Reporting tech issues to rabble - PLEASE READ

Yes, I gather that's if you want to link your personal email to your
online presence. To PM someone within this site, you need to go to Your
Menu and click on My Inbox, then you type in or select the poster who
you want to contact.

Michelle wrote:

Yeah, I believe that just takes you to the private message screen. 

 Been there, looked at that. That's a different screen.

Michelle wrote:

Nope, sorry.  "Admin" on this site means you are the site administrator, so that won't be possible.  If you'd like to choose another name, I'll be happy to change it to that.

Okay Michelle. How about...Um......Spectrum?

Thanks,

I'm with Boom Boom. This is progress?

Well let's see about posting images.

Ok, everything works for me.

Babble is still causing sidescroll on my main computer, but not on my laptop. What the hell?

I hate this new babble. There's really nothing I like about it at all.

Will I ever be able to a) view the emoticons? b) open a new thread?

Is God calling the new babble an Intelligent design?

A new theology: God as sock puppet.

Caissa wrote:

Is God calling the new babble an Intelligent design?

Give it some time. I think the new format will have much more capabilities
than the old babble. There is a lot to work out, by the sounds of it. It
will take some time.

pogge wrote:

janfromthebruce wrote:

Well it didn't. So ask pogge how she got te email econ beside her handle.

 

1. I'm a he.

2. At the moment you have an email icon beside your little happy face. I wonder if that's actually for a private message. The only email address the system has for me is my personal addy (i.e. not my pogge addy) and if the system is publishing that then we have a problem. I haven't told it to publish that address. If you can see an email address for me, please confirm so I can yell at somebody.

ETA:

When I click on that mail icon, it takes me to a screen that would allow me to compose an email message to you. It would send that message on my private address. It does [b]not[/b] show me your address, just your user name. So until I actually send you something I don't think you get my address. Until you reply, I don't get yours. (I didn't actually send you a message so don't go check your inbox.)

 I sent you a message - a sorry one. I don't see a econ beside my name, and only have seen the little envelope beside your name, she said to he.

kids live and play together, let's let them learn together too!

Sharon wrote:

 

  I'm pretty sure it won't be very long until everyone is taking the new babble for granted and it will seem as if it's always been like this.

We'll see. Old babble was easier to use, and had better looking emoticons. Just sayin'.

You have no little envelope icon on my screen next to your name pogge, but jan does and slumberjack is the only other one in thread who does too.

___________________________________________________________
"watching the tide roll away"

remind wrote:

You have no little envelope icon on my screen next to your name pogge

How about now? If the answer is yes, I know what it is.

remind wrote:

The answer is no envelope, do I have one beside my name on your screen?

___________________________________________________________
"watching the tide roll away"

No. I have no other ideas to try right now. Curious. Especially when there's already a separate private messaging system.

How the hell do you send a pm?

Things are looking up. I actually found something that is an [b]improvement[/b] over the old babble!

On the Active Topics page, the links to thread titles change colour if I have accessed them recently. This allows me to easily pick out the threads that I have been following and ignore the rest.

The names of the forums also change colour if I've recently clicked on the link, but the change is so subtle (light grey v. dark grey?) it's not much use.

But we have to be grateful for the little things!

Actually, "My inbox" will only show up in the "Your menu" box [make up your minds, guys - is it My or Your?] if you have previously indicated that you want to receive PM's.

If you don't have "My inbox" showing, you will have to go to "My Account" (which appears in the extreme upper right of the page); click on the Edit tab and then scroll down to where you are asked if you want to receive PM's. Click the box to check it and then scroll down the page to click on the submit button.

A weird thing about the Your Menu box: I clicked on the "Create Content" line and the box instantly disappeared. I discovered later it had dropped down to the bottom of the page!

Sharon wrote:

I've become a lot more patient, waiting for the improvements to kick in.  I'm pretty sure it won't be very long until everyone is taking the new babble for granted and it will seem as if it's always been like this.

Meanwhile, would you deny us the small pleasure of complaining? Spoilsport!  

M. Spector wrote:

Will we see babblers subpoenaing babble records to establish alibis?

Brilliant idea. If my nephew is going to do a break-and-enter, I will cover for him by logging on in his name to prove he was home in front of his computer at the time.

Michelle wrote:

I'll ask the tech people if we can ditch that feature. 

My nephew will be so disappointed.  (P.S. I don't have a nephew.)