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  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Bob- I can't even keep up with the dozen or so I'm already subscribed to! I.e. Future Models II = 688 unread! Argh!

    -Frank P.
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    You'd better get on the ball! You're going to flunk Subie 101 if you're not careful! ;)

    Bob
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Where do you find the "All", Bob?

    -juice
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    When you enter "TH," select "Owners Clubs" from the pull-down menu; then select "Subaru;" then towards the bottom, select "Display ALL Subaru Discussions in All Boards."

    Bob

    /WebX?ed_displayMakeModelRelatedDiscussions@@.ee9204a!make=Subaru&model=All
  • kate5000kate5000 Member Posts: 1,271
    disclaimer: I did not read the TH instructions (yet)!
    These are the steps I go through, to get the same display as I'm used in older version of TH:

    1. Login
    2. Scroll to Owners Clubs section
    3. Click View All Discussions (under Owners clubs)
    4. Click on Subaru crew link
    5. See all the Subaru-related discussions, both from Owners club and SUV/Wagons/Sedans boards
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    another glitch with this new format:

    As I've mentioned before, I view the Subaru topics as "Display ALL Subaru Discussions in All Boards." When I (used to) post a message in any of the displayed topic—and when I wanted to return back to "ALL," it would send me back to the default forum, whatever forum that was. Well that's been corrected.

    However, now if you post and then "edit" that post, it will still send you back to the default forum. It's very frustrating, because you have to click on several links before getting back to where you want to be in the first place.

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Could you post that in the Town Hall Redesign 2002: Tell Us Your Thoughts discussion? The site developer, johnv, has been addressing members' questions, suggestions, and making changes if possible.

    Thanks!

    KarenS
    Host
    Owners Clubs
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Done!

    Bob
  • bluesubiebluesubie Member Posts: 3,497
    no longer displays all Subaru discussions.

    edit: Nevermind. I was clicking Display all under Owner's Club's.

    -Dennis
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    bookmarked before, and am using the same link. I see basically no difference in the topics that come up.

    Bob - I did try All Subaru. Kind of a waste land. Saw your (& Mike's) posts on the "Are All New Subi's Terrible", or something like that....
    Gave up and went back to the few that I haunt.

    Steve
  • lark6lark6 Member Posts: 2,565
    General observation: What's with all the "Subaru [model] vs. [your car/truck/SUV/power tool here]" threads of late? The Acura RSX-S v. WRX thread is turning into a real flame war. Honda, VW, Volvo, Saturn, BMW, Audi owners feeling all prickly. Is it the weather or do people just want to come into Town Hall's Subaru fora spoiling for a fight?

    Everyone needs to remember that somewhat offensive adage about arguing on the Internet.

    Ed
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I'm not familiar with it, can you e-mail it to me?

    The only reason I can think of is that Subie folks tend to stick together, so maybe the others get defensive?

    -juice
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Somebody please feed the hampster!

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    I know. :-(

    We are operating on a backup server. Hopefully it won't last long.
  • beachfishbeachfish Member Posts: 97
    That explains it. I didn't know Yugo made servers :)

    I've got an old Leading Edge Model D with 640k, an RGB monitor and two 5.25" floppy drives you can borrow.

    John
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    must have overslept this morning. I'm only now being able to log on...

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Hmmm...I haven't noticed any problems...yet.
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    leaves about a 1 3/8" gray border, left and right on my screen. The net effect being that the Edmunds site is now about 2 3/4" narrower than before!

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    When the redesign goes live, there will be a discussion in News & Views dedicated for members comments. I'll provide a link when it is available.
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Every time I log on I get the new format, and in all cases, I still can't get a full-width screen image!!

    BTW, I posted this complaint on the "comment" spot that comes up when I log on. Still, no progress. Very frustrating...

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Technically, no. You seem to be stuck in beta-land. If you bookmark a link to http://townhall.edmunds.com/ you will not see the beta site.
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    Eh... Karen
    as I write, I'm in beta-land.
    Every now and then I get sucked into beta-land, like now.

    -Dave
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    and I'm on the old format! I've been in beta-land for several days, and now I'm back to the old version. Go figure...

    Bob
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    Arggggg.

    -mike
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    beta testing is over, or at least it appears that way. I was hitting the beta site with new.edmunds.com before, and now the regular edmunds.com is facelifted too.

    -Brian
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    Well mine cuts off the left and right sides. It is IMHO a horrible format.

    -mike
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    on the resolution I think. If you're running 800x600, the side margins aren't as wide as compared to if you were running at 1024x768.

    So, at least to me, it appears that they've designed the site with users of 800x600 or lower in mind. Kind of like the chat window too. *shrug*

    -Brian
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    I have a lot of realestate on my monitor 1280x1024 :)

    -mike
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    ...this is the way it is..until it changes again. ;-)

    You can post your comments in this discussion in News & Views:

    Town Hall New Look!
  • lakepoplakepop Member Posts: 221
    Well it is what it is.............however it is NOT easy to read and I for one liked the old format a lot better.
       Nothing to do but await a change ;)
  • kenskens Member Posts: 5,869
    Hey, check out the new format. I thought something was wrong with my monitor settings when I logged in today. While I do like the more subtle colors, the margins sure look strange on my 21" monitor set at 1024x768.

    Ken
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    I've registered my complaints over on the other link Karen provided.

    I'm also finding my computer now crashes about 50% of the time when I log on to Edmunds. That never happened before.

    Get rid of the gray side borders, and correct whatever it's doing to my computer, and it will be fine.

    Bob
  • jay_24jay_24 Member Posts: 536
    I like it. I typically run 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 but never maximize the window so the grey side bars are not bad. (about 1/2 inch)
    Its faster, I like the colors and fonts. I've noticed no crashes on my pentium 3 machine with IE 5.5x (Win2000)

    --jay
  • lark6lark6 Member Posts: 2,565
    I usually run 1280x1024 or 1024x768. There is an awful lot of gray space in the margins now. Not the most efficient use of space IMO.

    I see we have also swapped the ability to scroll backwards and forwards 20 messages with the ability to move to a specific page. Time will tell which is the better format as I usually scroll back based on dates (I guess as to when a post 1000 prior to current may have appeared and work my way forward or back from there).

    Ed
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Edmund's fonts are pretty small on my monitor which is set to 1280 x 1024. Also, not having an auto-resize function (text wrap) sure is a step backwards in my book.

    Regarding speed, my initial impression is that it's actually slower now. When I first logged on I thought the application had frozen it took so long.

    Ah well, what we do in the name of progress...

    -Frank P.
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    Bookmarks don't work for getting to Subaru Crew, spills over on 600x800....

    I am not a fan of change for no apparent reason!

    Steve
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Speaking as a designer, I understand what they are trying to do. Designers often joke (but are also serious) when they say "white space" is our friend, because it offers visual relief from all the other (visual) clutter. Here "white space" has just been replaced by "gray space."

    Having said that, because there is so much "content" on each Edmunds' page, it is now more crammed together, making it more difficult to digest. This is especially true with long thread titles, which now spill over on to two lines or more, making them more difficult to read, and longer to scroll down.

    Bob
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Please post any observations and comments in the N&V discussion. The designers are supposedly lurking there and taking notes....I really hope that's true.
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Karen- We could but it's more fun to post here where we're among friends and we know our comments/vents will be read and get sympathy :-)

    -Frank P.
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    subearu "Lost in the Town Hall? Ask the OC Host for directions!" Jan 22, 2003 7:07pm

    Thought I'd post over in this topic, but didn't get a response.

    -Brian
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    I saw your post and then promptly forgot about it. :-( I did remember earlier yesterday and fixed Subaru Crew topics here in Owners. Haven't had a chance to do so with the other ones throughout the TH. With the site redesign, the graphic that I was using to link to the Crew community page went away, So that's why the "image" icon was showing.
  • lark6lark6 Member Posts: 2,565
    This forum hasn't been posted to in a while, nor I have I been posting much of late - but there's one thing that needs to be addressed better by the hosts and that's troll control.

    In the last month I've noticed a much lower signal to noise ratio on these boards. There are one or two users that can be singled out but the overall tone has become a lot more inflammatory and a lot less informative. I imagine some of the flamers/trolls come from other sites than Edmund's (like the Subaru Impreza-oriented one many of us frequent) and many of them do the same kind of flaming on other boards here as well.

    They have been successful to some extent by getting responses and in some cases dragging long-time board participants down to their level.

    It may be asking a bit much of the hosts to control this; better perhaps to suggest to the members to do our best to ignore them.

    Ed
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    I stopped posting to the guy asking tons and tons of questions about "mods" cause I felt he was asking them for no apparent reason...

    -mike
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Sometimes its difficult for hosts to recognize the trolls, especially when we monitor so many discussions on various different models. If you could, please send me an email with specific details. Which discussion? Where the suspected activity begins? I will go back and review it. If it is a discussion that resides on a board that I do not host, I will contact that host about your concerns.

    However, please understand that if the suspected troll is not violating the Member Agreement, but is just annoying...well...there isn't much we can do. As Ed said, the best defense is to ignore them and move on.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Yup, that's what I do. If only to offer the host a heads up to begin tracking actions. One guy in the BMW 5 series thread was using appropriate language, I pointed it out to Sylvia and she took care of it pronto.

    -juice
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    Could you link the Subaru Problems topic from M&R into the Subaru Crew thread of topics?

    -Brian
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Sure thing...it's linked.
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Just wondering if there was a particular reason why some discussions still have "NEW" listed in front of their titles? For example, the "Future's Model II" topic was started back in 2000 and has over 10k posts but is still listed as "NEW". There are even archived discussions that still have the "NEW" flag.

    -Frank P.
  • armac13armac13 Member Posts: 1,129
    As I understand it, "New" simply means that there are unread postings - unread by you. I wondered about that for a while.
    :-)

    Ross
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    However, what I'd like to see from Edmunds is that that when you select "View All," that you have a choice to hide all the "Read Only" topics.

    Having the "Read Only" topics listed with all the current ones makes reading and scrolling the topic list much too long and cumbersome.

    Bob
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