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When I post on my iPhone the text is skewed to the left.

Do we (or will we) have a private message capability?

"Howdy, *username*"?

Yes, you have to reset your password. For now, the avatars are being pulled over by hand. Please wait.

Hi...Thanks for the quick feedback and updates to the items I reported. ;-)...Just an fy reply, , the previous subscriptions to receive updates on existing posts don't seem to have migrated....just double-checked and there were updates to threads I am subscribed to but didn't receive in my inbox, so just figured I'd let you know for troubleshooting purposes. ((And...Sorry, I used to do the UI/design, build, test, & launch huge new websites, so I guess Ive got my "testing" & "user-experience" hat on right now....Hopefully the feedback isn't annoying you and is at least mildly helpful as you work through the typical re-launch kinks. :-))..)Thanks much again!!

@naturegirlbk the feedback is great! Keep it coming.I'll check and see if there is a way to upload images.

Hi. Hope this helps...here are the issues Ive noticed:+ The MENU does not dsplay/expand at all when clicked. (When viewing site on Android phone)+ The menu/list of neighborhoods message boards/categories is no longer displayed anywhere, so you can't navigate between forums. (Observed both on iMac & Android phone.)+ Question: Will favorites and posts we previously subscribed to receive updates on, resume when the transition is complete?+ Question: Can posts within each thread please be changed to display in reverse chronological order instead of the current chronological order? This would eliminate the need for users to scroll through tons of history just in order to view the most recent postings.Thanks much!!

I don't think wordpress does signature lines.

Hu...Also noticed that the date and time on the site must be off...for example, the most recent post (earlier today) to the Crown Heights thread re::New Development coming to Dean between .... says it was posted Dec 31, around d 2am...but obviously today is only Dec 30...Thanks.[EDIT: Fixed the timezone (see my reply above, since this post now occurs in the future... :/ ). Thanks! - Admin]

This new platform should be reliable enough that it doesn't frustrate users into quitting.I like that the date and time appears on every post

I've been having quite a bit of trouble. For me, the new site seems to flicker in and out of service. Sometimes, the page won't load at all and other times I get 503 errors - service temporarily unavailable - and have to try back an hour or so later to get access to the site. Am I the only one?

I am testing out the site's various features to put it to the test.The search function seem quirky. For example, I searched "Shomrim" and it took a few tries before the thread was returned.

Wow, new site is quite different...... Please tell me the color are going to change from black and white to something more befitting of our borough. Also where on earth did my profile picture come from?

For photos, you can use the basic IMG tag: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.aspFor quotes, use blockquote: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.aspIt looks like this:

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@newguy88 the new site uses Gravatars. Do you have a gravatar account by chance? It is probably pulling your photo from Gravatar.com.And yes, the new site will have more visual appeal after we add back in avatars, etc.

The edit feature seems to go away quickly after one makes a post.I often need to edit my posts, so they make me sound intelligent or at least are coherent.

Hi. There is definitely something wrong with the back-end of the site re: user preferences & such...I posted to this topic about this issue a couple of days ago about the fact that after your re-launch of the site, I had subscribed to approx 50 topics + forums (I'm guessing I did this Jan 4 or 5 or so..), and by Jan 8 (I think) , I realized I wasnt receiving any updates re: these topics via email. So I logged in, checked my subscriptions & favorites, and all of them had disappeared. Again, I reported this via this thread, I believe, on Jan 8. (Whynot even responded...) So, at that point (Jan 8-ish) I re-subscribed to 4-6 forums/topics, just to be able to confirm that they'd be retained and that I'd receive updates via email whenever someone posted about them. Now, after the updates I guess were done to the site yesterday, I have just logged in and can report two issues: 1) Once again, the set of 4-6 latest subscriptions & favorites re-added on Jan 8 have disappeared...Ugh!!!, and 2) If you look at this "New Brooklynian" thread where I posted about this problem on approx Jan 8, (and again, WhyNot replied..), those posts have completely disappeared as well. So, can someone please look into and rectify these issues?? The eternally-disappearing subscriptions/favorites issue is especially annoying...Thanks much.

Seems like some of the old crowd from the previous forum haven't joined us in this new forum. Hopefully, they'll be here soon!

@mugofmead111 thanks! I'll look into it. Do you remember which post it was?

@whynot_31 I have not noticed that but will keep an eye out for it. It may be a cache issue.

ProdSon wrote: "Seems like some of the old crowd from the previous forum haven’t joined us in this new forum. Hopefully, they’ll be here soon!"Once the bugs in the new format are worked out, I believe there is a plan to email everyone who has logged on over the course of the last year, to tell them the site is now less buggy and that our conversations are more riveting, and informative than ever.At least, that's what I would do :)

Hi newguy88. I'm sorry about the trouble you are experiencing. I am doing everything I can to get the site in working order. There is probably some conflict with the caching. I disabled the caching for now. If you receive another "page moved" error, it would be helpful to me if you could describe the exact link you tried to click on, and if you're able to, paste the link into the comments field in this thread. Thanks.

Is the incredible slowness going to be fixed in the future? Is it fixable? Or is this the new normal?

I was told the pages will load more quickly once the web servers get more hits for the new site IP address; this causes them to not have to work as hard for it.Also, we seem to have some bugs remaining that cause slowness in posting.

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there is a plan to email everyone who has logged on over the course of the last year, to tell them the site is now less buggy and that our conversations are more riveting, and informative than ever

Looking forward to that day! :)

I was having the same trouble it seems as newguy. Today is the first day I am able to get to the site without any error messages or posts missing. Great job all.

@stacey no, I am just seeing flat ads for cars and office supplies. Let me know what ad is flashing and I will tell the ad service to cut it out of the rotation.

"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee and turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper..."

Let's now begin to put it to test, by increasing traffic.Share your favorite thread on your Facebook feed. Tell your neighbors about the site.... Mention the Brooklynian when you post on other sites.

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This site is buggier than a roach motel.I received this error message around 10:00 am when I was trying to create a post. (Of course, the post was completely lost and I have to start over.)

Internal Server ErrorThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@brooklynian.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.More information about this error may be available in the server error log.Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Hi, admin!I appreciate the response. Hopefully the kinks will get worked out soon!

Actually here is the exact message I get when the site won't let me login. "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page."

I was getting a blank site every time I tried to visit yesterday. The home page just said [bbp-topic-index] and none of the other tabs showed any discussions or forums either.

Laura - sorry, that was just me messing with a few things on the back end.