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Mercy 30 Nov 2009, 01:00

Someone has to start posting so I guess I shall get the ball rolling.

If you have noticed any errors, problems, or oddities with the new forums, please post them, politely, here.

posts not listed by cronological order
Think Tank missing
some old smilies no longer work (no big deal imho)
avatars are teeny
no way to collapse category containing archives/convention threads

DD already knows about those but asked me to post them anyway.

Many thanks to the men behind the curtain who have gotten the forums back up and running for our mutual mastur...er, enjoyment.

-m.

Hot Water Music 30 Nov 2009, 01:29

I couldn't see me old avatar, and I can't even change it or add a new one.

The_Amaster 30 Nov 2009, 01:41

Yeah, my avatar isn't showing up, but it's still displayed on my user cp->edit avatar, and there's no options to reupload or change it.

AtmaWeapon 30 Nov 2009, 01:46

I'm confirming the avatar problem; also my signature images aren't showing up as anything but links.

Nicholas Steel 30 Nov 2009, 01:53

http://armageddongames.net/group.php?do=grouplist

right side of the Tunnel Snakes group, the line passes through the text when it shouldn't. Also what IS that group?

AtmaWeapon 30 Nov 2009, 02:13

I just posted a thread, and had to log in again for some reason. Also, it said I can add 5 tags to the thread. I added 3, and the forums told me I exceeded the limit by 1, so I had to reduce it to 2. 😕

franpa wrote:http://armageddongames.net/group.php?do=grouplist
right side of the Tunnel Snakes group, the line passes through the text when it shouldn't. Also what IS that group?

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!

DarkDragon 30 Nov 2009, 03:04

Mercy wrote:Someone has to start posting so I guess I shall get the ball rolling.
If you have noticed any errors, problems, or oddities with the new forums, please post them, politely, here.
posts not listed by cronological order
Think Tank missing
some old smilies no longer work (no big deal imho)
avatars are teeny
no way to collapse category containing archives/convention threads
DD already knows about those but asked me to post them anyway.
Many thanks to the men behind the curtain who have gotten the forums back up and running for our mutual mastur...er, enjoyment.
-m.

Can you provide more detail about the chronological order thing? Posts look ok on my end.

I've reuploaded the smilies. Let me know if any are still broken.

Nicholas Steel 30 Nov 2009, 03:05

http://armageddongames.net/showthread.php?30276-The-Ultimate-Joke-Thread
Keep clicking on the "last page" button.

Also I notice forum doesn't remember my logged in status very well, others have reported this, I know.

XMuppetSB 30 Nov 2009, 03:09

signature images broken, and signature permissions prohibit image code and uploading images.

Hot Water Music 30 Nov 2009, 03:18

No custom avatars?

DarkDragon 30 Nov 2009, 03:27

Uploading custom avatar, and image code in signatures, should both be fixed. Still looking into the avatar size issue.

Nicholas Steel 30 Nov 2009, 03:29

Hot Water Music wrote:No custom avatars?

No custom avatars yet! Well, maybe there is now ._.

Mercy 30 Nov 2009, 03:44

DarkDragon wrote:Can you provide more detail about the chronological order thing? Posts look ok on my end.

I have noted this issue in GB, VGD, and FG but not GD or NMF. I set thread display options to "beginning" (I was feeling nostalgic) and threads are not displayed in chronological order either by thread start dates or last post dates. In GB, for instance, the first four posts after the stickied posts are:

Alright Russ, it's on start 02-15-2009 09:55 AM last post 02-23-2009 05:14 PM
army screws me again start 05-17-2009 08:47 AM last post 05-17-2009 10:47 AM
As you feel... I feel. start 12-10-2008 03:17 AM last post (no responses)
barack oSama start 02-26-2009 11:56 PM last post 03-30-2009 06:08 PM

I only did a quick check of the first five General forums because now I have another issue. I keep getting logged out almost every time I jump pages. I had this issue with the past forum incarnation about a month and a half ago but it suddenly stopped. I am hoping it stops in this incarnation because it is frelling annoying.

And screw the Tunnel Snakes. They still have not returned my copy of "Nikola Tesla and You".

DarkDragon 30 Nov 2009, 03:57

At the bottom of the forum page, did you select to order threads by last post time, descending? For some reason it defaults to ordering by thread title name (very annoying, I'm looking into it).

Nicholas Steel 30 Nov 2009, 03:58

Show threads from the "beginning"
Sort threads by "last post time"
Prefix "(any thread)"
Order threads in "ascending order" (Or descending if you want)

Seems to reset to sorting by thread title when you log out/in which is annoying.

Matthew Bluefox 30 Nov 2009, 09:13

My entire "Zelda 1.5 Deluxe" thread in the Quest Announcement / Discussion forum has been deleted after the new forum install ... all newer and older threads are still there though ... I know it's always hitting me by accident, butt this is maybe as it should be.

Please remove the Zelda 1.5 Deluxe quest and the Zelda 1.5 Final quest from the QDB entirely, so I won't have to ask for more updates and there won't be anyone making a new thread about my two quests anyway, nobody is playing them at all (my newest quest didn't even have 200 downloads before the forum went dead for a day, and it was up for at least 3 weeks already, while other quests had 10.000's of downloads in no time).

I don't know if there is still any Janine's quest on the QDB, if so, please delete those as well. They're outdated and not played either anymore. There isn't even any support file for those quests available, so if people ask me for help (if that ever happens), I couldn't even give them any good answers.

Please also delete the other threads about my quests to make it look like they never existed. Most of them have not even a single reply and it was always the same person asking for help which went unanswered ... no miracle, since I didn't support those old quests anymore. I hope I listed all threads and didn't forget anyone left.

Kind regards, Matt.

Brasel 30 Nov 2009, 19:01

General Entertainment Discussion and the related forums are gone.

Mercy 30 Nov 2009, 19:18

Two new idiosyncrasies:

"Quick Reply" field not always showing up even when rest of page loads. This seems to be hit-or-miss and I am trying to recreate this consistently so I can give you more info'/determine if it is just a result of timing out from slooow load times. Other sites loading fine/quickly for me.
Hovering over thread icons (the envelopes, et cetera, next to threads) brings up a blank field. Not really important but thought I would mention it.

-m.

gdorf 30 Nov 2009, 19:42

I'm being logged out out occasionally as well.

Thanks.

Cloral 30 Nov 2009, 19:50

Same here. Every time I come back I have to log-in again, even though I selected the 'remember me' checkbox.

Mercy 30 Nov 2009, 20:07

Cloral wrote:Same here. Every time I come back I have to log-in again, even though I selected the 'remember me' checkbox.

Curiouser and curiouser.

I wanted to make another reply in this thread to attempt recreating an issue I noticed after a reply I made in another thread. I hit the "Reply to Thread" button and page switches to thread reply page with Cloral's post already quoted. Just to be sure I did not hit the "reply" button under Cloral's thread I backed out and tried again making sure I hit "Reply to Thread" for whole thread and again, Cloral's reply quoted.

Earlier "Reply to Thread" button was forcing me into the "Quick Reply" field but did not happen this time. Checking to see if submitting this results in another open tab like happened after reply in different thread.

*edit* no new tab opened this time so last time must have been one-off glitch. Also did not have to re-log in to submit last reply or to add this edit as I had had to do previously.

-m.

AtmaWeapon 30 Nov 2009, 21:00

Mottzilla wants to reset his password because he forgot it but the forums are not sending him the email. (Or so he says.)

DarkDragon 30 Nov 2009, 23:41

AtmaWeapon wrote:Mottzilla wants to reset his password because he forgot it but the forums are not sending him the email. (Or so he says.)

I've reset his password manually and emailed it to him.

AtmaWeapon 01 Dec 2009, 01:01

I wanted to see if the new forum was smart enough to stop me from voting reputation for myself. Too bad the "menu" that appears seems to be at a lower layer than the next post. All I see is a tiny sliver of the "menu" and the rest of it is out of sight.

*edit* Scratch that; it's working now 😕

I was going to look at a thread in GB but when I click the "last" link it takes me to the forum index. Also while I'm editing this post the text editor is pushed down so it's underneath the postbit; it's kind of weird.

Pineconn 01 Dec 2009, 01:51

The "Last>>" glitch happens for me, too. Also, the reputation box isn't appearing for me at all. It's not important, but the star system was eliminated and I believe it is impossible to differentiate between a mod and a normal member.

Nicholas Steel 01 Dec 2009, 02:20

Pineconn wrote:The "Last>>" glitch happens for me, too. Also, the reputation box isn't appearing for me at all. It's not important, but the star system was eliminated and I believe it is impossible to differentiate between a mod and a normal member.

A lot of these bugs are probably genuine bugs with Vbulletin as WL has upgraded to a BETA version.

Thunderbird 01 Dec 2009, 02:41

I'm going to add myself to the list of people with login problems...only difference is that I cannot log in at all on Firefox. I get the confirmation, but when the next page loads I'm no longer logged in (I'm posting this using IE).

And the strange thing is, the cookies appear to be set (at least I remember seeing a bbuserid cookie among them).

Pineconn 01 Dec 2009, 03:30

"[noparse]😛[/noparse]" and "[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse]" are messed up.

Should be:
[noparse]😛[/noparse] -> User posted image
[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse] ->

Current:
[noparse]😛[/noparse] -> User posted image
[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse] -> [noparse]:tongue:[/noparse]

Gleeok 01 Dec 2009, 04:43

Pineconn wrote:"[noparse]😛[/noparse]" and "[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse]" are messed up.
Should be:
[noparse]😛[/noparse] ->
[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse] ->
Current:
[noparse]😛[/noparse] ->
[noparse]:tongue:[/noparse] -> [noparse]:tongue:[/noparse]

lol I was just gonna post this. 😛

..I mean: :tongue:

Cloral 01 Dec 2009, 06:59

Looks like its been fixed. :shrug:

Err, that would be a no. It seems that the smiley list you get when you click 'go advanced' does not match up with what is actually displayed.

Okay, now the :shrug: shows up. :shrug:

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