I have to admit, that the changes using this new platform have been the easiest changes to adjust to.  This transition has been done well, Matthew. ;D

I hope everyone realizes that this operation was done for "health" rather than "cosmetic" reasons. I am not the type of person to change for the sake of change. The fact that this (first) upgrade brings us from 2006 all the way to 2017 shows just how often I like to shake things up.

Staying on an obsolete platform can be very dangerous -- especially for those 480,000 posts made over the past 11 years. We don't want them lost.

Eventually something happens that forces you to upgrade -- search engine policies, changes to PHP (the main programming language for websites), user trends (1/2 of web traffic is now from mobile devices), etc.


For example, the old CathInfo needed a very old version of PHP to run properly. And Google was beginning to give CathInfo demerits for being "non-mobile friendly".

According to SimilarWeb’s State of Mobile Web US 2015 report, roughly 56 percent of consumer traffic to the leading US websites is now from mobile devices. Mobile traffic in Q4 was roughly 49 percent, on average, for these top sites.
The report is based on the company’s analysis of the top 10,000 US websites in 24 categories. It does not include app usage. The following are the top 10 mobile traffic site categories, with the top five are receiving at least 60 percent of their traffic from mobile devices.

I am being frustrated when I post two or more paragraphs, the system auto-deletes the space between the paragraphs making my post into a run-on mess that's very hard to read. 

So I then have to go back to separate them, which is a pain. I have resorted to starting out with 3 return strokes between the first two paragraphs then clicking Preview, before proceeding. So far that's doing the trick, but it's not so easy to remember to add two extra Return strokes every time I start writing a post. Too often I forget to add them because I'm thinking about what I'm typing instead of what goofy gimmick I need to observe, to get the post to look like what I expect to see automatically. 

Things seem to be running pretty smoothly. Just a few additional ideas that probably are a problem only for me. Maybe these are some problems only because of some personal settings I have.

The home page is clear, but as I drill deeper into a post, it gets a little confusing. It's as if nothing lines up correctly because every item seems to meld into others on the look of the page. Sorry if I'm being confusing, but for example quoted material doesn't stand out as clearly as on the original software. In fact, I can't look at the whole page and easily tell where one post ends and a new post begins. I can't tell whether the "like" buttons belong to a post, or the one below it. Some additional lines might keep everything neat, but also make it look too old fashioned.
I'm also not a fan of the ellipses being added on such a short field. It seems like it would be easier to spot a post's subject if it went on for a few more words.

Is there a key to the yellow and blue balloons? I can't find a place that explains what they mean.
And lastly, are there any ways to figure out the threads that one has participated in like the black dot on the old software?

I mostly use my iPad when posting here and I've noticed that, when typing, it lags and guesses words incorrectly, so you can't really type fast because you're left with isolated letters or totally different words.

I am already used to the new site. I think it is an improvement. But there is one problem I am having. I can not figure out how to ignore users like you could in the old site so you could hide the posts from certain users.

I mostly use my iPad when posting here and I've noticed that, when typing, it lags and guesses words incorrectly, so you can't really type fast because you're left with isolated letters or totally different words.

This is 100% an iOS (Apple's operating system) issue. It has nothing to do with the CathInfo software. CathInfo doesn't communicate with iOS regarding "auto suggest" and stuff like that. That is something Apple does completely on its own.

It sounds like the remaining bugs are all related to the Advanced Editor which is a plug-in I paid for.
I don't have access to the source code, so I can't fix anything. All I can do is report bugs and hope they fix them.

Neil Obstat, everything you listed is related to this editor. So I can't fix any of the things you mentioned.

I can promise you, though, that I will keep the editor up-to-date with the latest version, especially during the 1 year of updates I'm entitled to.

The "missing spaces between paragraphs" is annoying me too. I just bugged the author again yesterday about it. They really need to get it fixed, and for real this time.

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Okay. I understand.
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One more thing, if it comes up in your discussions with the supplier: If they have any add-on feature that would make INDENTATION possible that would be nice. Perhaps we could indent the first line of whole paragraphs, which could be a work-around for the losing paragraph spacing problem. 
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But in the best case, we could indent whole paragraphs to set excerpted material apart when it's from off-site so we don't have to worry about linking to a previous post since it didn't come from a previous post.
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When you click on a topic, is there anyway to make each sub topic row a bit 'thinner' or 'less wide'?  There seems to be a lot of space in between each topic.  If you got rid of some of it, you'd be able to see more topics per page and not have to scroll as much.  For example:

Main Topic:  General Discussion
Sub Topics:
1.  Report any bugs or issues with new site...

2.  Topic 2

3.  Topic 3

4.  Topic 4


Proposed new layout:
Main Topic:  General Discussion
Sub Topics:
1.  Report any bugs or issues with new site...
2.  Topic 2
3.  Topic 3
4.  Topic 4