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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 1:18:43 GMT
Is there a particular reason why the format of the board has been shifted around? I'm just curious...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2010 1:36:12 GMT
I'm just going to quote part of the email that was sent to the members today to explain the brief closure:
"The travel subjects will be arranged for easy access, and the main page will have a slight brushing up to better display what Any Port is about."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 1:56:40 GMT
I read the e-mail. I thought that this current board with the rearrangement was the brush up. A little Spring cleaning is good.
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Post by lola on Mar 22, 2010 3:34:13 GMT
I like the sub boards for Europe, etc. Looks good.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2010 4:47:09 GMT
It's exciting that we now have more than enough so that we need sub boards. There is so much stuff there that will come back to light now, too.
Thanks, Lola.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 6:18:45 GMT
In any case, a number of people mentioned that they missed some interesting posts because they rarely strayed down to "the bottom of the board." I think we all use 'Free Trade Zone' and 'Waterfront Park' when we have no specific ideas and just want to see what is going on -- this way it is easier to scan the rest of the board on the way there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2010 7:05:32 GMT
I want to remind everyone to be sure to open the new sub-boards. Because several of them had stickies (showing where their countries appear in Post Cards) attached to them today, it may not be obvious that those boards have other new material or posts.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 22, 2010 8:07:23 GMT
Is not being sent an email the first step on the road to being banned?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2010 8:26:28 GMT
;D
Only the ones on pink paper, Baz!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 8:38:27 GMT
Frankly, I did not receive the email either, which might be considered somewhat strange.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 9:34:04 GMT
Frankly, I did not receive the email either, which might be considered somewhat strange. How often do you e-mail yourself? I do like the sub boards a lot. Excellent idea. Maybe consider dilineating the United States into North and South as well, given the vast cultural differences between the two (by popular opinion).
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2010 10:13:42 GMT
Well done, Bixa and Kerouac. Everything you do is for the best in this best of all possible worlds
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 13:08:45 GMT
I think the biggest thing that's throwing me off is the Free Trade Zone,(Meet and Mingle),being so far down the board...almost to the bottom.I can't make sense of it somehow.
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Post by lola on Mar 22, 2010 13:37:46 GMT
If it's any consolation, baz, I didn't get the memo either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 14:17:09 GMT
Golly, Casimira, you know that family and friends never come in through the front door. They come in through the back or through the garage.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 22, 2010 18:26:46 GMT
didn't get the email, but it doesn't matter.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 18:36:03 GMT
I found the email in my spam box.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 9:58:45 GMT
Golly, Casimira, you know that family and friends never come in through the front door. They come in through the back or through the garage. But,what about new members? I thought the whole point was to try to attract new people. I know this board backwards and forwards,but,I think it's very disorienting for someone new to come on and be faced with the Image Bank with explicit instructions about posting your own photos etc. If I was a new member of this forum,I would be intimidated right off the bat by this. (Yes,I know there's the Port Authority,but,the very first thread on the board...)
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Post by Jazz on Apr 3, 2010 18:02:08 GMT
A few thoughts…I like the new format. I love the reorganization of the Travel Boards into sub-boards. There are so many great threads and they were lost in the desolate back pages. Now, the information is clear and easily accessible. Since I am so familiar with the opening page, I wondered about ‘making you look at other boards’. It does work, and as I scroll down to Free Trade, I actually notice a few boards that I usually ignore. (but nothing will entice me into the Sports Page ) My only question is that it still seems to take a while to find the Travel Boards. My understanding was that you wanted this to eventually be a travel site? Thanks for taking the time to do the Travel Boards, time well spent!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 18:26:48 GMT
There is a rumor that the country boards will be moved to the top soon.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 4, 2010 2:45:45 GMT
It seems that whatever categories are relegated to the bottom of the index page are destined to remain relatively quiet.
My announcement was in my spam folder as well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 11:46:09 GMT
BTW, I was remiss in thanking both of you for all your efforts to try to make this place as pleasant etc.a forum as you do. Not very gracious of me I'm afraid, to begin with a bitch about So, with that, THANK YOU! But I still think.... ;D...
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Post by tod2 on Jan 14, 2014 14:40:38 GMT
Bixa, My screen is not grass green anymore. Just a pale shade of Spring This new format will take me some time to get used to....I can't find where to Preview my post and check spelling?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 14:59:08 GMT
I found the email in my spam box. I have never received an email from Anyportinastorm. Not ever, spam box or anywhere else. I wonder why that would be?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2014 16:26:13 GMT
Bixa, My screen is not grass green anymore. Just a pale shade of Spring This new format will take me some time to get used to....I can't find where to Preview my post and check spelling? Believe me, Tod, it's taking me time to get used to as well! Bit by bit everything will get worked through & as far as possible, favorite features from before will get added back on. All forums that got upgraded had that horrible bright green foisted on them as default. All of the skins/themes here had to be re-activated, but that's been done. You can go to Profile> Edit Profile> Settings, then scroll down to the 4th item, Forum Theme to choose a "theme" -- what we were calling "skin" before. (if you go HERE, it should help you to make up your mind) As far as I can tell, Preview seems to be only available with Reply, not with Quick Reply. I just deliberately misspelled a word & got the wavy red line underneath it. Don't know if that's some built-in spell check on my computer, or one that's part of the forum. Perhaps you simply failed to misspell anything! As I said, those are the kinds of things that will be fixed or tweaked. Just to mention some other things that might help in getting used to the upgrade: - Hovering your mouse over "Any Port in a Storm" on the main menu (top of page) will give a clickable menu of the forum.
- No need to click on anything to embed a video any more. Simply paste the url in & it will show up in the posted message.
- Clicking "BBCode" (bottom left of message boxes) will allow you to see what you're writing with all the tags, etc., just like before. Clicking on "Preview" will give you a "real-time" preview as you write of how it will look when you post.
Lots of the new stuff is pretty cool & I'm sure we'll really like it once we get used to it all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 18:29:24 GMT
I'm still curious as to the question of:
It would be ever so nice if this could be answered. Am I the only one who has never received those mass information emails from this Anyport?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 18:40:17 GMT
Anyport has officially never sent a mass email to all members.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 18:53:43 GMT
So the policy of Anyport is just to send emails regarding what is happening on this forum to all members but those that are not included in the mass email list? I know this can be done so I'm just curious...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 19:05:10 GMT
Nope. Nobody ever receives emails from the forum. People are free to come and go as they please, but there is no hawking to bring them back.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 19:05:23 GMT
dupe deleted
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