Forum upgrade- starting today 26th Feb

[renegadeimp]

Well, youve  chosen a good platform, and its pretty simple to use. Once youve gotten to grips with it. Vbull is more intuitive, but they have a habit of changing things without notice in each version, or discontinuing things.

[Sparks_]

I do NOT like the upgrade, I can't find what I want, the colours are too bright, it's irritating in presentation and content!

Where has the bear garden gone to?

Where is the 'new' posts button?

Just been on the forum a few mins and I am getting eye strain, please please please tone down the cream background and the lighter posts panels, if this continues I am going to have to restrict my use/reading of this forum...I do not need the pain of eye strain I am getting!

 

Edited March 1, 2019 by Sparks_

[honeybee13]

Hi.

The Bear Garden is just down the page, in the CAG Community forums.

HB

 

 

[Jemn]

Broken hyperlink:

https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/content.php?552-Data-Protection

[BankFodder]

Thanks for this.

Could you please let us know the source of the link as well so we can understand the context and it will be easier to help us find it

 

[Jemn]

Source of link....

 

 

[obiter dictum]

Can you please go back to the original format. This is major confusing. The beauty of the that previous version was the simplicity of use. Can see people not bothering to post now. Not being critical but this new platform is a real turnoff. If it is not broke why try and fix it?

Edited March 3, 2019 by obiter dictum

[BankFodder]

Thank you for your comment.

Going through changes always difficult and it is even more difficult for the site team who have to find new ways of managing the forum.

I suppose it is always also more difficult for long-standing users to adapt.

However we count on stalwart members like yourself to persevere, to help get it all right, and to keep on helping other people with your valuable experience.

the old site was rickety and insecure and no longer supported by vbulletin and we had to move.

we depend on long-standing and loyal members like yourself to get through the transition and also to support the new people who come onto this site for help with their problems.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

[Surfer01]

I am find that I get Google ads right in the middle of a post so that you cannot read what is under the ad.  Secondly if you click on Unread posts, you get a list of them.  If about halfway down you see a post that interests you and you click on it to read, when you finished reading and go back, it jumps back to the first post in the list and not the back to the headline of the post you were reading.  You then need to try ans scroll down to find out where you were last.  Very annoying and frustrating.  I can see people abandoning this website until it gets sorted out properly and the colours changed. 

[AndyOrch]

Right click on the link (Topic) of interest and open in new tab or window...read it close it and go back to the new content list were you are

[Surfer01]

I am aware of that however it takes me to the top of the list and not to where I was originally before opening the post.

[AndyOrch]

Not on my Browser Chrome..list stays exactly where i clicked "open link in new tab" 

[Surfer01]

I am using the latest version of Firefox 65.0.2.  It was updated a couple of days ago.  What about the Google ads in the middle of a post?

[AndyOrch]

We are aware of the ads problem...it only started this morning

[Surfer01]

7 minutes ago, Andyorch said:

We are aware of the ads problem...it only started this morning

Thanks Andy.  Just need to resolve the jumping back to top of list of new content.  Will they be changing the colours as they are hard on the eyes?

[AndyOrch]

We are already looking at alternative colour themes 

[Ethel Street]

 

Since the update my antivirus, Kaspersky Internet Security, has started identifying all CAG forum posts as 'Dangerous' and blocks them. I can override the block but have to do it repeatedly for every page I visit. The reason is always the same, 'Heuristic Analysis' (whatever that is). This is an example. I end up with dozens of these. There may be a way to whitelist the whole of CAG on KIS but I don't have the time to research it at the moment. Has anyone else experienced this?

[BankFodder]

Thanks for this heads up. It's very concerning news and frankly I have no idea how to deal with it.

I'll flag this up to our Webmaster. I wonder if it is happening with any other antivirus programs. We certainly haven't had any other reports.

[renegadeimp]

Dont worry about kaspersky, it regularly flags up random sites as dangerous. it also has a bad rep in the AV world. Their Heuristic system ( basically an AI system)  is pretty rubbish.

Edited March 6, 2019 by renegadeimp

[honeybee13]

That's useful stuff, Renegade, thank you . Fwiw, I used to get similar messages from Firefox or Norton about the old CAG site being unsafe.

HB

[renegadeimp]

Norton is one of the absolute worst Antivirus  packages on the market.  Thats why manufacturers ship it free with new systems, or try and sell it to OAP's or those with no experience of AV's.

Malwarebytes and AVG free are substantially better than those as an entry level software

 

Edited March 6, 2019 by renegadeimp

[dx100uk]

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