New Site Bugs

[manofphat]

Use this thread to report any bugs with this new site. Be sure that it's a bug and not something wrong with your setup.

Keep it mind that this is my first time running this forum system and there are bound to be some pretty stupid mistakes made and I may not be able to fix them right away, so be patient with me please.

[rage]

stop hacking me mano...

[gOOCH]

all the images are to small, its a pain to figure out if the letter is open or not

[Landspeed]

Turn the brightness up on your monitor.

The website work fine for me.

[Fabulous D]

the site never "remembers me" even when i ask it too... i feel so used :(

[Entropy]

fab...would you have complained if the site was a woman.

site looks perfect to me

[manofphat]

Fab, talk to me on MSN next time you're available.

[Landspeed]

I'm having an issue staying logged in.

For some reason when I'm browsing the site, and if I go to post a message I'll be logged out.

Mano i need you

[manofphat]

I'm having an issue staying logged in.

For some reason when I'm browsing the site, and if I go to post a message I'll be logged out.

Mano i need you

Try deleting your cookies.

[The Killing Joke]

Edited for my amusement:


Try eating your cookies.

LOL

[The Killing Joke]

Umm - is this a bug? There are no "Thank" and "Groan" buttons. (Personally, I thought those sucked anyway.)

[WiseGuy]

No "new bugs" yet, just wanted to say i love the new layout <3

- gj mano

[manofphat]

Umm - is this a bug? There are no "Thank" and "Groan" buttons. (Personally, I thought those sucked anyway.)

The thanks and groans have been disabled in the announcement and ban forums. They have also been disabled for posts more than 10 days old. If you don't like them, don't use them.

[The Killing Joke]

If you don't like them, don't use them.

I groan at your bad attitude! ;)

[WiseGuy]

i thank you for your honesty


ADD ON :: ok i have a suggestion to make, on the new homepage theres a list of "recent topics" i think they are a great addition BUT you have to browse them starting at the first page, can we get the regular "1,2... last" thing that we have on the regular "new posts" section.

[ORION]

i thank you for your honesty


ADD ON :: ok i have a suggestion to make, on the new homepage theres a list of "recent topics" i think they are a great addition BUT you have to browse them starting at the first page, can we get the regular "1,2... last" thing that we have on the regular "new posts" section.

/agree

the width isn't exactly 1024x768 friendly, but that 1,2...last thing is the most irritating, ultimately it works out to the same number of clicks but I just feel the old system functioned better, and if we could get a "new posts" thing somewhere, it'd be nice, so that we can look at the uber-recent and look at recent with the old style.

[manofphat]

can we get the regular "1,2... last" thing that we have on the regular "new posts" section.

Good idea. I'll look into it.


/agree

the width isn't exactly 1024x768 friendly, but that 1,2...last thing is the most irritating, ultimately it works out to the same number of clicks but I just feel the old system functioned better, and if we could get a "new posts" thing somewhere, it'd be nice, so that we can look at the uber-recent and look at recent with the old style.

I'm aware of the issue at low resolutions and I'll be working on resolving that.
There is another "New Post" button under Quick Links on the top navbar.

[pig]

Site looks great on my end,

gj.

[WiseGuy]

lol mano, the site looks super sexy from home using the 22 inch wide, just for that ill put up with 1280x1024 at work :P its still very much functionable, but its just hawt from home :D

I also have another suggestion... for the poll on the left, can it display the number of votes instead of the percentage or both... instead of having 50&#37; persons going to TKJ-LAN :P cause u cant even see the total number of votes and it makes it really hard to figure out how many 50% really is

ADD ON :: edit my bad i just found the total number, but maybe having the number up there would still help?

FURTHER ADD ON :: disregard all that, im an idiot... its setup just fine, i retract my suggestions, when u click on view poll statistics it explains everything to you.

[SKULLCRUSHER]

I found a new website bug, but then realized it was a real bug crawling across my screen. I proceeded to hammer the sheit out of it as it was perched on Manophats avatar - there are no more bugs on the site - only dead pixels - is there a patch to fix that ?

[silence]

ubber wide (stretched) layout when u click the "forum" link in the Site navigation tab on the left hand side of any page...

[WiseGuy]

he is right, it doesnt use 100&#37; but prolly a set number of something like 1400... hm perhaps 1440 ?

[WiseGuy]

found another glitch, when you go into somones profile and click on either "find all groaned posts, or find all thanked posts" by this person, both are dead links.

[The Killing Joke]

Is there any way the forum links on the home page can bring you to the last page you've read? I'm getting tired of having to click "Last", or a number and then "Last"...

[manofphat]

Thanks for submitting your bugs/feature requests guys. As I'm sure you're all aware, the majority of them haven't been resolved yet; for this, I apologize. I hope that most of you have come to expect a certain level of quality and quick response from me and I hope that this doesn't change.

I'm currently entering exam week at school and right after that I'm starting a new job for the government so all my attention is diverted to that. Once I'm finished my exams and I'm comfortable with my workload, the site work will be dealt with efficiently.

I'm aware that some of the issues are a large annoyance for some and I ask you to hold on just a slight bit longer.

Thanks for understanding,

Your manofphat.

[Crayola]

I hope that most of you have come to expect a certain level of quality and quick response from me and I hope that this doesn't change.


yea, especially when im talking to ms. ananthrandanderpal

[The Killing Joke]

yea, especially when im talking to ms. ananthrandanderpal

Which, spelled backwards, is "laprednadnarhtnana"... It's just scary. :))

[WiseGuy]

The "Find all Thanked Posts" and "Find all Groaned Posts" links dont work properly in the Public Proflie pages.

[manofphat]

shit - you're absolutely right. Thanks Peter

[The Killing Joke]

http://static.dropline.net/cats/images/camouflage.jpg

[WiseGuy]

Somethings up with the Forum Home page. I recently noticed this becuase its a page that i barely use thanks to the "new posts" and "top10 most recent posts" features that we have.

But if you do actually click on Forum Home, there's some sort of RIDICULOUS spacing issue between the header and the main content... its like 500 pixels tall... not sure if only an IE thing I dont have Firefox installed here at work. (yet)

[SKULLCRUSHER]

Yeah, must be a bug, i get it in Firefox also.

[manofphat]

Yeah I know about that one too. I get it on occasion. It's one of those things I'm working on :)

[WiseGuy]

Most users ever online was 166, 07-01-2007 at 02:07 AM.

that doesnt seem normal? is that the night we got DOS'd??

[manofphat]

yep lol

[The Killing Joke]

Ok, so this isn't a site bug, and it isn't new, but is has been bugging me for a long time.

Our smilies suck. I mean, check out the "cool" one! :cool: This guy looks like some Poindexter or John Lennon wannabe.

The LOL :lol: isn't bad and the super-happy-gettin'-a-blowjob-motherfucker :)) is ok, but please. Can we fix the nerfed smilies?

[manofphat]

the LOL one is compliments of Xzinum.
This smiley pack matches the theme so that's why I used it but I'll look for something different. It's on my list ;)

[Vengeance]

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but when looking at all the forums you have access to the moderators square has nothing written in it.

[gOOCH]

wouldnt that just tell u which mods are viewing that forum

[manofphat]

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but when looking at all the forums you have access to the moderators square has nothing written in it.

With vBulletin you can have global moderators and individual forum moderators. Forum moderators only have moderation privileges for one particular forum. Global moderators have moderation privileges over all forums. We only have global moderators (Skully, Landspeed, myself). Because we are global moderators we don't get listed there and unfortunately I can't get rid of that column :(

Note: I managed to say moderators 8 times there.

[Mike-KT]

I hate how groans or thanks reload the page

[manofphat]

I hate how groans or thanks reload the page

That happened when I updated the plug-in. It's supposed to be more reliable this way but yeah I agree that it was better before.

[Mike-KT]

This giant forum hurts my small laptop's resolutions. It is really huge, I can't even see people's whole sig

can I at least have a choice?

[manofphat]

This giant forum hurts my small laptop's resolutions. It is really huge, I can't even see people's whole sig

can I at least have a choice?

A choice of styles or a choice to display sigs or not?

[The Killing Joke]

A choice of styles or a choice to display sigs or not?

Don't even think about it - sigs are a forum 'requirement'. And no, Mike, you may not have a choice. Upgrade! (Hey, if I have to look at the forums in 1024x768 max res while I'm at work, you have to suffer too.)

:))

[Krythos]

WAY.... TOO.... MUCH.... SCROLLING.... lol aside from that, looks great

also winston, I would say get a way to have a few versions of designs for the forums would be sweet, so we can all have the look we want. like if I dont wana have to scroll, I could go for a very basic look (and yes, I HATE scrolling so much to read all the posts lol)

[silence]

edit:: ignore me i found what i thought was missing

[The Killing Joke]

edit:: ignore me i found what i thought was missing

Hell, I'm usually too busy watching your avatar to read anything you write, anyway.

:))

[manofphat]

WAY.... TOO.... MUCH.... SCROLLING.... lol aside from that, looks great

also winston, I would say get a way to have a few versions of designs for the forums would be sweet, so we can all have the look we want. like if I dont wana have to scroll, I could go for a very basic look (and yes, I HATE scrolling so much to read all the posts lol)

I can do that. But I think I'd prefer not to have to maintain a bunch of styles. Each style that I load up is customized for our use and each time the forum needs an update or the style needs an update I have to redo those customizations and it can be fairly time consuming with only one style, let alone a couple.

[Mike-KT]

Can there be a vBulletin standard view?

[Cleavage Monkey]

I want my pink and purple with butterflies dammit !!! nvm...I like it how it is I guess. It is alot of scrolling but I figured all you guys would have built up wrists from other activities that it wouldn't be a problem.

[The Killing Joke]

I want my pink and purple with butterflies dammit !!! nvm...I like it how it is I guess. It is alot of scrolling but I figured all you guys would have built up wrists from other activities that it wouldn't be a problem.

It takes just as many wrist muscles to use a vibrator, my dear, so don't you be pickin' on us Manly Men types!

;)

[Cleavage Monkey]

Haha you obviously have never seen a vibrator in action (or at least mine) :)

[The Killing Joke]

Well, the latter would be true...

:))

[silence]

Hell, I'm usually too busy watching your avatar to read anything you write, anyway.

:))

my avatar eh? so "click here if u cant see this display picture" amuses u?

personally i would have expected the girl in my SIGNATURE to be more entertaining but i guess if random avatars is what u like then w/e o.O

[WiseGuy]

whoa interesting fact... i account for 10.4 % of all forums posts...

[The Killing Joke]

whoa interesting fact... i account for 10.4 % of all forums posts...

...and 18% of random crap we don't care about, whereas Gooch has 81% and the remaining 1% is doled out amongst everybody else.

:))

[WiseGuy]

thats not too bad then 18% of 10.4 means i roughly only contribute 2% of the forums bad posts :P

[Kura]

thats not too bad then 18% of 10.4 means i roughly only contribute 2% of the forums bad posts :P

That's not true, since he's referring to only the bad posts, not all posts.

[Nekkris]

Still waiting for "Today", "Yesterday" "x weeks ago" sheit back. Hop to it!

[The Killing Joke]

Anyone wanna shoop Mano's face onto this one? I've been told my pic of Mano is 'too blue'.

http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/creative2005/images/photo_ppl21.jpg

[Nekkris]

Real face or avatar face :]

[The Killing Joke]

I say real face. I know, I know. It might be too scary for everybody to see, but hey. It's gotta be done.

:))

[Nekkris]

Provide pics

[The Killing Joke]

Provide pics

Mano's face broke my camera.

;)

[Nekkris]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/375/manojumpgg3.jpg

I did it for the lulz.

[manofphat]

I hate you guys. Stay away from me Nekkris!

[Nekkris]

<3

3char

[SharpShooter]

LOL the pic looks so funny

[WiseGuy]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/375/manojumpgg3.jpg

I did it for the lulz.

ITS BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[Nekkris]

I forgot the caption..
"Brehhh"

[WiseGuy]

updated my avatar...

[Nekkris]

lmfao win!

[WiseGuy]

This happened a while ago but magically fixed itself - now its back again.

When i click the "quicklinks" button it turns into this and refreshes the page (at least the banner changes):

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s283/wiseguy02/nrglitch.jpg

i cant mark forums posts read, and it makes it REALLY hard / annoying to browse the forums... or see the sunshine girl


further investigation shows that clicking the "connect" button has the same effect - if im not mistaken its the only other - dropdown - button of the top nav

[lefty]

and i still enjoy this;

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/1884/picture2dk1.png

and no... its not cause my browser window isnt fully extended.

[GreenEnvy]

The site was down this morning, now it looks like we're on a backup from a couple days ago, as I know I replied to a bunch of threads and those posts are gone.

[WiseGuy]

we had a hardware issue and thats why the site went down - we restored it but some of the more recent posts were sadly lost :(

[Nekkris]

That would explain a lot..

[esplode]

Recently every few minutes I get logged out automatically. I have to relogin repeatedly.

[luckylpf]

Clicking the "Home" button gives me a database error.

For process of elimination I have tested it in the newest version of firefox, IE7, beta 8, Chrome, and Safari, and it happens on all of them.

So unless my computer is just retarded, I would have to say thars a problum.

[GreenEnvy]

forum seemed to be down for a bit this morn.
And turn off the snowflakes please.

[Rez Prophet]

yeah it was off and on early this morning.
lol @ rigs that cant handle the snow!

[GreenEnvy]

yeah it was off and on early this morning.
lol @ rigs that cant handle the snow!

my pc's can handle it fine, but it's getting annoying :)

[Xzinum]

Mano, i changed my avatar but the one that shows up next to the new post link still displays my old one. No big deal though.

[The Killing Joke]

Mano, i changed my avatar but the one that shows up next to the new post link still displays my old one. No big deal though.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/KUNCH0/1198768031343.gif

[Xzinum]

i lol'd :unamused:

[cujo]

tkj never used the one I made for him : [

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/wpmongoose/tkjnewavatar.jpg?t=1260997927

[WiseGuy]

needs transparencies... i have a few new ones i wanna use but i can't give up my royal `W

[manofphat]

Mano, i changed my avatar but the one that shows up next to the new post link still displays my old one. No big deal though.

Maybe try a good ol' F5?

[Derfel]

Maybe try a good ol' F5?

I'm so happy you post here more often again.

[0ptik]

Maybe try a good ol' F5?

happens to me too mano, f5 didnt work, and going back to the server moments later either.

[monty slick]

If firefox, tools - clear recent history I think. IE, whatever the equivalent is.

[manofphat]

TBH I'm not going to look into this much. The new version of the forum won't have the avatar up there anymore. At least not for a while.

[Cleavage Monkey]

When are you going to reveal the new forum ?

[manofphat]

When are you going to reveal the new forum ?

My deployment plan keeps on changing.
Now I can't just do a smooth transition from beta to production. I'll need to upgrade the production site right away (after testing the upgrade procedure in a sandbox of course).

At first, forum functionality will be degraded but will be improved with time. New features will also come in time.

vBulletin 4 goes gold on December 21st but they're planning an aggressive patching schedule until late January so that's going to be the upgrade point.

[WiseGuy]

you should try a parallel deployment implementation or are they running off of separate databases ?

[manofphat]

you should try a parallel deployment implementation or are they running off of separate databases ?

They have to run off of separate databases because the new installation makes a number of key database changes.