Still stumbling around (Page 1 of 2)

"One feature I miss from the old site is the ability to see new postings in all categories (novel, short story, poetry) on one page, like the old home page. I feel like I'm doing more hunting and pecking here and feel I'm going to overlook postings of those not on my contact list."

I agree with this completely!!!!

I haven't been on the site for some time and when I logged in it was like my old house burned down and a whole new house had been built. I feel like I came home in the dark and the power is off. I too am feeling my way through what has happen here. Paul you're not alone. By the way you got a great first name.
Paul McCall

I, too, agree.  I haven't even been able to find all my group members' and connections' new postings, much less find, and be captivated by, new authors.  It just makes me dizzy, and then my feet go to sleep.  I'm doing more hunting than reading and reviewing!  I do remember stumbling over a button somewhere that said "see all," but I haven't found it again.  Ommm...ommm...   JP

Ah.  A little hard to find.  Still only 13 items per page, so if I'm away for a few days I have to click again and again.

But it's good to have it.  With  the forums I have to navigate to the group page where I see a list of forums, but not any indication of which have new messages.  I need another click and another wait to get to the forum.  It used to be one master page, which would tell me where I needed to look.  Now it's a click to a page that lists a few forums, but does not let me see or do anything useful with them.  (It might as well not be on that page.)  Then it's a second click and a second page load to get to that subset of forums.

When you're not in the same building as the servers, page loads sometimes take a while.  Sometimes they need to be retried.

Consider this a wish: a page one click away from home that shows you all your forums, with the ones with unread messages at the top.  The restcan be organized by group.

There is a note at the bottom of your posted writing that say copyrighted by you (your username)
Also, you don't have to make your work public to the internet. I have mine available only to my connections and groups. That way everyone who is a member of TNBW Premium can see it as well, but it's not just out there for anyone. (At least that is my understanding of how that works)

You realize you can access any of your forums in one click from your homepage? On the right-hand column, under the name of the Group is a link that brings you right to each group forum. You do not need to go to the group first. In essence, your homepage is somewhat similar to the page you are asking for but only lists the last three commented threads.

"Up at the top of the page is a link called Read. The Read/Groups Content is the same as the Read and Review on the old site. It includes content from all of the Groups you have joined."

Sol, forgive me, but it's still not the same. Wouldn't it be possible to have one page that lists all the new content in the three categories without the book covers, like the old days. Then we could could go to that and more easily look through the pickings. You could have another list with the bookcovers, but I would definitely like a list in the three main categories, condensed, all on one page.

But you could do a separate page for each category, yes? You're saying "but there are way more categories now!" Which is what we are saying. Much to find, and no central way to find it. We have to go to each group to find new content, and then realize that there's a way there to search by genre. And then THAT's still something we have to repeat by group to find anything.

I suggested creating genre home pages for each genre on another page somewhere, but then I felt I was being too critical & deleted it. I do think there needs to be some way to more centrally find new postings -- even if it's a drop-down for categories which leads to a separate page of new listings for each genre.

I COMPLETELY agree that the images for new listings are too much, and a list without them would be preferable. The three latest postings for each of the forums is great, but a page committed to all our forums, with the latest (say) ten listings for each, and a way to click from there directly into the forum would be even better. Less clicking! Would be a wish.

Only my thoughts.

No, this is not accurate. There is a central way to find it. If you go to the Read button at the top of the page, it shows all content from all of the groups you belong to. That's what Read - Group Content means. It is all of the content posted to the groups you belong to.

Ah! I didn't see that space. We can hunt by genre there over the groups as a whole! That's a find! Sorry for missing that. Nice and accessible on the drop-down menu too. But what about site-wide content? Since how many groups we can join is limited to five (I think?) we are potentially missing out on a lot of new content.  Is that just no longer a part of the new site going forward? More focused on groups than the whole? If the latter, it seems (in my humble opinion) that the number of groups we can join should not be limited. Especially now that the point system in groups is changing....

Sol,

Favor to ask.  Please increase the clock before the mandatory logout.  I just worked an hour on a really good review, the clock kicked me out and the review was lost as I was forced to log in again.  For writing and editing online, this will cause a lot of lost work.  While taking the time for a decent review, I've just wasted an hour of my life. 

Thanks in advance.  Now I have to go back and do that review again.

A

We are working on it. Hopefully will be resolved in the next day or two. Sorry you lost a review.