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[jy3]

if you are going to put a web page where it says "web page" in ur profile, be sure to do it as the http://www..... if you do it without the http:// the link will not work :-O

[Josh '99]

OK, the new arrangement is starting to make sense.  Not sure if it's just me that's noticing this, though, but the date and time of the last post, as viewed within a thread, doesn't seem to match the date and time of the last post as shown on the main page.  Anyone else have this problem?

[Josh '99]

To be more specific, the timestamp on the message as seen within the thread is at my local time (EST), but the timestamp on the "last post" in the main view is shown in GMT.

[Rich 96]

I get the correct timestamp on the topic list (main page), but 5 hours earlier within the thread.

Lowell: I seem to get the threads moving to the top of the list as they are updated.

One feature I would like to see is some annotation to point out the new posts.  CHDF had a nice (New) notation so you could pick out what you hadn't read before.

[CowbellGuy]

I did a partial update of the software and I can either get one or the other correct. I'll do a full update tomorrow. As for the new messages, it should show "new" next to the threads with new messages and the new messages, but you have to have cookies on.

[Rich 96]

OK. Cool.  I have seen the "new" on the topic list (similar to the old red arrows).  I see the "new" notation in the Threaded View, but not the "flat view".    My last couple questions: in updating profiles, it seems that "Jabber" fills itself in...any ideas?  And any chance of an edit/delete feature being added?  That was one of the best features of the old site.

Thanks to Age for his work, and Kyle for years of past service.  Forgive all of our stupid questions...we're just in adjustment stage in seeing what features are here and how they work.

[CowbellGuy]

This forum is basically a heavily modified version of existing software. Once I get all the bugs ironed out, I'll try to add editing if it hasn't been already. Flat view doesn't show which are new messages, just threaded.

[Admin]

The time stamp problem should be fixed for all new posts.

[big red apple]

I don't really like courier font - it is like being repeatedly poked in the eye - and the color scheme takes some getting used to, but it all seems to work well.

I would really appreciate a toggle for the top post between most-recent and first.  When I haven't read any of a 30 message thread (say, I was away during a game weekend) it is nice to be able to start at the top and just read.  The next time I check in, it is better to have the new posts at the top. I have no idea how easy/difficult this is, though.

All nitpicks, however.  Thanks for setting up and hosting the forum, Age.

[Tom Hamill]

On my netscape (on Unix platform) the banner at the top comes out looking screwy.  The lower Lynah is overwriting the date.

That, and as others mentioned before, being able to edit would be nice.

I always liked the most recent message on top, not on the bottom, too.

[CowbellGuy]

That should have kind of fixed it. At least you shouldn't see the logo more than once. I already had to jump through hoops to make it work right in Netscape, IE, Mozilla (and OmniWeb) in Windows, MacOS, and MacOS X. Netscape for Linux wouldn't know what to do with a style sheet if it bit it in the ass, so you'll have to deal. Maybe you and Kyle can make an ASCII forum that you can telnet to with a TRS-80 and host it on some free server using free software run by gnomes and pixies.

[Admin]

You can now enter pre-formatted text by using
[ pre ] and [ /pre ]
(without the spaces)
tags around the text you want formatted. God help you if you don't close your tags.

[jtwcornell91]

Now, you see, that sort of rhetoric is how web design holy wars get started.  I could counter that if you write for the spec and not the browser, the number of hoops through which you have to jump is greatly reduced, and mention lynx, Mozilla for GNU/Linux, Konqueror, Opera, etc.  But then I'd really just be venting my frustrations at secretaries who ask me to send them a word document because they can't read PDF (generated with pdflatex) or websites with whole paragraphs of text converted into GIF images.

But seriously, please don't take the feedback personally; we're just letting you know what does and doesn't work well for the users.  Since this forum is new, I think a lot of us are presuming there's still some tinkering to be done.

Incidentally, I think the font customization issue can be handled by defining a user stylesheet, but I don't know if my crappy browser can handle it.

[Admin]

Don't mind me today. I'm having a very bad week.

Yes, there's still a LOT of tinkering to be done.

And I always write for the spec. In fact, I test everything on IE for Mac first, as (at least until recently) it was the most compliant browser out there. And it always pleases me to no end that when I have everything working there and I start testing with other browsers, I find that Netscape can't render a table worth a damn (Netscape introduced the "blank" tag as a workaround for a bug, rather than fix it), Mozilla still has bugs that go back to Netscape 3, and IE for Windows takes shortcuts to render faster that cause no end of trouble. So in the end, you HAVE to make amends for browsers, but not because it starts that way.

So I introduce this forum whose only drawback over CHDF is not being able to edit posts, while bringing a lot more to the table, and 5 people feel it's worse than CHDF. Sure makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

I certainly had no expectation or intent of having to replace CHDF last week, but that's what it came to, and I'm not going to get into the reasons now. Anyway, I'll try my best to address as many of your requests as I can, but it might take a little time.

Age

[jtwcornell91]

Of course, the clever title for my email would have been "gnomes and elves".  Ah well.