Some tips to navigate boards/pcw

[couscous]

Swee la petpet!

 

[whatheheck]

How to Block trending topics?

Number 9 of first post got say ah. But mine is mobile, scroll to the bottom of page and click that icon besides night mode and uncheck Trending box

 

[progene]

No one's gotta read the entire list. Ctrl/⌘ + F to look for information you may need.

FAQ

1. How come is a FAQ ah? How you know is frequently asked? That frequent meh?
lol man, I don't know bro/sis.

2. Where to find my bookmarks/subscribed threads?

It's now called "Watched Threads"

3. Then how I bookmark a thread?

4. How to view last post?

Click on the last posted date, on the right hand side of the table (e.g "1 Minute Ago" or "A moment ago")

5. Can I sort the posts in a thread?

No (for now, hopefully).

6. I want to view last post details when I click on the thread link!

For now, it's going to bring you to the last post you've read.
A workaround is to click on the last posted time (point 4)

7. Too much notifications. customise it under...

"Receive a notification when someone…"
https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/account/preferences

8. Ninja Mode (privacy)

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/account/privacy

9. Remove trending threads

On the top bar, click on this option icon, then, unselect "Show trending"

Random Tips and Tricks

1. Once you have drafted your message, you can hit your keyboard

⌘ + enter (Mac) or Ctrl + enter (Windows) to submit the post

2. Quickly create a thread

3. Tag/Mention someone with @

For example

@hwzadmin

4. Quickly quote someone

Highlight the text in a post, click quote

Mobile App

Basically, the whole forum is now a progressive web app (PWA). iPhone users are a bit out of luck, we don't get features like push notifications compared to our Android counterparts.

1. iPhone Users, use Safari, add to home screen.

2. Android users, can see refer to this thread!

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/android-users-hwz-standalone-application.6489478/

3. Third party apps

AFAIK, third party apps, until they are updated. Will not work.

This is useful .

 

[Mystyque]

If there's a need for guide on using forum, the forum is not user friendly or intuitive.

Frankly most of what petpet posted, I already discovered within the first 15 minutes or so of using the new forum software. And I literally used the old interface for two decades so if old folks like me can quickly adapt to this new interface,what’s stopping you is just a natural mental resistance to change which you can overcome

 

[twinkle07]

Last time,
click username on the right, click "Find threads created", can already

Now,
click username on the left, click username again. Click "Find", click" find threads created"..

sibei sian...

 

[whatheheck]

Frankly most of what petpet posted, I already discovered within the first 15 minutes or so of using the new forum software. And I literally used the old interface for two decades so if old folks like me can quickly adapt to this new interface,what’s stopping you is just a natural mental resistance to change which you can overcome

Personally it should be easy to explore looking at the full desktop browser with mouse on computer hovering across any hidden links as well. Most of us are just using phone browsers so may not adapt to it as quickly. It isn't that bad though, yup. Just a matter of time to get used to it

 

[gkhchay]

How do I find the threads that I’ve been following but not participated? IIRC last time in the iOS HWZ app there was an activity tab at the bottom where when I touch it, it’ll show me all the threads that I’ve gone in and looked at (but not actively participated).

 

[wlalala]

Personally it should be easy to explore looking at the full desktop browser with mouse on computer hovering across any hidden links as well. Most of us are just using phone browsers so may not adapt to it as quickly. It isn't that bad though, yup. Just a matter of time to get used to it

yes on desktop it's really easy to use and it's great

on mobile it's not so intuitive yet

 

[whatheheck]

Not really. After using the same forum for 20 years and faced with a completely new front and back-end, there's a lot that's different and one can't choose to keep things the same as that might necessitate more work than necessary or would require more tweaking to get it closer to the preferred state.

We'll do what we can to help our users

Just for everyone's information.
Kok Leong has done the following fixes:
- Reactions are fixed for iOS and Android and should work as expected like on desktop. (No more confusing confirmation page)
- Multi Quote now works as per previous forum (You can now rearrange the order of quotes as well). Be sure to "insert quotes: or else they will not appear!

Test test intra thread quote

 

[Shutterbox]

how to upload photos from my phone/PC ah?

last time use GAGT, now dunno how to do it le

 

[pohw0008]

How do I find the threads that I’ve been following but not participated? IIRC last time in the iOS HWZ app there was an activity tab at the bottom where when I touch it, it’ll show me all the threads that I’ve gone in and looked at (but not actively participated).

Now you need to click on watch for every thread that you go in.. wonder if can have options for some automation..

 

[articland05]

how to upload photos from my phone/PC ah?

last time use GAGT, now dunno how to do it le

cannot.
ownself upload to imgbb, copy the link then paste in ur post.

extremely mafan I know.
that's why I dun post anymore image liao...

 

[irregardless]

Now you need to click on watch for every thread that you go in.. wonder if can have options for some automation..

mlmlwml dont want this to be default

 

[pohw0008]

mlmlwml dont want this to be default

Options like u can turn on or off just like alerts when u posted..

 

[Brionic]

last time can check if someone replied and quoted you, is this still available?

 

[Intrinion]

last time can check if someone replied and quoted you, is this still available?

It's much better now! You receive notifications!

 

[TUV2008]

How to insert a picture from my phone?

 

[Intrinion]

How to insert a picture from my phone?

imgur maybe!

 

[martin1973]

When viewing a thread, you will be able to view the thread from a choice of two modes.

1. Linear Mode (Oldest First) - In this mode, posts are displayed chronologically from oldest to newest. Posts are shown in a flat mode so that many posts can be viewed simultaneously.
2. Linear Mode (Newest First) - This is the same as the above mode, except that posts are ordered in an opposite way (newest first).

Where can I change the settings to Number 2?

I could not find it anywhere.

 

[TUV2008]

imgur maybe!

Still can use imgur? I only find insert pictures with a url