basicwiz opened this issue on Mar 25, 2015 ยท 69 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 25 March 2015 at 1:00 PM
Just so we're clear, I didn't say I'm leaving, and I'm still trying to help people.
But I'm doing so far less because it's so annoying.
I don't get ebots, so I spend an extraordinary amount of time manually reviewing posts trying to find where I left off. I'm so tired of doing it that I'm loath to come in at all.
Half the time I attempt to post an image (screen shot, render, etc.) it disappears or appears twice due to me adding it again. Often this is simply because I forgot to wait for the upload (there is no visual cue that something is happening).
Editing a post (which I frequently do because I see I left something out) is a recipe for losing it altogether or at least for the image to move into the middle of a paragraph or other fun stuff.
Quoting a post is a recipe for major annoyance. I can't tell you how many times I accidentally merged my response with the quote, resulting in my response looking like the quote. Correcting that is impossible and I have to start over. If I've typed a lot this is a serious difficulty.
It takes six seconds just to open the forum. There is no justification for that.
The new formatting on my tablet is nice, but on my 27" Windows monitor it's beyond irritating. I got around this by learning how to "corrupt" the CSS the site delivers to suit me. But this only works when I'm at my desktop at home. I find it insulting that, in the previous forum, the ability to explicitly set custom CSS existed per user, and now it was removed. But whatever, can you just recognize that my 7" tablet should not use the same CSS as my 27" monitor? For fuck's sake.
I waste a lot of time reading posts and realizing I'm reading somebody's signature. I have asked for a demarcation of some kind - none is provided. Numerous other formatting issues waste my time. I know it's a small thing, but death by a thousand cuts and reading this forum is just annoying as hell.
I can no longer attach Poser files (materials) so I despair of having to explain something and so I just - don't say anything even though I know the answer.
The search has sucked, although I very recently noticed it's getting better. Today, searching for my posts with the phrase "dynamic range" actually worked! Kudos.
I used to answer questions from my iPad - the text editor on iPad has problems. I don't even bother now.
etc.
I'm not leaving - I just want these fixed and until they are, I will tend to post less or sometimes not at all, when previously I might have posted quite a lot of info.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)