When you’re at the list of discussions look on the right of the screen. There should be a big red box that says “Ask a Question” - click that.
In recent efforts to open this site the long wait has prompted me to give up and move on. Out of curiosity I just hit the bookmark and W-A-I-T-E-D. It took 00:01:22 to load. I’m a patient person but don’t feel the need to prove it here. Thanks
Are other people still having fatal error problems, or difficulty with the site loading?
No more fatal problems for me, on 3 networks, and 5 computers. It IS slow, though. Not sure if anyone else is seeing slowness. For comparison, Foxnews wiht the graphics and everything else loads faster (for me).
Chase
It is not at all slow for me. At worst today, a page loads in about 3 seconds. I switched to Chrome some time ago, because IE is always slow for me, but I accessed the site there too without much delay.
Chrome is a very fast and very light browser…however it also has very few plug-ins available.
It Is Very Slow To Load. I Thought It Was Just Me And My Dial-Up Modem, But Compared With Everything Else, It Is The Slowest. I Have To Go Do Something Else And Come Back For It.
CSA
I followed the link to vanilla but when I tried to read the tutorial or play the video all I got was “page not found” . I clicked on some of the things on the vanilla page but they may have been in Greek for all I could get out of it.
I can’t use firefox 4 on car talk anymore because my forward and back buttons have disappeared. I don’t like to use safari because it won’t let me stay logged in.
Not liking the new forum much.
chaissos- Thanks for trying to help me but I have never used anything but a Mac with a Mac keyboard and most of the keys you are talking about must be labeled something else for me. I also don’t know what a script is or why I would want it to stop running.
Chaissos: “this new platform retains the “already read” sections, so you only see the “1 new”, “2 new”, etc. I really like that…a lot.”
I guess I don’t understand how this helps. I’m thinking it would be useful to have the links to other pages in the thread at the top of each page rather than the bottom. It’s not a big deal, but it would save scrolling down the first page to get to a link to the last page for the latest posts. Maybe understanding Chaissos’s comment would let me see this as unnecessary. (I just realized that Control-End gets to the bottom. I’d still like to be know how to make use of “1 new”, etc.)
The notifications about new posts is very useful because after you’ve been in a new thread and done whatever you are going to do in there, you can easily see if something new has happened that you might want to check out. On the old system, the only way to know was to somehow remember how many responses were in a thread and then look to see whether its changed or not.
If you end a thread for the first time and want to just go all the way to the last post, then enter the thread and hit CTRL-END. That will move you to the bottom of the page. If there are more than 50 and so multiple pages, then enter, click your way back out (e.g. with “Back to Discussions”). That marks the whole thread as read. Click on it again and it brings you to where you were the last time you were in. If no new posts were made - that means to the last entry on the page.
skomjathy, I think what Chase’s getting at is that if you were to click on a discussion about spark plugs that had 150 posts, and then you return to the discussion list (whether by using the “return to discussions” link or by hitting back and clicking refresh) and there were two new comments, when you click on the spark plugs discussion, the new forums “remember” you last returned at post #150, and it automatically brings you to post #151, whether it was on the 1st or the 3rd page. Hope that makes as much sense as it did in my head…
Thanks Carolyn…saved me typing it out. 
That’s probably the most accurate way to put it.
Oldtimer: For scripts, well, it can be difficult to explain, but let’s use an imagined example (and sites like this exist). Website www.ZZ.com is a new cool site, and everyone wants to read it. You “allow” the scripts on that site to run on your computer, and you get the nice cascading menus, messages that pop up, etc. You also get banners from ad sites that want to sell you stuff. None of that is bad. But let’s say someone hijacks any portion of that site, or even a portion of the ad site messages are pulled from. They would re-direct your traffic to some other site, which can download malicious software, even without your knowledge, and infect your machine. If monitored and controlled by you, that last download step wouldn’t run, thereby saving your machine, and all the pictures, e-mails, and such you’ve meticulously saved over the years. May sounds far fetched, but you wouldn’t believe the number of PC’s I’ve had to repair because of this, and some that couldn’t be repaired, and had to be wiped out and reloaded.
I’m not familiar enough with Safari to assist you. I would if I could. I would guess, though, that something along the lines of “command” and an arrow key would take you to the previous page, just like the back button. I do believe there’s a new FireFox out, though, very recently, to fix a few security flaws they had, and to port everyone to the new version. Use the “Check for Updates” built-in function to check. Depending on the version you have now, all you may have to do is run it.
Chase
Cigroller, Carolyn, Chase – Sanks! That worked for me.
Thanks, I am already using Firefox4 for Macs and I was able to restore the arrows by taking the tabs from the top of the top of the page where Firefox 4 had put them and moving them to the bottom of the top of the page where they used to be.
The new look CT sure seems to be plagued with glitches. Every day it's something new and today it appears to be that typing in a 10 word sentence takes about 3 or 4 minutes. It's like watching grass grow during a drought so I'm going on hiatus until this garbage gets sorted out.
For some reason I'm even getting double spaced paragraphs out of the blue.
And it's not my PC because CT is the only site with problems.
Now WTH? Apparently I used the phrase double spaced too quickly. Like cancer, it’s growing. ;-(
Grrr...third post attempt....<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The cute little box with all the nice editing functions is causing scripting problems. It's not written correctly, and there's a memory leak buit into it somewhere.
I'm currently running IE, and when posting, it locks up the browser (only one tab open), and I have to kill the process to get it back.
I'm sure others are having the same problem, but they may not know why.
Luckily, I'm writing everything in anotehr window now, and copy/pasting it into the browser in an attempt to get one to work.
They’re certainly not turning out to be nice editing functions if they’re the proverbial cute bunny with fangs that freezes a browser and has some formatting abnormalities. I’m also having trouble, and have reported all the issues brought up by dagosa, ok4450, Chase, and others. I’ll keep you posted as I know more, and I again apologize for the problems.
What cute little box? I don't even have that or a Preview function.
Poke a letter key, wait 2-3 seconds, poke another letter, wait, etc, etc, etc,
Just another test but I'm sure based on the pecking the results will be the same.