John Herbster

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Forum Master:
As a first time user of these new forums, I thought that you might appreciate my following comments.
Under Embarcadero Community (https://community.embarcadero.com/forum/main-forum) I findHome > Forums > General
Under the above, I find main topic “General” and under that summaries of two messages:
1st “Welcome/Forum Rules” which includes the statement: “[size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]Please[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial] choose from one of the forums below and try to post to the most appropriate for your topic.” [/size]
[size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]And below that is the[/size]
[size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]2nd “Installation Issues” which says “[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]This forum is for discussions about general installation topics.”[/size]
Referring back to the 1st, there are no other forums shown to select from. Surely there are other forums.
So I click on Welcome/Forum Rules and it shows me toHomeForumsGeneralWelcome/Forum Rules
Which shows me a lot of messages by subject, date, and by whom – most of which, judging by the subject lines specific and not of a general or forum rules nature.
What is going on here? As an old timer, I found the old NNTP forum a lot easier to browse and find stuff in. Or if you have to modernize, maybe the reviews in https://www.cmscritic.com/resource-lists/forum-list/ would help you to find some tried and refined forum solutions. I particularly like the forum system from https://www.vbulletin.com/ that powers http://forums.jetphotos.net/forumdisplay.php?f=29 and many other forums.
And here are more comments from my experience posting this message:
While viewing[size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #f16d1a; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]Home[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #f16d1a; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]Forums[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #f16d1a; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]General[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #f16d1a; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]Welcome/Forum Rules[/size][size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]Undergoing community website changes[/size][/b]I clicked on the “Reply Topic” button. It brought up a page with the titles[size= 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #f16d1a; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial]HomeForumsGeneralWelcome/Forum RulesUndergoing community website changesReply Topic[/size]and “Reply Topic: Undergoing community website changes” under which was a message form with the subject line and content of my previous message on a different subject in a different forum already filled in. Curious! And more, in the message window, the down arrow key does not always move the cursor down. It sometimes gets stuck on a particular place in a line or at the bottom of the window, it will now cause the window to scroll, like it should. And even more, the ctrl-U will sometimes not clear the underline under a space character. What is the little "p" for at the bottom of the editing screen? The Tag lookup is like a slow guessing game.
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Former Team B member. Former expert in analog and digital electronics, instrumentation, data acquisition, compression, and computer modeling. Former expert in ASTM bias and precision calculation. Expert in Pinewood Derby instrumentation. Expert in use of floating point numbers and somewhat of an expert in TList.Sort. Been away from Delphi and Windows since D7 and XP. Came back to DX and Win10. (What a change!)
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