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Title: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Jul 27th, 2006, 7:42pm We are in the process of upgrading the forum to make it quicker, more secure and generally a little more up-to-date! Please continue to post as normal, this forum will remain open for as long as possible during the maintenance works. The works have been slightly delayed due to power failures, but will re-commence soon. Thanks for your patience! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Jul 30th, 2006, 10:03am This is your prior warning :P The forum will most probably shut this afternoon at some point for 30 mins or so. 30 July 2006. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Jul 31st, 2006, 5:45pm OK, here it is - The new and improved forum. It should be quicker, especially for searching. It has enhanced security. And basically, is much better! Anything that seems odd, please PM me, we may still find little bugs! The one annoying thing that may need changing when you can........any posts where you altered text size may now appear smaller that before, this is because the font size system is now similar to a word-processor, and the sizes are different........please ammend any of you own posts when you find them, and moderators will also do the same to posts on their boards. To turn off the images on the forum index page, enter your profile, and change the template under "options". We will also be adding some other cool templates soon! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JohnD on Jul 31st, 2006, 6:11pm Humour section seems to have disappeared completely?! Otherwise, new forum is fine so far! John D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Jul 31st, 2006, 6:19pm well done lec ;D ;D ;D wheres the top 20 posts so i can see if they work on this nice new forum :-* :-* |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by hamilton on Jul 31st, 2006, 7:25pm Well done Lec. Very impressed with the Christmas lights under your name. ;D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JerryD on Jul 31st, 2006, 8:55pm What's happened to my picture :o :o |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by hamilton on Jul 31st, 2006, 10:40pm Why have I got a green dot next to my name and everyone else has a red dot? Ok, I know it's not the most important thing in the world at the moment, but I like to know these things. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JerryD on Jul 31st, 2006, 11:00pm I also have a green dot. How am I expected to get any sleep tonight now I'm worrying about that >:( |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Jul 31st, 2006, 11:43pm wrote on Jul 31st, 2006, 11:00pm:
its a red dot from where i am looking ::) dont worry its to tell you and others your a mod and if its a subject your a mod on its shown as green ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JerryD on Aug 1st, 2006, 12:01am Coooo! Thanks b.a. :D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by thescruff on Aug 1st, 2006, 12:31am All clever stuff [smiley=drink7.gif] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:58am Sorry - wrong. Your name colour depicts if you are a mod etc..... the red/green dot shows if you are on line currently - green means on line ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Aug 1st, 2006, 9:45am Lectrician wrote on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:58am:
well i got it 50% right which aint bad for me ;D ;D ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:04am oooo and i dont seem to have an edit button for my posts :o ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by hamilton on Aug 1st, 2006, 3:16pm And another thing, either my eyes are going or the bloody prints fading. :o |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Sandy on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:07pm Hey Lec, Great update to the site. Nice one. Well done and all that. :D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JerryD on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:29pm hammy wrote on Aug 1st, 2006, 3:16pm:
Don't be daft |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by MarkS on Aug 1st, 2006, 9:45pm Where did the 'bloody computers' bit go? How can I do anything at all constructive now ? :-[ [smiley=dizzy.gif] [smiley=rollingeyes.gif] [smiley=shoot.gif] [smiley=fryingpan.gif] good smilie collection though. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by thescruff on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:37pm wrote on Aug 1st, 2006, 9:45pm:
A Few glitches in the changover, all will be restored shortly 8-) Thats if Lec gets his finger out ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:27am It's back ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by MarkS on Aug 3rd, 2006, 7:28pm Thanks -I dont want to be seen as just taking.... Next question - what about all those funny greek symbols for talking electrical? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by thescruff on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:35pm wrote on Aug 3rd, 2006, 7:28pm:
Never used them [smiley=angry2.gif] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by ChubbyPhaseWire on Aug 3rd, 2006, 9:11pm :-[ |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 3rd, 2006, 9:27pm wrote on Aug 3rd, 2006, 7:28pm:
I am sorting that as we speak ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by molerat on Aug 3rd, 2006, 9:39pm The threads keep jumping up and down. This seems to be caused by the message above the thread changing from one to two lines and back. Very annoying. [smiley=computer3.gif] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 3rd, 2006, 9:50pm OK, on my screen, the message is single lined only. Where do you propose we cut the line? Anyone else finding this? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by MarkS on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:04pm If you resize the your browser window so that the 'Welcome to att' message just fits across the window then the longer messages take up two lines and it does jump. Solution - get a bigger monitor or glasses and stop using tiny windows. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Aug 3rd, 2006, 11:34pm wrote on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:04pm:
It still jumps even with one line. everytime you go to click on something it moves out of the way. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr needs a seperate box or something the same as the old forum [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:47am The welcome banner that fades is the larst part of the screen to load - hence why it drops. It only drops once while it pop-ups. (unless you have your screen resolution on a REALLY pore setting). Lets take votes for keeping or removing the message fader?? Also, as the forum is based on graphics a fair amount, it does take a little while for the page to "settle" - this was a little un-forseen. All other forums I have sorted run on a server which dishes the pages extremely quickly. We run from a free server in SS's loft, and are limited by his internet connection upload speed. I may be able to produce a selectable template in the profile which changes the image type buttons to text only. This may sort the screen "settling" for some. Just out of interest, how many people have altered the forum template to remove the index-images on the boards?? Go to profile, and click on options, then look to the bottom. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by woodsmith on Aug 4th, 2006, 8:24am Lectrician wrote on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:47am:
I have |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by MarkS on Aug 4th, 2006, 8:44am On the jumping about with the fader - another contributory factor is that the smilies are bigger than the text so when changing between lines that do and dont include a smilie it jumps a bit. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by big_all on Aug 4th, 2006, 9:11am heeelllooo lec i get the jumping every few seconds it dosnt settle down it just keeps happening 8-) ::) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Jim_Franklin on Aug 4th, 2006, 12:56pm Not been on the forum for a couple of weeks, what a lovely sight the new updated forum is.. WELL DONE BEN AND EVERYONE ELSE, BLOODY EXCELLENT. THANKS. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by JerryD on Aug 4th, 2006, 9:00pm Lectrician wrote on Aug 4th, 2006, 7:47am:
I have |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by RabbitRabbit on Aug 5th, 2006, 9:10am There are some 'wierd' things going on with this new version At the moment unable to pinpoint exactly but for example... 1. Sometimes, only sometimes a great raft of postings are missing when I enter a thread. 2. The home page (index) sometimes only shows the calandar and nothing else, do a screen refresh a few times and its OK. OK so I use an Apple PC but I dont think its that, no problems with any other sites I visit. Especially the boobs and bums sites - all the bits are there ok lol |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 5th, 2006, 6:39pm Quote:
AH!! Sparkie sites eh!!?? ;D it takes a long time to get over them places, so we are lead to believe!! RR!! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 7th, 2006, 12:27am and where prey tell is the TUMBLE WEED smilie!!!! :-? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by splinter on Aug 7th, 2006, 6:27pm wrote on Aug 4th, 2006, 12:56pm:
Just like to second that :) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by RabbitRabbit on Aug 7th, 2006, 9:52pm CAN WE REVERT TO THE LAST VERSION? THIS ONE IS NOTHING BUT A PAIN IN THE ASS - IT DOES NOT WORK (Apple G5 running latest OSX and Safari). NO I am NOT going back to fecking awful MS Windows. CHEERS rr |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by ChubbyPhaseWire on Aug 7th, 2006, 11:19pm ;D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 8th, 2006, 7:19am There is no easy way to downgrade unfortunately RR. We have had, as expected, some teething problems, which is why I made sure i did the upgrades when I knew I had some spare time. We have been curing problems experienced by people as we go, so far successfully. The forum error log gives us a good clue as to who experiences errors, even if they don't moan. Tell us exactly what happens - is it just the two symptoms you have already listed? I think CPW has an error - all his posts contain to words - just smilies ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by splinter on Aug 8th, 2006, 11:48am maybe he has been struck dumb ;D |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by ChubbyPhaseWire on Aug 8th, 2006, 1:19pm :o |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 8th, 2006, 1:30pm funny that , when i tried to put just a smilie up yesterday it told me , "not a worth while contribution"!!!! bloody cheek! and can we please , on the trade bods, have our trades back!!!! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by RabbitRabbit on Aug 8th, 2006, 7:02pm Tiz OK Lec, you know me like a good old moan ;) B the way Well Done Lec it does look good even if it is cr4p lol |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 8th, 2006, 7:52pm TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Aug 8th, 2006, 1:30pm:
It's in hand ;) EDIT: [timestamp=1155066436] Done, temporary measure - shows on posts only. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 8th, 2006, 9:55pm Quote:
OI!!! what you do in your spare time, is up to you!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D however, on the trade designators, ta!!!! [smiley=tekst-toppie.gif] [smiley=tekst-toppie.gif] [smiley=tekst-toppie.gif] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 10th, 2006, 12:45am Hey up Mods, i think there may be a problem with the old time/clock affair upon this here new look site, well i posted on the sparky and the just talk sections before midnight on the 9th, and they are showing "today" in the last post part!!??, and i just noticed it lists this post as the 10th Aug, not a TODAY tag on it!!?? ooops!! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 10th, 2006, 9:02pm This post shows Today dor me? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 10th, 2006, 9:16pm seems ok now, like it did early yesterday evening, it just seem to take a while to update it self!!! will keep an eye on it at midnight tonight again! (got to do a pick up job at 1 A.M. ...( F-KIN DARTS AGAIN!!) on a slighlty differing subject, did ya get the e-mail i sent you guys @ 18:24 hours at ATT . do you need a BIG bag of 50p's for the meter, or was i the only one the site seemed to die on this morning right up until about 1/2-3/4 of an hour ago!!??? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 11th, 2006, 12:26am Date stamps are still not working correctly LEC, it shows the reply to the all trades as TODAY , as well as the Sparky section as well as the Chipies bit!!! at 12:23 AM on the 11th you can't quite have a today posting showing "today 11:59PM" can ya!!! [timestamp=1155252349] |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 11th, 2006, 12:43am Just noticed as well LEC, that it is listing this NEW post just as 11th , and not a NEW post!!?? |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 11th, 2006, 6:24am It wont be NEW to you ;) I will look to see if I can notice anything. |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 11th, 2006, 10:25am TIMBA-WOLF wrote on Aug 11th, 2006, 12:43am:
what i mean is it does not always show up as a "TODAY" post!! i know i may be being picky, BUT! you did want to know of any scene problems!!!!! ( and no one has still to answer WHY we have a blooming frog/toad on here!!!, that silly goldy coloured one!!- it don't do nowt!??) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 11th, 2006, 6:31pm The frog is the logo from image shack - It comes with the image shack auto-uploader on thepost screen ;) |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by WOLF on Aug 28th, 2006, 3:14pm Is it me or my compy that has "LOST" the birthday and Milestone topics from the "important" info section ?? in the Just Talk section!!!! i can't wish anybody a Happy birthbay now!!! |
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Title: Re: Forum Upgrade Post by Lectrician on Aug 28th, 2006, 4:34pm It was un-stickied. You could find it in the board, and 'bump' it to the top. The sticky section got very crowded! |
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