that part of the Boards.

MIL was supposed to be getting out of the hospital and going home today.  The plan seems to be to have her home aides stay with her full-time for awhile, until we know how much she can manage on her own.  It's looking like she probably won't be able to stay in an independent living facility by herself anymore, but we won't know for sure until she tries (with lots of oversight).

I hope everyone is having a nice evening (or morning).

otter

Riley - they've removed that feature but not until after I archived all 44 of them

Bren, I think that's why I've not received any articles and am glad of it.  I couldn't figure out why everyone but me was getting articles.  Not complaining about that though.

What does that red box by Favourites indicate?  It's driving me nuts.  I've been deleting favourites (a very slow process) and the number hardly goes down.

I do not like all this scrolling.  I used to see so many posts on my screen and now........just a few at a time.

Sorry to vent here.  Lol, it's the first one that came up in my favourites.

Thanks Lassie, I just spent the last 20 minutes going through my favourites..............reading, deleting and the funny thing is, I had more favourites now since the changeover.  SO, I've read and weeded and the number in the red box is finally low.  To be honest................it drove me nuts.  Or should I say nuttier. 

I guess my brain doesn't like to have to work too much.

Hugs all.  Oh and sorry if my post raised your number in the red box.

Congrats Marple!!

The articles thing was suspended due to a flood of complaints - yey!

Glad you had a nice visit Bren.

Did anyone notice that car wreck of a thread on stage IV? Not posting to men? I've about had it with people coming to support forums announcing to all whom they will NOT support and speak to. That --not some supposed sexual impropriety-- is not just self-centered and rude, it is simply TMI!! "I'm just speaking my mind" excuses are unacceptable in such instances, IMO.

Athena, who is NOT "just saying' "

Otherwise, nice day.

Guess what girls - Busker Tim was finally back today after a long absence - ever since the Occupy people were camped in the square. Boy did I have an enjoyable lunch hour reading and listening to live music. He didn't have his mouth organ with him so he couldn't play my favourite Neil Young songs - he's better have it next week

I agree Sandy. Why announce your intention not to respond to a man posting, unless it is to hurt someone. Why just -- NOT RESPOND! Block the posts from men. Don't talk about anything you don't want in public because -- GUESS WHAT?!?!!! -- these are public fora and all kinds of men can come here and read whatever they want. Hugs those who were hurt by that... I value the contributions of the men who post on these boards, and I hope that they find hope and help and comfort from what they read here.



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((((((((Rosemary)))))))

Sun - great news - sounds like some of the tests you had definitely weren't accurate. Bummer you've had to go through all that worry.

I agree - the font is way too big - too much blank space - driving me crazy and making me want to get off after a very short time.

Hi Everyone!

It was a beautiful day.  I mowed a couple of the lower fields and they look so pretty.

Rosemary .. Sending hugs.  I am so sorry about your friend.

Sunflowers .. I do not like the format here.  Not enough posts per page and it's a pain in the ass doing all this scrolling. 

Athena .. I read that Stage IV thread you were talking about.  I met a wonderful man on BCO who was Stage IV.  Turns out we lived in the same town and got to be long time friends.  It was very comforting for his daughters when I attended his funeral.  I also had lots of emails we had sent to each other that I forwarded to his girls.  They enjoyed reading the words their dad had written.

The thread that's really irritating me is the Insurance thread in the Advocacy Forum.  There is one in particular who posts about something she knows nothing about.

I got some really bad news the other day.  My best friend who has been Stage IV since October got the results back of her scans.  She's been on Faslodex for five months and it didn't work.  Her bone mets increased in size and amount.  She'll have to start a chemo treatment soon.  My heart is breaking.

I hope everyone enjoyed their day,

Bren