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You got voted off you JESSIE!

Sprinkler, did you see my question from yesterday (on the page between 3 and 5).

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Where's my button for Moderation?

Yeah where's MY button for moderation?

What about my smiley question?

How come everyone seems fettled yet when I do a smiley it comes out like this ...

It's actually fairly straight forward to execute, Fettler.

Here, I'll round up one of the geese from the lawn to have a go......

That should do it.

I've tried smiley activation now in both Safari and Internet Explorer, and also clicking on 'Quote'. Each results in a series of code from The Matrix II.

I guess Mac's aren't compatible.

is it cos I is mac? likewise mine have been riddled with unsightly code. it's a bit discouraging to quote, link, emote or attach images. especially when the posts look so pretty in preview too...

Well Facsy I think it's the same old Mac story I'm afraid my old copying device. It plain just don't work.

Interesting point though, the 'preview' looks well ... but then you click 'post' and all hell is let loose.

One day though, Nick might check inside this thread that he executed and you never know, he may even read this?

Finally I think I've realized what "Post Mouse-Over Popup" means, it's a cool feature, to preview the message from the index...   Any chance of having the good old simple editor back, this one takes longer to load than the thread pages on my five years old PC...

Have you considred using vBulletin? It's used to good effect on  lot of other forum sites...

I've finally identified when the crash happens:  1 I enter and browse the forum with no problems 2 I close any Explorer window (be it Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, anything 3 Windows 98 crashes, though luckily Ctrl + Alt + Canc works and I don't have to go into the Disk Scan of the button Reset, which would take more than three minutes! I hope something changes soon, because I wouldn't like my system to freeze for good, crash after crash... I'll try browsing it on Opera or Firefox, though I know there are issues with those browsers, but hopefully they won't crash my system...

i'm uncomfortable with change; or perhaps it's uncomfortable with me. i had a hell of a time 'joining' this new forum!

Uhm, Opera just gives you a plain text editor, you can always format through code of course... Firefox seems to work OK, but it actually doesn't (the word "OK" here should be bold!) the smilies don't work... where's that page with the smilies code? Luckily I remember some though: :) :( ;) :D

Well at least they don't crash! Still I'll use one of these to avoid IE crashes until a new forum version surface... anyway thanks for the hard work...

Spotnick wrote:

Roy wrote: Have you considred using vBulletin? It's used to good effect on  lot of other forum sites...

I'm not considering anything I can't modify myself.

Remember that this system is not there to stay, but it gives me time to have the old one working right... of course I'll migrate all the changes from this one to the old one when it will be ready.

That's my goal.. it could take a lot of time, but it will be done eventually... my first goal right now is to have both running on the same database...

I'm not haivng a pop or anything it was just a suggestion :D

Putting my IT head on though, if there is a tool out there that works fully and can be used to control access, moderation etc etc why not use it as opposed to one that does allow customisation but doesn't work as well and is slower?

I guess it's because I don't know why you want to customise it so mayeb you've got plans that Vbulletin wouldn't support?

I likes it a lot!

But hey spotnick put the "whats in your jd/no collection" thread back on the forums with all these newbies it would be nice to see what they've got.

Good idea, that way we can all see who we need to hit up for any rare tracks :D

Uhm, tried to post with the "plain text editor" I wrote above you see on Opera, but actually you can't quote as the result is a load of code displayed on the page...

This leaves me with the only option of Firefox, though the editor does not format or smilies (and the yellow label in the index with the preview of the message is one line only), but at least it doesn't crash, it can quote, and I can use HTML and UBB code, though I'd like to see that complete list of smilies code which was on the old forum (since the code is always the same anyway).

Firefox has minor display problems with the site as well, like font sizes look smaller, the list of the preview of the album invades the cover image and images have no distance from text, but they're minor problems indeed...

nuts wrote:

I likes it a lot!

But hey spotnick put the "whats in your jd/no collection" thread back on the forums with all these newbies it would be nice to see what they've got.

Excellent idea.  It was a great resource and also, I wish I would have pasted my post into a Word document for reference.