One thing I do miss is being able to look at the active topics page at a glance a see if some one has replied to you or who all has posted on the subject, rather than just who posted last. I was keeping a scrap book of Alan's posts on several specific topics and it was easy to spot at a glance when he had chimed in while I was out. not so easy anymore.

I'm not totally sure, but I think in the friends and foes section you can add a friend which will highlight (maybe even send you an email) when that friend makes a post.

Michael, right above your first post is a "view active topics" link, it works just like the old one.

No, it doesn't. The 'old' version had the 'Active Topics' link in a prominent place and with one click you could see all the active topics within a specified period- like last four hours, for example, in all of the discussion areas, organized by discussion.

Don't be fooled by lots of colors and smileys, and the speed resulting from a faster server and a fresh (defragged?) install of the database- the new version here has fewer useful features than the old.....except for folks who can't find their way to YouTube, I guess.

John

Rod, Hesh sends you that many emails to let you know he posted? Wow, he spends a lot of time sending emails doesn't he?

Good to see that some things haven't changed Mr Abercrombie.....You seem to be your old happy and supremely helpful self

Remember Waddy I have your picture................

OOPs!

My point was lets say, I posted to a topic and then was gone for a day or two. With the old active topics page I could at a glance know someone had posted a response directly to me because if they used reply and or quote function it would logged and indented directly under my post regardless of post time or day of post when viewed from the active topics page with out having to open the topic itself.

With this new format you can easily tell who the last post was posted by, but that is it. To know anything about the progression of the tread you have to open the topic and read through every thing to know if John asked Paul a question about his previous post.

This is not a big gripe but is a feature I miss

if you are friends with Billy T, you need not fear anything Hesh has on you...

John-
You treated Michael's comment dismissively. The fact is that the 'old' Active Topics feature doesn't exist here. I miss it also.