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Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 14:47

Bri

Thought it was for me but obviously not

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

User

Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 17:12

It all works on The Dark Side http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gifhttp://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gifhttp://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif

http://pcasupportforum.proboards.com/

Nil desperandum

Allister

User

Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 19:24

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

NEVER LAUGH AT A LIVE DRAGON

User

Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 19:29

2ND Bugbear,

I have just completed my weeks order at Tesco and then got timed out before I could add the T Bags.http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif OOPS sorry wrong site.http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif

BFN

Julie

NEVER LAUGH AT A LIVE DRAGON

User

Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 20:01

Remember the good old days Guys, when Yogurt was milk that had gone off. When Teenagers had respect for there elders and Policemen gave you a clip round the ear for miss behaving.

When PCA forums where easy to navigate, well life moves on and I didn't find the new site that easy in the beginning, but hey I can post , find threads and log myself in and out.

This thread has now turned into the Moan Corner and this isn't what Paul set it up for. I agree new members seeing this thread must wonder what the heck is going on.

In the good old days when Trevor didn't have PCA I had no need for a site like this, but now I do, as do all of us. Come on gang lets get back to what this site is all about giving help, advice, moral support and a hand of friendship to newbies and to oldies.

BFN

Julie X

PS if any one has any PG Tipps can you pop them round by 8am.http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif

NEVER LAUGH AT A LIVE DRAGON

User

Posted 17 Sep 2014 at 21:21

Just for the record ...

The "Dark Side" was born out of the strict censorship that prevented open debate on the future of the PCUK forum, contentious users and politically sensitive issues such as the treatment of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan bomber. It's understandable that PCUK has to be very wary of these issues, hence an unfettered forum to discuss them in private. It was not and is not an alternative forum but it is a safe haven to discuss your opinions and issues with minimal moderation http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif

http://pcasupportforum.proboards.com/

All welcome http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif

Nil desperandum

Allister

User

Posted 18 Sep 2014 at 13:31

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)

B2PCa

User

Posted 19 Sep 2014 at 17:33

I have just experienced a bad run of glitches with the site again.

1) I was doing a reply to 'Recent Converstion' and the page kept switching to '404 Error Message'

To try and continue the reply, I had to keep arrowing back a page, luckily seeing my typed message each time.
This happened every 20 or 30 seconds.

To be on the safe side, I kept making a copy of my message.

My solution was to paste what I'd copied into 'Quick Reply.
Thank heavens that worked,

2) (AND STILL HUGELY ANNOYING AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS)...I am being logged out dozens of times a day.
I can be reading an article on the home page, and when I try to go back to a conversation I have to log in again.

Hoping for the day these glitches are a thing of the past.

George

B2PCa

User

Posted 19 Sep 2014 at 21:04

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

User

Posted 19 Sep 2014 at 21:59

Eh, no http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif

http://pcasupportforum.proboards.com/

This is what it used to look like http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif

Newbies will be put off by how difficult this site is to navigate. It's not even easy to actually get this far!

I used to do this sort of thing for a living and this is awful. Unfortunately nobody will "fess up" to getting it SO wrong. I can see the meetings with "interested parties" debating the issues but none will grasp the nettle and admit defeat. The forum is no longer fit for purpose. No amount of "tweaking" will solve that and we need to have a re-think. I have been in this situation many times and it's not easy as there are vested interests in defending the unusable. Rather than say that this is how is should be, I hope that common sense prevails and we get back to an environment where ALL feel welcome http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif

Edited by member 19 Sep 2014 at 22:13 | Reason: Not specified

Nil desperandum

Allister

User

Posted 20 Sep 2014 at 00:00

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

User

Posted 20 Sep 2014 at 12:11

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

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

I'm with you Chris, it seems a small number of people have problems that the rest of us don't. Local settings perhaps? I think the constant griping is more likely than forum design to put new people off.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User

Posted 20 Sep 2014 at 15:51

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

User

Posted 20 Sep 2014 at 22:02

Chris

You need to create a new name and password http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif

This can be the same as before but only if not taken by someone else - any problems then message me http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif

PS - check "junk" or "spam" for activation link

Edited by member 20 Sep 2014 at 22:03 | Reason: Not specified

Nil desperandum

Allister

User

Posted 20 Sep 2014 at 22:09

Hi Chris and Allister,

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

George

B2PCa

User

Posted 21 Sep 2014 at 10:27

George / Allister

Perhaps I was being a bit impatient the activation code did arrive later and I did get on the old forum this morning.

Thanks Chris

I was under the impression I was being given a link to the old forum, not an alternative site.

Edited by member 21 Sep 2014 at 22:44 | Reason: Not specified

User

Posted 21 Sep 2014 at 13:26

I think this response is wholly negative and unhelpful. You are not identifying the old site as one respondent has already thought but a different site which was an alternative venue and not, as you have said yourself, a replacement for this site. I do not have the problems people identify and find it as easy to navigate as the old one. For new users why would they be put off as they have not experienced the old site but maybe, just maybe, they will be put off by this continual carping about this site. Numbers engaging in the new site continue to grow but it is different to before and we are still not using its new technology to best effect - private messaging, chat room etc - but the basics are fine. I may leave this site because I cannot abide the negativity and attempts to undermine the efforts of the PCUK to provide a new forum. The old site could not be sustained and whilst it has now achieved the iconic status which was not evident when it operated with its own glitches, suitably forgotten, it is gone.

What people coming here want is not endless carping and moaning about the way things were but solid advice about their PCa problems. Let,s get back to doing that and the rest will take care of itself.

Also if I coukd suggest that often we blame any new facility for problems when it could in reality be our own systems, Internet connections, browsers, age of machines, and lack of expertise.

Please let us not destroy this community let's make it work. I am deeply saddened by this negativity.

User

Posted 21 Sep 2014 at 19:41

If everyone who gripes about the griping stopped griping, this thread would fade away.

Regardless of what is said or complained about or moaned about, newbies will not know anything of what is said. They will just come here and seek advice and use the site better than any of us old fogeys.

A comment was made sometime ago that another site may give bad advice or unsound advice. The more sources of support and advice anyone suffering with PCa can get the better, surely? I am sure that if dodgy advice or opinion is given it will be stamped upon. I quite like the fact that there is more than one place to seek advice or have chat.

Rather than constantly whinging abut the moaning, why not cease, and just help where one can?

Dave

User

Posted 21 Sep 2014 at 19:59

Perhaps it would be an idea to now close this thread. People can still raise any technical issues via Sadie and as Paul says we can get on with what the forum has been created for.

Bri

User

Posted 21 Sep 2014 at 20:06

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

If everyone who gripes about the griping stopped griping, this thread would fade away.

Rather than constantly whinging abut the moaning, why not cease, and just help where one can?

Dave

I agree Dave,but,there is always a but,I am a member of various sites ranging from diy to general chat forums,I was a member of these before being diagnosed and finding the old PCA forum,there may be others in the same position who are used to a certain lay out and struggle with this one,it just doesn't appeal to me and I rarely visit,it may well be the case of others as well.

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