I had posted a couple of things to "Parents with Health Challenges Forum"... which I think was under Family Dynamics....

Now I see it is a Special group.... I see it listed on my userCP page under group memberships....

If I try to join it, it says I can't join a group that I already belong to.

BUT - I don't see it listed among my forums at all... even where the other Special Groups to which I belong are listed....

help?

I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this or not... But I was wondering what is going to be done with the huge number of files spread over the AO groups? Are they going to be copied or moved over here? Maybe setup as attachments in the sub forum they pertain to? Or left in the AO groups?

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It seems to be working. I'll just need to change the color. I'll make it smaller, too.

I know, I know, I have been tainted by facebookbook. Grrrrr. The reality, however, is that it is a reinforcing time saver. If I agree with someone's comment I don't have to create a reply, but rather hit a like button. Then only if I have something different to add do I actually have to reply.

Anyway, wasn't sure if it were an available add-on or not but wanted to suggest it.

Not sure how much interest there would be - but maybe there could be a sub-forum under Family Dynamics for "older parents"?

Phyllis, is there any way to add the ability to mark a batch of New threads 'read' when they come up after clicking on 'new posts'?

Can I insert a photo from my computer into a post? And how would I go about doing that? The little icon up there that says Insert Image only allows you to put in a remote URL

I noticed on the right hand side of my post is the term 'warning level'

please may i ask what this means?

I'm going to try to post little tips here regularly. This first one is really basic, but I myself didn't notice it right away, so I figure it's worth pointing out.

Have you seen this little green arrow?



It means there's a new post in that thread, and here's the important part: if you click on one of those little arrows, it will jump you straight to what's new there.

The time stamps on the two private messages I received this afternoon seem off Both indicate they were from 11 am-ish this morning, but both had to be sent in the p.m. as one was a response to a PM that I sent this afternoon and the other a PM to a post I made in the late afternoon.

So, are the time stamps originated from the sender's computer time or from the forum server or from somewhere else?

It's not intuitive to me as to how one would go about uploading a profile photo. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

I know that you can subscribe to a Forum and subscribe to a Thread, but is there a way to be notified if someone has replied to a particular comment on a thread? Someone could be replying to me, yet not have clicked reply to my comment, but simply added their comment to the bottom of the thread. With that, I only have the option to scroll through all comments and see if any are in reference to my particular comment. But you can click reply directly to a comment, which then will provide the quote of your comment, and I'm wondering if there is a notification available to let me know that someone has done that, so I can know in this case that someone is replying to my particular comment.

Did I use enough words there?

I'm trying to work out the kinks in my forum subscriptions. Ideally, I would like to not get an email every time there is a new post in a forum I am subscribed to. I prefer to just click on Forum Subscriptions and see the activity there. In my settings I only see the No Email Notifications under the Thread Subscriptions. Am I missing something?

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Are we supposed to be receiving multiple forum digests a day (or hour in my case today)?

I received one and started looking through thinking this could be helpful, but then had 3 more come in, in quick succession, each with one or two 'new' posts tacked onto the 300+ messages already included.

I would have thought it would only come once per day, no?

Hi all. I love getting the email notices about threads in the forum. When I need/want to respond I click the link and viola. Was doing it last night. But now this morning every new message just says "not found" when I click. Is it something on my end? Or is it happening to anyone else? And only the links to here from emails.. others are working fine.

christo et doctrinae is locked out of the forum. She isn't able to log in--it told her that her password/username were wrong. She got a new password but it isn't working either, and now she has one more chance before her logon is locked.

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UPDATE: If you don't hear from me in the day or two after you write to me, please look in spam folders. If you don't find anything, then please let me know. I'm usually really quick with this. It shouldn't take days and days to get into the teen forum.

Is there a way to edit our personal settings that we made when we registered? I think I set up my account with not being able to view my email or to send me private emails and I was reconsidering that decision.

Thanks!
Deborah