Based on community requests the following enhancements have been made to the forums for your convenience and ease of use: 1. Edit Posts: Members can now edit their own posts! Simply use the new the new Edit feature located in the post header. Now, if you discover an error, or need to make changes, it is possible to do so within 15 minutes. Edited posts will be displayed with the updated time stamp, and a note that the message has been edited. The message will likewise move position within the thread according to the edited time, if other posts occurred prior to the update. 2. Printer Friendly option now available on all forum threads. The new feature is located in the first post of each thread. Hope everyone enjoys the new features. Best wishes, LillianH Renderosity Marketing & Promotions

These are great changes! The edit feature is particularly useful. Thank you so much.

Cool, these are both very handy! Thanks Lillian! --Donnie

Thanks, that "edit function" is great :) Alfons

Being able to print out the tutorials posted on forums will be handy too.

Thanks I like the Edit function idea a lot. Martin

We also just implimented another enhancement. The "Yes" new message indicator will now appear in red. This should make it easier for everyone to see which forums have new posts. (That is unless your background color is set to red ;-) Best wishes, LillianH

I thought that my eyes were playing tricks when the YES seemed so much brighter. That does help.

Thank you so much, Lillian. It all helps tremendously. :-)

i like the printer friendly option :)

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Like the paoruinter froendlye idea

whoppee....I find it amusing that when this site pisses a group of people off they go and add some "enhancements" to the site to try and attempt to make people happy....Im sorry, but these new updates are standard everywhere else...this whole forum is a dinosaur...how bout some avatars???...or placing a thread to the top when replyed???...those are features that most forums have these days...and the ones that dont are a joke...like this site...meh is all I can say

There is an unhappy group, but not all of us own a membership to it, and some of us appreciate it when a requested change has been made. I will miss what was fun about the OT Forum, but I don't miss the poisonous nature of some of the threads. I do like having an edit feature and being able to more easily print Dr. Geep's wonderful turorials. That's worth the price of admission. Oh, that's right. The site is free to thee and me with no requirement to buy anything to support it. Hmmm......well, I thank the programmers for these nice changes. Because I appreciate gifts, and this site, for all the struggles and conflicts, and most of its membership, have been a gift to me. You'll just have to endure someone who got some positive news this afternoon and insists on being in a good mood despite you. Hey ho, and off I go.

You should thank the OT forum members for these changes besides the programmers....cause if we didnt make a big stink about it these changes would not have happened

free site??? you should actually take a look at some other forums around that are just as free....WAY BETTER FEATURES...but dont worry...I wont be here long cause I requested spike to delete my account....

This positive news is damage control that is sugar coated

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Hi, I think I found a glich, I just posted problem I was having in amapi, with example images, and noticed I needed to add something, so I used the edit, when the post came up again the image example I was refering to did 'not' post only the dreaded 'red X in a box' showed up. Refreshing did not help. and the edit box has no way to reload the image. The enhance is great for text, but if you are aking for help and illustrating the problem using with images, the 'edit' ditches the image......

The red Yes looks good. Please consider putting the new posts column on the far left side to make it easier to associate the forum title with the YesNo New Posts.

"The red Yes looks good. Please consider putting the new posts column on the far left side to make it easier to associate the forum title with the YesNo New Posts. " I agree with that...

We explored the relocation of the "Yes/No" request. Unfortunately, the rearrangment made it harder to read the forum names. So, we opted not to move that section. We went for the red instead ;-) Best wishes, LillianH

Well I like the new enhancements! Now can we get a Spellcheck? ;)

Um, what's this red "yes" y'all keep mentioning? I can't see anything like that anywhere. Just wondering.

Oooh, ok. I never use that page. I just hop around via the scrolling menu thingy. Thanks for the screen cap for explanation...was feeling left out for a second there, LOL.

The edit button is a cool addition. Been long overdue. That makes me happy... Still one more thing left. Now here's a new challenge for the programmer types who work behind the scenes: fix the side-scrolling issue!

Simply put, once somebody puts a rather long link or wide format picture somewhere in a discussion it becomes impractical for some people to try reading the text. (Not everyone has the ultra-high-res widescreen monitor.) Which for most purposes makes it unreadable on the screen. The solution? 1. Make an option for preferred viewing resolution in member settings (if there isn't one already). If not set, it should default to XGA (1040x768) as it seems the most common. 2. Force cells in a discussion to a predetermined width based on the resolution setting in order to maintain a readable format. 3. Allow the cells with the link and/or image to expand as required. But only the cells with such links/images. I've seen this at other places so I know it's possible. I think even with a few adjustments to simple table formatting codes this could be done.

Well I like it :) With my typing skills the edit feature is a must. Ot refugee

Just rejecting uploaded images >800 pixels wide in the forums would be fine.

You'll also get that with strings of characters that go too long without a space, such as a very long url.

I'm a bit confused. We used to have that feature, editing our own posts. And not just for 15 minutes, you could edit it until someone replied to it. When was that feature removed in the first place? And here's a silly question. If memory serves, I was the 4'th regular member to join this forum, many years ago. Are any of the other old timers still around?