capdiamont
Active member
You can mark all posts as read. On mobile, it is the three bars menu at the top, and scroll to near the bottom. Desktop is easier.
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The forum disappears for nearly two weeks, no advanced warning, no one gets a message from NV3 to say when it may be back up or why its offline for such a long time, even though they sent out a newsletter whilst the forum was missing in action, how hard would it have been to add a sentence explaining the situation ? I thought the most likely scenario was they had lost everything again, although Zec did reply to my inquiry and relieved my fears on that score pretty promptly. Am I the only person here who thinks those actions were unreasonable ?
capdiamont
Active member
I had to dust off Discord to see if anyone else was having problems. There was complaints there. They did an announcement there on the 13th and responded to users. Yes they should have send something in email. I prefer email to Discord. I can understand taking it down to freeze the database and taking longer but to not announce it in the forums prior to, or email during I don’t understand.
IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
Really do not like the look of the new forum. Aren't there any other themes available ? I do appreciate the "like" function though.
Agree Mike. This looks very basic compared to the revamped Trainsim dot com or (dare I say it) the Dovetail forum.
Seems it has been launched with half the features disabled such as signatures and avatars.
IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
I think it is a sop to mobile phone users Vern. Trainsim forum has a few colour theme options, one of which i use.
Yup cannot amend signatures, no location info either buddy.
Mike.
Yup cannot amend signatures, no location info either buddy.
Mike.
IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
Yup i found that out about 10 mins ago thanks buddy. Still prefer not to have to click or hover and have the info in plain sight. But thank you anyway
Christopher824
CDETrainz.com
I had bookmarked the old forum page;
https://forums.auran.com/trainz/content.php
It brings up a 404 Page Not Found page now. If I was not computer savey, I would continue to think the forums were broken
Suggestion - Put a redirect on that page URL to here
https://forums.auran.com/trainz/content.php
It brings up a 404 Page Not Found page now. If I was not computer savey, I would continue to think the forums were broken
Suggestion - Put a redirect on that page URL to here
They did? I was not able to find anything at all, even on Discord.
On my iPad, all I can see is three conversations at a time , I dunno whether they think we're all so ancient we can't decipher anything smaller but it's there seems no way to make the page shrink so I can view more items at a time. All I get is the window floating in empty space , it's ok on a standard computer , but it's a very sterile and bland look. The like button is a good thing though.
amigacooke
Well-known member
And about time too. There’s a reasonable possibility that the forum is accessed more often on mobile devices than desktops.
I read through the online manual for this new software and it does supports "skins" or what they call styles. This is just the default style as far as I can tell. It has excellent SPAM tools and a greatly improved search feature. The team just needs some time to tweak it a bit more.
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capdiamont
Active member
It was in the Discord announcement thread, on the 13th.
I am starting to wonder if I am even on the correct Discord in that case. Did another look and I could not find anything.
Or maybe I don't have the correct permissions there either.
capdiamont
Active member
Says, “Trainz Official Server” at the top. I got to it, somehow from the main website. I checked again and they did an announcement on the 13th that the forms were down and hoping that they would be back up in a few days. On the 18th they announced they were back up.