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FatLilPony

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#81

Jan. 1, 2003, 07:55 PM

We have no more subject lines for our replies? That's a bummer? Are they comming back?

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breezymeadow

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#82

Jan. 1, 2003, 08:42 PM

Technological idiot that I am, is there a way to get the "New Posts Since You Last Visited" to come up? Or do we just now go manually from forum to forum?

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RodeoHunter

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#83

Jan. 1, 2003, 08:42 PM

quick reply

fun stuff!!<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">wheee</pre>

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Erin

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#84

Jan. 1, 2003, 09:41 PM

Breezymeadow, I think you go to MySpace and click on "What's New."
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canterlope

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#85

Jan. 2, 2003, 02:27 AM

This is very cool. Love the new look. It's not just a bulletin board, it's an adventure.

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breezymeadow

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#86

Jan. 2, 2003, 04:26 AM

Thanks Erin! I actually figured it out (pastes little gold star on forehead).

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A Splash of Color

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#87

Jan. 2, 2003, 04:47 AM

Bear with me folks, just trying out the signature function....

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breezymeadow

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#88

Jan. 2, 2003, 04:52 AM

Aaacckk. . . . spoke too soon. Now for some reason the "Suspend All Notifications" box on the "My Space" page refuses to "uncheck". Every time I remove the check & press "Update", it comes back checked with an "Alert: All subscriptions suspended; remove check to resume notifications". But I can't remove the check. I am in "The Twilight Zone". How do I get my "notifications" back on?

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Oldenburg Mom

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#89

Jan. 2, 2003, 04:55 AM

BTW, just used the list function.

WAAAAAAY cool.

Just a thought...
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DreamBigEq37

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#90

Jan. 2, 2003, 05:40 AM

What's the difference between quick reply and uhh slow reply? Normal Reply?
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#91

Jan. 2, 2003, 05:43 AM

I can use that one a lot...
:dead oooh a dead gremlin. huh.
oh I feel bad for this one.
Didn' we have a laugh one before, butit was yellow? Or did I just pretend we did...

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#92

Jan. 2, 2003, 05:45 AM

cool stuff!
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#93

Jan. 2, 2003, 06:30 AM

Tres bien!!!!

Using "Reply" and love the tabs for bold, etc.

This will take some serious getting used to but I like it so far!

Thanks, Erin!

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#94

Jan. 2, 2003, 06:52 AM

Okay, I tried to reply with quotes. It opened the quote box, let my type my reply but had no POST button! How do I post a reply with quotes?

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Lord Helpus

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Jan. 2, 2003, 06:55 AM

Hokay, I can see that Merry and some others are far smarter than I am. How does one change the size of one's LOCATION?

I went to help and it told me to click on the "CATEGORY ICON". But I have no idea what it looks like or where it is.....

And I also do not see anything that is a QUICK REPLY.....

Last night I replied to a topic (with a long, thoughtful and pity response ) only to discover that there was NO "Post Now" button available. Even after I maximized the screen...

Somehow, I'm not likin' this new format...

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#96

Jan. 2, 2003, 06:57 AM

OK, I can't figure out how to make a title using the blue arrow/Reply feature -- the yellow arrow one doesn't work for me...
but...
Is anyone else out there on a MAC?? Erin said the hop-to-other-forums javascript doesn't work on her computer bc it's an old mac, but I am on a NEW mac running all the latest greatest, and it doesn't work for me either...
Any other MAC ISSUES people have found??? That way Erin can bundle all the mac problems into one query for Infopop...

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Lord Helpus

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#97

Jan. 2, 2003, 07:00 AM

OK, I found "Quick Reply", but I still cannot find "Locations" or "Category Icon"

And waht the heck is a "Notification"?

Sigh.. The one toy I was hoping to see is not here -- a spell checker for us dyslexics and bad typists... Is it, Erin.....?

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#98

Jan. 2, 2003, 07:07 AM

The "Post" button disappearing is definitely a bug. If you notice, it is there in the far lower RH corner when you first open the "Full Reply" window - but if you resize the window it goes away.

I'm having the same window resizing issues everyone else is reporting. Am downloading Netscape to see if it's any better with that.

Another strange thing that just happened to me was that I seem to have DELETED someone's post by using the Quick Reply to reply to it. Hopefully this will not happen to Lord Helpus' post which should be just above mine, but if it does, I apologize!

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Erin

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#99

Jan. 2, 2003, 08:16 AM

So far, I've heard of several AOL users not having the "post now" button on their replies... is anyone who's NOT AOL having this problem?

The "quick reply" is the yellow arrow that appears in the upper-right and lower-right corners... the blue arrow next to it is the regular reply.

Quick reply is just a bare-bones way to reply... there are no buttons to insert smilies or code, but if you know how to type the shortcuts for them, you can still use them. The window for a quick reply will load faster than the one for a regular reply.

And no, you're no longer able to type a subject for a message. Don't know why they took that out, but they did. You could always pretend by just making the first line of your message bold.

The hop-to menu is now accessible by clicking the little house icon that appears in the line at the top and bottom of the screen... it says "Chronicle of the Horse," then a little globe, then "Chronicle Forums," then a little house, then "Off Course."

This morning I'm using Netscape on my Mac, and I AM able to get the hop-to menu... I couldn't on IE.

Notifications are what used to be called Pop-Its.

To change your location, go to MySpace, click on profile, and you can edit your profile there.
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Jan. 2, 2003, 08:29 AM

Okay I have two questions.

1. what do the half-moon things beside the post folders mean?

2. why do people have what looks like pigs with a white suit on under their names?

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