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There'll be some teething pains as always I'm sure, avatars included. Will continue to iron them out but give us a shout here and we'll get on them when we can

w3bz

aaaagh! where's the ACTIVE TOPICS button?

Might be a safari specific issue, dunno, but the Home / Help / Search / ... / Logout are all superimposed over the search box for me.

Also: it's all strange and unfamiliar, I'm scared, won't somebody hold me...?

-pj

Thank god for that, my computer machine kept telling me I was FORBIDDEN, got a little worried for a while. What the funt do all these buttons do?

Quote from: Proudhuff on 10 July, 2009, 06:21:20 PM
aaaagh! where's the ACTIVE TOPICS button?

I also ask: Aaaagh! where's the ACTIVE TOPICS button?

It's ok, pj, it's ok. I'm here. I'm holding you. I'm scared too. But it's ok. we'll get through this together.

AGHHHHH, change!!!!

Some of this writing is extremely small young man, is there a version with larger print? Oh.

Dang! I think it's going to take me some time to get used to the new layout.

Also, can't we cover up spoilers anymore?

Owwwhhh shiney and new. Exciting

When are we going to have the 2000AD gallery back for avatars? I've broken mine.

Quote from: the shutdown man on 10 July, 2009, 06:53:48 PM
AGHHHHH, change!!!!

Indeed.

Good stuff - I looked at a lot of forums a while back and SMF was head and shoulders the best of the bunch. Crank the captcha code up to maximum and it really cuts the spammers down to a trickle. I mentioned the Stop Forum Spam plugin on the spam thread and there is one for SMF too - if the user details get a hit from the SFS database it requires the account to need activation - which should cut the spammers right down.

"View Unread posts" doesn't seem to be working. Unless it means unread by anyone, rather than just by me which is what I assumed.

Quote from: The Cosh on 10 July, 2009, 07:30:54 PM
"View Unread posts" doesn't seem to be working. Unless it means unread by anyone, rather than just by me which is what I assumed.

Well, it brought back one topic that time and, sure enough, it had 0 views.

Colours: Can we have some better way of differentiating between one post and the next - they tend to run on each other a bit, since it's all white on pale grey (which is nice, but the pale grey is a little too pale.)

re:JayzusB now I'm scared and scarred.

-pj

Hi, how do I get my avatar back? Also, none of the posts I made today (4 or 5) or the new topic on books I started survived the move. Any chance of getting those back?

The black background was easier on the eyes, I'm sorry to say. New place feels a bit bare without it. Good luck with the new site though.

My ignore file seems to have gone somewhere and now I can see hundreds of posts that I would rather not.

And I can see spoilers.

But other than that, it looks nice.  Thnaks for your hard work.

At least I can still post in BLUE :-\

Ooooh, exciting! Can we post pictures bigger than 700 pixels or are we still limited?

I will be very peeved if the "active topics" link is gone forever - I can't be arsed checking every category for new posts - i always kept active topics as my homepage so I could have it on in background and just click refresh any time to check for anything new.

And If I click "marquee", will a big tent be added to my post?

And without wanting to be too picky, it's hard to separate one post from the next as it's white-on white with no borders

Quote from: dreamticketopus+bill on 10 July, 2009, 08:08:36 PM

Hi, how do I get my avatar back? Also, none of the posts I made today (4 or 5) or the new topic on books I started survived the move. Any chance of getting those back?

The black background was easier on the eyes, I'm sorry to say. New place feels a bit bare without it. Good luck with the new site though.

If you have your avatar stored on photobucket like i do then all you have to do is go to your profile section and click on "Forum profile information" then go to "I have my own pic" option.

Copy ,Cut and paste the "Direct link" from the image on photobucket into the  "I have my own pic" option and then click on "change profile" and your avatar should upload instantly.

Thats what i just did.

I've found the rather surreal avatar section, and having considered Alanis Morisette, I've decided to be Bob Marley for a little while.

Some of the moderator functions don't seem to be available.
There were (already) some pornographic posts - which I managed to remove, however I couldn't ban the user from posting again.

AARRGHHH! EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT! MELTDOWN! MELTDOWN!

Just posting to say- hmm. Where are all the "new posts"- I used to use the that page as my starting point- and to see if I've kept my avatar.

Steev

Ah, obviously no avatar! Can I have mine back please?

Steev

AAAAAAAAGH! This is too new for me. Not sure about it There's too many fancy buttons.

Oh dear I don't like this at all...... I hate when things change.... If it ain't broke, don't fix it and all that.... This will take a lot of getting used to.....

This confangled thing doesn't like my Columbo avatar.  Halp!

"The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved."

Yeah I got that as well Grant.
Sheesh, after a couple of years on this forum I only figured out last week how to get an avatar on to me profile and now its gone again!!!!

Bugger me

Another board layout

According to my screen, 0 members and 0 guests are viewing the board, yet new posts still appear! Maybe I'm just hallucinating you all.....

Quote from: dandontdare on 10 July, 2009, 10:40:55 PM
According to my screen, 0 members and 0 guests are viewing the board, yet new posts still appear! Maybe I'm just hallucinating you all.....

Same for me DDD.

Judge Lamia is the new board moderator. We're all dead.

Hmm... I thought this board was meant to have less spam than the last one? So far, it seems to have three times as much...

Ahh! This new red/beige/white layout isn't that great guys... Can we have the old one back, or at least one that doesn't hurt my eyes?

I think some of these spammers are signing up manually the same as everyone else does.

Persistent little F*******.

Did anyone see the Russian Lesbian Pornography earlier ?

One way in has been closed but its impossible to stop completely .

It looks like the SFX forum (which I imagine with Rebellion being DeathRay publishers is possibly deliberate), but rougher around the edges and a bit half-finished looking, but I put that impression down to the colour scheme.  It's kind of bland, and the loss of an active topics option seems odd.

Change is good only when it brings something better, imo.

Quotere:JayzusB now I'm scared and scarred

Glow? Shadow? MARQUEE? TABLE ROW?
oh Jesus, w-what are they? WHAAT AARRE THHHEYYY?

I quite like this. My Judge Fish continues to appear, so all is right with the world!

All hail Deputy Chief Judge Fish!

- Trout

Guess it will take time to get used to it.

Although I agree it does seem to blend together and makes it harder to see where one post ends and another starts.

And please bring back view active threads...

I gotta say guys, I love the people here at the 2000AD forums, but I can't continue here with this layout... It's a little frustrating.

The only good reason to change the forum layout is if it stops spam. We've all ready heard from one of the moderators that his options on that front are less than they were on the old forum. How is that an improvement? I didn't see any spam on the old forum at all. Now I'm seeing it for the first time - and not liking it.

Can we revert?

Yeah ... I appreciate that something like this is always a thankless task for those who have to implement it, but there are a number of things that will actively keep me off this board, which surely defeats the point of a re-vamp?

1) Active Topics - sorry, I'm not clicking through every category heading to see what the newest post is. We need this back ASAP.

2) Colour scheme - as previously noted, it's very hard to see where one post ends and the next begins. We need a darker grey, I think.

3) Like PJ says - is it just a Safari bug, but top right of my screen shows Home / Help / Search and then a whole bunch of stuff all piled up on top of each other. Actually, it is a Safari issue, because it works OK in Firefox:

Firefox:
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb36/jimcampbell2000/Picture6.png)

Safari:
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb36/jimcampbell2000/Picture7.png)

Nonetheless, Safari is supposed to be a pretty standards-compliant browser, so it's strange that it can't correctly render this part of the layout ...

4) Spoiler tags: may not seem like a big deal, but they were used extensively here.

5) AAAAH! My fucking killfile doesn't work!

Cheers

Jim

(Posted to both the "Forum Move" thread and "The Board" thread in hopes of getting seen by someone who can fix this stuff!)

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 11 July, 2009, 10:29:25 AM

2) Colour scheme - as previously noted, it's very hard to see where one post ends and the next begins. We need a darker grey, I think.

4) Spoiler tags: may not seem like a big deal, but they were used extensively here.

(Posted to both the "Forum Move" thread and "The Board" thread in hopes of getting seen by someone who can fix this stuff!)

Can I add my voice to sorting these two in particular. Cheers

Overall all though nice job and I'm happy with the new (well I've just noticed them) posting formatting options.

Bloody hell guys, calm down. What's with all this "If it doesn't happen I'm outta here!" malarkey? I did say I'd get on it, we'll tailor to your needs as always.

Anyways, some of the stuff didn't transfer from when we were doing it locally to online. I.e. the layout for one, went a bit screwy. I can always do more themes, if you like the old one and want that back for example. I've just changed the grey, which completely wiped, so the posts are distinguishable.

This elusive "Active Topics" not the same as "View unread posts" I take it, so what does it list? Remind me and I'll sort a version no biggy.

There's actually 2 big reasons for changing, which I thought I'd mention particularly for the stuffy sorts (it makes me laugh particularly the theme seeing as some of you hated the last one...we'll never win). 1) SMF has a lot more useful plugins and stuff we can add to sort out a variety of things including spam. 2) We can pull information out of the database a lot more easily than phpbb...which we're going to need soon.

I noticed the spam had a sudden crank up, but yeah there'll always be manual ones as well (seeing as captcha's on this). But yeah, we'll keep adding things until they piss off....

Do not like.

Need a recent posts button. If there is one, please tell me where it is.

Ahh...I have my badge back. All is right with the world.

-Bouwel-

Uncle - it's up the top below the logo called "View unread posts"

I quite all the different stats showing when I post most and where.

Not sure if this the right place to discuss it, but do you think it wound be a good idea to make the Hot dang doodle and the current art comp threads sticky threads?

[spoiler]this is some spoiler text[/spoiler]

I am on Firefox and i am getting the overlapped bit on the top right of the screen as well.

I think that this is an inprovement nonetheless as before it used to take an age to refresh and upload a post wheras now its very very fast.

Please reinstate the view active topics option that used to list the threads in descending order according to recent activity with the most recently posted to thread at the top of it otherwise we are just looking at an index which isnt the same thing.

Thryllseeker posted a topic about an artists book yesterday .

Damned if i can find it now.


Posted with gratitude for your hard work and without a pissy attitude.

Thanks.

Weird on the overlap, will look into that. Kinda the problem with a lot of these forum packages is they're usually a mess when it comes to making a new theme. I'm using firefox and IE and it's not happening here, so will get some older versions to see if it's that...well, safari will probably the one to fix and should resolve them across the browsers.

So, could you let me know the differences between "view unread posts" and "view active topics" as they kinda sound the same still. The "view unread posts" link takes you to a list of recently updated posts, or activity that's happening within a topic?

Cheers

But as the man said, where's the active topics button? This is scary for me. I've still got my Kroom Skree icon, and I don't like change.

Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 July, 2009, 12:53:46 PM
But as the man said, where's the active topics button? This is scary for me. I've still got my Kroom Skree icon, and I don't like change.

Yeah but as this man said, I still need to know the difference between that and the "view unread posts" link to be able to help  :-\

As far as I understand it, "view active topics" rearranges ALL the topics in order of how recently they have been added to. So, posting a messages on a thread would move it immediately to the top of the "active topics" list.

Yeah that's what view unread posts does as well!?  :-\

Quote from: dandontdare on 10 July, 2009, 10:40:55 PM
According to my screen, 0 members and 0 guests are viewing the board, yet new posts still appear! Maybe I'm just hallucinating you all.....

Stats fixed now

"View Unread topics" = show all topics where the current user has not read the latest post.

"View Active Topics" = show all topics which have been posted on within x days (I think it was a week) irrespective of whether I've read it or not. Useful for going back to check out something you read a couple of hours/days ago because we've all gotten used to doing it that way so have no idea which sub-forum anything's posted on.

Anyway, good job on the move and sorting the backgrounds. Like peterwolf says, everything seems to load slightly quicker but that could just be perception.

Once you've fixed all that, I've having some problems with some constant exchange rates that you might want to take a look at.

Ohhh getcha, ok that sounds dooable. Might have to sort that out Monday mind, don't have all the access I need from home...boo

Quote from: The Cosh on 11 July, 2009, 01:42:42 PM

"View Active Topics" = show all topics which have been posted on within x days (I think it was a week) irrespective of whether I've read it or not. Useful for going back to check out something you read a couple of hours/days ago because we've all gotten used to doing it that way so have no idea which sub-forum anything's posted on.

Yeah ... that's it. I was struggling to articulate what was missing from the "Unread Posts" option, so thanks, Cosh.

Also: sorry, w3bz, if I was one of the posters who came across as a bit brusque. I did preface my comments with an acknowledgement that this sort of thing is always thankless, but, nonetheless, if I came across as stroppy, this wasn't my intention.

The colour scheme, BTW, is much, much better. And thanks for doing anything from home over the weekend!

Cheers

Jim

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 11 July, 2009, 10:28:40 AM
Yeah ... I appreciate that something like this is always a thankless task for those who have to implement it, but there are a number of things that will actively keep me off this board, which surely defeats the point of a re-vamp?

1) Active Topics - sorry, I'm not clicking through every category heading to see what the newest post is. We need this back ASAP.

2) Colour scheme - as previously noted, it's very hard to see where one post ends and the next begins. We need a darker grey, I think.

3) Like PJ says - is it just a Safari bug, but top right of my screen shows Home / Help / Search and then a whole bunch of stuff all piled up on top of each other. Actually, it is a Safari issue, because it works OK in Firefox:

Firefox:
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb36/jimcampbell2000/Picture6.png)

Safari:
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb36/jimcampbell2000/Picture7.png)

Nonetheless, Safari is supposed to be a pretty standards-compliant browser, so it's strange that it can't correctly render this part of the layout ...

4) Spoiler tags: may not seem like a big deal, but they were used extensively here.

5) AAAAH! My fucking killfile doesn't work!

Cheers

Jim

(Posted to both the "Forum Move" thread and "The Board" thread in hopes of getting seen by someone who can fix this stuff!)

Firefox / Safari bug should be fixed
You can use [spoiler]some text[/spoiler] for now (by doing ["spoiler"]some text["/spoiler"] without the quotes, will add a button Monday
Wassa killfile?  :-\

Is there a way of just looking at active topics !

Also how do i get my avatar back on ? thanks !

First of all, thanks for all your hard work W3bz.

You'll have to excuse me if this a bit of a simpletons question, but is there any way of widening things out a bit? Everything seems to be a bit cramped up horizontally. I appreciate that Rebellion want to bring their range of fantastical novels to our attention but can't the Abaddon Books ad move over to the right a tad?

The other thing is that on the home page for the forum I really am having trouble reading the very small script in the post history box of each section. Any chance of making them slightly bigger?

When you get a chance of course fella.

The darker grey background to the posts is much better.

QuoteAlso how do i get my avatar back on ? thanks !

You should be able to upload it via your profile again. Sorry about that, some of them didn't make it  :-[

Active Topics I'll sort Monday

QuoteEverything seems to be a bit cramped up horizontally

Yeah it was to make sure that people on lower resolutions, consoles, handhelds etc wouldn't have too much trouble. From the general feedback I'm likely to do more than one theme so bear with me on that  ;)

QuoteThe other thing is that on the home page for the forum I really am having trouble reading the very small script in the post history box of each section. Any chance of making them slightly bigger?

agreed, will do...

font size better?

Quote from: w3bz on 11 July, 2009, 01:52:06 PM
Firefox / Safari bug should be fixed

w00t!

QuoteYou can use [spoiler]some text[/spoiler] for now (by doing ["spoiler"]some text["/spoiler"] without the quotes, will add a button Monday

Double w00t!

QuoteWassa killfile?  :-\

I used to be able to click on a poster's profile and select "Ignore Posts From This User" ... I'm pretty sure there are a few people who used this feature on me.

Cheers!

Jim

Still can't get my avatar back on ! can't see anywhere to upload it !

Quote from: SteveMillar on 11 July, 2009, 02:23:16 PM
Still can't get my avatar back on ! can't see anywhere to upload it !

if you go to "profile" then "forum profile information" you've got it under that I think...

QuoteI used to be able to click on a poster's profile and select "Ignore Posts From This User" ... I'm pretty sure there are a few people who used this feature on me.

Ohh, ok...there's probably a mod for that I'll take a ganders Monday

Done it,Thanks !

Quote from: w3bz on 11 July, 2009, 02:17:19 PM
font size better?

Much better, thanks W3bz.

QuoteMight have to sort that out Monday mind, don't have all the access I need from home...boo

Yeah I just wanna say a HUGE thank you to W3bz for his patience but most of all for taking the time to do so much work on a freaking Saturday. What a guy/droid!

No worries Mr Wells, everyone hates change, just want to make sure it's a smooth as poss  ;)

Thanks for all your hard work, W3bz.

^{Now I can do this}

Thank you w3bz, for helping us all out and making things more familiar and less frightening, epically at the weekend. This is all greatly appreciated.

Its outstanding to get this kind of service from w3bz.

Many thanks.

The glitch on the top right of the screen has gone now as well.

working on the weekend eh?
Fucking scab!
[/joke]

I'm with the black background posse- this white looks a bit basic. Is alternating between lighter and darker backgrounds an option for differentiating between posts?

I don't like the Abaddon ad down the side- is it possible to make it horizontal at the top or bottom instead? Everything looks pretty squashed up to the left and once you scroll down past the ad it seems like there is tons of wasted space which we could fill with absolute shite!

I liked the pics at the side on the last board- even though I could only see a little portion of them!

I realise, of course, that it will take a bit of time to tweak things, so a big thanks for putting up with our moanin an' greetin' (once again).

What's an 'FTP' link- is it some sort of anti-catholic bigotry?

What is teletype- is it what teletubbies do on their forum?

Quote from: Dog Deever on 11 July, 2009, 08:19:58 PMWhat's an 'FTP' link- is it some sort of anti-catholic bigotry?

I've been working with "computers and that" in Central Scotland for quite some time now and I still snigger to myself every time someone mentions File Transfer Protocol.

I for one enjoyed all the lovely chaos the move caused. Several times I felt panic-striken by the newness of it all - and smiled when I realized so many others were feeling the exact same way.

Yeah I was worried that without the 'active posts' button I would not have time to be here anymore. But the unread thing is nearly as good once you clear the backlog.

Nice one W3bz, appreciated.

since the new look I have only just managed to log back in, the new look preventing me from auto log in >:(. Having forgot my password I just spent ages looking for where I noted it down. The auto response for forgotten password not replying to my email address. So there may be many more of us out there unable to log back on because of this. I was lucky as I found the tatty piece of paper folded up in a folder full of tatty old folded up paper with all sorts of crap and nonsense.









V

Quote from: Dog Deever on 11 July, 2009, 08:19:58 PM
working on the weekend eh?
Fucking scab!
[/joke]

I'm with the black background posse- this white looks a bit basic. Is alternating between lighter and darker backgrounds an option for differentiating between posts?

I don't like the Abaddon ad down the side- is it possible to make it horizontal at the top or bottom instead? Everything looks pretty squashed up to the left and once you scroll down past the ad it seems like there is tons of wasted space which we could fill with absolute shite!

I liked the pics at the side on the last board- even though I could only see a little portion of them!

I realise, of course, that it will take a bit of time to tweak things, so a big thanks for putting up with our moanin an' greetin' (once again).

What's an 'FTP' link- is it some sort of anti-catholic bigotry?

What is teletype- is it what teletubbies do on their forum?

I'm not even sure where to start with this post after leaving the forums alone for a couple of hours...  ;)

So yeah, there will be more themes don't worry about that, I'm sure I'll do one similar to the last one etc etc, I only had a couple of hours to knock this together, and hell after the last move we had "don't like black" and "don't like backgrounds" etc etc, so always going to be something I'm having to play around with.  ::)

Quote from: vzzbux on 11 July, 2009, 09:25:42 PM
since the new look I have only just managed to log back in, the new look preventing me from auto log in >:(. Having forgot my password I just spent ages looking for where I noted it down. The auto response for forgotten password not replying to my email address. So there may be many more of us out there unable to log back on because of this. I was lucky as I found the tatty piece of paper folded up in a folder full of tatty old folded up paper with all sorts of crap and nonsense.
V

Argh, well you're the first I'm aware of but hopefully there won't be many. Glad you made it back to us  ;D

Don't let the inevitable whining get you down W3bz - we appreciate the work you do! For every thing I find that I preferred the old way, I find something else that's new and cool - I've spent ages looking at those usage graphs in the stats for each of us- fascinating! All kinds of new info in there!

(But the old-style "active topics" link is the biggy!)

Yeah will defo get on that on Monday. Now I know what it is exactly of course  :P

Woooo, Nifty








V

Any chance of having that feature whereby when you pause the mouse on the thread title it pops up a floating box that gives you the first few lines of the message? I find I use that a lot on other forums to save time in working out what I want to read. Also useful for avoiding spam, I find.

Steev

I would like a feature where i can order a steak sandwich and straw fries and have it delivered whenever i want.

Quote from: w3bz on 11 July, 2009, 11:23:19 AM
Uncle - it's up the top below the logo called "View unread posts"

But is that not just for replies to my posts?

I want to see all new posts.

Whew, got my Columbo back.  Thanks, w3bz.

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 12 July, 2009, 03:08:27 AM
Whew, got my Columbo back.  Thanks, w3bz.

Arh now that's what this new version has been missing. Nice to have you back sir.

Quote from: SpookyTheCat on 11 July, 2009, 11:30:57 PM
Any chance of having that feature whereby when you pause the mouse on the thread title it pops up a floating box that gives you the first few lines of the message? I find I use that a lot on other forums to save time in working out what I want to read. Also useful for avoiding spam, I find.

Steev

Where would you want that? On the front page or the topics list?

QuoteI would like a feature where i can order a steak sandwich and straw fries and have it delivered whenever i want.

Well 'whenever' you want is certainly better than 'wherever'  ;)

But is that not just for replies to my posts?

There's 2 links, one that's replies to your posts and the other "View unread" which is all new posts appearing in topics irrespective of whether you've posted there or not.

the search function doesn't seem to work - I just get a screen saying:
"Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator. "
so that's what |I'm doing!

And have the rankings been adjusted? Not that I'm complaining mind, since I'm now a posting machine, but I could've sworn I was a sentient tea-bot last week!

Search should be working properly now.

Didn't adjust the rankings as far as I'm aware, you might've just posted a few more time and gone over the threshold for a new title :)

... and now search should be faster...

Ugh! The sites gone all ugly!

No offence to whoever built it, it's certainly better than anything i could do, but it still looks horrible.

Sorry to be Mr Negative...  :(

Not to alarm anyone, but it appears that everyone's e-mail is showing on their profile by default.

Quote from: .Woolly on 12 July, 2009, 01:52:18 PM
Ugh! The sites gone all ugly!

No offence to whoever built it, it's certainly better than anything i could do, but it still looks horrible.

Sorry to be Mr Negative...  :(

If you're one of the ones that liked the old design that'll be available soon...

Quote from: TordelBack on 12 July, 2009, 02:11:12 PM
Not to alarm anyone, but it appears that everyone's e-mail is showing on their profile by default.

Not to guests, but if you want to hide it fully you can change it in your profile options.

Quote from: w3bz on 12 July, 2009, 02:12:52 PM

Quote from: .Woolly on 12 July, 2009, 01:52:18 PM
Ugh! The sites gone all ugly!

No offence to whoever built it, it's certainly better than anything i could do, but it still looks horrible.

Sorry to be Mr Negative...  :(

If you're one of the ones that liked the old design that'll be available soon...


Cool. Thats good to know!  :)

Ah.  Got it.  While thanking you for all your hard work on our behalf, I note that the name of the sub-forum you're viewing doesn't appear on the relevant index page, confusing my ageing brain.  Grud hep you w3bz, forcing change onto  bunch of people who've read the same comic for three decades!

Ahh on the topic list...herrrmmmm...wonder where that's buggered off to  :o

When I click on 'view unread posts' it tells me there are 0 unread posts to view. Am I doing something wrong?

Quote from: TordelBack on 12 July, 2009, 04:04:58 PM
Ah.  Got it.  While thanking you for all your hard work on our behalf, I note that the name of the sub-forum you're viewing doesn't appear on the relevant index page, confusing my ageing brain.  Grud hep you w3bz, forcing change onto  bunch of people who've read the same comic for three decades!

Found the elusive git...should be back now!

Quote from: chris_askham on 12 July, 2009, 04:45:10 PM
When I click on 'view unread posts' it tells me there are 0 unread posts to view. Am I doing something wrong?

are you not getting a list of any posts?

I've just found I can edit posts from over a year ago, even ones that have been replied to. The old time limit was a bit short, but is this unlimited edit a good thing? Do we want the power to rewrite history to this extent? How many entertaining beer-soaked early morning rants will we lose if people get to tidy things up and remove all the outrageous bits when they're sober?

This may have been mentioned but my weekly e-mail to Tharg was bounced back - is it just me?! Being blackballed would be a genuine thrill!

It was the input@2000adonline.com addy I used

cheers

SW

I dont know if being able to historically revise your own posts is a good thing or a bad thing.Personally i dont have the inclination  as for better or for worse they will stay as they are as whats gone has gone.

Its nice to have longer to do it for longer after you have posted something as it will negate the need to double or triple posting if you forgot to say something in your post.

Quote from: dandontdare on 12 July, 2009, 06:11:10 PM
I've just found I can edit posts from over a year ago, even ones that have been replied to. The old time limit was a bit short, but is this unlimited edit a good thing? Do we want the power to rewrite history to this extent? How many entertaining beer-soaked early morning rants will we lose if people get to tidy things up and remove all the outrageous bits when they're sober?

I think it's a bad thing. A bit like being able to redact your own history. It will inevitably lead to a lazy I-can-get-away-with-saying-anything attitude as you can always go back and change things later. Much later in this case. Also allows for too much distortion of the truth.

I believe it is much better to encourage people to think more deeply about what they want to say and how they want to say it in the first place. You should stand or fall by what you say.

Quote from: dandontdare on 12 July, 2009, 06:11:10 PM
I've just found I can edit posts from over a year ago, even ones that have been replied to. The old time limit was a bit short, but is this unlimited edit a good thing? Do we want the power to rewrite history to this extent? How many entertaining beer-soaked early morning rants will we lose if people get to tidy things up and remove all the outrageous bits when they're sober?

But what kind of buffoon would come in pissed out their head at three in the morning and start posting on an internet forum?

Oh yes, I remember now...

Definitely a bad thing, unless you go back through all the old Prog review threads changing it to look like you always guessed what was going to happen.

Quote from: w3bz on 12 July, 2009, 04:59:03 PM

Quote from: chris_askham on 12 July, 2009, 04:45:10 PM
When I click on 'view unread posts' it tells me there are 0 unread posts to view. Am I doing something wrong?

are you not getting a list of any posts?

Ah, no problem. Whatever it was seems to have righted itself...

Phew, that's that done at last.  I've just gone back through all 5K of my unbearably tedious posts and edited them to make myself appear witty, urbane and prescient.  Now when a future historian of squaxxdom reviews the archives of this board, he'll realise what a really great chap I could have been. 

I think that very week there should be a draw where the winner gets 3 hours in which they have the power to edit everyone else's posts.

Quote from: dandontdare on 12 July, 2009, 06:11:10 PM
I've just found I can edit posts from over a year ago, even ones that have been replied to. The old time limit was a bit short, but is this unlimited edit a good thing? Do we want the power to rewrite history to this extent? How many entertaining beer-soaked early morning rants will we lose if people get to tidy things up and remove all the outrageous bits when they're sober?

No that needs changing...

Avatar back?

Quote from: Grae the puppetmaker on 12 July, 2009, 09:56:16 PM
Avatar back?

Yay! My visage returneth!

Quote from: Buttonman on 12 July, 2009, 06:13:34 PM
This may have been mentioned but my weekly e-mail to Tharg was bounced back - is it just me?! Being blackballed would be a genuine thrill!

It was the input@2000adonline.com addy I used

cheers

SW

Not sure where the bloody post has gone, but yeah they're offline until close of business tomorrow.

Quote from: chris_askham on 12 July, 2009, 07:54:26 PM

Quote from: w3bz on 12 July, 2009, 04:59:03 PM

Quote from: chris_askham on 12 July, 2009, 04:45:10 PM
When I click on 'view unread posts' it tells me there are 0 unread posts to view. Am I doing something wrong?

are you not getting a list of any posts?

Ah, no problem. Whatever it was seems to have righted itself...

Is there some sort of timing issue with the "Unread posts"? I ask because I'm getting no results from it, yet when I go into the subforums there are a number of "NEW" posts in each one. There's a strong possibility that most of these are timestamped earlier than a post I have read.

Also, when you've got a spare minute, I notice that URLs aren't differentiated from standard text. Fine if you've just pasted the address but not when you've cleverly/irritatingly (delete according to taste) integrated it into a sentence.

My god w3bz, did you go outside at all this weekend? There was plenty of sun to warm up your cold metal exterior.

Hello everyone, my name is VinceBot and I'll be your forum/website coder for the duration of this visit.
Sorry for some of the issues you're experiencing, we wanted to get this new forum online pretty sharpish, though in retrospect rolling this out on a Friday afternoon may have been a miscalculation. Dividing by zero and all that.

To address some of your posts thus far...


Unread Posts

Quote from: The Cosh on 12 July, 2009, 11:25:19 PM
Is there some sort of timing issue with the "Unread posts"? I ask because I'm getting no results from it, yet when I go into the subforums there are a number of "NEW" posts in each one.

This seem to be related to the migration and how SMF tracks unread posts. When viewing the "View Unread Posts" page you'll see no new posts, but when viewing individual subforums you'll see all threads as having new posts.
The simplest solution would be for me to add the appropriate database entries to reset everyones "unread posts" values, but I'll see if I can come up with a slightly better solution which doesn't involve modifying data for people who aren't experience the issue.

Quote from: Uncle Umpty on 12 July, 2009, 01:43:06 AM

Quote from: w3bz on 11 July, 2009, 11:23:19 AM
Uncle - it's up the top below the logo called "View unread posts"

But is that not just for replies to my posts?

I want to see all new posts.

That is what it does. You might be experiencing the issue I described above.


Automatic URL parsing

Quote from: The Cosh on 12 July, 2009, 11:25:19 PM
Also, when you've got a spare minute, I notice that URLs aren't differentiated from standard text. Fine if you've just pasted the address but not when you've cleverly/irritatingly (delete according to taste) integrated it into a sentence.

I assume this in reference to the auto-parsing or URLs in posts, whereby any url detected, for instance google.com, will be parsed into a linked equivilent? Is the complaint that the URL is parsed, or that it is not parsed?

In my brief testing, writing "google.com" does nothing, but "www.google.com" creates the expected link and is less likely to create false positives where badly constructed sentences may get converted into bad URLs.


Editing old posts

Quote from: dandontdare on 12 July, 2009, 06:11:10 PM
I've just found I can edit posts from over a year ago, even ones that have been replied to. The old time limit was a bit short, but is this unlimited edit a good thing? Do we want the power to rewrite history to this extent?

I believe theres an option for this laying around in the admin panel. Anyone care to suggest a duration? Only one or two suggestions please.


Rofl Raffle

Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 12 July, 2009, 09:40:26 PM
I think that every week there should be a draw where the winner gets 3 hours in which they have the power to edit everyone else's posts.

And I like ponies. A lot.

The winner is me every week on a Saturday evening around last orders.


New Theme Issues

Quote from: .Woolly on 12 July, 2009, 01:52:18 PM
Ugh! The sites gone all ugly!

No offence to whoever built it, it's certainly better than anything i could do, but it still looks horrible.

Sorry to be Mr Negative...  :(

I'm not a huge fan of the PhpBB3 style much myself either, despite the supposed usability theory behind it. We decided to use this theme however as it makes the place look less like a generic SMF forum and should reduce the teething problems for you guys when you're expecting things to look one way but infact are entirely different.

Any issues you come across with themes should be directed at w3bz as he's the one in charge of that barrel of laughs.


Logins, Forgotten passwords, Emails

Quote from: vzzbux on 11 July, 2009, 09:25:42 PM
since the new look I have only just managed to log back in, the new look preventing me from auto log in >:(. Having forgot my password I just spent ages looking for where I noted it down. The auto response for forgotten password not replying to my email address.

Sorry to hear of your plight, we had no idea the emails weren't firing off. Unfortunately the "keep me logged in" data is wildly different between PhpBB and SMF, so theres nothing we can do but force people to log back in.
Fortunately its more than just a new look, so you will eventually see enhanced features and security brought to the new forums.


BBC and Spoiler Tags

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 11 July, 2009, 02:20:21 PM

QuoteYou can use [spoiler]some text[/spoiler] for now (by doing ["spoiler"]some text["/spoiler"] without the quotes, will add a button Monday

Double w00t!

Did this fix all the BBCode issues related to spolier tags? Are there any other BBCode tags which the old forum had but aren't implemented at the moment?


Ignoring specific posters

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 11 July, 2009, 02:20:21 PM
I used to be able to click on a poster's profile and select "Ignore Posts From This User" ... I'm pretty sure there are a few people who used this feature on me.

I'll have a look for a mod for this as I'd be suprised if one didn't exist, then I can start using it on people who make feature requests.


Moderator functions and privileges

Quote from: ukdane on 10 July, 2009, 09:06:20 PM
Some of the moderator functions don't seem to be available.
There were (already) some pornographic posts - which I managed to remove, however I couldn't ban the user from posting again.

Sorry about that - is this still the issue? I was unsure of what privileges Moderators had on the old board. Can you clarify on what appears to be missing?


Spam Filtering

Quote from: Emperor on 10 July, 2009, 07:29:59 PM
Good stuff - I looked at a lot of forums a while back and SMF was head and shoulders the best of the bunch. Crank the captcha code up to maximum and it really cuts the spammers down to a trickle. I mentioned the Stop Forum Spam plugin on the spam thread and there is one for SMF too - if the user details get a hit from the SFS database it requires the account to need activation - which should cut the spammers right down.

This sounds like a great idea. I'll have a look for that mod and see about getting it applied.


Ranks

Quote from: dandontdare on 12 July, 2009, 11:07:42 AM
And have the rankings been adjusted? Not that I'm complaining mind, since I'm now a posting machine, but I could've sworn I was a sentient tea-bot last week!

Yeah sorry, this was me. I noticed a few users had breached the 10,000 posts mark and our rankings only went up to 5000, so I tried to both stretch it out and make the first rank change a little lower to encourage new users.

To clarify the current ranks without spoiling the names:

Posts Required	Members in bracket
0	47651
10	443
100	108
250	54
500	44
1000	56
2000	10
2500	31
5000	18
10000	2

If people think its a good idea I may redo the rankins with some new names that would hopefully reflect their post count a little better.


Migration reasons

Quote from: peterwolf on 11 July, 2009, 11:55:19 AM
I think that this is an inprovement nonetheless as before it used to take an age to refresh and upload a post wheras now its very very fast.

This was one of the big reasons for upgrading - PhpBB3 around the 200,000 posts mark becomes sluggish to produce pages. When we hit 400,000 posts on here the database was 400mb.
Thus far, SMF has been pretty snappy with 400,000 posts, and the databases size has been halfed.


Elusive "View Active Topics" Page

Everyone seems up in arms over the loss of this feature, and while it'll probably be a little time conusming to implement it'll hopefully be worth it, right? right?

Quote from: The Cosh on 11 July, 2009, 01:42:42 PM
"View Active Topics" = show all topics which have been posted on within x days (I think it was a week) irrespective of whether I've read it or not. Useful for going back to check out something you read a couple of hours/days ago because we've all gotten used to doing it that way so have no idea which sub-forum anything's posted on.

To clarify then, you're saying the Active Topics list consists of:

• Thread must have a post made within the last X days
• Thread list ordered by whichever had the most recent reply
• List is unaffected by if you've read the thread/post or not

Remember kids; be cool, stay in school.
_{Unless you're thinking about university in which case stop using up all my tax money.}

QuoteTo clarify then, you're saying the Active Topics list consists of:
Thread must have a post made within the last X days
Thread list ordered by whichever had the most recent reply
List is unaffected by if you've read the thread/post or not

This is it in a nutshell.

I think a significant number of us had the "Active Topics" search bookmarked as the default start point for this board (I know I did) and so never gave any thought to which of the sub-forums any of the threads actually occupied. This means that -- without the Active Topics button -- it's a bit of a pain re-visiting a thread you know that you've posted to if no-one else has posted to it after you have.

Seven days would seem to be a workable value for x, unless anyone disagrees?

Cheers

Jim

Ditto what Jim says, that function gives you a easy quick view of what's been posted and by who, please bring it on home

Thanks guys, I'll see what I can do.

13/07/09 Changelist

• Avatar maximum dimentions raised to 128x128 pixels from 64x64.
  
• Changed the "Edit Post" timeout period from no timeout to 5 minutes.
  
• Removed a few of the more sensitive BBCode tags from the allowed list.
  

VinceBot, I don't know if it's fixable at all, but I note that at least some of the spoiler tags in pre-move posts are no longer working. 

Quote from: TordelBack on 13 July, 2009, 09:49:45 AM
VinceBot, I don't know if it's fixable at all, but I note that at least some of the spoiler tags in pre-move posts are no longer working.  

Can you provide me with a link to one of the threads/posts where this is occuring?

Here's an example, second post:

http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25399.0.html

I'm using Safari 3.1

...was just about to say that...

Groan...no didn't get any sun...anyone got any WD40?

I'll be working on a theme that looks like the previous forum if anyone needs me...


zzz....

Quote from: TordelBack on 13 July, 2009, 10:25:17 AM
http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25399.0.html

Egads, ancient tag formatting!

I'll have a think and get back to you on that. I get a feeling I'll have to take the forum offline and regex them out of the database.
Tell me if you come across any other tags suffering from this problem and I'll try to do those at the same time.

^ translating the above he meant to say "I'll have a think and fix it"  :-*

Quote from: VinceBot on 13 July, 2009, 01:45:39 AM

Quote from: The Cosh on 12 July, 2009, 11:25:19 PM
Also, when you've got a spare minute, I notice that URLs aren't differentiated from standard text. Fine if you've just pasted the address but not when you've cleverly/irritatingly (delete according to taste) integrated it into a sentence.

I assume this in reference to the auto-parsing or URLs in posts, whereby any url detected, for instance google.com, will be parsed into a linked equivilent? Is the complaint that the URL is parsed, or that it is not parsed?

In my brief testing, writing "google.com" does nothing, but "www.google.com" creates the expected link and is less likely to create false positives where badly constructed sentences may get converted into bad URLs.

No, I'm unaware of any auto-parsing. Previously, any text entered between URL tags would display as blue to differentiate it from the text around it. Now the link text appears identical to the surrounding text. See two posts above this for an example.

Oh right, that makes more sense.

13-07-09 (PM) Changelist

• Blue'd all the links I could to make finding links easier
  
• Added "Ignore User" interface
  

About the Ignore User interface

To ignore someone you can simply click on the (http://2000adonline.com/forum/Themes/2000ad/images/buttons/ignore_on.gif) Ignore User icon which appears underneath a posters avatar.
To un-ignore someone, click the (http://2000adonline.com/forum/Themes/2000ad/images/buttons/ignore_off.gif) Unignore User icon.
No, you can't ignore forum staff.

When you ignore someone, the space for their post will still appear with a "show/hide" option if you wish to actually view their post and take a look without having to unignore them.

There also exists an "Ignore User Options" page in your profile which will allow you to view or modify your ignore list.

I had to make some changes to the mod which handles ignoring users as it was out of date and incompatible with this theme, so please tell me if you run into any problems with it.

Sorry, did someone say something?  ;)

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 13 July, 2009, 08:19:23 AMSeven days would seem to be a workable value for x, unless anyone disagrees?

It was the smaller of 7 days or 500 posts on the original incarnation of this message board, but the max post number was only because all the active topics were on a single page.

Hey Wake, for a moment there your permissions weren't showing up, but I think I've fixed it now.

Give me a shout if anythings not working for you.

One more..

13/07/09 (PM) Changelist

• Fixed all spoiler tags in old threads. Tags were custom and thus appearing as PhpBB3 custom format "[spoiler:abc123]spoiler text[/spoiler:abc123]".
  
• Removed all inline attachment BBCode from old threads (deprecated feature).
  
• Gave myself an extra 10000 posts for no reason.
  

Quote

• Gave myself an extra 10000 posts for no reason.
  

Ruddy cheat!

New forum massively more mobile friendly. Nice one.

Great stuff by Vincebot and W3bz - cheers! Have we got a spoiler button yet or am I being a thickie?

Interesting to see how quickly this new iteration went from nauseating futsie-inducing  chaos (Ahhh!  Ahhh!  Slight  change!  Aaaahhhh!) to good ol' functionally vanilla in just a few days.  Great job, chaps, keep it up.

I briefly resent my demotion from CALL ME KENNETH back to Bionic Fingers, but on the plus side 4950 more posts about my vas deferns and how much I hate Greg Land is surely something to aim for!

I notice the difference in the size and color of the stars that are being used by  Vincebot , W3bz and Wake that creates a division between us and them .

Surely not ?

I have also been demoted.Is it now 10,000 + to achieve Call-Me-Kenneth status now ?

Not that mad on the blood red /crimson color theme either.Was this something that was a default or random color that came with the format of the new forum or was it chosen for any particular reason ?

It looks too much like the color of blood.Normally i wouldnt be that bothered about it but i have a bit of a dislike of Red as a color.

Quotei have a bit of a dislike of Red as a color.

Now that doesn't really surprise me!

Quote from: Dog Deever on 13 July, 2009, 08:06:07 PM

Quotei have a bit of a dislike of Red as a color.

Now that doesn't really surprise me!

That has nothing to do with it .

Honestly.

However i do like Blue.Nothing at all to do with politics.Also purple.

However :

I dont like the combination of red and black and white.

Theres a clue there somewhere......

:-*


White on black would look quite good.

For some reason my new animated gif isn't animated, though I suspect that's nothing to do with the board, as my exploding Mekon still works. I'll see if I can figure out what's different about them, though they both seem to be the same!

Quote from: Pete Wells on 11 July, 2009, 03:32:14 PM
Yeah I just wanna say a HUGE thank you to W3bz for his patience but most of all for taking the time to do so much work on a freaking Saturday. What a guy/droid!

Here, Here. A smooth move done inside a few days (and lets face it that's better the last time we moved). I await the tweaks to the board with baited breath.

but for now...

Please install a View /active posts function purlease.

Its like the view unread topics function except what happens is the topic that has just been started or posted to goes to the top of a never ending list of posts that were posted or replied to previously to your new post.You scroll down the pages of posts that were posted to an hour ago or 24 hours ago or whenever.

What is happening here and what is happening to everyone else is that a topic that i have clicked on to read a post in is automatically filed away into its appropriate section so if i want to read that post again i have to go back to the board index to find it if i want to read it again which is a pain or wait for it to reappear in the view unread posts section.

This is all well and good but it needs to exist alongside a view active topics function instead of replacing it as it is not a replacement as its not the same thing.

Its a list of posts that are listed in descending order defined by most recent activity.

Quote from: peterwolf on 13 July, 2009, 10:57:25 PM
This is all well and good but it needs to exist alongside a view active topics function instead of replacing it as it is not a replacement as its not the same thing.

This is exactly the problem right now - it's no good to merely replace the Unread Topics with an Active Topics list, they both need to exist at the same time.

Currently I'm tracking down which portions of SMFs code generates the Unread Posts list. Once I have this figured out it should be relatively simple to develop a modification which gives us the Active Topics functionality. The hardest part in the whole process is figuring out how SMFs code generates the page.

Quote from: dandontdare on 13 July, 2009, 09:32:09 PMFor some reason my new animated gif isn't animated

If you drag and drop your GIF onto firefox and it plays, it should still play when uploaded here.
If your GIF is bigger than 128x128 pixels then SMF will attempt to resize the image, but this means it'll be re-encoded as a static JPEG or PNG.

8)

I wasnt being off with you or getting on your case about the active topics as that wasnt my intention and i appreciate your efforts in sortin g out things here.

Quote from: VinceBot on 14 July, 2009, 12:33:52 AM

Quote from: dandontdare on 13 July, 2009, 09:32:09 PMFor some reason my new animated gif isn't animated

If you drag and drop your GIF onto firefox and it plays, it should still play when uploaded here.
If your GIF is bigger than 128x128 pixels then SMF will attempt to resize the image, but this means it'll be re-encoded as a static JPEG or PNG.

Ahh, thank you - I blame it on Kerrin and all his talk of 300x300 avatar designs! - I've tried a new animated one at 128x128 and it seems to work now.

One more teensy niggle, no biggie - When a new reply was opened, you used to be able to highlight a single line in someone's post and hit quote and only that line would be quoted - now it seems (unless I'm missing summat!) you can only quote the whole thing and then have to delete the unwanted bits - as I said, not a huge problem, but slightly less convenient.

I'll permit you 20 mins in a sleep machine before you fix that one! :)

What size of avatar can we now import from photobucket etc? I'm guessing it's more than 300x300 with all the new whizzbangery.

Let's have a look. This avatar is linked to a large picture on Photobucket.

-Bouwel-

Ahh, nifty; it auto-resizes it.

This would also be a good time to thank the web-masters for all their hard work...thank you!

-Bouwel-

Erm ... I appear to have Moderator functions on threads I've started: there are Remove Thread and Lock Thread options at the bottom of any thread I created. That doesn't seem right ...

Cheers!

Jim

Unlimited powerrrr!

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 14 July, 2009, 08:29:50 AM
Erm ... I appear to have Moderator functions on threads I've started

Whoopsie daisy. Thanks for telling me, that could have been like that for a while ;) I've modified the permissions now, see if thats any better.

Quote from: VinceBot on 14 July, 2009, 09:13:33 AM
Whoopsie daisy. Thanks for telling me, that could have been like that for a while ;) I've modified the permissions now, see if thats any better.

Fixed. I so, so ... impotent now!

Cheers

Jim

Oi! I just realised why I'm not Call-Me-Kenneth any more.

Moving the goalposts, eh? I suppose years and years of posting shite isn't enough any more... moan, gripe, complain... ;-)

Don't worry about it. Great work, you robotic minions! Thanks for all your efforts.

- Trout

I think the long and short of those that have had their virtual goalposts moved slightly is this forum recalculating your posts. Probably the ones that were worth counting  ;)

Still gives you something to do eh?

Will add a button for spoilers shortly.

This theme was something done quickly to get you lot here, I kept it bland for certain individuals before I do one that looks like the last one.

8)

Webz & Vince. Thanks for the hard work- appreciated.

One thing that might be useful is a button at the bottom to return to the top of the page?

Will add it to the list Guv

Spoiler button added

Where's Walter?

Needed a bigger piccy :)

Besides, having an array of weapons is always a bonus! Might have to draw a version of Walter with a few mods  :P

[spoiler]Hooray!!![/spoiler]

Link "Back to Top" added ironically at the bottom of the page...

Thanks.

Give me something to do? Cheeky bugger!

I'm telling Tharg on you and he'll burn your arse!

- Trout

QuoteI think the long and short of those that have had their virtual goalposts moved slightly is this forum recalculating your posts.

Don't think it is, though.  CMK rank used to be 5K posts - now it's 10K.  Which is what we call a challenge round these parts!  What might be nice is some sub-levels between Bionic Fingers and Call Me Kenneth - even one at 7,500 (TerraMek?  Nero Narcos?  Captain Skank)? 

And we have 'Active topics'! Excellent job. Personally I'd be happy to lose view unread posts. Active topics shows a new tag when the posts are unread.

BTW, I wouldn't have been able to easily find this topic to post to it without active topics, since I'd already read it up to date.

Cheers,

Wake

Quote from: King Trout on 14 July, 2009, 09:39:48 AM
Oi! I just realised why I'm not Call-Me-Kenneth any more.

You're only 361 posts shy, keep moaning about it and you'll be there in no time :D

Active Topics Update

Yes indeedy, I've just finished wading around inside the gubbins of SMF and I've come back with a prize - the View Active Topics list! Its available from the top left of your screen around where the other lists can be accessed.

It's a little slow at times (0.4s rather than the desires 0.06) but it seems to do the job. Give it a go, see what you think.

Currently it only lists threads with replies posted within the last two days. Is this going to be enough for some of you? Currently that's three whole pages of thread titles for you to check out.

Nice to have active topics back, but there's nothing to differentiate between read/unread posts - I always used to check out the red (unread) posts in order of interest, and scrolling down to the first black (read) one in the list showed me where I last logged off. Now they all have black lines in a red border.

I hate to be so picky, but you guys are doing so much hard work getting things just the way we like it, seems a shame to waste the opportunity!

Quote from: dandontdare on 14 July, 2009, 12:57:44 PM
there's nothing to differentiate between read/unread posts

I'm seeing the blue (http://2000adonline.com/forum/Themes/2000ad/images/english/new.gif) "new" icon to the left of the thread title for any thread I'm not up to date with - are you not seeing this icon?

Quote from: VinceBot on 14 July, 2009, 12:59:50 PM

Quote from: dandontdare on 14 July, 2009, 12:57:44 PM
there's nothing to differentiate between read/unread posts

I'm seeing the blue (http://2000adonline.com/forum/Themes/2000ad/images/english/new.gif) "new" icon to the left of the thread title for any thread I'm not up to date with - are you not seeing this icon?

That only seems to indicate threads that I've NEVER looked at, rather than ones that have new posts since I last read them.

Ah, you could be right there.
I'll have a ganders at the code after lunch and track down the right variable, I musta picked the wrong one.  :-[

Cheers Vince. You backroom droids are doing a splendid job!

Quote from: Wake on 14 July, 2009, 12:53:31 PM
And we have 'Active topics'! Excellent job. Personally I'd be happy to lose view unread posts. Active topics shows a new tag when the posts are unread.

BTW, I wouldn't have been able to easily find this topic to post to it without active topics, since I'd already read it up to date.

Cheers,

Wake

Huzzah! well done chaps, carry on....

Yes we'll probably add some sub ranks in at some point.

... and who you calling a backroom droid ya bushy eyebrowed begger!  :P

Wow.

Reinstated Active topics !

Top class work and top marks to yourselves for that.

;D

There we go, think I've fixed it now. You should see the new icon on any threads you haven't visited, or that contain new posts since you last viewed said thread.

UMMMM
new clothes,
i go away for a week, and what do you do. GO AND MOVE,get all sexy and expect me not to notice

like what i see, will get used to it i am sure. we always do.

...cool, and just for your sake, to give you a hand with catching up with posts, the old design will be along soonish...

Aaahhhh!  My icon's gone!  My beautiful icon!

Reupload it, you can now have a 128x128 one too  ;)

Active Topics! W00t!

On the other hand ...

(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb36/jimcampbell2000/Picture5.png)

Not so w00t ...

Cheers!

Jim

I've modified the avatar upload process to not call an instance of SMF just to load everyones avatars. This should save us some processing and speed the place up a touch.

You guys probably won't notice any difference.

Huzzah for Active Topics! And Vince! And Webz!

I must say I approve of the large avatar max size. I didn't like the stupidly small size every one else voted for on the last forum. You can really see the effort some people have gone to with their avatars without having to squint your eyes. Magic.

I don't like View Active Topics. Please remove it.

Just kidding. Nice work.
:-P

- Trout

b&

I've rearranged the avatars directory to incorperate the ones I pulled off the old forum. Now you've got some predefined ones available again:

Characters
Mobiload (?)
old_icons (?)

The directories were kind of a mess, so hopefully everythings there that people want.

Please could you make it so that the Active Topics links works when you aren't logged on. If I come to the board via a bookmark I tend to find myself logged off and so at the moment I have to log back on before I can start reading the active topics, even if I don't want to post.

Cheers,

Wake

getting used to it now - nice work.

Where's me ICON gone??

AND...in Google Chrome the view is a bit messed up - the Abaddon add is throwing it.  Could be me I guess.

Quote from: Wake on 14 July, 2009, 06:09:50 PM
Please could you make it so that the Active Topics links works when you aren't logged on.

I'll have a ganders tomorrow, but I'm unaware if this will be simple or not due to it being built on the "unread posts" dialog which requires a login.

Quote from: WoD on 14 July, 2009, 06:24:13 PM
in Google Chrome the view is a bit messed up - the Abaddon add is throwing it.

Could be the layout, I'll set w3bz on it once he's stopped being distracted by making the second theme.

Really enjoying the site now that I've gotten to grips with it.

QuoteCould be the layout, I'll set w3bz on it once he's stopped being distracted by making the second theme.

Yeah same bug as Safari, damnable standards  :-\

Layout's knackered on the iPhone -- the Abaddon advert appears in the middle of the screen.

Makee fixee, please Clever-Mister!

Cheers

Jim

I like the new toys, but at the cost of losing the automatic commands for Quotations, URLs, and I think there was something else missing.

Threads no longer have the authors name and time and date of posting written at the top. Making it alittle more difficult for me to Quote properly.

SHADOWS Didn't work the first time I used them on the "Wacko Jacko and Wimbelton" thread. So, I edited that part out..... :D

Just today, as I typed "SLAINE" into the search engine on this site. I was faced with what was being said about him back in 2002 and when checked the last page. I was then faced with what was being said about him in 2004. So, I think there's problem there, unless you like it that way.

Damn glad that I don't need to copy threads and save them to note pad and login in evry half hour. Although the time continuim on this forum appaers to be running on slower time. As it's telling me right now that I have been logged in for two hours and forty eight minutes after being logged in for the last three days atleast.


Oh yeah, I very rarely turn off my computer these days.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 14 July, 2009, 11:16:29 PM
Layout's knackered on the iPhone -- the Abaddon advert appears in the middle of the screen.

Makee fixee, please Clever-Mister!

Cheers

Jim

No worries guv will take a badger at that today by stealing someones dirty iPhone :)

QuoteThryllSeekyr

Ok was going to disect the post but I seem to need to comment on quite a bit. The automatic commands for Quotations and URLs while posting? They're there. Hover over the buttons and you'll find them. Posts have the timestamp, but you want their name there as well? Considering it's right next to the post? I slapped Vince about a bit yesterday to make a change so that a small avatar icon will appear next to the post on the front (And possible in active topics list) which I'd hope would help you out more. Will have a play with the search and see what it's doing. It might simply have been that SLAINE was mentioned more in the 2002 post than the 2004 one hence relevency. Changing it so it's just chronological doesn't always work out for the best. Not sure about the whole time thing, the one at work has been saying I've been logged in for about 24 hours  ::)

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 15 July, 2009, 08:05:48 AM
Threads no longer have the authors name and time and date of posting written at the top. Making it alittle more difficult for me to Quote properly.

Can you explain exactly what you mean by this? All quotes generated by SMF using the numerous "quote" buttons available provide a name, date, time and link back to the original post.

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 15 July, 2009, 08:05:48 AM
SHADOWS Didn't work the first time I used them

Yeah I'm not exactly sure whats up with shadows, they don't seem to work in any version of SMF I've used.

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 15 July, 2009, 08:05:48 AM
Just today, as I typed "SLAINE" into the search engine on this site. I was faced with what was being said about him back in 2002 and when checked the last page. I was then faced with what was being said about him in 2004.

Yeah, serching is a little unreliable right now. Posts are ordered by relevance (frequency of results) rather than date, so thats why the order seems weird.

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 15 July, 2009, 08:05:48 AM
Although the time continuim on this forum appaers to be running on slower time. As it's telling me right now that I have been logged in for two hours and forty eight minutes after being logged in for the last three days atleast.

The forum will only track online time from the period your browsing session began, no matter how long you've been logged in. I think if it doesn't receive a fresh page request from a user within 10 minutes (guess) it considers you to have browsed away from the site. Any subsequent page visits are a new session.

is there an echo in here?  :P

wtf is this? <-- text shadow

Oh OK they've set the CSS up wrong on shadows I think, will change when i get in... doesn't work on IE apparently.

Quote
Posted on: Today at 08:40:45 AMPosted by: w3bz

The automatic commands for Quotations and URLs while posting? They're there. Hover over the buttons and you'll find them.

Oh, yeah, found them and using them as well. INSERT IMAGESlooks like a different variant of IMAGES , but I use that soon enough.

QuotePosted on: Today at 08:40:45 AMPosted by: w3bz

Posts have the timestamp, but you want their name there as well? Considering it's right next to the post?

As you can see I'm using those in the QUOATATIONS of this very thread. I found that your LOGIN NAME  appears with the time and date of the thread in the same spot when ever you are replying. Although when just browsing the threads, I have notyiced tyhat the time date no longer has the LOGIN NAME next to them Just making the COPY and PASTING alittle more difficu;t but all is well.

QuotePosted by: VinceBot
Posted on: Today at 08:46:57 AMPosted by: VinceBot


Threads no longer have the authors name and time and date of posting written at the top. Making it alittle more difficult for me to Quote properly.

Can you explain exactly what you mean by this? All quotes generated by SMF using the numerous "quote" buttons available provide a name, date, time and link back to the original post.

Like I said, above. The name now appaers at the side in the right hand coloumn. The time and date are still in the same spot, Practically. Something that I missed before I posted on this thread to say that they weren't there at all. Sorry my mistake.


I commend the moderators for their work and I guess it would be my responcibility to adjust.

You are aware that each post has a (http://2000adonline.com/forum/Themes/2000ad/images/buttons/quote.gif) quote button at the top right, which will begin a new reply with the post automatically quoted?

You can also scroll down when creating a reply to see a number of previous posts, and they each have a handy Insert Quote link in the top right corner wich will inject the quoted post into your reply.

An example of this is as follows:

Quote from: w3bz on 15 July, 2009, 08:53:19 AM
Oh OK they've set the CSS up wrong on shadows I think, will change when i get in... doesn't work on IE apparently.

SMF creates the quote with additional details such as name, time and link back to the original post.

QuoteI commend the moderators for their work and I guess it would be my responcibility to adjust.

Jeez, TS, you really haven't go the hang of this internet thing have you?  Remember: It's never the user's fault!  Change is never good!  You're entitled to a service that exactly matches your expectations and tastes!  Especially if it's free!  

Stop thinking like a decent human being:  Apologise for nothing!  Regret Nothing!

Careful now, I just got done pruning the users table. ;)

All users awaiting email verification have been deleted.

All users who fail to escape both of these criteria have been deleted:

• Haven't made a post
  
• Last login time was before 2009-01-01
  

Of 48421 users this criteria deleted 45525 users.

Of the remaining 2896 users:

• 475 have never posted (likely spam bots).
  
• 740 have more than 10 posts.
  
• 329 of those 740 users have logged in since the start of 2009.
  
• 219 of those 329 users have logged in within the last month.
  
• 153 of those 219 users have logged in within the last 5 days.
  

Removed shadows. Stupid thing that works on limited browsers.
Design borked on Safari, but shifting to blue theme anyway which'll fix the issue.

Quote from: VinceBot on 15 July, 2009, 10:23:42 AM
Careful now, I just got done pruning the users table. ;)

All users awaiting email verification have been deleted.

All users who fail to escape both of these criteria have been deleted:

• Haven't made a post
  
• Last login time was before 2009-01-01
  

Of 48421 users this criteria deleted 45525 users.

Of the remaining 2896 users:

• 475 have never posted (likely spam bots).
  
• 740 have more than 10 posts.
  
• 329 of those 740 users have logged in since the start of 2009.
  
• 219 of those 329 users have logged in within the last month.
  
• 153 of those 219 users have logged in within the last 5 days.
  

So, how many of us are there really?

QuoteSo, how many of us are there really

?

Looks like an active population of maybe 200 (people with more than 10 posts, who've logged in in the last month, with maybe half again on silent running/leave of absence.  Wait, I forget whether we're including the Undercity or not?

Double post.  'Scuse.

Yaay! "View Active Topics" is back!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. My world is all right again  ;D

I'm a newb, but I like to think I'm an active member.

Course I also have more than 10 posts, and I like to think alot of things...

I'm not sure if it's been pointed out, but as far as I can tell most peoples old avatars are in the 'Old Icons' file in the profile editting section of your profile. Sorry if you knew that already but had decided to go avatarless.

Cheers, Kerrin!  Stickle's back!

I'm already getting used to the new look and everything seems to work fine now too! The only problem is that everyone (me included) has gone avatar crazy and seem to be changing on a daily basis! I can't get used to Mr Godpleton as a girl when we all know he's a little yellow robot!

has anyone checked out the suer stats? Interesting to see what time of day people post. I like trying to guess who's unemployed, who's posting at work and who likes a late rant at beer o'clock!

Not sure if this has been brought up previously, but I'm clearly too lazy to read this whole thread back and check: on both Firefox and Chrome I'm getting the links at the top of the board (for home, help, search etc) all skadged over to the right, and in some cases on top of other stuff, like the fancy search box.

EDIT: It seems, after fiddling with my profile settings, that everything which isn't actual board is skadged over to the right.

Quote from: SamuelAWilkinson on 15 July, 2009, 10:44:26 PM
on both Firefox and Chrome I'm getting the links at the top of the board (for home, help, search etc) all skadged over to the right, and in some cases on top of other stuff, like the fancy search box.

I think w3bz is working on a fix for this which will feature primarily in the new blue theme then hopefully transfer onto this one. This issue currently affects most browsers.
As far as I'm aware its because the old HTML code for the top and bottom of the page is horrendous, so he's decided to rewrite it cleanly, which is a lot of work. Isn't that good of him.

Quote from: dandontdare on 15 July, 2009, 10:38:50 PM
the only problem is that everyone (me included) has gone avatar crazy and seem to be changing on a daily basis!

Really? I thought the biggest affliction was the use of marquees everywhere.  :'(

Layout's still borked on the iPhone, BTW ... there's no longer an Abbaddon advert smack in the middle of it, but it now displays the header, then the topics beneath that, but shunted right by the width of the header.

Sorry to be a whinger ... but this forum is actually my favourite place on the whole internet* and I get really twitchy when I can't access it properly!

Cheers

Jim

* That doesn't feature naked ladies, obviously.

Quote from: Kerrin on 15 July, 2009, 08:32:03 PM
I'm not sure if it's been pointed out, but as far as I can tell most peoples old avatars are in the 'Old Icons' file in the profile editting section of your profile. Sorry if you knew that already but had decided to go avatarless.

Huzzah! Mine had survived the initial move then disappeared today. Now he's back, no-one's safe. Ah-cha-cha cha.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 15 July, 2009, 11:39:56 PM
Layout's still borked on the iPhone

Yep, same problem different browser.

Quote from: The Cosh on 15 July, 2009, 11:53:44 PM
Huzzah! Mine had survived the initial move then disappeared today. Now he's back, no-one's safe. Ah-cha-cha cha.

You people and your weirdly small avatars make me uncomfortable.  :-\

Quote from: VinceBot on 16 July, 2009, 12:07:30 AM

Quote from: The Cosh on 15 July, 2009, 11:53:44 PM
Huzzah! Mine had survived the initial move then disappeared today. Now he's back, no-one's safe. Ah-cha-cha cha.

You people and your weirdly small avatars make me uncomfortable.  :-\

You know what they say about chaps with big avatars.

Quote from: VinceBot on 16 July, 2009, 12:07:30 AMYou people and your weirdly small avatars make me uncomfortable.  :-\

The original version of this forum had a 32x32 pixel avatar limit. One big advantage of that was that it was usually still recognisable when reduced to 16x16 in the Active Topics list and chat room.

The 32x32 pixel icons still get plenty of use on BARNEY (http://www.2000ad.org/?choice=droid&page=links).

this forums BUTTT UGLY

QuoteReally? I thought the biggest affliction was the use of marquees everywhere.

What the fuck are you talking about?  :D

Where has the laughing Smiley gone ???

Has someone had it away with it ?

Did it get lost in the move ?

O Where have you gone laughing Smiley ?

Ooh, like the look that has just appeared Great job!

We just need reply buttons for each post...thanks!

Did you bring that up before?

Not sure...but don't get me wrong, I like the improvements you're made.

Nah that's cool just double checking we didn't ignore the request :)

Hola- This may well be something you are dealing with, but there needs to be a little more definition between posts on a thread. I am having issues visually. Also- on the 'view active' setting I can't see any difference between threads I've posted on or not- they all say new...

Nice to see the sidebars back though.

Ah...that might be because the old look had the mod and this one doesn't will double check...

Should be working now?

Safari & iPhone still have issues I'm working on that now...

I did really like the big exclamation points!!!

Starting to really rock. Congrats and take an extra five minutes with the your next lube change chaps.

This looks much better cheers w3bz.

Everything is going well. Thanks for all the effort.

One thing I'd like to flag for a future tweak is adding a link to your personal message folder. I've not yet managed to find a way into it (although I might be missing it).

I was about to say check the menu at the top next to the PROFILE link, but it seems to have vanished! I swear there was a "my messages" link there yesterday!

ARGH! I'VE LOST ALL MY MESSAGES! I can't even find how to get to the ones I've already sent, let alone any that people may have sent me! Where's the link??

This is especially important as I sent Peterwolf a message earlier today and I want to see if he responded, and I CAN'T FIND A SODDING THING!!!

Steev

"View unread posts" - isn't working for me. Nothing is showing.
What's the difference between it (not working) and "View Active Topics" which seems to be showing loads of posts? (other than that one works, and the other doesn't?)

Quote from: dandontdare on 18 July, 2009, 12:36:18 PM
I was about to say check the menu at the top next to the PROFILE link, but it seems to have vanished! I swear there was a "my messages" link there yesterday!

It was there til about midday, but then disappeared. Luckily, I had gotten the address I needed just before the messages vanished  :o!

If you click on anyone's PM button, the post it opens also has links next to it to view your inbox and outbox - this is currently the only way I've found to get into my messages at all! Just remember not to send the blank message!

The link that went walkies should be back for PM's
Should've fixed logout / safari issue
iPhone should work better

The page navigation links in a multi-page thread are still way off to the right in Safari.

So they were, should be ok now  :-*

I gotto get me a new avatar picture but I'm not so good at self portraits, even charictures pictures. Though I am seriuosly considering this as my current one isn't accurately descrptive of me. Not that it matters but I think I would like to try something more themattic.

Anyway, thee boaard has gone along since the days I was just lurking in 2004.

 

We would appear to have lost the ability to save a draft of a post. There used to be a button by 'post' and 'preview' that let you do this. I found it useful on a couple of occasions, especially when wittering on at length, to avoid getting timed out, also if midpost I had to go out for whatever reason. Any chance of a similar feature on the new model forum?

Good shout, will look into it  ;)

Just noting that spoiler tags/button don't do anything constructive (under Safari at least), other than bolding, underline and turning the text blue, which wasn't really what I had in mind.

I've noticed that the pages keeps scrolling back up after if I have flled the text box complelety.

If you get my meaning.

Quote..which wasn't really what I had in mind.

Bah, what you had in mind? What about the other 97% of internet users that don't use Safari eh?  ;)

Saying that, wasn't bloody working full stop, so should be now...not sure why that was  :-\

Quote
I've noticed that the pages keeps scrolling back up after if I have flled the text box complelety.

If you get my meaning.

The entire page? That'll be down to which link you clicked to get there in the first place. Something else, let me know...

My Pic has gone!

What happened and how can I get it back?

Have to say, the service here is unbelievably good.  Hats off, I'm tipping 20% of the bill this time.

Hey Uncle, you can reupload it through your profile. Give us a shout if you can't see how to do it.

QuoteI'm tipping 20% of the bill this time.

Sweet! 20%! Of Nothing....is....ah....

Good to see the old new theme back(!) Thanks for that :-)

If it's of interest, in Firefox 3.5.1 on PC I have to maximise my browser to 1680x1050 just to see the tops of the character's heads in the Kev Walker pic at the bottom of the screen. No biggie though...

Cheers,

M@

Quote from: w3bz on 21 July, 2009, 12:05:23 PM
Hey Uncle, you can reupload it through your profile. Give us a shout if you can't see how to do it.

QuoteI'm tipping 20% of the bill this time.

Sweet! 20%! Of Nothing....is....ah....

Put a new one up, cheers.

Yeah it's a kinda Safari/Mobile Vs Firefox issue which I've got on the list to look at  :-\

Quote from: Banners on 21 July, 2009, 12:07:47 PM
Good to see the old new theme back(!) Thanks for that :-)

If it's of interest, in Firefox 3.5.1 on PC I have to maximise my browser to 1680x1050 just to see the tops of the character's heads in the Kev Walker pic at the bottom of the screen. No biggie though...

Cheers,

M@

hang on - I'm just seeing pale blue posts on a white background, no pics anywhere on the screen besides avatars - am I missing something? I'm on Firefox 3.0.11 on a PC.

I'm on Firefox 3.0.11

Firefox 3.5.1 is out now DDD, best to update to it as my tame I.T. friend says the older Firefox's have some sort of vulnerability. He didn't specify what that was, but I'm sure it's not to Kryptonite!

-Bouwel-

Quote from: Bouwel on 21 July, 2009, 09:45:25 PM
I'm on Firefox 3.0.11

Firefox 3.5.1 is out now DDD, best to update to it as my tame I.T. friend says the older Firefox's have some sort of vulnerability. He didn't specify what that was, but I'm sure it's not to Kryptonite!

-Bouwel-

Done!

can you ask your friend whether this vulnerability has anything to do with the Master Password? I've been growing increasingly paranoid over the last week or two - I'm used to having to re-enter my password as I'm a kak-handed git, but lately no matter how careful I've been, I have always had to enter the password exactly twice. As this system remembers my passwords for just about everything else I do, it's been worrying me a bit.

And I have now found the pics in question, but only by altering my resolution to crazy proportions, so I'll leave it as it is - quite like the minimalism actually!

I think I'm going to find the "total time logged in" figure rather depressing! I'm already up to 1 day 3hours and 47 minutes! I KNOW I'm frittering my life away thankyouverymuch, I don't need a reminder constantly staring me in the face!

Quote from: Banners on 21 July, 2009, 12:07:47 PM
Good to see the old new theme back(!) Thanks for that :-)

If it's of interest, in Firefox 3.5.1 on PC I have to maximise my browser to 1680x1050 just to see the tops of the character's heads in the Kev Walker pic at the bottom of the screen. No biggie though...

Cheers,

M@

Are you getting the old theme? I'm still on the new blue and white one (and yea, I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1).

Quote from: Steel Rabbit

Quote from: Banners
Good to see the old new theme back(!)

Are you getting the old theme? I'm still on the new blue and white one (and yea, I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1).

By "old theme" I mean I now have the light blue and black theme which we had for a while before the interim black/red one. Presumably we all have?

M@

Oh, I thought you meant the one with the 2000AD characters at the bottom.

Quote from: Banners on 22 July, 2009, 12:09:18 PM

Quote from: Steel Rabbit

Quote from: Banners
Good to see the old new theme back(!)

Are you getting the old theme? I'm still on the new blue and white one (and yea, I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1).

By "old theme" I mean I now have the light blue and black theme which we had for a while before the interim black/red one. Presumably we all have?

M@

mine looks like this:

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/screenshotcopy.jpg)

I can only see the artwork at the bottom if I adjust my screen resloution to the max, but this throws everything else out of whack so I'll just do without.

Quote from: Steel RabbitOh, I thought you meant the one with the 2000AD characters at the bottom.

That is the one I mean. Only, like dandontdare below, in FF you can only see the characters when the screen is maxed.

(Which is where I came in).

M@

Oh... Then in that case I don't see it.

I think it's a question of screen size. On the screen I'm using now which is quite large and squarish I can see the artwork. On my 13"macbook, no. Both running Firefox.

Why cant i cut and past and insert quotes from someone elses post into mine ?

Every time i do this i end up with their entire post instead of just the particular sentence that i want and that i just highlighted in blue and its infuriating.Its not like i dont know how to cut and paste as i have done it a thousand times at least if not more.

Everyone else seems top have no problem but as usual i do and i dont know why.

I drag my cursor over their text so it highlights the particular quote i want in blue and then click on 'insert quote' and Bingo !! there goes their entire post into my 'post reply' box without fail every time.

GGGrrrrr.....



If anyone else can help with this it would be appreciated.

  ???

Also where has the laughing smiley gone to ??

Quote from: peterwolf on 23 July, 2009, 02:04:02 AM
Why cant i cut and past and insert quotes from someone elses post into mine ?

The method you're using doesn't work on these forums. I think everyone else is just inserting the quote they're after (the whole post) and then deleting the portion of the quote they have no need for.

We don't have any plans to add the select-and-quote feature as it's technically still possible to achieve the same goal with a tiny bit more effort.

Quote from: Banners on 22 July, 2009, 12:37:51 PM
like dandontdare below, in FF you can only see the characters when the screen is maxed.

I can only see the tip of a helmet when my Firefox is full screen, so I don't think its just you guys. I'm running 3.5.1 with AdBlock but disabling adBlock has no effect.

Maybe I can get w3bz on it if we've got time and we can reproduce it at work. It could be we haven't noticed it in testing because we're both running 1600 height screens, but here at home I've only got 1280h, pushing most of the image off the bottom.

Quote from: VinceBot on 23 July, 2009, 04:33:37 PM
I can only see the tip of a helmet when my Firefox is full screen,

Leave those websites alone, you'll go blind, and concentrate on this one!  ;D

Quote from: VinceBot on 23 July, 2009, 04:33:37 PM
I can only see the tip of a helmet when my Firefox is full screen,

Sounds like you need to unzip your archive so you can see the full package m i rite

The layout of "Messages" part of this site is FUBARed in Safari, with the header appearing as it should, then everything below shunted right by the width of the header ...

Cheers

Jim

Quote from: VinceBot on 23 July, 2009, 04:33:37 PM

Quote from: peterwolf on 23 July, 2009, 02:04:02 AM
Why cant i cut and past and insert quotes from someone elses post into mine ?

The method you're using doesn't work on these forums. I think everyone else is just inserting the quote they're after (the whole post) and then deleting the portion of the quote they have no need for.

We don't have any plans to add the select-and-quote feature as it's technically still possible to achieve the same goal with a tiny bit more effort.

Thanks for answering my question.

I just sussed out or discovered accidentally how to delete a block of text that i have just cut and pasted just leaving the part of the post that i am replying to.

I am on an up to date Mac.

I cut and paste an entire block of text using the 'insert quote' feature so it appears in my reply box.Then i move the cursor over the text that i dont want so it appears blue and use the 'delete' key on my keypad and it instantly deletes the text i dont want and leaves what i do want.

Amazing !  ;D

Everyone else probably already knows this already but i didnt as i am a bit of a dunce with technology a lot of the time .Indeed this does achieve the same result as a 'select and quote' feature and it takes a second or 2 longer.

Now i understand your logic and really it was just me being ignorant.

Problem solved !

First time I changed my Avatar picture since I had signed up.

I used the Spore U.F.O. Creator to design/make it,

(http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp64/CLICKYMAN/Spore_2009-07-24_16-34-38.png?t=1248425172)

(http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp64/CLICKYMAN/Spore_2009-07-24_16-35-14.png?t=1248425494)

(http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp64/CLICKYMAN/Spore_2009-07-24_16-36-06.png?t=1248425584)

As you see. It's only a bust of me and the resembalance is superficial, close enought for the tiem beingas it's the first time I have attempted a likeness of myself using Spore.

I don't look quite so robust, my face is narrower than that, My hair it is bit thinner on top and is not so neat looking, but thats basically me.

I have a short thick beard and neck length hair that is thicker around the sides than it is on top.

While this doesn't look exactly like me, it's more accurate than my former avatar picture.

I know it looks silly as a U.F.O., particually when it's flying. But I only intended this to made as my Avater picture here on this forum.

See it on the right hand side column.

Quote from: peterwolf on 23 July, 2009, 11:15:04 PM
Problem solved !

I like you. You can stay.

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 24 July, 2009, 10:13:19 AM
(http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp64/CLICKYMAN/Spore_2009-07-24_16-34-38.png?t=1248425172)

For a moment I was worried George Lucas had found the internet and was coming to destroy us in his intergalactic space bust.

Are the PMs working? I've been trying to send one but it doesn't appear to be successful.

They worked for myself and w3bz when we tested them a few days ago. I'll send you one as a test.
It might be whoever you sent it to is just ignoring you, or hasn't had a chance to read it yet, or noticed they have a PM.

Quote from: VinceBot on 24 July, 2009, 02:52:47 PM

Quote from: peterwolf on 23 July, 2009, 11:15:04 PM
Problem solved !

I like you. You can stay.

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 24 July, 2009, 10:13:19 AM
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For a moment I was worried George Lucas had found the internet and was coming to destroy us in his intergalactic space bust.

You should stay as well because i really like your humor.

Quote from: VinceBot on 25 July, 2009, 02:07:50 PM
They worked for myself and w3bz when we tested them a few days ago. I'll send you one as a test.
It might be whoever you sent it to is just ignoring you, or hasn't had a chance to read it yet, or noticed they have a PM.

Yep that worked Vince. I just wondered because I sent a PM, ticked the 'save a copy in outbox' box and got nothing. Do the names in the addressee box always have quotation marks?

Looks like it - it's probably how the software differentiates between names, as names can have spaces.

My original PM did work apparently Vince, just being a bit technically challenged I think. Nothing new there.

Alright, most issues seem to have been sorted out and this thread has gotten a bit overloaded.

Please direct all future concerns to either:
The Bug Report Thread (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25664.0.html)
or
The Feature Requests Thread (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25665.0.html)

Thanks, and have a safe and productive day.