Using the new-look forums, asking for positive comments

Dear Fellow Users,
I am starting a discussion on how to make the most of this revised website for Apple Support Communities. Please keep this discussion positive. Please confine complaints to one of the many negative threads.
Remember that many of these changes are the result of feedback to Apple. We may have got what we wished for.
Gains:
- Spell checker in the Reply box;
New ways of working:
- The blue dot has gone. I can't tell which discussions I have or haven't read.
Tip by deggie. In the home page of a forum, click to the right of the address bar of your browser, add /content at the end of the URL. Press enter. You will see three options across the page just above the threads: All Content, User Tips and Discussions. Click on Discussions. Threads with new content will have titles that are in bold. Now save that page in your browser bookmarks. For example, my bookmark for the 'Using Apple Support Communities' forum, shows this URL:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities/content? filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D~objecttype~objecttype%5Bthread%5D
And the view is Bold for unread
- The forums keep logging me off after a period of inactivity.
Good. That may stop the spammers posting multiple messages that have nothing to do with the purpose of a forum.
More gains or workarounds, anyone?
Regards,
Ian.
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You guys are worse than the complainers we get with iOS or OSX updates (and this is not directed specifically at you PV - you were just the last post). As Yellowbox indicated, there are already a plethora of negative posts about the changes. So, go there and complain.
People don't like change, OK, I get that. But seriously, when it is foist upon you, ******** and moaning isn't going to put it back the way it was. Why not spend all that energy in trying to figure out the way to make the most out of what you have been given. Not everything about the new site is horrible. Sure there are improvements to be made, but we are supposed to be people with creative minds, interest in challenges, abilities to suss out the more esoteric aspects of things.
As I indicated in one of my earlier posts, because I have a catholic approach to reading the boards, I am not seeing some of the issues that folks who like to support specific communities are having. But, for my purposes, I find it much easier to move back and forth from current posts, posts that I have responded to, posts that I have authored. When looking at Content>All, I am not having any difficulty seeing what the current posts are, and if I want to see if a post I have been involved with is updated, it is a quick click to the Participated link to see which of those posts have been updated recently, and which I have already responded to after they have been updated.
I would like to see some enhancements and changes made, and I think that the valid issues that people are having need to be addressed. But I would like to see more tips like the ones deggie has provided coming from all of us. The whining and complaining is just boring....
Just my 2 cents....
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