Post your tech glitches, errors, issues, etc. here.

otter back again, this time on Mr. otter's iPad. Wow, is this cool.



I see blue nav bars, a drop- down menu, breadcrumb trail, and even the + and - buttons to expand or collapse categories. I do NOT see a bright white page -- it's pale gray; the compose box and page markers are white. The font size and color are very functional.



This new format does seem to have been optimized for devices like the one I'm on now. Too bad I don't have an iPad or iPhone. (Mr. otter will want his back in abt 4 minutes, when it's my turn to drive.) Looks like those of us who aren't keeping up with the tech world are farther behind than ever.



I haven't had a chance to check the formatting on my laptop today. That will have to wait. Man, I want an iPad!



otter

I'm still having problems logging in from iPad (using Safari).  I can read active topics, but if I log in I just get a blank page.  Same if I try to use the Jump to a Forum button.  

Strangely, I can log in just fine from Safari from my iPhone.  Is there a setting I need to change? 

Re: the term "dashboard," I use a PC and didn't even know Mac used that term. I've seen it on several other websites to refer to the user's home/control center. Though I would guess I'm in the minority here as a Tumblr user, lol.

I still can't go from Back to Top.  Can go from Top to Bottom.  I have windows XP and other than that, I know nothing about my system. 

Back to the top and jump to the bottom work just fine for me.   I'm using Firefox 12.0 and IE9.

Ironically, although nothing else works for me with Firefox, "Back to Top" and "Jump to Bottom" have always worked. So, I can hop all over the page, but I can't navigate directly to other pages except via the "Menu" button.

Oh... I take that back. It turns out that I do have the + and - icons that allow me to collapse or expand forum categories, with both Firefox and Safari and on all the computers I've tested. Handy feature.  Unfortunately, I still do not have nav bars, drop-down menu, or breadcrumbs, with Firefox. I do have them with Safari, but I cannot post with Safari -- I keep getting an error message. That leads me to suspect the Compose box is not active in Safari, even though I can type and format text in it.

I've come up with a work-around:  I read the BCO Boards with Safari, and I compose and submit posts with Firefox.

<sigh>

otter

Oh my. I hadn't been on the boards for a brief while, and I come back and this format change is a horrible surprise. Can anyone direct me to the post where the mods explain why they decided to go against the commonsense rule of if it ain't broke, don't fix it? There is no easy way to scan topics, everything is considerably harder on my eyes. Please, as someone else has suggested, restore a "classic" version for people who find this new one abhorrent. Do we all really need more stress in our lives? You've made a sanctuary a completely unwelcoming place. I'm on a MacBook, using Safari.

I have another glitch....I wanted to see what windlass was referring to, so I clicked on her name and saw several comments under this thread.  Each time I clicked to view one of her comments, it kept bringing me back to her most recent comment. The only way for me to look at her other comments would be to SCROLL back (sigh...my finger is Charlie-horse from all the scrolling) on this thread...which I could have done in the first place.

Still waiting for a TABLE FORMAT.....  I'm on my desk top now, have to check with DH what operating system....

I have my last treatment in two weeks.

As my sixteen-month breast cancer journey comes to a close, it may be that the destruction of this board is what it will take to push me out of the nest to move on. It wasn't my idea, and I hadn't planned to leave, but I don't think I can ever come to love, or even accept, this new BCO.

After more than 3,000 posts (I am amazed just thinking of the time investment that represents), all that I loved about this place feels gone. What hurts even more is the overpowering sense that the people who run this site don't get what we are trying to say to you, and won't engage the issue with us. There has been no acknowledgement or recognition of our sense of devastation over these changes, a devastation that goes so far beyond the technical problems that they're not even in the same realm of discussion.

Why is this website here? Does it generate advertising for some corporate entity? Who is running this place? I never used to ask these questions, because I always felt it was "us." Owners and mods and techs and patients and friends all united in the common cause of support. But now I feel like there is an enormous chasm between "you," whoever you are, and the people here who I have come to love, the members breathe life into these forums day in and day out.

The ant-like focus on technical matters while our other concerns are swept under the rug and not responded to makes me feel that all of the emotional investment and time I put in here, thinking this was in part "my" place, was mistaken.

If that's really true, it's taking me a while to get it through my thick skull. I'm working to accept it and just move on. But I want the people who made this decision and who are so staunchly defending it to really understand the human cost of what you've done. I am sure I am not the only person feeling bereft this week.

On the "My Favorite Topics" page it no longer lists how many threads you have.

In "Active Topics" it does list right under the name:

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NOTE: Windows 7, Firefox 12.0