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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:32
Originally posted by Ghandi 2 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.


Iván 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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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 18:01
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Are you under stress, Bob? Clown

 
Whatever makes you say that?DeadLOL
 
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


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Points: 1494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 18:15
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Originally posted by Ghandi 2 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.


Iván 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.
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.
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Has anyone else reported problems using the 'hyperlink' toolbar button when replying to posts?  I'm using Opera v9.01 and every time I try to insert a 
hyperlink the entire page I'm trying to link to gets inserted into the message and I can't post it.  This wasn't
happening before the forum upgrade.  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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Originally posted by Angelo 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!

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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That's what I do too, CR.
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Points: 65772 		Direct Link To This Post 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
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2008 at 07:29
Originally posted by ClassicRocker ClassicRocker wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo 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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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post 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).
 
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Points: 1136 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 14:35
Bring the boys... back home!!!
 
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Points: 8844 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post 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:

Originally posted by ClemOfNazareth ClemOfNazareth wrote:

Has anyone else reported problems using the 'hyperlink' toolbar button when replying to posts?  I'm using Opera v9.01 and every time I try to insert a 
hyperlink the entire page I'm trying to link to gets inserted into the message and I can't post it.  This wasn't
happening before the forum upgrade.  I get the same problem when trying to add hyperlinks to PMs.
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 22:43
Originally posted by Geck0 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:

Originally posted by ClemOfNazareth 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.


Edited by Man With Hat - January 03 2008 at 22:44
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post 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 M@x. Exclude any new suggestions.
 
Anyone up for it? 
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 21752 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:23
Originally posted by Easy Livin 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 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


Edited by MikeEnRegalia - January 04 2008 at 15:25
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