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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 12:28
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

In a member's profile there used to be a link to the site with all his reviews. It's now gone!


would be nice to have


to have back, that is...Wink
definitely

instead, we can now see what a member is doing on the forum...no more hiding between the bushes...LOL


We've always had that feature. Wink


Yes, on the front page of the forum.
But not it is in a member's profile page. Wink
Up until now we only knew if a member was online or offline, suspended or active, drunk or sober...Wink


exactly... we used to have have the ability to search a member by their posts.. that was removed for performance reasons... and could only search a member by the threads they started.  Now if I wanted to see what Rico had to say thorughout the forum during the day... it is a quick search.  I enjoyed that feature before it was removed some time back.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 12:57
I've been trying to get used to it, but I sure don't like the new look.
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Hey, Admins!

I´m the böthy, speaking trhough martinn. I cant log in cause the new forum upgrade does not understand the "ö" in the böthy. Please do somthing, I feel like I´m getting weaker and weaker each minute without my Progarchives! This is no joke, I CANT GET LOGGED IN!!!
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:52
The function [TUBE ] [/TUBE ] doesn't work properly when I place it in my sig. The video shows up in my post instead in the sig.
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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 16:24
Originally posted by martinn martinn wrote:

Hey, Admins!

I´m the böthy, speaking trhough martinn. I cant log in cause the new forum upgrade does not understand the "ö" in the böthy. Please do somthing, I feel like I´m getting weaker and weaker each minute without my Progarchives! This is no joke, I CANT GET LOGGED IN!!!
 
Check now, Martinn/Matias... but a PM should be faster (I found this post by chance). Smile
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 18:29
I've got a number of gripes that I may/may not get used to. I agree with glass_house and Angelo about the colour contrast, colours a too pale by far and the wight is very bright, not particularly pleasent. Also, because of the pale colours, I find it difficult ot see which threads are pinned/locked/have a recent post in them, which is very annoying. Lastly, everytime I come to the forum I have to manually log in now, rather than find myself automatically logged in, it only costs me a second or two but its still a bit annoying.
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Points: 15535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 18:41
Basically what everybody else said...(colour, latest posts thingy, etc....)


On the positive side:

I'm liking the un-answered topics button. It's nice to be able to take a look at very new topics, otherwise I wouldn't really notice that they're there.


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I would like the admins to crack down on the giant f**king image sigs. It's not nice for people on 56k (I'm not, but some are, and it would absolutely rape them), and there's really no need for us to see a huge picture of some band or musician or something that you like after every one of your posts. Hell, even most Last.fm sigs are too large, don't they have smaller designs? They should at least, some of this is just getting obnoxious.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 20:18
I don't like it but hope to get used to it. Can the "newest post" option be brought back? Sometimes I don't like to have the first post as the first thing I see, specially in thread I've already read or answered.
 
Well, anyway, I guess bravo.
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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 21:29
Clicking on the yellow arrow you'll go to the last post of the forum... Smile
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:00
Originally posted by Ghandi 2 Ghandi 2 wrote:

I would like the admins to crack down on the giant f**king image sigs. It's not nice for people on 56k (I'm not, but some are, and it would absolutely rape them), and there's really no need for us to see a huge picture of some band or musician or something that you like after every one of your posts. Hell, even most Last.fm sigs are too large, don't they have smaller designs? They should at least, some of this is just getting obnoxious.
 
Not an "Admin" issue G2, we can do nothing about it. M@x would need to inhibit through coding changes.
 
Clearly many people feel they are a good thing though.
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Points: 1494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2007 at 18:33

Yes, you could. Post a sticky that says "No sigs can be larger than 400x80", give people some time to comply, and if they don't force edit their sigs or ban them or something (you can do that, right?).

Since when has listening to the majority helped? ;-) Rico's sig takes up three quarters of my freaking page, and I'm on 1200x800 resolution! micky's and some others are almost as bad! Besides that it's obnoxiously raping my scroll button, imagine what it's doing to people on 56k! 56k averages 7kb/s, which means that it would take him 4.7 seconds to load just Rico's sig once. If micky, Rico, and Geck0 each posted on the same page twice, then that's a total of 22 seconds of completely superflous loading time just for their images. I'm not even counting their Last.fm sigs because I didn't bother to do the math. That really adds up if you're trying to browse multiple pages. I don't mean to single them out, they're just big ones that caught my eye. There are other people with larger file size sigs than that because they're animated gifs.
 
I don't know if there are any people who are actually on 56k, but maybe someone came and was discouraged? It's always good to be considerate. And even if nobody with 56k ever comes here, it's still considerate to my scroll button and ease of reading.


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I just adblock big pictures.  Or anything that annoys me (for example, pictures of cats).  

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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 09:22
Originally posted by Ghandi 2 Ghandi 2 wrote:

Yes, you could. Post a sticky that says "No sigs can be larger than 400x80", give people some time to comply, and if they don't force edit their sigs or ban them or something (you can do that, right?).

Since when has listening to the majority helped? ;-) Rico's sig takes up three quarters of my freaking page, and I'm on 1200x800 resolution! micky's and some others are almost as bad! Besides that it's obnoxiously raping my scroll button, imagine what it's doing to people on 56k! 56k averages 7kb/s, which means that it would take him 4.7 seconds to load just Rico's sig once. If micky, Rico, and Geck0 each posted on the same page twice, then that's a total of 22 seconds of completely superflous loading time just for their images. I'm not even counting their Last.fm sigs because I didn't bother to do the math. That really adds up if you're trying to browse multiple pages. I don't mean to single them out, they're just big ones that caught my eye. There are other people with larger file size sigs than that because they're animated gifs.
 
I don't know if there are any people who are actually on 56k, but maybe someone came and was discouraged? It's always good to be considerate. And even if nobody with 56k ever comes here, it's still considerate to my scroll button and ease of reading.


I guess that is just the difference in people...

after I destroyed my high speed modem against the wall last year.. I suffered through dial-up, too ashamed  to tell the cable company that the modem they gave me was in pieces and ask for a replacement LOL...

I know exactly of what you speak there G2... the difference is... some accept it... wouldn't think of asking others to change their profiles or their manner of posting... on their account.  If the site and the way it is bothers me... I don't visit it.. simple as that. For me, I waited ... if but impatiently at times hahhaha... for the pages to load.
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Points: 1494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 10:35
There's a difference between asking someone to change who they are online, and asking someone to be considerate to everyone around them. Except if who they are is being inconsiderate to everyone, then they should change, or be forcibly ejected. Moderators claim they can enforce courtesy rules in posting for the better good of everyone, I don't see why stupid signatures that are 10 times longer than your post (and sometimes are mostly white space!) should be any different. If I wanted to see a picture of that guy or a cat, I would Google it!
 
To be honest, "If you don't like it just leave" is a really weak defense, especially for something like this. I like this site, it's one of the better ones around, but I think there are ways that it could be better. I can deal with it, it's not that much more annoying than the constant graphic emoticons that are thrown about (I loved people's reactions to my old sig about that. Clearly, these things are important enough to bring out the best in people). But that doesn't make it right or good.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 11:02
I repeat, it's not an issue for the Admin team. There is nothing in the rules banning large signatures, and the rules would not be the place to enforce any policy which did restrict them. that is far better done through technical restrictions. M@x is the site owner and the webmaster. It is up to him what graphics he chooses to allow on the site.
 
The Admin team are happy to take issues to him where there is a ground-swell of opinion about an issue.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not perceive that a lot of people feel that size of the signatures are a major issue.
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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

I repeat, it's not an issue for the Admin team.  [...snip...]


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Maybe this also doesn't belong here, but I noticed it in on Progressive Ears forum last week: would it be possible (without much development work) to add 'partial quoting' to the forums? What PE has is a mechanism that allows you to select a part of someone else's post using your mouse - then click 'Quote' and only the selected piece gets quoted. Very useful in long discussions!
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 15:18
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Maybe this also doesn't belong here, but I noticed it in on Progressive Ears forum last week: would it be possible (without much development work) to add 'partial quoting' to the forums? What PE has is a mechanism that allows you to select a part of someone else's post using your mouse - then click 'Quote' and only the selected piece gets quoted. Very useful in long discussions!


Indeed! I like your idea, Angelo. Thumbs%20Up
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Points: 7851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 16:37
I agree, 'partial quoting' is necessary.
 
Though it won't save us from exteremely long and hard-to-read 'multi-quoting' posts loved by some of our fellows. Smile
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:16
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Are you under stress, Bob? Clown

 
Whatever makes you say that?DeadLOL
 
I also like the selected quoting idea, it would be useful.
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