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| 18 OCT 2002 at 10:29pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Can modifications be made to the software? If so, I'd like to make a request. Perhaps this already exists and I'm just missing something -- entirely feasible, and highly probable.
My issue is that I check the forums frequently, and have to click too much to get where I want to go. Examples:
1. In Adenture Games Discussion, there are currently 5 pages of topics. I initially thought that all new and modified topics were added to the top of the list with a "New" icon. I thought that was fantastic. However, just now, I clicked on page 2 (just in case) and was rather dismayed to find a bunch of "New" topics listed *after* several that I'd already read.
2. Within each topic, I'd like to see only the messages that have been posted since my last visit. Currently I have to scroll through pages of responses, unsure of the last post I read. Obviously, I don't want to miss any posts, so I'm stuck re-reading several until I find my place again.
That's all for now, thanks for reading
.gita
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 1:17pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hi!
I tested the "new" topic issue and when I read a topic, the "new" icon goes away. But, it doesn't go away if I use the browser "back" button. Only if I use the menu. But, the "new" icon gets added again when there is a new post to a topic. Even if you have read the other posts in that topic already. It means a new post, not that the whole topic is new to your browser session.
The posts seem to be in the order of the date of the last post of that topic which seems to be the same as most forums.
As far as only seeing posts in a topic that you haven't read - I don't know if this forum software has that option but I'll look into it.
Thank you for your suggestions!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:49pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Forum Admin (19 OCT 2002 1:16pm)
The posts seem to be in the order of the date of the last post of that topic which seems to be the same as most forums.
Hmm... I see... So it's not sorted first by its "New" or "not-New" status and then by date, but rather by date only? This might explain the discrepancy I observed.
Originally Posted By Forum Admin (19 OCT 2002 1:16pm)
As far as only seeing posts in a topic that you haven't read - I don't know if this forum software has that option but I'll look into it.
Thank you for your suggestions!
Thank you for looking into it
.gita
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 9:09pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Yes, seems to be sorted by date first.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 10:32pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | That makes sense, doesn't it? It works like that on most forums. Anything else would be pretty confusing.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 2:51am |
| Deleted User | You ought to remove the second colum of icons on the topic page. It is just clutter.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 11:39am |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | since the topic is up, is there a way for users to start polls?
JoY
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 12:50pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I'll see if there are any possible mods. to the forum software that would add this feature. Of course, we have to approve this through the board owner.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 23 OCT 2002 at 6:07pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | The poll thing has been approved. Now, I have to see if it's even an option with this software.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 23 OCT 2002 at 8:08pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline |
Poll Mod v2.0 SP1.1
This mod adds poll capability to your YaBB 1 Gold SP1 Board.
More info
Download
Hope that helps
.gita
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| 23 OCT 2002 at 8:13pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | You beat me to it! Thanks justG!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 23 OCT 2002 at 8:54pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | You're most welcome. There may be other options better suited to our forums, this was just the first I came across.
.gita
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| 24 OCT 2002 at 8:25pm |
mbc841Space Cadet
Posts : 194
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I know how to insert a hyperlink, but how do you make the hyperlink a word? Example, here is a link.http://members.aol.com/harvestgame/
How do I make that appear to be just the word HARVEST ?
[url=http://www.justadventure.com/IndependentDevs/TheArrangement/index.htm][[img]http://www.justadventure.com/IndependentDevs/TheArrangement/Graphics/banner1.jpg[/img][/url]
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| 24 OCT 2002 at 9:34pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | like this:
[.url=http://www.justadventure.com]JustAdventure[./url]
without the "." will show up like this:
JustAdventure
hope that helps,
.gita
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| 25 OCT 2002 at 4:46am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Speaking of forum mods, is there some way to turn down the filters a bit? They seem a little overzealous in trying to keep the forums "clean".
I have my opinions on censoring swearwords but I'm willing to put up with that. However mangling perfectly legitimate stuff like "Hitchcock" or "my assertion" is seriously counterproductive.
We've had similar problems on programming oriented newsgroups where posts would be rejected for no apparent reason because they contained substrings like "s*x" embedded in identifier like "CreateProcessE*". In the end we completely disabled the filters and lo and behold, people didn't start swearing and being abusive.
Maybe I should say something about the horrors of political correctness and unwillingness to accept responsibility here but I'll just shut up
I forgot my sig.
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| 26 OCT 2002 at 10:43pm |
copycatSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 293
Joined: 24 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Don't know if it's the software forum or anything but why does my login, when surfing in Netscape 6.2, disappear every time I go to another page, thus making it impossible to me to post replies when using that browser and I have to switch to another one (In this case being Opera 6.04)? I already have a persistent cookie-login on another board (probably using other software because it doesn't look like this one) and I can use that with Netscape 6.2, so it can't be the browser's fault. ???
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| 27 OCT 2002 at 2:14pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | <obligatory inflammatory remark>When it comes to Netscape, anything that doesn't work correctly is its fault. </oir>
Sorry, I just hadda.
.gita
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| 3 NOV 2002 at 9:49pm |
copycatSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 293
Joined: 24 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Would you mind telling me from what site the JustAdventure cookie is supposed to come from because maybe it's from a site I once instructed Netscape to refuse all cookies (from) henceforth?
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| 4 NOV 2002 at 3:25am |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Just Adventure or the YaBB site.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 14 NOV 2002 at 11:16pm |
copycatSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 293
Joined: 24 OCT 2002
Status : Online | It seems to be the justadventure-server who wishes to set the persistent cookie and since I, by default refuse all cookies by sites unless I can see the site won't work without them, that server could not set cookies, period. No warnings, just refused. I have now re-instructed NS to let justadventure set the cookie from the justadventure-server and the board works fine.
You know why I asked that question? Well, I recently registered to another YaBB board and the persistent cookie feature on that board went perfect, so it had to be a cookie-thing.
Thank you!
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| 15 NOV 2002 at 12:34am |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3467
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Cool, glad you figured it out.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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