Oi Nick!!!

[Zippy]

Which button do you mean? More importantly, which browser?

I haven't done anything with the breadcrumb trail if that's what you mean, although IE7 is showing it. If you mean the "Go to..." menu at the bottom, that's showing up for me in IE7 as well.

Hang on while I have a look on IE6...

He means this

"Forum" button has disappeared from PM screen so you either have to scroll to Quick links or use the Back button on the browser (NOT IE 7 specific)

It's the button that used to be at the top of the screen (with two others IIRC)

[SupremeSpod]

He means this

"Forum" button has disappeared from PM screen so you either have to scroll to Quick links or use the Back button on the browser (NOT IE 7 specific)

It's the button that used to be at the top of the screen (with two others IIRC)

What the One-armed Gobby Bird Said.

[NickFitz]

He means this

"Forum" button has disappeared from PM screen so you either have to scroll to Quick links or use the Back button on the browser (NOT IE 7 specific)

It's the button that used to be at the top of the screen (with two others IIRC)

Do you mean the so-called tab bar, now replaced by the user-related stuff?

The "Forum" button exactly duplicated the functionality of the CUK logo immediately above it and the start of the breadcrumb trail just below it, so it seemed like a waste of space. Meanwhile, the "What's New" button almost exactly duplicated the functionality of the "New Posts" link just below it, so that also seemed redundant. It made more sense to have the user stuff there (given that people had commented that it was hard to find that stuff when it was above the banner ad), given that despite being called a tab bar, it didn't actually function as one.

Just click on the CUK logo, or on the house icon at the start of the breadcrumb trail - they both go to the same place as the pseudo-tab did. Alternatively, use the "Go to..." menu if you're scrolled down towards the bottom of the page.

If it was something else, let me know.

(BTW, they haven't disappeared only from the PM page, they've disappeared from every page.)

[MarillionFan]

We already know how this ends. Nick puts up a post to say it's the crappy forum engine again and that he's had to recode the entire site because of the tulip software. Admin then comes on and takes responsibility.

I understand the Nicks last job was as a TV repairman but he got fired. Everytime he fixed someones telly the customer lost ITV and Nick told them they'd stopped transmitting in their area!

[SupremeSpod]

Do you mean the so-called tab bar, now replaced by the user-related stuff?

The "Forum" button exactly duplicated the functionality of the CUK logo immediately above it and the start of the breadcrumb trail just below it, so it seemed like a waste of space. Menawhile, the "What's New" button almost exactly duplicated the functionality of the "New Posts" link just below it, so that also seemed redundant. It made more sense to have the user stuff there (given that people had commented that it was hard to find that stuff when it was above the banner ad), given that despite being called a tab bar, it didn't actually function as one.

Just click on the CUK logo, or on the house icon at the start of the breadcrumb trail - they both go to the same place as the pseudo-tab did. Alternatively, use the "Go to..." menu if you're scrolled down towards the bottom of the page.

If it was something else, let me know.

(BTW, they haven't disappeared only from the PM page, they've disappeared from every page.)

What breadcrumb trail? It looks like this
<LI class=navbithome> Settings Private Messages Inbox

[NickFitz]

What breadcrumb trail? It looks like this
<LI class=navbithome> Settings Private Messages Inbox

And if you click on the it should do the same as the "Forum" button did. As does:

[SupremeSpod]

And if you click on the it should do the same as the "Forum" button did. As does:

Sorry Nick, my crystal ball must be broken!

[Zippy]

Do you mean the so-called tab bar, now replaced by the user-related stuff?

The "Forum" button exactly duplicated the functionality of the CUK logo immediately above it and the start of the breadcrumb trail just below it, so it seemed like a waste of space. Meanwhile, the "What's New" button almost exactly duplicated the functionality of the "New Posts" link just below it, so that also seemed redundant. It made more sense to have the user stuff there (given that people had commented that it was hard to find that stuff when it was above the banner ad), given that despite being called a tab bar, it didn't actually function as one.

Just click on the CUK logo, or on the house icon at the start of the breadcrumb trail - they both go to the same place as the pseudo-tab did. Alternatively, use the "Go to..." menu if you're scrolled down towards the bottom of the page.

If it was something else, let me know.

(BTW, they haven't disappeared only from the PM page, they've disappeared from every page.)

I didn't look for it on every page, I just happened to notice it on that one.
I appreciate that you are trying to reduce redundancy and it wasn't obvious to me that the CUK logo replaced the forum tab. I thought it went to the main CUK site (although I admit I didn't try it). The house icon didn't really stand out until you mentoned it.
There are ways around the "problem" so level 2?

[SupremeSpod]

The other thing is that the pretty little house returns you to home, not General or wherever else I wanted to go.

[NickFitz]

I didn't look for it on every page, I just happened to notice it on that one.
I appreciate that you are trying to reduce redundancy and it wasn't obvious to me that the CUK logo replaced the forum tab. I thought it went to the main CUK site (although I admit I didn't try it). The house icon didn't really stand out until you mentoned it.
There are ways around the "problem" so level 2?

Ah, the different ways people use things: I almost never used the "Forum" tab thing, as the logo is a much bigger target and therefore easier to get the pointer over (see "Fitt's Law")

Mind you, I also used it to get to the home page on the old forum.

The pseudo-tab-bar was introduced by vB because their full package includes blogs and a bunch of other junk. As that isn't used here, and the tabs didn't actually function as tabs, I figured it made more sense to move the user stuff down there where people could easily find it and put the style switcher (which won't be used much and doesn't need to be right in people's faces) in its place. There was one additional reason for that: as and when there's a stripped-down theme specifically for mobile devices with small screens, the style switcher is very close to the top of the page, which means that somebody logging in on their phone will be able to quickly switch to the mobile theme without having to scroll through a load of stuff that they can't see very well anyway. The default style switcher was a drop-down menu at the very bottom of the page, which is the worst possible place for it to be in such a scenario.