Irritating pop box

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  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,299 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited August 2018 #62

    Agreed, normally several calendars would be needed.😉 I just subtracted the OP from the first saying it was fixed. So not very scientific, but close enough.

  • SteveL
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    edited August 2018 #63

    Not comming up in stories on safari, or chrome on my iPad.

  • DSB
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    edited August 2018 #64

    Just been out of CT to other pages and can see the orange box at the bottom.  I don't find it too bad.  What I find worse is the green live chat pop up that sometimes comes up half way down the page. (not on CT)

    David

  • heddlo
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    edited August 2018 #65

    Phew!  Ours has gone too, good riddance.  Thank you.

  • huskydog
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    edited August 2018 #66

    Now were on a roll , what else can we get changed ????wink

  • NevChap
    NevChap Forum Participant Posts: 180
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    edited August 2018 #68

    Amazing, init. Of all the things troubling us caravanners and motorhomers the sight of a red box gets 66 replies between 8.36 and now (11.15).

    Just saying.

  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,144 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2018 #69

    Thanks Ro

  • Metheven
    Metheven Club Member Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2018 #70

    Yep  👍

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
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    edited August 2018 #71

    But it was just another 'quirk' of the forum we could well do with out

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
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    edited August 2018 #72

    Can we not just get shut of it all together?

  • SteveL
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    edited August 2018 #73

    It would be nice. On a small screen, it is probably more annoying than on a large monitor. Yes you can minimise it, but this locks up my iPad, so not terribly helpful. 

    On the book a club site page it usefully positions itself over the search button.☹️

  • FinkAngel
    FinkAngel Forum Participant Posts: 6
    edited August 2018 #74

    The system is just a trial at the moment to see if it can help out with contact centre call volumes, it's an artificial intelligence which doesn't know a huge amount -yet- but several people are very busy teaching it based on what visitors are asking it.

    Since we switched it on this morning visitors to the site have asked it just under 500 different questions and 66% of them have gone away happy - that is a lot of people who didn't have to pick up the telephone and wait for a free call centre person, or compose an email (and wait) to get an answer, so I think it's going quite well (so far)...

    If it keeps this up we might have to think about giving it a name!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2018 #75

    Are you responsible for this, FA? If so, you'd best get your tin hat ready😂😂😂

    Now, lets have a competition to find the best name.🤣🤪

  • huskydog
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    edited August 2018 #76

    What about .......Jack in the box.........or jilllaughing

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited August 2018 #77

    Why can't we hit the 'X' and close it like any other chat box?

    A few of those asking it questions would be the likes of me asking how the hell to shut it down!!

  • EmilysDad
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    edited August 2018 #78

    Let me guess what the majority of these 500 questions were .... WT* is this infernal orange box at the bottom of my screen that I can't get rid of? I used the chat today for the very first time to ask if we could get rid of it .... 'Rachel' would otherwise have been able to answer other questions had it not been for the orange box.

    Now we've trialled it & the general consensus is that it's an orange PITA ..... please get rid wink

    If the CC website was more intuitive then perhaps there'd be less need for questions in the first place. 

  • Extugger
    Extugger Forum Participant Posts: 1,293
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    edited August 2018 #79

    And now it's become a large irritating banner all across the bottom of my iPhone.

    AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!

    ps Thks TW 👍😉

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2018 #80

    That’s how it was on my phone this morning but at least it’s now vanished from the forum pages. If yours is still there, JR, try refreshing the page and/or clearing your cache.

    And no prob👍🏻.

  • Justus2
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    edited August 2018 #81

    Similar on Android 😕

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited August 2018 #82

    So we are having a naming competition , it's orange and a PITA.........

     

     

    so blindingly obvious.... It's a Trump Box!laughing

    Ask the Trump anything.............😂😂😂

  • Extugger
    Extugger Forum Participant Posts: 1,293
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    edited August 2018 #83

    Yes, it's gone from this forum, but it's still on the website......which is why I asked the question under Club membership 'Annoying Widget 2' (from which you kindly directed me here)

    So how long do we have to put up with the annoying orange banner which just replies to questions any normal human being can find the answers to under the help guide at the top of the club site.

    Or is this for the 'new breed of campers, whatever they may look like' as per the Chairman's remarks when the name changed? You know the type, those who are not from this Earth.........???

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2018 #84

    I guess that's the $1,000,000 question, JR, but it gives folk something to  talk about so it’s not a complete waste of space.wink

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited August 2018 #85

    You can reduce it down to a very small box with just one click by the way.

    I used to think some of the questions asked were blindingly obvious to most folks, but not so sure nowadays. There are some wonderfully innocent and unworldly folks around, often totally taken aback when something horrible or unexpected happens to them. Talking generally here, not just the weird world of living in a box!laughing

  • heddlo
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    edited August 2018 #86

    The annoying 'Ask a Question' pop up is still on the CL search, and still annoying!!!!!!  Please delete it. 

  • DaveCyn
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    edited August 2018 #87

    1st choose, get rid of the ruddy thing completely! It's a complete & utter pain in the rectum!!

     

    If that's not possible because some plonker thinks it's the most wonderful thing since sliced bread (I feel sorry for them if that's the case) why can't it be used for visitors to the site but GOES AWAY WHEN MEMBERS ARE LOGGED IN!

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2018 #88

    I logged on tio Discussions for the first time since earlier this morning and it appeared initially. I ignored it and it has gone away, at least from the discussion pages I am viewing.

  • FinkAngel
    FinkAngel Forum Participant Posts: 6
    edited August 2018 #89

    Out of interest - the most frequently asked questions (so far) are - 

    1. I'm not a member, how do I pay for my booking?
    2. Where can I find my membership number?
    3. How do I order a replacement membership card?
    4. How do I join the club?
    5. Do you offer seasonal pitches?

    - out of the (almost) 600 different questions asked since 8am this morning - and yes, there have been lots of silly ones too.

    Oh and takethedogalong - we are testing a new bit of code that should keep that question box small as you move around the site (keep your fingers crossed everyone)!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2018 #90

    FA, if you’re really a staff member you need to get your avatar banner in place otherwise we're going to think you're winding us up. So far, you’re doing well.tongue-out 

    If you’re real though, I reckon you're in for a roasting from certain quarterssurprised

    I tried asking the system "Who is FinkAngel, a staff member or a troll?" and it didn't recognise the question. How rubbish is that?

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited August 2018 #91

    I am glad they have removed this pop up from both Discussions and the Story Section. I imagine this is a replacement for the previous little dialogue box that had the same function that used to appear on the right hand side of the screen with a picture of a young lady on it on some sections of the website? It would be interesting to know a little more about how it works.  Perhaps the colouring could be toned down a bit. I think its a useful function to have on a website as often you can get an answer more or less straight away. It could be an alternative for the Facebook averse members?

    David