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    Posted: April 21 2006 at 03:23
Max asked for comments about the new forum software to be sent to him via email ... let's just collect them in this thread and I'll send him a link to this thread, so he can easily see what's happening. Just post your comments, and I'll edit them into the following list, + any comments by Max.Smile


Edited by MikeEnRegalia - April 21 2006 at 05:29
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Bugs:
  • PM feature disabled (you must click the username , then the PM link is there, Shocked , edit by Max)
  • Search does not find all posts by users (when searching for username)
  • Post editor does not work with Internet Explorer 7 Beta (garbles post html)
  • Images in signatures may be garbled when editing your profile and the signature is close to 200 characters. Don't know why, but somehow the software is adding additional properties to the images (e.g. border="0") and so the sig becomes longer than the max. number of characters.
    Suggestion: Allow more than 200 ... maybe 300. (not sure where to change that Mike ?)
  • RSS-Feed: CSS class div.BBquote needs to be formatted with border and background-color. My suggestion: div.BBquote { border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #f0f0f0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 5px; }Smile  FIXED

Features that are missing:

  • Bullet lists and other buttons are not enabled in the Quick Reply (should be)
  • Forum Jump dropdown seems to be broken FIXED
  • People miss the anchor link to the top of the page
  • Quick Reply: Inputs are missing (e.g. bullet list, image)
The QUICK REPLY is there to QUICK REPLY so , no ENHENCED FEATURE is to be included in that box ?!

  • Maybe with the new forum software the email notification feature can be enabled again?
  • addition to the above request: The "report" button would also be useful. Performance has been much improved, so maybe it's possible to enable it again.


    WHERE IS THE REPORT BUTTON , dam it ... About the EMAIL NOTIFY , i will test it later, thanks to remind me

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(blue = edit by M@X)


Edited by M@X - April 22 2006 at 11:27
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2006 at 05:23
Mike, I think if you edit your second post instead, it should remains sticky. I've deleted my previous post.
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done!Smile
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There are a few things I find not as good
1-Colors , they respect less the original Prog Archives banner , the Purple is now almost gray and the color selection window/box is cut and the lower two rungs of colors are not available
FIXED

2- the quick reply box is too small >> I fail to see the point of this quick reply also. To get a normal box you have to push the reply button in a post: it is next to the quote button which is very confusing and provoke many false maneuvers
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3- there seems to be a bug in the PMs as I could not reply to a message, saying I had to fill in a text, which was done
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4- I have yet to check out that calendar option on the top right hand corner
5- I sort of miss the alternance between the white and grey wallpaper of posts
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6- I am not so sure we will be able to work with the quotes as well as we used to! I have yet to see the [/QUOTE] which made it easy to break up or combine the quotes in a reply
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7- the back to top of page button on the bottom left hand side of everypost is missingCry>> this was extremely useful
WILL CHECK

8- I also think that on the main or general forum page, there was the feature that could show you in which thread it was posted last and by whom >> this was also useful >> Hope it will reappear
THIS WILL DRAMATICALLY DECREASE LOADING PERFORMANCE... Confused
 
 


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Edited by M@X - April 22 2006 at 11:42
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Can you reset the whole forum to the old design?
The new one is quite confusing and unclear.

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Originally posted by W.Chuck W.Chuck wrote:

Can you reset the whole forum to the old design?
The new one is quite confusing and unclear.
exactly my point of view
people, I don't like it, is too confusing and full of problems at the moment
colours and fonts are bad... Embarrassed
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let me remind you once again that the changes were not done deliberately. A new version of the forum software is out and Max installed the update because it contains many improvements, most of all in:

  • performance
  • html code cleanup
as a result the design is somewhat out of whack, and it will take some time until the new software is configured correctly, and the various tweaks that Max added to the old software will have to be adapted to the new software, as well as the old design has to be ported to CSS (cascading style sheets).

So please hold your horses, I think that most of the obvious problems with the design and basic functionality will be corrected by Max in the next few days. In the meantime we can focus on new features here, or serious bugs in the functionality.
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The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
 
yes I think this is one of the most important problems
 
I use this all the time Ouch
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Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

The "Forum Jump" dropdown at the bottom of the page doesn't work.
I use it often too.
 
yes I think this is one of the most important problems
 
I use this all the time Ouch

Its fixed now.Wink
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This is starting to look like the old place again.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

This is starting to look like the old place again.
Yup, the colors are almost back and the alternating white/coloured postClap
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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I still occasionally get the deadlock error, but this maybe my connection, rather than an issue with the forum.  However, others have also had similar problems, so I hopefully this is just a temporary fault.

Things are improving though, so all is good.

Also, is there any chance of multiple skins like other forums?  Then we could choose how we wanted the forum to look, but keeping the same functionality?


Edited by Geck0 - April 21 2006 at 10:32
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A new bug.

When browsing in "Active Topics" I set the time for last 30 mins or whatever, but when i go back to it afyter reading a post its switched to the last time I loggtd on. Also this happens if I try to read page 2.
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I don't seem to be able to go to a specific page any more when I am already on a thread - there is PREV and NEXT but the the drop down box doesn't get me anywhere. Or have I missed something?

Also, PREVIEW POST doesn't work?


Edited by Joolz - April 21 2006 at 10:37
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One minor thing I've noticed, if you click the dropdown list on your browser's Back button, every page is titled the same "Progressive Rock Forum by Progarchives".
I'm sure they used to be titled differently.
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The drop down box works for me Joolz, it could be your browser or something.
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Geck0/Joolz: That box only works if you enable JavaScript in your browser.

Snow Dog: Did you try to remove your cookies? Click this link ...

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/remove_cookies.asp

Then login again.
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When I searched for the "read any good books lately"-thread using the key word "books", I found three other book-related threads, but not the one I was looking for. Is there something wrong with the search feature? It didn't find the "Off at tangents"-thread either.


Edited by Vompatti - April 21 2006 at 11:33
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