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[Barbara]

First, I've noticed that a thread I began keeps disappearing from the View New Content list every time I read the most recent reply. It only happens on one thread and that's Huggie's Tale. For instance, this morning Karen replied at 8:27 a.m. but after I read the reply it was no longer in the New Content list. Instead of greying out like the others do after they have been read, it disappears!

Second question: I can't seem to make my photos appear where I put the cursor when I add them. They always end up in a row at the bottom of the reply.

[Kimberly]

I can't help with the second question, but the first one is just a little confusion involved. The "New Content" link only shows topics that have new replies (content) since you last looked at the thread. Therefore, if you click on it, it won't show up in the New Content link until someone replies again. The only threads that appear there will be ones that have a new reply since you last opened it. Does that help?

[Barbara]

Kimberly, on 17 October 2010 - 05:27 PM, said:

I can't help with the second question, but the first one is just a little confusion involved. The "New Content" link only shows topics that have new replies (content) since you last looked at the thread. Therefore, if you click on it, it won't show up in the New Content link until someone replies again. The only threads that appear there will be ones that have a new reply since you last opened it. Does that help?

Not really. Other threads (including one I started about the OC Pet-a-Palooza) still show up only the little box to the left is greyed out indicating no new replies which I would expect would be how Huggie's thread would show until a new reply is added. It should still be in the new content list since the last reply was today.

[Christy]

Barbara, on 17 October 2010 - 06:10 PM, said:

Not really. Other threads (including one I started about the OC Pet-a-Palooza) still show up only the little box to the left is greyed out indicating no new replies which I would expect would be how Huggie's thread would show until a new reply is added. It should still be in the new content list since the last reply was today.

Hmmm that's curious. I'm not sure what the answer is to that.

The second problem is easier for me. If you go to the upper right portion on the screen and click "help" then under the heading "posting" you'll find this info on attachments.

Managing Attachments
Regardless of which uploader you use, once the files are uploaded you will see them on your screen. By default, all attachments are added to the bottom of your message, however, you can add any attachment to a particular section of your post by pressing the "Add to Post" link.

If you wish to remove an attachment and have it not appear in your post, simply press the "Delete" link.

When I am previewing my own posts I might type a line about the photo I am going to show and then click the "add to post", then another little blurb and then "add to post" for the next pic and so on.

I hope that helps, but if you have more problems just let me know!

[Marj R.C.]

Yup, that's what I do to my uploaded pics in my reply box. I "add to post" . Hopefully, that answers your question about that, Barbara. If not, let us know!

As to the "new content", I was going to say what Kimberly did. I'm not sure why you still see read topics grayed out. The ones I've just read disappear when I click 'new content' again. They only reappear when someone adds a reply to them. Are you back-spacing maybe? Instead of refreshing and clicking 'new content' again? I wonder ... ??

[Barbara]

Christy, on 17 October 2010 - 08:22 PM, said:

Hmmm that's curious. I'm not sure what the answer is to that. The second problem is easier for me. If you go to the upper right portion on the screen and click "help" then under the heading "posting" you'll find this info on attachments.Managing AttachmentsRegardless of which uploader you use, once the files are uploaded you will see them on your screen. By default, all attachments are added to the bottom of your message, however, you can add any attachment to a particular section of your post by pressing the "Add to Post" link.If you wish to remove an attachment and have it not appear in your post, simply press the "Delete" link. When I am previewing my own posts I might type a line about the photo I am going to show and then click the "add to post", then another little blurb and then "add to post" for the next pic and so on.I hope that helps, but if you have more problems just let me know!

Thanks, Christy. I think that's exactly what I do already, but I'll try it again the next time I post photos.

Marj R.C., on 17 October 2010 - 09:18 PM, said:

Yup, that's what I do to my uploaded pics in my reply box. I "add to post" . Hopefully, that answers your question about that, Barbara. If not, let us know!As to the "new content", I was going to say what Kimberly did. I'm not sure why you still see read topics grayed out. The ones I've just read disappear when I click 'new content' again. They only reappear when someone adds a reply to them. Are you back-spacing maybe? Instead of refreshing and clicking 'new content' again? I wonder ... ??

Thanks, Marj. It's not the topics themselves that are greyed out. I still see them. It's just the icon to the left of the topics that greys out when there are no more replies I haven't read. The only topic that disappears after I read the latest reply is the one I mentioned. It's still doing that after I added a post tonight.

[Debbie]

Barbara, all of my threads still show after I've read them, but they are greyed out, just like you said. They don't disappear. I don't have an answer, I just wanted to tell you that I agree with you that the folder should still be there, just greyed out.

[Kimberly]

Barbara & Debbie, if you go to an individual forum, you should see some topics that have the grayed out box and any threads with new content will have the orange box, indicating there is a new response in there. However, scroll up to the top right of the page and click "View New Content" now. When the next page loads, do you see any topics with the gray box?

[Christy]

Barbara, That's what you do? Hmmm.. and you did up load all the pictures into your post first right? and then you checked the little "add to post" box on the left for when you wanted to add them so they would go where you wanted them? I just want to make sure I understand you.

On the other issue, sometimes I've noticed a "new content" post being greyed out after I've read it and then shortly after it dissappears from the new content area. I don't know why yours is leaving immediately, but is it a problem? I mean does it show as new content again once there is a new post for you to read?

[Barbara]

Debbie, on 18 October 2010 - 09:13 AM, said:

Barbara, all of my threads still show after I've read them, but they are greyed out, just like you said. They don't disappear. I don't have an answer, I just wanted to tell you that I agree with you that the folder should still be there, just greyed out.

Debbie, THANK YOU! You are the first person who understands exactly what I'm saying and agrees with me!

Kimberly, on 18 October 2010 - 10:09 AM, said:

Barbara & Debbie, if you go to an individual forum, you should see some topics that have the grayed out box and any threads with new content will have the orange box, indicating there is a new response in there. However, scroll up to the top right of the page and click "View New Content" now. When the next page loads, do you see any topics with the gray box?

Kimberly, Yes, in the individual forums, all threads still show up.

Christy, on 18 October 2010 - 10:15 AM, said:

Barbara, That's what you do? Hmmm.. and you did up load all the pictures into your post first right? and then you checked the little "add to post" box on the left for when you wanted to add them so they would go where you wanted them? I just want to make sure I understand you.

On the other issue, sometimes I've noticed a "new content" post being greyed out after I've read it and then shortly after it dissappears from the new content area. I don't know why yours is leaving immediately, but is it a problem? I mean does it show as new content again once there is a new post for you to read?

Christy, Yes, only the photos always wind up on the bottom.
Yes on the other issue. I just don't understand why the one thread I'm talking about always disappears from the "View New Content" when all the other posts that day stay there even after I've read their new replies. The first thing I do when I come on the forum is to click the View New Content and read that day's replies. If a thread I've read disappears, I'm assuming no one else that does the same thing can see it either unless they searched the forum as Kimberly mentioned. It just seems very odd that it doesn't happen with any other threads including those I have started myself (at least not that I know of). Doesn't it seem odd to you? Maybe I should just forget about it. I didn't mean to make a big deal about it. I just thought maybe someone more technically savvy than myself could figure it out.

[Kimberly]

Barbara, on 18 October 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

Kimberly, Yes, in the individual forums, all threads still show up.

No, I meant the opposite - when you click "View New Content", there shouldn't be any threads that have the grayed out icon, right? Every single one should be orange (which is totally different from viewing individual forums).

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If a thread I've read disappears, I'm assuming no one else that does the same thing can see it either unless they searched the forum as Kimberly mentioned. It just seems very odd that it doesn't happen with any other threads including those I have started myself (at least not that I know of). Doesn't it seem odd to you? Maybe I should just forget about it. I didn't mean to make a big deal about it. I just thought maybe someone more technically savvy than myself could figure it out.

No, this is setting is specific to each person. What you see is totally different from what I see, what Kathy sees, what Marj sees, etc. The settings on this forum work with the cookies on our individual computers to let us know what we each have viewed and not viewed.

[Barbara]

Kimberly, on 18 October 2010 - 12:04 PM, said:

No, I meant the opposite - when you click "View New Content", there shouldn't be any threads that have the grayed out icon, right? Every single one should be orange (which is totally different from viewing individual forums).

No, this is setting is specific to each person. What you see is totally different from what I see, what Kathy sees, what Marj sees, etc. The settings on this forum work with the cookies on our individual computers to let us know what we each have viewed and not viewed.

Most of the threads in View New Content do show grayed out icons. The only squares with orange icons are the ones with replies I have not read yet.

Okay, the second part makes sense, but why do I see the rest of them I have read and not that one particular thread?

[Kimberly]

If you are seeing grayed out icons when you click "View New Content", I'd have to guess that you have the majority of the whole web site marked as read/viewed them. Nope, I just marked the whole board as read and got a "No New Content" message and couldn't see any threads...

I give up! Maybe Ryan or Carolina will have your answer.

[Christy]

Barbara, Could it have anything to do the your watched topics? Is your Huggie thread one that you have marked to "watch" and then maybe not the others?

(don't get frustrated--I'm just trying to troubleshoot.)

[Christy]

Kimberly, my view new content pulls up things I haven't read, but after reading something and hitting new content again it will usually show the post I just read as greyed out and the others marked with new posts still. I think that's what Barbara is talking about.

[Barbara]

Christy, on 18 October 2010 - 01:50 PM, said:

Barbara, Could it have anything to do the your watched topics? Is your Huggie thread one that you have marked to "watch" and then maybe not the others?

(don't get frustrated--I'm just trying to troubleshoot.)

I don't have anything in my watched topics. And I do appreciate the effort to help.

Christy, on 18 October 2010 - 01:52 PM, said:

Kimberly, my view new content pulls up things I haven't read, but after reading something and hitting new content again it will usually show the post I just read as greyed out and the others marked with new posts still. I think that's what Barbara is talking about.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

[Kimberly]

Well, I'm going to give you both the same answer I've been giving to Kathy lately - you need a new browser! LOL Have you tried Google Chrome? Awesome browser and none of these ghost topics either. Ha! (And I'm only 1% serious.)

[Jane]

Hi Barbara,

Sorry for the late response to your first question. In short, I'm not exactly sure.

However, I have been playing around with the View New Content list for a little while now. Here is what I have experienced:

1. When I click on the orange square before the Thread title to read the unread posts, after I read them, the thread does disappear from my View New Content list.
2. I tried only reading *some* (not all) of the unread posts to see if that made a difference or not. It didn't. The thread still disappeared from the View New Content list.
3. If you go to the last page of your View New Content list, you might see some threads that have the greyed out folder to the left of the thread title. I tried clicking on one of those threads. After I read that thread, it disappeared from my View New Content list.

So, I am trying to figure out why some threads appear with the greyed out folder in the View New Content list at all. I am guessing right now that those might be the threads that I have never ever read? I did accidentally once "mark all threads read", yet I still have these greyed out threads in my VNC list.

It seems though that once a thread has been read for new content, the thread title disappears from the View New Content list. So, once you have read Huggie's Tale, it should disappear from your VNC list.

Do you see anything "special" in particular about the greyed out threads in your VNC list, Barbara? Are they ones you have read? Have not read?

Looking for more clues.....

[Barbara]

Hi Jane,

Maybe your experience is different from mine because of different operating systems or browsers or whatever. Because it looks like some people experience the thread disappearing while others like me still see the thread only the orange box becomes gray after reading the last post. But it still doesn't explain why one thread would disappear and the rest of them just get a gray box next to them after reading. I guess it will remain a mystery unless there is a technical expert amongst us.

The grayed out boxes in the VNC list are all threads I have read. Also, when I go to the last page of VNC threads and read one of those with gray boxes, they don't disappear either. They must disappear after a certain date because the oldest ones start on Sept. 8th. Seems like if they go back that far, then all the newer ones should still show up on VNC. Right?

Right, that would make sense. Hmmmm.

It is definitely inconsistent that some threads would disappear and some would just get a gray box. I have asked the admins to look into this for you.

[Debbie]

I need a drink...... ...here's one for you too, Barbara!