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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 03:44
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Aaaagh! The Email Notification Subject line has just become 6 characters longer with the insertion of the slightly redundant word "Music " in the text - as has the "From: " field. On a 1024px width screen using Outlook it's now completely useless as the actual topic subject is hidden when Outlook limits the subject column width.
 
For example the subject line for notifications for this particular thread is now 100 characters long and actually truncates the ony piece of information that varies from email to email in the text:
 
"Progressive Rock Music Forum by Progarchives.com Topic Reply Notification : UPGRADE to the FORUM eng"
 
On my laptop Outlook cuts the field off at :
 
"Progressive Rock Music Forum by Progarchives.com Topic Reply Noti"
 
unless I full-screen the window - which I don't need to do for anyother emails and don't want to do just for PA emails.
 
Most of that is redundant - I know it's from Progressive Rock Music Forum because that's what the email is about; I know it from Progarchives.com because that's who the email is from!
 
what's wrong with just:
 
"Progarchives Topic Notification: UPGRADE to the FORUM engine"
 
 
ps: I know I'm the only person whining about this, but knowing that doesn't make it any easier to read the email subject line.
 
Should be easy for M@x to fix, I'll ask him to add it to his list of bugs.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 04:01
I'm not sure if really a change, but I think the font of the front page (including reviews, informations and all sort of tags) looks new.

I myself like it. Clap
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 11:11
Dean,
 
M@x has checked out the e-mail notification issue. It's on his list of things to address, but he says it's not a straightforward fix, so it may take some time.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 11:25
^ cheers.
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Points: 21134 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 11:32
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Aaaagh! The Email Notification Subject line has just become 6 characters longer with the insertion of the slightly redundant word "Music " in the text - as has the "From: " field. On a 1024px width screen using Outlook it's now completely useless as the actual topic subject is hidden when Outlook limits the subject column width.
 
For example the subject line for notifications for this particular thread is now 100 characters long and actually truncates the ony piece of information that varies from email to email in the text:
 
"Progressive Rock Music Forum by Progarchives.com Topic Reply Notification : UPGRADE to the FORUM eng"
 
On my laptop Outlook cuts the field off at :
 
"Progressive Rock Music Forum by Progarchives.com Topic Reply Noti"
 
unless I full-screen the window - which I don't need to do for anyother emails and don't want to do just for PA emails.
 
Most of that is redundant - I know it's from Progressive Rock Music Forum because that's what the email is about; I know it from Progarchives.com because that's who the email is from!
 
what's wrong with just:
 
"Progarchives Topic Notification: UPGRADE to the FORUM engine"
 
 
ps: I know I'm the only person whining about this, but knowing that doesn't make it any easier to read the email subject line.



My suggestion: use Thunderbird. It not only handles emails better and more safely, but it also manages RSS feeds pretty well. For example the active topics feed is a nice feature which renders most email notifications obsolete ...
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2008 at 00:57
Hey, when you use the search function to find polls and such, the formatting is diffrent when you click on some of the polls. It's just listed information, there's no place to comment.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2008 at 04:42
Some polls have been created as vote only polls. It's an option available to the thread creator.
 
Persoanlly, I can't see the the point of it though, as a good poll should be a stimulus for discussion
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:30
^^ That's not what I mean, but I found out the problem; it gave me a printer friendly version first, and it gives you the URL to the actual poll spot. No worries.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2008 at 02:18
I have verified it today... The active topics function sucks... We were having a big discussion in a thread about MAlmsteen and it didn't even show in the "active topics"....
 
You see? Bring the last 10 posts! TongueTongueTongueTongue
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Points: 21134 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2008 at 03:16
^ that's hardly possible. The active topics page lists all threads with recent posts.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2008 at 22:14
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ that's hardly possible. The active topics page lists all threads with recent posts.
 
Mike, as much as I'm weird and whatever you want, I'm not blind and I'm not a liar...sorry. I checked it last night. Thoroughly.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 17:23
The latest posts are back on the forum home page again.
 
Record your appreciation here!Big%20smile
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Points: 65244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 17:52
many, many thanks
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 18:32
appreciation? ...I'll show you some appreciation LOL

yes....great.. give a piece of candy to the kids... and yet take away the damn search  through the message body option. Yes.. thanks a hell of a lot.  How's that for appreciation LOL Never mind someone trying to find what someone might have said through the day...catch mentions of a group or subject... or to catch if someone had something to say to you in a post.

whoot...   my nipples are hard in response to seeing the 10 recent posts back....if you had at least limited it to prog discussion and topic only... you might have even got an errection from me.  Now the kids can follow their pointless social threads hahhaha.

appreciation?  Yes.... Have some clappies...  for the facebook of prog... progarchives LOL

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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 18:36
It's great. Thanks for re-introducing such a useful feature.
Of course, it *would* be extra nice if it didn't take up so much room... o;)
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 18:37
And just when I was getting used to not having them....

LOL Wink

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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2008 at 02:42
The search function has lost again the option of searching within messages. Unhappy
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2008 at 04:04
It's too taxing on the server Rico. If someone does such a search, everone else using the site suffers.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2008 at 06:45
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:



It's too taxing on the server Rico. If someone does such a search, everone else using the site suffers.


I understand, I just wish it was different.

Is this M@X's official view, cause he put it back when the big change was done?
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Points: 360 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2008 at 08:16
Great, thanks!
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