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| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6068 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 25 of 36 09 June 2012 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
the "expert" you are writing about is nothing but a well-known scammer 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jintro Diglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5871 days ago 16 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 26 of 36 10 June 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't contribute to this forum, I am not a linguist, or a professional, but this site is slow and it doesn't allow me to view unread messages (unless there is some hidden way.), When I click on active topics I have to guess wich page I actually read, and search for the new messages. (Let's ignore the fact that when I don't visit the forum for 2 days, I don't get the see more than 100 of the changed threads). And the administrator wants me to pay to get a better user experience. That's not what I'm accustomed to nowadays.
Now imagine an actual linguist having to pass these hurdles, to dispense his advice, free of charge. I'm no troll. I value the opinion of people on this site enormously, but they deserve a better platform. Edited by jintro on 10 June 2012 at 11:13pm 14 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 27 of 36 10 June 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Try adblock plus, that'll be already a better experience :) Also, in my browser the visited links have a different colour so I go to the last page I visited :D Active topics work fine for me...
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| Axystos Pentaglot Newbie Antarctica Joined 6832 days ago 20 posts - 43 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French, Russian Studies: Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Polish | Message 28 of 36 11 June 2012 at 8:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Jintro does have a point, though. This is the only larger forum where there is no "go to the last unread post" button, which can be rather off-putting for new members. The "active topics" functions is nice, but not entirely the same thing.
Is that function only for paying members? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 29 of 36 11 June 2012 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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By default active topics show you the new posts since your last visit, though there's a dropdown menu where you can pick 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 hours, a day, a week etc. And I'm not a paid member.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 30 of 36 11 June 2012 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I already spend less time reading and posting here than I once did. I have been on the forum nearly five years (about twice as long as you have), and I think its overall quality has declined. When I come on at all, I spend more time looking at early forum posts in preference to more recent offerings, as I alluded to earlier. If people want to ask at approximately three-week intervals why Spanish is considered the easiest to learn, or which is the ugliest language, well, that is no crime. Just don't expect the "experts" referred to by the OP to come running, that's all. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Axystos Pentaglot Newbie Antarctica Joined 6832 days ago 20 posts - 43 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French, Russian Studies: Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Polish | Message 31 of 36 11 June 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Actually, Active Topics does not show the new posts since my last visit, it shows the threads which have new posts since my last visit. It seems to be impossible, though, to go directly to the new (first unread) post inside a thread since my last visit. However, if I'm wrong, please let me know. I don't want to talk about this subject too long in this thread, as it is perhaps off-topic, but I just wanted to make sure that we are talking about the same thing. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 32 of 36 12 June 2012 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh yeah. But as I said, if you use the same comp, the pages you've already seen will be displayed in a different colour... I suppose it's even possible to sync that between computers if you really need it.
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