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I experienced this once before but it has happened again and I am well pi$$ed off. I signed in and spent  a considerable time on introducing  a new subject under General Social.  When I pressed 'Submit' I got 'Access denied' and that I should sign in or join nothwithstanding the fact that I had already signed in. My post is lost and I am not going to risk spending so much time again.

This new format is full of bugs and I fully agree with Allister it is unfit for purpose.  I am sure that instead of being instrumental in getting new members to join, there are now fewer joining than when we had the old easy to follow and more user friendly format.  Now that we have sadly lost Barry Topgun, apart from a very few long running threads, there are not many new postings, particularly from those long experienced members.

On a different tack, I was researching something on the net and there were some words off mine I recognised.  I clicked on it and it took me to a thread on this site and it showed me that through process it would be possible,  in some cases, for somebody criminally inclined to obtain useful information such as when patient  had hospital appointments at what hospitals, when they were going on cruises etc. So I think members should be aware and careful in what they post.

Update:
Comments from my posting on 21 July

Comment 3: “My Conversations” shows 50 postings. In you posting on 23.7.14 you mentioned that this would be fixed later to show all of my past postings. Any movement on this, please?

Comment 5; “Since your last visit...” See also my 4th paragraph in my posting on 27 August in “Slow site response and Internet Explorer issues” about the 404 Error. I don’t know if this has been fixed but when I go in whatever is said about new posts since my last visit does not match the number of posts shown below since my last visit. The number shown is always less and has been for over a week.

Comment 6: Your response to my Comment 6 in your posting on 23 July was for guidance on continuing an archived conversation. Are there any plans to produce something for new members - and members - about the options and functions on the site?

Comment 10: This asked about including the option we had on the old Message Board to preview a posting before it is posted. Any movement on this, please?

Comment 11. You say that the cut and paste problem which I mentioned is caused by local browsers and not the online community software. I am puzzled by this. The cut and paste problem occurs when you try to cut and paste into a message in the “Post reply” box. . But you can cut and paste into the “Show Quick Reply” box, however if any of the text is in bold, italic or is underlined then these features are not shown when the text is pasted into the box. Because of this is it possible that the problem of cutting and pasting in the “Post reply” box and not the “Show Quick Reply” box rests with your system?

I had three browsers installing in my new computer a few weeks ago I am not sure how these can be causing the problem.
Signing in: I still have trouble signing in, as mentioned in my posting on 27 August. Sometimes I get in straightaway as a member other times I have to go through “User name” and “Password” routine. Also, when “in” I sometimes find that I have been signed off.

I have now got “Edit” back.

When using the “Post reply” box I cannot drop down a line but I can in the “Show Quick Reply” box. This is an intermittent problem.
I hope this is useful. The “Enter“ key for spacing is now not working!

Alan

Spacing inserted on 8 September

Edited by member 09 Sep 2014 at 12:25  | Reason: Not specified

Having to sign in nearly every time I access site, which I never had to do before, it's getting very frustrating, and I share your concerns regarding people leaving or not partaking in forum as much.

Roy

Have to sign in every time I come on.

Did not have to previously - stayed signed in.

Thank you

I am wondering why staying logged in is such a big dealt personally it log out when I leave so that when I next come in, recent conversations will update from my log out time. I also using IPAD have it set automatically so it takes a second to log back in.

Actually Lyn I have to slightly disagree. I did not set this thread up for people to air frustrations but to log actual issues which could then be looked at by the staff and hopefully corrected. I did so because all everyone seemed to be doing at the time was moaning about it and not offering constructive alternatives. Sadie and the other staff have responded to the issues raised and that was what it was meant to do.

But I feel I must defend what I said above too. I feel very despondent about this site but not for the reasons people keep expressing. I do not find the site difficult to use, I see the same and more functionality in this site as the other one, I feel people romanticise about the other one which had its glitches, problems and limitations and I feel we have lost sigh of why we are here - to support each other with PCa. Given that focus should we not be working together to make the most of the site as TopGun did until he passed away. Not a noted IT expert he had no problem communicating nor did any of the old regulars have problems communicating back to him.

We have the wrong mind set here and I think the setting up of alternative sites miss the point too. One of the concerns when we went to PCUK offices to feed in our views was how to protect members from bad advice even dangerous advice. The importance of being linked to a charity with moderators as experts is to protect us too. It is the right place for an online community. Now all I want to do to discuss my concerns, share my insights with others and build up the participation until it exceeds what we had before. I find it deeply sad that we are allowing minor glitches to stop us getting on with the prime purpose.

I am a keen advocate of online communities and all I have experienced have glitches and difficulties. But we find ways of getting around them because this is what is here to take us forward. But I am deeply sceptical about the will of people to do this when relatively trivial issues are raised. Sorry rant over but I have been bottling this up for a long time.

Less Than Symbol

There seems to be a problem with the less than symbol, I used it in a recent post and the paragraph it was in truncated at the symbol when viewing the post, however when editing the post the remainder of the paragraph was still there and when I changed the less than symbol for the words less than the rest of the paragraph reappeared in view mode

This seems a bit daft particularly for this site!

Bri

Thought it was for me but obviously not

Edited by member 17 Sep 2014 at 14:48  | Reason: Not specified

I have kept fairly quiet on this topic, Hoorah I can hear you all say.

First bugbear is every time I go to TGs post 15 years on continued I press the arrow to go to last page and it shoots me to Si's post welcoming him to the dark side, anyone know that one. Well it takes me to the exact point of reporting Si and I accidently press the report button . So Si if you have been reported 251 times it's me.http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif Sorry Si.http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif. I just thought I would get that of my chest and come clean.

BFN

Julie X

Since about the 5th September I have no issues at all using the site no log outs, no lost messages .

I normally use a win 7 PC at work and an Ipad at night. Having never seen the old site I can not comment on how it used to be.

Could issues be with old browsers and XP ?

Thanks Chris

Allister Allister Allister,

LOL,

Let me correct you in your wayward thinking dear boy. Anyone can see that no one got anything "wrong" with the new site, quite the opposite. You could not be more wrong. The site designers and implementers also could be more right? Would be nice if they were.

Or is it more appropriate to view the situation as we find it currently that those at the design and implementation end did not fail, they were just not as successful as they could have been, or as we would like them to have been?

Aah management speak, hated it, missing it, not.

Dave

Allister

Tried the link you posted not surprising could not log on with current name and password. Tried to register but activation code did not arrive.

When I came back to this forum, signed in then got logged out. Perhaps in part is it an issue with cookies from the old forum.

Thanks Chris

Hi Chris and Allister,

The registration WAS activated, and the site says:
Newest Member: colwickchris

George

I do understand BarrieM,

Honestly, despite being a Philistine.

DOH! I am perpetuating the thread against what I suggested perpetuating!!!!!

PMSL

Dave

Guys, hug time or what?

I'd like to repeat my earlier post:
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I think we would all love to get back to 'the old days' of the forums.

It has been all the glitches that have put so many of us off.

We're coming up to five months since the changeover to this new format, and it still has some of us tearing our hair out.

However, my own absence lately has been more to do with losing three dear friends in less than a month.

For the first time in nine and a half years here, and losing a lot of PCa pals (38 in all), these recent losses really got to me.

Now I feel ready to try again.

I must admit, I feel guilty that my input here has lessened.

From 2005 till this year, it seemed we were all here for eachother, every single day, and we could count on quick replies to PCa concerns.

We have lost a lot of that community spirit, and I for one would like to see it back here, stronger than ever.

Allister is right, 'the Dark Side' site is so much easier to use, but is not an alternative to this site, just as my own B2PCa site could never be (we're all crazy on there!).

The 'Dark Side' is simply another 'room' we can enter and meet up with about 200 of PCUK people, and has been running for over three years.

To get this site back on track, I do now think we 'veterans' should try a bit harder, attempt more posts despite the problems, and keep everything crossed that those very frustrating glitches will be resolved.

I have faith in Carol Jones, and hopefully we will have resolution in the near future.

Guys, we owe it to newcomers to be there for them.
We must never forget how lonely we felt ourselves in the first very dark days after diagnosis.

All the very best,

George

(better late than never)

PS. Barry M made a good and valid observation.

It's always good to be a member of a variety of Prostate cancer Support sites.
Yana was the very first site I found in 2005 and I still use that site as well as the American USTOO forums.

To have such a wide spectrum of views and news at your fingertips can make a big difference to your understanding of every aspect of PCa treatment plans around the globe. Knowledge is power.

These last few posts bring it home about what is important in life. So a few buttons don't work, big deal. This site isn't about faulty buttons it's about real people and real lives, real people that are scared they need help , advice, friendship. This site is so much more than it's faults, it is so much more than that.  It is about all of you Guys, being there for each other. That is what we all do best, not the griping.

Too many good men lost in such a short time, many of us have been left reeling. Come on lets honour there memory.

BFN

Julie X

Every time I try to post a reply recently using Mozilla Firefox (my preferred browser), I get 'Access Denied' and am asked to sign in as it has the effect of signing me out. Anybody else had this problem with Firefox? I do have cookies disabled but this has been the case for quite some time and I was still able to post until a few weeks ago. Am using Chrome here which has cookies enabled so hopefully this will work.