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Trev Page
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Unless you've done we development you'd never understand that moving from one platform to another involves not only a lot of work but changes in functionality. Some are better, some are lost. The good thing about this new platform is that it has legs and a good add-on community. Please give the admins time to tweak the system and finish up the migration.
If there's a feature you'd like to see then send them a private message. There's no way they could scour the threads and make lists of wants and implement them all. There's just too much noise.
Trev Page
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It's just like the news media. Lots of noise for a week or so then they're onto something else and we forget about it.
Trev Page
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Trev Page
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You must be missing something for sure because I was able to upload a screenshot from my iPhone today which was impossible in the old TMC vbulletin system! When I first tried to link an image I tried doing it like you and upload it to drobox and link to it but upon closer inspection I saw an upload button and it worked perfectly even on an iPhone. That was just impossible before. Have a look in the post or reply box for the upload button. It's there.
Larry, you can just enter the BBCode tags inline. So to quote something that is offsite (I'm going to add spaces so it doesn't interpret this):
[ Q U O T E ] Blah blah blah [ / Q U O T E ]
And here is your reference for those codes.
Ok. Great. I'll join in you in hoping that functionality will be restored. I'll revisit this thread in another week or so and let Doug and clan know how things are going.
@TrevPage - Don't mean to harp on it, but you are exhibit A of what I dislike about the new forum. On the old forum, replying to your own posts would consolidate them by appending the text. As you have demonstrated, a new post was created for each modification. This is annoying and detracts from the readability.
I have taken the liberty of building a Venn diagram to supplement this thread.
Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
I was able to upload pics from my iPhone 6+ on the old forum. I had to crop them first so the file size was smaller, but it worked. I haven't tried on the new site since I just got used to using imgur.
Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
It was simple to upload an image on the old site. I did it all the time. I'm not sure what you were missing on the old site.
As for this one, when I select the image icon from the message composition menu, I see the following:
There is no option to simply upload an image.
If the option is under the camera icon, I'm not interested in taking a photo right now, so had not tried that. Checking that option, it appears there are media options there that may or may not work, may involve creating albums, etc., and certainly are not as straight-forward as simply navigating to a file and selecting "upload", which is how things worked under the old system.
There is, it's just in a different spot. Near the bottom right of the reply box it says "Upload a File". That file can be an image, which you click full to insert inline.
AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
...and unfortunately doesn't work at all. I have tried it on several systems and various browsers. It doesn't work on any of them. Good thing it's the least of my worries with the new layout.
Perhaps I'll follow in the footsteps of those who ponder about taking a break from TMC for a while. Will make the wife happy as well, as she can't stand Tesla (or rather me mentioning the name ever more often) anyway. Same goes for most of the family. Guess what with the Model 3 reveal on the horizon, I got a bit over-Tesla-excited in the last few months
Johan
Ex got M3 in the divorce, waiting for EU Model Y!
It does work. You don't press the "Reply" button in the lower left corner of the post you want to quote, but the "Reply" button that appears as you hover over the highlighted part of the post you want to quote part of.
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AustinPowers
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I'll second that. On the old layout I could use a few spare minutes of my lunch hour to check interesting new threads in a very short time. Now I can hardly find my way around, some functions or workarounds that others here have mentioned don't work on the systems I use or don't show at all. And after a few minutes of trying to find anything I have such a headache that I wonder why I tried in the first place.
Sad really.
Ever heard of the phrase "never change a running system"?
AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
Ahem, sorry to say, but there IS NO reply button as I hover over the highlighted part of the post.
AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
I agree that there is an overall loss of functionality. I even more agree with everyone who gets a headache from the new design. And I totally agree with all those who hate the extremely inefficient use of available screen real estate.
But what I don't agree with is the notion that the admins are ignoring the complaints. On the contrary, I think they are doing an incredibly good job, considering the circumstances, and for that I say to them a sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU.
I am only frustrated because I don't understand the reason for the necessity of the layout/software change in the first place.
For the way I used to use TMC the old layout and funtionality was near perfect whereas the new one is bringing me to the point of contemplating not using TMC any more at all. That I find the saddest part, as I could never have imagined that happening. Plus, I simply don't know a better Tesla forum, period.
