Tips & tricks (2 Viewers)

[delia todd]

Gallery images

Tags
Pictures often won't show in a search unless information has been entered into the Tags field.

You can do this at the time of upload, or add them by clicking on the luggage label.

As you start to type a predictive drop down list will appear. It is essential to select from this list for the tag to 'stick'. You can add more than one. I suggest the scientific name, and at least the county/state (spelt out in full) and the country, as well as the common name.

At present the Gallery search is only looking in the Tags field. Ollie is working on improving this.

 

[Deb Burhinus]

Thanks Delia - I found that problem yesterday when searching for a species - managed to figure it out but I think there still maybe issues for those uploading new images as the upload interface isn’t remembering previous upload details so it all needs to be entered from scratch each time (ie equipment etc). I think Ollie or Steve said they were looking at a fix.

 

[delia todd]

Hopefully Deb (I must have missed that post but things are happening so quickly for my old brain!!)

Yes, I open a previous upload of mine and copy and paste stuff from it into my new upload. Peter flagged it up earlier in a thread.

 

[Deb Burhinus]

PROFILE POSTS

A few people, including myself, were wondering what ‘Profile Posts’ were, so I thought I would try it out seeing other members were using the facility.The basic idea I think is to give people an idea/glimpse into the day you’re having and get a sense of being in a Community:

• Status Updates - To use the Profile Post facility, I entered my message into the ‘Status Updates’ text field found in my profile/account
• To view my new post, I went to ‘Profile Posts’ under the Members tag on the main banner heading - there it was along with everyone else's messages!
• There’s an option once the Profile Post is made, to upload media files and add formatting and furthur comments to one’s own post by using ‘edit’
• There’s a ‘like’ tab for others’ posts but am not sure whether it is possible to reply to anyone else’s post (unless to a moderator?) but perhaps someone can confirm?

• (There’s also a drop down filter to follow people)

 

[Jmakepeace]

SHARE A POST IN ANOTHER THREAD

This one is also really helpful. To post a link in another thread from a post elsewhere use the ‘share icon’ in the menu bar (the share icon only appears in a post thats already been uploaded so if you are intending to duplicate post, upload your initial post first). Click the share icon in the top right of the post you want to share. Go to the thread you want to link the post in, create a new reply dialogue box, then press ‘paste’. So now I have created a post to post link with the snagging thread. It’s that easy and instead of posting just a page link, it takes you straight to the actual post I want to link to.

Post in thread 'Tips & tricks'
https://www.birdforum.net/threads/tips-tricks.401722/post-4100066

Seems to work well 😁

Tips & tricks

Found a neat new feature with the new site? Share it in this thread so others can find out about it (y)

www.birdforum.net

 

[tenex]

There’s a ‘like’ tab for others’ posts but am not sure whether it is possible to reply to anyone else’s post (unless to a moderator?) but perhaps someone can confirm?

There are option(s) in your Preferences as to whether other members may comment on your Profile posts and so on.

 

[Jmakepeace]

'Reply'

Worth knowing, particularly when there is a lot of information / more than one point in a post and your reply is specific to a single part.

 

[Deb Burhinus]

Not really a ‘neat trick’ or ‘tip’ but a fun inadvertent quiz!

The moving slide show banner of recent bird photos added to the gallery often shows a tantalising portion only of the whole subject - I’ve been having fun guessing the species before clicking on the images! 😁

 

[Deb Burhinus]

I don’t know whether it’s a new feature or I just haven’t noticed it before but it’s actually quite cool. If you have posted on a thread, it has your avatar overlayed on the thread starter’s avatar and when you touch it, it tells you how many posts you have made to that thread.

It makes it really easy to see which threads you have commented on in the forum list.

 

[Kits]

It’s always been there, Deb. Good feature!

 

[Deb Burhinus]

Thanks Kits - I feel a bit guilty sometimes for not seeing straight away all the great subtle features Olly has built into this Site - it’s like peeling an onion!


HAPPY NEW YEAR OLLIE! And thank you 🍾🎆🎇🎈🎈🎈

 

[Kits]

I really like the way links to other sites are so easy to do now.

 

[bflginidx]

I like the new forum page redesign. One question I have is I'm pretty sure when viewing threads in the old layout I was able to view the posts in "newest first" order. That's not the case for me now. Is there a setting that will allow you to change the chronological sort order?

 

[bflginidx]

I like the new forum page redesign. One question I have is I'm pretty sure when viewing threads in the old layout I was able to view the posts in "newest first" order. That's not the case for me now. Is there a setting that will allow you to change the chronological sort order?

Can anyone answer this?

 

[delia todd]

Can anyone answer this?

There isn't that facility at the moment (at least I can't see it).

Whether Ollie can tweak things to do this I don't know I'm afraid.

 

[tenex]

Can anyone answer this?

I don't remember any such ability in the previous forum software either. You can reverse the order of threads within a forum, but not as far as I know posts within a thread.

 

[bflginidx]

There isn't that facility at the moment (at least I can't see it).

Whether Ollie can tweak things to do this I don't know I'm afraid.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear that. When viewing a popular and therefore long thread over time it just seems to me you want to see the newest posts at the top of the list. Why see the oldest first and have to scroll down the page (or pages) to find the latest?

 

[delia todd]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear that. When viewing a popular and therefore long thread over time it just seems to me you want to see the newest posts at the top of the list. Why see the oldest first and have to scroll down the page (or pages) to find the latest?

Maybe.... it'd be nice, if Ollie could put a down arrow at the top of the page, like the one we get at the bottom which zips you right back to the top before you can wink!

 

[Kits]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear that. When viewing a popular and therefore long thread over time it just seems to me you want to see the newest posts at the top of the list. Why see the oldest first and have to scroll down the page (or pages) to find the latest?

If you click on New Posts and then click on a thread title, you will be taken to the first new (to you) post.

Does that help?

 

[tenex]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear that. When viewing a popular and therefore long thread over time it just seems to me you want to see the newest posts at the top of the list. Why see the oldest first and have to scroll down the page (or pages) to find the latest?

Actually, when you click on a thread you should be taken to the first new post since you last viewed the thread, which is very logical.

This only fails for threads you haven't viewed since the forum upgrade in late November: the first time you click, you see post #1, as if you'd never read any of it. But after that it should work as above.