Announcement Welcome To The New BYC!

[sunflour]

Often a new-to-BYC poster hitchhikes on an OPs thread

There's nothing anyone can do about that - but when I see them I "hint" with they should do an intro in new members area

 

[BantyChooks]

My romance with the new BYC is in full heat. I love-love-LOVE it! My very, most favoritest thing is the "Alert" feature. Nothing, but NOTHING, gets missed! No telling how many threads I lost track of with the old site.

Only one thing I'm having a somewhat awkward problem with. It would be very helpful if the original poster could be identified down-thread so we can structure our replies. Often a new-to-BYC poster hitchhikes on an OPs thread, and it's difficult to keep track.

I love alerts too. It's a nice shortcut to your subscriptions, so no constant refreshes needed.

 

[Blooie]

After a bracing cup of morning tea, I went to the alert preferences and as it turns out I pretty much left all the settings as they were. The only one I eliminated was the one that tells me when someone "likes" my posts.

I think I would have liked the alerts if it didn't gray out almost as soon as it's opened, because this old brain rapidly lost track of which one's I'd clicked on and I hated having to try look down the list trying to remember if I should be looking at the first 4 or 6 or whatever. Why should I bother with that when I can just click on watched threads and know immediately?

I don't know where all this "having to refresh" stuff is coming from...once I click on a watched thread, catch up, and then go back to watched threads for the next one, the one I read is gone from the list anyway. If I click on "see all" then any I haven't read are highlighted and the ones I have are lighter. If the alerts had that function, maybe I'd like them better but they don't so I pretend they don't exist and I'm gradually restoring my teeeny remaining sanity.

 

[azygous]

I think Blooie needs a hug.Many of us old farts are hoping our waning brain doesn't completely give out before we're done needing it.

 

[sunflour]

I think Blooie needs a hug.Many of us old farts are hoping our waning brain doesn't completely give out before we're done needing it.

X2 here's another hug

 

[aart]

After a bracing cup of morning tea, I went to the alert preferences and as it turns out I pretty much left all the settings as they were. The only one I eliminated was the one that tells me when someone "likes" my posts.

I think I would have liked the alerts if it didn't gray out almost as soon as it's opened, because this old brain rapidly lost track of which one's I'd clicked on and I hated having to try look down the list trying to remember if I should be looking at the first 4 or 6 or whatever. Why should I bother with that when I can just click on watched threads and know immediately?

I don't know where all this "having to refresh" stuff is coming from...once I click on a watched thread, catch up, and then go back to watched threads for the next one, the one I read is gone from the list anyway. If I click on "see all" then any I haven't read are highlighted and the ones I have are lighter. If the alerts had that function, maybe I'd like them better but they don't so I pretend they don't exist and I'm gradually restoring my teeeny remaining sanity.

Exactly!!

The refresh thing is that you I can't back page like with 'subscriptions' and it's automatically 'refreshed'. I have 'All Watched threads' as a tab on my browser and hit it every time I go back to list to read next thread...so that 'newest post dot' goes away from the just rad thread. It's so hard to explain...and everyone's computer/device works differently. <rollseyes>

 

[Blooie]

All hugs gratefully accepted...although cash is preferred!

 

[DuckLady]

My romance with the new BYC is in full heat. I love-love-LOVE it! My very, most favoritest thing is the "Alert" feature. Nothing, but NOTHING, gets missed! No telling how many threads I lost track of with the old site.

Those alerts are keeping me on BYC far longer than I should be. I'm afraid I will miss something.

 

[casportpony]

Those alerts are keeping me on BYC far longer than I should be. I'm afraid I will miss something.

I noticed they were having the same effect on me!

 

[azygous]

Yes, DL, I noticed that, too. It's sort of like a Pez dispenser.