We are using a new layout for the Idle Chat forum.

Your comments would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mark

oooooooooh  -  how'd you do that then?  Looks like it might make it easier to follow (but might freak me out :rolleyes: I'm averse to change)

So, Mark, will replies to each post just go in time / date order or all under the poster being replied to ......

methinks I have to give it more time, right :P

Teri, totally confuddled :D

Much easier on the eye

I'm sure not identing the replies will make it much easier with a long thread, I hate it when you get to the stage that replies are only a couple of centimetres wide and way over the right hand side :D

I'm with Teri though in wondering where the replies will go, if they still go under the post you're replying too that's great - but if they go at the end it could get a bit confusing. Mind you having said that that's the way most other forums work - and they do work.

So in conclusion...I really don't mind either way

The replies will go at the end. It will work the way most other forums do, if I don't get many objections I will alter all the forums to this new style.

Now you see, I actually much prefer the layout of CD to any other forums I've visited - so I prefer the original layout TBH   OK, I agree it can get a tad messy when a thread goes on too long (is there another way round that perhaps?) but that aside I find it easier to follow on the majority of threads and better also to see who is actually replying to who

So I'd vote to keep the status quo (who?) no, status quo :D

am I being extra specially stupid??
(Teri..."hod yer Huisssht!!")
Idle chat doesnt look any different to me!!??

but, but, but (ok, *wheesht* helt :D )

Its all in one column now - try refreshing your browser (or if your having your tea just press F5 )

awwwwww... Ive got a (cr)apple mac dont know what to do!!
(awfeee Glaycit!!)

Walk out the house, Walk to the shops, Buy a new computer with Windows
Walk back home.
And HEY PRESTO!!!!!! LMAO
Lea :D :D :D :D

fabulous Lea :D

>It will work the way most other forums do

ah, but CD will have lost it's exclusivity

THAT IT!  A Call to Arms here guys - help all the oldies stop their familiar ways being wrenched from them (not me of course, I'm not old :rolleyes: I meant Blue :D )
register your protest here

"if it aint broke..dont fix it" :D

HG.. stuck in the mud.

Ditto HG!

How will we know which post is being replied to? At the moment the stagger tells us (although it's iritating when it gets extremely squished on the right hand side).

I was wondering the same thing JG

Me too...I'm another one who is quite happy with the current layout

Jeangenie if you wish to reply to a specific post you just need to make a reference to the post in question.

I have amended the Feedback Forum as well as a trial and have added a poll to this thread.

I think you will find that the flat format will keep more threads on topic. I would also expect less confrontations as you tend to reply to the thread as a whole rather than to a specific poster.

>if you wish to reply to a specific post you just need to make a reference to the post in question

Like doing a quote? Yes, that'd work - as long as people remember who said what! :D

I know I said I'm not old but I'm old enough to vote and it wont let me

Gutted of Glasgow

Do you know what? I have yet to be able to see the results of a poll on CD  or even take part it one :D

And how to do Quotes
Now that would be a good Sticky!!!!! A fools guide for quotes. I would use it all the time as I have Nooo idea as you lot know LOL
Lea

I managed to vote once on a poll, and I was the only one that voted - I then came up with the idea that you had to post first then vote - lets try it :D

Yep, that's the way to do it :D  (you can't tell but that is really a smug grin) :D

Lea, JG let me into the quotes secret.. and now I'm going to blab to everybody :D  You simply type > at the beginning

I did that = still wouldnt let me :rolleyes:

That's a reply to Tigger2, and Mel, and Mark and ..................... ya know, this is confusing - can we just keep things as they are ... or were ...
CD - viva la difference (with an accent :D )

just as gutted from Glasgow

Did you try voting on the screen that comes up after you post...you know when the page is refreshed after you click on post?

(that's to Teri :D  )

it worked that time

Come on folks - more protests needed :D

That's to everyone (in case you dont know because of this weird layout )

slightly less gutted, still in (freezing) Glasgow

Do you know (that's to Tigger2) if we can swing this in our favour :rolleyes: :D

I reckon all this referencing everyone else is just a waste of cyber space whiffle wotzits, don't you think? 

ooops, forgot "(that's to anyone with a pc!)"

(To Teri)

ahah...you mean I shouldn't have given the secret to voting away on an open forum...I should have pm'd it to the people who I thought would vote the same as me? The trouble is I don't really mind either way   In general I'm all for us Scots sticking together though so did vote for the indented ones :D

(To no-one in particular)

Just posting so that it will let me vote....

yea me too

it didnt let me vote

(to Morganalfie)

maybe it's because you didn't say who your message was too :D :D :D

Well if you've got to post to vote then this is for you Teri

it was to noone in particuler

I want it to stay the same lol.

but it did let me vote that time. the indent option is how we like it aint it

blonde hiding under a brunette dye :rolleyes: lmao

>but it did let me vote that time. the indent option is how we like it aint it confused

Good answer  

It's alright girls, this one can stay :D

I still can't vote ..it ALWAYS says 'upgrade in progress, please try later' ...the CS PC doesn't like Melly

I get the same error Melly so it doesn't like me either.

I confess to being an old stick myself and a tad muddy at that. I like the indents though a limit on how far the go to the right would be nice.

Ok, this is to :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

satincollie = thanks for sharing :D

morganlife - let me help we LIKE indents, i.e. INDENTS GOOOOOOOD :P

Mel - post again - anything, to "someone" (on this topic that is) THEN vote :D

and to all the others who by now I've lost track of but one was almost certainly Lori ....................

As above kiddo (any of the above to anyone) :D

Strained of Strathclyde :rolleyes:

>Strained of Strathclyde< 

Is it THAT Easy????????????????
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
I have been battling quotes for 5 years and its THAT easy
I am THICK!!!!!!!!!

SO if its that easy. We tell newbies it IS that easy. So new lay out is fine as we all quote last message?????
Lea

still cant see the new layout....

*Blissfully unaware of Kent*

>still cant see the new layout....

Liv, what does this page look like to you? Are all the posts aligned on the left hand side or are they indented like normal?

>Mel - post again - anything, to "someone" (on this topic that is) THEN vote

Will this do it??

Woohooo clever Teri :D :D : 'nk yoooo :p

Oh I have to say I don't like this. It's too confusing.

I can't vote either :rolleyes:
and that was to anyone who's listening

managed to vote that time and see who's winning :P

I prefer it, much better

Thee get yourself back on here ("That's to MarianneB" :P ) and post *sumfink*, *anyfink*, on THIS thread and THEN try VOTING

AND - To "anyone with a conscience"  - follow the above but only if you intend to vote we REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to keep indents :D
ever get the feeling you're shooting yourself in the foot :rolleyes: )

Raging of Renfrewshire (I'm running out of localities here :D )