Bugs, Fixes, New Features (Old)

[CowbellGuy]

Just testing. [q]Please ignore

[CowbellGuy]

If someone (Keith :-P ) leaves tags open, it should no longer affect anything outside their post.

[CowbellGuy]

Signatures should be properly formatted now, and quoting should automatically strip the signature.

[CowbellGuy]

Well, this one stumped me but good...

After working with a couple members for a few days I finally figured out the problem. The problem occurred when users selected "Threaded" for the Thread Override - List in their Forum Settings. That means on the main page, every thread was fully expanded and because of a bug in the code, instead of showing 25 threads, it showed them all. If you had enough patience and it happened before the apache page timeout, the PHP buffer would fill up and it would return an error. If not, nothing happened. And while this was happening, the database and CPUs were tied up, probably causing the slowness. Until they fix this, I've switched everyone to a flat list view and disabled the option to change it.

Now I'd like to clarify the option itself. There were (and once it's fixed, will again be) 2 relevant options in the user preferences.

Thread Override - List governs how the list view (the page you see when you log on) is displayed. If set to "Flat", there's one line per thread. If there are new messages in that thread it will say "new". If set to "Threaded", each thread is completely expanded out so there is a line for each post with it's subject and author. This makes for a very large list page that I (and I think most people) find hard to navigate. Very few people used this, making it hard to pinpoint the problem.

Thread Override - Read governs how the page where you actually read the posts is displayed. "Flat" simply lays out an entire thread chronologically on a single page. "Threaded" shows the single post you're reading at the top and the subjects for the whole thread expanded out in a tree below it, with links to go to the other messages in the thread.

The two are completely independent, and what most of you probably intended to change was the Thread Override - Read option. Once the list view bug is fixed, that option will return, but make sure you're getting what you want with that.

[KenP]

I'm assuming we'll get the list of extended smileys back?  I don't think I could live without bananaman.

[KenP]

Another small item.  When I click POST, it throws me out to the list view instead of keeping me in the read view.  Is this a bug, a temporary change, or a "new feature"?

[CowbellGuy]

Server e-mails now work again for things like forgotten passwords.

[CowbellGuy]

That's the way the old forum originally did it before I hacked it to do it the other way. Not sure if it will be possible with the new version, but I'll look into it when I can.

[CowbellGuy]

Yeah, I just have to rewrite the smiley page to use the new smiley plug-in.

[Jim Hyla]

Age, I think you have solved my access problem with the Thread Override - List. I always set my preference for that and as soon as I did it on the new List, I couldn't get on. I could if I accessed through another browser without the cookie set, but once I signed on, boom, I couldn't get on.

Thanks for your persistence.

[CowbellGuy]

I've added a field for AOL Instant Messenger in the user profile.

[pat]

I don't know whether you took off the pagination completely or set it to either a high value or a ridiculously high value, but I ran some numbers anyway.

For the past calendar year (March 10 2:00pm 2003-2004, n=1275):



Where the annoyance level is on a thread length is a matter of personal taste and bandwidth, but I would conjecture that either 100 or 150 would be good default large values for number of posts per page.

Keep in mind, too, that Rich and I fear change, and would prefer any settings that make this forum look like Kyle's original CHDF. :-P

[CowbellGuy]

Well, keeping in mind that, you, Rich, and probably everyone else on here fears change like the plague, I think I set it to something like 500. If you want it set lower, I can do that, but I'm going to need confirmation from more people lest I get yelled at again :-P

[Will]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 Well, keeping in mind that, you, Rich, and probably everyone else on here fears change like the plague, I think I set it to something like 500. If you want it set lower, I can do that, but I'm going to need confirmation from more people lest I get yelled at again  
 [/Q]

500 is too low, set it higher. :-P

[ben03]

i second that ...;-) :-D ;-)