Are you on a mobile device?
I’ve also noticed the big C is missing from mobile. It was there in beta, so imagine it’ll come back here once the bigger wrinkles get ironed out 
Hey @Moderator_1 did the “My Posts” tab option go poof?
Or am I somehow missing it?
I thought that was a cool addition!
Ads are just as they were on the other wise, left and right edges of the screen (desktop anyway, I don’t use mobile).
Alright, so I apologize if someone has already brought this up, but I’m trying to log out and sign up with a new username for the Secret Santa. When I hit the logout buttom, I get a popup that I’ve been logged out. I then hit the “sign up” button and am mysteriously logged into my normal account again. Any suggestions?
I think what’s happening is that the forum is picking up your login credentials from the main site. So, to log in on an alternate account, you’d need to go to the main site, logout (if you go here there’s a logout button at the top in the green bar), log in under your alt account, and then log in here with your alt.
Can you give that a try and report back on how it goes?
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Hmm…not intentionally. I’ll check it out!
Also, for those curious about the inner workings of website relaunch, I got some more info from the developers about why things sometimes don’t go as planned:
We did extensive load testing on the site before its released. The way it works is that a user browses through different areas of the site and performs divergent actions. These user actions are then recorded in a script and the load testing app “plays” those actions again by simulating more users performing the same actions recorded in the script. We ran several tests during our testing just before go live and did fine tuning based on test results. The traffic we see on the site has been consistent for so many years so we were very aware of what kind of load the server will be under the new forum.
In the real world though, the traffic patterns were much different from the simulated ones, although the servers were tested for much more load but the patterns were consistent as I explained above so the result we saw in last two days was unexpected and resulted in poor site performance. After more tweaks to the database and web server settings, increasing server capabilities in our cloud platform, the performance issues are pretty much addressed.
The search feature, as you know, was disabled because it puts a lot of load on the DB. We are going to try and rebuild indexes after-hours and this will hopefully solve the problem. Since the posts database is huge it will take time to rebuild indexes, possibly more than a day. We will keep you informed!
Thanks a lot for your and your users’ patience and understanding during this transition
Aren’t they nice? 
Promised you that they were working hard!
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At least for me (Android) on mobile, all the ads are conveniently piled at the very bottom of the page and I don’t even have to see them unless I scroll too far down while waiting for pages to load 
It’s great.
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Huuuuge kudos to the team (including you, @Moderator_1!!!)
BTW, I noticed that the “parent” or grouping forums are open for posting. Should they be? 
That worked! Thanks!
Awesome! I’ll add something about that to the FAQs. Thanks for trying it out!
@Simkie or anyone else – could you try posting in the Event Announcements or Missing Horses forum and see that that still works, and that you CAN’T post in the Announcements parent category?
I wanted to make sure I was adjusting the settings correctly on a less active group of categories first!
Cannot post in Announcements, can post in Events and Missing. Looks good!
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This is definitely going to take a steep learning curve. Are we absolutely sure we can’t bring back pages? A lot of the issues people are commenting about have to do not only with ease of navigation, but also the inherent culture of the COTH forums. How many threads have been started, and finally someone says, “OMG, this has gone on for 50 pages!”?
My question is about liking posts. This morning I was scrolling through, clicking the heart button on posts I liked, when I got a pop-up box saying something like “We’re glad you like these posts! But you only have a few likes left for today.” So do we now have a daily quota on how many posts we can like? That, too, will strike to the heart of the COTH forums culture. Is this fixable?
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I am the queen of ‘change sucks’ but now that I have learned some of the techniques of this no page thing, it seems like something I can live with. Hopefully the more I use it, the more useful it will seem.
We will just have to start saying ‘OMG, this has gone on for 1000 posts’.
I like your question. I look forward to hearing the answer.
Well, I’d get my bucket of horse cookies if someone had only taken me up on it 
Much improved performance on Chrome today, most page loads well within 2 seconds, long threads can be slow (visible loading indicator) and sometimes make a couple of jumps as they load the thread history. iOS within 3 seconds.
The lack of pagination is definitely going to be an adjustment from the usability perspective. I know that’s a deliberate implementation design but we do tend to carry on over here and I’m concerned about performance and cognitive load on threads that exceed 20 pages.
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@Moderator_1 et al.
It was interesting for me to read how much load testing was done!
In my past life, I was part of a project doing a significant upgrade… application was pretty close to 24 x 7 x 365 with tens of thousands of concurrent users. 
We did do load testing; it is so not easy nor cheap either resource-wise or economically.
So very easy to say ‘should have done better load testing’ and so hard to actually accomplish that.
Extend my thanks to the dev team both for load testing and for taking the time to share their process!!
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Yes, we can absolutely adjust Like limits. I already bumped them up once from the default, but I’ll go increase it some more. Thanks for the heads up on that!
Pages breaks are not returning in the foreseeable future. It’s just an inherent part of the platform design. I know it’s a big change – I think that’s the biggest thing to get used to, beyond just learning where everything is initially.
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There are ways to navigate to the end of a topic if that is what is desired. I agree that if what you were using pages for was a page count for some of the more, shall we say, outrageous topics. Now maybe we learn to pay attention to the number of views and posts to get the same 
view of the world 
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I just changed the likes max/day from 50 to 200. That’s for the most basic trust level. It is increased by a x1.5, x2 and x3 multiplier as you move up the trust levels.
I don’t think we’ve had issues with rampant spam likers, so have at it COTHers!
I also realized that we probably don’t need the FAQ section anymore, now that we can create a single post that contains tons of tips all in one. All that info was years old anyway, so I disappeared it, and eliminated the parent category for this forum, so Technical Help is now standing proud on its own. 
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