This Board Has Been Changed

[dwinth]

I noticed this morning that there has been changes made on the format of this board. Everyone seems to be a "New User" no matter how many posts that person has made. The exceptions I found were

spd2demun and hpmsrm who are marked as CL-U-Professor and CL Net Czar respectively.

Even TexasGuy37 with 6143 posts is marked as a "New User".

I also noticed that if one goes to a profile of a particular poster, it does not say "True" or "False" to indicate if the poster is a U-Verse subcriber or not.

I wonder why the profile format was changed overnight. I hope others see this changes as well. I do not think my computer has a glitch that caused this.

[dwinth]

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dwinth wrote:

I noticed this morning that there has been changes made on the format of this board. Everyone seems to be a "New User" no matter how many posts that person has made. The exceptions I found were

spd2demun and hpmsrm who are marked as CL-U-Professor and CL Net Czar respectively.

Even TexasGuy37 with 6143 posts is marked as a "New User".

I also noticed that if one goes to a profile of a particular poster, it does not say "True" or "False" to indicate if the poster is a U-Verse subcriber or not.

I wonder why the profile format was changed overnight. I hope others see this changes as well. I do not think my computer has a glitch that caused this.

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I also noticed that my email messages between board users have been erased. Has anyone else had this done to them, too?

[oufanindallas]

Not sure that I like it.  Every message is showing as a new message.  I know they were doing some changes to the boards to "improve" them, but not seeing any improvement with this change.

[dwinth]

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oufanindallas wrote:

Not sure that I like it.  Every message is showing as a new message.  I know they were doing some changes to the boards to "improve" them, but not seeing any improvement with this change.

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Oufanindallas: Did you notice that with 690 posts, you are considered a New User?

[aviewer ACE - Wizard]

Yeah, pretty much a disaster -

It appeared that I was signed in. But, when I went to reply to a post it required me to sign in & did not accept my password.

So, I said I forgot my password & it sent me an e-mail with a new one. But, it was also supposed to have a verification response - which it did not. Got to go through that again.

I used to use "go to" to jump between boards. The whole world has been added to that list, making it useless.

I'll click on the link chain two clicks instead of one - but, still better than trying to find the one I want amoung the weeds. 

[dwinth]

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aviewer wrote:

Yeah, pretty much a disaster -

It appeared that I was signed in. But, when I went to reply to a post it required me to sign in & did not accept my password.

So, I said I forgot my password & it sent me an e-mail with a new one. But, it was also supposed to have a verification response - which it did not. Got to go through that again.

I used to use "go to" to jump between boards. The whole world has been added to that list, making it useless.

I'll click on the link chain two clicks instead of one - but, still better than trying to find the one I want amoung the weeds. 

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I went through the same thing you did with the password and email. It took several trys of fixing my password and email before I could sign in.

I am sure everyone who has posted on this board a lot is real happy being labeled as a "New User".

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

http://forums.att.com/t5/About-This-Community-Forum/Have-questions-about-the-forum-merger/m-p/251585...

Apparently Wireless has to be top-dog...

[michail77]

That was a poorly executed update.  

I had to retrieve a new password then send out a new email verification.  The board will probably lose half it's subscribers after they can't get back in.

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

Yeah, I think that's the IDEA!  They want to get rid of Utalk members; we enjoyed things that Wireless did not.

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michail77 wrote:

That was a poorly executed update.  

I had to retrieve a new password then send out a new email verification.  The board will probably lose half it's subscribers after they can't get back in.

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[athenian]

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dwinth wrote:

I noticed this morning that there has been changes made on the format of this board. Everyone seems to be a "New User" no matter how many posts that person has made.

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Umm...it was all explained in announcements made over the last week or two and in the FAQ

http://forums.att.com/t5/About-This-Community-Forum/Forum-Merger-FAQ/m-p/2515879

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

Umm...that was just posted this morning AFTER everything came tumbling down.

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athenian wrote:

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dwinth wrote:

I noticed this morning that there has been changes made on the format of this board. Everyone seems to be a "New User" no matter how many posts that person has made.

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Umm...it was all explained in announcements made over the last week or two and in the FAQ

http://forums.att.com/t5/About-This-Community-Forum/Forum-Merger-FAQ/m-p/2515879

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[dwinth]

I cannot find anyplace to put my signature since it was erased in the change last night. Where is the spot to place your signature?

[athenian]

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spd2demun wrote:

Umm...that was just posted this morning AFTER everything came tumbling down.

Look in the announcements group...they've been talking about the coming changes for a couple of weeks.

[Computer-Joe ACE - Guru]

ya, but the announcements said nothing of screwing over all the U-talk members.

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

Nothing was said about losing all of our information--Bookmarks, Email Subs, Photos, Avatars, Siggys, Kudos (one poster had over 2000) & Tagging Leaderboards, Rank, etc.

The move is no surprise, the aftermath is.

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athenian wrote:

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spd2demun wrote:

Umm...that was just posted this morning AFTER everything came tumbling down.

Look in the announcements group...they've been talking about the coming changes for a couple of weeks.

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[spd2demun ACE - Master]

Click on MY SETTINGS (next to your username at the top).

Personal Profile tab, then Personal Info, down to SIGNATURE (and Save Changes).

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dwinth wrote:

I cannot find anyplace to put my signature since it was erased in the change last night. Where is the spot to place your signature?

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[lyttlebit66]

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Computer-Joe wrote:

ya, but the announcements said nothing of screwing over all the U-talk members.

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Guys..
I dont think that they meant to S####### anyone over. I am sure that this will all get resolved if we give them a chance. We need to keep the spirit of the forums....we all know that Computer Joe and spd2demun  as well as others are our experts and we will continue to look for you for guidance.

[Computer-Joe ACE - Guru]

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lyttlebit66 wrote:

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Computer-Joe wrote:

ya, but the announcements said nothing of screwing over all the U-talk members.

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Guys..
I dont think that they meant to S####### anyone over.

It doesn't look like they took any measures not to.

I am sure that this will all get resolved if we give them a chance.

It certainly looks resolved already: http://forums.att.com/t5/About-This-Community-Forum/Forum-Merger-FAQ/m-p/2515971#M3593 

"What happened to my kudos and accepted solutions?

Unfortunately, Kudos and Accepted Solutions did not transfer over during the merge of the communities.  Hopefully you will build up Kudos and Accepted Solutions faster, since we have a much larger community now!"

"What happened to my rank?

Ranks have changed for everyone other than Community Leaders."

"Where are my images?

Uploaded images did not transfer during the merge.  Community Leaders are more than welcome to upload their images immediately.  Other users may have the ability to upload images in the near future."

We need to keep the spirit of the forums....we all know that Computer Joe and spd2demun  as well as others are our experts and we will continue to look for you for guidance.

You may know that, but someone new coming onto the forum for info or answers to problems, can no longer judge the worthiness or validity of what they read by the poster's rank and kudos. A high number of posts for a user doesn't mean much.

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It amazes me how non-chalantly they dimiss it. No "sorry, technical glitch, we'll get it straightened out shortly" Just "it's gone, deal with it" "when life gives you lemons make lemonaide". Well, what do you make out of crap?

And what about the thousands of posts with all the big blank spots where our pics used to be. DOH!

[RCSMG ACE - Master]

Lyttlebit, do all ATT employees have to say that in their sigs, or are you stating that on your own?

I hope the settings we had in our profiles are returned, but looking at the other forums I wouldn't be surprised if ATT/Lithium will be going for a more uniformed look.  I liked the avatars and sigs the way they were.  But if this is part of the change, life still goes on.

[BeeBeeSA ACE - Wizard]

Well I lost my log in "BeeBee" for some reason.  Now I have to log in with my wireless name and password.  This new thing is NO BUENO.

[wendigo]

If you had a Wireless and a Utalk (or DSL) forums account under the same email it will assign you to your Wireless Account.

[dwinth]

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spd2demun wrote:

Click on MY SETTINGS (next to your username at the top).

Personal Profile tab, then Personal Info, down to SIGNATURE (and Save Changes).

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dwinth wrote:

I cannot find anyplace to put my signature since it was erased in the change last night. Where is the spot to place your signature?

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I followed your directions, but there is not a place to put your Signature under the Personal Information section. It has first name, last name, customer type, title, location, personal web page, biography, and private notes.

[mibrnsurg ACE - Geek]

I went there and the big signature box is just below wireless phone number.

Chris

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Please NO SD stretch-o-vision or 480 SD HD Channels
1-866-465-1496 for direct TS to avoid Mr. Voice recognition
Your Results May Vary, In My Humble Opinion
I Call It Like I See It, Simply a U-verse user, nothing more

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

I bet it's a feature not available to all on Wireless.

[mibrnsurg ACE - Geek]

But dwinth was a Utalk user, wonder if it's only there for CLs spd?

Chris

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Please NO SD stretch-o-vision or 480 SD HD Channels
1-866-465-1496 for direct TS to avoid Mr. Voice recognition
Your Results May Vary, In My Humble Opinion
I Call It Like I See It, Simply a U-verse user, nothing more

[spd2demun ACE - Master]

Think that's it. 

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mibrnsurg wrote:

But dwinth was a Utalk user, wonder if it's only there for CLs spd?

Chris

___________________________________________________________________

Please NO SD stretch-o-vision or 480 SD HD Channels
1-866-465-1496 for direct TS to avoid Mr. Voice recognition
Your Results May Vary, In My Humble Opinion
I Call It Like I See It, Simply a U-verse user, nothing more

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[tonyintaylor]

Would someone PUHLEEEZE send out instructions on how to get our old accounts back? I think everybody Gateway Guide and under got screwed and I do mean SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!! aT LEAST, i DIDN'T USE THE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH THE BIRD

 THAT GOES QUACK.

NorthLineTony

[mibrnsurg ACE - Geek]

Don't think it'll happen NLT, as Lithium wants everyone to start over w/everything.  We'll see if they fix what they messed up and in the user's point of view they messed up.

Chris

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Please NO SD stretch-o-vision or 480 SD HD Channels
1-866-465-1496 for direct TS to avoid Mr. Voice recognition
Your Results May Vary, In My Humble Opinion
I Call It Like I See It, Simply a U-verse user, nothing more

[dwinth]

I do not have ATT wireless. I am a customer of another company. I wonder if I would lie, and mark the personal info as if I did have ATT wireless, if the signature box would show up?

[dwinth]

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dwinth wrote:

I do not have ATT wireless. I am a customer of another company. I wonder if I would lie, and mark the personal info as if I did have ATT wireless, if the signature box would show up?

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That won't work. You have to supply your ATT wireless telephone number.