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Topic: dBoard Version 1.0 is Released!
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Re: The "Peek" function and the "Proposed Topics" archive
Moose writes: Cheers, keep up the good work, the forum hasn't imploded yet, but I have faith in you  . I assume I've proven by now that your faith was well placed! 
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 101 of 198 (172343)
12-30-2004 5:15 PM
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Reply to: Message 44 by RAZD
12-26-2004 6:17 PM
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Re: bookmarks
is there anyway to update our personal bookmarks to change from old forum to new? I have a Perl script which performs the conversion automatically. You'd have to change to read your files instead of the forum's message files, but otherwise it should work fine for you. Would you like me to email you a copy?
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Re: The return of the dreaded "quote reply"
Asgara writes: under Find Members - I can search by user name and email address but can't by number of posts, date registered, status, or any of the filters in the first set. I get Internal Server Errors on each of them. Thanks for finding this one. This should be fixed now.
No one below director status can do any of the message management tasks that we use to be able to do such as changing thread titles. I commented on this a couple days ago, saying that changing thread titles can be done by editing message 1. But I need to know what other features you used to use under message management.
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 104 of 198 (172400)
12-30-2004 9:56 PM
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Reply to: Message 51 by Quetzal
12-27-2004 5:54 PM
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Re: Quetzal
Hi Quetzal! Sorry to alarm you with the order change. The change was unintentional. I see Moose has already addresses this issue, so I'll just explain how this happened. Users can now set the order through their profile, but of course initially users have no setting, and by accident the default was the inverse of what I intended. This is fixed now and the default is chronological order for messages.
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Re: Quetzal
robinrohan writes: I'm with you, Quetzal. It's confusing to me. Sorry this happened. Please see my Message 104.
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Message 106 of 198 (172404)
12-30-2004 10:08 PM
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Reply to: Message 72 by Ben!
12-28-2004 4:09 PM
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Re: Login screen bugs
Ben writes: 1. If you click "forgot your password" when you're NOT logged in, you get a 500 error. NOT HELPFUL! This is fixed.
2. If you click on a URL with a bookmark from an email, but are not logged in, you are given the login screen. If you then login, you are forwarded to the original URL--but SANS the bookmark. So you're brought to the top of the page, instead of the proper message. I'll look into this when I get a chance, but there may be nothing I can do. URLs are passed to the server, bookmarks are not - they're handled locally by the browser. In other words, the board software never sees the bookmark. I've looked at ways to get JavaScript to do the page positioning but haven't discovered a way to do it yet that doesn't involve an investment of effort way out of proportion to the benefit. Of course, if someone can find an example of a solution, that makes it much easier.
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Message 107 of 198 (172407)
12-30-2004 10:11 PM
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Reply to: Message 74 by Ben!
12-28-2004 4:11 PM
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Re: FAQ
Ben writes: As far as I can tell, ALL links (both those on the sidebar as well as those in the text) are completely outdated in the FAQ page. This was a "Doh!" I think all links to pages of this website are now correct, but let me know if you come across others.
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Message 108 of 198 (172411)
12-30-2004 10:21 PM
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Reply to: Message 75 by Ben!
12-28-2004 7:14 PM
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Re: image in signature.
The URL goes outside the tags when you use [img] tags, e.g.:
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Message 109 of 198 (172412)
12-30-2004 10:23 PM
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Reply to: Message 78 by Ben!
12-28-2004 7:54 PM
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Re: No bookmarks on URLs for
Ben writes: Run the search function, and you get some message results. But if you click the link to the message, you get the right page, but since there's no bookmark on the URL to the specific message, you have to page down to find the proper message. I might have mentioned this already, but if not, I *was* able to reproduce this, and the search results now have bookmarks.
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 110 of 198 (172415)
12-30-2004 10:28 PM
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Reply to: Message 103 by RAZD
12-30-2004 9:51 PM
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Re: glitches
RAZD writes: no word on the button contrast? black on the pale blue buttons would be better, but red would draw the eye, and that would be good for the {reply} button. Button design is tough, so I can offer no relief in the near term. In the longer term I plan to add user control of the board's appearance, which would include the buttons. I can't make any promises, but if you'd like to try your hand at button design, send me a button set and if they're good enough and mesh well with the board's current appearance I'll consider using them.
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 112 of 198 (172498)
12-31-2004 9:10 AM
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Reply to: Message 111 by Ben!
12-30-2004 11:22 PM
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Re: image in signature.
Ben writes:  (which I input and saved in my profile) was reduced to (nothing else, no dbCodes, no nothin'). That was weird. This bug should be fixed now. Good find! The "new bug found" rate seems to be decreasing. Either that or the sheer volume has exhausted the testers!  Anyway, thanks for all the help!
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Message 113 of 198 (172513)
12-31-2004 11:50 AM
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New Feature: Peek Mode in Replies
When you reply to a message, the message you're replying to is displayed at the bottom of the page. A button to select "Peek Mode" has been added to this message. Click on "Peek Mode" and the message will be displayed with all the dBCodes and HTML used by the author.
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 116 of 198 (173391)
01-03-2005 10:16 AM
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Reply to: Message 115 by RAZD
01-03-2005 9:19 AM
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Re: suggestion
I wonder if {percy could implement \ admins could administer} a lock on off-topic posts to prevent replies (or to tunnel them to a new topic, say in coffeehouse, or short topics, so that it is open for comments). maybe the posts could be "closed" similar to the closing of whole threads? What a great idea! I'll put this on my list. In case anyone is wondering what I'm working on, here are the things at the top of my list:
- Improved search speed. The board's search function has two problems. First, it is sufficiently compute intensive that it occasionally timesout (the server cancels the process for taking too long), corrupting the search database for a forum. Second, it is just plain slow, which wasn't true in the early days, but with over 150,000 messages in the database, searches are taking a while.
I'm currently debugging improvements, and am in the middle of trying to understand some puzzling behavior. If I open one big search file, it happens instantly. If I open a second big search file (such as when you're searching more than one forum, or when admins move a thread from one forum to another), then it takes a long time, around 6 seconds. If I switch to using DB_File then it speeds up enormously, but there are file locking issues because I can't get flock to work. I'm in the middle of trying to understand all these issues. By the way, Google does a pretty good job of searching EvC Forum, but it only catalogs the site every couple weeks, while EvC Forum updates its own search database as soon as a message is posted. If you're not looking for something recent then you can use Google, but the Google database hasn't yet cataloged the site using the new links. Hopefully this will occur soon.
- Restore the missing links, like Forum Guidelines and so forth. I want to use dynamic menus similar to what we had before, but don't want to buy a solution, and don't have time to develop it myself. So what will happen is that I'll create some very primitive dynamic menus attached to a "Navigation" link or some similar name. They'll work with mouseovers if that turns out to be possible.
- The "replies await" issue. It has often been requested to be able to mark a message as one you won't be replying to, making the "replies await" indication go away. A related request is to be able to find all unreplied to messages from you in a thread.
- Reputation. Members rating other members. Admins could turn on a board option that ties privileges to reputation. Has interesting potential for abuse, i.e., ganging up unfairly, etc.
I'm curious about how well the "unread messages" indicator that appears in the left hand column of forum and thread lists is working for people. There were some complaints when this went away early this year (it went away because I thought it worked poorly, but apparently some people liked it), and I'm curious how well the new behavior is working out for people.
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 118 of 198 (173449)
01-03-2005 1:29 PM
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Reply to: Message 117 by RAZD
01-03-2005 1:05 PM
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Re: suggestion
RAZD writes: I'm curious about how well the "unread messages" indicator that appears in the left hand column of forum and thread lists is working for people. it's not. or it isn't operating in real-time anyway: I usually look at the number of my last post compared to the total to see if there is activity, and I often find the activity is a reply. What do you see happening? If you're looking at the list of threads for a forum, do you see blue dots next to threads you that have unread messages? If you do, then what happens when you click on the thread and read it, then you return to the forum by clicking on the forum's link. Doesn't the blue dot go away? You can't just click on the back button, because that doesn't refresh the page.
same with e-mail so far (no notices since the new version of the board). This seems to be working for me. Is anyone else missing their email notification?
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Director Posts: 13040 From: EvC Forum Joined: 06-14-2002 Member Rating: 2.2
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Message 120 of 198 (173465)
01-03-2005 2:04 PM
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Reply to: Message 119 by RAZD
01-03-2005 1:40 PM
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Re: suggestion
Test...
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