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Are there still problems with PMs? I tried to send Mercy a PM pointing out that Skinny Puppy was in Austin tomorrow and I *almost* want to go but it says her box is full -- uh... she has too many private messages. 😱

I hope someone saw my post on Page 2 ... I really meant it, it wasn't a joke.

I tried to send Mercy a PM... she has too many private messages.

Still having problems with "Reply with quote" button. Get sent to "Reply to Thread" page with an error, "The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters."

-m.

OK, I've increased the PM caps up from the defaults.

What's with the spam threads that keep popping up?

Yeah. The spam is pretty out of control. I'm guessing the registration Turing test is not implemented by default.

I've fixed the <<First and Last>> buttons (it was indeed a bug in the forum software; I've submitted a patch to the vBulletin developers.)

I'm sorry, I still don't understand the thing about the reply boxes appearing in the wrong place? Could someone please explain to me what is wrong, and would should be happening instead, in excruciating detail?

DD, if you are referring to my problem with replies I will try to be as clear as possible.

In making this reply I clicked the "reply with quote" button at the bottom of your last post. I was immediately taken to the reply page (not "quick reply" field) with an "Errors" field at the top; "The follow errors occurred with your submission" (I have not attempted to submit anything as of yet) "The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters". Below the "Errors" field is the "Your Message" field with the reply field included. No where in the reply field does it contain the content of your post w/ appropriate quote tags that I was attempting to quote. This has been a consistent issue since yesterday so it should be easy to reproduce. Perhaps someone else can attempt to use the "reply with quote" option and tell us if they 1.) get the same error message & 2.) actually get the quoted text of the post they are replying to in the reply field.

*edit*
The multi-quote option does not seem to be working at all for me.

-m.

Matthew Bluefox wrote:I hope someone saw my post on Page 2 ... I really meant it, it wasn't a joke.

Just thought I'd point out that there seems to be a 4 image limit per post in effect. The lost post I was reposting had 5 images in it, and the screenshot thread has some old posts with well more than that. I don't know what the original image limit was, but it may have been around 10, thus meaning it takes more than double the number of posts it took before to post a large series of screenshots. Hope this limit gets increased a little, otherwise there could be double posts just for someone to get their screenshots all in at once or something...

Is there any way to save your viewing settings for forums like Video Game Discussion? I've changed it so that it displays the newest threads first instead of sorting by thread title, but when I return to the forums later it returns to sorting by thread title, which is kind of annoying and useless. Is there a way to make my changed settings there permanent?

Yeah, it seems that the "News and Announcements" forum and the entire "General" forum except GD have their threads arranged alphabetically, not by date. This... sucks. Also, can anyone else scroll far to the right in this thread, but there's nothing over there?

Pineconn wrote:Yeah, it seems that the "News and Announcements" forum and the entire "General" forum except GD have their threads arranged alphabetically, not by date. This... sucks. Also, can anyone else scroll far to the right in this thread, but there's nothing over there?

For those of you who are still being logged out you need to manually delete your AGN cookies. This was mentioned in the thread in official announcements but some of you may have missed it.

Pineconn wrote:Why?

I've decided to stop "questing" for ZC. That's why I said, maybe it had to come that way (the vanishing of the Zelda Deluxe thread). I don't wanna make a new thread. I just wanna quit and I wish that the topics about my previous quests are archived at least, so nobody can post there again. And I also wish that my two Zelda 1.5 quests are removed from the QDB. If there is still any Janine's quest left there, please also remove it. Janine has stopped "questing" even before I did now, and she agreed on the removal.

- Matt

Well ... since my most updated thread has vanished in the upgrade of the forum and all the other threads were practically unnoticed, and my quests have about 1/20th of the downloads other people's quests had, I see no sense in posting them here anymore, and I want to have them removed, so - even if it would happen - nobody can ask me anymore about things here which I will forget quite soon anyway. When you don't play a quest for months, you tend to forget about the secrets and so on, that's normal.

I've decided to stop "questing" for ZC. That's why I said, maybe it had to come that way (the vanishing of the Zelda Deluxe thread). I don't wanna make a new thread. I just wanna quit and I wish that the topics about my previous quests are archived at least, so nobody can post there again. And I also wish that my two Zelda 1.5 quests are removed from the QDB. If there is still any Janine's quest left there, please also remove it. Janine has stopped "questing" even before I did now, and she agreed on the removal.

- Matt

Matt, this thread is meant to help the staff correct forum issues. Please take your ZC grousing to the appropriate forum, where someone with the power to help might actually do so.

If you find any forum oddities we'd love to hear about them.

/moderator

Are the rep powers accurate? I see that gdorf has 6 bars of rep, but a power of 11. Franpa has 8 bars of rep, but a power of 8. I've got 11 bars of rep, but a power of 9.

Pineconn wrote:Are the rep powers accurate? I see that gdorf has 6 bars of rep, but a power of 11. Franpa has 8 bars of rep, but a power of 8. I've got 11 bars of rep, but a power of 9.

Matthew Bluefox wrote:Well ... since my most updated thread has vanished in the upgrade of the forum and all the other threads were practically unnoticed, and my quests have about 1/20th of the downloads other people's quests had, I see no sense in posting them here anymore, and I want to have them removed, so - even if it would happen - nobody can ask me anymore about things here which I will forget quite soon anyway. When you don't play a quest for months, you tend to forget about the secrets and so on, that's normal.

I've decided to stop "questing" for ZC. That's why I said, maybe it had to come that way (the vanishing of the Zelda Deluxe thread). I don't wanna make a new thread. I just wanna quit and I wish that the topics about my previous quests are archived at least, so nobody can post there again. And I also wish that my two Zelda 1.5 quests are removed from the QDB. If there is still any Janine's quest left there, please also remove it. Janine has stopped "questing" even before I did now, and she agreed on the removal.

- Matt

DarkDragon wrote:Rep power depends on post count and join date as well as reputation.

Lol the sub title for my rep points is "franpa" where as Pineconns is "Pineconn has a brilliant future"

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Errr.... it also appears that announcements don't show up.

This is not a problem with the forum itself, per se, but the new forum is amazingly unfriendly to mobile phones.

The old version had a special theme built in, but even without that, it was usable on my cell.

But, now, trying to read the forums is an exercise in futility...

I've been at it for several days now, trying to fix my AGN cookie dilemma. I have a Sandboxed Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5, and I have cleared all cookies on the Sandboxed and non-sandboxed variant, performed the deletion of cookies.sqlite or whatever it was called in my documents profile Applications Firefox area, ... not quite sure what else I can do, really. It's still not remembering me. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. :-\

Yes, I just now did all of it again. Deleted sandboxed and non-sandboxed cookies.sqlite files, cleared all cookies on both, all the history, .. everything I can think of. I log back in to AGN after starting up Firefox, re-enter all my login information, ask to be remembered, and the little horizontal strip scrolls down from the top asking if It should remember the password or not. I click yes of course, and I log in. I leave and return, and I am logged out.

[highlight]This should be red and bold.[/highlight]
[spoiler]This used to make a spoiler box, though it's no longer in the forum FAQ.[/spoiler]

And this used to create a line, but it's no longer in the FAQ.
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The really sucks ST... is it failing to remember you within a single Firefox session, or after you quit Firefox and restart?

ShadowTiger wrote:I've been at it for several days now, trying to fix my AGN cookie dilemma. I have a Sandboxed Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5, and I have cleared all cookies on the Sandboxed and non-sandboxed variant, performed the deletion of cookies.sqlite or whatever it was called in my documents profile Applications Firefox area, ... not quite sure what else I can do, really. It's still not remembering me. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. :-\

Yes, I just now did all of it again. Deleted sandboxed and non-sandboxed cookies.sqlite files, cleared all cookies on both, all the history, .. everything I can think of. I log back in to AGN after starting up Firefox, re-enter all my login information, ask to be remembered, and the little horizontal strip scrolls down from the top asking if It should remember the password or not. I click yes of course, and I log in. I leave and return, and I am logged out.

DarkDragon wrote:The really sucks ST... is it failing to remember you within a single Firefox session, or after you quit Firefox and restart?

Anthus's idea is a good one though. (BTW, Happy birtthday yo. 😊 ) I'll try that. Thanks for the concern everyone. 😊

EDIT: Ooh, It was Anthus' Solution that worked. Thank you so much! 😃 This is going to sound really awkward, but I never thought having AGN as a bookmark would be the thing that would screw me over when going to AGN. :blah: Bookmark replaced and chastised. No cookie for bookmark.

ShadowTiger wrote:I don't have to quit Firefox at all for it to forget me. I can go to anywhere else on the internet and come right back, within the same tab, and I'll have to log in again. After I cleared the cookies, it even asked me if it should remember the password.

Anthus's idea is a good one though. (BTW, Happy birtthday yo. 😊 ) I'll try that. Thanks for the concern everyone. 😊

EDIT: Ooh, It was Anthus' Solution that worked. Thank you so much! 😃 This is going to sound really awkward, but I never thought having AGN as a bookmark would be the thing that would screw me over when going to AGN. :blah: Bookmark replaced and chastised. No cookie for bookmark.

Thanks for the b-day wishes too.

EDIT: On a completely different note, the rep button is busted. For me, clicking on the star for rep brings up a window underneath the border of the post window, allowing you to see only the edge of it. As a result, I can't do anything from there.

Hope the screen helps.