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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #150 –
Looking good, great job!

A few things I'm missing though. I'd like to echo Gecko to get the "date registered" under the user's name. Also, I used to click on the link on the right bottom corner of the recent posts in the homepage, I think it was "all recent topics" or some such, which took me to a page with the latest topics from all the forums, including fb2k ones and others that don't show up in the homepage. Also, I used to choose the time interval (usually a week to catch up). Is there a way to do that in the new layout?

And a request, if possible. What I've missed all these years from this forum is an auto-subscribe option like so many other forums have. Basically you can choose to subscribe to a thread once you reply to it, and have all the threads you've participated in in a "subscriptions" section. The notifications option doesn't really cut it, and the "new replies" section gets emptied when you click on a topic to see it.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #151 –
Is there any way to identify new posts in threads?
 

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #152 –
Quote from: Pusherman on
Is there any way to identify new posts in threads?
On a related note, what I miss from the old forum is an option to straight to the last page of a thread. You used to be able to click 'Last' from the Recent Topics index.

Am I missing something? Is that a feature that can be enabled? Or should we just learn to live without?
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #154 –
Could not log in under my account,  cleared cache etc.
No lost password emails being received. Any way forum could set up temp email account like hydrogen audio at Gmail so members who can't log in can contact admin?

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #155 –
Can you login if you use the "login" button at the top of the page, instead of the login box to the left side of the front page?

That worked for me, but of course YMMV.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #157 –
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Am I missing something? Is that a feature that can be enabled? Or should we just learn to live without?
Just click the date of the last post.
Brilliant, that works a charm. Thanks!

It's actually a prettier solution too as it doesn't clutter the index.
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #158 –
Quote from: KozmoNaut on
Can you login if you use the "login" button at the top of the page, instead of the login box to the left side of the front page?
No.
..and again, how would a member contact admin, if they can't log in?
I would bet many members might be having similar issues, hence my suggestion for a temp email for contacting admin.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #159 –
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The bookmark plugin would be a nice addon.
Installed. Looks fine. It may need a minor change to display the topic links like the portal currently does, namely with link to new posts and unread posts.

It seems the bookmark plugin got lost somewhere during the migration process as it is not available anymore?
Certainly seems to be installed.

I'm sorry but I do not see "My Bookmarks" in my account menu  or a "BOOKMARK" button at the top of a topic.



edit: Is it enabled at Administration Center > Configuration > Add on Settings > Miscellaneous ?

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #160 –
I also had a major problem logging in. After several tries with the emailing a new password failed, I set up a new account to discuss the issue. tried one more time   with the emailing a new password, and this time it worked. Who knows!
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #161 –
Is there a way to see recent posts for a longer time period? In the old forum, one could hit the "more" button to see additional recent posts  that I hadn"t read, ie: little red mark. You could even select a time frame like "past week" etc .
Glass half full!

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #162 –
I'm quite surprised at how little has changed, all things considered. Well-done!

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #164 –
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Actually quite liking the lack of 'Who is browsing this topic', too few forums hide it and I've never understood the real value in it.
It's there, just at the top of the thread now. I don't view it as useful either, unless it also shows that people are currently typing a post. That way I can wait for them to post their reply before making my own, or verify my post is still relevant before submitting it.

Quote from: andy o on
What I've missed all these years from this forum is an auto-subscribe option like so many other forums have. Basically you can choose to subscribe to a thread once you reply to it, and have all the threads you've participated in in a "subscriptions" section. The notifications option doesn't really cut it, and the "new replies" section gets emptied when you click on a topic to see it.
I'm pretty sure it's already there in the settings, under notifications. "Turn topic notification on when you post or reply to a topic" seems to be what you want.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #165 –
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Can you login if you use the "login" button at the top of the page, instead of the login box to the left side of the front page?
No.
..and again, how would a member contact admin, if they can't log in?
I would bet many members might be having similar issues, hence my suggestion for a temp email for contacting admin.

Ok, tried logging in once more, lost password message finally showed up in my inbox this time. Reset password and now able to log in. Mods, please delete "TempAJ" account, thanks.
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #166 –
Quote from: ChronoSphere on
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What I've missed all these years from this forum is an auto-subscribe option like so many other forums have. Basically you can choose to subscribe to a thread once you reply to it, and have all the threads you've participated in in a "subscriptions" section. The notifications option doesn't really cut it, and the "new replies" section gets emptied when you click on a topic to see it.
I'm pretty sure it's already there in the settings, under notifications. "Turn topic notification on when you post or reply to a topic" seems to be what you want.
I'm not sure exactly how notifications are working here, but I was going by the eevblog forums, which offer similar notification options when I said the notifications doesn't really cut it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but notifications sends you an email, besides notifying you in the forum. Also, I'm not sure that read notifications don't get erased from the notifications panel. I'm not sure if there's one notification for one thread, or just the notifications in chronological order. Thread subscriptions like almost all other forums have is cleaner, you have all your threads in that section and they get bumped up when someone repliles. The ones with new replies are in bold, the read ones in normal font. And you can choose not get emails.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #167 –
I didn't realize Bookmarks needed to be allowed per member group.

Email is currently semi-broken, since there was no PTR (reverse resolve) record set for it, but that should be fixed now. If there are still problems, then I will configure Mailgun for this domain and use that instead.

E: I also made the scripts asynchronous, but I won't take that profiler's advice when it comes to making CSS asynchronous, since the page is essentially a mess without its style sheet.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #168 –
Quote from: kode54 on
If there are still problems, then I will configure Mailgun for this domain and use that instead.
Problem solved. I couldn't log in and never received a reset password email, until 1 hour ago. Thanks.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #169 –
The new forum system looks great and works well.  Thanks for all of the hard work!
Best Regards,
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #170 –
With a quick mark forums read and the link to unread posts updated in my bookmarks, I'm set to go! It even knew my password without any reset stuff.

One quick grumble: ctrl keys like -i  and -b  for text formatting do not work. But hey, I know where the square brackets are on the keyboard.
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #171 –
Might be worth considering including the 'Quote' buttons even when logged out, since it's often easier to respond to a post directly rather than logging in from the top of the page then going back down to the post and hitting the quote button. On the other hand it makes the pages look cleaner without it. Perhaps they could appear on hover when logged out. Would be interested in others' thoughts.

Btw, is it just me or did the dynamic Mention feature get disabled ("@user" dropdown/linking)? Hopefully it still triggers a mention notification.

Also, looks like there's no text formatting/smileys on the post preview page, unless something hasn't loaded properly on my end.

Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #172 –
Hey, great job with the new site! Very, very nice!

There are a couple of rough edges, though, that I would like to point out (sorry if they have been already addressed by someone else...):

- In the old "front page" I could choose the period for which "recent posts" were displayed (one week, one month...): apparently this is not possible any more and I think is quite a loss

- The URLs format to posts has changed (which is quite obvious... different platform, different router) but this is IMHO (and in my experience as a web developer / host) a *major* issue as all external (think Google...) **and internal** links to posts created before the switch-over are not working any more. A compatibility URL rewriting mechanism, I think, is urgently needed. If the posts IDs are the same as before, this can probably be done directly in .htaccess through Apache's mod_rewrite Nginx's NginxHttpRewriteModule.

Cheers!


Sergio
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #173 –
Oops... As far as regards URL rewriting, I've just realized we are under Nginx and not Apache, but I think the same can be done with NginxHttpRewriteModule (although I've never played with it...)
Sergio
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Re: Migrated to a new forum system

Reply #174 –
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- In the old "front page" I could choose the period for which "recent posts" were displayed (one week, one month...): apparently this is not possible any more and I think is quite a loss
There is currently no quick mechanism to launch a search of recent topics for any given period, that I know of, or I would have provided just such a link.

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- The URLs format to posts has changed (which is quite obvious... different platform, different router) but this is IMHO (and in my experience as a web developer / host) a *major* issue as all external (think Google...) **and internal** links to posts created before the switch-over are not working any more. A compatibility URL rewriting mechanism, I think, is urgently needed. If the posts IDs are the same as before, this can probably be done directly in .htaccess through Apache's mod_rewrite Nginx's NginxHttpRewriteModule.
I am already rewriting several different legacy URLs that existed in the /forums/ subdirectory, please point out any existing links which don't work yet, and I'll get them implemented as well. Rather than using explicit URL rewriting, I instead chose to use 301 redirects to the new location.