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John H
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What is it you ask?

Right above your avatar, it says your forum status. Only for mods + admins it says member. So for you its

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Just thought Id let ya know

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Posted: 21st Aug 2003 08:03 Edited at: 21st Aug 2003 08:04
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Also.

-No new post indication (already been mentioned)
-Every post says its been edited.(or at least the new ones.
-I selected log on forever, and when I came back, I had to log on again.



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Quote: "-I selected log on forever, and when I came back, I had to log on again.
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that one from the cookie.. if you go to the fourms from www.darkbasicpro.com it won't keep you loged in. but from www.thegamecreators.com you will. the problem is with the cookie
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Okay, I've got it fixed now.

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Posted: 21st Aug 2003 10:07 Edited at: 21st Aug 2003 10:25
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I've found a few things that may need looking at:

1) Posts do not indicate that you've looked at them (ie they stay bold)
2) The number of replies is 1 too high - it includes the original post in the count

... and the most important for me ...

3) I'm listed as an advanced user and seem to have lost my mod status

[EDIT]Nice work BTW [/EDIT]

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4) I've reset my timezone to GMT, and I'm 5 hours out ... I'll set it back to +5 for the moment.
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The forum is too narrow for some banners and this meens at 1024 resolution I have to scroll on some messages.

This isn't really an issue with the banners because they are no wider than on other forums. It's just that there's so much junk onscreen there is not enough space left for the text.

Some solution to this really ought to be found - because screenshots are going to look terrible if we have to thumbnail and link them everytime.

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just a question... but why do some posts have html in thier titles?
also why do posts not show when they're new now?

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@IanM

I lost my status as well and Rich had to reset it, get him on MSN

@Rich

Please add a feature to indicate which posts are new


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I've lost my old nick - I couldn't log in using my old email address, so I had to create a new account
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Dave J
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I don't think the Time Offset is working either.

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David T
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Quote: "just a question... but why do some posts have html in thier titles?
also why do posts not show when they're new now?"


I was wondering that - in the subject box it syas "<a href= " then some text next to it about adding images?

Quote: "The forum is too narrow for some banners and this meens at 1024 resolution I have to scroll on some messages."


I noticed that, my problem seems to be having favourites displayed all the time.

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Another niggle I have is with all the menu's on the perimeter of the page, when I goto click the back button to move about the forum the menus keep opening, it's annoying and destroys the slick image of the site.

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Posted: 21st Aug 2003 13:08 Edited at: 21st Aug 2003 13:09
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I believe an option is coming to hide/remove the side navbar.

Another possible solution though: instead of having it open OnMouseOver, use OnMouseClick

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I got :

Parse error: parse error in /u2/www/users/pairdoor/tgc/common.php on line 96

[img]http://www.codingarea.co.uk/TitlePicture.jpg][/img]
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In what way does 'Thats better' contain bad language ?

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<a ref= in subject title ???

And is it my imagination or is posting (and the re-display) a lot slower - probably all the graphics...

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well, it looks pretty

but not being able to easily see which threads have new posts is certainly going to make me skip threads now and again, this definately needs to be fixed


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and that editing things is very strange...


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Darn, I suppose I'll finally have to give in to the inevitable, and install msn then
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It had to happen at some point...

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No more Link to the current section in the top page except for that drop-down box that I never use.???I used that link all the time....Unless I haven't seen the new one?...

If I've seen it all before,why's this bus taking me back again? @_@
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Some comments:

1) The HTML thing in the subject is fixed.

2) "I don't think the Time Offset is working either." - works fine, prove otherwise!

3) "No more link to the current section" - ?? what's the "current section"? If you use the "Top" icon it takes you to the start of the board you're in, if you use the "Home" one you get to the board choice page. What more do you need?

4) common.php error = me uploading new version!

5) "'Thats better'" heh, my soundex is too strict, have increased the percentage now. It only happens on short posts when the string count is too close to a swear word/phrase.

6) "New Posts don't show" - no, but they will. I'm adding a "mark all as read" option, when ready the new posts will show properly.

7) "must be all the new graphics" - doubt it, the forum is almost 100% CSS with no actual graphics other than the smiley faces and a background table. More likely all the bloody images posted as signatures I might disallow that.

8) "or is posting (and the re-display) a lot slower" - it's your imagination, it's significantly faster and I've benchmarked it as such. Posting + redisplay would take approx. 3 seconds before, now it takes 0.04 - see for yourself, hover your mouse over the Apollo logo on any page.

9) "Every post says its been edited" - ah, will sort that. I already fixed that once but god knows how it's back. Will look at it now.

Ok that's it for now. I'll sticky this topic, keep posting bugs ANYWHERE on the site if you find them please.

Cheers,

Rich

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Quote: "2) "I don't think the Time Offset is working either." - works fine, prove otherwise!
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Okay, well let's test it right now, my Time Offset is set to +10 (Sydney) which is my timezone and so technically this post should say 11:00pm for me. Let's see.

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-) "No more link to the current section" - ?? what's the "current section"? If you use the "Top" icon it takes you to the start of the board you're in, if you use the "Home" one you get to the board choice page. What more do you need?

This explained

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Nope 19:05 which is 7pm, it's definately not working for me.

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Weird,when I put the time at Greenwich it gives me the right time which is 9AM.

I'm at gmt-5

If I've seen it all before,why's this bus taking me back again? @_@
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Keep getting a lot of PHP errors :

Parse error: parse error in /u2/www/users/pairdoor/tgc/modules/apollo/includes/apollo_misc.php on line 44

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /u2/www/users/pairdoor/tgc/modules/apollo/includes/apollo_misc.php:44) in /u2/www/users/pairdoor/tgc/common.php on line 219

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Ok go to say the team requests boards and type 'apollo' or something in the search box. Then for some reason it says 'There are no posts in this Board yet, why not be the first? '

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Also,the forum considers the first post of each thread a Reply.

If I've seen it all before,why's this bus taking me back again? @_@
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Easy solution: Just change the "Replies" text to "Posts", or just minus one from the count. hehe.

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All the message functions work it seems.

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In the extended services list, it says there have been 2 downloads, but only one is listed!

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Am I the only one that the website menus annoy?

I mean,I don't wanna sound a nitpick(although I know I probably will) but I don't usually keep an eye on the cursor ALL the time so it happens often that I just hover on them and open the dang thing garhhhh...

Anyways,don't mind me Rich.Just rantful as usual I still think they look great anyways.

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They are annoying but for now I can live with it. Yeh the GMT prob I have it aswell

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@Rich

Not a bug - but I really could use more screen space for the forum, please get rid of the left hand navbar (or have the option to)


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yes. I would like that (extra space)

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@Rich

It seems that the mods have lost the ability to move posts.


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1. "my Time Offset is set to +10 (Sydney)"

The Server isn't on GMT though. I need to change what it says in the time offset drop down so it doesn't have the country next to it.

In all fairness on the page you change this it does say "The Server Time is" under the offset, but I don't think anyone read it

You're adding 10 to EDT, not GMT. So technically it does work, it's just not explained correctly.

2. "Keep getting a lot of PHP errors"

I need to know what you're doing when it happens to debug this. Does everyone get it, is it just in one place, etc?

3. "the forum considers the first post of each thread a Reply."

Fixed.

4. "left hand nav"

I will add an option to slimline the forum for lower-res users which will remove the left nav and make the font size one px size smaller, this should cram more posts on the screen. The actual icons etc are a lot small in height than the old forum! But I'll put this option into forum prefs anyway.

Keep posting things, can't fix 'em if I don't know about them.

Cheers,

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Basically I was using the back arrow (IE6) from the DarkBsic Professional section to get to the main forum list.

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-In all fairness on the page you change this it does say "The Server Time is" under the offset, but I don't think anyone read it

The unfairness is that I had noticed but didn't bother telling it.


BTW again Good work,it's appreciated.

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Having a problem using the submit a DLL page - keeps coming up with a script error :

Line 263 - Object expected

When clicking on the Send Message button.

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Turn off JS error checking to get around that Should work fine otherwise.

Tomorrow - new thread highlighting.

Cheers,

Rich

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Yay. So me no mod , well i am here if you want one

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look at my signature. That box should be a '
EDIT: where is my signature?? its dissapeared after me editing this post

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Long post tiles are taking up a lot of room on the last post section
The forum name and description is forced to wrap and becomes about 10 lines long.

Not a forum bug but.
link on ide updates is
http://files.thegamescreators.com/darkbasicprofessional/upgrade/ide/dbpro_ide_109.exe
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Here is a really annoying bug : When I switch between windows (and the Forum is one of them), the forum doesn't stay maximized, it gets smaller.

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Why is it army time? I posted this at 13:50!!!

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In the bottom-left cornor of IE it says Error on Page

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Quote: "1. "my Time Offset is set to +10 (Sydney)"

The Server isn't on GMT though. I need to change what it says in the time offset drop down so it doesn't have the country next to it.

In all fairness on the page you change this it does say "The Server Time is" under the offset, but I don't think anyone read it

You're adding 10 to EDT, not GMT. So technically it does work, it's just not explained correctly.
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In all fairness it doesn't actually SAY that the offset is from the server time, it just tells us what the server time is. Add the fact that every other forum uses the GMT Offset doesn't help the matter, you guys just have to be different

Anyway, 'fixed' I guess.

Edit: And it might be a wiser option to list the current times in the drop down box for those that aren't as good as Math. Or maybe even automatically subtract the EDT Offset from the GMT entered.

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Server time is: 2024-11-23 21:31:13
Your offset time is: 2024-11-23 21:31:13