Admin Talking (NEW CONCEPTS)

[admin]

Yes we're rearranging the site so don't kvetch all at once. Hello.. .hello! Is there anyone out there?

[admin]

And if anybody is having difficulties signing in and out (like me, Mick, who can only get in as Admin at the moment) could you let me, Mick, know.

[admin]

As most of you know, the chief affliction affecting the world at the moment is software engineers. I was forcibly reminded of their continuing hatred for the human race today when, complaining as I was that the search facility only gave me complete threads which I had to spend hours and hours going through, a kindly soul whispered in my ear that in the distant left-hand corner of the search page there is a little button that allows you to nominate individual posts.

I checked with a colleague who also has to spend half her life on the Search function and she too said this was the first she had heard of it.

Only a software engineer would
a) put threads as the default rather than posts
b) make sure the choice cannot be seen by normal people
c) not mention this to me despite me banging on about what a nuisance having to go through the whole thread is for several years.
Perhaps they didn't know either, one cannot put a lower limit to their unfathomable doltishness.

But I cannot say more because they control our lives. (Taps side of nose.)

[Rocky]

[admin]

Dear Rocky,

I haven't been able to find that option so far. But please, if you find any hyperlink explaining where it is (we run a PHPBB board), feel free to inform me and I'll change it immediately. I agree that this feature would be most useful for everyone.

Keimpe

[DPCrisp]

[Mick Harper]

I quite liked that other Admin bloke. Talked a lot of sense. But, Dan, you know the old joke about how many software engineers it takes to change a PHPBB? Well, the answer is "As many as you can find, that way one of them might know."

[Rocky]

[Mick Harper]

Here's a post from Ishmael from many, many years ago