It's concerning when I go onto New Profile Post, it appears those are personal messages with private information (users using their real names, phone numbers, email etc.) displayed for public consumption.
Seems ALL the PM's are now PUBLIC! Folks share private info in PMs and now it's out there. With all the threats against military families and other nonsense ---that all REALLY needs to be protected!!!
Is a "conversation" also the same thing as a PM? If so, I think that is where a lot of the confusion is stemming from. Folks are confusing "profile posts" with "conversations" thinking that profile posts are PM's.
A solution would be to rename "conversation" to Private Message. That would hopeful clear up things.
I like the new format - pretty cool!
Only problem I have is the search now doesn't let you look for something if it's too many/few characters. I often search my congressional state and district to see if anyone has gotten noms/appointments (instead of going to individual appointment threads, etc.) and now whenever I try to it gives me a warning because there are too few characters. Is this fixable?
I really like the new software. It has a much more professional appearance, hence, I can get away with reading the forums when I'm at work because it doesn't look so much like a forum. However, I scroll down as I read through the latest posts, scrolling, scrolling, down, down, and then I get to the bottom of the page, and now what I need, as I sit here at the bottom of the page, is that link that's at the top that says "New Posts." Kind of wish that one was on the bottom too. I mean, it's not a big deal. You can just hit "top" to get back up there to hit the "new posts" link. It's just one of those things I always wished for in the old forum, but never mentioned, so here I am mentioning it, just in case.
Again, I really appreciate all the work on the new format. Clean, professional, easy to navigate. Well done.
On the first page a font color of pure black instead of blue would be appreciated by my old eyes.
Perhaps an active topics section where the most recently created (or posted on) threads are stack updated to a certain limit?
Thank you for changing the font to black on the top, SOOOOO much easier now to see it for my old eyes!
Not a format issue per se, but is it possible to add a new sticky on the ROTC forum. It would be great if you added an Interview sticky. It comes up quite frequently and instead of reiterating the same information over and over again, posters can direct them to the sticky.
Granted I am sure many posters/lurkers will not notice it or may decide to ignore it, but at least it would be there.
TN,
Just some suggestions for stickies because some are coming up more frequently with importance.
1. DoDMERB vision
~ Color Deficiency Vision for DoDMERB regardless of the branch matters. Vision itself matters. PRK/Lasik. Glasses/contacts etc.
~~ Maybe you guys could have an FAQ on DoDMERB.
~~~ It just keeps coming up over and over again
Hornets link also matters from the color deficiency.
2. ROTC
~ Tax issues
~~ R & B are taxable
~ The differences between the 3 branches
~~ Clarkson, Jcleppe, EDelahanty, Bama can give great insight for AROTC...superscore, school selection
~~ Kinnem can give insight for NROTC...superscore, school selection, college programmer
~~ Sled, Non Dcor Duco can give insight for AFROTC.... best sitting SFT, AFOQT, TBAS
I know many will still ignore the stickies and post, but at least posters can say look at the stickies.
This is a god send to many posters, and I believe everyone from the bottom of their heart thanks you.
A while ago, but on the new format, I was able to directly link a gif to a posting, without there having to be a link, but I can't do that anymore. Was this changed, or am I just doing something wrong?