Questions about the forum

How do I go to the beginning of the thread? I still have to scroll up 280 posts…
I don’t see a blue square (I’m in a Mac). This is what I see:

On non-Macs the quickest way I find to go to the first/last message of a thread is to press Home / End keys on the keyboard. I know these don’t exist on Mac, but googleing suggests you “Command + up and down arrow keys” or Fn + left and right arrow keys normally do what Home/End keys do. Try that?

With the mouse you can just grab that thin blue “scroll bar” on the right side, and quickly drag up.

You have the dates on the right. You don’t have to scroll if you click the date/time on the top (you end up to the first post of the topic). In your picture you show the date/time of the last post:


There is a similar date for the first post.
Another way to get to the first post is to click the title of the topic.

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OK, I see a date Oct 19. I just clicked on it and it took me to the beginning. Thanks!

Another thing I just found out that may help others. If you’re on a Mac (not sure if it’s the same on other computers), just drag that blue bar up or down and you can move to various posts and dates.

Clicking the title also works and takes you to the beginning.

A post was split to a new topic: Can’t edit profile

In Preferences, then Interface, what does this do?
‘Hide my public profile and presence features’
Does it mean when people click on my user in the forum it shows ‘Hidden’?
Or does it mean that I won’t have the green circle indicating I’m online?
Will I still be in the list of users on the landing page?
Sorry I’m curious what that is

My profile is hidden. Click on my avatar and you will see that you can only see the link to the official website postcrossing profile. My avatar is not among the “Who’s online” on the home page and there should be no green circle indicating whether I am online. However, hidden users still show up in the user stats

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Oh darn. I might turn that off then, tysm for explaining!

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4 posts were split to a new topic: How to draft a new topic

Good morning. Not sure if this is the place to ask this question, but I will try and ask for your guidance on this. I am still learning the ins and outs of this new Forum.

I have been running a Free offer on PostCrossing for almost 10 years now. My question is this: is it possible to move that offer from the old Forum to the new one Intact? I looked through the User guide, but didn’t see anything. I’ve included the link below. Thank you for your help…

https://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=54026

@Cliffside you cannot really move this Thread over here, but you can open a new Topic in this section
https://community.postcrossing.com/c/trades-requests-offers/postcards/32

You can copy and paste the text from the old forum (from the normal post, not from the editing page). After that you have to do a little “hauskeeping” because here not all works the same way as in the old forum ( BB code, smilies …)

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Can you tell me how to find out the official username of someone whose official username and forum username are different?
I’m in trouble because I can’t read their profiles.

In the new forum the forum username is always the same than the official username. (In the old forum you can see both the old forum name and official name in every post). Here, if you click a person’s avatar and then :postcrossing: -symbol, you will see their postcrossing profile.

I understand. Thank you for your response. :smile:

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Hello @ginzanow

You can use “the magnifying glass emoticon”

You can write a name / forum name / topic etc. regarding the old forum .

I don’t know where else to put this, so I’ll put it here.
You see that alarm bell on the right, all the time?
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For weeks I didn’t click on it, as I was afraid that alarm bells would go off somewhere and I’d get admonished by software (again)! :anguished: Then, eventually, I thought what the heck. So I clicked on it.

Blinks slowly. It leads to an updown menu of following or tracking a thread. That’s useful, wish I’d discovered that earlier. Hope that helps someone else. :wave:

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Just some observations here…and only that. This new Forum is cumbersome and difficult to work with. Trying to figure out settings is mind-boggling. My eMail address get a lot of superfluous eMails that are a waste of time. The messages I do view as important, where do I print them?? That address I reserve exclusively for Official PostCrossing.

To try and get answers about some issues, you have to gold down the Page Down key to go through a few hundred replies. I have many other gripes, but that will do for now.

Did you read the Forum User Guide? It might help with some of the issues. Sorry for not being able to help any further- difficult while I’m online with my phone only.

Thank you for writing. Yes…I did read the Guide. Helpful here and there, but not much else. I am just so frustrated.