Curtis, I think you need to take some time to familiarize yourself with the new system.
I still can't work the quote system, but I have that problem everywhere, so I'm not blaming it on the system.
Familiarizing myself with the system would be a good idea, except that so many of its features are 'invisible', meaning that if you don't click around each screen, more or less at random, you'll never know which features are available and which aren't. I could've spent years using this thing and it never would've occured to me to click on 'posts' in the members sections. Now, if there was a manual that explained how the system works and what features are available...
Click on 'Members List' at the top of any page of the forums, it's in the blue bar at the top, along with the 'New Posts' button, et al. When the members list comes up, click on 'Posts'. Voila, you have members listed from most to least posts.
Thank you, it worked beautifully.
From the BDSM Library Stories Page, under the 'Library' tab at the top, on the drop-down menu, click on 'Top Reviewers'. That shows you the top 20 reviewers for the current and last month.
There's no archive of past reviewers, though, nor any way to list them alphabetically or otherwise, but I'm not sure why one would need to list the reviewers anyway?
Why do we need to list the posters? Why do we need to list the authors? I spent over an hour last night researching information on reviewers of two particular stories. Having a central repository of reviewer information, categorized in some of the same ways as the author and poster lists, would've made that a lot easier. Some of what I was trying to do wasn't even possible because the information was too inaccessible. Granted, it's been a year since the last time I needed this kind of information, but that's partially because I know it's not available, so I do without.
Again, this is something completely controllable by you. I don't know anything about Macs, but I know that different types of documents save with different file sizes. Saving your PMs as a text document will take up a lot less space than saving them as rich text or Word format documents.
I save by going to 'file', then hit 'save as'. This saves the entire screen. If I were to cut-and-paste, I'd save a lot of space, but it takes me over half an hour to save 60+ PMs now; cutting-and-pasting would more than triple that. The point is that the old screen shot was 12-16k, while the new one is 30+ (cut-and-paste is 4k). With several hundred PMs saved, that's a lot of excess space being taken up on my hardrive.
You should contact VBB Customer Support and let them know of that particular flaw. Personally, I find the 'New Posts' button to be more efficient than the "Next Thread' link.
The new post system is one of the few things that really works better than it did in version 2. The reason I don't use the 'New Posts' button is that I miss a lot of threads that way. For example, I got interrupted while typing this, and by the time I got back to it, all of the new posts had been wiped by the system. At least there seems to be a predictable pattern to when and why they get wiped now, while it was totally arbitrary (as near as I could figure) with version 2.
I don't know what's so complicated about it. Type in a member's name, or select 'send member a private message' from their profile page, type a subject and then type a message. That's exactly the same as it was before. Not one single change at all.
To reply, use the 'quote' button. It's the same thing as the reply button in the previous version. No change at all.
Yeah, there are changes, three of which I listed in my last post. Another is that the message input field is considerably smaller than it was before, so much less text is visible at a time, making it more difficult to navigate a lengthy PM (to edit replies, or move paragraphs around) and, as you know, I'm pretty likely to write a lengthy PM; even more so now, with the bigger message capacity.
Go to your user options and turn it off.
I went to user options, and I didn't see that listed as an option.
Gasp! Not a-whole-nother click. NO!!! ;)
That's on top of the other aggravations. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of "the straw that...".
??? Huh? I don't get any such thing. It might be something else you can turn off in your options.
Again, not in my options, not that I can see.
That button becomes infinitely more neccesary when you have six folders in your PM system, instead of just the Inbox and the Sent Items. Clicking the drop-down box and accidentally clicking the wrong folder, then being redirected to that page and having to go back to the drop-down again and select the correct folder is a nuisance and the one extra tenth of a second is hardly worth the complaint, I think.
Addendum: I went to my PM system after typing this and used the Inbox, Sent Items, et al. drop-down and discovered that I didn't actually have to use the go button. It is an automatic redirect.
It was the 'Download as:' drop-down that required the extra mouse click. Of course, that also allows you to decide what format you wish to download your PMs to your hard drive, thus lending to the file size issue brought up previously in this post.
And I had no idea that folders could be added. Not to be TOO sarcastic, but why would you want to add a folder? If you're trying to organize things better, how is that different from wanting a reviewer list? And how did you find out that you COULD add folders? IS there a manual somewhere that explains this stuff?
I tried using the PM system's downloading functions when we first changed over to version 3, but all three of them either took a lot of space or (plain text) looked as ugly as sin. Yeah, I know, bitch, bitch, bitch.
Nagging for the sake of nagging sucks. If it is something you have control over, then it shouldn't be done. LOL
Sorry, Curtis. I had to do it. :)
