Kitz Forum
Chat => Tech Chat => Topic started by: roseway on August 28, 2006, 07:42:19 AM
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Has something gone funny with the forum, or is it just me? When I arrived this morning I had to log on, although my logon was supposed to be forever, and every section was showing as unread. The appearance has changed too.
Eric
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I couldn't log on at 0330 this morning, so I assumed the minx was up & about doing something! I believe this is the new forum format wot I was priviledged to a sneak preview of a couple of weeks ago.
It's very nice Kitz, but I'm a bit worried about the kiss emoticon, I'm scared Roseway is going keep puckering up to me. The very thought of it's putting me off me breakfast; got to go...
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It's very nice Kitz, but I'm a bit worried about the kiss emoticon, I'm scared Roseway is going keep puckering up to me. The very thought of it's putting me off me breakfast; got to go...
You should be so lucky, ducky :P
Eric
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Sorry guys I shoulda given you some warning, but it was one of those things that I decided for some obscure reason to start late at night when I thought it would be quiet, then ended up taking longer than expected when I ran into a snag during conversion of the existing forums.
By the time I got things working again I was falling asleep.
Theres still a few minor settings I need to change such as put more/different smilies in... and a couple more mods.
But at least the hard stuff has been done and I managed to get there in the end, after a few minor hiccups
Theres a lot more features in the SMF software.. and there were a couple of things that I found restrictive in the phpbb software after having used SMF on another forum. If you have a look around the options (and once you get used to them).
Im also hoping the new forum will deter some of the spam bots Ive been getting of late (got sick of deleting them) since the phpbb captcha has been cracked.
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A heads up of some of the preferances you may need to check.
I had a hiccup with the avs and resizing during conversion, but I think Ive managed to fix this for most of the avs that Ive checked so far.
Check that your forum time is correct, as it may need to be set to BST.
Modify Profile >> Look and Layout Preferences >> Time Offset.
Also whilst in there perhaps look at checking "return to topics after posting by default" and "show most recent PMs at the top"... some of you may be interested in the "quick reply" option too.
From the PM Options, you may also want to set "save a copy of sent PMs by default" and show a popup when you recieve new pms..
Although Ive put a mod in that should flash in the top panel and display when you get a new pm.
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I tried to upload an avatar but got this response: "The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved."
Eric
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okies I'll go have a look see if Ive done something wrong and report back ::)
fixed :)
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........ and now Im trying to break the smilies
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The avatar upload works fine now, thanks (even though mine isn't as good-looking as yours :) )
Eric
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whoops and now I have broken the smilies :(
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I don't know, I go for a day out to California, then when I come back everything has changed!
Now is it my imagination or are we now running back-wards (newest post at the top)?
now let me see what these extra buttons doooo (oops) sorry.
In "Addition Options"
I see "Notify me of replies" is NOT set by default. Would this not be better set as a YES default ???
Kitz, what does the Message icon box do, I have tried selecting various option but nothing seems to do anything.
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I changed everything just so I could confuse you OF ;)
>>> Now is it my imagination or are we now running back-wards (newest post at the top)?
ermmm nope... shouldnt be... have you changed something in your config?
>> see "Notify me of replies" is NOT set by default
I think thats the same on most forums... saves the server generating lots of unwanted mails.
You can change your prefs from
Modify profile >>
Notifications and email >>
Theres several options in there... change it to what you want. :)
>> what does the Message icon box do,
Which message icon OF..
ahhh after looking around for a while could it be the message icon when posting a reply?
If it is.. its the little icon at the top of the message reply.. it looks like you changed yours to a thumbs down... and Ive just changed this one to a lightbulb.
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I changed everything just so I could confuse you OF
you succeeded :lol:
Message icon: Found it. :-X
Earlier, on my main PC the posts were definately reversed, with the latest post at the top. I am now using my laptop and the posts are as normal, and no, I never changed anything in my profile etc.
Will go back and log on again on my other PC and see if it's still the same.
" any chance of an icon for it? :-[
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Kitz,
I?m impressed, :) SMF is a big a big improvement on php BB, well done I can see you?ve worked hard on it.
Now all I got to do is get used to the layout. ;D
High 5 for Kitz.. :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:
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Earlier, on my main PC the posts were definitely reversed, with the latest post at the top. I am now using my laptop and the posts are as normal, and no, I never changed anything in my profile etc.
Will go back and log on again on my other PC and see if it's still the same.
:-[Just remembered, I did change it in my settings, I thought it referred to the list of threads. ie, Whereas "Down the pub" is to-wards the bottom of the list, I thought if there had been a reply it would have been taken to the top of the list (obviously wrong "again")
But still a very good option that I think I may well use.
Sorry but I also forgot to mention "excelent work and thanks" :angel:
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Hopefully all is ok now?
Glad you sussed it out :)
>>> any chance of an icon for it?
lol now you lost me... icon for what? :)
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Thanks stan.. took me a while to actually get around to doing the transformation as Id spent ages trying to build a scheme I was happy with, yet still in line with the old forum style.
SMF is much better once you get used to it.
Word of warning though.. I know you have a phpbb forum.
This version RC3 was only released last week and although the actual build of the forum software itself is pretty good ....
There isnt a proper converter yet for phpbb >> SMF RC3.. thats been released.
Well there is one, but its full of bugs.. so unless you want to spend hours pouring over the php config and mysql data like I did.. then dont bother until theyve ironed out all the bugs in the forum converter.
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>>> any chance of an icon for it?
For creating a quote (similar to the icons for Bold, Italic etc) only it saves having to type the code each time if only wanting to quote part of the subject. "[ quote] nice work [ /quote]" (altered so it did not show as a quote).
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you mean like this one
(http://forum.kitz.co.uk/Themes/KitzTheme/images/bbc/quote.gif)
Its above the smilies ... 2nd row, next to last button
or alternatively you can simply click the quote button above the poster when it will quote the full post for you
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Thanks, I missed that one.
Now, as for font, when I click the font icon, am I supposed to re-type the 10pt, to the size required,
only it always says 10pt?
(ps) must remember not to press F5 whilest looking at preview, because I just lost my last message. :-X
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Now, as for font, when I click the font icon, am I supposed to re-type the 10pt, to the size required,
only it always says 10pt?
Yes, I believe so.
(ps) must remember not to press F5 whilest looking at preview, because I just lost my last message. :-X
heh - you'll soon learn not to ;)
Kitz, this looks brilliant :) You've obviously done a lot of work on this, and it's certainly paid off. Definitely a very refreshing change from PHPBB. Well done you :)
Here's to (hopefully) no spam bots anymore!!
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Looking good kitz :D
SMF looks very nice and i can imagine you had lots of fun migrating the forum in the early hours ???
The one thing which I would say I dont like is how everything now appears as unread! But i'm not making a fuss as I can imagine that was one of the few trade offs in moving to this new super-duper, secure, feature packed, flashy design.
Nice one ;)
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SMF is much better once you get used to it.
Word of warning though.. I know you have a phpbb forum.
This version RC3 was only released last week and although the actual build of the forum software itself is pretty good ....
There isnt a proper converter yet for phpbb >> SMF RC3.. thats been released.
Well there is one, but its full of bugs.. so unless you want to spend hours pouring over the php config and mysql data like I did.. then dont bother until theyve ironed out all the bugs in the forum converter.
Kitz,
no worries there, I?m not as clever as you (wish I was). I?ll just plod a long with php BB. ;)
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no worries there, I?m not as clever as you (wish I was).
None of us is that clever, Stan [creep, crawl...] :'(
Eric
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The one thing which I would say I dont like is how everything now appears as unread!
I'm so unobservant, just noticed the "Mark all messages as read" button :D
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None of us is that clever, Stan [creep, crawl...]
Eric
Oi! That's my department
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lol @ you lot... now what do you want?
talking of which glad you like the smilies.. I couldnt actually find a pack that I liked..
So I put together some that were up my emotes site that had a similar style or look about them.
They actually came out a bit bigger than I thought they would when on the forum.... but I may add some more when I get chance.
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now what do you want?
I can't speak for those other vagabonds; but for myself, your wit and your erudition on matters technical are all I crave, your Ma'amship.
Signed
Your very 'umble servant
Astral
BTW have you seen me best gimp mask? :-X
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lol
>> BTW have you seen me best gimp mask?
no sorry... but theres plenty of tutorials on the net all about GIMP masking if youre into graphics.
This is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#Selection_and_masking_tools) what you meant isnt it? :angel:
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Kinky or what 8)
Handcuffs at dawn next? :police:
please please please
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heh... just realised 2 weeks since I installed it..
and (touch wood) not one spammer .
On the old forum there was at least one a day..
and several times I had to delete batches of about 6-8 despite installing a captcha.
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> not one spammer
<mcenroe>You cannot be serious</mcenroe>
There's loads on here... astral, roseway, kitz.... need I go on? :P
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lmfaooooooo
they are resident spammers so dont count :P
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btw chris....
dunno if you saw my post here (http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=103.msg3368#msg3368) and have any suggestions.
apparently its the lil blue *new* post icon that isnt always showing on new posts..
I actually saw it happen for the last night too.. after astral mentioned it.
But strangely, it was working on some of the threads but not one (which iirc was the 2 words association thread)
As you know I very slightly modified a "mod" to get it to do what it does now, since by default it only shows up on the thread view and not on individual posts.
I caught colin last night breifly on msn and asked him about colour highlighting new posts, but he was rather vague as he couldnt remember which mods hed applied.. as he hasnt even got around to updating to RC3 yet.. though when I probed further, he said hed written that particular mod himself.
However one thing that he did say is that the highlighting was also buggy.
Since it seems to work some/most of the time.. could it be cookie/cache related?... or sql related by not recording read posts?
or just the forum software being silly.
Not sure if theres anything I can do about this.. any suggestions/ideas please?
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There's loads on here... astral, roseway, kitz.... need I go on? :P
Splutter! :shoot:
Eric
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Don't worry mr_chris; he's only peeved cos you put my name first. :angel:
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in that case.. im not sure whether i should be miffed or pleased that my name was last on the list.
or basically peed off cause it was on there at all. ;D
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oh gawd, now you're all reading far too much into it :no:
Hmm, how can I get out of this without offending everybody?
I put Astral first, cuz his name is alphabetically first.. as the song says: start at the very beginning, a very good place to start....
Roseway comes alphabetically after Astral...
And you always save the best for last
</creep>
:D
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Ok, a sensible answer in response to your question Kitz...
Basically I don't know. I've never actually seen it happen, so I'm not entirely sure why it would happen, if you know what I mean.
I'll keep a closer eye out, but if it's an intermittent problem related to tagging read posts etc, perhaps it will be fixed in 1.1 final?
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Kitz! Where have you put that vomiting emoticon?
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Lol!
On the phone to acer tech support for the last half hour on hold... some woman keeps butting in and saying
"Please be a little patient. There are still.... ___ .... callers ahead of you in the queue"
Grr :wall:
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And you always save the best for last
Does that mean that as Soms and myself did not get a mention we are last. :lol:
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Kitz! Where have you put that vomiting emoticon?
(http://www.fotosearch.com/thumb/IGS/IGS646/IS179-048.jpg)
Eric
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And you always save the best for last
Does that mean that as Soms and myself did not get a mention we are last. :lol:
All I can assume is that chris must consider you 2 as being sensible..
If you like though I can arrange a *special title* for you.
You see where it says "Reg Member" under your name and above your av....
Well I can change that to.... hmmmm.... "Trainee Spammer" ;D
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And you always save the best for last
</creep>
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hmmmmmm okay... what do you want?
and I dont do the cooking thing these days... its strictly beans on toast now.
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lol roseway
maybe I should add this one (http://www.emotionless.co.uk/emotes/b/vomit1.gif)
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All I can assume is that chris must consider you 2 as being sensible..
Chris is obviously a person with much knowledge, talent and wisdom who can recognise in others that which he sees in himself,
"so who are we to disagree against such overwhelming evidence" :angel:
If you like though I can arrange a *special title* for you.
Good lord no, we mere humble supporters of the Kitzien fan club would not want to be seen being bestowed with special favours, as it may upset the imbalance of others...
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okayyyyyy... and what favour are you wanting from chris then :D
>>> Kitzien
:lol:
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Nothing.
As we are but mortals treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these forums offer the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter.
The utilitarian results do not interest me.
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feeling poetic tonight are we Phil?,
There's some real creativity flowing through your posts tonight :)
There was me thinking you were getting on the right side of chris, cause he's the only other one that has "the powers" to reverse decisions of members that I censor or ban. :-X
.... and youre right... he is more sensible than me .........
(most of the time). ;D
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I made a joking reference re OF & magic mushrooms elsewhere, before reading this thread, it seems I may have been on to something. The truth is often stranger than fiction. ::)
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There's some real creativity flowing through your posts tonight :)
oops, must have been one of those mad moments of creativity.
Sorry wont let it happen again, well not tonight anyway. ;)
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lol... I was quite impressed actually
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maybe I should add this one (http://www.emotionless.co.uk/emotes/b/vomit1.gif)
Ooh yes, I like that one. In fact I must say that I rather like your selection of unusual smilies, and that isn't a bit of crawling (unlike certain other members of this forum).
Eric
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There's some cool ones here you might like to nick.. er... take.. er.. borrow :angel:
http://www.dnbforum.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies