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15 Mar 2005, 02:42

Nice to have this back finally. Liking the new colour schemes too. Very simplistic.

Why retain the avatars if there's problems with bandwidth Nic? Surely if every thread has 20 posts and each poster has a 10k avatar then that's 200k being read straight off. I have to turn colours / graphics off when I'm working cos of some people's liberal use of colour schemes and graphics which makes work-surfing nigh on impossible in an open plan office.

Do we really need the history back? I'm not sure it's necessary. I can't think of many forums bar the alt. newsgroups where you can check history. Seems a bit of a waste.

And is this members only now? Good idea if it is. You look at a British website like In The Know which has many more posters than this is likely to have and over-user of graphics and avatars but you have to member just to VIEW, so sorts the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

Keep up the good work. Nice one!

15 Mar 2005, 02:47

Rrrright, I have no idea why my last post came in such BIG fonts ... and I can't edit the size?!

:skeptic: :laugh:

15 Mar 2005, 03:01

Sorry about the colours AL.Will keep them on the other side after DARK if you will send me those

BADGES.

Regards Rocket Mick

15 Mar 2005, 04:02

at least i can choose my user name this time after the fiasco of having the last spoof one i did thrust on me without any say!

15 Mar 2005, 04:35

Ok so a new forum is born!

Gonna take some getting used to and im not sure i like the colours but at least it works!

15 Mar 2005, 05:01

Al Jarvis wrote:

Why retain the avatars if there's problems with bandwidth Nic? Surely if every thread has 20 posts and each poster has a 10k avatar then that's 200k being read straight off. I have to turn colours / graphics off when I'm working cos of some people's liberal use of colour schemes and graphics which makes work-surfing nigh on impossible in an open plan office.

We don't have any bandwidth issues anymore. In fact, we have more than enough.

Do we really need the history back? I'm not sure it's necessary. I can't think of many forums bar the alt. newsgroups where you can check history. Seems a bit of a waste.

I believe in 1 week this forum will be full of new interesting threads... so it's not really necessary to Plus, this one has a purging system... a post not viewed for 90 days will be deleted.. I can change it if I want though.

And is this members only now? Good idea if it is. You look at a British website like In The Know which has many more posters than this is likely to have and over-user of graphics and avatars but you have to member just to VIEW, so sorts the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

Keep up the good work. Nice one!

Apparently Mr Jauncey is unable to use the WYSIWYG editor though... that is a bummer...

15 Mar 2005, 05:02

Don't get too used to the color, they'll be back to the old scheme soon ;)

15 Mar 2005, 05:23

ROCKET MICK wrote: Sorry about the colours AL.Will keep them on the other side after DARK if you will send me those BADGES. Regards Rocket Mick

Great minds think alike. They went in post this very morn.

You're alright on the colour front, I only surf in black & white these days.

Monster.

(the artiste formerly known as 'Al Jarvis' - though you can't amend your username here!)

15 Mar 2005, 05:54

Cheers MONSTER.I thouht we had a NEW poster with a liking of PICKLED ONION crispa here.Like SON OF HUNTSMAN.Great news on the badges as it looks like this is the nearest i will get to a gig.Maybe i should go to HYDE PARK anyhow but wanted to do GLASTO all way through.

Regards Rocket Mick

15 Mar 2005, 07:40

ditto the previous comments re. improved user experience - keep up the good work turning the wheel Nic.

15 Mar 2005, 11:41

Wow, things happen fast around here. Nice work [:)]

So we now have separate log ins for the main site and the forums I take it??? I got myself a bit confused and persistently tried to use my site log in to get in to the forums. I got here in the end thoughXxxx

15 Mar 2005, 11:43

Julie wrote:

Wow, things happen fast around here. Nice work

So we now have separate log ins for the main site and the forums I take it??? I got myself a bit confused and persistently tried to use my site log in to get in to the forums. I got here in the end thoughXxxx

Obviously, both will be synched soon... but when?! Can't say...

15 Mar 2005, 12:27

Excuse me if I'm asking something that's already been asked, but can I stop my e-mail address being available to all, and I can't change my gender from 'not specified' (insert your own joke here).

Also, when you post on a multi-page thread like this one, it puts you back to the first page when you hit 'post'...

15 Mar 2005, 12:28

Only complaint is the avatars come up too small.Cheers for everything else.I couldn`t live without the forums!!!!.Or indeed neworderonline full stop

15 Mar 2005, 12:29

Stockholm Monster wrote: Only complaint is the avatars come up too small.Cheers for everything else.I couldn`t live without the forums!!!!.Or indeed neworderonline full stop

Too small? You are having a laugh! One millimetre across would be too big for an avatar.

15 Mar 2005, 12:47

I can't seem to change anything. All of the settings in my profile keep defaulting back after I save. I don't want emails, but I'm still getting them. I've uploaded an avatar, but it disappears. I've tried this in both IE and Firefox, and it doesn't seem to matter. I can't even find an option to delete my account, if I wanted to do so. Anyone else having these problems?

1002

15 Mar 2005, 14:15

Logged on at last [:D]

15 Mar 2005, 15:15

Good stuff, much faster than the old forums. [:D]

15 Mar 2005, 15:50

Nice to see everyone again; guess I'll have to get used to the new layout. 1st post!

[<:o)]

15 Mar 2005, 15:59

Old Blue wrote:

Excuse me if I'm asking something that's already been asked, but can I stop my e-mail address being available to all, and I can't change my gender from 'not specified' (insert your own joke here).

Also, when you post on a multi-page thread like this one, it puts you back to the first page when you hit 'post'...

In case you didn't notice.. nobody can see your email address.. if you hit "email", it's a page that will send you an email, but the sender will never know it.

I guess it can be disabled somewhere...

15 Mar 2005, 19:18

Well, it'll take a bit getting used to, but there are some good new features to the new forum.

16 Mar 2005, 01:54

Did I miss anything whilst we were all away??[:^)]

16 Mar 2005, 08:56

I hope some people noticed the NOOL logo... you click on it to go back to NOOL....

So many work to do, so little time... :(

16 Mar 2005, 11:43

Great job, Nic, but is there a simple editor as well like in the old forum? Haven't found it in the options... Also the old smilies (some of them are still here as post icons) were much better than the MSN smilies... Seems very fast! Oi, where's me fookin avatar?! Uploaded it but I can't see it... Finally, every time you reply or edit you're then taken to the first page of the thread rather than the one where your reply is... Oh, and what does "Post Mouse-Over Popup " exactly means?

16 Mar 2005, 13:11

Here are my bug bears....

I keep receiving emails from the forums, even though I haven't asked to. I try to change the settings, but the settings just default... I can't use the Emoticons because apparently Mac users can't use them (is this correct?) And when I go to quote someones email in a forum, it shows up ok in the preview, but when I actually post the message, the quote is all in code.... At least my Avatar is working.....

16 Mar 2005, 13:16

Same thing is happening to me. My avatar has finally shown up, but I can't turn off email replies.

1002

Looks like my text size isn't changing, either.

16 Mar 2005, 21:22

Please send me one of those messages you get so I can investigate further...

17 Mar 2005, 08:30

Spinner, how do you 'enable' the modern smiley?

I type :hat: and this happens!?

17 Mar 2005, 08:31

... I typed 'colon' 'hat' 'colon' !?

Is it down to my Mac prowess?

17 Mar 2005, 09:15

Good, the avatar is working (I didn't realize you had to click "update" next to the pic as this option is sort of indipendent from all the other changes you can do with the button at the bottom of the page), though the forum does not support animated GIFs so I changed it. I'm happy the E Mail messages of the subscribed messages are more readable, with text at the top, though it seems we can't see smilies, even if I chose to receive HTML too. Nic, I think you should place something on both the Community on the site where our other profiles are and here on the forum to warn people they must have TWO different accounts to access the two areas, at the moment some might be confused... Great to see the good old smilies back! It would be cool to have the simpler text editor back too... One thing I'm missing is the old forum ranks, from Candidate to Member Of The Brotherhood etc., I though the most of them were dead cool... I noticed the "post icon" has no effect...