Gary Lewis

I doubt Janey would put up with two of me. One is a stretch. 😇

Another feature I find fascinating is that this new platform gives the admins and moderators lots of info, including the people who are online at any given time. Just looked and we had 32 people online, one of which was @1986F150Six, who was looking at the online users list. David - did you see me looking at you looking at me? And not only does it give right-now info, it gives charts. I had no idea we had that many guests visiting the forum!

Welcome, David! Jeff - My signature and avatar pic came over automagically. Didn't have to do a thing.

Franklin has had a whole bunch of people trying to take over his site. He's made change after change to Nabble, some of which really hurt us, and still has people using it nefariously every day. Yes, his statement showed a lot of frustration. And I liked Nabble, albeit antiquated by these standards.

Glad you joined. Would you be interested in being on our map. You can see it on our page at Bullnose Forum & Member’s Map. Just need a city/state or zip.

Got it. Thanks! (I "thanked" you as well. Need to see how that works and maybe it'll cut down some on the traffic.)

And Scott having "liked" the post above reminds me of a new feature we have - the ability to "like" a post. Specifically you can thank someone, laugh at a post, show confusion, show sadness, or like it.

Let's try both for a while. InVision's might have more detail. Thanks!

Ok, that has changed. I've set it up so that the default is that you are following anything you create or reply to. And the default notification is via email. You can edit that if you wish.

@ckuske - Can you take a look at Jeff's suggestion? I think I see those in the header on Weebly, which is in Settings/SEO. But I'm not sure I should play with that. And while you are at it maybe you should look at the footer? We have Google capturing stats, but I think there is a way to do that also on Invision.

Jeff - I'll see what I can do. I think they are in a header on Weebly.

Guys - I've found a few things and changed a few things. But some of them may warrant their own threads, so I'd like your input: I added some formatting buttons to the tool bar for "large" devices, like desktops, laptops, and this tablet. But can edit for "medium" and "small" if you like Right now default for "following" so you get notified is off. So even if you create a topic or reply to a topic you won't get notified if someone else comments. But if you click your name in the upper right you can choose "Automatically follow new content I post" and/or "Automatically follow content I reply to". I'm hoping to set those to "on" automatically and then let you turn them off if you want. If you want to tag someone just type the "@" symbol followed by the first few characters of his/her handle and it'll pop up a list of matching handles. Pick the one you want and that person will get notified in whatever fashion they've chosen. And using that option, @kramttocs has found a way to open the forum in a new browser tab w/o the menu for Weebly. Might have some advantages, so maybe he'll fill us in?

How do you do that, Scott?

Jeff - It make sense for small things like that. But there are bigger things that will probably get overlooked and I think I want to create some posts about them. But I'd like y'all's thoughts on that. So let's go over to this topic for that.

Larry - I see that you "liked" my post. Did you like that I got your name spelled correctly - finally? (Hmmm, how do I tag someone that hasn't posted in this thread? ) @ratdude747 COOOL! I typed in the "@" symbol and then "ratd" and it gave me Larry's handle! Larry - Did you get this? Wow! That was cool! I'd typed quite a bit in but then got out of the editor to do something else. When I came back and hit Reply it filled in exactly what I'd typed and asked if I wanted to keep it. This place is amazing!!!!

I do wish I could clone myself and get a lot more done. But then would I be that much more tired at the end of the day?

I was going to see if I could import the Nabble emojis into Invision. But I discovered that Stuart did it for us! When you click the emoji icon you get the popup shown below. Click Categories and then select Nabble and you'll have all of them, including some we deleted, like Cool!

Ok, I fixed the storage problem and here's the screenshot:

Vivek - You, and I, may want to take advantage of viewing options we have with Invision that we didn't have in Nabble. I'd include a screenshot but we are over the limit on attachments and I need to fix that, so I can't attach at the moment. But right below the Bullnose Forum text on the left you have options of Browse, Activity, & Support. Click Activity and you then have several more options. Using those options lets you see what has changed w/o having to go look for it.

Jim - It was possible to input Apple emoji on Nabble, but the display thereof was iffy. Nabble didn't know what to do with them.

The forum is on the first page of the website. They are two totally different things. The website is on Weebly and it has the hundreds of pages of documentation. But the first, the homepage, is for the forum. So just because we moved the forum from Nabble to Invision the has been no change to anything else and, therefore, it not only looks the same but is the same.

Glad you are getting it figured out. The Dark Green/Yellow wire goes to the tach.

Wish you had been here as well, Jeff. We had a lot of people asking about "The Big Red Truck from last year". We need to pick a year, maybe next, and get lots of y'all to come. Maybe fly in if you are from far away, like you, Jim, Jonathan, etc.

It looks to me that there are LOTS of opportunities to clean up the forum now that we are in our new home. Lets use this thread to capture some ideas. I'll go first with some ideas: Ditch the Bullnose Forum text at the very top of the page. That is actually a page title on the Weebly page, and I think there's supposed to be a title for search engines, but perhaps some of y'all know how to do that w/o having to show it? Move the New Platform Discussions sub-forum somewhere else. I don't want to delete the stuff in there 'cause there's some good thinking about what we did and why. But we sure don't need it where it is. Ideas? Use sidebars? I don't know if you have, but I have a side arrow that when I click it I get a Manage Blocks sidebar. In it are lots of options to add content to the existing sidebar. Do any of you have that? Do you have a sidebar that shows Recently Browsing, Member Statistics, etc. I just clicked "Follow Topic". But it would seem reasonable that if I post something that I'd want to follow it, so can "Follow Topic" be turned on by default if someone creates a topic or posts?

Posting from my iPhone. Interesting that I can use its emoticons instead of the from InVision. 😬🚛🙏🏻🎁🤷‍♂️🤞