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 Luke McKee
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements.  Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:19 pm |
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Lord Sinister wrote: The Giant Napkin wrote: I use mozilla Firefox on a 1920x1080 screen and the forums span my entire screen. That's not really a bug, and fortunately most people don't make lines 20 inches long, but it's kind of annoying to have to read such a long way from left to right... Is there any way you could make give the forums a fixed, say 1024 pixels broad at most? What!? I hate it when forums squash everything in to the middle of my screen, I love the fact that the forum scales for the size of my monitor!  *plugs laptop into 72inch tv* 
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BTGBullseye
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:16 pm |
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Alyxx wrote: Lord Sinister wrote: Won't adding the ability to use HTML in posts be abused horribly? Now that you mention it, yes, it is a risk factor. Haven't ever had any issues with allowing HTML code on any of the forums I've run/moderated/been a member of... Alyxx wrote: The Giant Napkin wrote: I use mozilla Firefox on a 1920x1080 screen and the forums span my entire screen. That's not really a bug, and fortunately most people don't make lines 20 inches long, but it's kind of annoying to have to read such a long way from left to right... Is there any way you could make give the forums a fixed, say 1024 pixels broad at most? Thanks a lot for your hard work on the forums by the way, it is appreciated : ) That's more of an aesthetic thing and it's a matter of taste. I doubt most people are as bothered by it. I'm running on a 1366 x 768 screen, and when someone posts a pic that's too wide, it's really annoying to have to scroll side to side just to read the posts...
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Luis
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:46 am |
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BTGbullseye wrote: Alyxx wrote: Lord Sinister wrote: Won't adding the ability to use HTML in posts be abused horribly? Now that you mention it, yes, it is a risk factor. Haven't ever had any issues with allowing HTML code on any of the forums I've run/moderated/been a member of... Alyxx wrote: The Giant Napkin wrote: I use mozilla Firefox on a 1920x1080 screen and the forums span my entire screen. That's not really a bug, and fortunately most people don't make lines 20 inches long, but it's kind of annoying to have to read such a long way from left to right... Is there any way you could make give the forums a fixed, say 1024 pixels broad at most? Thanks a lot for your hard work on the forums by the way, it is appreciated : ) That's more of an aesthetic thing and it's a matter of taste. I doubt most people are as bothered by it. I'm running on a 1366 x 768 screen, and when someone posts a pic that's too wide, it's really annoying to have to scroll side to side just to read the posts... I second this. very large pictures should be auto resized and viewed at full size by clicking on them
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The Scoutman
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:37 pm |
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Can we create groups in the future? like the "Mike's fan club"or some thing like that
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Luke McKee
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:22 am |
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What about breadcrumbs at the bottom of each page? EDIT1:You should probably also deal with those spam registrations. Change the CAPTCHA to Q&A and add a few non-specific questions. But make sure the answers aren't google-able, as most bots can use Google nowadays. EDIT2:What about making links open in a new tab? 
Last edited by Luke McKee on Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Bjossi
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:17 am |
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Q&A is the way to go, or trick math problems. As soon as we put this up on the other forum I visit the spam flood stopped completely.
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"What is eight times five, if eight is actually three in a disguise?"
"Freeman's X; replace X with the right word."
By the way, I'd still love an option to increase number of posts per page. . .
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Ian
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:36 am |
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Is there any way you can move the edit button away from the quote button? I often find myself editing other people's posts by accident.
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Jek Jek Roo
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:20 am |
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idunno...somethingftw wrote: Can we create groups in the future? like the "Mike's fan club"or some thing like that I like it. It's a good idea, but maybe later, right
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Luke McKee
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:01 am |
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Bjossi wrote: Q&A is the way to go, or trick math problems. As soon as we put this up on the other forum I visit the spam flood stopped completely. I found this too was the case on a forum I run. Bjossi wrote: Examples:
"What is eight times five, if eight is actually three in a disguise?"
"Freeman's X; replace X with the right word." But you have to make sure it's not too cryptic, for example if English isn't one's mother tongue they may have some trouble understanding a question which is too complicated. But I do love that maths one. 
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Rarity
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:47 am |
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Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but possibly allowing file sizes of 30kb up from 16kb for avatars? I had to get creative in photoshop just to knock the files size down the like .03 under the limit for my current. :X
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Alyxx Thorne
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:14 am |
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blightmare wrote: Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but possibly allowing file sizes of 30kb up from 16kb for avatars? I had to get creative in photoshop just to knock the files size down the like .03 under the limit for my current. :X I uploaded mine in gif format. The file was not even 7 kb with Local Selective colours.
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:57 am |
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Alyxx wrote: blightmare wrote: Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but possibly allowing file sizes of 30kb up from 16kb for avatars? I had to get creative in photoshop just to knock the files size down the like .03 under the limit for my current. :X I uploaded mine in gif format. The file was not even 7 kb with Local Selective colours. Yup, mine too... 3.17K here.
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Luke McKee
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:17 am |
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Isn't the Wordpress comment system supposed to be closed? 
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:58 pm |
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So... are we experiencing some problems?
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:25 pm |
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J.C. wrote: So... are we experiencing some problems? Things aren't loading well for you, either, I take it.
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Lord Sinister
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:08 pm |
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EnviMea wrote: J.C. wrote: So... are we experiencing some problems? Things aren't loading well for you, either, I take it. Same for me. 
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:10 pm |
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back up now. It wasn't us but the whole damn Data Center
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Luke McKee
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:21 pm |
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DaveD wrote: back up now. It wasn't us but the whole damn Data Center Caused by the server load of ./ ?
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Rarity
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:45 pm |
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BTGbullseye wrote: Alyxx wrote: blightmare wrote: Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but possibly allowing file sizes of 30kb up from 16kb for avatars? I had to get creative in photoshop just to knock the files size down the like .03 under the limit for my current. :X I uploaded mine in gif format. The file was not even 7 kb with Local Selective colours. Yup, mine too... 3.17K here. Well, guess I'll convert it over to a gif so I can have it in the full 100x100. Cuz I had to freaking lower jpeg quality to like half and knock the size down to 64x64. Still would be nice to have a max quality 100x100 jpeg but meh, aesthetics.
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Post subject: Re: Forums issues and improvements. Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:33 am |
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If the site ever has problems go to http://dreamhoststatus.com/It'll tell you if there's anything wrong, so you can decide if you should blame the site or blame the host.
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