FAQ for those who migrated from the vBulletin version of LFGSS

Use an address that isn't gmail.

Could you PM me the email address you're using with persona?

That's my only email address. But thanks for clearing that up for me.

Am worried that we may lose a number of people while these glitches I
are ironed out, mdcc_tester has already expressed his displeasure.

There's hope yet, then.

That's inevitable with any community migration. There's always going to be some cross-section of features that doesn't exist at the destination.

What's important is that people realise everything is malleable and that we are listening. A small amount of patience goes a long way at this point.

Today's posts still exists, no? If you click on conversations at the right hand side on the home page then you get the same list. Or if you click on the right hand button at the top if you're on a mobile.

Thanks for pointing that out.

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@Hippy after 78,000 posts, do you really need that page count thing to
tell you the TT thread has been around for a while while the Zipp 404
Firecrests offered for £50 has just been added?

Actually I use it to spot new threads that might actually be interesting. I can leave all the shit like Bike Porn alone. I don't want to ignore them though because I merge shit into them. Basically it was a very quick visual guide to new threads.

Specific threads I search for - but the search is a bit feeble at the moment.

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I resent having to click on the "in reply to" bit to find out wtf you're talking to.

I know. It sucks, doesn't it?

Does microcosm have any bug-tracker or issue-tracker site? There seem to be quite a few issues to track and some of them are just drifting past (or being missed in the flood chatter) in the threads here. Web forums, no matter how shiny and new the software, are just crap at some things.

Especially in large multi conversational threads.

(The reply thing )

Issue tracker:

https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb/issues

Needs a login. Out. Whinging about it here is more fun.

Yeah, I think having the issues list on github is a barrier to entry for people who want to raise issues too.

@MA3K totally agree

Thanks for sorting me out good and proper, David.

It wasn't straining at the seams, it was dieing, and costing a lot of money. Microcosm is essentially working fine, lacking finesse, some bells and whistles and some major new features, but you can do pretty much everything here that you could on the old forum software but for some style changes.

I know. It sucks, doesn't it?

Its getting annoying that people reply but don't quote the text they are replying to, it would be cool to have the quoted text appear as default

Or it could be hidden normally, then appear in the same post when you click the "in reply to ... " bit, so no annoying redirecting.

I know. It sucks, doesn't it?

Its getting annoying that people reply but don't quote the text they are replying to, it would be cool to have the quoted text appear as default

A bit like the old quote feature?

Blockquote

Actually, that sounds shit. It's a lot more exciting this way, like trying to figure out which sweets in your bag of revels are malteasers and which ones are the orange creme ones. Which quote is this responding to? WHO KNOWS! Better click it and see- oh fuck, it's a raisin

Yeah but with the added personal notification that comes up in following, I have never said I didn't like the old way but I do like this way too just needs some tweaking.

@user18221 like a comment bubble style?

A small amount of patience goes a long way at this point.

+1