Forums are Back Up
Monday, February 18, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Huzzah!
We've completed our work for the night and the forums are back up and running. You'll notice a number of visual changes, and you'll hopefully notice improved speed and general performance.
Please post any issues you run into here. We've done a lot of testing this past week and tonight, but if something slipped through we want to know so it can be fixed quickly.
Items not functioning at this moment:
- Recent Posts List on the Sidebar
- Featured Articles
Fixes are coming for these tomorrow. For now, it's getting on towards 5am and we want to get some sleep 
Thank you all for your patience.
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Philly0381
Reply #122 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:18 AM
Reply #122 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:18 AM
I'm using the Web Browser in SDC. The forums posts are not showing if they are new posts or new replies, just a blank box shown in recent posts. 
vStyler
Reply #123 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:34 AM
Reply #123 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:34 AM
Ive noticed the grey backgrounds are back behind all the images after being fixed the first time., like Online\offline, reply\quote Wizop badges etc... XP, IE6, all threads.
ZubaZ
Reply #124 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:49 AM
Reply #124 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:49 AM
I'd like to take a second to thank whoever had the idea to have links be blue and underlined instead of the the dashed gray line. Much easier to see and understand function.
I did kind of like the external link in a initial topic underneath. I read the authors text and my eyes are already traveling down the page. Now I have to track back up to find the link. Looks good and I'll get used to it but I think it's a break in the flow.
I did kind of like the external link in a initial topic underneath. I read the authors text and my eyes are already traveling down the page. Now I have to track back up to find the link. Looks good and I'll get used to it but I think it's a break in the flow.
CarGuy1
Reply #125 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:56 AM
Reply #125 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:56 AM
When I hit enter to move down a line to space out the text it is not working unless you create the line break yourself with < br >.(minus the spaces between the < and the letters)
I also find that if you edit an edited post, your edited text reverts back to the original post.
I also find that if you edit an edited post, your edited text reverts back to the original post.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #126 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:43 PM
Reply #126 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:43 PM
While the new layout of the posts looks cleaner and more organized, there seems to be one casualty: less room for the post content. The actual post content is now sandwiched between the poster info on the left, and the sidebar on the right. I personally never really use that sidebar anyway (anyone else?), the channels list is kinda useless since it's easier to just access everything from the forums home, as well as the full recent posts list (used the most).
If getting rid of the sidebar altogether is too much of a gamble, how about an option (for subscribers?) to not display it at all, allowing for more room for the post content. Would seem to be a better use of that space (IMO).
*hides*
If getting rid of the sidebar altogether is too much of a gamble, how about an option (for subscribers?) to not display it at all, allowing for more room for the post content. Would seem to be a better use of that space (IMO).
*hides*
ZubaZ
Reply #127 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:09 PM
Reply #127 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:09 PM
I like the Recent Forum Activity section. During busy times I use that as much as "View all recent posts"
Bebi Bulma
Reply #128 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:37 PM
Reply #128 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:37 PM
Oh, and why isn't the Customer Level included on the user info on the profile page (it's there on the personal sites)?
Jafo
Reply #129 Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:53 AM
Reply #129 Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:53 AM
I like the Recent Forum Activity section. During busy times I use that as much as "View all recent posts"
Ditto...
Phoon
Reply #130 Friday, February 22, 2008 8:38 PM
Reply #130 Friday, February 22, 2008 8:38 PM
dont know if this has been brought up. I have not read this entire thread:
When viewing "My Replies", the My Last Reply and Last Reply fields are identical.
When viewing "My Replies", the My Last Reply and Last Reply fields are identical.
waxplay3r
Reply #131 Friday, February 22, 2008 9:34 PM
Reply #131 Friday, February 22, 2008 9:34 PM
Dunno if this is an issue or if it has been questioned. After clicking 'Recent Forum Activity', I can no longer see which threads I've read. Is that something that was done away with? Maybe it's just on my side Maybe it's been written about already and I'm being lazy 
OK, I'll read all three pages. I shall return 
Maybe it's been written about already and I'm being lazy 
OK, I'll read all three pages. I shall return 
ZubaZ
Reply #133 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:37 PM
(my new technique . . I reply to every post . . no matter what. If I don't see my name . . I know it's recent. )
(jsut joking . . it onmly seems that I reply to every post
)
Reply #133 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:37 PM
Dunno if this is an issue or if it has been questioned. After clicking 'Recent Forum Activity', I can no longer see which threads I've read. Is that something that was done away with?
Been reported elsewhere. I really miss that feature. 
(my new technique . . I reply to every post . . no matter what. If I don't see my name . . I know it's recent.
)(jsut joking . . it onmly seems that I reply to every post
)
waxplay3r
Reply #134 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:44 PM
I'll have to adopt that technique Zubaz
Reply #134 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:44 PM
(my new technique . . I reply to every post . . no matter what. If I don't see my name . . I know it's recent. )
I'll have to adopt that technique Zubaz
vStyler
Reply #135 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:50 PM
Reply #135 Friday, February 22, 2008 10:50 PM
REALLY bothersome not being able to go to last post read\replied to.. having to go to last page.. scroll down etc etc... my replies 'feature'.
Also still seeing grey backgrounds behind all the images in all threads and aformentioned OS's\browser's etc..
I'm assuming it's all still being worked on?
Keeping the faith tho,
Also still seeing grey backgrounds behind all the images in all threads and aformentioned OS's\browser's etc..
I'm assuming it's all still being worked on?
Keeping the faith tho,
Bebi Bulma
Reply #136 Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:16 AM
Ugh, I hear ya on that.
Reply #136 Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:16 AM
REALLY bothersome not being able to go to last post read\replied to.. having to go to last page.. scroll down etc etc... my replies 'feature'.
Ugh, I hear ya on that.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #137 Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:46 AM
Reply #137 Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:46 AM
Another bug: when viewing someone's profile page, the "Wincustomize
site" link just appends the user name to the end of it, and in some
cases this ends up as an error, such as Erk's
site. (Had to use you as an example) 
http://users.wincustomize.com/Erk. obviously won't work because of the
. at the end of his username, and that's not the proper url anyway.
Now that I've edited this post and had to go to the last page to see it, when I try to click on the "view all recent posts" link it takes me to https://forums.wincustomize.com/post.aspx?g=recent which results in the "post does not exist error." The proper link should be https://forums.wincustomize.com/?g=recent. Seems to happen whenever I do those steps. (After testing, don't even need to edit, just open a thread with multiple pages > click on "last" page, and the "view all recent posts" link leads to post does not exist.)
http://users.wincustomize.com/Erk. obviously won't work because of the
. at the end of his username, and that's not the proper url anyway.Now that I've edited this post and had to go to the last page to see it, when I try to click on the "view all recent posts" link it takes me to https://forums.wincustomize.com/post.aspx?g=recent which results in the "post does not exist error." The proper link should be https://forums.wincustomize.com/?g=recent. Seems to happen whenever I do those steps. (After testing, don't even need to edit, just open a thread with multiple pages > click on "last" page, and the "view all recent posts" link leads to post does not exist.)
fontinalis
Reply #138 Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:17 PM
Reply #138 Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:17 PM
Got 2 more forum bugs for ya Zoomba.
1. When I make a post, then click on edit to make some changes, then click on submit to resubmit it; it vanishes into that big ole WC wormhole. Poof! Post gone. Gotta start from scratch.
2. When I click on insert web link button the url window opens up on the top of my FF tab, half stuck under the tab window. insert url window hidden window thingy
I'm on the latest build of FF, WinXPPRO/SP2
1. When I make a post, then click on edit to make some changes, then click on submit to resubmit it; it vanishes into that big ole WC wormhole. Poof! Post gone. Gotta start from scratch.
2. When I click on insert web link button the url window opens up on the top of my FF tab, half stuck under the tab window. insert url window hidden window thingy
I'm on the latest build of FF, WinXPPRO/SP2
fontinalis
Reply #139 Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:27 PM
Reply #139 Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:27 PM
Update on the vanishing edited posts. They're not! When you open a post and it has more than one page, it still defaults to the first page so I usually post a reply on the bottom of that first page.
The firs page of the post refreshes with my new post on the bottom. As usual I see some need for editing.
I click on edit and resubmit. That first page of the post is refreshed with my post missing.
The post was pushed to the last page of the thread but my FF browser remained on the first page of the thread so I thought the edited post was disappearing.
Don't know if you can do anything about this, but it will cut down on some double posting. Doh!
The firs page of the post refreshes with my new post on the bottom. As usual I see some need for editing.
I click on edit and resubmit. That first page of the post is refreshed with my post missing.
The post was pushed to the last page of the thread but my FF browser remained on the first page of the thread so I thought the edited post was disappearing.
Don't know if you can do anything about this, but it will cut down on some double posting. Doh!
Phoon
Reply #140 Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:28 PM
Reply #140 Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:28 PM
what the @#$% is it with the green words in various threads that trigger pop up ads when you hover over them. EWWWWWWW make it stop please!!
Cleared browser history, cookies etc and still get them.
Cleared browser history, cookies etc and still get them.
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Reply #121 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:10 AM