Re: new software:
Closing in on a "thumbs up"...
...but with some caveats.
@cereal_killer - essentially, I like the new software and find that many elements of it actually run faster. I especially find the alerts to be helpful.
I think what has been disturbing in many minds is the lack of a CP as we knew it. The stuff we need to get to is out there, but the routes to get to them are different. In other words, what was once the CP has been spread out over various pages.
That being said, I think there are some flaws.
1.) When a member goes to his name at the top right
(name, inbox, alerts), the now famous hoverbox appears.
If a member clicks on "your content", he can see, in reverse chronological order, what he has just done in terms of posting. But many members like it broken down into member's postings vs. member's threads, and to get there, one has to go to the hover menu, click on his or her own user name, and then, of the five balkans presented
(profile post, recent activity, postings, information, areas), must then click on
"information", where two lines appear:
"Find all content by XXXXX"
"Find all threads by XXXXX"
I think that many members would definitely like easier access to their created threads.
Here is a graphic of the appearance of USMB. I created two green blocks.
Those areas would be optimal, in my opinion, for linking a kind of
mini-CP for everyone, like:
My posts
My threads
My communications - sent
My communications - received
My mentions - sent
My mentions - received
If there would be any way to tweak this software to do that, I bet that a lot of people would be happy with that idea.
In the meantime, as a suggestion, an alternative route for members would be for them to find those pages and bookmark them in a folder in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, MSIE, etc... where they can call up the data with one click.I did that with my threads page.
2.) Is it possible to program links in USMB to automatically open up in a new tab? For instance, by "Find all Threads by Statistikhengst", when I click on the link, it replaces that tab with a new page, but many like to work on many tabs at once. Links in threads to outside websites open automatically in new tabs, but internal links for things WITHIN USMB apparently do not.
3.) The edit function does not always appear. On a number of threads, after posting an entry, I have discovered a small error, but noticed that no button appeared to edit. So, I refreshed the page and still there was no button. This happened to me yesterday at least 6 times in the Coffee Shop.
4.) There were some overall statistics in the old system that I do not see here. For instance, for any thread, you could see the names of the members who ever posted on that thread and how many times they did. Are those statistics being kept with the new software?
5.) I think that a number of members miss seeing a list of who is currently viewing any one thread at any one time. Any way to bring that list back? I also think it would look better at the TOP of a thread instead of the bottom, personally.
But overall,
-Stat
No part of the problem any more but doesn't help you inhaling smog wafting over from China. 
