"All My Conversations"

No problem! "All My Conversations" (all the conversations I've posted in) would definitely be nice.

I don't really understand the need for an "All My Groups" option anyway. I thought we only see conversations from the groups we are subscribed to. I don't know, I admit I haven't been keeping up with all the changes this year, so I'm a bit lost anyway!

Sorry calkins I may have it wrong actually. The All My Groups option that I seem to remember may have been there only initially.

But anyhow there's apparently been a recent change. All My Conversations used to be only all threads in which I've actually made a comment or reply. I agree, it's a confusing label now.

Thanks zhenlijiang and peter for the explanations. Peter, is there anyway to change it back to the way it was before (as zhenlijiang explained)? The way it is right now doesn't make a lot of sense.

It's kind of a trivial thing, but I think the less confusion on a website the better (especially for new customers). I don't think most new customers will understand that "All My Conversations" really means "all my groups that I belong to".

There are three options in the Community conversation drop down box. "All", "All My Conversations" and "All Replies to Me". All contains thread from all of the groups on ChinesePod, All My conversations contains threads from all of the groups you belong to, and All Replies to Me contains replies to comments or posts that you've made.

I see what happened. I'm pretty sure All My Groups used to also be an option, and that's (that option name, that is) gone now.

It used to be of course that with All My Conversations you would see only all conversations you have actually partaken in. And there was also an All My Groups option. I guess they got rid of the All My Conversations option, but kept the name and gave it to what used to be called All My Groups.

Little changes like this were going to be announced soon, right, CPod?

Thanks coco71. Perhaps you are right. If that's the case, maybe it'd be better for cpod to rename "All My Conversations" to "All My Groups" or "All My Group Conversations". When I read "My Conversations", I think that I am involved by having made a post in that thread (conversation). Perhaps the word "conversations" is what's misleading!

Bodawei, I agree completely about the rates being A LOT more expensive when you live in China (or Taiwan....Asia....etc.). When I had a premium subscription in the U.S., I felt it was worth every penny. But now that I'm in Taiwan and living on a Taiwan salary, the subscriptions are too expensive. That, and the fact that I don't need cpod as much now (since I live in a Chinese-speaking environment), make it much harder to shell out the cash for a paying subscription.

It would be great if cpod made some concessions for those of us living here, but then I guess they'd have to do that for all the countries in the world that have a much lower cost of living.....and I guess that would also open up doors for people to take advantage of that system.

This makes me curious. If I'm not mistaken, Cpod is a registered business in the U.S. Does Cpod pay taxes in the U.S., in China, or both? Since Cpod is based in China, and most of its expenses are in China, it must be making a killing charging U.S.-equivalent rates. I know the cost of living in SH is high, but if you compare it to a big U.S. city like NYC for example, it is much much lower.

Anyway, I digress!............

Oh, thanks very much for that Zhenlijiang, I had no idea, but did wonder occasionally what the system is...

In particular I was wondering if all the material we post as users would one day be unavailable to us/inaccessible because we failed to pay a subscription. The subscriptions, priced mainly for a North American customer base, are expensive for those of us on Chinese pay, particularly western Chinese pay (ie. western China, not Western). :) There should maybe be a special price for those living west of Nanjing, but then we are an insignificant part of the community numbers-wise. :)

I should ask: how many poddies live west of say Xi'an. That would be interesting to know. I think there are several in Chengdu.

Oh then maybe it's a glitch after all.

Bodawei they're not so mean here at CPod. You don't get shut out of the site just because your subscription expires. I don't know for how long, but your user profile and all your settings remain (would think this is indefinitely, to make it easier for former subscribers to return). I can log in of course, and while I can't post my own comments in Lesson Discussions I can Reply to others in them which is why you see me in those threads even now. And I can post my own comments in any General Discussion or User Group (that I belong to) thread.

It doesn't seem to work for me either - you get all conversations.

Calkins - this might seem a very silly question because I have been around for a while, but how do you access the site when you don't have a subscription? I really am naive! I thought that your log in wouldn't work. If it does work, how long does the log in continue to work?