Where is Cumulus Download

[jandrew]

Am I being thick, slow, blind or what?
I feel as if I am looking for a needle in a haystack - when, I'm sure, it's a redwood in an herbaceous border.

BUT - where are the download files for Cumulus MX ?

[jandrew]

Found it - thanks.

It is at the foot of page 3 of the topic.

Perhaps I have my forum parameters set up in an unusual way (I have the latest post at the top) - but I would have thought that the download link would be found more easily if it were at the TOP of the topic (or in some "always visible" place).

However, got it now. "All's well that ends well."

[mcrossley]

It's at the end of the first post in the download thread?

[jandrew]

OK

I have my options set so that I get only new posts since my last log-on.
Then each Topic, etc. is posted in reverse time order so that I see the latest posts at the top.
This may be unusual, but I suspect that there are many members who do this in the same way as I do

The order of posts which I get, therefore, put the oldest (first) post at the bottom of the topic - perhaps several pages away, out of sight.

My suggestion, FWIIW, is that important clicks - like the software download - might be so placed that members see it at the top of the screen/topic/page/sidebar.
That would, for example, have saved me a lot of time searching before I started this topic.

I will now change my options so that the posts are in time order and see whether that is as effective in keeping me up to date without unnecessary re-reading of old posts.

[mcrossley]

I keep them in time order, there is always a link to take you to the first unread post of the thread.

[steve]

The relevant post is an 'announcement' so should always appear at the top of the list of topics when you select the Cumulus MX section. Does that not happen with some settings?

I'll look into changing the 'news' box at the top so it links to the post.

[jandrew]

Its very easy to find the topic heading.
All the posts in the topic are in reverse time/date order when I have my options set as below.
So the first, important post is at the foot of 3 or 4 pages of subsequent posts.
I set up my options like this so that I get an immediate view of all posts since my last visit without going through posts which I have previously read.

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[steve]

It's odd that PHPBB doesn't always display the announcement posts first, regardless of settings. Perhaps this is why some people clearly don't read the posts in the announcements topic!

Personally, I click on the 'unread' button when I visit the forum, so I only ever see threads with new posts. I read all posts (quickly skimming some if they don't need my attention) so this works for me. I guess 'mark all read' before leaving the forum would also work if you don't read all posts.

Very few people seem to have had problems finding the MX download (it is admittedly not trivially easy to find in an attempt to make people read the instructions etc), but as promised I've added a link in the 'news' box.

[jandrew]

I suppose that the problem is that there are so many different ways of setting up the forum to match personal preferences.
Your new link in the header points to the topic which is very helpful (it would have helped me). Thank you.
I suspect that a link to the actual first post in the topic would have been good too.
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 30#p101008

[steve]

Already done while you were typing.