Announcing New Edit Feature in the Caregiver Forum

Ok, batter up.

The posts are back, reading like a book now, I like this better!

So relieved!

Oooooh, I'm so confuuuuused.

Send, I remember seeing that post. Maybe it was in a different location?

cwillie you will be ok.😸

Glad,
It may have had to do with the change back today, latest post is now the last page of a book, as it should be. Proof, they are working on the site issues.
Whatever happened last night or yesterday is in the past, imo, in this case.

Or, if the default feature is set to the most popular answers, lol lol lol, any new, recent posts would not ever be seen at all! (Because, how can they be 'popular' if never seen, and no one ever clicked 'like this'.)  If that is what is happening?

Isn't that Newton's law, or something? Every action has an opposite reaction?
Sorry, can no longer look these things up, but that was in my head, Newton's law.
Feel free to correct me.

Cwillie,
You are already ok.  Taking on so much responsibility for reporting website changes will add a whole lot of stress to you.  Take some time off, think of something else for 12-24 hours, then come back after caring for self-and your Mom.  I am sure AC and everyone else on here appreciates your efforts.
Deep breath, take a break.  Me and my cat are still here, a bit confused too, but more patient now.  My mood could change, however, any minute, with the full moon or another website glitch......

See those little numbered boxes above? I predict, when there are hundreds of pages, like the WHINE thread, there will be a problem......

Hi all,

We have just released a fix to the forum. Answers and comments are back to being sorted the “old” way—from oldest to newest. Hopefully this will help you follow these threads more easily.

In regards to other suggestions and difficulties that have been shared on this and other posts, please be patient. We are working to address these issues and release additional fixes as quickly as we can.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and willingness to help one another!

-AgingCareEditor

Yah, I am so liking this new way right now, today!

Thanks AC!

Sorry, but I liked being able to quickly see the newest posts, now I have to click my avatar, then news feed, then a thread, then navigate from page one to the last page and scroll to the bottom. Ah well, you can't please everyone.

Cwillie, The way I see it, you are the more sophisticated technologically, and can better manage the website format, and/or learn new ones.
To many posting on AC, this forum is a lifeline to information needed now, before learning the new formats and technologies. Some are like me, and cannot learn technology , have to be brought along, step-by-step. If it weren't for helps, my husband helping, and Glad teaching me to change my avatar, I could no longer use the forum-and also, it would not be as fun!!! Many people have asked me, lol, how to change their Avatar to a cat! Brave souls! Then, you and others helped them out.
Without all of us, the forum would not be complete, imo.

Thanks for understanding, Cwillie!

Glad we are back to the regular way of reading the threads.... the other way, my brain was hurting :P

Too bad we can't change the font to our favorite font.   I notice with the font that is being used, numbers show up weird looking, like the numerical 1 shows up like half of it is missing.

FF, my brain was hurting too. Way too much scrolling and trying to remember what I had just read. Then respond, HUMPH!

And the old way, when you clicked a link in your News Feed it did not take you to page 1 of a discussion, it took you to somewhere that was at least close to where the current posts were. AC is working on it. It will come back.

The font works ok for me, But what the AC objective is, I think, is to make the thread you are reading not adjustable to zoom. That way the advertising is always showing on the thread and we are more likely to read it. I would like to downsize the font, especially when on my tablet, but....

123
one 1111 Lllll LLLLL. I iiiiIIIII
Testing.
Numbers better now.

I've just encountered a new glitch on the site, there is still a search option in the drop down menu but it no longer works....

works for me

Weird, it is working for me now too. Maybe it was just a temporary glitch.

Where is the shortcut to my News Feed from the threads? Used to be able to go directly from a thread to the News Feed, now have to either go to the AC home page or my message page to get there. What's up with that?

Click on the choo-choo train in the snow, upper right Glad.

It takes me to my message page not my News Feed.

Glad, ya just have to hit the NEWS FEED button, under your Avatar. It's not so hard!
It's getting better all the time!

Yea, I realize that, but it is an extra click that we did not used to have to make. That may seem silly, but it is driving me nutty. It should not be so convoluted to find the News Feed when you are reading a thread.

Maybe I just have too much time on my hands.😉

And when you do get to your News Feed you see that there is something you've missed, so you click to go directly to that thread and it takes you to page 1. So now you have to click again to go to the last page, and then scroll backwards to find where you've left off. More logical perhaps, but not easier.

For those who don't know, there is a double space after every period in a sentence.
If the poster types it out that way, it should appear that way once posted.
Why does technology mess with the proper execution of the english language?
It makes the writer appear ignorant.

Send, yes two spaces after a period is what we were taught in high school typing class. But with the advent of computers and word processing that has gone by the wayside. And there is a technical reason for one instead of two spaces after a period, though now, I do not remember what it is.

Here it is, thank you edit.
Here’s why: Back when we used typewriters, every character was given the exact same amount of space on the page. That meant the letter i was given the same amount of space as the letter m, even though it clearly didn’t need it. This is called monospaced typesetting and it’s, well, spacey. We needed that extra space between sentences to make it easier to see the beginning of new sentences.

Send you can also check the Chicago Manual of Style.

Y U think i m ignant just b cuz i dont follow propr form Send? U must b dinosor.

Aw, heck, I can't keep that up, modern "english" just doesn't come natural to me ;)

O butt, cwillie, me thinks u have all the wizdum, and you use it geronimously!

ME knows you luv luv luv technology, butt if you luv me, u shall tolerate me?

Juz calls me Dina.

"According to the Oxford Dictionary, punctuation is defined as “the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning”. ... Missing or overused punctuation marks can change meaning and/or confuse the reader."

Try this humor:
The rogue use of a full stop after the second sentence in the following example (from a sign on a building) has changed the meaning of the message, and instead of conveying a kind thank you has concluded it with a rather rude directive: “Thank you! Your donation just helped someone. Get a job.” I am sure that causing offence was not the intention of the writer!

Geraniums are found on the "Gardening as Therapy" thread.

I have found some posters who will not use any pronunciation at all.   My gosh, makes reading the post so difficult.... and sometimes funny when one sentence runs into the next, changing the meaning of the whole sentence.

At one time at my office we put out an advertisement for new hires, asked for a cover letter.   It was ok to cover letter via email.   Some of the cover letters looked like they were written in code because not all the words were spelled out.   I would need a Sky King decoder ring to figure them out.   Those cover letters and resumes went into the round file.   If we couldn't figure the sentences out, how would our clients read them?

As for the one space between sentences.   I usually go into EDIT my own postings and add extra spaces.   It does take extra time.   Otherwise, I get eye strain from reading what feels like run-on sentences.