Scott =)

Hi Kav! I'm sorry you're having a bad experience with the login process. Here are a couple quick troubleshooting questions: Are you selecting the "Remember Me" checkbox when logging in? Are you using Incognito mode in Chrome? Are you using "Private" mode in iOS / Safari? If your answer to #2 or #3 is YES, you won't remain logged in even if you checked "Remember me". Hope this helps. Scott

I've updated Last Reply to be the default sorting option! I was hoping more people would vote on this, but oh well. We can always change it back if necessary... Thanks to everyone who voted!

It's locked. There has only been one sincere thread here since mid 2017 (excluding this one), and no one replied to it or voted. So I don't think anyone will miss this. If I'm wrong, feel free to PM me

Yeah I won't delete it. I'll lock it and move it, likely modelling the structure off of the "Locked Forums" area on NGC: https://www.ngccoin.com/boards/forum/92-locked-forums/ I'm not going to adjust the moderation section because I'm not very familiar with its history, how it's intended to be used, etc. But did you know that you can (mostly) keep that section out of your hair by clicking this:

I realized that blocking rover is no longer necessary, so I removed it from the special words list. Old instances of the word rover will still be filtered out (it does a permanent replace, rather than filtering it at display time), but you should be free to use it moving forward.

I'd be in favor of locking this section. It was more useful last year to collect everyone's concerns about the new boards in one place, without cluttering up other forum areas with it. I think everyone is pretty comfortable with the new boards at this point, and if some new issue comes up we're probably better off gathering feedback in Comics General (or CGC announcements) than here.

Looks like that word is on the special words list, due to how it’s used in eBay affiliate links!

Nope! I created it on the 26th but it was hidden until about 10 minutes ago. I was waiting for a bug in the "Last Reply" sorting to be fixed before publishing it

You can vote on sorting for the new journals here: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/440344-journal-sorting/

That seems unlikely. I think a more likely outcome would be for us to create a new forum section, not branded as "CGC Journals", but otherwise similar to the old section. We could set it up to allow new threads to be created, and we could migrate threads from the old journals section there too if authors requested it. We would just need to come up with a name for it...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. A couple tweaks have been made already based on your comments: "By Author" has been removed from the main menu. Analytics showed it was being clicked/used significantly less frequently than "Latest Entries", and you can still access the "By Author" view by using this toggle: "Latest Entries" in the main menu has been renamed to "All Journals". Hopefully this makes it easier to understand the purpose of each option under "Journals" in the main menu. The tooltips seen in the image above have been clarified (ex: "Organize by Author"). Other changes are still in progress: I asked the boards vendor to look into the sorting issue with journals in the sidebar. There seems to be a caching issue causing it to be sorted incorrectly sometimes, and actions like making edits to an existing journal may also be affecting the sorting in unwanted ways. We DO have the ability to make "Last Reply" the default sort option instead of "Start Date", which would reduce 4 clicks to 2 clicks. But there are a couple issues with "Last Reply" sorting that I'd like to get fixed before considering making it the default. ---- I also want to clarify the situation of certain old journal entries not being migrated, such as the ones by oldmilwaukee6er and Hepcat. I touched on this in the original announcement thread, but I'll explain it in more detail this time. The Journals feature was originally introduced on Collectors Society over 10 years ago. After several years, a feature was added that allowed authors to cross post Collectors Society journal entries to the Chat Boards so that others could reply. Some authors took advantage of that feature, and many didn't. We never intended to allow journal entries to be created directly in the Journals section on the Chat Boards (bypassing Collectors Society), but a broken setting made it possible for an unknown period of time. Hepcat's thread is one example of a journal entry that was created directly on the Chat Boards, and so is the thread by oldmilwaukee6er quoted above. Not many threads were created like this. The boards vendor was supposed to migrate all existing journal entries to the new journals area as we transitioned to the new Chat Boards in early 2017. Anticipating that migration, we removed the journals features from the CS site. Unfortunately, the boards vendor strung us along about the migration for months, and then ultimately said they wouldn't do it. The result was that every journal entry originally created on Collectors Society and not cross-posted to the Chat Boards was missing. That's almost 1300 journal entries, not even including coin/note entries. Those of you who only use the Chat Boards might not have noticed anything was wrong, but the missing entries were a big deal to Collectors Society users. Getting those journal entries back online was one of the main goals of our recent migration. Earlier this year, we reached out to the boards vendor again to explain our disappointment at that situation and figure out a resolution. They eventually agreed to migrate our old Collectors Society journal database into the new journals area, but wouldn't help with any of the following: Migrating journals that were created directly on the Chat Boards into the new journal area (this is why that Hepcat/oldmilwaukee journals aren't listed in the new journals area). Migrating replies from old journal entries into the new journal area (they only agreed to add a link to the old thread). Migrating CS journal entries into the old journals area on the chat boards. In an ideal world, we would have done some of those things ourselves since the boards vendor wasn't willing to help. Unfortunately, that's not possible because we don't have access to the Chat Boards database. We rely on the vendor for data / migration oriented tasks

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/?view=grid On that page, Journals are sorted on "Start Date" by default. You can adjust that sorting by using the "Sort By" menu, as seen in the image below: I've heard feedback from some members that they'd prefer "Last Reply" to be the default sort instead of "Start Date". Please use this poll to vote for your preference! Whichever option gets more votes will be made the default option. Thanks, Scott

No, tnerb's journals are alive and well. Here are all of tnerb's journals in the new format: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/blogs/blog/40-in-the-dark/ If you want to see his journals in the old format / section, you can: Flip through the pages of the old journals section and look for his name Use the search function