BYC Conversion Questions & Answers (During Conversion)

[Akrnaf2]

Any info about the new BYC?

 

[Nifty]

I posted this earlier:

Wow, the data is loading SUPER slowly, but it's coming along!

For fun, here's a sneak peak. This is the very first public thread ever posted on BYC back on January 11, 2007!

This is what it looks like on the new BYC!

 

[Finnie]

You still can PM with BYC.

Yes, but they won't be saved. Which doesn't matter to me.

Thank you, kdogg! Any idea about thread searches?

They don't exist here. You have to use the main search bar.

Edit: Oh! I just noticed something!! They do exist here. When you use the main search bar, there is a check box that comes up where you can select Search This Thread Only!

I love that I keep discovering things.

 

[Finnie]

Nifty assures us we will get a good search engine:

I know it's frustrating when search doesn't work like it's supposed to.

We'll be installing a different search system on the new BYC that we hope will be better than the search here and as good (or better) than the old BYC.

 

[Finnie]

Now, with no nesting, if anyone then quoted this, only "how can you tell it's a boy" would show up and all of the pictures would be gone. If it was pages later, you wouldn't be able to go back and find the pictures. Your only hope of making sense of it would depend on how the person who quoted last answered. What if they said "look at the comb".

I just discovered something that solves this problem!!

When you quote someone, there is a tiny little arrow up near their name. If you click on that, it takes you back to where the original post was. So, if in my example, if someone came pages later and said "look at the comb", you can click on the arrow and it takes you back to the page where the comb photo was. You can see whatever the missing nested quote was, then it can make sense. Of course, it's all pretty tedious to not have it right there already, but at least it is findable. If you're OCD and can't stand to just let it go.

 

[Mother Hen]

So this conversion might take longer than expected. That's okay if it does seeing how this site and BYC are both packed with very useful information and sometimes information that goes together is on both sites.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

You still can PM with BYC.

yes but any PMs sent after BYC went read-only will not be saved or transferred to the new site

Is there any way to get your watched forums/threads to come up on the list even if there are no unread posts?

Also, is there a way to search within a thread?

yes! at the bottom there is a button to have it view more of your threads/forums

I just discovered something that solves this problem!!

When you quote someone, there is a tiny little arrow up near their name. If you click on that, it takes you back to where the original post was. So, if in my example, if someone came pages later and said "look at the comb", you can click on the arrow and it takes you back to the page where the comb photo was. You can see whatever the missing nested quote was, then it can make sense. Of course, it's all pretty tedious to not have it right there already, but at least it is findable. If you're OCD and can't stand to just let it go.

LOL it does save the problem that people that continually quote quotes with multiple nested quotes being VERY long quotes

lol, does that make any sense?

 

[sunflour]

You still can PM with BYC.

I meant on BYH, but got it figured out, thanks.

 

[aart]

I just discovered something that solves this problem!!

When you quote someone, there is a tiny little arrow up near their name. If you click on that, it takes you back to where the original post was. So, if in my example, if someone came pages later and said "look at the comb", you can click on the arrow and it takes you back to the page where the comb photo was. You can see whatever the missing nested quote was, then it can make sense. Of course, it's all pretty tedious to not have it right there already, but at least it is findable. If you're OCD and can't stand to just let it go.

Yeppers, I open what I want to 'nest' in a new tab and hit +quote there.

LOL it does save the problem that people that continually quote quotes with multiple nested quotes being VERY long quotes
lol, does that make any sense?

It will until they figure out and still don't edit

 

[aart]

Something else I've noticed...
I love the 'Thread Starter' label on all the OP's posts in a thread on the old BYC.
Miss it here...and on other forums too......it's a great feature IMO.