well, we survived the first month at least!
yes, the new forum is now 1 month old.. of course there have been some issues and i'm grateful that people have been patient while i worked on them.
a big thank-you to everyone who's been patient, have provided useful feedback or just been willing to adapt to something new during the transition.. i've also made some improvements along the way and am fairly happy with how things are from a basic functionality and performance perspective so it's time to start looking at some of the new features i've been planning.
My inbox is still showing 2 unread messages when all are read. (same since first day of update, unsure if everybody is showing wrong number still or not).
Also I still think it would be nice if total page views were shown again.
Other then that everything else is great.
i have been discussing scientology with a friend who is reading dianetics by l. ron hubbard.. both groups are considered cults by many.. both have a policy of shunning members who leave.. so in your opinion, what are the similarities you find between them?.
what are the differences?.
is one group "worse"?.
I've been to one of the scientologists BIG events, they throw big luxurious parties. Seems to be many members have $$. They are also very secretive/paranoid, having been in one of their top events, you feel like you're in a spy movie w/ cia agents everywhere, etc.
hey everyone, this is my first post.
i was contacted by the witnesses in1965, baptized in that same year at age 15. i was appointed an elder in 1975 and served as an elder for 20 years..
it hasnt been long since i learn ttatt and when i totally woke up.
that's' the headline of an article in the sydney morning herald.
my jw family are sharing it with glee on facebook right now.
here's the link; .
yesterday, i brought a batch of cupcakes to my son's school.
in passing them out, i started to give one to one of the children, who was a jw.
he immediately started freaking out and screaming "no thank you" over and over.
The post a few spots above, the cupcake experience in the family happiness book, I know those people. I just found this post because I saw the quote in a recent WT and wondered why they are quoting about not doing birthdays on an experience 26+ years old. That experience was in a time and place when JW's actually did things, gatherings, lots of social events, etc. Then bethell came down hard and most of that went away, people were having 'too much' fun. O and to the person who commented about the kid's comment being kind of smart ass, he was one haha. But I love how WT still quotes on things that they talk down upon and usually don't happen anymore. They don't encourage having parties and socializing, if they were doing that today they would be counselled on everybody should be in field circus instead.
i am not a jw ...however i began having bible studies (i d call them watchtower studies).
i was beginning to get lured in and brainwashed into accepting the religion as the true religion...but something inside of me told me there was something odd.
some time passes and i was invited to a meeting and i accepted.
i don't really know how to describe the feeling but i'll give examples, but the new layout to me makes it feel tiring being on for too long.
1. there is the top menu, then a big add between that and the next part, a big ad between the bottom and where you reply, then on the right column you either have 2 ads on top or some type of summary, then ad, then either related posts or other areas.
there are no borders, the adds have the same color and text type but larger font, and it all seems chaotically merged into one thing where you need to constantly sort out what you are viewing.
As you see in this screen shot, you have an invisible white box ad above and below the snippets. I thought the ad little box meant snippets was an ad, ans since you have the ad that says, "view new messages" trying to trick the person into going to an ad as if they had messages on this website, thought the snippets button was the same type of ad. And the word snippets I had no idea what it meant. So that's an example of how it's confusing.
But I love the feature, I like it best with none or with the minimum one. O and I love how I was able to add the screenshot without uploading the picture elsewhere.
i don't really know how to describe the feeling but i'll give examples, but the new layout to me makes it feel tiring being on for too long.
1. there is the top menu, then a big add between that and the next part, a big ad between the bottom and where you reply, then on the right column you either have 2 ads on top or some type of summary, then ad, then either related posts or other areas.
there are no borders, the adds have the same color and text type but larger font, and it all seems chaotically merged into one thing where you need to constantly sort out what you are viewing.
Ok, I looked REALLY hard for how to remove the summaries like you said simon. Then I noticed "snippets" on the top right, that the whole time I was thinking was part of the ad that it's attached to. (those adds that have things to click on), I'd recommend maybe putting that in a straight line within where the 5/10/20 per page is, etc. And the word snippets I had no idea what it meant. But the far right by default I expect to be ads and since nothing dividing them and in other pages that top item WILL be an ad, it makes it confusing. BUT when I removed the snippets, MUCH better, so I'm very glad you have that, it's a great feature, but I suspect most have no idea about it and may also think it's an ad.
Also incase you aren't the mod who removed it, for those who have the summary on, fyi if a sentence is infinitely long it will put as much text as there is until 3 periods have been posted. But anyway glad that feature is in, I like it much better now.
The ad thing I was talking about are the ads on both sides of the interfaces and the right side mixed in with interfaces or not. Even if keeping them there, just to make things less confusing maybe having a simple border around them.
I love the like/dislike feature. Again would like thread views to be back on.
ran into an uber-dub known from my history in the org......she had to be very sure i wasn't d'fed or d'aed - merely "inactive" so she could give me a big hug and inform me that she knows i'm coming back to jehovah because he understands my "hurt" and....blah blah blah.
it struck me how dependent they are on labels.......and how very stupid it is....you can hug me because i don't have the df label?
would i be a different person if i had that label?
I agree, I think limits need to be on the text for summary or don't have any at all and if ads were not borderlessly put inbetween everything and the right side should be ads only not different links randomly mixed in with ads on related topics, forum, etc. With maybe some borders.
I do like inserting pics, like/dislike, etc though.
