impressions of new forum

[skids]

I am having a bit of trouble with the size of the webpages. My normal display setting is 800 x 600. I had to change to 1024 x 768 to prevent scrolling right and left. I have some trouble reading everything even after enlarging the text size. I suppose I'll have to monkey with windows settings some more.

[Mike Hart]

display size

Skids, consider video capabilites that equate to more than
20 ft/lbs of mc torque.

Running 1600x1200 here, on dual 17" monitors.

Whenever I'm stuck using 800x600, I feel like I'm in a
Ford Pinto, or an xs running on 2 cyl, or.... in an evil
version of the 'way back machine'

[skids]

Dual monitors? One for each eye? I do consider updating after I consider my equipment is no longer useful. You are talking to a guy that owns 3 bikes that are over 20 years old. :-)

[Mike Hart]

two for both eyes

Ha!

Well, only one of my bikes is 20, but one of my cages is 24.

Gear is so cheap, go for it!!!

[sixtysix]

I had the same problem, I needed to reduce the font size on my browser. Now everthing displays OK.

Gary

[dwhogue]

I also find it painfully slow to load the pages, and I have DSL at home and a T1 at work. Maybe moving to IE as suggested elsewhere will help?

[UKXSIVE]

Hey Dave H try using Opera, it is much faster than either IE or Netscape.

[Bill]

Dave Hogue wrote:

I also find it painfully slow to load the pages, and I have DSL at home and a T1 at work. Maybe moving to IE as suggested elsewhere will help?

That was probably my comment on JPs browser survey. On everything else, IE and NS seem about the same. But I was going nuts using NS, even on Tina's cable connection. Granted, I'm using an old version (4.5) which may further complicate things. Given Chris' suggestion, I'll give Opera a shot and see if that's any better.

Bill

[dwhogue]

I am using Netscape 4.76, and until now, have been happy with it... no reason not to try out all of the options... I'll give it a try as well.

[Bill__Woods]

I am using IE 6.0 and ameritech DSL and it all works fine and fast from here.

[TopCatGr58]

Dear JP and others,
I, too, run my display at 800x600 on a 17"monitor, being over 40, I like my fonts a little larger than microscopic!! So....I scroll to the right, this eliminates the left column of links.

Question, how difficult would it be to add a LOGOUT link in other than the HOME view of the forum??? Now, just when I started this post I see a LOGOUT link next to my name in this POST Reply window, but haven't seen it on the other pages aside from the Forum HOME page!?!?

4th post, 1 to go.

T.C.

[JP]

Originally posted by TopCatGr58
Question, how difficult would it be to add a LOGOUT link in other than the HOME view of the forum??? Now, just when I started this post I see a LOGOUT link next to my name in this POST Reply window, but haven't seen it on the other pages aside from the Forum HOME page!?!?

Quick answer, it would take some research and some work.

Explain why it would be beneficial to have such a feature. (Gary and Bill will tell you that if you can come up with a compelling reason, I can be persuaded. )

[TopCatGr58]

Originally posted by JP
Quick answer, it would take some research and some work.

Explain why it would be beneficial to have such a feature. (Gary and Bill will tell you that if you can come up with a compelling reason, I can be persuaded. )

Well J.P., I don't know how many other readers might leave the web page/forum without remembering to logout after reading the "last post" they wanted to read?? Not sure what problems that will cause for either the reader, or the forum if folks don't log out when they leave the forum?? And, right now we have to click back to the HOME forum page to Log Out, not a big hassle at all, but would be more convenient to be able to Log Out whereever we are in the Forum when we're done reading/posting!!??
Thanks for reading/replying.
T.C.
PS. This is 5th post, so should now be an Xsive!?

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Bill,
That's an awsome AVATAR, didn't know it(Forum) would accept animated gifs!?!?! Hmmmmmm, now what can I do with that!??

T.C.

[JP]

Originally posted by TopCatGr58


Well J.P., I don't know how many other readers might leave the web page/forum without remembering to logout after reading the "last post" they wanted to read?? Not sure what problems that will cause for either the reader, or the forum if folks don't log out when they leave the forum??

Absolutely NONE at all. Leave, come back, don't log in. Unless you have 2 people with 2 usernames using the same computer I can't see why anyone would need to log out. Unless you're using someone else's computer or a computer in a public place.

To be honest, I don't know why there's a [logout] link in the reply to topic screen unless, like I said, you have 2 people using the same computer and you see that it's not *you* posting.