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Topic: UPGRADE to the FORUM engine

Posted By: M@X
Subject: UPGRADE to the FORUM engine
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:07

I've made an UPGRADE to the FORUM engine tonite from the 8.05a to the now up to date 9.06 version.

This upgrade includes the following features over the old version.

Version 9.06 (6th October 2007)
1. includes/version_inc.asp - updated version number
2. register.asp - removed the country drop down and replaced with text box
3. pm_outbox.asp - added in missing div closing tag
4. register.asp - fixed bug that would course permissions error when member API is enabled
5. functions/functions_filters.asp - fixed issue that effected some servers when submitting gif images.
6. functions/functions_upload.asp - added extra protection against XSS vulnerabilities in IE
7. pm_new_message.asp - fix XSS exploit if Private Message can not be sent and displays the subject within the returned error message (XSS exploit could only be done to yourself and not to others)
8. functions/unsafe_upload_content_inc.asp - file to hold unsafe file content type for uploads

Version 9.05 (11th September 2007)
1. includes/version_inc.asp - updated version number
2. functions/functions_member_API.asp - improved reliability for logging in and out as different users
3. functions/functions_login.asp - improved member API and fixed resetting the login count on successful login
4. default.asp - improved text display
5. pm_new_message.asp - increased the size of the allowed username field
6. pm_new_message_from.asp - same as above
7. includes/message_form_inc.asp - same as above
8. pm_buddy_list.asp - increased the size of the username field allowed for buddies
9. pm_add_buddy.asp - increased the size of buddy names
10. admin_register.asp - disabled adding new members and editing member username when using the Member API, otherwise it will course issues within the Member API system
11. forum_posts.asp - moved the moderator tools drop down option to a more logical position for the page
12. active_users.asp - now displays users IP to admin and moderators, with link to block users IP
13. language _files/help_language_file_inc.asp - updated help file, to update some parts that have changed since this file was written
14. forum_images - new .gif images added for IE 6 and blow users
The following files have been updated to show .gif's for IE 6 and below users
The gif's don't look as nice as the PNG images, but uptake of IE 7 with native PNG support is still very slow.
1. common.asp
2. includes/status_bar_header_inc.asp
3. active_topics.asp
4. forum_posts.asp
5. forum_topics.asp
6. pre_approved_topics.asp
7. calendar.asp
8. calendar_week.asp
9. calendar_year.asp
10. search_results_posts.asp
11. search_results_topics.asp
12. members.asp
13. includes/forum_status_icons_inc.asp
14. includes/topic_status_icons_inc.asp
15. calendar.asp
16. calendar_week.asp
17. includes/pm_check_inc.asp
18. email_ notify_subscriptions.asp
19. file_manager.asp
20. file_upload.asp
21. member_control_panel.asp
22. pm_buddy_list.asp
23. register.asp
24. register_confirm.asp
25. pm_inbox.asp
26. pm_message.asp
27. pm_new_message.asp
28. pm_new_message_form.asp
29. pm_outbox.asp
30. pm_welcome.asp

Version 9.04 (3rd September 2007)
1. includes/version_inc.asp - updated version number
2. RTE_textarea.asp - improved for display in IE 7
3. functions/functions_filters.asp - improved support for non-western character sets
4. search_results_post.asp - fixed spelling mistake
6. language _files/language_file_inc.asp - updated new text for better explanation of how some things work
7. register.asp - updated text within this file
8. forum_posts.asp - now display's a new new_post.png icon next to unread new posts
9. get_last_post.asp - re-written to get the last unread post in a topic, or the last post in a topic
10. forum_posts.asp - improved code performance
11. default.asp - doesn't show how many unread posts in sub-forums that the user can not access
12. RSS_calendar_feed.asp - fixed displaying of non-western character sets, and gets the page encoding from the setup file
13. RSS_post_feed.asp - same as above
14. RSS_topic_feed.asp - same as above
15. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - fixed issue that could lead to the wrong URL being created for Web Wiz NewsPad
16. default.asp - now displays an 'unread post' icon next to forums with new posts in them, that will take the user straight to the last unread post in the last posted in topic
17. forum_topics.asp - now displays a 'unread post' icon next to topics with new posts that will take the user straight to the last unread post
18. active_topics.asp - same as above
19. pre_approved_topics.asp - same as above
20. search_results_topics.asp - same as above
21. forum_images - added some new images to support new features
22. includes/browser_page_encoding_inc.asp - removed page encoding setup and placed into the setup_options_inc.asp file
23. includes/setup_options_inc.asp - now has page encoding, RSS Encoding, and direction (RTL/LTR) included in this file
24. RTE_textarea.asp - updated for improved IE support and non-western character support
25. functions/functions_common.asp - updated cookie handling for non active members using IE's bad cookie handling
26. includes/message_form_inc.asp - increased the size of the editor writing area
27. includes/quick_reply_form_inc.asp - same as above for quick reply form
28. RTE_javascript.asp - increased the size of the editor toolbar to fit with new editor size
29. non_RTE_javascript.asp - same as above for non RTE editor
30. functions/functions_member_API.asp - added new and improved features to the existing member API
32. log_off_user.asp - added support to log the user out of the web site when using the member API
33. includes/status_bar_header_inc.asp - updated to support the improved member API
34. registration_rules.asp - updated to support improved member API
35. login_user.asp - same as above
36. includes/login_form_inc.asp - updated so that it will not display if the member API account control is disabled
37. includes/status_bar_header_inc.asp - updated to disable tools if member API is enabled, or link to the websites own registration/login pages
38. default.asp - remove quick login when using the member API and forums own login system is disabled
39. register.asp - updated for improved member API and support, fix issue with Web Wiz NewsPad integration, set new location
40. admin_import_members.asp - updated to improve performance and prevent errors that sometimes occurred on slower systems
41. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - updated to detect browser version better for degrading for IE 5 & 6 using GIF images
42. includes/Page_link_inc.asp - now uses client browser settings from global variables instead of calling function
43. includes/forum_status_icons_inc.asp - updated file to remove extra coding that is no-loner required
44. includes/status_bar_header_inc.asp - updated to use GIF images for IE 6 and below
45. includes/topic_status_icons_inc.asp - file updated for images
46. forum_images/blank.gif - updated image for smaller sized icons
47. RSS_calendar_feed.asp - fixed RSS Feed for Events
48. member_profile.asp - updated to fix issue with Newsletter that effected some users
49. RTE_popup_link_preview.asp - fixed issue with undefined variable issue
50. functions/functions_windows_authentication.asp - fixed issue whereby Active Directory users needed to hit refresh to be logged in
51. functions/functions_login.asp - same as above
52. common.asp - removed call to old Windows Authentication (Active Directory) sub which is now replaced with a function
53. quick_serach.asp - text box size now set in pixels to prevent formatting issues with some browsers
54. quick_topic_search.asp - same as above
55. admin_common.asp - updated to fix undefined variable due to other changes in version 9.04
56. admin_register.asp - fixed issue with signatures not displaying as forum BBcodes when being edited in admin area
57. search_process.asp - improved performance
58. forum_posts.asp - fixed issue that would show buddy list link when PM system is disabled
59. functions/functions_common.asp - fixed text display
60. active_topics.asp - improved performance
61. admin_view_forums.asp - updated text
62. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - improved error handling
63. includes/setup_options_inc.asp - added option to disable the updating of login cookies so users can use auto login on multiple machines
64. functions/functions_login.asp - updated so users can use auto-login on multiple computers, logging out will log the user out of all auto-logged in machines

Version 9.03 (10th August 2007)
1. includes/version_inc.asp - updated version number
2. css_styles all styles updated for a bit of refinement
3. css_styles/dark/default_style.css - improved dark skin and link to new pre_approved_post_dark.gif image
4. RTE_popup_adv_image.asp - fixed image insert issue
5. functions/functions_filters.asp - improved security and fixed RTE formatting for Arabic
6. member_profile.asp - fixed email address issue for those who disable the built in email client
7. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - improved the caching of settings
8. log_off_user.asp - destroys API session variables
9. quick_search.asp - improved layout for IE users
10. quick_topic_search.asp - same as above
11. forum_topics.asp - fixed bug that effected changing dates in Firefox
12. functions/functions_upload.asp - added extra error handling

Version 9.02 (1st August 2007)
1. email_notify.asp - fixed forum subscription bug from subscription page
2. includes/version_inc.asp - updated version number
3. admin_import_members.asp - fixed issue that members email addresses were not imported
4. file_upload.asp - fixed javascript error that wouldn't allow images to be uploaded in the file manager
5. admin_common.asp - updated for license holders
6. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - fixed automatic error detection of URL's which coursed problems with some email notification links
7. includes/default_javascript.js - renamed file to default_javascript_v9.js as caching issues with browser when upgrading was coursing problems
8. header.asp - updated file to point to the new JS file
9. admin_email_notify_configure.asp - same as above
10. admin_skin_configure.asp - same as above
11. admin_license.asp - improved error response
12. css_styles - all css files updated to fix large text format issue
13. admin_remove_sub_forum.asp - updated to improve SQL
14. popup_topic_admin.asp - fixed bug that would not allow forum moderators to update topic details
15. lock_topic.asp - fixed issue that prevent moderators from locking topics
16. search_process.asp - altered so the minimum search word length for logged in users is 1 character
17. quick_topic_search.asp - fixed CInt error
18. quick_search.asp - same as above
19. move_post.asp - made some minor alterations to the code
20. functions_member_API.asp - fixed variable undefined bug
21. admin_server_test.asp - new file to test the server is capable of running all the features of the premium edition
22. admin_menu.asp - new includes link to new compatibility test
23. includes/admin_index_inc.asp - same as above
24. pm_buddy_list.asp - moved the 'Add Buddy' form to the top of the page
25. register.asp - removed 'Delete Member' option which has been here for years, but under version 9 users have requested it be moved to the admin control panel
26. admin_select_members.asp - improved page, added new delete member and displays email addresses
27. functions/functions_session_data.asp - made standards compliment SID
28. includes/page_link_inc.asp - improved standards compliance
29. forum_topics.asp - same as above
30. forum_posts.asp - same as above
31. includes/browser_page_encoding_inc.asp - added script validation content type
32. css_styles - all styles changed to support removing align="absmiddle" as it's not part of the XHTML standards
33. global search and replace done to remove align="absmiddle" and border="0"
34. default.asp - improved standards compliance
35. login_user_test.asp - fixed issue with logging in and returning to correct page, also sometimes coursed a blank page in IE6
37. login_user.asp - same as above
38. includes/login_form_inc.asp - same as above
39. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - added new variable for holding sid for redirects
40. global search and replace to replace all strQsSID2 in redirect querystrings with strQsSID3
41. default.asp - fixed bug that would sometimes cause a blank page in IE 5 & 6 when using quick login
42. pm_inbox.asp - updated javasctipt coding
43. admin_forum_details.asp - added a 'check all' feature for setting forum permissions
44. includes/admin_javascript_v9.js - new javascript file for the admin area
45. includes/admin_header_inc.asp - updated file to point to the new admin javascript file#
46. admin_group_permissions.asp - add new 'check all' for setting permissions
47. admin_group_details.asp - added a 'check all' feature for setting forum permissions, corrected guest group defaults, and have 'non-ladder' checked by default when creating new groups
48. delete_member.asp - renamed admin_delete_member.asp and now only run from the admin control panel
49. includes/setup_options_inc.asp - placed upload folder file name into this file so it is now hard coded, due to nemrious bug reports due to user miss configuration
50. includes/global_variables_inc.asp - removed reading in upload folder and variable settings
51. admin_upload_configure.asp - removed all trace of being able to set an upload folder from the amdin area
52. file_upload.asp - fixed issue that would course the image upload not to appear if file uploading was disabled, also improved error handling text
53. file_browser.asp - updated to work with new avatar upload
54. upload_avatars.asp - improved look and made simpler to work with
55. admin_add_member.asp - file removed, rewritten, and renamed to admin_register.asp due to a number of issues and inconsistencies
56. default.asp - updated so only displays the last poster's name and subject of the last topic if the user has read access to that forum
57. forum_topics.asp - same as above for sub forums

This new forum engine will work best again HACKER too.

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Prog On !

Replies:

Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:09

Thanks mailto:M@X - M@X , but will the most recent posts be back up or no?

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Beauty will save the world.

Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:10

A better forum is a better place for me, but it's gonna take some time before I get used to the new look.

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Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:12

Use this thread to comments and suggestions regarding additions to the forum engine.

First suggestion: Bring back the Latest Posts zone.

Any more ?

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Prog On !

Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:15

Is there anway we cn bring back the old look? Or at least make our sigs bigger?

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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:18

/\ Yeah, a bigger box for signatures would be a fine idea. A lot of people's last.fm sigs will be cut short in this format.

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Beauty will save the world.

Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:21

These two suggestions (bigger sigs and recent posts) are the only two that came to my mind. Other than that it's great. Thumbs%20Up

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<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]

Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:23

I prefer the old look... but whatever happens P L E A S E restore Latest Posts, I actually can't do my work for the site properly without it

Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:30

You can still go to active topics, and choose the time frame in which to view them. That's all I ever do.

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http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com

Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:32

sorry H.T., this format stinks

Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:36

Last posts are listed in the right column of each forum in the forum front page.

I will fix the signature height problem

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Prog On !

Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:47

Actually, the get last post button isn't working for me. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

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<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]

Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:52

The heights of the signatures are lookin' good!

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Beauty will save the world.

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:53

The last post feature is working for me now. The first couple of times I tried it I got Explorer errors.

It is definitely not as user-friendly as the previous forum with the latest posts at the bottom. When you clicked on the latest post before it would take you directly to the latest post. Currently it appears to take you to the first post in the thread and then you have to scroll to get to the last post. Also, it is obviously more difficult to follow the latest posts by having to look at each of the topics to see when the latest post was made. This feature was available under the previous method, so this change is definitely not an improvement to the site.

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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:57

Minor thing, but isn't the color of our stars a bit pale?

I am also getting the latest post error.

Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 23:57

M@x,

FYI, it seems that the 'new post' icons in the Active Topics view do not work with Opera unless you are logged in. Â In IE7 they seem to work whether you are logged in or not. Â Not sure this is a big deal, but it is a bit odd.

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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus

Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 00:18

The forum is ALOT slower now for me.

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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 00:23

I cannot seem to log-in using Firefox... I will try to clear the cache, if that doesn't work, I don't know what to suggest.

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 00:30

I cannot find an "Edit Post" button, Maxim...

I have got the forum working in Firefox now, after cleaning the cache and cookies. I also want to see the "Active Posts" return, I use that feature all the time.

Oh, it's under "Post Options"... Confused

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 02:09

Don't know if already mentioned, but accessing a topic by its latest post (that is, pressing the button most right to a topic) directs to a bug/problem page. So a topic can't be accessed that way.

Can it be fixed, just like it was in the old format?

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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 02:57

The page is too white, it hurts my eyes. And please bring the last ten post back.

Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 03:38

The new search feature brings me here:

Server Error in Forum Application
An error has occurred while executing SQL query on database.
Please contact the forum administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_get_search_results_data
File Name:- search_process.asp

Error details:-
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Timeout expired

The advance search works fine.

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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 04:59

Of course, certain points will be improved... but I'm navigating along the forums and I may see some new possibilities that are very interesting.

Great work, mailto:M@x - M@x ...

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Guigo

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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 06:13

It will take folks a while to get used to the upgrade, but it looks like a postive improvement.

As mailto:M@x - M@x says, it also reduces the risk of hacking, which must be a good thing.

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 06:58

Oh, can I also suggest the "Active Topics" button be omni-present, just like before? I don't know about others, but I use heavily, almost indispensably.

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 07:15

My only whinge is the email notification subject line is now much too long

"Progressive Rock Forum by Progarchives.com Topic Reply Notification : "

is all redundant text and doesn't fit my Outlook subject field so I cannot see what topic the notification is for.

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What?

Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 07:24

I have no problems in using the forum the way I'm used to now - i.e. mainly browse from Active Topics, do an occasional search and so on. One thing would be great though, and that is adding a bit more contrast in the color settings. An example: I have to look quite hard to see that there's a lock in the bottom right of a thread icon - mainly due to the use of pale colours and maybe also the very white back ground Tony (glass_house) referred to.

Apart from that - no objections, only improvements.

EDIT: Oh and M@X, thanks for re-enabling full message search, do we get to keep it?

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http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected]

Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 07:31

One small thing after all: I miss a link to my Buddy List in the private messenger. I used that a lot to see if people were actually online, now I can only select a destination for messages from the list. Please restore that link/button.

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http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected]

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 09:04

yuck.... but will get used to it...

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 09:57

AWESOME!!!

thanks M@X... now can search in message body....

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 10:49

A couple of little comments:

It appears the link to read a member's reviews is gone from the profile page... Question

As for the drop-down list when clicking on "post options" or a member's name in a thread, it's always useful to be able to right-click those links and "open in a new tab." I use that function for sites all the time so that I don't have to keep clicking the "go back one page" button in my browser.

In any case, good work, M@X! I really like some of these new features Thumbs%20Up

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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 11:05

post font size needs to be reduced. Or change font from Verdana back to Arial, which results in a smaller appearance at same size setting.

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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 11:05

This is some great stuff, I love this new look.

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 11:24

I still would like to see the Active Topics back... the forum looks cluttered currently, so it's not as easy to navigate.

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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 11:25

Active topics works fine for me.

You guys all need to get Macs.

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a.k.a. H.T.

http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com

Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 12:58

Ok, just found it now in the forum hopme page... when you click in a most recent post in a forum you are directed to the first page of the topic not the current active page.

I believe it's something easy to be fixed.

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Guigo

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 13:15

The Recent Posts does work, but I like it at the bottom of the page where I don't have to click on anything (except the refresh button).

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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 13:24

Geck0 wrote:

The Recent Posts does work, but I like it at the bottom of the page where I don't have to click on anything (except the refresh button).

My sentiments exactly

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<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]

Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:11

moreitsythanyou wrote:

Geck0 wrote:

The Recent Posts does work, but I like it at the bottom of the page where I don't have to click on anything (except the refresh button).

My sentiments exactly

^ ditto.... and keeps the goddamned VR and threads like that from cluttering the main page anyway LOL

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:16

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:20

Ricochet wrote:

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

Hit active topics in the upper right corner.... can find the topics that have been recently posted in... not as 'clean' as the ten recent ones... but works better for that... not as hard to lose topics when trolls, hyenas, and RIO freaks descend upon threads and clog the '10 recent'

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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:29

It's called "Active Topics" and it's in the top right, up by the Search and all that.

Hmm, I justed quoted Rico's text, but I cannot see it... Confused

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:39

as far as I can tell, a member's reviews page is only accessible from the All Reviews area, but it should be included on the Member Profile as before

still terribly missing the lack of a Latest Post overview at the bottom

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:46

micky wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

as sorry, I though you guys mean the latest 10 posts (especially since you bragged, again, about the VR)
yes, the Active Topics is working, I just wish it to be present regardless of what page I'm at, as usual.

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:47

Geck0 wrote:

It's called "Active Topics" and it's in the top right, up by the Search and all that.

Hmm, I justed quoted Rico's text, but I cannot see it... Confused

"You can't quote me, but I can you..." Wink

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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 16:50

GAAAAAAHHH, UGLY! The colors are bland, the thread icons are too large and make the page big and clunky, it goes on and on.

micky wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

Hit active topics in the upper right corner....Â can find the topics that have been recently posted in... not as 'clean' as the ten recent ones... but works better for that... not as hard to lose topics when trolls, hyenas, and RIO freaks descend upon threads and clog the '10 recent'

I'm not a troll... :(

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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 18:43

Atavachron wrote:

as far as I can tell, a member's reviews page is only accessible from the All Reviews area, but it should be included on the Member Profile as beforestill terribly missing the lack of a Latest Post overview at the bottomÂ

I heavily agree, I liked being able to see someones reviews from their profile.

Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 21:53

Zappa88 wrote:

Yeah, a bigger box for signatures would be a fine idea. A lot of people's last.fm sigs will be cut short in this format.

IMHO smaller box for signatures is better idea.

Signatures occupying almost half of a page are quite annoying.

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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)

Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 22:28

NotAProghead wrote:

Zappa88 wrote:

Yeah, a bigger box for signatures would be a fine idea. A lot of people's last.fm sigs will be cut short in this format.

IMHO smaller box for signatures is better idea.

Signatures occupying almost half of a page are quite annoying.

agreed, but I'll take it if we can have Recent Posts back in one place at the bottom... the forums seem dead without it

Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 22:31

Atavachron wrote:

NotAProghead wrote:

Zappa88 wrote:

Yeah, a bigger box for signatures would be a fine idea. A lot of people's last.fm sigs will be cut short in this format.

IMHO smaller box for signatures is better idea.

Signatures occupying almost half of a page are quite annoying.

agreed, but I'll take it if we can have Recent Posts back in one place at the bottom... the forums seem dead without it

I've noticed that too. It makes threads harder to find without it even though it means no VR/STC hogging up the frontpage.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 22:59

but that never really bothered me, and I rarely post in the VR anymore

plus we don't have those handy little window that would appear and show the first part of someone's new post ...I implore the powers that be to restore the Recent Posts function as before

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 23:29

Oh yes, I forgot about that useful little hover feature that allowed us to read the beginning of a post within the Latest Posts section, that was rather useful.

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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 23:40

micky wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

Hit active topics in the upper right corner.... can find the topics that have been recently posted in... not as 'clean' as the ten recent ones... but works better for that... not as hard to lose topics when trolls, hyenas, and RIO freaks descend upon threads and clog the '10 recent'

Heeeyy.. we need space too, y'know

Well, It might work for now. I still hope for a restoration of the "Latest Post" feature on the main forum page though..

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 07:18

Bj-1 wrote:

micky wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

I can't see the "Recent Posts" thing...

Hit active topics in the upper right corner.... can find the topics that have been recently posted in... not as 'clean' as the ten recent ones... but works better for that... not as hard to lose topics when trolls, hyenas, and RIO freaks descend upon threads and clog the '10 recent'

Heeeyy.. we need space too, y'know

Well, It might work for now. I still hope for a restoration of the "Latest Post" feature on the main forum page though..

as leader of the hyena pack.. .we do need our space I guess... but again, things change... it's called survival of the fittest ... the strong.. the adaptable amoung us willl learn to sniff out old decayed rotting corpses of overdone threads and tear them to pieces without the latest post feature. After a couple of hours of navigating without it... it is not hard to not miss it.. at least for me. And it does keep the 'chat' threads from making the site less than it is... a resource for prog rock... rather than an upscale chat site. I had no problem with the VR and similar... only wanted M@X to make the 'latest posts' related to prog only.

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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 07:49

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

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 08:06

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

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 08:20

micky wrote:

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

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 11:52

Ricochet wrote:

micky wrote:

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

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 12:13

Geck0 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

micky wrote:

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

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 12:14

look, just now, Gecko is

Viewing Topic
forum_posts.asp?TID=44901&PN=1 - Rico's year-long experiences: 2007 albums

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 12:28

Ricochet wrote:

Geck0 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

micky wrote:

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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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date 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.

Posted By: martinn
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:37

Hey, Admins!

IÂ´m the bÃ¶thy, speaking trhough martinn. I cant log in cause the new forum upgrade does not understand the "Ã¶" in the bÃ¶thy. Please do somthing, I feel like IÂ´m getting weaker and weaker each minute without my Progarchives! This is no joke, I CANT GET LOGGED IN!!!

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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date 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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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 16:24

martinn wrote:

Hey, Admins!

IÂ´m the bÃ¶thy, speaking trhough martinn. I cant log in cause the new forum upgrade does not understand the "Ã¶" in the bÃ¶thy. Please do somthing, I feel like IÂ´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).

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Posted By: sleeper
Date 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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Posted By: progismylife
Date 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.

Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 19:17

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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Posted By: The T
Date 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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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 21:29

Clicking on the yellow arrow you'll go to the last post of the forum...

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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:00

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. mailto:M@x - M@x would need to inhibit through coding changes.

Clearly many people feel they are a good thing though.

Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date 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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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 00:00

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

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 09:22

Ghandi 2 wrote:

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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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date 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.

Posted By: Easy Livin
Date 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. mailto:M@x - 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.

Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 12:11

Easy Livin wrote:

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

Are you under stress, Bob? Clown

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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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 15:18

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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Charles Bukowski

Posted By: NotAProghead
Date 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.

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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:16

Angelo wrote:

Are you under stress, Bob? Clown

Whatever makes you say that?

I also like the selected quoting idea, it would be useful.

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:32

Ghandi 2 wrote:

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.

IvÃ¡n occasionally uses 56k dialup.

As for signature images, mine isn't that big, I've seen much bigger ones, so why you singled me out specifically, I have no idea...

I do understand your issue though.

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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 18:01

Easy Livin wrote:

Angelo wrote:

Are you under stress, Bob? Clown

Whatever makes you say that?

I also like the selected quoting idea, it would be useful.

Whatever? Whoever you mean - a certain Mr. Belew will be able to fill you in on the details. Wink

Thanks for supporting the suggestion! Thumbs%20Up

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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 18:15

Geck0 wrote:

I have too, and I didn't meant to be mean to you, those names were just ones I got from looking through a few threads randomly for large sigs (except for Rico's new one, which has annoyed me from the beginning), and it was actually your large Last.fm sig plus the picture that made it very noticable. I only wanted specific examples so it wasn't like those typical "some people" things that people do, which then makes no-one accountable, but I am by no means saying that those people are the only people or even the most egregious offendors (just now I have seen 3 people who are worse than who I mentioned). For loading, it's actually probably the animated gifs that are really killer, but at least they aren't such a pain to scroll past.

There is no reason that your sig should exceed 200 pixels high, much less the 400-ish (and sometimes more!)monstrosities. Seriously, it's not that hard to resize images. Hell, I'll do it for you if you don't know how.

I don't see why it's a tech more than an admin issue, except that you wouldn't want to bother PMing people to tell them to change their sigs. I understand that. But it is the admins who make the rules and who enforce them. Max of course has the final say, but that doesn't mean he has to expressly tell you to start every rule.

Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 19:30

Has anyone else reported problems using the 'hyperlink'Â toolbarÂ buttonÂ whenÂ replyingÂ toÂ posts?Â Â I'mÂ usingÂ OperaÂ v9.01Â andÂ everyÂ timeÂ IÂ tryÂ toÂ insertÂ aÂ
hyperlinkÂ theÂ entireÂ pageÂ I'mÂ tryingÂ toÂ linkÂ toÂ getsÂ insertedÂ intoÂ theÂ messageÂ andÂ IÂ can'tÂ postÂ it.Â Â ThisÂ wasn't
happening before the forum upgrade. Â I get the same problem when trying to add hyperlinks to PMs.

Also, word wrap doesn't seem to work in the new forum when using Opera.

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Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 23:28

A quick solution to that is to quote someone normally and before you post, just manually delete the parts you don't wish to quote...

Example: I took out Bob's post as well as "Are you under stress, Bob?" from your original message.

With all due respect ( Stern%20Smile

), is it really that much more difficult?

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 01 2008 at 23:41

That's what I do too, CR.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 00:11

^ yeah, just take out what you don't want

..if the link to a member's reviews in their Profile could be restored, it would be a tremendous help.. right now it's discouragingly hard to track down non-Collab (and even Collab) reviews ..and of course the Latest Posts feature is still sorely missed-- with the current Last Post feature, if the same member posts twice in a row in a given thread, it is easy to miss.. this is important to have when team members are discussing something

thanks for all the work behind the scenes by M@x and graphix, it must be difficult trying to please everyone

Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 00:17

As I mentioned in another thread, I also am not over keen on the new thread page numbers... before they turned purple so I knew when I had visited a certain page, but now I have no idea, so I have had to go back a page or two to find when I last got too.

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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 07:29

ClassicRocker wrote:

Angelo wrote:

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!

A quick solution to that is to quote someone normally and before you post, just manually delete the parts you don't wish to quote... Example: I took out Bob's post as well as "Are you under stress, Bob?" from your original message.With all due respect ( Stern%20Smile

), is it really that much more difficult?

Not difficult at all.

"Very useful in long discussions" - Also, very useful in preventing interminable quote-pyramids.

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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 12:46

Definitely missing the most recent posts list. I often used it to find out what was happening on the forum at any given time.

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 15:41

I prefer when the ads appeared in the first person's post at the bottom. Now that it is seperated it makes the page too wide and I can't read an entire post without scrolling over (just on the first page of a thread).

Anyone else in my boat?

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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: January 03 2008 at 12:36

I add my voice to the ones asking the recent post box back. Thank U. I really like the new graphic and design.

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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 03 2008 at 14:35

Bring the boys... back home!!!

(that is: the last 10 posts box)

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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: January 03 2008 at 21:23

Also, I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but the link from each member's forum profile to their reviews (and bio, if applicable) was really useful and awesome and I wish it were back again.

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 03 2008 at 21:27

Erm, I am having trouble viewing some letters again, particularly diacritics. This had been solved, but now it's broken again.

Example from the above:

ClemOfNazareth wrote:

Has anyone else reported problems using the 'hyperlink'Â toolbarÂ buttonÂ whenÂ replyingÂ toÂ posts?Â Â I'mÂ usingÂ OperaÂ v9.01Â andÂ everyÂ timeÂ IÂ tryÂ toÂ insertÂ aÂ
hyperlinkÂ theÂ entireÂ pageÂ I'mÂ tryingÂ toÂ linkÂ toÂ getsÂ insertedÂ intoÂ theÂ messageÂ andÂ IÂ can'tÂ postÂ it.Â Â ThisÂ wasn't
happening before the forum upgrade. Â I get the same problem when trying to add hyperlinks to PMs.

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 03 2008 at 22:43

Geck0 wrote:

Erm, I am having trouble viewing some letters again, particularly diacritics. This had been solved, but now it's broken again.

Example from the above:

ClemOfNazareth wrote:

Has anyone else reported problems using the 'hyperlink'?nbsp;toolbar?nbsp;button?nbsp;when?nbsp;replying?nbsp;to?nbsp;posts??nbsp;?nbsp;I'm?nbsp;using?nbsp;Opera?nbsp;v9.01?nbsp;and?nbsp;every?nbsp;time?nbsp;I?nbsp;try?nbsp;to?nbsp;insert?nbsp;a?nbsp;
hyperlink?nbsp;the?nbsp;entire?nbsp;page?nbsp;I'm?nbsp;trying?nbsp;to?nbsp;link?nbsp;to?nbsp;gets?nbsp;inserted?nbsp;into?nbsp;the?nbsp;message?nbsp;and?nbsp;I?nbsp;can't?nbsp;post?nbsp;it.?nbsp;?nbsp;This?nbsp;wasn't
happening before the forum upgrade. ?nbsp;I get the same problem when trying to add hyperlinks to PMs.

Aye...this has been happening all over.

And in the quote above it looks quite disfigured...aside from the common error.

Kinda like that.

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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 00:43

Hey, when you click post options on a comment with a quote box at the top the options bar goes behind the quote box, making it impossible to click edit or reply etc.

Also, you can't get to someone's reviews by clicking on their name in the forum.

Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 05:00

It would be useful to have a summary of the issues with the new forum design compared to the old, so that I can take it to mailto:M@x - M@x . Exclude any new suggestions.

Anyone up for it?

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:13

Can I suggest M@X looks into the Active Posts system, I feel there's a bug in it.

Usually if I last visited PA one hour ago, and I access Active Topics when logging again, it shows me the posts made in the last hour. But, all of sudden, a glitch happens and the active posts are reset completely (bringing the active posts to the exact time --> also meaning there are no new posts).

This is not a serious bug and it doesn't mean one can not adjust his last Active Posts down the interval he desires (15 minutes, one hour, a day...etc.), but seeing recent posts at a certain time after, as you change the page, it jumps to T minus zero...sounds glitchy.

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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:23

Easy Livin wrote:

It would be useful to have a summary of the issues with the new forum design compared to the old, so that I can take it to mailto:M@x - M@x . Exclude any new suggestions.

Anyone up for it?

One important thing I just noticed: Character encoding is set to ISO-LATIN-1, but should be UTF-8. You can see it in this thread - the accented a in "Iv�n" is not rendered correctly in the first post of this thread page. Once you choose "UTF-8" as character encoding in the browser's view menu it is rendered correctly.

EDIT: Maybe it's correct now and M@x already switched ... please let M@x know, he'll know what do do about it. Smile

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