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By default it’s off, you can turn it on in your notification settings area but I’ll make it default shortly.

In fact yes it was I think, seem to remember setting it like that years ago

Thanks, it seems sort order is by date posted there. Will change that. It was prob due to the fact it was intended to be like a list of recent updates in time order as opposed to a chatty place.

Check the 'sort by' is set to 'recently updated' Should be by default.

Right I really should get on with some work now.

1 - On the list. It will be, or we'll make it a mandatory field when placing an advert. 2 - Depending on your mobile you can rate it to landscape, but the mobile version is in fact the same thing as the full site just squished down. What did you want to do that you can't in the mobile interface? We'll add it as an option anyway but you could also try the 'load desktop site' option on your device. 3 - We're still fixing that, so watch this space!

1. They're on the list to re-enable. I though we had, actually, but we're aware. The system is off by default on those I think. 2. Probably a loading error. The options have been the same since the start though we've changed the defaults. Everything is here http://www.basschat.co.uk/notifications/options/ we hope you'll find them far more comprehensive than before.

For the first couple of days I did exactly that - however one sure way of posting something that gets missed is to pin a thread. People never read them. That's why i also made it into topics that I hoped people would reply to, keeping it 'current', even posting in Off Topic. But people don't tend to post/reply/get excited by site news threads. Like I said, I did literally everything I could. It would have been much easier for us to have migrated at the end of Oct but we held off specifically to give people time to back up. And again, sorry.

Yeah but I explained we weren't able to do anything like that on the old software. Would have been lovely though - and it was a reason to upgrade.

How would I have gone about that exactly?

I really like the software, and happy others do too - the problem isn't software related from what we can see so far. FYI If we moved from Invision to vBulletin we'd have basically have to start from scratch, or write even more complicated scripts to import from one to the other, causing even more formatting problems - so you can imagine why we stayed with Invision (as well as preferring it)

This is true - I'm the kind of person who always has an empty inbox and even though I was getting several PMs a day I didn't need to save a single thing. I understand many people simply don't work like that though which is why I can only apologise.

Agreed - as long as people are happy to go with the flow, we'll do everything we can to make the site perfect. Just chill out and we'll work through it.

Yeah, we've got that one too, but you weren't to know. Thanks!

Thanks, we have all those (you post them elsewhere, too). We'll fix it, so don't worry. Just give us time - we do also work actual jobs

...which is exactly what I just wrote. I explained what I said (one of which was entitled 'SAVE YOUR PM CONTENT also in caps) and why people may have missed it. I don't know what else you want me to say.

Your opinions have been noted, please try and keep it constructive. I thought you were off far a few weeks?

We'll get there guys - please just be patient. If it's really unbearable for you please give us a couple of days and check back? BTW the forum isn't complicated at all, it's all due to how incompatible the old software was. So this was only going to be more difficult the longer we left it. There was a definite need to upgrade, a subject I posted about in the 'Please Read' forum on the old forum which apparently some didn't read.

Yes it's on the list to add, sorry FWIW we also added a 'bump' button so you can press that instead of replying to your own threads which is a bit tidier than deleting old bumps. Of course that's a bit buggy at the mo so that's also on the list to fix lol.

I've updated the original post with a note about PMs. TL;DR - Sorry.

The old software stopped being supported in 2014

Dear Basschatter, Welcome to the new updated website. I just wanted to mention a few things you might like to read before getting stuck in. Please read on to find out more - and as ever, ask us if you have any questions! Enjoy! Here are some of the main new features: You'll find things are easier to keep track of, using the 'Activity' tab. You can even save your own custom streams such as 'New topics in Basses for sale in the last 7 days' as well as your standard options for new content, replies to your own topics and followed threads. A better search. Fine tune your results and find what you're after. The search is now 100% reliable whereas the old site had some issues with indexing. The BC shop. Here you can buy marketplace subs - you can manage your purchases to see when they expire. Having a sub will allow you to create marketplace posts as before, but now it'll say how long you have left (on a £20 sub) or how many single use (£7) tokens you have left. Renewal prices have been dropped for returning customers. We'll be offering special discounts at various times of year and give away subscription voucher codes to members for contributing to the community, for example b organising a Basschat Bash. We're working on a system where you'll be rewarded for referring a new user to the forum. The BC shop will be selling a whole range of items at exclusive BC prices - coming soon. We now accept PayPal and Stripe (card payment gateway, soon after launch) All new user support system for getting help when you need it Attachments have been totally revised - now you have 500MB of space to upload pictures. No faffing about, you can upload by drag+drop. Attachments are displayed at full resolution, scaled for the browser. Notifications now appear in real time (if you grant permission). Notification emails (if chosen) are sent when a reply is made to a topic you've subscribed to, not every single time someone replies - although you can adjust your preferences to suit your own working method. New tagging system. We'll encourage people to add a few tags to their post, because the system will find similar content and display it at the side for further reading. Tag a user into a conversation and they'll get an alert to come and have a look. Simply use @ followed by their username, like on Facebook etc Improved mobile interface. Also, resizing the window on a computer will bring up the mobile site if you make it narrow enough - ideal for multiple window viewing or less than obvious use at work! Send sticky notes to other members, or yourself Have a play, get stuck in and please be patient whilst the site gets back up to speed Cheers ped A quick note about PMs Unfortunately PMs couldn't be ported to the new site because they're in a completely different format. Whilst we did everything we could to tell people, it appears some had not seen the announcements and the email we sent in the two weeks leading up to the move. The email was sent to every active member (logged in during the last 365 days) on the 18th October. There were also threads in Off Topic and the new 'Please Read' category with information in there. My actual words were probably not strong enough because at that point I wasn't 100% sure and nobody seemed to raise any issues about it during the few weeks it was running, but I said "I'm Pretty sure PMs will transfer no problem, but probably a good idea to get copies of anything important just in case". The other message I posted in Off Topic was more directed very clear but it was only a couple of days before we moved so possibly too late for some. Again, I probably perceived the lack of replies as it not being an issue. Looking back, that probably wasn't good enough and I'm sorry. One of the main reasons we had to migrate was that the old software stopped being supported in 2014, so behind the scenes we were pasting over cracks and you will have noticed things like spam appearing on the site. Frankly we're all surprised the site wasn't badly compromised by a bot but we go lucky but we were on borrowed time. There was a massive lack of options for us to get in touch with everyone. We couldn't make an announcement (the best I could do was make a new forum at the top of the site with the 'Please Read' title) and the mass email system may not have reached everyone if they opted out of emails. I know it reached lots of people because many replied, but still. Now, we can post a note and everyone sees it when they visit. So given the options I did all I could. Again I'm really sorry if you missed it, and I fully appreciate why you might have done so. All I ask is that you please try and empathise with Rik and I who have been working tirelessly to bring you the best we can. Rik in particular has been doing nothing else for months now and has managed an incredible amount in very difficult circumstances, going form an old unsupported platform without support to a new piece of software. So please consider this a personal apology about the PM thing. I hope most of you can simply strike up conversations again and pick up where you left off, but if you did lose anything really critical, let us know and we can dig around in the old database and see if we can find it. You never know, once we've got a bit of time to work on it we may yet find a way to bring them back. On a more positive note we're getting better speed and reliability (we know some people aren't so hang in there) - there are lost of processes going on in the background so please be patient and send us positive vibes, we could use them! Cheers ped

Same here.