• Members 6 posts
    March 29, 2023, 8:44 p.m.

    I know it's early days but that categories page is impossible to navigate.
    I'm already losing the will to live trying to find forums/threads that might be of interest to me.
    If I can't find my way around (bearing in mind, I'm well versed in navigating the old DPR fora), newcomers will soon get fed up and stop bothering.

  • Members 217 posts
    March 30, 2023, 12:29 p.m.

    Another quick one...when someone replies to you a little number notification at the top like dpreview. A lot of websites are bad with this but dpreview got it right.

  • Members 146 posts
    March 30, 2023, 7:46 p.m.

    Yes, that's important.

    It's currently very hard to find responses and quotes referencing our earlier posts. Kinda hit and miss, especially since notifications still don't seem to be functioning either.

  • Members 217 posts
    March 30, 2023, 10:17 p.m.

    Same, I cannot see who has replied to me and have to manually go into my profile, find my last posts and click.

  • March 31, 2023, 2:27 a.m.

    Just bookmark dprevived.com/threads/subscribed/ for now - that shows threads you've posted to (as it "subscribes" you to them). You can also change to "my threads" if you want to see stuff you've posted. The icon to the left of each thread highlights if there's new posts you've not read.

  • Members 284 posts
    March 31, 2023, 3:25 a.m.

    Yes, otherwise we need to scroll the whole thread to see if there are replies.

  • March 31, 2023, 3:56 a.m.

    The icon beside the thread tells you if there are new replies (example below... when the icon is purple) - and you can also click on that to jump to the first new/unread post in the thread.

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  • Members 12 posts
    March 31, 2023, 5:56 a.m.

    Thanks for the offer. There are ideas on how to organise and finance. Ad-hoc payments now won't really help, I din't think - apart from anything, to accept them needs working through a payment system, which is part of the whole job of working through the infrastructure of this site. That's my next big job when I've managed to hand over the technical stuff.

  • Members 49 posts
    March 31, 2023, 7:42 a.m.

    cms, moodle? if i could downvote this I would 😉

  • Members 146 posts
    March 31, 2023, 10:06 a.m.

    You may have a good point, Jerome. But, FWIW, it's rather difficult to decipher when you add your text to a quoted reply from bobn2, sandwiched between his rejoinder and an earlier quote from WolfsHead. I suspect that only someone who's been following the thread closely would be able to unpack it.

    The convention here seems to be bottom posting (below all quoted content). Which isn't exactly easy to follow either, but it's a lesser evil IMO. ; )

  • March 31, 2023, 10:20 a.m.

    I not it's not ideal, but I think also that it's the best we can do currently with this software and the amount of organisation and effort that we have.

  • Members 435 posts
    March 31, 2023, 10:27 a.m.

    There's a lot of pressure and work going on in there folks. How about they finish what they need to do, post up their results, take a break and then they can work on the minor stuff.

    As the Rolling Stones say ........

    "No, you can't always get what you want
    You can't always get what you want
    You can't always get what you want
    But if you try sometime you'll find
    You get what you need"

  • Members 280 posts
    March 31, 2023, 10:35 a.m.
  • Members 208 posts
    March 31, 2023, 11:43 a.m.

    I'd very much like an Infra Red/UV photography section.
    This field can involve much more technical decisions than normal visual photography. A place to group together info & images from converted cameras would be more relevant than grouping them with their non converted cousins.

    From the photographers I've met in real life, IR photography is more popular than 3D imaging, so I'm confident it will be used beyond just me :)

  • March 31, 2023, 2:56 p.m.

    OK - done that for you. It's in "Descriptive Photography"

    Alan

  • Members 208 posts
    March 31, 2023, 3:13 p.m.

    Thanks Alan, I'd better put something in there then :)

  • Members 209 posts
    March 31, 2023, 5:14 p.m.

    Couple of [additional] things:
    - on the old site you can 'subscribe' to both threads and forums/categories. The latter seems to be missing here [unless I overlooked]
    - the wording for the button you subscribe with is rather weird, I wouldn't have guessed it's hiding behind 'disabled'. Something like 'not subscribed / subscribed / e-mail notif'?
    - there seem to be two categories with Printing in the title?
    Rather minor, a sign that you're doing well. Thanks for all the effort

  • March 31, 2023, 5:30 p.m.

    Subscriptions and notifications are being worked on.

    I've changed a title so that Printing doesn't seem to appear twice. It really is only there once. Thanks for making me look.

    Alan