New Forums on WinCustomize.com!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

The forum refresh, that first came to the main Stardock and Galactic Civilizations 2 forums has made its way to WinCustomize.com today.  After a great deal of feedback from users, the forums now more closely resemble other web forums in style and function. 

We also hope that these new forums will alleviate some of the technical issues users had been experiencing in the past.  If you have any comments/feedback on the new forums, please leave them in a comment here.

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thomassen
Reply #81 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:27 PM
Testing a reply wiht Firefox.
Normal Mode
Vista Partition
thomassen
Reply #82 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:42 PM
Testing a reply with Firefox
Normal Mode
XP Partition
FAILED!
thomassen
Reply #83 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:44 PM
Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled)
Normal Mode
XP Partition
FAILED!
thomassen
Reply #84 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:45 PM
Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled)
Normal Mode
XP Partition (Firewall and Antivirus Off)
FAILED!
thomassen
Reply #85 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:46 PM
Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled) Advanced Mode XP Partition (Firewall and Antivirus Off)
thomassen
Reply #86 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:47 PM
Hurray success! ...but no linebreaks....
thomassen
Reply #87 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:50 PM
I'm unable to create a new thread. I click the link "Create Post", in Firefox and nothing happends. Works in IE though.
Andrew Powell
Reply #88 Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:29 PM
Create post link works in all spots in the forums in Firefox for everyone here that I've had test it. Thanks for your work with the posting replies. Should help me track down the issue.
Andrew Powell
Reply #89 Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:45 PM
thomassen, try as we might we cannot reproduce the same issue you are having. The cause of this (as best as we have been able to duplicate possible scenarios) is that *something* on your PC is causing the javascript on the page to behave incorrectly, or not at all.

The only good news/result of your testing and situation is that it's going to allow us to write a little bit more elegant handling of the errors that you've seen. It was also suggested that I suggest to you, to try posting from another computer.


I should also have the reply advanced mode/edit line breaks thing solves shortly.
thomassen
Reply #90 Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:12 PM
The odd thing is that when I post from Firefox from my Vista installation (got dualboot with XP) it all works fine. But what's odd is that the XP installation is very fresh as well so I really wonder what might block it on my XP. I thought one of my extensions was the cause, but disabling them didn't do any difference. Nor did disabling the firewall and antivirus app. Does anyone know of any other programs that might block Firefox's javascript. It's contained to just Firefox because IE and Opera on my XP partiton doesn't have that issue either.
And I find it odd that a javascript issue from my site would create such an error message from WC? (I've had no other problems)

Thanks for your efforts to resolve this. I'll digg around more and see if I can tweak this.

(Posted in Firefox on Vista in for forum section, normal mode.)
Corky_O
Reply #91 Friday, July 21, 2006 7:23 PM

Some strange inconsistencies in the July Desktop post https://forums.wincustomize.com/?forumid=144&aid=122255#963992

Is there a specific way to post there now, or is this just leftovers from the change?

Hapkido
Reply #92 Friday, July 21, 2006 11:16 PM
In the past, I was one who always had problems accessing and especially posting in the forums. Load times were excruciatingly slow. But since the change, 99% of the time things are great. I do like the overall look and functionality of the change too. If there was anything I would like to see added it would be a "Mark as Read" feature in the "Tools" for individual forums.
Bichur
Reply #93 Friday, July 21, 2006 11:48 PM
Sometimes links don't look right.

Link test 1 = https://forums.wincustomize.com/?
Bichur
Reply #94 Friday, July 21, 2006 11:50 PM
I don't like that.

Link test 2 = Click Me
Bichur
Reply #95 Friday, July 21, 2006 11:51 PM
Link test 3 = Click Here
Bichur
Reply #96 Friday, July 21, 2006 11:52 PM
Nevermind. I think I can work with it.
Jafo
Reply #97 Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:06 AM

Some strange inconsistencies in the July Desktop post

Corky...I don't think so...more likely just the usual people having trouble posting images...like from their harddrive instead of from the net...

Corky_O
Reply #98 Saturday, July 22, 2006 9:18 AM

Corky...I don't think so...more likely just the usual people having trouble posting images...like from their harddrive instead of from the net

Jafo,

I was talking about the image size differences.

Both of my shots (as well as a majority of others) were full size in the post previous to the forum change, now some are smaller (almost thumbnail, for lack of a better term) and some are still full size.

I am wondering if it is based on the new code, and it's interaction with different hosting services? Or simply a new intention in the way the code will be handling the screenshots.

For my shots in that post, I can click on them and they will open in a new window which then allows zooming to full size when 'moused-over'.

The odd thing is that one time yesterday, my first shot was full size and the second shot was still in 'thumbnail' display. I am hosting both at ImageShack, and posted both the same way in that thread.

KeithMacDonald
Reply #99 Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:10 PM
All I can say is this: "Well done!"
Lantec
Reply #100 Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:45 PM
Figured I'd let some of the more serious issues get attention before I brought this issue up again.

I'm using Opera 9.01 and when I view a thread I see some images while others show up quickly and then "disappear" and some never show at all. In most cases a small blue square is left as a placeholder. I'm seeing the site's smileys but images posted linked to other internet sites seem to be the ones that don't display.

Here's an example of what I see.....

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