What’s your favorite feature with the brand new allnurses.com?

[Brian S.]

After a few weeks, we hope that the veteran users of allnurses.com have settled in and found the wealth of new features within the web site. If you’re a relatively new user, we hope that you’ve found the revamped allnurses.com welcoming and full of exciting new features.

Maybe you’ve become addicted to the Activity Stream. Or maybe you’ve got some great ideas on how to make a really cool poll to go along with an article you’re currently writing. Maybe you love that you can embed social media content in posts and comments. Or you may have fallen in love with how much you can customize your profile. Maybe it’s one of the dozens of other features I didn’t list…

Whether you’re a veteran or rookie user on allnurses.com, we want to hear what your favorite new feature is. Everyone who comments will be entered into a drawing for an amazing allnurses.com prize pack. Not ready to comment and enter yet? Don’t worry, we encourage you to take a few minutes to explore the plethora of new features and come back to comment and win!

Don’t wait too long, though. The “allnurses.com Grand Re-Opening” feature contest ends Sunday, March 3rd.

[Mrs.D., BSN]

I’m still pretty confused by it, lol, but I like the new “like” options, and it just seems more mobile friendly. I still have to feel it up.

[mtmkjr, BSN]

I also love the activity stream and the ability to see only the content that I am interested in!

I love being able to search the Emojis.

I love that you can press and hold text in a post and have the option to quote just that portion right there next to the text.

One thing that would make it even better in my opinion: the ability to "clean the slate" when I marking as read, so that when I click what's new, it would only show the threads with new content. It was possible on the old site. As it is I have to scroll past a lot of read threads to get to the new content.

Another thing that I've noticed is that when I am reading a thread if I am far down on the page there's no way to see what the thread title is unless I scroll back up to the top.. It would be nice to have some sort of header. (Of course I may be the only one who forgets what thread I'm reading...!?)

I hope someone can make some kind of sense out of my questions!

[Emergent, RN]

On 2/19/2019 at 10:42 AM, Leader25 said:

not my favorite : Top "popular" contributors

reminds me of high school popularity competition-

rename as popular topics.

Hey, it's the only time in my life I've been popular, let me bask in the glory! ?

I like being able to view nurses only material. I also like being able to use regular emojis. ?

[Davey Do]

These:

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

3 hours ago, mtmkjr said:

One thing that would make it even better in my opinion: the ability to "clean the slate" when I marking as read, so that when I click what's new, it would only show the threads with new content. It was possible on the old site. As it is I have to scroll past a lot of read threads to get to the new content.

You can mark read- at the top of your activity stream is an icon that looks like an eye. That’s your marked read

[mtmkjr, BSN]

14 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

You can mark read- at the top of your activity stream is an icon that looks like an eye. That’s your marked read

Yes, I use that every time. I'm being nit-picky I guess, in that I'd like to not see the read threads at all. In other words, if I've marked the forum read, when I click "what's new" I'd like to see something like "There's nothing here, you've read it all!" Instead of the read threads. Because I keep finding unread threads buried down in the stream even when I've recently marked them read. I don't want to see threads that don't have new posts at all.

If I remember correctly, that's how the old site worked. There were two ways of viewing new content... "Today's Posts" which is similar to what we have now. Then there was "New Posts" or something like that, which only showed threads with new posts. If I had marked the site as read, it would not show any posts at all.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

1 hour ago, mtmkjr said:

Yes, I use that every time. I'm being nit-picky I guess, in that I'd like to not see the read threads at all. In other words, if I've marked the forum read, when I click "what's new" I'd like to see something like "There's nothing here, you've read it all!" Instead of the read threads. Because I keep finding unread threads buried down in the stream even when I've recently marked them read. I don't want to see threads that don't have new posts at all.

If I remember correctly, that's how the old site worked. There were two ways of viewing new content... "Today's Posts" which is similar to what we have now. Then there was "New Posts" or something like that, which only showed threads with new posts. If I had marked the site as read, it would not show any posts at all.

Click the gear and choose unread as your stream. I’ve never seen topics I’ve already read that way

[mtmkjr, BSN]

52 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

Click the gear and choose unread as your stream. I’ve never seen topics I’ve already read that way

Ok, that's it!

Even better, I edited my stream... Which apparently was set to a 365 day view. I changed it to "since last visit". Bingo!

Thank you

[JKL33]

On 2/21/2019 at 9:30 AM, mtmkjr said:

I love that you can press and hold text in a post and have the option to quote just that portion right there next to the text.

I don't know how you realized that, but kudos and thanks for sharing. I had been thinking that neither the quote nor the multiquote functions did a very good job facilitating the incorporation of various posts. I would have never thought to highlight sections because I'm used to the basic copy/paste method not bringing along the author/source piece, which I don't like. But essentially now copying the section of text does allow you to attribute it to the author. Yay. ??

A feature I *think* I like (but maybe I shouldn't) is that if you type a reply and decide to think on it or not post it right then for some other reason, it stays in the reply/editor area as long as you don't erase it. It's so great that all my "brilliant" (?) thoughts aren't lost forever if I choose to wait on posting. On the other hand, it also means those rants and various verbose musings are just hanging out somewhere on AN. ?

[mtmkjr, BSN]

45 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

I had been thinking that neither the quote nor the multiquote functions did a very good job facilitating the incorporation of various posts. 

I still haven't figured out how to multiquote... Different people or even the same person, breaking out a post to respond to several different points.

I see other people doing it.??‍♀️

[JKL33]

You do it with your method that you revealed! You can just highlight various portions of text and the author attribution comes along with it and flows right to the edit box. You select one portion, comment upon it, select your next portion, do the same....etc.

It is so much easier with the little trick you revealed.

I don't care for the multiquote function since I've been trying the highlight method. You can add multiple quotes to the multiquote "list" but then you can't pull them in one by one (that I can tell) and then typing in between a bunch of quotes that were all pulled in at once is kind of finicky.

[mtmkjr, BSN]

1 hour ago, mtmkjr said:

I still haven't figured out how to multiquote... Different people or even the same person, breaking out a post to respond to several different points.

I see other people doing it.??‍♀️

It works!

1 hour ago, JKL33 said:

You do it with your method that you revealed!

Well look at that!

1 hour ago, JKL33 said:

You select one portion, comment upon it, select your next portion, do the same....etc.

Yeah!

1 hour ago, JKL33 said:

I don't care for the multiquote function since I've been trying the highlight method

Ok, I guess I don't need to know what that multiquote function is anymore!

Thanks ?