Ask your forum functionality questions here....How do I.....?

I thought it might be helpful to have one thread where people can ask how to do things in the new forum. Maybe we can get it stickied.

I'll start. How do you delete a draft?

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penn

The preview images in the thread are oriented correctly but when I click to open to see the high resolution image they turn sideways.

How do I stop this behavior?

Edna20

penn said:

The preview images in the thread are oriented correctly but when I click to open to see the high resolution image they turn sideways.

How do I stop this behavior?

Look at the pictures before your 3rd glass of whiskey

Edna20

Edna20 said:

penn said:

The preview images in the thread are oriented correctly but when I click to open to see the high resolution image they turn sideways.

How do I stop this behavior?

Look at the pictures before your 3rd glass of whiskey

Ok, what I noticed was that my preview picture was actually turned sideways and when I opened the high red pic it was oriented the way I actually took the picture. Not sure how to stop the preview from being turned sideways since that is automatically resized.

penn

@edna20 the only thing I do after three glasses of whiskey is chase my wife

Gray4lines

Edna20 said:

Edna20 said:

penn said:

The preview images in the thread are oriented correctly but when I click to open to see the high resolution image they turn sideways.

How do I stop this behavior?

Look at the pictures before your 3rd glass of whiskey

Ok, what I noticed was that my preview picture was actually turned sideways and when I opened the high red pic it was oriented the way I actually took the picture. Not sure how to stop the preview from being turned sideways since that is automatically resized.

I have noticed that cropping a little off the original helps. If it is a tall pic, then take a little off the top and bottom and leave the width. It doesn't take much and the auto resize will orient it correctly.

Something with the auto resize and certain camera resolutions don't seem to mix well.

0patience

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

CvilleE

0patience said:

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

I got the same thing...got several years worth of messages on my notify now...

SleevePlz

0patience said:

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

Yup, they apparently fixed the first message issue of all the old messages. I had 748 unread messages.....

Edna20

SleevePlz said:

0patience said:

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

Yup, they apparently fixed the first message issue of all the old messages. I had 748 unread messages.....

I'd feel so popular if I had 748 messages

CvilleE

Edna20 said:

SleevePlz said:

0patience said:

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

Yup, they apparently fixed the first message issue of all the old messages. I had 748 unread messages.....

I'd feel so popular if I had 748 messages

I was thinking the same thing lol...busy guy @SleevePlz must be.

SleevePlz

CvilleE said:

Edna20 said:

SleevePlz said:

0patience said:

My PM has 308 new messages and it won't mark them read and I tried "marking it read".

Do I really need to open EVERY old message to clear them?

On a good note, it looks like the first posts of PMs is back?

Yup, they apparently fixed the first message issue of all the old messages. I had 748 unread messages.....

I'd feel so popular if I had 748 messages

I was thinking the same thing lol...busy guy @SleevePlz must be.

Lol, I have to admit, I was a little dumbfounded by that ridiculous number myself. I bet it's not even close to the highest here, though. I organize a lot of stuff, but don't talk nearly as much as some of these guys.

Bob_Luken

How do I use the bookmark feature? I thought all i needed to do would be click on it while viewing something I wanted to book mark but that didn't work.

variant2

Click on the star so that it becomes solid.

If you're viewing a list of threads, the star is to the right of each thread title.

If you're reading a thread, the star is located up top to the right of the thread title.

Bob_Luken

variant2 said:

Click on the star so that it becomes solid.

If you're viewing a list of threads, the star is to the right of each thread title.

If you're reading a thread, the star is located up top to the right of the thread title.

Thanks

0patience

I guess I'm kind of stupid. Shut up Eric.

But I was trying to figure out the "Quote Settings".
How many levels deep should we start folding up quote trees?
Uhm, all of them? 1 of them?
I set it to 1 level deep.

And...........nothing. It still quotes all of them.
Ok, don't fold them?

WTF? I have no idea.
Usually most forums will remove most of the quotes except for the post you are quoting if you set it for 1 deep.
This forum, I'm lost. I have no freakin idea.

And has anyone found the Help page for the forum yet?
Or is it one of those, "Here, you pains in the **** bitched enough, we changed it, now you figure it out."?

ExpendableYouth

I had to manual clear mine as well such a pain the ass.

bandyt09

How do I drunk post from my phone as the buttons are to small?

Wait, maybe I just did............

I'm so confused

jlmarta

If you think I'm gonna scroll through all 163 pages of "Whatcha smoking this morning" just to read today's posts you're outta your mind. Each time I try to open it it starts with the first page - clear back in 2011.

I'm just not THAT curious.... Fix it or forget it...

variant2

bandyt09 said:

How do I drunk post from my phone as the buttons are to small?

Wait, maybe I just did............

I'm so confused

Look through the drink glass -- it makes the buttons look bigger.

cbuck

jlmarta said:

If you think I'm gonna scroll through all 163 pages of "Whatcha smoking this morning" just to read today's posts you're outta your mind. Each time I try to open it it starts with the first page - clear back in 2011.

I'm just not THAT curious.... Fix it or forget it...

cbuck

If you go to the very last page, and scroll down to the last post, next time you open it, it should go to the last post. At least that is what it did for me.

Bob_Luken

What do you call the little horizontal menu where you select the page you want to see? And, there's a magnifying glass there so you can do a word search. Would it be too much to ask if we could get all that put on our inbox pages too?

0patience

Bob_Luken said:

What do you call the little horizontal menu where you select the page you want to see? And, there's a magnifying glass there so you can do a word search. Would it be too much to ask if we could get all that put on our inbox pages too?

Where is the search for PMs??

Bob_Luken

0patience said:

Bob_Luken said:

What do you call the little horizontal menu where you select the page you want to see? And, there's a magnifying glass there so you can do a word search. Would it be too much to ask if we could get all that put on our inbox pages too?

Where is the search for PMs??

I thought there used to be one. Wasn't there? Tony says there wasn't one. Whether there was or wasn't one in the past, I need it now.

First_Warrior

How do i post bigger photos? When I post photos from my desktop they are small. I know the new forum resizes the photos but I see a lot of big photos. Do I click on the small photos before I post?

0patience

I had to drag the photo into the box that says drop image/file, cause nothing else would work for me.
I'm guessing I'm too stupid to figure it out.

Everything else, just posts the text. Dunno.

jlmarta

Help!! Krebsie! Somebody!! Please, PLEASE get rid of that damned auto-save thingy for iPhones if you want me to keep posting to these boards.

Is anyone listening??

CharlieHeis

jlmarta said:

Help!! Krebsie! Somebody!! Please, PLEASE get rid of that damned auto-save thingy for iPhones if you want me to keep posting to these boards.

Is anyone listening??

Yes! It is unnecessary to save a draft 5 seconds in. Locks my phone up for a while every time.

Bob_Luken

CharlieHeis said:

jlmarta said:

Help!! Krebsie! Somebody!! Please, PLEASE get rid of that damned auto-save thingy for iPhones if you want me to keep posting to these boards.

Is anyone listening??

Yes! It is unnecessary to save a draft 5 seconds in. Locks my phone up for a while every time.

Send him a PM. Maybe he can change it, maybe he can't but I know he does read his PMs. @Krebsie

YankeeMan

I've said this before, but I'm an analog guy in a digital world, so beware! I noticed some of the guys have their