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The New Fedora Lounge (Oct., 2010) - What You Need To Know

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scotrace

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We've just successfully completed a major upgrade to the underpinnings of The Fedora Lounge. Rather like jacking up the joint, and digging out a whole new foundation with steel girders, then plopping it back down on the new, more solid foundation with a fresh coat of paint. We've also installed new locks on the doors and windows and made the place tighter, more secure and with just about all the cracks for vermin closed up and sealed off.

You'll also be glad to know that we've had fresh deliveries and the bar is restocked. Why do you think we had to dig out a bigger cellar???

So what else is new, besides painfully dorky analogies?

Plenty!

Your Settings and Profile setups are now separate animals, which you can access at upper right by the login bits. It's a simpler job to change things, I find.
Under Profile, you can see yours. Also send PM's, see how many people (but not specifically who) has been looking at your profile, Set up and join Groups (I'll add more about this stuff as we figure it out), etc. Since The Fedora Lounge is a very social place, there will be more opportunities to create social and friend networks. We'll also soon have a link for marrying what you do here to your Facebook profile, if you like.
In Settings, You add your image icon, control your password, set your privacy settings (you can control who can see what), set your signature line, etc.
Note that in your Private Messages, you can now sort them into subfolders that you create.
In the forums:
It has been said often, but bears repeating, loudly. IF YOU AREN'T CLICKING THE "NEW POSTS" LINK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE EVERY TIME YOU COME HERE, YOU ARE MISSING A LOT OF OUR CONTENT.
There are new boxes on the main page showing recent thread and posting activity. Nifty!
When replying to a thread, you can now easily quote multiple posts. Just click the little quotation mark icon at the lower right of all the posts you want to quote, then click "reply with quotes" in any of them. Add your stuff in the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page and you're all set.

We're still learning the new dials, just as you are, and we'll be adding more here as we do. Please be patient as we get things sorted, tweak the layout and "look" a bit, de-clutter, etc. We're going to add the much-requested mobile version very soon.
If you have a specific question, please don't hesitate to PM a Bartender.

Please post your issues, praise, gripes, etc in the OB thread here.
 
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The Good

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The new look will definitely take a getting-used-to. I would actually prefer the text to be white, and the font to be a bit smaller. Like in my current post, for example... Otherwise, I'm OK with it. I realize that a lot of hard work went into this, and for that I am grateful. I actually like some of the new features, such as the new profile layout, and the ability to multi-quote.
 
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The Lonely Navigator

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Great work! I love the new layout and ways of doing things!

I came here after being gone for a bit and noticed a whole new look, and though, "Oooh wooow! Now where do I go to read about the new stuff?" *smiles* I like the 'social networking' idea - this whole new program gives one more opportunities and at the same time better security. I like it. :)
 
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Updates like this take a bit of time to get used to and a lot of people find change to be a difficult thing to deal with.

Too dark? Note that On the bottom left of the screen is a settings button- click default for the lighter view style!
 

Nathan Flowers

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Mobile skin installed. Using the style changer on the bottom-left of the screen select the style called "Lightweight". It should be much more manageable on mobile devices.
 

randooch

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It's way easier on the eyes, and for those of us who read a great deal -here and elsewhere- that's a godsend. Thanks for the work, bartenders! If you weren't on duty, I'd buy you a drink.

Question: where did the emoticons go?
 

olive bleu

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whoa. I feel like i'm on an episode of "While you Were Out". LOL. Went on a little trip, came home and someone's redecorated. I'll have to take a look around, get used to where everything is..but i'm sure i'll love it :)
 

Fletch

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The only thing I'd change is the color of the text in the box when you Search This Thread. Pale grey on white field = virtually unreadable.

Are there more skins in our future? Something a little more period-styled, perhaps with serif fonts, wood/paper effects, would be nifty.
 
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