QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

[Peter]

@Neil ofthe nene the tagging feature still works as it always has but it uses @ and not # :thumbsup:

 

[Dave]

Re your tablet, it has to be a cache issue in the tablet. Let me know what make and operating system plus browser you're using and I'll look into it

 

[Neil ofthe nene]

@Neil ofthe nene the tagging feature still works as it always has but it uses @ and not # :thumbsup:

Ah. Silly me! Thanks.

Acer tablet running Android.

 

[Dave]

@Neil ofthe nene - try this Neil... Android Running Pokey? Try Clearing the Cache

 

[Neil ofthe nene]

That worked, thank you.

 

[Brian the Fish]

How do you access a 'saved' draft?
Where do they live?

 

[Total]

@Brian the Fish ......Brian, Top right hand corner of your screen, 'Inbox', down to bottom of that pop up and then press 'Send A new Private Message' your saved last draft lives there........It appears to save only one draft..the previous one is overwritten ....I could be wrong!

 

[Dave]

The draft is normally saved on the thread you were writing it on, however I'm not sure if you were to start a new thread, but I can ask the question

 

[Brian the Fish]

It was a new thread, thought I'd save it while I checked on something, couldn't find it again.

 

[Dave]

It should still be there if you go to start another new thread

"While typing into the message box, your text get's saved periodically. This applies to new threads, posts and conversations, but not profile posts and message editing iirc . You can have multiple drafts at the same time.
This way, you can close the window (or when your browser crashes), come back later and just continue typing where you left."

 

[floatfisher]

How do you clear all your old PMs? I used to be able to delete them but can't seem to find a way on this new site.

 

[Dave]

How to Delete a Private Message

Open the Private message window at the top-right of the forum by clicking 'Inbox'
Then click the link that says ‘Show all’ at the bottom of the window

To the right of the message title alongside ‘Replies:/Participants’ you should see a small square box, tick that...
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At the very bottom of the screen you should then see an action box where you can select all, choose an action, etc...

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If you wish to delete a Private message you can select 'Leave Conversation' and you will have two options presented - to leave it completely, or to leave it but be notified if the other participant in the conversation replies at a later date

 

[floatfisher]

Thanks Dave, I'll have a do.

 

[Dave]

FIREFOX SPELL CHECKER

For some reason the spell checker built into Firefox does not work correctly, however, a free Firefox extension is available which checks your spelling, grammar and punctuations as you type giving you the option of correcting it or not.
Works also for other websites and Gmail, etc

Link: Grammarly for Firefox – Add-ons for Firefox

 

[sagalout]

The "I ACCEPT" message is being presented to me at least once a day. I say "no" to all the usage things and then accepted, at first it didn't present for a number of days but recently it has become much more frequent. I am running firefox on windows 10 and never log out.

 

[sagalout]

Just got the "I ACCEPT" again. Selected "Show All Purposes", made sure they were all set to off and hit save. This is the second time I have visited the site this morning and I did not get the "I ACCEPT" the first time.

 

[Dave]

Let me check on something this end as it's starting to become a nuisance to several people.
Unfortunately as the law stands we need to have it but if I can do a work around in some way I'll do so

 

[sagalout]

I wonder if it is because I said no to all options. I was gonna post on here every time it happens to see if there is a pattern.

 

[sagalout]

I visited the site at 0345 this morning, no "I ACCEPT" message, next visit is now (sameday 1300), message presented. So it appears to be once a day sometime after 0800 (based on my other normal drop in times). This time I looked to make sure all purposes were set to NO and then instead of save and exit I went back and hit accept. I'll see if that makes any difference.

 

[Dave]

Under guidance, I have removed the cookie acceptance overlay to the forum pages and replaced it with a more acceptable cookie acceptance notice which will appear at the bottom of the forum pages with a link to our Privacy policy.
The overlay will still show for first-time users visiting the homepage of the website.
However, if you have your browser set to delete cookies after exiting the notice will still reappear when you next use that browser. This is your personal setting, not that of the forum.