Just stopped by the site not logged in to see what's up. Clicked on the "1hour ago" link, took me to the first post in an 18 reply thread, clicked on the "18 replies", took me to the first post in an 18 reply thread.

This is most likely the major factor in the big drop off in activity. You can see from the main page that most people don't stay logged in. There's only five signed in right now. But 135 others (don't really know what that last one means) who also can't easily get to the new stuff.

Just trying to help. You can try to change the behavior of the masses or you can make the site easier to use for them. Carry on...

10 minutes ago, Zed Head said:

Just stopped by the site not logged in to see what's up. Clicked on the "1hour ago" link, took me to the first post in an 18 reply thread, clicked on the "18 replies", took me to the first post in an 18 reply thread.

This is most likely the major factor in the big drop off in activity. You can see from the main page that most people don't stay logged in. There's only five signed in right now. But 135 others (don't really know what that last one means) who also can't easily get to the new stuff.

Just trying to help. You can try to change the behavior of the masses or you can make the site easier to use for them. Carry on...

What do you think it should do?

Click on X hours ago - go to post that happened X hours ago

Click on title of thread - go to first post in thread

This how most other forums work, across the internet. This is how CZCC used to work, logged in or not. We've all become used to this format. Something changed when you started customizing.

30 minutes ago, Zed Head said:

Click on X hours ago - go to post that happened X hours ago

Click on title of thread - go to first post in thread

This how most other forums work, across the internet. This is how CZCC used to work, logged in or not. We've all become used to this format. Something changed when you started customizing.

The only option that guests can click is "Topics Last 24 Hours" which is shown here.

When I click on a forum post in that list, it does look like the link takes me to the first post in the thread. I'll have to do some digging into the code to see what changed and provide a possible fix. Why do you think this is an important feature?

Without it, a person has to find the place to click and click multiple times, plus scrolling to the bottom of the page, to get to the new post at the end of a multi-page thread. Going to the first post of a three page thread is pointless if you've already seen the three pages. If you're on a "phone" it's swipe swipe swipe, touch, swipe swipe swipe.

It's why the software developers created the "X hours ago" link. That is its purpose. Go directly to the new stuff. It's odd that it doesn't work on CZCC.

You were using the same platform as Hybridz. You can jog over there and check it out.

https://forums.hybridz.org/discover/

I split this to a new thread because it was hijacking the intent of my original post. But, I will look for the code to see what changed. HybridZ is using the same software (thanks to yours truly) but they are still on the old version. They will likely update that site.

I suspect there is a cookie policy change for guests, meaning the new 'internet' GDPR rules won't allow us to store cookies until someone accepts the terms and conditions. The old software did this without requiring strict acceptance. In order for the system to know where you left off, a cookie must be stored on your computer. Otherwise it has no idea who you are and where you were at during the last visit.

So I'm signed out and can participate helping others but signed in I have to AGREE before I can do anything?

I blew it off when I read something about the HIPPA laws. The fine print isn't small enough.

@Mike it looks like you might have accidentally opened up the forum to all comers. This is Zed Head. I don't think that Guest mode was available before. Don't know who Mud dojjer is.

Somewhat ironically, the click problem is still there.

Oh well. Good luck with it, appreciate your work.

Fixed, thank you!

46 minutes ago, Guest Mud dojjer said:

So I'm signed out and can participate helping others but signed in I have to AGREE before I can do anything?

I blew it off when I read something about the HIPPA laws. The fine print isn't small enough.

Yes, you can mostly thank the EU (GDPR) and California (CCPA)... We don't need to follow HIPPA since we are not storing healthcare information.

Fun, right? 😵‍💫

My two cents. Put the Activity bar on top and move it from the more drop down. New users would not easily know where to go.

1 hour ago, Yarb said:

My two cents. Put the Activity bar on top and move it from the more drop down. New users would not easily know where to go.

Done, I think it was your resolution but I was able to pull the menu down a little smaller so it no longer shows "More"

thx for the feedback