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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Thanks Ben, I'll add a donate button in a few weeks once I'm happy with the new forum. I'll chat later about your sister and Quicken. Yep, see that. Thanks Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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panky Guru  Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1101 |
Hi Glen, Any thoughts on the Print Thread option that we used to have? panky ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2350 |
hi glenn, looks like 'sticky' topics also appear in the list of 'normal' topics. see the 'photos' thread in the 'Microcontroller and PC projects' forum. is this intended? also, when viewing this thread ('Forum upgrade') starting from the 'Microcontroller and PC projects' forum, page 2 onwards skips over to the 'Site News' forum. cheers, rob :-) |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Thanks everyone for posting these issues. I'm working through them. Some are proving pesky, like members getting bumped to Admin group when they post, and others, like print friendly pages, will have to wait while I get the major issues sorted. Keep them coming. But the new forum is definitely faster and more reliable, and I havent even looked at optimising the code or database yet. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 896 |
When using "Bookmark this page" in firefox, the suggested title for the bookmarking of the current page seems to be stuck as "TheBackShed.com - Homegrown Power", before it would use the current topic. regards Gerry Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Ran some code to re-import the old forum posts. This should have fixed up those posts where most of the post was missing. There are still two posts that didnt get imported, these were massive! When I created the new forum database I used a field type of TEXT, which has a limit of 65,535 characters, but these 2 posts were like over 90,000 characters long. So tonight I'll do a extra database backup, change that field type to MEDIUMTEXT, which will handle 16,777,215 characters, and then re-import those 2 posts. Makes you wonder, how may times would you press a keyboard key in a life time? Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1679 |
Just a quick thank you for all the work you are doing, as others have noted, the speed and stability of the Forum is evident even in these early stages of the changeover. Mike. It's all too hard. Mike. |
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renewableMark Guru Joined: 09/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1678 |
No hurry, but a edit button would be good to fix my spelling stuff ups  Cheers Caveman Mark Off grid eastern Melb |
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Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1057 |
...Note to self. Copy message before changing the font... Glenn, I noticed that my "Review Post" just displays everything as one paragraph. Regards a mobile friendly version, I would like to see an option for bigger fonts, even for the PC version. Keep up the good work. I for one really have little idea as to what is involved in doing what you are doing. ChopperP |
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| paceman Guru Joined: 07/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1329 |
Yes, same issue as Chopper with all formatting removed on the "Preview Post" - i.e. one big paragraph. That was on the 31st when I posted here. Win7/64 and Firefox. Just checked it again and same thing. Greg |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Preview Post should be working now. The Edit button is back, tread carefully, probably a bug or several. The last page blank bug should be fixed. The time zones forgetting my setting bug fixed. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1057 |
Yep Edit seems to work. As does formatting for Preview Post Thanks Glenn Edit. When you do edit a post, the original posting time seems to remain the same (as it originally did). Any chance or updating the post time with the edit? Edited 2019-08-04 10:08 by Chopperp ChopperP |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2914 |
G’day Glenn, In the list of threads the envelope with the star that indicates new messages doesn’t seem to always (if ever) update.. Regards, Mick Ps. Keep up the good work and I second a donate button Mik Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
I had a think about this. Decided to leave it as it is for the sake of the paper trail. Any edits are date stamped, so we have both the date the posts was first saved, and the date it was edited. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
I've just uploaded a change where when you post a new or edit a post, it should take you back to that post ( or end of the thread ) when you save. Also the notification email link should do the same. If after a post or edit, you end up somewhere weird, let me know. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1057 |
Ok re Post Times. Just managed to do a double post. Couldn't do that before. Took a bit long to respond so I clicked Save Post again ChopperP |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Yeah see that double post. Next time I'm logged into the server I'll remove it. I'll add some code to acknowledge you pressed the Save button, so you dont think nothing has happened and you press it again. When saving a post sometimes there is a delay as the forum code tries to connect to the email server to send the notifications. The email server is not on the same server, but there is a email server on that server that I may try to use. Sending emails from code is a real prick at the moment, especially to anyone with a Microsoft account ( hotmail, live, outlook, office 365 ). Their anti span algorithms are overboard and lots of valid emails either end up in the junk folder or just get deleted. The Microsoft forums are full of people like me just trying to set up their code to send emails and Microsoft deny there is a problem, but its easy to prove there is. Glenn Edited 2019-08-05 11:59 by Gizmo The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 896 |
Just in case you missed this one.Still seems to be there, maybe only firefox? Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2350 |
hi Glenn, it would be neat if there was a way to have images in threads appear as 320x200 pixel thumbnails that when clicked on open up as the full image (maybe even in a new tab). ideally, this could be something that can be set by the person reading the thread in "My Settings": display small images with link, display full image within thread. i'm often reading the forums on a machine with a 1024x600 screen, so most images folks post in threads end up forcing a horizontal scroll bar. also, i'm sure that in the old forums you could click straight into the last page of a multi-page thread. cheers, rob :-) |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5078 |
Yeah I havnt missed anything, all the messages and posts about the forum upgrade are appreciated and all will be addressed in time. I still have a lot of area's that I haven't even started to develop yet ( Member avatar uploads, edit signatures, Member lists, etc, etc ) and want to get these done first. Chopper I've lost that post of your's with the double post, could you point me in the right direction? Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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