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the search works ... however, it usually freezes up my browser window for a bit .... sometimes for as much as a minute plus

it does work wonderfully though once it resumes

I'm using WinXP, IE7

Hi Vio ..... that's a glitch the techs have been working on and seem to be having a great deal of problems with

Jayne .... until they get that fixed, is there any way to get the post numbers displayed beside the time stamp ..... it's really hard to find the spot where you left off in a discussion if the next time you get back to it there are 40 unread posts .... if you click on the "40 new posts" it takes you to the beginning of the the thread, which is frustrating, but the red "new" doesn't display on the new posts, so you can't find which one was the last you read unless you go to the end of the thread and then count backwards

if we had a counter on each thread, (like the old board) then we at least would have that number as a referrence for the next time we visit a discussion

 or is make it possible to search a discussion by date range ... you know how our personal blogs on the old site had the calendar we could click on to go to that day's posts ..... could we have that here with the discussions?  ..... is this perhaps the work around to fix the threads

also, I wanted to mention that the "search" function is still freezing up my computer while it does it's search ... frustrating because I can't even access other tabs while I'm waiting for the search to do it's thing

if a discussion thread or blog entry has less than 50 entries, and you click on "11 new" it will take you to the newest entry ..... if a blog or discussion thread is more than 50 entries, than it takes you to the very first entry of the discussion

this is a glitch in the system ..... Jayne purposely increased the limit to 50 entries so that the "new" function would work on more threads .... I'm not sure, but I think 50 is the max. that can be set per page .... so it's still a site wide glitch, that if a discussion if more than one page in length you will always be taken to the beginning of the discussion  ... hopefully they will have it fixed soon

"so it's still a site wide glitch, that if a discussion if more than one
page in length you will always be taken to the beginning of the
discussion  ... hopefully they will have it fixed soon"

Actually, try the "book challenge" forums.  They don't have this glitch, really!  I click on "11new" and it takes me right to page 9 with cute red "new" markers.  Since that and "steeple hill" are the 2 main forums I look at, I figured it was an issue with "steeple hill".  But I guess perhaps "book challenge" gets perks.  Wonder why it works there and not elsewhere?

Actually if you go to Forums and click on the NEW under each thread it does take you to the new posts.

Katherine--I just posted on the "Ask Lorie and Jayne" under Book Challenge

It should be on page 7

Thank you! 

I see what you mean ..... this is how you got there, in case others want to do that too

using the "Forum" ---> "Book Challenge" ---> and then clicking on the "1 new" for a discussion it will take you to that "new" comment or the first new comment if there are more than one ....... this actually works for all the discussion forums where there are "new" comments ... but you must go through the "Forum" section in order for this to work

so no matter how you get to the discussion you want, it's still several clicks away (there is not quick click) ..... but at least going through the "Forums" will get you to the "new" spot 

Katherine T -- I just gave the "Community search" you mention a try and it works very quickly (as in just a few seconds) for me. I'm also using XP but I'm using Firefox, not IE. Just thought I'd add that to the information mix.

K --tell me the title and I'll enter it for you --Barbara

Hi Pam,

It's hard to diagnose a problem without being able to look over your shoulder.  But if you're posting in this forum, does it mean that your problem has resolved?  You can do an easy check to see if you are logged in by looking to see if there's a welcome message in the top right hand corner of your browser window.  If it says Welcome yourname! then you're in.

Jayne 

I keep getting the access denied message for the DDU thread too

Katherine- what I do (since I'm not real good at counting backwards) is have two windows open. Window 1 to favourites. If there are new messages in Forums I open second window and go to forum with new messages, when clicking new under replies it takes you to last message and new messages show up with the word new

Jayne, presently here on the forum discussions the "page numbers, and next / previous" function is enabled for both the top and bottom of the pages ...... is there anyway to get this enabled also for the blogs?  .... esp. for the Book Challenge main blog  ..... actually if they could turn this on site wide that would be good, that way it would work with the tag pages too .....

this would make it a little easier to move to the last post of a tag, or blog  

yeah I really see the need for post #s, Not only is it confusing the heck out of me counting backwards but trying to direct someone to a specific post.

Diamonds Down Under is gone again. I think somehow it got re-reset to disappear. The IT people need to dig a little deeper--I like the series and I want to post on the forum!

Jayne, your link got me to the DDU page--thanks very much--but that's still the only way I can get to it. And I know I'm signed in. I still think something is screwy deep down in the programming!