To be fair, what Robert has set up here on Food Talk Central Iāve found to be FAR more robust and useful than the current abomination that is Chowhound. Itās not even close.
Posting is a snap. Editing tools, BOLD, Italics, Bullet Points, being able to EDIT your post months later. Adding Photos Inline with your posts, Emojis! , shout outs to fellow members on the board @ipsedixit, organization, actual Regional Boards again and so much more.
Chowhound is garbage compared to what we have here, and we were begging them to make basic quality of life changes and we couldnāt do that.
Hi BC. Good to exchange posts with you. Been a while! I learned of FTC from Honk by email back on 9/25, and when I looked, it wasnāt too hard to figure out who āPlumeriaā was. I wrote (to DD I think) that I thought Plumeria was a nice name. I also looked up the flower. Very nice.
I havenāt figured out how to edit a post after the fact. Whatās the secret? Sometimes the wording is screwed up or Iāve left out a word entirely and would like to change that after posting.
I really donāt see any of the icon control buttons on IE11, which is awkward and frustrating. The avatars appear, but thatās about it. Also, some posts have peoplesā avatars in little squares right underneath a post, on the far left. When I hover I get āhorseā, āmountainā, ācocktail glassā, etc, but not the personās name. I also donāt know what those mean. I did find how to find out who ālikedā a post.
Anyway, Iām stumbling along here and will hopefully figure things out. I canāt be the only kid on the block with IE11.
I am not sure if it is IE11 but I have used this board on Firefix, Chrome, Safari and IE10 and it always has a āpenā under your post which, once you click on it, allows you to edit your post - just switch to Firefox (any way better than IE)
Very interesting. So it must be something in my IE11 setup. Iāll look into that. I wonder if itās a compatibility issue.
No, I donāt see any of the items that Chowseeker highlighted. But having had their location pointed out, I was able to move the mouse around and find them (by way of their tool tips). So thatās ok. Iām really used to IE. I know Iāll have to give it up some day, but Iām not ready for that right now.
I have the same issue with a couple of the buttons on CH (the heart, in particular), but I knew where that should be and just hover in that area. Same thing. Not a show stopper, just needed to know.
I hope you can find out why your IE11 isnāt showing some of these buttons. Once thatās figured out, I think youāll find Food Talk to have a lot of great functionality and itās clean and to the point.
I finally identified the issue. It was, of course, specific to my machine. Still, this might be of interest to others.
At some point, in IE11 Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility, I apparently selected the box āIgnore font styles specified on webpagesā. Unchecking that box has fixed all of the issues with visibility of active icon buttons and similar details ā here and elsewhere.
