Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I asked Handy about it earlier in the day; short version is, yes, there are issues with SF's hosting right now.
Forum complaints / problems to fix master list
- Thread starter Handruin
- Start date
Thanks Clocker. I know things could be worse so I don't mean to gripe too much. 
As for the hosting. I may start to look for another hosting company once I get my stuff organized in my house and I'm back online. As of right now I have to wait 2 weeks for comcast to come reconnect my TV and internet. :\ So it might be a little while.
As for the hosting. I may start to look for another hosting company once I get my stuff organized in my house and I'm back online. As of right now I have to wait 2 weeks for comcast to come reconnect my TV and internet. :\ So it might be a little while.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Check out Lunar Pages, I have heard good things about them in the past and I think they are one of the most reasonably priced providers out there.
ddrueding
Fixture
A minor request:
Change the tabbing order so that the password is the field after the username, with the "remember me?" button after that.
(on the main page)
TIA
Change the tabbing order so that the password is the field after the username, with the "remember me?" button after that.
(on the main page)
TIA
I really dislike the look of the home page: It is far to busy with useless stuff like calenders, online user lists, stats, birthdays, etc. It really looks like simply a link to the forums with lots of junk added. The middle news section, simply looks like selected forums posts, rather than news. I'm sorry, but to me, it look chaotic, undisiplined, and frankly amateurish.
It lacks a main purpose; which as far as I can tell should be mainly news with a convienant and noticable link to the forums and possibly some links to our other group activities like our folding team, or maybe links to favorite tools.
It lacks a main purpose; which as far as I can tell should be mainly news with a convienant and noticable link to the forums and possibly some links to our other group activities like our folding team, or maybe links to favorite tools.
Thanks for the info you guys. I've added the most recent two suggestions to the list of things to fix. I've finally got my basic desk setup (tonight) so I have a decent place to work (and I have internet access at my house again).
I can't change everything tonight, but now I can begin working on a bunch of these issues. I'll possibly be upgrading vbulletin again since a new version just came out. Before I do that I need to play with it and see how it works. Sorry for the long delays.
I can't change everything tonight, but now I can begin working on a bunch of these issues. I'll possibly be upgrading vbulletin again since a new version just came out. Before I do that I need to play with it and see how it works. Sorry for the long delays.
ddrueding
Fixture
Handruin said:
Yeah...it's not like you have anything better to do... ;-)
Thanks a lot for your efforts.
If you're curious, here are some of the new items in vbulletin 3.6.0:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186803
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186803
ddrueding
Fixture
Looks great. Replying to multiple posts, and auto image resizing will be useful.
ddrueding
Fixture
P5-133XL said:
Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V work, as does right-click "copy" and right-click "paste"
I can also drag n' drop text just by highlighting it and moving it around.
ddrueding said:
I understand that that is the normal way(s); My message boxes, don't include those options in the right-click menu:
This is what I get when I right-click inside a Message box: Note no cut or copy choice, only paste. Though, I not normally use Ctrl-c / Ctrl-v, I just tried them and they do work.
By the way, I really like being able to upload an attachment and use that rather than having to host the image. I do wonder, though, if that feature is used extensively, how often those uploaded files will need to be cleaned out because of space. I suppose time will tell.
ddrueding
Fixture
P5-133XL said:
Interesting, here is what happens for me. Latest Firefox with AdBlock Extension and a few others.
Yours is exactly what I would expect. Mine is not, and thus is why I posted it as annoyance. I'm using just plaine-jane vanillia IE6 and right-click copy/paste worked before the conversion to VBulletin and still works on other BBS's and applications; Just not here for me.
I've been fiddling, and it appears that if I switch editor mode -- Icon in the upper right of the message box, it fixes the problem. I'm not sure how the two editor modes differ, but I have no problem switching to the one that allows cut/copy.
So problem solved.
So problem solved.
I've upgraded to vbulletin 3.6.0 so that once I begin making the changes we need, we'll be at the latest version.
In regards to the images hosted here, they can be managed very easily from the admin console. If they begin to consume too much space, I can remove some of the older ones as needed. I believe you can also see (and manage) all your own attachments from the user CP by going here.
In regards to the images hosted here, they can be managed very easily from the admin console. If they begin to consume too much space, I can remove some of the older ones as needed. I believe you can also see (and manage) all your own attachments from the user CP by going here.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Since I switched my link to SF to the New Posts link, I have no real complaints.
Fixed item #5 (Previous avatars are now uploaded to the server again). You will have to look for your avatar under the "Useruploads" or other categories. My apologies that the avatars don't automatically map. You can adjust your avatars under your User CP => Avatar.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I hate to mention this again, but any chance there might be an increase in PMbox size, soonish?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Yay, 152 more messages!
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Thanks!
A character display bug that I've noticed in the new forum software, which did not exist in the previous forum software (pHpBB), occcurs when I use the [ list ] command to indent a block of text or a list. No matter what, a "round bullet" character is generated on the first line of text when I use the [ list ] command. Below is an example:
...which uses this simple code:
If I want bullets in front of every one-line paragraph, there's no problem. I just use the [*] command at the beginning of each line within the [ list ] structure.
I'm guessing the bug fix probably entails a lot of code sifting and is not worth chasing down.
NOTE: I added spaces within the [ list ] command on purpose.
-
Hello world!
Splash splash splash
Coral
Shark
Seaweed
...which uses this simple code:
Code:
[ list ]
Hello world!
Splash splash splash
Coral
Shark
Seaweed
[ /list ]If I want bullets in front of every one-line paragraph, there's no problem. I just use the [*] command at the beginning of each line within the [ list ] structure.
- Hello world!
- Splash splash splash
- Coral
- Shark
- Seaweed
I'm guessing the bug fix probably entails a lot of code sifting and is not worth chasing down.
NOTE: I added spaces within the [ list ] command on purpose.
ddrueding
Fixture
Where is the edit button?
GIANT
Learning Storage Performance
ddrueding said:
I could've used an Edit Button last night, what with the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.... spelling and grammatical screwups I was committing! Where's the Grammar Police when you need his acerbic commentary?
Instead of saying this...
Splash said:
...I was trying to say:
- I'm guessing the bug fix would probably entail a lot of code sifting and is not worth chasing down, unless it's something easy to fix.
(PS: I just used 5 levels of [ list ] [ /list ] commands as an experiment)
OK. I give up. Is there an "Smiley Page" or something of that nature here where I can choose Emoticons? I swear I stumbled onto such a page or pop-up window here a few days ago.
Come to think of it, does someone here know of a smiley code webpage that displays a list of all the popular smiley codes (I'm talking about the : special_word : codes, or whatever they are called).
,thanx
Yes, you can see the list of smilies when you reply to a thread. On the right hand side are a few of the common oes, but you can also click on the link labeled "more". See screen capture for more details. The "more" page has the alternate text associated with the smilies.
GIANT
Learning Storage Performance
Handruin said:
Your forum interface does not look like what I'm looking at now. On my right side is just a whole lot of pale blue space. I just changed displays between "linear," "hybrid," and "threaded" but the icons-on-the-right view never appeared during a Reply. Same goes for Style being set to "Default," "Revised," or to "Simple."
However, I looked far and wide for what I discovered a few days ago, and w-a-y down at the bottom of this particular page is a small embedded window titled "Posting Rules." Within posting rules it mentions:
_______________________
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may post attachments
You may not edit your posts
vB code is On
Smilies are On
code is On
HTML code is Off
_______________________
From there I re-discovered the URL to the StorageForum Smilies page.
[url]http://www.storageforum.net/forum/misc.php?do=showsmilies[/url]
[Generic Smilies]
What to Type / Resulting Graphic / Meaning
The Smiley Codes I need are located in the "What To Type" column.
[list] [/list]
Corvair
Learning Storage Performance
Well, that would be if I had originally done the following:
User CP ---> Edit Options ---> scroll down to "Miscellaneous Options" ---> Message Interface: Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing
Over two weeks later, I just now stumbled into this feature!
wneddnce:Arial
Arial Black
Arial Narrow
Book Antigua
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Fixedsys
Franklin Gothic Medium
Garamond
Georgia
Imapct
Lucida Console
Lucida San Unicode
Microsoft Sans Serif
Palatino Linotype
System
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
GIANT
Learning Storage Performance
There is currently no way (that I'm aware of) to get from any level in the forums to the top of the hierarchy without typing http://www.storageforum.net/ into the browser. Case in point:
Clicking on "Storageforum" on the folder level indicator brings you back to:
http://www.storageforum.net/forum/index.php
Clicking on "Storageforum" icon at the top of the page also brings you back to:
http://www.storageforum.net/forum/index.php
The convention used by most websites is that clicking on the large logo at the top of the page brings you back to home page:
http://www.storageforum.net/
fb
Storage is cool
There's something strange going on. I posted something in the "commutes"-thread, and the main forum page got updated, but not the Pub & Brewery section?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Hey Doug, I think the favicon might have been lost when the site went down.
It seems to be there. Isn't this where it should go?
http://www.storageforum.net/favicon.ico
The server has been slow because they've been backing up emails to convert it to some other format (news to me). fb's issues was MySQL being too slow to update the thread table index so I had to do it manually.
http://www.storageforum.net/favicon.ico
The server has been slow because they've been backing up emails to convert it to some other format (news to me). fb's issues was MySQL being too slow to update the thread table index so I had to do it manually.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
It's there now, I'm pretty sure it was missing before.