A few days ago, when I came back from my recent reading tour, one of the top priorities on my to-do-for-when-I’m-home-again-list was: “Download Scriv 2.0!!!”
Which I did. And like everyone else, I was overwhelmed by how beautiful it has become. I went to the forum because I felt the urge to express my joy somehow, but my attempts to do so failed because of two things:
The long, long, loooooooong list of “Bug Hunt” entries. Huh? What has happened? Did this mean that Scrivener 2.0 is unstable and bug-ridden? I was reliefed when I realized that most of the bugs concerned the Windows beta version.
But – now, everytime I visit the forum, I find it swamped by bug feedback for Win Beta. It has become impossible to follow what’s going on. (The only thing that interests me about the Windows version is, frankly, that I hope it will keep “Literature and Latte” in business.)
So, might I suggest to add “(Win)” to the subcategories of “Scrivener for Windows”?
“Technical Support (Win)”, “Feedback (Win)” and “Bug Hunt (Win)”?
This would help me immensely. A small step for a forum administartor, a big help for all mankind.
In the meantime, you can first visit the Scrivener for Windows board, click “Mark all forums read”, then return to the main board and click " View active topics" (or posts or whatever your method is) and all the Windows posts will already be marked as read.
I’m not long out of bed; my iMac has died; I’m reduced to using Ange’s Wintel laptop, so understandably I may not actually be here, I could be somewhere else, imagining I’m reading this, but…aren’t all these Winbug posts, confined to the WinSciv forum? Or are you saying the ScrivMac forums are overwhelmed with Win stuff. If they are in their own forum, what’s the beef. Or, are you talking RSS.
Apologies if I’m missing something here, but the tone of the thread seems unnecessarily snottynosed ‘n’ negative.
Vic
Yo Pilgrims,
Point taken Most of the Scriv crew are far more proficient at utilising the multiplicity of features connected with all things Scriv, than I.
I’ll be a lot better at it once Kevin delivers on his promise of a Dummy’s Guide to Scriv v1.0s Tutorial
Vic
I suggested a while back a simple expedient: The subforums for the Mac and Win side need distinct names. Naming both version’s bug hunt forum ‘Bug Hunt’ means you cannot distinguish them when you look at the View New Posts list. But it would be easy enough to navigate without lifting a finger if the version-specific forums had identifiably distinct names, e.g., ‘Bug Hunt (M)’ and ‘Bug Hunt (W)’.
Seems a simple fix.
And it isn’t just about making for pleasant Scriv forum-reading. The forum community acts as an active users group for users of the software looking for help and advice. I find I simply cannot pitch in now, because one cannot see the Mac trees from the Windows forest, i.e. cannot see the posts to which I might be able to contribute. That’s a bad thing, right?
Anyway, I suspect the Scriv team is already firing on all cylinders chasing bugs and stuff.Tweaking the forum might not be priority one just now. Sigh.
–Greg
P.S. The posted work-around is not working for me. I went into the for-Windows area and went into each of the three Windows-specific forums and hit Mark as Read for each of them. I am STILL seeing the same slurry of Win posts in the View New Posts results. What did I miss. (P.P.S. Having to go through this routine on every visit is not going to make me altogether happy. And we do want me to be altogether happy, do we not?)
I second this request (that I think Keith already mentioned will be done when the L&L troupe has some extra time). Most especially since a few days back I answered a question posted on the windows part of the forum thinking it was a mac related problem… it was kind of embarrassing.
You don’t need to go into each of the Windows sub-forums, you can mark them all read from the Windows for Scrivener board. Even after marking them read, you will still see these posts, but because they are marked as read you don’t need to click on them to find out if it is a Windows or Mac post.
It’s just a work around until a more elegant solution is devised. Considering the effort Keith is putting into
identifying and tracking bugs to fix in 2.0.1, the work involved in educating users on new 2.0 features and other changes since 1.x, plus all the Windows beta testing, I expect it will be a while before rejigging the forums becomes top priority.
Okay, I did that, too. Now, when I look at the results of View New Posts, how is it that the Read versus Unread one’s are marked? I am failing to discern among all the indicators there which one I should be attending to. Clue for me?
Also, View New Posts ordinarily just shows me new stuff I have not seen yet. So, I am hard-pressed to understand why things that I have gone so far as to mark ‘Read’ are showing up here anyway. I feel confident this is not the way View New Posts has worked heretofore. Am I so bedizened?
The new posts function is “since last visit”. That means that until you are inactive for about 10 minutes the already read posts are still “new since you last fell asleep”. Make sense?
As much as it is a PITA I use the new posts feature only after I have gone through it all the hard way. One forum thread at a time.
I have prefixed “Windows” to the three sub-forums to see how that plays out. This may or may not be permanent, as I just went and did it myself since the UK is asleep. Cat’s away and all that.
Ahhhhh. Forum reading once again possible; posted something on a Technical Support topic, and am feeling the love. This calls for an nth cup of coffee.
–g
“Scrivener. Like you’ve dined and gone to cat Kevin.”
In both “View new posts” and “Active topics” unread posts have a round red icon and an extra little orange & blue “page” icon, while read posts have round blue & grey icon.
Cheek of it! tch! tch! Forums’ve gone to the dogs 