Chris Howden wrote:

Consquently, is there anyway to have the messages come in as they are posted. The actual messages that is, not just the subject?

This is one of the items on my improvements list. I hope that it is possible since it would make it easier to keep up to date on what's been discussed.  Thanks for your other comments too, Chris, you are echoing what a number of people have said. We're working on what we can do to improve the user experience for everyone.

Speaking of which, we've added the ANZSTAT forum to the navbar of the website with the forum links as menu items. Hopefully this makes the forum easier to access for everyone as some members have said it was buried away and hard to find.

Ben

Berwin Turlach wrote:

Chris Howden wrote:

Johns point of distinquishing between replys vs new posts is a good one!!

Might depend on whether you hit the "reply" button on the top left, or the "quote" button on the right of the message you want to reply too.

Just guessing, well, and testing with this post. :)

Cheers,

Berwin

Chris Howden wrote:

Johns point of distinquishing between replys vs new posts is a good one!!

Might depend on whether you hit the "reply" button on the top left, or the "quote" button on the right of the message you want to reply too.

Just guessing, well, and testing with this post. :)

Cheers,

Berwin

I think the biggest barrier to this new fourm taking off will be the extra time, cognative effort and inertia it takes to click through and see what is being discussed. 

Previouslly one could quickly and efficiently see messages as one worked through emails and as they came in. So people could choose to either ignore, lurk/learn or reply in real time. This gave a certain vibrancy to the conversation.

However, now people need to click on a link to be taken through to the thread-which removes the 'real life' feel of the conversation.  It is also an 'inertia' barrier since on any given day we all have a ton of emails to go through and the extra time and cognative effort it takes to get to the actual content is certainly something which will prevent many of us from clicking through.

It also makes it harder to see something in passing (when I really ought to be doing something else....) and get 'hooked' into the discussion. 

Consquently, is there anyway to have the messages come in as they are posted. The actual messages that is, not just the subject?

This could be an option, and would give virtually the same functionality as the previous well used system with the minor change of one needing to click on a link when replying -which is a minor barrier when planning to actually write something. 

Thanks Ben,

 However, these pages took multiple goes to find. Please could we just on the ANZSTAT discussion forum page have an item for 'all', plus the choice to get emails in the same place?  It should be really intuitive as to how to switch on emails - but it is far from being so.

Video: please could you just transcribe everything in this into readable words- There should be an easily accessible page with instructions for the forum, not just a video that takes some while to watch.