New Forums - Comments Please

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 11:27 am

@Buck...hmmm...I just replied to your PM but it seems to have disappeared from my out-box. If you have not received it, I will send it again...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 12:57 pm

ok, something else I have discovered. All the PMs you were ever sent are there in your in-box even if you had deleted them very strange...again, it is only the parts of the PMs you received...not the parts you sent...

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 2:07 pm

I like it, but it's gonna take some time to learn all of the little tricks to it.

Post by **BuckGB** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 5:57 pm

Originally posted by Aubrey
1) Speed: though I use a 56 kpbs, there had been times when it took me some time to download some pages, which seemed unrelated to whether it was BG1 or BG2 forum, or whatever. Now there is a really noticeable difference in the speed factor. I suppose it couldn't be better or get faster . Good work!

Glad to hear it. Speed is the main reason that I wanted to move away from UBB. As time went on, UBB (which is CGI-based) was doomed to become slower and slower. You really can't beat the performance of a PHP/MySQL bulletin board like this.

Originally posted by Aubrey
2) Member rating: Ok, I hadn't made a rating system available for myself, but since I became member in the forums I have rated some other members. It's unfair for them they can't see their rating stars.

Agreed. If I can find a way to add a rating system to this new forum, I will. Unfortunately, it's not part of the script by default.

Originally posted by Aubrey
b) I'd like seeing who's here for a long long time and who's a newcomer.

Not sure what you mean here. If you mean in the "Who's Online" feature, the list of names is refreshed every 60 seconds. I don't think it keeps track of how long each name has been online, that would probably be a performance hit.

Originally posted by Aubrey
c) It was good to view the last active thread in each forum from the main forum screen.

Yep, another one of those things that doesn't come with the board by default. Again, if I can find a way to add it, I will.

Post by **BuckGB** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 5:58 pm

Originally posted by Shadow Sandrock
In most of the UBB's I've been to, the "Confused" smiley was animated. But neither the old one or new one displays the cute little question marks on top of the head... just wondering why?

If you want, you can email me the "confused" smilie you'd like to see and I can add it.

Post by **BuckGB** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 6:01 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
Buck, I have PMd you, but there is an update. Where I have lost the sent part of all of my saved PMs, I have also lost some of the older received parts of some of my saved PMs.

In summary, the latest three received messages (in any one PM) are sitting in my in-box as separate PMs but under the same title as the original one PM, with the older received messages of that PM lost.

Are these missing parts (and the missing whole PMs) permanently lost?

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to correct the way private messages were imported, so you may have lost part of them. Sorry about that =\.

Post by **BuckGB** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 6:03 pm

Originally posted by Quitch
Love the new board, but fix your menu link will ya

Menu link? Is there a broken link somewhere?

Originally posted by Quitch
Can we get something that isn't yellow for the "No new posts" icon please? It's far too similar to the "New posts" icon. How about that sort of black shade that is used on the main forum listing? I like that.

Currently, I have the "no new posts" icon using a dark grey/black "V" icon, and the "new posts" icon using a golden "V". I was changing icons last night, so it's possible this may be corrected since you asked for this.

Post by **BuckGB** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 6:05 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
@Buck...hmmm...I just replied to your PM but it seems to have disappeared from my out-box. If you have not received it, I will send it again...

I have only received one from you, so if you sent another you'll have to resend it.

Curdis · Post by **Curdis** » Thu Jan 24, 2002 11:20 pm

O.K. Buck, now I've had some time to settle in. Much faster (on a government T connection). Hasn't crashed my browser yet, (Netscape 4.77) which the old one used to do about twice (or more a day). From home it seems about the same speed. Love the color - Curdis !

Sabre · Post by **Sabre** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 12:38 am

The new forum is nice, although I like the old one better, still I'll get use to it.

Yshania: Not sure if you have noticed it or not, but the sent part of all PMs are saved in the Sent Items list of the Private Message Section - User CP, Private Messages, click on the Jump to Folder box and click on Sent Items.

Buck: Quitch was reffering to the link at the home page - and other pages - on the left hand side menu - it's still linked to the old forum.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 1:22 am

Does anyone know how many private messages we are now allowed to store....?

Aubrey · Post by **Aubrey** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 1:25 am

@ Buck:

Something weird:

I've just received an e-mail informing me on a reply I've got in my message in the current thread. Here are the details:

Shadow Sandrock has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - New Forums - Comments Please - in the GameBanshee Discussion forum of GameBanshee Forums.

However, when I clicked on the link it took me to Sabre's post, replying to someone else!!

It looks something doesn't work properly.

Cheers

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 2:18 am

Members Page

Originally posted by Aubrey

b) I'd like seeing who's here for a long long time and who's a newcomer.

Everything on members This will tell you who's been here the longest, who is the newest member and who has what post count.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 2:19 am

Originally posted by Sabre

Yshania: Not sure if you have noticed it or not, but the sent part of all PMs are saved in the Sent Items list of the Private Message Section - User CP, Private Messages, click on the Jump to Folder box and click on Sent Items.

Thanks Sabre I was referring to the sent part of imported PMs, not new PMs written since the upgrade...

Sabre · Post by **Sabre** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 2:29 am

You're welcome. All of my PMs imported correctly, so I thought you might have miss the menu.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 3:45 am

A question

If I use the option to be invisible, will I show up as a guest on the board? (26 members and 7 guest on-line)

Aubrey · Post by **Aubrey** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 6:14 am

Weasel: This will tell you who's been here the longest, who is the newest member and who has what post count.

Ok, I suppose it's my fault for haven't explained myself, but I didn't really mean that.

Yesterday morning, when I first entered the "new" forum it seemed that the general information previously displayed (member, registry date, number of posts, etc.) didn't appeared on the screen. However, this changed later in the afternoon.

Thanks, anyway.

Cheers

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 7:30 am

Aubrey
Exalted Member

Registered: Nov 2001
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Posts: 83

That is just an example. It still shows how long you've been here and how many numbers of posts you have, only on the left margin under the user-name. It's very convenient that way, but it just takes a little bit of time to get used to it. Most boards are actually that way.

The only real pet peeve I have about the new board is that the shortcut buttons are underneath the post of the person, rather than at the top. Sometimes I end up quoting the wrong person. However, that isn't really a problem with the 'B, just something to get used to. It shouldn't be too hard at all.

~Sandy

Perhaps I should stick to 'Sandy Brown'

Aubrey · Post by **Aubrey** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 7:59 am

That is just an example. It still shows how long you've been here and how many numbers of posts you have, only on the left margin under the user-name. It's very convenient that way, but it just takes a little bit of time to get used to it.

I think that's the key-phrase:to get used to it.

I feel so very quite extremely and totally STUPID. Dah! I've just figured out that --among other changes-- now we're receiving e-mail notifications for every thread we had replied to!!

I'm going to find a hole and hide myself...

Aubrey · Post by **Aubrey** » Fri Jan 25, 2002 8:09 am

P. S. And something funny: Before I log in this morning, at the end of the page I read:

You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts.

For a moment I thought I should pack and get away