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

Still playing around with the new format and noticed that it's an option to send a private message to a "Blocked User". Not a big deal, just odd. I'm pretty sure it wasn't like that before.

ETA: Lago, mine still show up.

The one comment I have is to make the bars separating the catagories stand out more, I  can hardly see them and it makes it difficult to find the topics..

nowheregirl- THANK YOU!  So much better- more like a soft gray/blue on my Mac!  I can see again!

Edited to say- BCO looks so much better but when I hop over to Facebook now my photos look too green.  Do I need to keep changing back and forth? 

The main problems seem to be.......the dreadful scrolling to find threads and the dreadful colour of the pages.

Both these things make reading and posting a painful and stressful experience for the majority of us.

I want to second what SoCalLisa said, and expand it to ask that all the lines marking transitions between posts, between forums, and between categories of forums, be made more prominent. Here are examples. Again, I apologize for the poor resolution; this is the best I can do with a Mac screen capture --> upload into Photobucket --> import into BCO.

The gray bars marking the category headings (e.g., "Day to Day Matters" in the image below) are too light (too little contrast with the main background color). Even though the category font is a different size and color, it's still too easy to miss passage into a new category as we're scrolling through the 20+ pages of forum titles:

The fine gray lines between the forum titles are too faint. (See above, and also see the image below). If those lines were more prominent (darker color, or thicker line), it would be easier to see the break between forums on the 20+ pages of forum titles:

Finally, the fine gray lines between the individual posts on a forum are also too faint. If those lines were thicker and/or darker, the transition from one post to another would be easier to see. The same comment applies to the lines before and after the member's sig line following the post.

I'm pretty sure all those lines were much more prominent in the previous Board format. It's a subconscious thing, but a reader's eyes really need better cues than we're being given in this new format, to help our minds organize the massive amount of content on the pages.

OTOH... is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing, or are the gray bars and fine lines more prominent on your screens?

otter

(still unhappy about the lack of navigation features with the version of Firefox I'm using on my MacBook Pro and on Mr. otter's iPhone 4s, and my inability to post comments with the version of Safari I'm using on my MacBook Pro)

I think before they were indented also so our eyes can differentiate them

Not a complain but a question...

I think DX part at the bottom of the post is too long....some are 6 lines and you can actually miss the post itself.

and I'm pretty sure that previously there was a slight difference in colour between each post (alternating colours), which also made it so much easier on the eye.....

The chief beneficiaries of this, as far as I can tell, are mobile users. But to bet on that 25 percent market for BCO is not good strategy. Maybe for Facebook - not here. This is an older, more conservative, not necessarily tech savvy crowd of people who want the chance to communicate at some length without too much pomp and circumstance, about a traumatic event in their life. It is also a less-than-healthy crowd. Many of our members probably rely on assistive technology in some way. I am not trying to portay as senile old geezers, but we ain't computer science geeks either. This is not geared towards the BCO user.

I happen to like more than what I dislike, but the big Faux Pas was in not bearing in mind the demographics you are dealing with. We are not your teeny-bopper social networkers. Many here wouldn't even be using a 'puter if it weren't for cancer.

I hope this serves as a lesson for next time.

I am also dismayed by the fact that our chief concerns have always been:

--customizing with threads or forums we see or block

--making sure it is easier for people to see when they are posting on Stage IV. 

....and you folks continue to skirt those issues. Which begs the question that others have asked: WHO did you do this for???? Your 25 percent mobile users? Don't they already have a BCO app?

I think that in a health-related board the sensible and sensitive thing would have been to err on the side or ease of dialogue for the sickest amongst us: the stage IV person who may spend the most time at home, be more likely to have a laptop or desktop (big screen, in other words) and be in most need of support - not the traveling career women type. Besides, many of us use more than one device, so catering to mobile was off, to me.

I do like the feel of this on my devices, but I'm disappointed that this was a missed opportunity to address some of the grievances many women have had. We get an inefficient "dashboard" PLUS private messages PLUS my profile. Customization and personalization that aren''t needed....but we can't do something as simple as block a thread or forum. We'vebeen asking for that for years.

I'm not going to blame you, mods. For all we know, you have been fighting for us and have been overruled by some clueless bean counter. In fact, I wager that you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I post this here so that those clueless twits above you see what they messed up. :-) For all we know, it was some development dweeb listening to some marketing nincompoop....

I'm sick of shit floating to the top. That's why I resigned from my present job three weeks ago and am set to leave it in June. So, mods, if it's some of that floating substance you have to kowtow to, and if THAT's why you can't be fully candid, my very sincere condolences.

I don't know if someone else has posted this or not, but when I use the spell check feature to correct a misspelled word, it jumps to the end of the post and I have to scroll back up to find where the next correction needs to be.  

Thanks! 

Sheila....I did not notice it doing that before on my computer.  Maybe I just "misremembering".  Thanks!

Here's my list - EVERYTHING ):

Yesterday and today I keep having to log in even though the remember me is checked. Wasn't a problem before. I'm on MacBook and using Firefox. Thanks.