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Michael Edwards

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Just logged on after some little while and I find I am missing the 'latest' option here in the forum which gives (or gave) a list of the latest postings. Also there is no time of posting against the topic headings. As a result I have had to click on to each individual forum heading to find out if any comments have been lodged. It makes the Forum almost unusable . Am I alone in this or are others similarly affected?
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Ah - just discovered the latest posts at the bottom of the page whereby you have to click through them all individually - does this mean that the old method of having a single page with them all listed out where you can see them at a glance has now disappeared into history?
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Nope - got it wrong - also think my terminology is wrong - I'm looking for latest comments - the facility at the bottom is for latest posts (which are not in date order anyway) not latest comments - back where I started - I think I'll give up in frustration.

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Alan Green

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No layout problems but I keep getting ads pop up next to user names and I can't find anything on this PC so I'm wondering if the site's been hacked

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Are you still having the same problem, Michael? If I click "forums" from the home page, then I get a page with "Latest Posts" at the top right. To the left side of the page is a list of Forum Topics (e.g. Media Forums: Drawing, Watercolour etc) which has a column for "Last post" in which the subject of the post with the latest contribution, and the time of the last contribution, are shown. Not a huge difference from what I recall of the old site.
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No I don't get any of this Bill - I always used to until about a week ago but it now seems to have disappeared from mine altogether. When I click Forum from the home page all I get is a long list of the individual sections (watercolour, acrylics etc ) but no indication of when the last comment was made and no reference anywhere to 'latest posts'. I guess I must refer it to Dawn.

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you look at the most recent .. to me the started by,, can be removed and popped inside the most recent column , no need for over kill a lot of the site could be simplified ,there are to many ways to reach a subject or thread ,, to capture a new comers attention quickly a site should be made as simply as possible not flashy
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Could be I'm being denser than unusual, but I've not noticed any difference in the site recently ... I can get to the forum entries, and dates and times of posting; and I don't have pop-up ads, but then I use Google Chrome and Adblocker (which I turn off from time to time just to see what I might be missing).
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Hi Michael. Our technicians have had a look around logged in as you and can't see anything amiss. They suggest you do a hard refresh by Clicking Ctrl+F5 which should resolve the issue. Let me know if this works.
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Do you use Internet Explorer on your wife's laptop too? Might be worth trying Firefox or another browser on your desktop to see if that makes any difference. It seems to be your computer unfortunately - hopefully we can get it resolved though. Did you shut down after the hard refresh and reopen from scratch?
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Glad you got there Michael!