Could This (new discussion format) Be Any Worse?

Question

I've been participating in the Apple support forums for a good many years. They have been very useful and I've supplied a number of useful support answers. But now it's pretty much all gone. It's very difficult to find specific things and it's now impossible to see, at a glance, how many people have both viewed and replied to individual threads. That's critical for identifying big issues--especially those that accompany a signficiant operating system upgrade. Further, the text is so large that much less information can be displayed on a computer display. Finally, when you go to Apple Support your display is completely taken up by big square blocks--can you say "Windows R/T?" I guess all good things come to an end.
The best that Apple Discussions ever was was two changes ago. The previous iteration was tolerable even though it was confusing for newbies.

Answer 1

Doctor9fan,
You said (formatting is mine for comments in context):
On a personal note the problems for me are as follows:can't see which are new posts or which have been updated,
This frustrated me as well.My workaround, oddly enough, is eMail Client, eMail Foldering, eMail Rules and eMail Notifications from here.
WorkFlow goes like this:
Turn on eMail notifications (duh)
Follow posts (ditto duh)
To organize latest replies, In eMail Client,
create Inbox folders to taste
create rules to sort incoming mail into tasty folders
sort views to taste
read the post
if I wanna reply, click link that jumps to the post on the page ( do my replying)
I choose to delete the email, which
selects the next email automatically
repeat 3.1 - 3.7 until
el finito
You continued:
now the pages have a 'more' button while this seems a positive step if you read a post & then go back to the discussions list it doesn't go back to the page/post you were viewing so you have to click on 'more' again which gives you a new set of posts rather than the ones you were originally looking at.
Command + Click & Command + W are my best friends
From Ian's User Tip - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7311
- From  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6414838
(This my workaround - CCC)
PROBLEM: When I use the 'View More' button, then the browser 'Back' button, then 'View More' again, I do not get the next oldest page but an older one. This makes viewing older posts very cumbersome.
Click the 'View More' as many times as you want, yielding a really long list.
Use that page as kind of a Base Camp.
Instead of a plain Click on a link and BrowserBack to navigate, try command Click to open a new tab with the target link.
When done, close the Tab - and you are back where you started.
The link you command Clicked will likely be Underlined to remind which you clicked.
You may even find that you like this better. I like the idea of a Base Camp. We can go 'Home'.
Also, you continued:
The only positive is that now there's no delay when typing a message.
I find just the opposite is often true for me. There are times when the previous sentence I just keyed may take 30 seconds to draw!
I think, it has to do with AutoSave feature, but can't prove it. I VERY often get this alert - I mean VERY OFTEN
Aside: The thing lasts 5 seconds. By the time I attend to it and start to read, it disappears. The link is DEAD. Nuthin. Nada. [Close] is DEAD. Ditto.
It is only after these start, that only sometimes the slow draw of keystrokes follows.
A handful of times, the [Save Reply] does nothing. Actual Post of Reply is hit and miss. I first copied my post before trying reload => Reply again, but AutoSave appears to actually work often enough to Restore when doing so. I have been rolling the dice since Restore has been working and not copying. so far so good I guess
[Restore] and [Delete] anomalies are for a post I will start later, after I can make some sense of them.
Hope the Tip(workaround, actually) and workarounds help.
Ian's whole User Tip has some neat tricks
CCC