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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2008
     

    welcome to the new forum. sorry about the short notice about switching over.

    it turns out that i broke the old one. i lost a week or so worth of posts in the process. i don't think any of you said much important recently, but if you did, feel free to repost them.

    questions, comments, concerns?

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2008
     

    Yay serendipitous accidents!

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2008
     

    Hey, is there any way to "mark all as read"? I've seen the last year or so's worth of posts...

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2008 edited
     
    Foehg:

    Hey, is there any way to "mark all as read"? I've seen the last year or so's worth of posts...

    there is, but it doesn't work so i turned it back off.

    no use having a button that doesn't do what it claims.

    edit: it looks like they updated the module, so there's now a "mark all read" link... it looks like it also marked every thread as read for every user, just for good measure.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2008
     

    Haha... welcome? It almost sounds as if there was a choice, oh benevolent forum dictator.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2008
     

    Hey, it looks like our old PMs are gone. If you were really bored or it was really easy, you could convert our old in/out boxes to whispered threads on the new forums.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2008
     

    i actually thought about it/looked into it. it turns out it's not all that easy.

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    And bob doesn't have time to be bored. But I have a question. When I go look at threads that have new posts, I go back to the main page, which tells me those threads still have new posts. o_O Why is that?

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     

    i'm not sure :S.... it seems to go away once you respond to the discussion. and it might go away next time you come to the site. it definitely goes away if you click "mark all read"

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     
    bobthecow:

    it might go away next time you come to the site.

    it doesn't. i'll try the mark all read thing again.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2008
     

    It happened to me just now. And I had just responded to the thread. (It was the ILHC one).

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2008
     

    It would still be nice to have a red new next to each post that has been added since your last visit. Especially when people practice necromancy.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2008
     

    Um, I don't really see how that would help. I mean, it already gets highlighted. Why bother putting a red thing by it?

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2008
     

    By the time I look at the tab I've opened in the background, new posts are NOT highlighted. They are just as gray as any other post, and impossible to tell apart from the posts I saw last time.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2008 edited
     

    Oh, right. So you mean on the page where you're viewing them. I was thinking on the page where you open them up from. My bad.

    __________________________

    Oh, hey. It looks for all the world as though you can't reply to yourself. That's cool, I guess.

    ______

    New complaint:

    in Firefox, at least, it scrolls you straight to the unread comments, but if you're in the video thread, it expands the videos after it's taken you there, so you end up stranded in the middle of the thread.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008 edited
     


    something doesn't seem quite right...i can't quite put my finger on it.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008 edited
     

    The fact that the page is now too wide for my browser window?

    Well, I guess it's OK, since all the comments stayed in their box. Sweet.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    try looking again. i edited so there is a link to the pic in case it doesn't embed, and so it's not so ginormous. i forgot that the forums don't auto-resize anymore.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    you don't like how ron's hanging out somewhere else on the page?

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    i think it's funny. that's all.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     
    Foehg:

    New complaint:

    in Firefox, at least, it scrolls you straight to the unread comments, but if you're in the video thread, it expands the videos after it's taken you there, so you end up stranded in the middle of the thread.

    that has to do with how firefox chose to deal with scrolling to a url fragment (the part with #) before all the page content has loaded and stabilized. if you want to join the firefox dev team, you could prob'ly make change that. until then, i suggest you just deal.

    but if you want an easy answer, you can turn off the scrolling automatically to the last post you've seen... then you could manually scroll down there yourself.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    @traci: does it always do that?

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008 edited
     

    It started doing that to me, and then I went to my profile page and reset comment read-ness status, or whatever the other thing is there. It fixed it.

    Oh, oops. I was thinking about traci's previous complaint that stuff doesn't get marked as read. This new one with Ron squatting on the posts hasn't happened to me, as far as I can recall.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    wow. "mark all read" has some serious issues... i'll harass the author of the extension. you can opt not to use it if you wish... that's what i'm doing.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2008
     

    Just goes to show you that Ron doesn't respect the forum.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2008
     
    bobthecow:

    @traci: does it always do that?

    no. i've only seen it once. and i'm sad i didn't get a screen shot of the time it said there were -81 new posts. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2008
     
    Foehg:

    Looks like it didn't. My whisper just got splodged on to the end of my other comment. [Emoticon not found].

    looking at the guts of this forum software, if whispering would bump a thread it would only do so for you, not for everyone else... so you'd be pretty stoked that your thread was at the top of the list, but all the rest of us would see it exactly where it used to be.

    i've disabled the extension responsible for the mess. you should now be able to bump threads, and your whispers won't get tacked on the end of existing threads.

    a side effect of this is that you can multipost. not sure how i feel about this, but i had to disable multipost protection to keep the whispers from getting globbed onto the end of existing posts. i'll contact the guy in charge of this chunk of code, see if he can fix it...

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2008
     

    The thing I would hope is that it would just bump it for the person I was whispering to. Which I bet it does. Just not if it's getting glommed on to the end of the previous post.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
     
    traci:
    bobthecow:

    @traci: does it always do that?

    no. i've only seen it once. and i'm sad i didn't get a screen shot of the time it said there were -81 new posts. [Emoticon not found]

    i saw the negative posts today!

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
     

    traci, have you used the "mark all read" link?

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
     

    yes. is that what causes it?

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
     
    traci:

    yes. is that what causes it?

    i think it's not very well written. i've been happier not using it...

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     

    o. well, i kinda like the negative comments. so i think i'll keep using it.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     

    Does opening the "so many sweet clips that have nothing to do with dancing!" discussion or the "So Many Dance Clips to Download..." discussion absolutely slaughters your browser? (Using Firefox 2.0.0.12, now going to try with Firefox 3 beta 3)

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     

    Same story with Firefox 3 Beta 3

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008 edited
     

    Only inasmuch as I mentioned above, which you might not have noticed, because of how threads were behaving at the time:

    Foehg:

    in Firefox, at least, it scrolls you straight to the unread comments, but if you're in the video thread, it expands the videos after it's taken you there, so you end up stranded in the middle of the thread.

    Just tried it out in Internet Explorer for good measure. Internet Explorer inlines a few clips, but many fewer than firefox does, and seems to scroll to the right place. Also, it shows Ron squatting all over the page, though it's even funnier to see Zach and Holly (or whoever that is) splatted all over the "Welcome, Guest!" message.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     

    Just tried it out in Internet Explorer for good measure. Internet Explorer inlines a few clips, but many fewer than firefox does, and seems to scroll to the right place. Also, it shows Ron squatting all over the page, though it's even funnier to see Zach and Holly (or whoever that is) splatted all over the "Welcome, Guest!" message.

    i don't test things in IE nearly as much as i used to, due to an acute lack of any computer that natively runs IE... maybe i should check this one out.... i thought for sure i'd looked at it in IE at least.

    any particular thread that does it, or is the whole site like that?

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     

    I'm pretty sure the whole site had swing kids plastered all over the masthead, obscuring the "discussions" link and other fun stuff like that.

    The dance clips thread also didn't seem to be inlining youtube videos... but maybe that's just because I'm using on-campus internet feed.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 29th 2008
     
    Foehg:

    The dance clips thread also didn't seem to be inlining youtube videos... but maybe that's just because I'm using on-campus internet feed.

    that's exactly why... on campus you only see the google video links inlined.

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    so the pictures are still covering the tope part of the pages... like I can't read the complete title of the first thread on any page.... still... this is on IE and on my sidekick... come on bobthecow. hehe

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     

    Cyrillic text is poorly handled. [Emoticon not found]

    ??? ?? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????????? ??????

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     
    Foehg:

    Cyrillic text is poorly handled. [Emoticon not found]

    ??? ?? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????????? ??????

    meh. deal with it.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     

    I made a link, and the forum broke it.

    [url=http://h20195.www2.hp.com/PDF/5981-6351EN.pdf]Understanding Pixel Defects in TFT-LCD Flat-Panel Monitors[/url]

    doesn't behave as expected.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     

    i blame vanilla. i'll pass it on.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    You blame vanilla, I blame vanella. Let's call the whole thing off.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2008
     

    Hey, didn't you say we were going to get RSS feeds of the forums one of these times? I've just been moving all my feeds over to Google reader, and I was wondering if this would be a cool thing to drop in there, too.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2008
     

    i'd prob'ly have to rewrite the module. and i have too much work that pays me to take on more work that doesn't right now [Emoticon not found]

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