Problems, Questions And Issues With New Software Thread

Ok, I think that the worst of the migration is over. I'm spending this week tweaking and polishing and hopefully helping you all with any issues or problems you are having with the new software.

What are you having trouble with?

 

Some people have had some questions about posting, quoting and replying. Here's the relevant section from the user guide for replying to a post and the different options to quote or not to quote.

Reply to a Thread:

At the bottom of the page there is a Post Reply Box where you can type into and add media and/or pictures and go to more options if needed. Then click on the "Post Reply" button underneath. This is the most basic way to reply to a thread in general.

Reply with quote:

If you wish to quote a specific post as part of your reply, all you need to do is to go to the post you want to quote and click on the Reply text at the bottom right of the post.

This will automatically create the quoted text in the Post Reply box at the bottom of the screen.



If you wish to edit this content, be sure that you don't change or remove the [ QUOTE] and [ /QUOTE] codes on either side of the text. You can delete whatever you want between them, but they are necessary for the reply to appear with the quoted text in your reply.

Multi-quote:

If you wish to quote multiple posts, just click "Reply" in each individual post and the code will be copied to the reply window at the bottom of the page. Pay attention to those [ QUOTE] boxes and insert your comments where appropriate.

Selected Quote:

If you only want to quote a specific bit of the text from a post, you can highlight it with your mouse and a "Reply" button will appear below the highlighted text. Click that "Reply" and it will show your selected text quoted in the Post Reply window at the bottom of your screen.

 

It looks like this is globally set and there's no way to change it per user. I'll dig around and see if there's a solution.

In the thread list, if you've replied to a thread, a small version of your avatar will appear in the bottom corner of the OPs avatar. Like this:


I also believe that clicking on the green dot to the left of the thread title will take you to the first unread post.

That is something that is on the list to work on. I see that too. It's almost unreadable.

 

I am not seeing that. Maybe that page is cached for some reason. I removed that from the index page, but other people are reporting they are still seeing it. Hrm...

 

I'm working on a solution to get the "latest posts" from this software to show up on that index page. Might not get to it until the board issues are taken care of, because most people just enter the forum directly. But it's "on the list"!

 

Sorry for the unexpected downtime(s) today. We're working on getting PHP upgraded and added some caching to speed up the board on the server side.

There is currently a problem with the new countdown timer backgrounds. It isn't showing the correct font color. We're working on it and hope to have it fixed soon.

Thanks for your patience.

 

Thanks! I'll go take a look and see if I can fix that. I'm sure that most links and all HTML from the old board are going to be broken. Trying to find a solution that doesn't have me manually editing a zillion messages.

 

The server people are working on the caching to speed up the board and they keep breaking it. That's why we have some brief downtimes as they correct the errors.

re: permissions and alerts - from the User Guide -

Alert Preferences:

Select "Alert Preferences" to bring up this window:



From this menu, you can choose which events trigger an alert to appear.

I'll also make a note to see if we can get a bigger logout button in the header somewhere.