Definitely looks nicer on my Blackberry, that's for sure!
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HAHAHA! (click on the thumbnail above this)
Regarding More posts per page I can make that happen but I think you maybe able to do it thru your user settings as well. I will check in to it.
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I'm getting reports of a number of things that make it over in the conversion. There are a number of Clean Up tools that they ask you to run after and tons of sql conversion that happen during the upgrade.
Since the messageboard has over a half million posts I had to run the clean up twice and since I didnt sit there and watch it run I think it may have timed out part of the way thru. Not sure where birthday list happens although I do know that some birthdays made it I think.
I will try to run the clean up and conversion routines again to see if it helps. Fingers crossed.
Since the messageboard has over a half million posts I had to run the clean up twice and since I didnt sit there and watch it run I think it may have timed out part of the way thru. Not sure where birthday list happens although I do know that some birthdays made it I think.
I will try to run the clean up and conversion routines again to see if it helps. Fingers crossed.
It would be nice if we had a link to take us to the last post in a thread.
Steve, you do: on the forum page, just click on the dot to the left of the thread (or star if you've posted in the thread before) and it will jump to the last post. It only works if you've viewed the thread since the conversion, though.
There are two, actually.
If you click on the time under the name of the last user who posted on a thread (in the case of this thread, it said "Today, 08:30 AM" under your name when I visited), it will bring you to the last post in a given thread.
If you click on the"bullet point" to the left of a thread, it will bring you to the last unread post.
ETA: Great work, Ted!
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The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I've never left you.
Much like a whisper on a breeze or the smell of burnt toast.
But more like the burnt toast thing.
We were assured you were lurking. Great to have you back topside, less so the now tattooed sig pic of Poe's posterior.
If this is what it takes to get Kiz to return to posting it was worth every second of effort! If he doesn't add the burnt toast thing to his signature I am stealing it for myself.
That is good information. Thank you, Ben and kizanski.
I'm finding the forum less inviting but it's primarily because of how I use it.
In the past, I've always just refreshed by clicking the new content link. When I do that now, the format of the page is different than the typical forum view, with each topic taking up about an inch of real estate across my screen. Given I keep my browser on a 22" screen that remains in portrait mode, one would think I could display more than a dozen topics at a time.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to reduce the vertical space taken by each topic, primarily in the "new content" view, but even in the regular forum view it could appear better.
In the past, I've always just refreshed by clicking the new content link. When I do that now, the format of the page is different than the typical forum view, with each topic taking up about an inch of real estate across my screen. Given I keep my browser on a 22" screen that remains in portrait mode, one would think I could display more than a dozen topics at a time.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to reduce the vertical space taken by each topic, primarily in the "new content" view, but even in the regular forum view it could appear better.