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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2010, 05:55:02 AM »
I love the new layout. Much cleaner and modern looking than the old one......
Also the Wap site is great! Thanks....

Now, could anyone help me decide on an avatar? It's between Linkin' Park and Bon Jovi....

I may remove the avatar feature. I'll certainly remove all the "not so yeshivish" pictures. Gimme some time. I spent like 7 hours yesterday doing the upgrade. (don't ask, copying a SQL DB to another location for testing can be very time consuming, and it doesn't help when there are new posts every time I check)
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2010, 05:55:55 AM »
Sorry guys that you need to redo location and programs. With the old forum I think it was a mod, and with this one it's built in so it couldn't transfer (I totally just made that up but it sure sounds good).
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2010, 05:56:42 AM »
How were the stars set up on the old forum? Based on posts?
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2010, 06:11:03 AM »
What happened to the amount of time logged in?

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2010, 06:48:32 AM »
How were the stars set up on the old forum? Based on posts?
Yes. I think it was based on elite status
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2010, 08:32:21 AM »
I'm using opera mini on my bb and this new layout comes out horribly. The old layout was SO much smoother and better layout. Its very hard to actually read a thread. Very straining.

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2010, 08:57:07 AM »
Eli, first of all kudos for all the hard work you put into it. i have a request though. Where it says "Show unread posts since last visit." which i use often, the font is a little too small, can you possibly enlarge it?

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2010, 09:02:59 AM »
I'm not sure if this is with other links, but the links in "Master thread of master threads" don't seem to work.

There seems to be a HR missing in the list of threads every once in a while.

Eli, did your visitors yesterday mention my wiki idea? or did you see my post
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2010, 09:48:34 AM »
Steve, what would you like it to be?

 Just like FT = I could have made a post in May 2000 , once Im logged in I have the ability to go to that post and edit (modify) it even today. Till now on DD after x amount of mins have passed the poster losses the ability to edit their post.

 Reasons for wanting to edit it can be from grammer or spelling, to not properly explaining yourself, to posting what a person thought was the truth only to learn from any source that what they posted was Wrong info and thusly theyd like to remove it before someone acts on it.To accuse someone of something only to be set straight it wasnt them or that they didnt understand fully what the other person was posting etc etc

 We never had more then a few mins to go back and Modify what we posted, most BBs have the option to do so at any time

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2010, 10:01:32 AM »
Just like FT = I could have made a post in May 2000 , once Im logged in I have the ability to go to that post and edit (modify) it even today. Till now on DD after x amount of mins have passed the poster losses the ability to edit their post.

 Reasons for wanting to edit it can be from grammer or spelling, to not properly explaining yourself, to posting what a person thought was the truth only to learn from any source that what they posted was Wrong info and thusly theyd like to remove it before someone acts on it.To accuse someone of something only to be set straight it wasnt them or that they didnt understand fully what the other person was posting etc etc

 We never had more then a few mins to go back and Modify what we posted, most BBs have the option to do so at any time
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2010, 10:02:30 AM »
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Although, if memory serves me correct, Dan (or one of the mods) did post awhile back the reason why its this way. Don't remember the reason.

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2010, 10:25:01 AM »
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Although, if memory serves me correct, Dan (or one of the mods) did post awhile back the reason why its this way. Don't remember the reason.

 I dont remember it but thought it had to do with the board DD was using or the server whatever wasnt able to handle it, seems DD has moved on from what they used in the past so maybe it can be enabled today

2- Eli asked me what I was talking about so I simply was trying to explain to him

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2010, 10:42:59 AM »
I noticed that my settings for personal messages was set by default to only receive from Admin so I switched it to "all members".

If left to admin I assume I would not receive and PM's from other members?

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2010, 10:45:08 AM »
Good point. Mine was also set like that
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2010, 10:48:39 AM »
Until now mine was also but I was receiveing PM no problems.

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2010, 10:59:38 AM »
Just like FT = I could have made a post in May 2000 , once Im logged in I have the ability to go to that post and edit (modify) it even today. Till now on DD after x amount of mins have passed the poster losses the ability to edit their post.

 Reasons for wanting to edit it can be from grammer or spelling, to not properly explaining yourself, to posting what a person thought was the truth only to learn from any source that what they posted was Wrong info and thusly theyd like to remove it before someone acts on it.To accuse someone of something only to be set straight it wasnt them or that they didnt understand fully what the other person was posting etc etc

 We never had more then a few mins to go back and Modify what we posted, most BBs have the option to do so at any time

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2010, 11:04:01 AM »
I dont remember it but thought it had to do with the board DD was using or the server whatever wasnt able to handle it, seems DD has moved on from what they used in the past so maybe it can be enabled today

2- Eli asked me what I was talking about so I simply was trying to explain to him
How much time do you need to edit a post? It lets me choose the time in minutes, right now it's set to 180.
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2010, 11:05:15 AM »
How much time do you need to edit a post? It lets me choose the time in minutes, right now it's set to 180.
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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #38 on: June 30, 2010, 11:14:38 AM »
How much time do you need to edit a post? It lets me choose the time in minutes, right now it's set to 180.
As Steve said, if one finds out something is incorrect or badly written etc. even days/weeks later it would be easier and simpler to modify than to have to post again. As well as people wont be misinformed. The downside could be that if people don't update their threads everyone will think that since its possible, what it says is current, even if its not.

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Re: New Forum Layout: Love It Or Hate It?
« Reply #39 on: June 30, 2010, 11:47:25 AM »
Where it says "Show unread posts since last visit." which i use often, the font is a little too small, can you possibly enlarge it?
+1 can you also bold the title of topics? it's very hard to read