Writing PMs

zhenlijiang
 June 16, 2010 at 03:18 PM posted in General Discussion

1) The text-writing box for sending and replying to PMs is way too small. Perhaps CPod you don't realize that you've shrunk the box so tiny but have left the font size the former larger size (which I liked, btw). One has only a ridiculously limited view of what one has written so far, thus has to keep scrolling all the time.
2) Could we please not have a Save as Draft function for these PMs? Especially as we aren't able to see well at all what we're writing. Especially as PMs are not like posts--once we hit "Send Message" it's gone. You can only try to follow up with further messages, can't go back and edit.
Please make this a bit easier for us! Thank you.

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catherinem
 June 18, 2010 at 06:48 AM

I think the PM writing box is about the same size as the comment box. There does seem to be a problem with text wrapping (which I have reported and the tech. team is working on).

I'm not sure what you mean in #2: we please not have a Save as Draft function for these PMs?

I assume you mean could we please? As we don't have a save as draft function now. I believe that with the fixes mentioned above this will be less of an issue. Anyway thanks for the feedback. Will let you know when the tech. team has made its adjustments.

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zhenlijiang
 July 16, 2010 at 01:29 PM

Ah and now the textbox tool bar is back to the previous height (not that narrow little strip anymore)! yay. It does make a difference. Thank you.

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zhenlijiang
 July 13, 2010 at 05:10 AM

It is for me. Yes and I appreciate your making the change--however, I do wish the tool bar didn't have to be shrunk (made so narrow) at the same time. It was much easier before to point your cursor at the button you want. Could you please change that back to the previous width (height I guess, to be accurate)?

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catherinem
 July 12, 2010 at 01:53 AM

Thanks for your suggestion - I think this will be a very helpful improvement for a lot of people!

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zhenlijiang
 July 10, 2010 at 08:04 AM

Thanks for significantly expanding the textboxes for both our comments on the site and for writing PMs. I didn't think they'd be that large! haha. Oh but much better than before. I can see what I've written now.

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zhenlijiang
 June 22, 2010 at 02:13 AM

I cannot promise we'll be getting to it in the next week though, as we're trying to focus on things on the site that are broken

Of course. First things first!

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catherinem
 June 22, 2010 at 01:58 AM

OK I understand now what you're saying. I think these are good suggestions. I cannot promise we'll be getting to it in the next week though, as we're trying to focus on things on the site that are broken. When we are able to give the PMs more attention I will post details here.

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zhenlijiang
 June 19, 2010 at 12:59 AM

Catherine thank you for your replies. Yes I meant "could we please" in #2.

Actually I think the comment box too is somewhat small, for the size of the text that gets displayed in it (these Reply to ones are fine because the text is this tiny size). I don't know what "text wrapping" means, but am guessing it has to do with this size.

Thanks for taking care of all these issues. I really hope that soon we'll have much fewer of them to discuss in this group.