27-05-2001 18:06									#151
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG at 26-05-2001 19:09 and the change was?

I fixed a font size code and added this line:

quote: Originally posted by Martin Gühmann Edit: It I used ME5 to post this I tried it with Netcape 4.5 before without any success.

The old added a line under your post if you edited it. That could be very irritating. But I think that is a admin' decission to have it again or not.

I have the feeling that the site ins't able to keep my ID if I am using Netscape 4.5. I thought I logged in with this browser, but as I went to the forum I didn't see the light style. Therefore it isn't possible to post with Netscape 4.5 in the new forum. Maybe my problem is that I disabled roaming access in netscape 4.5. In the old forum it was possible, because I logged in at the same time when I submitted my reply. Therefore I wanted my username and password on the post reply page as in the old forum. Or that the relog in after submitting my reply would allow me to post my reply.

Now a request concerning CTP2 database: OmniGod is off therefore:

quote: Originally posted by OmniGod in http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...?threadid=17353 But for everyone else, all ddl's should go to MarkG now until he appoints another DB Manager. It's been fun and I'll see you guys later.

Therefore I sent you an email that contains a place of a new ddl. I just want to know if you got it. (I know you are busy and have other things to do, therefore I don't expect an update next week.)

Scouse Gits: I disagree the attachment mask allows *.zip files you can put every file in such a *.zip. Therefore no need for *.sav, *.scn and *.hot files, just zip them and you can attach them. I would rather allow *.rar files, because the rar archive is a more powerfull archieve than the zip archieve. OK you can also put *.rar files into a zip archieve. But it is difficuilt to guess that *.zip file contains a *.rar file. To unpack a *.rar file you need a Unrar program or Winrar itsself.

-Martin

	27-05-2001 20:56									#152
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quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits Considering the content of this site couod the attachment mask allow such files as *.sav, *.scn & *.hot

thanks for the suggestions

file extensions added

	27-05-2001 20:58									#153
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quote: Originally posted by Martin Gühmann I have the feeling that the site ins't able to keep my ID if I am using Netscape 4.5. I thought I logged in with this browser, but as I went to the forum I didn't see the light style. Therefore it isn't possible to post with Netscape 4.5 in the new forum.

this post was made with netscape 4.71 with cookies enabled using the light style....

	27-05-2001 21:05									#154
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and this post is made again with netscape 4.71, using the default style, with use of cookies turned of both from the forums control panel and netscape's preferences. i looged in just once on the front page.

quote: Originally posted by Martin Gühmann me to post my reply. Therefore I sent you an email that contains a place of a new ddl. I just want to know if you got it.

yes, i think i got it

quote: Scouse Gits: I disagree the attachment mask allows *.zip files you can put every file in such a *.zip. Therefore no need for *.sav, *.scn and *.hot files, just zip them and you can attach them. I would rather allow *.rar files, because the rar archive is a more powerfull archieve than the zip archieve.

the maximum size remains the same, so there is no problems with such special extensions...
rar added as well

	29-05-2001 08:18									#155
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Finbar, I had the same problem with my e-mail getting flooded, but I figured it out:

When you selct the option to not receive e-,ail when a thread is replied to, it no longer subsribes you to new threads; this is the problem--any threads subscribed to prior to changing the setting remain subsribed; to change this, go to the section that displays subscribed threads, click 'view all subscribed threads', and then unsubscribe all of the threads--viola! No more e-mail!

Hope this helps!

	29-05-2001 12:10									#156
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You may want to fix the date-registered stuff to not say 1969 or 1970. Looks kinda funny...

	29-05-2001 12:19									#157
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quote: Originally posted by Glonk You may want to fix the date-registered stuff to not say 1969 or 1970. Looks kinda funny...

We all know it. Painful, but difficult to solve. Got other things to do on our hands currently.

	30-05-2001 06:17									#158
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Can't you simply do this?

PHP:


if(date($user_date_thing,Y) < 1990)

print &quot;Old timer&quot;;

	30-05-2001 10:22									#159
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The earliest time you could be registered is 1998, when Apolyton was created.

	30-05-2001 10:49									#160
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That wouldn't matter, anyway. You could replace 1990 with 1998 if you really wanted to...

	30-05-2001 12:23									#161
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quote: Originally posted by Glonk That wouldn't matter, anyway. You could replace 1990 with 1998 if you really wanted to...

yeah one of these days(or the other days) i'm going to try a mass replace

	31-05-2001 07:41									#162
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I have been getting a lot of "Document: Done" stoploads in the middle of loading a page; this isn't the first time I've seen it, nor has it only happened on Aployton, but with Apolyton, the browser seems to require a forced reload every four pageviews or so...

I use Netscape Communicator 4.73, BTW.

	31-05-2001 10:18									#163
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Netscape 4.x is /really/ slow at drawing lots of tables, which is essentially how this forum works. For that fact alone, I'd go upgrade to Netscape 6, Mozilla 0.9, Opera 5, or preferably IE 5.5/IE 6.

It'll fix a whole bunch of problems you're having, guaranteed.

	01-06-2001 01:41									#164
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Hey, I'm here on behalf Hydro, as he has been unable to log on since the upgrade. However, Googlie was able to post something for Erik using his username and password in the Spartan Chronicles <shameless plug!>. He has apparently sent a couple of e-mails but received no response as you guys certainly seem to have your hands full

Here is his description of what's happening:

quote: Situation: Have not been able to post since the Upgrade * Try to post. Get a popup screen asking for me to Register/Logon. I log on, and then get a dialog screen that says Thank You. * Cycle back and try to post. Get the Register/Logon screen again. I log in, but this time it says to contact the Administrator. * Note - Googlie posted as me using my Username and Password and it worked fine.

	01-06-2001 01:42									#165
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Netscape6 and ME5 are also slow, but ME5 isn't able to find a banner code. Instead of loading the page it request to refrech this page:

http://apolyton.net/bannercode.shtml

-Martin

	01-06-2001 04:02									#166
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QUOTE]

Situation: Have not been able to post since the Upgrade
* Try to post. Get a popup screen asking for me to Register/Logon. I log on, and then get a dialog screen that says Thank You.
* Cycle back and try to post. Get the Register/Logon screen again. I log in, but this time it says to contact the Administrator.
* Note - Googlie posted as me using my Username and Password and it worked fine.
[/QUOTE]

I know this therefore I avoid to post with Netscape4.5. As I posted my last post I didn't saw this post, because instaed of loading this threat ME5 give me a bannercode

Now I downloaded Opera5 a great browser. While you are loading a page you can see how many images the page contains, information about the speed in bytes per seconds it shoould be kilobytes but that was the Aplyton site that was so slow and there is also information about the loading 10 minutes I think that is a little bit to slow for a page like Apolyton. I needed over half an hour to go to the post reply page with opera5 like with the other browsers on the first day of the forum upgrade. But I wasn't able to post there. I got also this message:

quote: vBulletin Message No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

And than Opera5 crashed. Now I posted this with ME5. I hope these errors will be gone when I got my new comp.

-Martin

	01-06-2001 13:36									#167
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Argonaut,

please tell him to see if he has cookies enabled on his browser

	02-06-2001 07:19									#168
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i have this problem: even on light mode, when a thread spans multiple pages, i don't always get to read the entire thread. why? because when a page loads, most of the time it will cut off in the middle of the thread, so get to read maybe the first 20 posts and then can't read anything below it, including the next 20 and the lower navigation buttons.

i can't tell you how irritating this is, particularly because the only way i can get the full page after that is to clear the browser's memory and disk caches, stopping every other use of bandwidth, and then crossing my fingers.

i tell you, it's caused a significant hit on my enjoyment of the forums, particularly because i can't browse using multiple windows anymore.

and it happens to me on all three major browsers (netscrap, flopera, and ai-eeeee) on a sweet earthlink 56k connection.

	02-06-2001 13:22									#169
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try lowering the number of post per page that you see from the control panel

	02-06-2001 14:23									#170
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We have some problems with "condensed" threads (an example: "Info: diplomats and spies" thread)

1. May the size limit of a post be increased?

2. May the size limit of an attachements be increased?

3. Can I add an attachement to a post with no attachement or to a post which attachement was deleted?

	03-06-2001 03:12									#171
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Thanks Dan for fixing me up!

	03-06-2001 04:18									#172
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Just one small problem now (so far, fingers crossed). I don't seem to ba able to vote in polls. After selecting an option an clicking Vote, I just get a blank white page, with what looks like it might be a correct URL (eg http://apolyton.net/forums/poll.php...;optionnumber=1). Counting the votes before and after, I can verify that my vote was not in fact counted. Any ideas?

	04-06-2001 04:30									#173
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Chowlett, maybe you attempted to vote in a poll that had already been closed? There's an option when creating a poll for how long people should be allowed to cast votes. Try voting to another, newly created, poll and see if that may be the cause for the trouble you're having with those other polls.
---
Tomorrow I'll post here about a few issues/questions with the upgrade that I've scribbled on an old envelope lately , and which haven't been discussed so far. Too tired now...

	04-06-2001 17:30									#174
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I'm fairly certain the polls haven't been closed, as responses have come in after me, so that isn't it.

And damn it, I'm getting that "You must revert your modifyoptions template" again! Grr .

	05-06-2001 23:50									#175
	Inflate your Upload Space

Thank you for a good job with this upgrade.
(now for the ungrateful whiny user part)

I too am having problems with the forum pages being extended beyond the screen width; not perhaps to as great an extent as SnowFire's earlier post, but annoying nonetheless. I see much white space in the thread titles column and still need to scroll to the right to read the last post(er) time (nice info). Unlike SnowFire, I haven't seen any obvious long topics causing this to happen, but it could be in some old thread perhaps. Wrapping of long topics would be a good fix if that is the problem. Naturally, I did not find consolation in your reply to him: "it wraps for me".

I sometimes have an invisible cursor in the reply page; even at best, it is flickery and kinda thin, but when it is missing, it is a real pain to post. The totally missing cursor seems to be related to being low on sys resources as in having SMAC loaded at the same time as I'm on line, but I'd like to think that we could have greater expectations of the upgraded system than the old one (which could handle this). As you might imagine, even a big obnoxious cursor would be better than nothing.

I like the inclusioin of the spell checker, but I am reluctant to check the *don't show me this again* boxes on the *you are about to send ... over the internet* messages as they seem to apply to the "internet zone". If you don't check it, you get a couple of those boxes for each suspect word plus a few more for good measure. I could check it, but I am otherwise happy with this security level in general (just a few CRs added onto each search query), but there are too many in a typical spell check, especially with game jargon and abbr. included. It would be nice if you said that checking the box would have no effect outside this spell checker, but you'd have to mean it.

This is probably a temporary thing and you probably know it already, but in case you don't, today I've been getting recurring messages about one of the ad banners not getting loaded (the one that's not Chips & Bits apparently).

Is it really true that there is no way to uncheck the Show Sig box by default?

Thanks again for all the hard work that must have gone into this change. (this graphic is a nice idea, but a little bland maybe?

	06-06-2001 01:05									#176
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please guys, if you're going to report a problem regarding to how the pages are displayed, include the following information

- operating system
- screen resolution
- browser name and version


thanks

	06-06-2001 05:14									#177
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I found that you can usually cure brower rendering problems by reloading.

However the existence of these problems seem to point to the use of abnormal HTML coding in the vBB scripts. Markos you might want to run a validator to see if the code sticks to W3C standards. I looked at the source and it looks quite dreadfully complicated. BTW if you use CSS why not use an external stylesheet to reduce loading time?

	06-06-2001 08:02									#178
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Markos you might want to run a validator to see if the code sticks to W3C standards.

i seem to recall that one of the changes in this version was w3c compliant code. of course after my modifications....

quote: BTW if you use CSS why not use an external stylesheet to reduce loading time?

cant be done cause the colors are variables which first have to be read form the database.....

	06-06-2001 22:23									#179
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG please guys, if you're going to report a problem regarding to how the pages are displayed, include the following information - operating system - screen resolution - browser name and version

Win98; 1024x768.
Browser (IE) says it is 4.72.3612.1713 ;SP2;3283;
Sorry, I should have put this in my original post.

BTW, I'm still getting the apparent bad link to one of your ads (IE cannot open the internet site .... (adserver link to gamestats?) .... Timed out).

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I found that you can usually cure brower rendering problems by reloading.

The refresh/reload doesn't do it. Its just the main part of the (forum) pages that don't resize for me; the header/footer portions and the main bodies of the thread postings pages all resize (at least to some degree) if I resize the window. Its as if there is a minimum width specified, which for me is a little beyond 1024 pixels; if I were running at 800 x 600, I would mostly see the thread topic column (with about 1/2 of it blank). This is really just a minor annoyance for me, but if I were running 800x600 or less, it would be a big PIA.

	07-06-2001 00:27									#180
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IE 5.5
windows95 v4

The last two days i've been getting the flood control message quite a bit even if it's been an hour since my last post. If it is related to the time problems, please ignore.

RAH