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I love it.
It’s fresh, modern, with fast efficient navigation & posting options.

Regards the quality posters, it’s a constant churn mate.
Been the same from day one & the cycle will continue on & on.

To repeat a quote: forums are like revolving doors, constantly in motion.
Wait long enough & the next genius will appear in a cloud of enthusiastic optimism :slight_smile:

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Lidle, Lidle ??, ha we just got ours in Wake Forest, it is a bit of a drive from the Palatial VIPER Ranch And Estate, but Mrs. Viper loves it, and I find that the Chiles are fresh and hot.

Now to the rest of the Screed

As far as Trust Levels, I don’t know why Social Media calls them that. If you look at the “metrics”, a stupid corporate concept if I ever heard one, or shall we say “The Arbitrary Trust Level Rules”, Mikey would be the most trusted poster in the whole Universe. Yup, Mr. can’t trade, had no self control, blew up, “liar, liar, pants on fire”, guy, would be the most trusted name in BabyPips, a guy who thought there were actually liquidity gaps in Spot Currency.

Gads, I think quality is far more important than quantity, so there you go. Don’t ask me how to fix it, I am not a web guy and did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Also I like “Pagination”, hehhehee, I learned that word in this thread, so now it looks like I know sumpin. I find it easier to “navigate”, see there, two, count um, two internet terms. But it is the way things are.

I also wish they had a nice BIG, "Back To The Home Page’ button, in red with flashing lights, that way when I get a quarter of the way through Mike Ws new journal posts, and I am hemorrhaging through my ears, I can click back to the main forum page and get some relief, and live to read some more in a day or two. (Just kidding MW wherever you are).

Oh yeah, and the pin this topic feature doesn’t work, so there is that also.

The Ever Disgruntled VIPER

An image of Goldman - Sachs, and the world economy, and “Doing gods Work”

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Hello SR, could you translate that into Cantonese, or Purépecha, I cannot decipher the language you are speaking. It looks like some obscure dialect of English.

The Ever Multilingual VIPER

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The way that’s handled is just as counterproductive as everything else, here: what’s allegedly “hidden” is in fact made much more prominent and tempting with a “view hidden content” link! :grin:

Did I mention the PIN feature does not function.

The Ever Mentioning VIPER

Hey Viper, I cover the answer in another thread for you. Check it out.

I just popped in after many years absence. I have to agree, for better or worse. I think this is worse. The old system was far easier to navigate. Missing pages is a real killer.

Ok, used bookmark, it works so I can find my stuff quickly.

Thanks

The Ever Looking For Easy VIPER

Getting popup adverts on every page when using a tablet - is this expected?

Hey R, do any of them feature a snake or pentacle, I use my tablet all the time here and have no Pups. but it is a Darwinian Capitalist Lenovo miix.

The Ever Snake Like VIPER

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That’s definitely not normal. Can you confirm your operating system and web browser for me?

Thanks!

OK gurus of glitch, doctors of DOS, necromancers of net, I would like to be able to “MUTE” new threads immediately without having to open them, then scroll down, and then select “MUTE”. Can anyone throw a Snake a Mouse, even a dead one.

The Ever Ignorant Of The Internet Of Things VIPER

Hey Viper,

What notification is it that you want to mute? There are notification settings that you can change under Preferences that might get you closer to what you’re looking for. For example, you can turn off the automatic tracking of topics you enter, turn off tracking on posts that you contribute to, and turn off notifications when someone likes one of your posts. Finally, if you have Desktop Notifications enabled, those can also be turned off.

Pipstradamus

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Hey PipS, I think I have most of the preset stuff figured out, but what would be really sweet, is to have an individualized home page, and any new stuff that comes in I can look at the title and immediately mute, without having to open read and scroll down, there are certain phrases that let me know that I would not be interested in the post/thread/poster. Anyway, I think I have it down the best I can get it.

The Ever Whittling VIPER

OK, here is another one, I try to put certain users on MUTE and they still show up on my startup page. The procedure I followed was the following.

  1. Preferences
  2. Notifications
  3. Users
  4. Enter user name
  5. Save
  6. Get out and go back in to see if user name is saved in mute
  7. User name is saved
  8. User still shows up on my I guess what ya’ll call “home page”, on the right under “Latest”

It’s a pain to weed through and then have to Mute the same thread by the same questionable user time and time again.

The Ever Feeling Arrogant And Superior VIPER

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Hey Viper,

The “Mute” feature only works for notifications and PMs, not topic/post listings of any kind. Unfortunately, what I think you’re looking for, a personalized topic/post stream (not including posts by anybody on your Mute List), is not an available feature.

The people behind the platform have a specific “vision” about how the mute feature should and shouldn’t work. And muting posts isn’t part of that vision. But we can totally see how it could benefit our members in various situations. We’ll have a look and see if there’s an easy way to extend the platform to make that happen.

Thanks for the feedback.

Pipstradamus

Please, I’m beggin ya. I don’t mind reading different stuff, but after reading one post from someone, like elliot, I have no interest in it. So if I could filter out some of the things I have no interest in, it would enhance my experience. The other thing would be a customizable home page, in fact, a log in that would take me to the home page as soon as I log in, man now that would be great, and the ability to change colors of the home page etc. Like being able to have it Aqua, Orange, And White with Dark Blue trim, yesssss. Oh and how bout being able to change fonts, colors, size etc. in posts now that would be sweet.

The Ever Looking For Individuality VIPER

did I finally make it to the bottom of all this?

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I’m just new here, and it’s more than perfect. This forum tastes so good here. I’ve never seen any other site like this one. Great work done @Pipstradamus. Stay resourceful Admin and stay first-rate version of Babypips.

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Hi, apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question, I couldn’t find a ‘tech support’ section.

Is there any way to jump back to the top of the screen once I am down at the bottom of a long thread, please? I have just posted on a long thread, the ‘Why we need more female traders’ one, and once I had posted I wanted to navigate to another section of the forum. I used the scrolling bar at the right-hand side of the screen, but it would only take me up in single scree-sized jumps, then it would refresh, then it would let me make another jump. So it too an age to get to the top of the screen. A couple of times, I thought I was there so clicked on the three horizontal lines next to my avatar top right, but I wasn’t really there so I just got more egg timers. Surely there is a button I can use to jump from the bottom of a long thread right to the section index?

I absolutely LOATHE the lack of pages within threads, this endless bucket approach is not conducive to navigation, and it is never clear to me when previous posts have been made (there is the odd date in the left-hand navigation panel, but it is rarely associated with a particular post and seems very arbitrary and vague). The lack of pagination is seriously challenging my patience for the site (it has massively reduced my post count already), but while I assume that we are now stuck with that, surely there is a wayu to go straight from bottom of thread to topic menu? Please?

Also, when I type posts on BP, the text doesn’t keep up with my (not particularly fast) typing, so I have to keep waiting for the text on the screen to catch up. That can’t be normal, but I only get it on BP.

(And I don’t think that any of my issues are due to my setup or connection - I am currently running eSignal, and inhabit various other fora (with pages, yay!) which don’t give me these issues.