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Quote from Demosthenes9 : Ummm, so what was broken with the old CP that needed to be fixed ????

You should know by now..that when everything runs perfectly and is beautifully integrated on SD, that they need to change it.

When it's not broken: fix it. SD policy

but...but...

the great thing about the User CP is that it only showed you the Subscribed threads that had new posts in it....

going through My Account, you see a list of all Subscribed threads, and you must look for the bold to figure out what has a new post and what doesn't...

Quote from dzap : You should know by now..that when everything runs perfectly and is beautifully integrated on SD, that they need to change it. When it's not broken: fix it. SD policy

Obviously, in the effort to provide new features and functionality, things will change.

Furthermore, we are evolving. I prefer not to sit around and do nothing, but try to make change for the better.


Obviously, everyone is resistant to change, as they were with the original redesign, but eventually you get used to it and realize that the features are worthwhile.


We'll always consider your feedback and will make it better.

I hate the PMs page. I hate change, Sorry but I was used to the other way. Please don't make me learn something new again. I'm old

Quote from jmegirl : but...but... the great thing about the User CP is that it only showed you the Subscribed threads that had new posts in it.... going through My Account, you see a list of all Subscribed threads, and you must look for the bold to figure out what has a new post and what doesn't...

Maybe you're not paying attention but it's still there.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/usercp.php

Scroll down and you'll see new subscribed threads.

WOAH! So the buttons are not useless (thought the iPad/iPhone buttons were just customized in-browser versions of SD).


You guys made an app!

At some point are you going to put Android up there?

Quote from jmegirl : but...but... the great thing about the User CP is that it only showed you the Subscribed threads that had new posts in it.... going through My Account, you see a list of all Subscribed threads, and you must look for the bold to figure out what has a new post and what doesn't...

We're addressing this in a quick fix we're pushing out.

Quote from dzap : You should know by now..that when everything runs perfectly and is beautifully integrated on SD, that they need to change it. When it's not broken: fix it. SD policy

hehehehehehe. Yep, right about the time everyone is finally getting comfortable over the last big change. It's all good. I hated just about everything last time around, until I got used to it. Then I was like "WTF ? Why wasn't it always like this ?"

Quote from slickdeals : Maybe you're not paying attention but it's still there. http://slickdeals.net/forums/usercp.php Scroll down and you'll see new subscribed threads.

YES I am paying attention. And I can't stand the LARGE list of recent activity I don't need to know who I sent a PM to, what thread I posted in, and who quoted me in a thread.

I want the ability to HIDE the Activity Stream.

Quote from bryantq : We're addressing this in a quick fix we're pushing out.

I seriously hope this means you're going to allow us to hide that pesky Activity Stream

Quote from dzap : You should know by now..that when everything runs perfectly and is beautifully integrated on SD, that they need to change it. When it's not broken: fix it. SD policy

Let's go back to 2004 [archive.org].

Quote from jmegirl : but...but... the great thing about the User CP is that it only showed you the Subscribed threads that had new posts in it.... going through My Account, you see a list of all Subscribed threads, and you must look for the bold to figure out what has a new post and what doesn't...

you're stuck in the same cycle of confusion i've been in for the last 20 or so minutes.

ignore my account. it's going to be useless for your purposes.

on the left top of your page, where User CP used to be, you'll find the counterintuitively named link "Notifications and Activity"

Click on that.

It will take you this new User CP page, with a whole narration of every thing you've been on doing on SD for the last however minutes and anything anyone has done in response.

scroll past that clutter and below that you will find your threads with new posts. the text looks a whole lot more crunched and much harder to read. i don't know if that's just how it is displaying with this OS/browser combo, or if it is an artifice of the tough on eyes color scheme or if it is a real issue, but at any rate the threads are there. only, since you use SD about as much as I do (we're both all over), you'll be doing a lot of scrolling past a long activity stream. so don't panic if you don't see your threads right away (i did!)

Quote from jmegirl : YES I am paying attention. And I can't stand the LARGE list of recent activity I don't need to know who I sent a PM to, what thread I posted in, and who quoted me in a thread. I want the ability to HIDE the Activity Stream. I seriously hope this means you're going to allow us to hide that pesky Activity Stream

We are planning to have options to limit what is displayed in the stream at a later date. It's a bit chatty at the moment.

Bryant or SD, any chance you will change the layout of the Notifications and Activity page and put the "activity stream" thing UNDER "new subscribed threads" ? Or, if feeling froggy, give us users a way to change the layout ourselves ??