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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 ;).

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by brad jones

WYSIWYG is now an option..

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

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!

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.p...chmentid=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.p...chmentid=32411

Multiple attachements are working!

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?

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by techgnome

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.*

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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" ;)

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.

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. :(

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Originally Posted by 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. :(

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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.

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

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

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

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Originally posted by dw85745
1) New forum is missing "Ability to obtain a Print version" .

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#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?

One more:

Can't change custom ranks.

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

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

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Originally Posted by Merri

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

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These are the same smilies. :confused:

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

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1797398

Its Obvious it looks nothing like :confused:

Yep. Most all of them have changed.
-Lou

These two/three has also changed


:D ;) :bigyello:

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.

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!

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


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

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.

Never mind, uploaded it to mendhak.com instead:

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

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...:)

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:

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Originally Posted by 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:

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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...;)

I have what NoteMe posted. Which should it be?

Brad!

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

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Originally Posted by brad jones

I have what NoteMe posted. Which should it be?

Brad!

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


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


Now it works ok....

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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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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!

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Originally Posted by 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!

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Yes thanks, it is resolved.

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

Take a look at the game programming forums

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

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

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

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

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Look in my thread about it...;)

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

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

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

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Originally Posted by Pino

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

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What is the thread's URL?

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

What is the thread's URL?

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

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

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Originally Posted by NoteMe

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

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

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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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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.

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?

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

:D

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Originally Posted by 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?

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I'm using FF 1.0, works for me :)

Works for me FF V0.9.2

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

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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by visualAd

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

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

Brad!

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Originally Posted by brad jones

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

Brad!

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:ehh: Awsome thanks

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<b>Very much</b>

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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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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!

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

http://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2004/12/1.jpg