Oulwans n' Oulfellas Rock On!

Red Hare · 16-07-2021 11:49am

It just seems to count likes as opposed to showing the name of the user who did the liking.

New Home · 16-07-2021 2:12pm

If you hover over the button it'll show a list of names, but it's a pain. I'm sure it'll get fixed, eventually. I guess they couldn't afford to wait to go live any longer.

looksee · 16-07-2021 2:53pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614468#Comment_117614468

If you click on the 'follow thread' icon at the top of the page, the one that looks like a little banner, it will tell you in notifications - the bell icon - that there is another post, so at least you can find the threads you want to follow quite easily.

Alice1 · 17-07-2021 2:23pm

I'm with you Red Hare, I'm here but not sure how I got here!. Where is the follow thread thingy gone? I can't see it anywhere.

looksee · 20-07-2021 11:07pm

If you are on desktop/laptop its the little banner icon at the top of the page, if you click it it will turn solid blue and you will be notified of posts. If you are on mobile/touch(?) I think it is a gear icon but I don't use it so I am not sure.

Esel · 20-07-2021 11:52pm

Mobile is the Star icon.

OldGoat · 28-07-2021 12:04pm

The seasons, listed in my order of preference are as follows: Autumn, Winter, Spring and finally Summer. I'm thankful that the danged oppressive heat is now past and we are heading into woolly jumper times.

looksee · 28-07-2021 12:21pm

Can't disagree with you OG. I got less gardening done in last week's heat than most days in winter. Fine, bright and cooler, like today, suits me.

Jellybaby_1 · 28-07-2021 7:16pm

Yes OG, I can breathe at last! Can't stand too much heat.

Jellybaby_1 · 28-07-2021 7:18pm

By the way, has anyone noticed the "View latest post" on the old 'Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine' thread? It's Cicero in 2011! Or am I reading that right?

New Home · 28-07-2021 8:02pm

Despite the heading, it shows who created the thread and when... another bit of work in progress...

Jellybaby_1 · 28-07-2021 8:17pm

I think the elves will be working a lot of overtime, poor things.

Alice1 · 29-07-2021 11:23pm

I bookmarked this (when I found the thingy) but I'm not getting notifications. Nothing since July 28th .

OldGoat · 30-07-2021 8:26am

We are all old enough to have learned to be patient with the changes that Boards made over the years. It's taken me about a week to get a kinda working flow to see my threads and favoured forums. I have no doubt that improvements will come along (eventually).

Meanwhile, I'll just whinge about the weather. :)

looksee · 30-07-2021 8:50am

My bookmarks have been working fine, a bit too fine, I have had to dump some of them as I was being plagued with more notifications than I could cope with. Have you checked the notification icon is still checked?

Yes I agree OG, its gradually coming together, we do need My Forums as the Categories thing is hard work, and the Topics drop down is useless, but as you say, its getting easier.

Jellybaby_1 · 30-07-2021 6:57pm

I can wait, I'm very patient. Some things are a bit odd though. I typed a reply and then changed my mind about posting it, I'm sure I deleted it but when I returned here, my post was still there. Maybe when I post this, the two of them will appear! I've been looking at all the new emoticons we now have available and I have to say I don't know what a lot of them are saying! Something else I've noticed about Boards lately (non-tech), is a lot of the posts now have little or no interest for me whereas when I joined there was a lot more. Maybe there are a lot more younger people here now and I'm just getting older. 😢 Gosh, can you hear that torrential rain outside? 🌧️

P.S. Ah, only the one post appeared after all!

Garlinge · 30-07-2021 7:02pm

Yep water butts that were empty a few days ago now overflowing....

Red Hare · 31-07-2021 9:38pm

It is very hard to find this thread and forum in comparison with other ones on boards.ie🧐

the new format is an evolving situation so we can expect us oul folks to be last to be rescued.

i imagine that we are on the top of the towering inferno or the upper deck of poseidon adventure/ titanic. If so, i like my tea with middling amount of milk and no sugar, 2 biscuits please, thank you 👌❤️

looksee · 01-08-2021 8:25am

The whole thing is a bit of a mess still, though it is improving.

I don't thing O&O is any harder to find than any of the others, but none of it is easy.

I am on a laptop, I can't cope with the phone site. I find the best way to find a forum is to only use the 'Categories' list, ignore the 'Topics' list, that is hard to sort out. 'Categories' is in alphabetical order so you can whizz down the ones that have blocks of titles to find Social & Fun, and O&O is there in the middle of it.

Otherwise you can follow individual threads by clicking the little banner icon at the top right of the page, within a thread. That will give you a notification (the bell icon) when there is a new post. Unfortunately you cannot follow a whole forum at the moment, and I am not convinced that the notifications are 100% reliable. You can also click on your own avatar top right of the screen and a drop down menu will give you a 'bookmarks' list, which shows the threads you have followed.

Red Hare · 06-08-2021 11:59am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7uyKYeGPdE

thanks Looksee - I can now find my way around boards.ie using the Categories tab. Yippee!! And now for my first video - its much easier than the old way! 😁

Jellybaby_1 · 06-08-2021 6:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117689782#Comment_117689782

Sorry Looksee, can't agree completely with just searching Categories. Try searching Categories for sub-forums like Genealogy! You have to know it's under History & Heritage. It's a right old pain. Too many steps.

New Home · 06-08-2021 6:39pm

Jellybaby, I don't seem to be able to get it to work on the mobile site, but if you click on this https://www.boards.ie/search and switch to desktop, if you select "places" it'll only pick up threads... provided they're not in a private forum.

Jellybaby_1 · 06-08-2021 6:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117717078#Comment_117717078

Yep, I just tried that now thanks NH, and got Genealogy but I'd never have thought of clicking 'Places'!!!! However, its still more steps than I used to take to find it. In the ould days I would start to type Genealogy........and before I finished typing the word, right below up came the list and Genealogy would be the first one. I suppose we'll get used to everything in time and the extra steps will become routine but it doesn't make sense to me to make the search take those extra steps.

looksee · 06-08-2021 9:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117717054#Comment_117717054

No, you are quite right JB, it was correct when I posted but changed shortly afterwards and it appears that the Topics list (line above categories) is now the approach, but you are right, you have to know which forum is in which Category. I now cannot see anything at all in either Discussions or Categories in the three sections, only Groups works. Its a dreadful muddle.

Edit, this is on laptop.

New Home · 06-08-2021 9:25pm

The only thing that could explain this atrocious migration would be if someone, just before, had said "What could possibly go wrong?".

Garlinge · 07-08-2021 10:56am

I find my way back into my favourite topics/threads by clicking on my profile icon (top right hand corner) then it brings up a panel that includes "discussions" under which is "Bookmarks" which I select so two clicks brings me to things I have posted in previously. Once in a category such as Oulwans, I can click on that on and it brings up all the threads in this category. Muddling along!

Red Hare · 14-08-2021 6:02pm

How about an online Oul festival?

We could start small, and then every year get bigger and look for funding?

We are too late this year to register with Culture Night but we could hold a fringe festival this year and next year enter Culture Night.

I am full of ideas, have you any?

Red Hare · 14-08-2021 6:21pm

This article has 4 tips for older people making making art https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-louise-bourgeois. She is a artist as in visual art but the same tips could be applied to the performing arts or literature or any other art from.

Of course if any online festival happened it would not have to be limited to art or culture- it could be about agriculture or drinking alcohol - the sky's the limit ( not that drinking or farming is not an artform).

looksee · 14-08-2021 8:21pm

Great idea Red Hare. I have done RL culture week events a few times, good fun, but I think I would go a bit low brow this time and maybe have a hot dog stall. This Food Wagon idea is all the rage now so you have to think out of the box and do interesting things. Chocolate dipped hot dogs maybe? There is a firm somewhere around - Donegal I think, somewhere in that direction - and they are doing sausages with chocolate among other things https://www.barryjohnsausages.ie/product/chocolate-chip-honeycomb-sausages/ in case no-one believes me. Lidl are doing them too.

I will put my thinking cap on and come up with some ideas to inflict on other people.

Red Hare · 14-08-2021 9:07pm

Funky food by owls is a great idea for an online festival.I can eat all i want and not put on weight,.

It’s a hoot! 😀

Jellybaby_1 · 15-08-2021 10:08pm

I volunteer to run the tea van .........oh all right I'll bring a jar of Maxwell House if I must!! Who's bringing the gourmet burgers 🍔 and chips🍟? I'll also run the vegan salad bar 🥗 for my special friends! I think you've just woken us all up Red Hare! 😃

Red Hare · 16-08-2021 5:43pm

Well our pop up festival is coming together now, I wonder if you can read tea leaves JB? Madam Jellybean’s Tea Parlour and Maxwell House of Tarot - maybe? We could get a festival tent and ask Old Goat for a burlesque performance too.. ?🎪

New Home · 16-08-2021 6:07pm

I'm only interested in having punters cross my palm with silver. 😎

Jellybaby_1 · 16-08-2021 6:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117763449#Comment_117763449

OG in feathers and sequins? Would love to see that. Izzy around atall these days?

looksee · 16-08-2021 6:49pm

He pops in the odd time. Its hard to know who is around at the moment.

Could we have camel rides? I fancy riding on a camel. Or elephants maybe. Someone would have to be designated full time sweeper up though.

Jellybaby_1 · 16-08-2021 6:54pm

Don't like camels myself, they give me the hump! Heftylumps are always welcome though (elephants). 😉

Red Hare · 16-08-2021 9:03pm

I would do sweeper upper 🐫. Could there be such a thing as a burlesque camel - they have such beautiful eyelashes, and humps of course! ( I'm not going to mention the camel's toe because I will be thrown out of here).<<those very clingy leggings that everyone seems be wearing has me perplexed 😳

Jellybaby_1 · 16-08-2021 11:07pm

I'm perplexed by many of today's fashions. So what are we wearing to the festival. I'll look for my hippie gear from yesteryear! I'll pick a flower for my hair. I'll carry a herbal bouquet and I'll meet ye all at Strawberry Fayer! Are you going? 😊

Red Hare · 17-08-2021 10:27am

Silly me! I hadn't thought of what to wear to this festival. If I am to be the sweeper upper for the camel's I will need to dress sensibly ...mmmh ...I'll dress up as a snowman so I my clothes are easy to wash if they get dirty. I need a strong hat, a carrot, some pebbles! Now my outfit is sorted let bring it on - Oulwans n' Oulfellas Online Festival - let's make it go viral ☃️

looksee · 17-08-2021 10:40am

Yeah, because camels and snowmen go together so naturally 😂 I shall wear my victorian outfit complete with large feathery hat. Haven't worn it in a couple of years now, bit doubtful about pouring my lockdown figure (figure?) into the corset though.

New Home · 17-08-2021 2:25pm

Excuse meee! Snowmen, snow, Christmas, Three Wise Men, camels. Duh. 😁

Red Hare · 17-08-2021 3:16pm

I only opted for Snowman because I could use the snow to clean any of the camel poo that I might get on my outfit! And because JellyBean was going hippy , and as hippies used to often end up in the nip - I thought I worlds be fitting in with JB ( not the my figure would look hippie or twiggy- but definitely roundy like snowman).

Now that Looksee is going Victorian Burlesque in her svelt corset, what outfit are you going to wear New Home? I think I might need to knit myself a lacy scarf to glam up a bit, cause the competition is getting hot, for best dressed oulwan and oulfella 💋

looksee · 17-08-2021 4:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117767402#Comment_117767402

That would be the six - or possibly four - degrees of separation then? 😀

New Home · 17-08-2021 5:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117767670#Comment_117767670

Pyjamas. Possibly fluffy ones, depending on the weather. Comfort is more important than glamour, to me. Plus, they go well with the rest of my "crazy cat lady" look I've cultivated for so long. Fluffy slippers, too, and maybe even a hot water bottle.

Red Hare · 18-08-2021 6:24am

Should we compile a playlist of Music for out festival? or will we splash out and hire a band?

New Home · 18-08-2021 9:11am

I propose we only have the "mahnah mahnah" song on loop, but then interspersing it with "happy birthday" (no longer subject to copyright) here and there. Nobody will expect it! We'd be sooo cool.

OldGoat · 18-08-2021 10:04am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117763694#Comment_117763694

I usually read the site every weekday. I'm a lurker. :)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117764353#Comment_117764353

In burlesque terms a sweeper-upper if referred to as a knicker-picker.

Also, I'm pretty sure I have numerous photos of me in sequins and glitter. Be careful what you wish for as ye might just get it. ;)

looksee · 18-08-2021 10:13am

Knicker picker... Yeeeees. Think I won't ask🤔

Red Hare · 18-08-2021 2:09pm

I would love to see the photo's of Old Goat! If they throw their knickers at you - I will duly pick them up and give them to you ?

Our festival could be a "Show n Tell"?

Jellybaby_1 · 18-08-2021 6:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117770650#Comment_117770650

How do, OG! Stop peeping from behind that door and gerrin here! I nominate you for thrower-outer for throwing out troublemakers! 😊 For music we should have live music, with alive bands and also include those who are no longer 'live', viz., Roy Orbison, Elvis, Phil Lynnot might like to come, plus the full line-up of the Beatles. Plenty other alive ones too to chose from. If none of them will come, someone can bring a record-player or reel-to-reel tape recorder! Ooo I'm getting so excited about this now. 🤪

Oulwans n' Oulfellas Rock On!

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