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Bulletin board software is updated. If something doesn't work, please post its details here.
This is mainly a bug-fix update. A new feature is Facebook and Twitter buttons at the end of a thread to enable an easy way to share the thread on those networks.
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Something wrong with the formatting. A CSS problem perhaps?
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It looks odd for me too. The index has a biiig gap on the left of the screen and print scrunched into the right.
Then when i open a topic everything is on the left with a blank right of the screen. But the reply box is again way over to the right.
Usable but awkward. Though I must say I'm glad it's not just my computer (or my lack of computer skills.)
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Perhaps the stylesheet you've chosen isn't working well with the update. Try a few different stylesheets and see if that makes a difference. Here's how to change it:
My stuff -> Edit Preferences -> Your preferred stylesheet
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I see no problems. I'm using the default style sheet.
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the GooG_v2, infopop, and ebay styles (others?) are broken; i.e., all those which don't put up the Forum Stats etc. along the right-hand side. (personally, I have no use for that stuff and feel it just takes up space.)
edit: 6 of the 10 Top Posters no longer post here, and the number one is deceased. I don't need to be reminded of all that all the time.
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sad that "sunny_dropshadow" is broken.  you can also change the stylesheet right on the Front Page, on the bottom left.
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Back to the default. That seems to work.
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but, with a normal font size, I can't even see all the forums above the fold with the default style. /continued whinging
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The default is closest to the old layout. - Bye bye blue GooG_v 2.- Never mind. The other choices are just to unpractical to use. Too much scrolling. Ah well... progress, you see, progress I guess. ( have the forums above the fold in full view.)
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I forgot how to remove the info boxes on the right of the screen (Top Posters, Newest Members, etc.) Any help will be appreciated.
"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous
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I did not know they could be removed.
Right now I don't have them, seems they have not been there all
day: first day of this. I thought something was wrong with the
site. On this screen right now I have nothing but this box
in which I am typing and the smiley thingies above it. Is there
something wrong with the site???
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 08/23/10 02:53 AM.
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I did not know they could be removed.
Right now I don't have them, seems they have not been there all
day: first day of this. I thought something was wrong with the
site. On this screen right now I have nothing but this box
in which I am typing and the smiley thingies above it. Is there
something wrong with the site??? A) They don't show up on the Reply screen and 2) if you're far enough down in a thread they'll be up at the top where you'd have to scroll up to see them.
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..and there used to be 3 or 4 screen styles that didn't display them at all, thus freeing up space for forums -- which is what I've been whinging about!
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I did not know they could be removed.
Right now I don't have them, seems they have not been there all
day: first day of this. I thought something was wrong with the
site. On this screen right now I have nothing but this box
in which I am typing and the smiley thingies above it. Is there
something wrong with the site??? A) They don't show up on the Reply screen and 2) if you're far enough down in a thread they'll be up at the top where you'd have to scroll up to see them. Sho'nuff, alright! Thar they be! Thanks. I did not scroll down far enough. But never took them too seriously anyhow, on the right side of the screen, so out of sight out of mind. But the screen still looks like it is missing something, only half there or something.
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I switched from GooG_v2 to default, and now it all lines up fine.
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I just did as well, per your suggestion. Things definitely
look better, tho' the blues are lighter in hue.
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Thanks, I'd forgotten all about stylesheets. Much better now.
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While we're on about changes to functionality on the board. Whenever I respond to somebody's post, my answer appears as a response to the opening post, and is sorted, in the view I have, at the bottom of the threads. I would say it has become contextually dethreaded.
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Huh. I had just posted in response to eta in the Hardware thread when I read your post, zmjezhd, so I went back to look, and sure enough it read that I was replying to Wordsmith. I couldn't remember if I had clicked on the Reply button in his post or simply used the quick-reply box at the bottom, which used to show that I had responded to the last post. SO--I deleted that one after copying the content, then went back and clicked Reply in his post. This time it showed as me responding to him.
I clicked the Reply button in your post, and...
Edit: it shows I have responded to your post.
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I clicked the Reply button in your post, and...
Let's see if this (as outlined by you) works. I hadn't even noticed the Reply vs Quick Reply. I simply responded as I always have. Ah, well, things change.
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is there a difference between the two(2) 'quick reply's; i.e., the link in the post box viz the box below the posts?
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okay, so I lied. but they are different!! - the first test was via the link, the second via the box, which actually makes some sense to me. maybe I was a programmer in a previous lif.. hey!
-joe (shaking head at programming details, but they still can't get the basics right) friday
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maybe I was a programmer in a previous lif.. hey!Well, I have been a programmer in this life and it makes no sense to me, but then that may be why I went back to writing. 
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if you click on the Quick Reply within a post, you obviously mean to reply to that post. post a reply via the Quick Reply box below all of the posts, you obviously are replying to the thread; i.e., the OP. neh?
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post a reply via the Quick Reply box below all of the posts, you obviously are replying to the thread; i.e., the OP. neh?
Yes, that is its functionality now after the software/hardware upgrades, but what I am saying is that was not its functionality since I have been posting here. I almost always have used the Quick reply box under the post I was responding to, and it always ended up under that same post. Feh! I won't lose any sleep whinging over it, now that I know the trick.
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yep, you have that choice now. and all's i'm saying is it does make some sense from a programmer's perspective.
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Well, you're welcome to your opinion, and all I'm saying is it does not make sense to me. The Quick Reply box appears directly under whatever posting you happen to be reading, and the old functionality is the one that makes sense to me. Why attach the Quick Reply to the Opening Post as it is not visible at the time? Also, the other board software I have used works the way I would expect this boards software to work (i.e., the way it did until recently).
Of course, it dawns on me now that I may be in a different situation than you as I use Threaded View and most everybody else on board seems to use the unthreaded one.
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>it dawns on me now..
I had thought of that also, but I use unthreaded so I virtually shrugged. {g}
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Holy cow--I can't believe I taught you whiz kids something!
Edit: zmjezhd, I'll bet Faldage still reads in threaded mode. He told me he did, lo these many years ago; and I had no idea what he was talking about.
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Waiting to see if Nuncle takes the bet.
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I'll bet Faldage still reads in threaded mode. He told me he did, lo these many years ago;I was thinking of Faldo as one of the prime examples of anti-threadedism as I understand it. But, who knows? and I had no idea what he was talking about.So do I, sometimes.
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Waiting to see if Nuncle takes the bet.
No, I'm not really much of a gambling man.
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