kingeldar Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 yes it's much better now! very good idea (even if some peops will feel hurt their favourite software went down in da list....lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 After using a week, some more comments... For existing thread headlines, why we can not see RE:..... I am geting confused it is the old post or new one ? or some one post it with a similiar name.... Second, what is the benefit of quick reply box on the bottom of every thread. If I can not just type there and post it, why it stays there. Am I missing something ? I have to click one of the reply buttons of anybody's post or post reply button on top. Even when i click a reply button, It opens a new page. Still can not type into that box. I couldn't find a way to use the bottom quick reply box. I wish , I can directly type there and post my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 15, 2004 Author Share Posted March 15, 2004 After using a week, some more comments... For existing thread headlines, why we can not see RE:..... I am geting confused it is the old post or new one ? or some one post it with a similiar name.... This does not work the same way as the old board did. While all subsequent posts within a thread do now append the title with "RE:" on both the main page and the new posts page, the title still appears as it was on the first post. To see if the post is new simply look in the last post column. If the time is later than your last visit it's new. Also use the post indicators to tell you which posts are new. Second, what is the benefit of quick reply box on the bottom of every thread. If I can not just type there and post it, why it stays there. Am I missing something ? I have to click one of the reply buttons of anybody's post or post reply button on top. Even when i click a reply button, It opens a new page. Still can not type into that box. I couldn't find a way to use the bottom quick reply box. I wish , I can directly type there and post my opinion. Your not clickin on the quick reply button, you are clicking on the reply button. There are three ways to reply to a post. 1. Press the "Post Reply" button found at the top and bottom left of the thread. 2. Press the "Reply" button at the bottom right of every post. This forces a reply with quote to the post in which the button was pressed. 3. Press the button to the rigth of the "Reply" button to do a quick reply. This moves your cursor to the quick reply box at the bottom and activates it so that you can type in it. You have to click the icon from the post in which you want to quick reply, or it would create discontinuity in the thread, as people may not know who you were replying to in the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcorbett Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 ZOOOOOOOOOOM! Love the new forum. The search function is lightning quick! Thanks for always caring about the end-user experience Jeff! Tom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Thanks Jeff, I learned something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 See my post here Jeff: http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/showthread.php?p=36621#post36621 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingeldar Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 New post indicator is Very Good! great idea!!*thx jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riehldeal Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Having the variety of color is nice now. It kind of brings things to life and adds some depth. Great Job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Jeff What's the deal with the 'views' count? Sometimes I read a thread but do not reply and notice that the 'views' are same before and after I'm there. I'm not worthy of counting, is that what you're saying? Are views seperate from postings, because a thread today had 6 posts and 2 views. And after I viewed it, it had 2 views... I see we now have XP-like graphics on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 20, 2004 Author Share Posted March 20, 2004 Jeff What's the deal with the 'views' count? Sometimes I read a thread but do not reply and notice that the 'views' are same before and after I'm there. I'm not worthy of counting, is that what you're saying? Are views seperate from postings, because a thread today had 6 posts and 2 views. And after I viewed it, it had 2 views... View counts are only updated once per hour to reduce the load in the server. I'll make them realtime and see how much load the server takes. If neglegible then I'll have to switch it back. I see we now have XP-like graphics on the board. Yeah they just released the final version of vB and these are the news graphics they ship with. I tinted most so they matched better, but they are kinda XP-ish. I'm not a very good button designer, so until somone develps a better set, these are them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minus Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Hmmm seems kinda strange that you can't upload pictures you have hosted somewhere else. I mean... so that they load within the board but the bandwidth comes off your own server. Unless you can really and I just don't know how. Don't relly know how to add in a link either. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 27, 2004 Author Share Posted March 27, 2004 Hmmm seems kinda strange that you can't upload pictures you have hosted somewhere else. I mean... so that they load within the board but the bandwidth comes off your own server. Unless you can really and I just don't know how. Don't relly know how to add in a link either. *sigh* If you have a file hosted on another server you use the [/img] tags to post the image. If you want to upload a file to our servers and have it show up in the thumbnails section below the post then you use the "Manage Attachements" button below the reply box. If you upload to our server then it used our bandwidth. If you use tags it comes off the server that is hosting the image. If you want to add a link, just post it in the text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Jeff A minor annoyance to report to your BBS app vendor: When replying to a private message a dialog pops up asking if I want to get a read reciept. My choices are something like 'yes' and 'cancel'. Cancel is what you click for no reciept, but is seems like you will cancel your message. Can they change the message to read 'no' instead of 'cancel'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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