LTSR_NSE Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 2 hours ago, Rana Temporia said: This is a Hornby forum…….so why does the predicated spelling change Hornby to Hornsby every time I type it? I would expect predictive text to be controlled by device (possibly browser involvement on some platforms?) - therefore extremely doubtful the forum has any input/control at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntpntpntp Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Yeah predictive text etc. is usually a browser setting and you have a choice of which search engine handles it. Nothing to do with Hornby. @Rana Temporia have you been searching a lot for Ruston Hornsby locos perhaps? 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moccasin Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Or listening to Bruce Hornsby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 58 minutes ago, LTSR_NSE said: I would expect predictive text to be controlled by device (possibly browser involvement on some platforms?) - therefore extremely doubtful the forum has any input/control at all. That is correct. The Forum does not have predictive text and does not alter words, although it does highlight spelling errors by underlining the incorrect word. Try it, just mistype a word and then right click with your mouse, (or whatever option is required by the device you are using) to be offered a new word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallymatt Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 17 minutes ago, Moccasin said: Or listening to Bruce Hornsby? And The Range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 What has happened! Ok the picking the brands option is just about bearable but really isn’t necessary and should be an option in the banner at the top. you then get on to Hornby page 1 and all the topics on page one are pined and locked! The following pages are old. Go to the Hornby logo or the Hornby text and you are taken to equally useless topics! So I tried to go to page 1 by the page finder on the second attempt i finally found the normal page layout with usual 6 top topics locked at the top and I’m able to able to enter and read the new topics/ posts. its a car crash of a website designed by a someone who doesn’t know how to design a website! It’s not user friendly at all. Failed the most basic rule of 3 clicks. It needs resetting to the old version and someone else to try and fix it, if possible. in today’s world, the website is the first port of call for many. This is unprofessional, hard work and off putting. highly likely to make people frustrated and to go elsewhere. I’ve seen people asking if the discussion forum is still open on Facebook. Not a good thing at all. Now I know I haven’t tried the rest of the website partly because I have no interested in buying anything from Hornby at this point in time. & partly because I don’t have the patience to try to figure out the navigation if it’s been changed. I am going to hope that it’s not a complete overhaul of the website cus really I’m not going to bother and just go elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Hi Fazy, I can assure we share your frustration and the issues you have pointed to have been raised. I do disagree with your view that it is unprofessional though. It just needs some fine tuning to get it to where we need it to be but there are many options for you to select the order in which topics appear for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Is it just the community page which has been meddled with or is it the rest of the site? has unprofessional I mean that Hornby decided to make it live rather then keeping it hidden well the bugs where ironed out. And just left the older version active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moccasin Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 6 minutes ago, Fazy said: Is it just the community page which has been meddled with or is it the rest of the site? has unprofessional I mean that Hornby decided to make it live rather then keeping it hidden well the bugs where ironed out. And just left the older version active. It’s just the forums that have changed to a new platform. The online shop, club pages etc are untouched. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Thank you Moccasin now the reaction icon is a nice touch, that works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 After some initial reservations it is beginning to grow on me However the text does seem a little light and therefore difficult to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britannia Builder Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 38 minutes ago, Fazy said: What has happened! Ok the picking the brands option is just about bearable but really isn’t necessary and should be an option in the banner at the top. you then get on to Hornby page 1 and all the topics on page one are pined and locked! If you navigate to page 2 of the Hornby forum and then bookmark that page in your browser, ie a url of https://community.hornbyhobbies.com/forum/3-hornby/page/2/, you can bypass all the other brands and most of the old pinned threads. Personally I really like the new format - this page that I've bookmarked shows me all that I need to know, and I haven't had to look into a sub-forum since the new software was released. I simply click on each unread thread that interests me, and I'm taken straight to the unread posts at the end of the thread. I have set the tick boxes on the sub-forum picker to include just the 6 or 7 sub-forums that I'm interested in, which gives me just 2 pinned posts at the top of page 2, so these are not much of a distraction. It would be better if the pinned posts were not given priority in the list of recent posts, but just included in date sequence according to when they were last updated. Regards, John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moccasin Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I do something similar, but just use the main page and click on the recent activity button. Scalextric & Airfix forums are pretty quiet in comparison to Hornby and some posts are interesting. @Britannia Builder’s method probably works best if you’re not a regular visitor. I’m enjoying the reactions, ability to direct message, multiple quotes. There are future opportunities to make this an even better resource, such as blogs, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesXRN Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I also put the main Hornby page into favourites, so that's much better. I do wish that I could alter my username to get rid of the numbers though. It doesn't seem possible in my profile settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Thanks for the info on predicative text. I never had this problem on the old forum for Hornby so it must be the interaction of the new one with my iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foden 4400 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I Like the new Badge System Even a ‘Forum Lurker’ like me can earn one !! ‘Dedicated Badge’ 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Foden, hi, think you may be in a small minority, but, maybe an age thing. At 80, badges of NO interest. At least they are a talking point.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 On 2/26/2024 at 8:29 AM, LesXRN-344592 said: Yes, XRN as in ex Royal Navy. I don't know where the numbers came from. I'll pm as recommended. Cheers. At the forum platform changeover various sequences of numbers were added to members names - not all members got them and not all numerical suffixes were the same format. Presumably some were carry over from the old forum which recently applied a suffix to generate a unique username and some were driven by the new platform to preclude duplicated usernames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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