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When there are two new posts in a thread that appear in notifications, clicking on one only gets rid of one of the unread notifications, although you have now seen both new posts...

Here are some more suggestions if they have not been made already.

User Profile Info
I find the user profile info rather limiting now in comparison to the last forum. No signature options I can see (useful for computer/setup info or a link to your work/website people can follow to know more about you) and also there is no way to detail any additional hardware info such as other controllers/software, plugins you use etc. Should be also an "Additonal hardware / software field", It would be very handy to have this info available for those to use as it does help to gain a bit of an insight into someone's apparent level of experience. I typically tend to review peoples info if possible since you can tell experienced users from new/fresh/young users as experienced users normally have all the useful info available for others to see. 

Also, it would be very handy even if people made their profile private to NOT make the PC details private and also have this displayed on the quick user profile view when you click a users image. I thought this was going to be a thing already ? Was going to paste an image of what I am referring to but this brings up the next issue I find... 

Cannot paste images!
The old forum allowed you to simply take a screenshot and then paste (CTRL+V) direct into a forum post without the hassle of save and upload. This now seems to not be possible and I really hope this will be addressed as it impacts the efficiency of helping users and it will seriously make me not bother in some cases if I have to bother saving and uploading an image. Seems a step backwards here as this was a great time saving feature. I use Chrome browser by the way.

Notification Bell
The notification bell is another issue I see. On the old forum when I would click a notice or just view the alerts it auto-acknowledged them. Now even if I click and it takes me to the post it still is highlighted and I need to click the "acknowledge all" to clear them.

Competition ladder (IMO) is just not needed
The "All Time Leaders / Monthly Leaders" on the side panel I don't feel is needed really, maybe as a stub somewhere people can view but not as a viewable competition ladder on every page (which is how it ends up on most forums I have seen). It promotes post spamming and jumping in on every conversation for simply boosting a post count to keep your make on display. After a few years the same few names will always appear on there so it's just extra clutter in view which I tend to just block with an ad blocker on every site. At the very least users should have the option to switch this on/off if they like

The new forum definitely looks very slick and first impressions are pretty good.

Basically I only have 2 gripes...  when writing longer posts (uh oh ) the box you're writing in expands and eventually this will result in the toolbar scrolling off the screen and that can become problematic because there's no BBCode which you can use to quickly format your stuff, and HTML is not as friendly to use IMO. So then you may end up scrolling back and forth if you want to add specifics like links, images or certain smileys for which you don't know the code yet.

The second is that you can no longer paste images directly into your post. I considered this a very useful feature because it made creating a quick visual example a lot easier. Now you have to set up your example, save it somewhere, then point the forum to it to have it included. And of course also not forgetting to remove the temp file again. Bit of a drag, but on the other hand I suppose this also helps prevent people from dumping images almost everywhere (not sure if that was a thing though).

But other than those two it looks pretty nice.

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Now, I don't care much about titles and all that and usually ignore the whole thing but having said that... isn't "noise" a little degrading (some pun intended )?  One could also get the impression that the overall idea is that new users don't really contribute much other than noise, not sure if that gives the positive vibes you're looking for. It sounds a bit odd to me. Why not static?

I am officially annoyed right now. I wrote up a post, also managed to cut up Jester's post in several quote sections (that wasn't easy!) and it was here, for all to see. So then I noticed that a word I used got censored, so I changed ****** into moly and lo and behold: now my entire post is gone! I did not press delete but did spent quite some time on that post that's now gone

Anyway, now a shorter reply for @JesterMgee above me...

Have to agree with you Jester...  in some specific areas this feels like a step backwards. I think one part of that is the change to HTML markup vs. BBCode markup. Take this textbox, I still need to test with Edge (using Opera right now) but the textbox gets bigger and bigger until eventually the toolbar scrolls off screen. I even had my browser maximized (using 1920x1024 resolution) and it still happened. I'd expect the text box to get a fixed maximum size after which a scrollbar gets added to ensure your post stays on your screen, but nope. This is annoying because the only way to add a link is to select text, scroll back up, click the option, scroll back down...  eeww...  this used to be as easy as [url=link]text[/url].

I mean...  <a href="link">test</a>?  I suppose it's "doable" but... eeew.  Makes me wonder if that even works...  hmm, lets google it!.

I suppose it does

But one thing is for sure: quoting is now a disaster    I'd have added this to my previous post but can no longer edit it (which was to be expected, and nothing bad perse).

i'm not sure I'm with you on either "things are changing, some of that will be for the worse, that's just natural" or "most people don't use these features, therefore nobody can have them"

Imagine these were applied to the products? Yeah new version of Massive X, we noticed that only a handful of really REALLY dedicated sound designers used the chorus so we removed it, and that'll be okay because it only affects a small minority of users! We realize your old projects sound different now. When a new version comes out, it's normal that things change. One of the changes is that there's no chorus any more. You'll be alright! 



edited to make it really explicit: the posting functionality that "only a few power users are using" allows some of these people to make more, better, and more helpful Good Posts™ that raise the value of the forums for everyone. It's short-sighted to say that the features are superfluous because only a minority of people use them. They're not necessary for someone asking why their Traktor waveform looks blurry, or posting "+1" despite being asked not to. That's not who they are for in the first place though. If you want power users, you gotta enable them.