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[mmcv]

Using the quote button on their post pulls in those details as here. I think the manual quote insert always just showed quote?

Oh interesting it showed the name and date in the quick insert but not when I actually posted...I see what you mean. Though I can see "quote from mmcv" on orcs one above...

[Techno II]

The only thing that still happens to me, once every four or five visits, is that it doesn't like my password...and I'm being ultra careful to get it right.

I just leave the forum, and then start again...and (so far) that's always worked.

Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

The only thing that still happens to me, once every four or five visits, is that it doesn't like my password...and I'm being ultra careful to get it right.

I just leave the forum, and then start again...and (so far) that's always worked.

Cheers - Phil.

Why do you need to enter your password so often? I think I've only entered mine once or twice in the new forum. 

[fred.]

Oh interesting it showed the name and date in the quick insert but not when I actually posted...I see what you mean. Though I can see "quote from mmcv" on orcs one above...

Yep there are definitely two different behaviours

[Techno II]

Why do you need to enter your password so often? I think I've only entered mine once or twice in the new forum.

Force of habit, Forbes. .....Von and I both log out of any sites we visit.....I'm pretty sure Firefox would kick us off, anyway, when we come off the net.

Means there's slightly less stuff for the PC Cleaner to trawl through, as well.

That does mean that there's yet something else I don't quite understand, regarding the new forum.
Bottom of the home page, we have "users active in the last 15 minutes", with the names of those actually logged in ??
I'm pretty sure on the old forum, people who HAD been logged in, but had logged out, showed up for 15 minutes.

Now it seems that as soon as someone logs out, their 'moniker' disappears instantly.....(Definitely of no matter, at all ! 

Wouldn't anyone who hadn't logged out show up permanently, at the bottom of the page ?

Cheers - Phil.

Interesting....I just logged out, then came back in...and while I was logged out "Techno II" WAS still showing at the bottom of the page..

[fred.]

I'm not even sure I know where to start with this!

Your browser and the server are two different entities. The session you are running is what is showing by the last seen widget on the bottom of the home page. All it is doing is recording the last time someone was active on the site, and listing them if their activity was within the last 15 mins. 

If you log out of your session it should have no impact on this. As Techno's activity was still 5mins ago. Irrespective of what activity you then do either not-logged in, or logged in as another username. 

As to logging out of the site - I really can't see any reason at all to do this on a home computer. Unless you think Von will be sneaking on to post as you. On a shared computer there is a lot of reasons to do this. But this logging in is very much a local thing for your browser. It is just remembering your details to make it easier next time. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

One thing I miss about the old forum was when you hit read unread it took you to the last unread post...
I don't want to see my own waffle!

[Heedless Horseman]

What is the little brown post reference top right for? EG. #26
Have tried putting into 'search' but did not bring anything up.
Not something that I want to use... just curiosity.

[Leon]

What is the little brown post reference top right for? EG. #26
Have tried putting into 'search' but did not bring anything up.
Not something that I want to use... just curiosity.

That's just a reply number, so my post here is the 28th reply to the original post.

[John Cook]

One thing that I have often wondered about is the use of pseudonyms on the forum. 
Anonymity doesn't seem to be an issue because some sign posts with their proper names, and the proper names of a number of posters are clearly known to each other. 
As on-line anonymity is becoming frowned on these days and forums increasingly do not allow it anyway, is it not time that proper names are used?
What is the purpose of pseudonyms?     

[fred.]

I'd say there are a couple of reasons 

1) When registering you are asked for a username - which suggests a made up name rather than your own name. 

2) Search Engines and permanence of posts - there is a big difference between names (and usually only first names) being known to other posters who you have often had multi-year conversations with, versus what some random person with a search engine can pick out. Especially when HR departments can google people at the point of recruitment. I see this as the difference between what you might say in the pub (or at the gaming club) with your mates, vs what you would write in a work email. In everyday transactions people are pretty anonymous in what they do - but there are means to identify people if they break rules. And I think on the internet there should be a similar level of blending in and transience. The problem can be it is far too easy on the internet for people to be abusive due to their anonymity. I don't think we have collectively worked out how this should work yet - and usernames are a simple way of giving some of these benefits - and on a forum such as this there is rarely a problem with abuse of the system.  

[Westmarcher]

Pseudonyms: When I joined this forum (and others, subsequently), being inexperienced in this medium, it appeared to be the thing to do - everybody else was doing it - so I picked a nom de plume that reflected my origins.

My name is David (sometimes Davy, to my pals) Henderson. For those who do know that, hello. Pleased to renew my acquaintance with you.    

p.s. Will I change it? Honestly, I can't be bothered.      

[Last Hussar]

Though some people here do know my real name I use the nickname on the Internet to avoid problems with my employer.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Is there any way to reinstate the feature from the 9ld forum where it would tale you to the last unread post rather than that page?

[paulr]

 

I clicked on the Today at 12:06:30 AM link on the right of the thread and it takes me to the last post

If I click on the Re: Forum Upgrade link in the list of Recent posts or the Latest Post: it also takes me to the last post

[John Cook]

Though some people here do know my real name I use the nickname on the Internet to avoid problems with my employer.

God forbid that they found out you played with toy soldiers 

[hammurabi70]

God forbid that they found out you played with toy soldiers 

AFAIK a majority of people [i.e. straw poll at the club] avoid mentioning it on the CV in the General Interests section.  For the general public we tend to refer to an interest in military history when pressed (e.g. hiring a hall).

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I clicked on the Today at 12:06:30 AM link on the right of the thread and it takes me to the last post

If I click on the Re: Forum Upgrade link in the list of Recent posts or the Latest Post: it also takes me to the last post

Doesn't for me

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

JUst has for me.

[Westmarcher]

Works for me, too. 

p.s. Meant to say above, "For those who do NOT know my real name, hello."