Forum upgrade 4/17/11 - bug reports, questions, feedback

I have a question. When not signed in I noticed that there are several categories that can't be viewed. It used to only be 'the lounge' and now it even includes television and oil spill topics. If someone is googling for information about say 'oil spill' does that mean these threads and information won't show up in google? Just curious about that.

 

When I hit the little arrow to take me to the first new post on a thread, it does not work.

 

Why are oil spill threads hidden?

 

Thanks - I get that. But I was wondering if informative topics such as 'oil spill' will show up in google search if they are now listed as 'private' - curious because there's so much information there for the public.

Thanks again
G

 

I don't do that! I do the same thing everytime...hit new posts and then hit the down arrow thing which has always taken me to the first unread post in a thread! It's broken!!!!

 

...can you give me a clue? I am hopeless.

Okay...it works on Safari, but not on my O L D Aol Desktop. Interesting that it just quit working yesterday, though.

 

Here's what I see when I go to sowal.com/bb. This has been going on for a long time -- I just haven't gotten around to posting about it. I don't think this the way it's supposed to look because it doesn't look like this in Firefox or Chrome.

 

I added Chrome, and found it displayed SoWal better and was faster than IE. After awhile, whenever I tried to go to SoWal with IE, I get what you're showing. Survival of the fittest, I guess.

 

I'm embarrassed to say I use IE, but where I work, I.T. images all of the machines alike, and the browser is IE. Only someone with the administrator can install software. Their excuse is that it makes maintenance and troubleshooting easier. They push out new software to us over our network.

The laptop I use is owned by them so I can work at home, so I just use IE.

 

Thanks for fixing it!