Forum Upgrade Feedback

[brad jones]

With any change, there is a chance for issues. After we upgrade later today, feel free to post issues here in Feedback or to Email me.

Brad!

[brad jones]

The upgrade has occurred and the search features are currently being reindexed. If you notice any issues, let us know here. Thanks for everyone's help in making this a smooth transition so far.

In the next few days we will post some additional information on the new features within the forums.

Brad!

[mendhak]

Seems to have gone pretty smooth. Nothing seems to be messed up, but only time will tell for sure. Good work everyone :wave:

1) Right now, it only seems to be cosmetic issues, in that the envelope icons have changed, buttons and hyperlinks seem bigger than before...

2) Also, the "Acceptable Use Policy" link at the bottom of the page is in Times New Roman. Couldn't you make that the same font as the rest of the links?

3) The "Post Icons" appear below this textarea when replying or creating a new therad. Now, a lot of us have a habit of finishing the reply and then pressing tab to move to "submit reply" or "preview post". Is there a way to make the Post Icons appear above the textarea, or is this a new default?

[ice_531]

Sup with the Titles?

"Registered User"

& some people have retained their custom title, whilst others have not :o

[Merri]

Can we get the "good old" letter icons back, they're much clearer than the new ones. I'm on other forum which recently upgraded to v3 and I still don't recognise the icons well... I think they went backwards with them.

Of course one solution would be to make custom icons that resemble the old icons, except that they'd look much neater :)

[mar_zim]

yeah..me too..

"Registered User"

[Tec-Nico]

Please check the invisible mode, it seems it is not working.

I also feel confused with the new icons as well... And I also would like if you could solve the old problem we had with the comments in the VBCode tags when you implement them, some coffee would be nice, and cookies, a gamecube, a new laptop... Oops, sorry... I got carried away with the season's spirit :p

[mendhak]

The invisible mode is working, you do get to see yourself with a * next to the username.

[mendhak]

Brad, dynamic images are not displaying.

[dglienna]

Seems like even more of the top of the screen is being used. I couldn't see ANY posts using my laptop. Now, even the Reply testbox has to be scrolled to. Also, it seems that the font is bigger. I changed my text size to SMALLER, but it didn't help. Maybe its different on a regular monitor, I don't know. My screen is 1024x768.

[Ideas Man]

Where have the vbcode tags gone?

Also, will the new version have better support for VB Keywords?

[Xcoder]

what about the themes, are they enabled somewhere?

[NoteMe]

3) The "Post Icons" appear below this textarea when replying or creating a new therad. Now, a lot of us have a habit of finishing the reply and then pressing tab to move to "submit reply" or "preview post". Is there a way to make the Post Icons appear above the textarea, or is this a new default?

You can still press tab and then the "cursour" will move to the No Icon radio button, and you can press enter on that one, and you will posts....;)...I did that a few times when I was new to vB3, and I found out that it actualy worked.



And I have to echo all the posts about the icons for new posts. I must admitt that I am not sure what icon is the right for when I have posted in a thread or not, even if I have used this version for a long time...and they are so BIG too.

[NoteMe]

Ohhhh and it looks like the indexing isn't finished is it? Because if I search for NoteMe, then I get ZERO,ZIP,NILL,Nothing, and i used to get about 3155 hits. So if it is finished, then it is wrong, if it isn't then I am just posting ZERO,ZIP,NILL,Nothing..:)


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[NoteMe]

Other cosmethic things. The posts should be outlined with a px thin black line, and the post reply button, should not be giving a huggto the post on the bottom.


If you don't see what I mean...take a look at this:
http://chitchatforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1971

[mendhak]

You can still press tab and then the "cursour" will move to the No Icon radio button, and you can press enter on that one, and you will posts....;)...I did that a few times when I was new to vB3, and I found out that it actualy worked.



Try getting to Preview Post like that. :)

[Pino]

With any change, there is a chance for issues. After we upgrade later today, feel free to post issues here in Feedback or to Email me.

Brad!

will we be able to change the styles?

[visualAd]

Will we be getting one of those really neat reply boxes, which works like a word processror. Allowing you to format your posts just by clicking on the buttons and to see the formatting before you reply?

It would also be nice to have a border around individual posts in a thread. They are just disappearing into cyberspace at the moment. Other than that, it looks good. :thumb:

[Maven]

Will we be getting one of those really neat reply boxes, which works like a word processror. Allowing you to format your posts just by clicking on the buttons and to see the formatting before you reply?

It would also be nice to have a border around individual posts in a thread. They are just disappearing into cyberspace at the moment. Other than that, it looks good. :thumb:

The link colors are a little loud =/

[wossname]

In Threaded display mode, when you click in the listbox to nav to a new post, it sends you to the top of that page and you have to scroll down to read it. Just a small annoyance.

I noticed this while using IE 6

[DeadEyes]

Is it just me or does the last post of each thread look like it's been clipped?
I keep thinking there should be more and the browser hasn't render the page properly.

[Slaine]

The "Number of Posts to Show Per Page" option in the User CP has a maximum of 50 - in the 'old days' it was 100.

Is it possible to increases the new limit?

[visualAd]

The "Number of Posts to Show Per Page" option in the User CP has a maximum of 50 - in the 'old days' it was 100.

Is it possible to increases the new limit?
The maximum is now "Show posts per page" :lol:

[Ideas Man]

Is it possible to get the fast reply feature too? or is that a feature of the other software?

[Pino]

found a bug i think

[Pino]

found a bug i think

i added 6 "g"'s infront of the quote tag at the top and it worked :eek2:

hmm silly me for some reason i included my message into the quote from the last post i think thats why :-p :blush: :blush:

[Ecniv]

As with another forum running on vbbulletin, the response after sending a post doesn't work (just goes to a page doesn't exist).

The other forum that used this had problems on the main pages linking to the individual threads (they were displayed on the main page but the linking was incorrect... Haven't checked that yet :)

Other than that, looks good :)


Vince :thumb:

Edit:
Checked that main page link and its wrong. So feed that back to vbBulletin... its their fault (the other forums run v3.0.1 and they have this problem too)
Edit 2:
Editting post is same as making post, getting an error page back after its posted

[Wally Pipp]

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saw this at the bottom of a thread. Doesn't look too right to me...

[visualAd]

saw this at the bottom of a thread. Doesn't look too right to me...
ditto - its sporadic though. Maybe its a buggy advertisment.

[mendhak]

Brad's going to scream when he sees this thread first thing in the morning. :afrog:

[RhinoBull]

Personally, I don't care much who's goint to scream and who's not.
New look does not impress me at all - old was more elegant and simpler.
Besides, what's the story with VBCODE tags ??? They don't seemed to work anymore. Also, I absolutely hate those large icons and links ... why can't they be of a normal size ???

[Tec-Nico]

Mendhak, what I meant is that even if you are in invisible mode if they go into your details they are able to know where you are (in which thread, forum, etc.)

At least I could see that... It seems they designed it for stalkers like NoteMe... :p

[RhinoBull]

One more thing from me: is there way to suppress that tooltip while dragging mouse over a thread link in the grid - it's very annoying.
Although, if anybody can tell me why in the hell "Post Reply" button is on the left away from "Edit" ...

Thanks.

[Tec-Nico]

RhinoBull and all those who are wondering what happened with the VBCode tags, Brad already answered in this thread:

VBCode Gone? (http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=314752)

[Electroman]

Some good feedback: I just notcided in the code windows if the code it really big it adds a scroll bar so the pages height itsn't really big, I like that :D.

[techgnome]

With any change, there is a chance for issues. After we upgrade later today, feel free to post issues here in Feedback or to Email me.

Brad!

You asked for it! <ignore target="this">The biggest thing for me is the search being "Broken." The previous version had the capability to allow me to search for posts since my last visit. I used it all the time as a quick way to see what's up since my last visit, so that I didn't have to waste my time clicking into a forum, browse the threads, back out to the main, repeat.
Now, it just takes me to the search screen, I select "posts since last visit" - and when I hit submit, it tells me I *have* to enter a user's name to search for?
Here's the link I used to use; http://vbforums.com/search.php?s=&action=getnew Man it was so handy.</ignore>
Ignore that.... I found it under the "Quick Links" menu..... I'm OK now..... *takes another chill pill followed by a coffee chaser.*


Is it just me or does the last post of each thread look like it's been clipped?
I keep thinking there should be more and the browser hasn't render the page properly.

Eww ick! Glad it isn't just me after all.

One more thing from me: is there way to suppress that tooltip while dragging mouse over a thread link in the grid - it's very annoying.
Although, if anybody can tell me why in the hell "Post Reply" button is on the left away from "Edit" ...

Thanks.
ACK! Tooltips! I hate those too. Especialy when it appears jsut as I click a link and it goes to that post, and then sticks around!

Tg

[Tec-Nico]

Oh no!!! What happened to my "Fanatic Member" Title? :cry:

I had been working hard to get to the next Member Title...
(I noticed that when I saw techgnome had his "Registered User" Title... And I thought "techgnome Registered User? Come on!")

Just because of that we deserve custom titles and free therapy sessions for the following 10 years or so. :D

One more thing... Is there a way to change or at least make bigger the links to the Forums? It is hard for me to get used to this new way of browsing... Could you at least change the order of the Forum Browsing bar and the User CP, FAQ, Members List ... Bar?

Finally, would you please add the button we had in the threads that allowed us to create a new one? (And now that we are at it, could the alignment of "Post Reply" change to the right?)

Thanks :wave:

[Electroman]

Someone mentioned the wierd Java script at the bottom, I just got that too:

[NoteMe]

Try getting to Preview Post like that. :)


What are you previewing your posts for??? Just do as me....post the post, and forget about spell checking...;)

[NoteMe]

Well this annoys me...:)




1. Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 30 seconds.

[Tec-Nico]

What are you previewing your posts for??? Just do as me....post the post, and forget about spell checking...;)
:lol: And then you wonder why people quote you in their signatures?

[NoteMe]

Someone mentioned the wierd Java script at the bottom, I just got that too:


It came and went this night as the upgrade was going on...


BTW here is my blog from last night:



23:30: The site goes down. There is a message from VBF

23:45: I get a database error

00:30: New theme is popping up, there is a message from VBF

00:44: VBWire links is up, and some ads

00:45: VBwire | VBForums logo is up

00:48: Error

00:49: Got redirected?????
http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?edc=248372&edc=448215&edc=412719&filteredsortorder=priceasc

00:50: the error is back

00:50: the error is gone

00:51: the error is back

00:53: the error is gone

00:56: More ads are popping up: FREE Whitepapers and Resources for IT Professionals:

00:57: The ads are gone...:)

00:58: The ads are back.

01:03: They changed one of the ads with a flash add, and have made room for one more...:)

01:05: the dark blue style has the wrong header

02:16: The adds are poping up and dissapears again. And there is no changes on the dark blue theme. But I am getting tired of waiting, and I have an exam tomorrow...so good night...:(






The error I got in stead of the add on the bottom:

\n'); } if ( plugin ) { document.write(''); document.write(' '); document.write(' ');document.write(' '); document.write(' '); } else if (!(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)) {document.write(''); } //-->






....
At least I could see that... It seems they designed it for stalkers like NoteMe...:P


Leave me out of that...;)

[techgnome]

Ok, now that I've had a chance to use this thing a bit....
The Reply button has got to move back to the right.

It used to be nice to be able to type into the message area, hit tab to select the Post button and hit the space bar to click it..... now the post icons are in the way.... *sigh*

Too much change too fast....

Tg

[brad jones]

Many of the issues raised about settings (max posts per page, number of seconds between posts, etc) are interesting to see. These setting are the same that they were in the previous version.

Some of the other things will be cleaned up per suggestions, but most of the clean up will start on Monday. I'll work with the mods to get a list and prioritize it. The things currently at the top of the list are the vbcode tag and the titles. (I'm going to look into the titles right now. A few settings were lost when the developers did the migration. I thought I caught most of them, but I hadn't looked at the titles. I'll do that now.

As to icon sizes and such, while many are bigger, the location that they are placed means that they making smaller versions wouldn't seem to save any screen space.

Keep the (valid) suggestions coming. I'm making a list and will put a lot of time next week into addressing them.

Brad!

[NoteMe]

...number of seconds between posts...



Myabe vB3 is actualy faster to register the post, and get the pages up in my browser...if so...then it is at least a good thing.

First one on the list.


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[brad jones]

A setting got reset on the titles. I have fixed it and ran an update. Normal titles should now be showing.

Brad!

[Tec-Nico]

I don't know, Brad... But wouldn't you get the chills if I told you I know you are Replying to this thread and a minute before you were in the Admin Control Panel?

[Tec-Nico]

Yay! Thank you... At least now I know why you were in the Admin Control Panel :p

[NoteMe]

Is the upload quote going to be bigger....or do I have to start to delete old attachments?



Manage Attachments
Upload Errors
cander.gif:
Exceeds your quota by 5.95 MB.

[visualAd]

Is it at all possible to put the forum dispaly criteria back at the top of the thread list. It is very annoying having tto scroll all the way down to the bottom to see whos online and change how many posts are displayed.

[brad jones]

Is the upload quote going to be bigger....or do I have to start to delete old attachments?

I assume you meant quota -- I had just increased that to 5,000,000 bytes. That would be just under 5 mg per person. If this isn't enough, then I'd need to know what you are uploading.

[brad jones]

I don't know, Brad... But wouldn't you get the chills if I told you I know you are Replying to this thread and a minute before you were in the Admin Control Panel?


Okay, since you asked, I'll take that ability away ;)

After all, I want everyone to be happy, happy, happy!

Brad!

[NoteMe]

Mostly midget porn...no seriously...I just looked through the first attachments....the CP can let me do that now...and I have 267 attachments since I came here. Most of them are pictures to show game and graphics related topics like the last 15 attachments are basic polygon diffrenses between OpenGL and DirectX, and transformation matrixes. But I must admitt there is some funny attachments too.


So if the quota is not going up, then I have to start to delete things. And then the funny attachements have to go first. So sorry Marty, but the avatar I made for you have to go...:(

[NoteMe]

Okay, since you asked, I'll take that ability away ;)

After all, I want everyone to be happy, happy, happy!

Brad!


I don't think he ment take the whole "What's Going On?" list away. But guys like Mendhak and other scared people have always been invisible (you too), so we can't see what thread you are replying too or what you are reading. Specialy if you mods are in the hidden areas. But now we can. Thats what he ment.


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[visualAd]

Okay, since you asked, I'll take that ability away ;)

After all, I want everyone to be happy, happy, happy!

Brad!
You mean NoteMe cannot stalk other members anymore. I liked the Who's online page. I like being nosey and looking at what everyone does. But I guess there is a privacy issure there.


So are we going to get that WISIWYG reply box like code guru have, its a pleasure using that? ;)

[brad jones]

I don't think he ment take the whole "What's Going On?" list away. But guys like Mendhak and other scared people have always been invisible (you too), so we can't see what thread you are replying too or what you are reading. Specialy if you mods are in the hidden areas. But now we can. Thats what he ment.

I was just being a bit silly. (I need the rest of the day off... ;)). I agree that the cons of being able to see where people are outweigh the pros. Since we allow invisible mode, we needed to turn off the setting mentioned here. Makes sense to me.

Brad!

[NoteMe]

I was just being a bit silly. (I need the rest of the day off... ;)).....


I just saw that I was not allowed to click the link for "who's online anymore" and freeked out...I think I am the one that needs the rest here...:)

[Tec-Nico]

Thank you, Brad. Maybe it could be optional... You know to let others know where you are.

Because there are good things about letting people know where you are... The issue is if you really want them to know and how much you are willing to let them know.

I am not sure... But wouldn't that apply to the status picture shown as well? People can know if you are invisible, on-line or off-line.

I am just trying to make this forums better... Sorry to all of those who were starting to like the new toy (I was starting to like it as well :lol: ) :wave:

[brad jones]

The feedback is welcome. Over the next week or so I expect we will be tweaking and fixing things. This was a huge, huge change -- more than the standard 'upgrade'. While not all the changes are the best, I think overall this version give us a lot more to work with.

I think some of the new stuff outweigh the bad. For example, check out the User CP and look at the different editors for posting. WYSIWYG is now an option. I also like that you can now highlight and click a formatting option and have the hightlighted text formatted rather than the formatting going to the bottom of the post. There are lots of little things like these that I think you'll find better than before.


Once we work out the kinks of the upgrade, then I'll go to the next step, which will be to turn on one of the new features (reputations).

Brad!

[jdc2000]

It appears that you are now required to allow cookies in order to post. It probably doesn't bother most people, however, I don't allow cookies to be stored on my PC. To post, I have to allow the cookies, and then go in and delete them later, which is annoying.

[Electroman]

I like to use the Who's on-line feature aswell now and again. Its pretty useful cos I'll sometime just load it up to see who is on or if someone is repling to any of my threads before I log off and stay if they are. Also when I'm on it I see the titles of soem threads I might not have and end up giving some input where I wouldn't have known of the thread otherwise.

I agree though the people who have selected stealth mode should have the right not to appear on it, I think on the last version they should up as Guests so you still saw what people were doign but you didn't know who all of them were.

BTW Brad didn't used to be invisible that was Marty ;).

[Electroman]

My input as far as the Attachment limit goes: Did you say the limit is 5MB (or just under anyway?) Cos I've just checked mine and I have 10.8MB used, is that cos I'm a mod? Anyhow I was going to say before I said that (Thinking I'd only used 2.5MB) that for people who have been here a long time, e.g I registered back in 2000, would have already used up alot. And I see my self as I haven't posted alot considering how long I've been here there was a lengthy gap which I wasn't posting at all.

[NoteMe]

Maybe if it is not too much trouble it would be possible to add extra size for the attachments for people that have been here a very long time, or have a lots of posts.

[visualAd]

WYSIWYG is now an option..
I can't get that option :cry: - is there some other way to change it?

[Shaggy Hiker]

So far, I like most of the changes...except the pastel colors, but that's just me.

The loss of vbCode scared me for a moment, but I guess that will be fixed. I don't see anything that I won't be able to re-learn pretty quickly.

Nice Job!

[RobDog888]

I really like the new version more thann I thought I would! I especially like the ability to close or expand the top level forums to just the ones I want. It make s the page shorter and it remembers your view settings when you return.

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32410

One thing that is bugging me is when you haven't viewed a thread, it will show a tooltip for it until you vierw the thread. Is there a way to turn this off?

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32411

Multiple attachements are working!

[RobDog888]

Another issue is when you do an advanced search by exact username it doesnt find anything from before the upgrade.
Is this because the indexing may not be completed yet or is it a bug?

[Electroman]

Kinda Strange if I search for my username I get 500 results? I've not posted 500 times since the upgrade yet I've posted more than that.....I seem to remember that vB3 puts a limit on how far back the searches will go, even if you tell it to search everything.

[RobDog888]

I got a script error, but I cant re-generate it. I was trying to add color from the dropdown list and this poped up and the color dropdown no longer functioned off of the mouse click.

[Electroman]

You asked for it! <ignore target="this">The biggest thing for me is the search being "Broken." The previous version had the capability to allow me to search for posts since my last visit. I used it all the time as a quick way to see what's up since my last visit, so that I didn't have to waste my time clicking into a forum, browse the threads, back out to the main, repeat.
Now, it just takes me to the search screen, I select "posts since last visit" - and when I hit submit, it tells me I *have* to enter a user's name to search for?
Here's the link I used to use; http://vbforums.com/search.php?s=&action=getnew Man it was so handy.</ignore>
Ignore that.... I found it under the "Quick Links" menu..... I'm OK now..... *takes another chill pill followed by a coffee chaser.* Thought you might want to know that there is a link on the top of every page (along from the UserCP link) saying "New Posts" ;)

[MartinLiss]

I tried to edit my signature to change the Edit icon and it tells me that my signature can be at most 300 characters long. As a matter of fact when I delete part of my current signature it gives the same error.

[RobDog888]

Yes its a forum limit. Can it be changed to more than 300? I needed to fix mine and I lost half my sig.
It wasn't handling the vbcode tags and some javascript spacers - &nbsp;

Also, when you have links in your sig, the entire link path is counted as characters too. :(

[MartinLiss]

Yes its a forum limit. Can it be changed to more than 300? I needed to fix mine and I lost half my sig.
It wasn't handling the vbcode tags and some javascript spacers - &nbsp;

Also, when you have links in your sig, the entire link path is counted as characters too. :(I found trhe setting for the length and it was set at 300. Since it obviously used to be larger (mine was about 2600 characters in length) I changed it to 3000. I will discuss this with Brad.

[visualAd]

I think the issue is more how much space the signature consumes, rather than the number of characters.

[RobDog888]

I agree. I just tightened mine up. Isn't there a setting for size? I thought I saw something at CodeGuru?

[dw85745]

1) New forum is missing "Ability to obtain a Print version" .
2) I personally do NOT like the text colored blue. I find it VERY hard to read.
3) I personally do NOT like the separate box color for quotes and code.
Makes reading more difficult.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the administrators for all your efforts in regards to maintaining the forum.

David

[RobDog888]

Originally posted by dw85745
1) New forum is missing "Ability to obtain a Print version" .
#1. At the top of the thread there is "Thread Tools" menu. In it there is
menu item "Show Printable Version". Is this what you were refering to?

[mendhak]

One more:

Can't change custom ranks.

[Merri]

I'd love to get the great old smilies back. These new ones are quite bleh.

[BuggyProgrammer]

Link colour is too bright. Make it darker please, like the old ones.

[brad jones]

I'd love to get the great old smilies back. These new ones are quite bleh.

These are the same smilies. :confused:

[NotLKH]

Outside of the Notations above this smilie, this smilie is identical to the old confused smilie.

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=1797398

Its Obvious it looks nothing like :confused:

Yep. Most all of them have changed.
-Lou

[NoteMe]

These two/three has also changed


:D ;) :bigyello:

[Merri]

brad, you sure you've updated your browser cache? Mine changed slowly to the new ones, now they're almost all new. Unless you've changed the old ones back and my cache isn't updating them yet.

[brad jones]

I had our developer (Heidi) copy the smilies from the old board to this one. They look the same to me, but at this point I'm confident in saying that the smilies are the exact same ones that were here before the upgrade -- because that is what Heidi copied over. :)

Brad!

[NoteMe]

:) != http://vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32511


Well so now...fire Heidi, and hire me....

[mendhak]

I was about to post an attachment showing you the 'new' plasticy smilies, but I'm over my attachment limit. Someone else do this for me... :o :eek: :mad: :rolleyes: :cool: :p :(

And the :rolleyes: is just too kind.

[mendhak]

Never mind, uploaded it to mendhak.com instead:

http://www.mendhak.com/extras/smile_baby.JPG

[NoteMe]

When did you press Ctr+F5 last time...that is not the same smilies that I have...:)



http://noteme.com/images/smilies.gif


I am over my quota too, so I had to uplaod it to my own server too...:)

[brad jones]

Okay, I'm still at a loss. Are you showing the old ones or the new ones?

When you post x != x, I'm seeing the same thing on both sides:

[NoteMe]

Okay, I'm still at a loss. Are you showing the old ones or the new ones?

When you post x != x, I'm seeing the same thing on both sides:



Hehe it just changed...are you sure you or Heidi didn't just uplaod the old one THIS moment...look at my Mendhaks picture and you will see what it looked like when I posted...;)

[brad jones]

I have what NoteMe posted. Which should it be?

Brad!

[brad jones]

Heidi uploaded just before my post saying she did. Are you sure your system wasn't caching?

[NoteMe]

I have what NoteMe posted. Which should it be?

Brad!

It looked like this when I posted it half an hour ago:


http://noteme.com/images/smilies2.gif


Now it works ok....

[brad jones]

I doubled the attachment limit to 10,000,000.

If you have more than that, then you should probably see what could be cleaned up.

[brad jones]

I'm goingto assume the smilies issue is resolved.

The # button is now gone in the editor as well (and the spacing on the "Code" button will be reduced shortly). I now have proper access to the php, so I'll start looking into the vb coloring after lunch.

Brad!

[NoteMe]

I doubled the attachment limit to 10,000,000.

If you have more than that, then you should probably see what could be cleaned up.

Thanks a lot...then I just have to delete 0.72Mb...;)....and that shouldn't be a problem. Thanks a lot.

Say hello and thanks to Heidi too.
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[NoteMe]

I'm goingto assume the smilies issue is resolved.

The # button is now gone in the editor as well (and the spacing on the "Code" button will be reduced shortly). I now have proper access to the php, so I'll start looking into the vb coloring after lunch.

Brad!
Yes thanks, it is resolved.

Is it hard to add c/cpp coloring too if we give you all the keywords?

[Pino]

Take a look at the game programming forums

clicking on his name only goes to his profile :-o

[MartinLiss]

That seems to be the normal behavior. Is that a problem?

[NoteMe]

That seems to be the normal behavior. Is that a problem?


Look in my thread about it...;)

[Pino]

That seems to be the normal behavior. Is that a problem?

theres no post title? i thought you had to have a post title ?

[MartinLiss]

theres no post title? i thought you had to have a post title ?What is the thread's URL?

[NoteMe]

What is the thread's URL?

As far as I know...it is this thread...

http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=1856397

[MartinLiss]

As far as I know...it is this thread...

http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=1856397I see a Subject. It's something like Changing Cull...

[NoteMe]

I see a Subject. It's something like Changing Cull...

Yeah thats the one. But we can only see the subject when someone has broken the thing. Posted in it that is, and then the add cuts off the rest of the threads and starts in one of the rows where a post should have been.


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[Electroman]

The issue that Pino pointed out is now fixed, Brads turned off the Tooltip previews, they were interferring with the HTML so FF thought most the page was commented out.


As for the smilies how do I refresh the cache for FF? I still see the new Smiles...I actually don't have a prob with the new ones but I may aswell be on the same level as everyone else :D. Think I noticed when the smiles were uploaded, I was on the reply page and only half them displayed, the :eek2: was even a cross between :eek: & :eek2:. Looked very strange but when I refreshed it was back to the new smiles still,

Also the Code button is still a # button for me :confused:.


Out of interest whats the attachment quota for Mods Brad?



EDIT: I pressed Ctrl + F5 and now I'm back to the old smilies :D.

[Xcoder]

Now we can dock the forums by group (.Net, Other languages, VBForums CodeBank, VBForums UtilityBank etc) I want them to remain docked but I cant make FF do it, does it has to do with FF?

[RobDog888]

It works fine on IE6. Must be a FF issue again. :rolleyes:

:D

[visualAd]

Now we can dock the forums by group (.Net, Other languages, VBForums CodeBank, VBForums UtilityBank etc) I want them to remain docked but I cant make FF do it, does it has to do with FF?
I'm using FF 1.0, works for me :)

[Electroman]

Works for me FF V0.9.2

[Xcoder]

Nevermind, its now working, seems like my numbed mind was going thru one of those lapsus.... :blush:

[mendhak]

Working fine now! Give Heidi a big hug and a pat on the nose. :) :afrog: :rolleyes: :blush: :bigyello: :D :mad: :o :thumb: :wave:

[Electroman]

yea code button is also a code button now not # anymore.....I did the Ctrl + F5 on the Reply page to get that to work :D.

[visualAd]

What about the WYSIWYG reply box. You said you had enabled it, but I still can't get it in the user CP.

[brad jones]

What about the WYSIWYG reply box. You said you had enabled it, but I still can't get it in the user CP.


WYSIWYG editor is now turned on. Let me know if you see issues with it.

Brad!

[visualAd]

WYSIWYG editor is now turned on. Let me know if you see issues with it.

Brad! :ehh: Awsome thanks <b>Very much</b>

[Dave Sell]

Is there a way to get more disk space? I've been posting pictures, and at this rate I will fill it up in about a month...

Any way at all?

[brad jones]

Is there a way to get more disk space? I've been posting pictures, and at this rate I will fill it up in about a month...

Any way at all?


It is currently set at 10,000,000 (based on my bumping it up twice). If you are posting pictures, then if you are using gif/jpg/png formats, this should be thousands of pictures.

Brad!

[mudfish]

Brad do not know if you seen this but you and Cander have "+" after your names.

http://vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32403&stc=1

[visualAd]

Remove Cander and Brad fro myour buddy list and they won't have a + next to thier names anymore. ;)

[brad jones]

Brad do not know if you seen this but you and Cander have "+" after your names.

A plus sign should indicate people you have on your buddie list.

Brad!

[mudfish]

So that what it for cool! I was thinking that person is over some limit!

[Dave Sell]

It is currently set at 10,000,000 (based on my bumping it up twice). If you are posting pictures, then if you are using gif/jpg/png formats, this should be thousands of pictures.

Brad!
As you can see, I have 1/4 of it used up. I will look around my chat posts to delete a couple big ones, but at the rate I am going, I will use up my disk quota in a few months.

Can we earn or buy more disk space? I find VBF an invaluable tool for communications.

[brad jones]

As you can see, I have 1/4 of it used up. I will look around my chat posts to delete a couple big ones, but at the rate I am going, I will use up my disk quota in a few months.

Can we earn or buy more disk space? I find VBF an invaluable tool for communications.


I'm working to set up a Power Poster group that will have an addtional 5,000,000 bytes of storage (along with custom titles and a higher PM limit). Right now this is causing an error. This will be automatically given to people who reach 4096 counted posts.

Brad!

[Dave Sell]

I'm working to set up a Power Poster group that will have an addtional 5,000,000 bytes of storage (along with custom titles and a higher PM limit). Right now this is causing an error. This will be automatically given to people who reach 4096 counted posts.
Brad!

I was thinking about purchasing disk space. I guess I could do like mendhak and start uploading my pics to an extrnal site.

[Electroman]

What program are you using to save these images? things like PSP let you choose the compression ratio each time you save a fiel, try compressing them that bit more...you can safley set it to 25% and not have a bad noticable effect, example was on a jpg, gif's also give optimising options too :).

EDIT: Also bare in mind the attachment you just posted to show this has lots of wasted space at the bottom, things like that add up ;).

[Dave Sell]

What program are you using to save these images? things like PSP let you choose the compression ratio each time you save a fiel, try compressing them that bit more...you can safley set it to 25% and not have a bad noticable effect, example was on a jpg, gif's also give optimising options too :).

EDIT: Also bare in mind the attachment you just posted to show this has lots of wasted space at the bottom, things like that add up ;).
Just standard paintbrush. I dont have PSP. Most of my images are screenshots, text can get fuzzled if I compress them more. I will switch to GIFs and see how they work.

Most of my images are around 80K or less which I think is a reasonably small size. I just end up posting alot of screenshots to communicate ideas.

[Dave Sell]

EDIT: Also bare in mind the attachment you just posted to show this has lots of wasted space at the bottom, things like that add up ;).
Well my pic is 38K as is. I cropped the bottom blue half and it became 32K. Not enough savings to waste the effort.

[NoteMe]

6kb...:)




PS: When Brad first said that he didn't want to push it up more then he all ready had (then he had pushed it up to 5Mb) I went through all my attachments I had, and I deleted a lot of non importent stuff, and I went from 11Mb to 6Mb. When I say unimportent, I mean old pictures to ilustrate stuff in ChitChat, and non DIRECTLY programming related stuff like link and compile error images that I had posted, and avatars I have made for all the Chit Chatters. Now I have only images to illustrate programming techinques, and algorithms, and zip files with apps that I have posted. That helped a lot. You could try to do the same.

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[Dave Sell]

6kb...:)
PS: When Brad first said that he didn't want to push it up more then he all ready had (then he had pushed it up to 5Mb) I went through all my attachments I had, and I deleted a lot of non importent stuff, and I went from 11Mb to 6Mb. When I say unimportent, I mean old pictures to ilustrate stuff in ChitChat, and non DIRECTLY programming related stuff like link and compile error images that I had posted, and avatars I have made for all the Chit Chatters. Now I have only images to illustrate programming techinques, and algorithms, and zip files with apps that I have posted. That helped a lot. You could try to do the same.
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You are right, but I had already done that already. Only remaining posts are some uploaded projects, and screenshots pertaining to propramming projects.

[dglienna]

Just standard paintbrush

Save them as .jpg. They are smaller.

[Dave Sell]

Save them as .jpg. They are smaller.
I've found screenshots of windows save smaller as GIFs in the past (low color count). I'll look into it again.

[Dave Sell]

Well I took a screenshot of this screen and saved it as a bitmap. Then I took the BMP and saved it as a GIF. Then I re-opened up the BMP and saved it as a JPG. Final result:

BMP: 2,139K
JPG: 123K
GIF: 55K

[Merri]

Check out PNG. It compresses better than GIF in some cases. It can also have more than 256 colors.

And to maximize the power: you can find PNG optimizer program off the web, which takes out all unimportant information from the picture. I think it works for GIFs too.

You can also control the quality of the JPEG, I think 75% might be enough for forum usage. It adds artifacts to the image though.


The image I use as my avatar is a 112 color PNG, which I had to make some forum with a ridiculous avatar size limit of 3kB. The avatar is 2.98 kB.

[Arachnid13]

dunno if this has already been mentioned, but my post number seems to be refusing to go up, its been stuck at 39 for my last... several posts, knowing my luck itll go up to 40 now and u'll all think im making this up tho.

[Arachnid13]

grr it did! well all of my posts from the thread discussing mendhaks gender didnt seem to count! maybe its just his curse...

[visualAd]

Chit Chat posts don't count :p

[Arachnid13]

ah :blush: glad u pointed that out for me!

[Dave Sell]

Actually any number divided by zero is undefined. Not infinity.

[visualAd]

Actually any number divided by zero is undefined. Not infinity. Actually it is infinity becuase if you think about it. Sharing a pizza between no people means that no one will eat it. Therefore it will always be there.

[Dave Sell]

No, it will always remain 1 pizza if you never share it.

[Electroman]

Don't know why this is being discussed here but when you have z = x / y
As y approches 0, Z increases and threfore tends towards infinity ;). On a computer it would be correct to say infinity is not defined though :).

[techgnome]

As y approches 0 .... right,but y is still not 0..... it just gets minisculy close. So any number divided by 0 still holds as undefined, no infinite. So, to get infinite pizza, you have to share it with <1 approaching 0 people. Since it's less than 1, you can't have any either..... which would defeat the purpose of wanting or having infinite pizza. And who would want a pizza they couldn't eat?

Tg

[Dave Sell]

Don't know why this is being discussed here but when you have z = x / y
As y approches 0, Z increases and threfore tends towards infinity ;). On a computer it would be correct to say infinity is not defined though :).
Must ... resist ... urge ... to give ... lesson ... in ... Calculous ... theory ... nungh...

[visualAd]

It depends on whther you blieve in infinity. But I like to think of 0 as an infinite number of infinitesimally small pieces.

[Dave Sell]

I like to think of 0 as an infinite number of infinitesimally small pieces.
You can, but you would be infinitely wrong. Zero is a well-defined value. It is just ... plain ... zero.

[visualAd]

You can, but you would be infinitely wrong. Zero is a well-defined value. It is just ... plain ... zero. Then dividing a number by 0 will be infinity, becuase you can split a pizza into an inifiite number of nothings.

[Dave Sell]

Then dividing a number by 0 will be infinity, becuase you can split a pizza into an inifiite number of nothings.
1) Dividing ANY number by zero is, and always will be, undefined.
2) Dividing ANY object by infinitely many small pieces will never amount to more than the original object

There will always just be the 1 pizza.

[brad jones]

This thread has gone so far off topic I"m closing it. Feel free to continue the math discussion in the math forum or chit chat :)