I'm back

[Quark]

It's only been a month or two since I left and everything has changed! We all have new profiles and weird options. Oh, and I love the polite suggestion on my screen:

Hello Quark it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?

[Niamh]

Hello Quark! welcome back!

[Weisinheimer]

Hi quark

[Quark]

Hello, again.

When did all these changes happen?

[Niamh]

they happened around july or august. Nice change huh?!

[Logos]

Welcome back Quark there's a link to the forum upgrade thread in my sigline.

[Quark]

they happened around july or august. Nice change huh?!

I think I remember the new user profiles, but did they do anything else? I wish I had been in the room when they were throwing out ideas--don't you? Spellchefck would be nice. Or, how about a way to make your own personal forum in your user. You wouldn't have to search around for your threads. Colorful user profiles are good--and I'll have to play around with mine--but I think there are some functional improvements they could make too.

Welcome back Quark there's a link to the forum upgrade thread in my sigline.

I see they did make some practical changes.

[Logos]

.... You wouldn't have to search around for your threads. ....

Just click your "Statistics" link on your profile to find your posts or threads you have started.

[browneyedbailey]

Welcome back man, how's life treating you?

[Quark]

Just click your "Statistics" link on your profile to find your posts or threads you have started.

Yes, that works for the threads you, yourself, have started, but I was wondering about threads that perhaps you visit often--like those that one might subscribe to. The subscribed threads menu is buried in your user profile, though, and so I was suggesting something like that which would be more immediately available when you log on.

The forum has plenty already, though, so perhaps more options would just clog things up.

But, while I've got people's attention, I might as well pitch my idea for a forum with the non-official bookclubs in it. Those get hidden away under the author forums and no one can find them.

[Niamh]

subscribe to the threads Quark, you will get notification in your usercp or via email when they have been posted to. you dont have to go to the depths of the new profile.
go in to usercp, Scroll down to Subcribed threads, click list subscriptions. then you have a list of all the threads you subscribed to.
Or instead of looking up threads in stats, look over you last posts. some of them will be for those threads.
All the additions to the site are part of a new version of VBulletin and its plug ins.

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Any particular bookclubs you looking for? If you want, send me a list and i'll sticky some of them so that they are always at the top of the author forum pages and dont get lost in all the "Please help me with my homework" threads.
Niamh

[Quark]

Welcome back man, how's life treating you?

It's been alright, but I don't think I've seen you before on LitNet. Hi.

Any particular bookclubs you looking for? If you want, send me a list and i'll sticky some of them so that they are always at the top of the author forum pages and dont get lost in all the "Please help me with my homework" threads.

The two I'm most partial toward are the DH Lawrence Short Story thread and the Chekhov Short Story Thread, but there are others like the poetry threads that keep popping up. I just thought a separe forum would be great for these, so people could see the ongoing literary discussions without having to search by author.

[Niamh]

Hummm...I do see your point. Personally for the likes of the discussion threads in Author forums, i think it is almost ideal in some cases that they are there so people can look back on the texts which are close at hand if they are discussing texts available on the site.
I'll sticky some of those threads if the arent already stickied.
If you want to send me a list of any discussions you know off, i can set up a directory index thread in general literature section and sticky it, so everyone just has to go there and follow links to the pages. What you think.
The Photo Directory above is an example of what i'll set up... I''l catagorise them under Novel/prose, Drama, Poetry.

[Quark]

Personally for the likes of the discussion threads in Author forums, i think it is almost ideal in some cases that they are there so people can look back on the texts which are close at hand if they are discussing texts available on the site.

There are two author pages, and one of them does list the works--the other doesn't, though. The author page that has the bio and the works listed in the margin is good, but the threads it lists at the bottom are usually, as you said earlier, nervous students looking for homework help minutes before a due date. I don't think most people get to discussion through that author page. Usually, I think we go through the author's forum listed on the forums page which opens up a list of threads on the author's various works. This page is sort of hidden, and someone interested in a story or poem discussion probably wouldn't start their search there.

If you want to send me a list of any discussions you know off, i can set up a directory index thread in general literature section and sticky it, so everyone just has to go there and follow links to the pages. What you think.

That would be perfect. Thanks, I wasn't expecting anyone to take my weird ideas seriously. I know of three discussion already (Lawrence, Chekhov, and the poetry bookclub 2) which are could go there, but I'm sure there are others. I'll look over the forum, and get back to you soon.

[Niamh]

That would be perfect. Thanks, I wasn't expecting anyone to take my weird ideas seriously. I know of three discussion already (Lawrence, Chekhov, and the poetry bookclub 2) which are could go there, but I'm sure there are others. I'll look over the forum, and get back to you soon.

PM me when you get a list going.