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Hello Readers,
I have an uneasy feeling that I'm not going about things in the correct manner, but it would help me if you could please read on and then advise me perhaps by internal mail what the correct protocol is.
I would like to post a "Request for Help" on this, which I hope is the "General Questions" forum of the FamilySearch Community, Bulletin Board, but I cannot find a 'New Discussions' button near the Banner at the top of this page, nor find any guidance if registration to this forum is required.
Thank you.
Apologies if I have caused offence.
JohnG_Swansea {that's Swansea in south west Wales, UK} 18:00 BST. 11 July, 2022.
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@JohnG_Swansea, when you go to the General Questions category, don't you have a nice big blue "Ask a Question" button at the top of the right-hand column?
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi @Sam Sulser
Thank you both for your replies. What amazes me is that after the best part of thirty years (Gosh, that long) of using the Windows Operating Platform first at my place of employment and more recently in retirement there are still things I'm unaware of that are tripping me up from time to time and this is clearly one of those occasions!
From time to time, in recent days I have been using the live feed from a narrow gauge, heritage railway, CCTV system here in Wales as my desktop background and then using smaller windows for other activities.
When viewing the FS Community, General Questions page in one of these small 'Windows' I see the full width Black Banner without the blue 'New Post' button, nor the Quick Links panel, but when I look at the same FS Community, General Questions page using a Full Width Screen the Blue button and the Quick Links panel are there to be seen.
This has been a "Well I never knew that" occasion, now resolved and another life lesson well learned.
Thankyou both. JohnG_Swansea
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I do wonder how long the current "emptiness is better than content" webdesign aesthetic is going to last. When will designers and engineers realize that mystery-meat navigation Does Not Work? That if the content or functionality isn't visible, the natural assumption is that it doesn't exist?
@JohnG_Swansea, if the screen is narrow, the "Ask a Question" button becomes a floating blue circle with a plus sign in it. No, I don't know how one is supposed to even notice that, never mind recognizing it for anything.
(FS is not alone in subscribing to this unfortunate style. My local school district just rolled out a new-and-disimproved website using it. I still haven't figured out where they've hidden the link to the calendar; the only way I've been able to access it is to use a search engine on the domain.)
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi @Sam Sulser
Thank you both, I have indeed seen the Blue Circle with an internal 'Plus' symbol without a label, and as it's purpose was unknown to me, and after a number of misadventures with unexplained features in programs I tend not to push random buttons.
Anyway thank you for the explanation.
JohnG_Swansea, 17:24, B.S.T; 14 July 2022
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