Dead Men Walking

PASSWORDS
The forum upgrade did not correctly transfer passwords for user accounts. ALL USERS are requested to reset their password by using the in-built password recovery facility. This will prompt an email to your registered email address containing a url link which you must then click on to verify that the server should reset your password. The reset password will then be sent to you in a SECOND EMAIL.

BUG REPORTS
The forum upgrade went relatively smoothly for such a massive forum, but amongst the 135,000 posts and hundred or so forum topics we are bound to have made a mistake or two in forum permissions etc. If you spot ANY errors please PM a detailed bug report to me immediately and we will attend to it ASAP.

AVATAR UPLOADS
Members will need to upload their avatars again as the migration process did not transfer these correctly and caused a crash when we tried to include them.

USER CP
You will need to go to your User CP and Edit Options make updates and changes to your preferred default settings as the import will not have transferred all settings correctly. Primarily you might want to make sure that you correct your Signature, and re-upload Avatars and make sure that you have ENABLED the private messaging system.

TWEAKING
The forum software is new and whilst the upgrade took 9 hours there is still much work to do to bring some of the visual niceties back to life! Please bear with us whilst we make the cosmetic changes to your new forum and if you think we have missed something then please PM me and we'll take a look and see if it is a deliberate change or something that we need to act upon.

Thank you.

TL.

You may also have to empty your private message folder. I had deleted all my PMs on the old bulletin board buyt the migration brought 276 back so my inbox was alsmost full. Go check people :)

Yep, it appears that IPB only soft-deleted PMs and never *reall* deleted them.  So please go empty your mail boxes!

TL.

PS, Nice job fellas. On behalf of the whole community many thanks for giving up your saturday to do this. :worship::cheers::dmw: oh what the hell :hapbday:too

Great thnx to all that have work on this:toast:

Nice works chaps :)

Well done !

nicely done, looks a bit wierd than the other forum tho :P

Looks like you've done a great job with the transfer to the new forum.  Apart from some modification of the links in my signature, everything else seems to work just great :worship:


However, there are just a few small "issues" that I would like to comment on - some stuff that I miss from the old forum.
If it's possible to implement here as well I don't know, but I thought it wouldn't help to share my thoughts ^_^

• On the last forum, there was a very good division between the sticky threads and the normal threads.  This is now gone.

In my oppinion, it was very usefull the way it was earlier where you instantly could see what threads were sticky and which one not, due to that nice separate "frame" they were placed in

• The bread crumbs list (the thingy that shows you where you are atm in the forum hierarchy) is now only placed on top of the page.  That does so that when I have read to the bottom of the page I need to scroll all the way back up again to be able to click it.

Earlier you could also find it at the bottom, which made it very easy to navigate out of the thread and back to the forum you came from when done reading/posting in it.
Yes, I know you can just as easily use back button in your browser, but that will make those icons showing what threads have new posts and so on not update properly

• When reading and replying to a thread, you can now only quote a single post at a time.

Earlier you had the possibility to mark and quote several posts at once, which I think is a major advantage.

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

If anything of what I've said here is wrond in any way, please bear with me.  It's pretty late, and I'm both tired and a bit drunk as well 8)

Quote from: ThrebrilithLooks like you've done a great job with the transfer to the new forum.  Apart from some modification of the links in my signature, everything else seems to work just great :worship:


However, there are just a few small "issues" that I would like to comment on - some stuff that I miss from the old forum.
If it's possible to implement here as well I don't know, but I thought it wouldn't help to share my thoughts ^_^

• On the last forum, there was a very good division between the sticky threads and the normal threads.  This is now gone.

In my oppinion, it was very usefull the way it was earlier where you instantly could see what threads were sticky and which one not, due to that nice separate "frame" they were placed in

• The bread crumbs list (the thingy that shows you where you are atm in the forum hierarchy) is now only placed on top of the page.  That does so that when I have read to the bottom of the page I need to scroll all the way back up again to be able to click it.

Earlier you could also find it at the bottom, which made it very easy to navigate out of the thread and back to the forum you came from when done reading/posting in it.
Yes, I know you can just as easily use back button in your browser, but that will make those icons showing what threads have new posts and so on not update properly

• When reading and replying to a thread, you can now only quote a single post at a time.

Earlier you had the possibility to mark and quote several posts at once, which I think is a major advantage.

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

If anything of what I've said here is wrond in any way, please bear with me.  It's pretty late, and I'm both tired and a bit drunk as well 8)

I agree with every point here. But mostly i think the forum is messy, it lacks the clean-ness. It was way easier to find new threads at the old forum. And wich threads were dead, and wich had posts in them and wich were stickied was much easier to see on the old one. But still, good job :)

Quote from: Threbrilith

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

Select "Quick Links" from the menu bar, the second option on the popup menu is "Mark Forums Read". I too liked the ease of access to to that command in the old forum so to compensate I have a shortcut on my desktop now to th "Mark forums reads" command. If you want to do it the URL is :

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?do=markread

The current look is the default template for the forum.  It has not yet had any 'design effort' put into it, the role yesterday was simply to complete the migration which we did.  You'll need to hold on for 4-8 weeks minimum I suspect whilst we complete the customisation, most of which we haven't even started yet.  Different colour schemes, buttons etc can make the 'look' seem cleaner, the division between read and unread or stickied and non-stickied seem so much clearer, so this is not the look we aim to stick with for the future.  We can't promise that we'll make it 'perfect' for everyone, but it will be changing.

TL.

forum looks good.
 
But i have no access to any of the wow stuff.

Logout.  Why the dialogue box confirmation? Of course I want to log out - that's why I clicked on "Logout".  I don't need another box asking me if I'm sure...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Lou_and_Andy.jpg)

Quote from: DogMeatI don't need another box asking me if I'm sure...

Yes you do. You know what your like ^_^

Quote from: Threbrilith... I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read" ...

Within each forum there's a menu item at the top called 'Forum Tools'. This contains a link to 'Mark Forum Read'.
 
At the bottom of each page there's a link called 'TOP' which takes you to the top of the page where you can access the breadcrumbs (this annoys me too - Grrrrr).
 
At the bottom of the main forum page before that 'stats' section is a link called 'Mark Forums Read'.
 
The other issues you mention will be looked into. There are plenty of VB addons out there that I'm sure will give us the functionality we want.

I have to click one of the two reply buttons before I can use the quick reply box at the bottom. The last software it was always active.

Not a show stopper but annoying :)

Is there also a New reply button?
 
Good job on the move though!

AAGGGG!!!

It's me Ninja_Freak

I've gotten my PW and I can't remember which email I used to retrieve it..

Can you please email me my password to: fudoza@no-kamae.nildram.co.uk

PPPPPPLLLLEEAAASEEE

and thanks

Mark all threads read?
Lost....

Quote from: UnregisteredAAGGGG!!!
 
It's me Ninja_Freak
 
I've gotten my PW and I can't remember which email I used to retrieve it..
 
Can you please email me my password to: fudoza@no-kamae.nildram.co.uk (fudoza@no-kamae.nildram.co.uk)
 
PPPPPPLLLLEEAAASEEE
 
and thanks

The forum upgrade did not correctly transfer passwords for user accounts. ALL USERS are requested to reset their password by using the in-built password recovery facility. This will prompt an email to your registered email address containing a url link which you must then click on to verify that the server should reset your password. The reset password will then be sent to you in a SECOND EMAIL
 
cant you try some email accounts you have ninja?

Quote from: DuVeLMark all threads read?
Lost....

//coughs -> http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=136202&postcount=11

Quote from: UnregisteredAAGGGG!!!

It's me Ninja_Freak

I've gotten my PW and I can't remember which email I used to retrieve it..

Can you please email me my password to: fudoza@no-kamae.nildram.co.uk (fudoza@no-kamae.nildram.co.uk)

PPPPPPLLLLEEAAASEEE

and thanks

It'll have to be TL or OB as I've lost access to the admin side of things until they get their breath back and prioritise any fixes.

Sorry :(

Quote from: KKNDThe forum upgrade did not correctly transfer passwords for user accounts. ALL USERS are requested to reset their password by using the in-built password recovery facility. This will prompt an email to your registered email address containing a url link which you must then click on to verify that the server should reset your password. The reset password will then be sent to you in a SECOND EMAIL
 
cant you try some email accounts you have ninja?

I have matey.. I'm at a loss as to which one it is.. :(

I think I made a *special* one just for DMW.. :( so special I can't remember it..

I'll wait. No problems and apologies to the admins..

Quote from: UnregisteredI have matey.. I'm at a loss as to which one it is.. :(

I think I made a *special* one just for DMW.. :( so special I can't remember it..

I'll wait. No problems and apologies to the admins..

Didn't you use a deadmen.co.uk mail address?

Quote from: UnregisteredI have matey.. I'm at a loss as to which one it is.. :(

I think I made a *special* one just for DMW.. :( so special I can't remember it..

I'll wait. No problems and apologies to the admins..

don't you have notification to replies sent to you?
if you could find 1 of those it would be the 1B)

Ninja
 
You should have received an email :)

Quote from: BlueBallI have to click one of the two reply buttons before I can use the quick reply box at the bottom. The last software it was always active.

Not a show stopper but annoying :)

That can be changed in the options easily enough. It's like it is now so you can see what post you are replying too. If it was just active then it'd be put at the end.

From Help:

QuoteQuick Reply
If you enable Quick Reply, a box will appear on the showthread.php page allowing users to reply to the current thread without needing to load the full newreply.php page.

When Quick Reply is enabled, you may specify whether or not users must click the Quick Reply icon in order to start typing in the Quick Reply editor.

If you choose not to require a click, the system will not know to which post a user is replying, making both the threaded and hybrid display modes non-sensical.

We strongly recommend that you set the option to require a click if you use Quick Reply and have Threaded Mode available on your forums.

so there :narnar:

Quote from: BlueBallSelect "Quick Links" from the menu bar, the second option on the popup menu is "Mark Forums Read". (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?do=markread)

Quote from: OldBlokeAt the bottom of each page there's a link called 'TOP' which takes you to the top of the page where you can access the breadcrumbs (this annoys me too - Grrrrr).

Thanks to both BlueBall and OldBloke for making my day at least a bit better B)
And I'm really looking forward till all the changes and tweaking you're gonna to the coming weeks - keep up the good work :thumbsup:


Bdw, one more quick question: is it possible to make that window containing smilies (which now has two columns instead of one as earlier) open with the width of it fitting those two columns?

This is nothing but a slight blemish, but I thought I should ask anyhow :)

Quote from: GandalfThat can be changed in the options easily enough. It's like it is now so you can see what post you are replying too. If it was just active then it'd be put at the end.

From Help:



so there :narnar:

I kneel corrected :oops:

BUT I STILL PREFER THE OTHER FUNCTIONALITY :bleh:

hehe :lol:

Oh, I've added 'Mark Forums Read' to the menu bar at the top.

Looking into the breadcrumb at the bottom now.

Quote from: OldBlokeAt the bottom of each page there's a link called 'TOP' which takes you to the top of the page where you can access the breadcrumbs (this annoys me too - Grrrrr).

How's that? Breadcrumbs now at the bottom too B)

wtg gandalf, looking forward to seeing more changes over the next few days(weeks)

alls gone smoothly for me so far*, and the on-going tweaks are making it seem more "homely" as they are applied.
It's a bit like moving house...it takes a while to get stuff into the right place and feels a bit new for a while.
well done and thanks for your hard work guys:worship:


*I have chosen "no email notification" in my options, so that I can choose which threads I get emails about...I now get an email for every reply to that thread, which soon fills my inbox....
on the old forum, I would only be notified once, no matter how many replies, until I visited the thread again.
Is there anyway to get that method back?
(it's more than likely I haven't set it up correctly tho:blush2: )

WOW section went from Private, back to normal and now back to private again.
 
are you trying to tell me something:mellow:

I'm back in.
 
now stop messing me about:lol:

Err I set my E-mail with 'nospam' in the name to prevent spam, so how can I reset it to a good address if I can't log in?

Err, OK sorted now with Oldies help. Thanks mate :)

EDIT: Was important info from a few ...

Quote from: DuVeLI've got an email so:
blah blah blah

Both done B)

Thanks OB, could you edit your post please?
I reckon they don't want to share their emaladdies with spam

OB/Duvel/Barley, Thank you for sorting my issue.  I've been having issues with my domains (the sites work, the email does not), otherwise I wouldn't have had a problem.  Cheers and congrats on the migration.

Quote from: DuVeLThanks OB, could you edit your post please?
I reckon they don't want to share their emaladdies with spam

Oops!:wub:

Done.

Indeed, thanks Duvel and OB :biggrin:

I used to use a animated gif for my Avatar, but when I try & use it now it shows just as a pic. Not a particularly urgent problem I know....

vince has the same problem riz

Quote from: Rabbi BobOB/Duvel/Barley, Thank you for sorting my issue. I've been having issues with my domains (the sites work, the email does not), otherwise I wouldn't have had a problem. Cheers and congrats on the migration.

No problem, glad to be of assistence.
:byebye:

Crikey. Somehow I must have remembered to update my email address here when I changed it recently. Lord knows I haven't gotten around to changing it anywhere else. ;)

edit: hmm, are sigs banned/different now?

Quote from: Mausedit: hmm, are sigs banned/different now?

I think you just have to redo them.. I did and it seems to work :smile:

Quote from: DuVeLMark all threads read?
Lost....

Scroll up and read the thread first Duvel. :tongue:

TL.

Quote from: Mausedit: hmm, are sigs banned/different now?

Read post 1.  Just redo your sig and all will be fine.
TL.

As requested, I added a 'tree depth' so that you can now see the sub-topics directly below the one displayed as quick links.

TL.

Quote from: TeaLeafAs requested, I added a 'tree depth' so that you can now see the sub-topics directly below the one displayed as quick links.
 
TL.

Much appreciated TL :smile: helps so much w/ finding way arround :happy:
 

Quote from: RizZyI used to use a animated gif for my Avatar, but when I try & use it now it shows just as a pic. Not a particularly urgent problem I know....

And this is a bad thing because? No more annoying moving pics :laugh:

I have noticed one small thing while browsing the forum:

When I've been inside the "Silver Oak Gauardians" sub forum under "World of Warcraft" and read all the posts there, and afterwards goes back out to "World of Warcraft", "SOG" sub forum still shows the icon indication new posts.  I always have to use the "Mark Forums Read" feature to fix it...  But it's only in this particular forum I've noticed it though :eyebrow:

Quote from: ThrebrilithI have noticed one small thing while browsing the forum:

When I've been inside the "Silver Oak Gauardians" sub forum under "World of Warcraft" and read all the posts there, and afterwards goes back out to "World of Warcraft", "SOG" sub forum still shows the icon indication new posts.  I always have to use the "Mark Forums Read" feature to fix it...  But it's only in this particular forum I've noticed it though :eyebrow:

It's set on cookie based reading notification at the moment. I'll change it to DB based read notification. That should solve that issue.

Well done on a pretty smooth migratory process.

Might I please ask an avatar question? If I got to edit my avatar, the dialogue shows "none selected" and a single radio button with "do not use an avatar"

Am I missing something as I want to get my picture of Piggly back.:sad:

aaargh change ... noooooo


... :)

Quote from: suicidal_monkeyaaargh change ... noooooo
 
 
... :)

i agree im scared of change....... im going back under my stone now

Quote from: BigFatCatWell done on a pretty smooth migratory process.
 
Might I please ask an avatar question? If I got to edit my avatar, the dialogue shows "none selected" and a single radio button with "do not use an avatar"
 
Am I missing something as I want to get my picture of Piggly back.:sad:

BFC, just select an avatar in the bit below and it will automatically turn off the 'do not use an avatar' button.

Quote from: Sn00ksBFC, just select an avatar in the bit below and it will automatically turn off the 'do not use an avatar' button.

You can also upload your own :D

re: selecting or uploading a new avator; I think i'm having the same problem as BigFatCat. There is a single radio button with 'do not use an avatar' beside it, and nothing else. There is nothing below to select.

Quote from: Sn00ksjust select an avatar in the bit below and it will automatically turn off the 'do not use an avatar' button.

Taint got none selection of avatars to do so
(http://www.bi9fatcat.plus.com/images/edit.gif)
Tried IE6 and Firefox on XPSP2 and 2003Srv SP1. Is this a user permissions restriction?

Quote from: BigFatCatTaint got none selection of avatars to do so
(http://www.bi9fatcat.plus.com/images/edit.gif)
Tried IE6 and Firefox on XPSP2 and 2003Srv SP1. Is this a user permissions restriction?

Weird. have you tried clicking the radio button to see if it actually deselects? There should be a box below it to allow you to enter a URL or a local filename for upload.

As BFC is offline ill reply :p I clicked both buttons and radio button and nothing changes

It looks like the box is selected for do not use avatar ...de-select that and the option for the url may become available underneath ...

ok, I know what the problem is. Just waiting to hear back from TL and Oldie before I fix it.

Quote from: WordanAs BFC is offline ill reply :p I clicked both buttons and radio button and nothing changes

k cheers for the info. Regrettably I can't fix it as I have still to be added to the forum admin site after the move. However, I'll drop a PM to TL, OB and Gandy to see if one of them can fix it for those affected.

Keep the findings coming people, we'll get all the probs ironed out quicker that way :)


Edit: Damn, beaten to it :D

i think your a bit late there BB :lmfao:

Quote from: Basteti think your a bit late there BB :lmfao:

Story of my life mate. Story of my life.... ;)

works here...?

Quote from: Gandalfok, I know what the problem is. Just waiting to hear back from TL and Oldie before I fix it.

....and I'm waiting to hear back from Oldie before we agree on the solution!

TL.

Just like real management then :narnar:
 
btw could some1 add this link to the bottom of the forum where it says, mark read/show forum lead, i kinda miss it allready:
 
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php?&order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30 (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php?&order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30)
 
Thanks in advance :biggrin:
 
Duvel should be able to tell you what it is w/o looking at it, hes been teasing me with it for weeks now :unsure:

Quote from: BastetJust like real management then
 
btw could some1 add this link to the bottom of the forum where it says, mark read/show forum lead, i kinda miss it allready:
 
http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php?&order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30 (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php?&order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30)
 
Thanks in advance :biggrin:
 
Duvel should be able to tell you what it is w/o looking at it, hes been teasing me with it for weeks now :unsure:

I have? :blink:
Pfff, just been clearing out my PM-inbox, think I had around 300 PM's in there:unsure:
Me wonders how much PM's TL and OB have.

I must demand an immediate fix or I shall take my custom elsewhere!:yell::yell::yell:






:narnar:

Quote from: BlueBallYes you do. You know what your like ^_^

Yes. Impatient.  If I wanted to waste my days clicking pointless little dialogues, I'd be an MCSE.

And WTF do I have to enter my password every time I log in, when my browser has the ability to store passwords?

I appreciate the effort that went in to moving the forums, but vBulletin gets the :thumbsdown: so far.  I can only imagine it's an admin's wet dream behind the scenes, because judging from the front end...

 [edit] Oh FFS:

QuoteYou have included 5 images in your message. You are limited to using 4 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.

Yes, nanny. <_<

Could you perhaps adjust the limit of number of pictures, and perhaps also separate the picture count from the smilies count?

As it is now, smilies also count as pictures, and the limit is sat to max 4, so when I quoted a post with two smilies, and I aslo used a small image in my post, I was limited to only use one smilie in my own post :eyebrow:

You shouldn't have to sign in every time. I don't believe anyone else is having that problem. Could be a cookie left from the old site that's confusing it.

Oh, and images, I've upped that now as the default is rather stingy.

When in a forum there is on the top right a drop down menu with mark this forum read in it, and 3 other options i doubt anyone would ever use. Would it be possible to move the mark this forum read button out the drop down? :smile:
 
If thats not possible, then ppl thats where you find the button, so you dont spend hours looking for it like i did :happy:

Quote from: BastetWhen in a forum there is on the top right a drop down menu with mark this forum read in it, and 3 other options i doubt anyone would ever use. Would it be possible to move the mark this forum read button out the drop down? :smile:
 
If thats not possible, then ppl thats where you find the button, so you dont spend hours looking for it like i did :happy:

So you're still enjoying your work?
 
Doggers: For me it was deleting the cookies and it all worked again. No more re-loggin now.

Quote from: BastetWhen in a forum there is on the top right a drop down menu with mark this forum read in it, and 3 other options i doubt anyone would ever use. Would it be possible to move the mark this forum read button out the drop down? :smile:
 
If thats not possible, then ppl thats where you find the button, so you dont spend hours looking for it like i did :happy:

Err, that's been on the menu since yesterday...

Mark ForumS Read yes, i am talking about 1 specific forum, like banter, not the whole Dead Man Talking forum tree.

Quote from: BastetWhen in a forum there is on the top right a drop down menu with mark this forum read in it, and 3 other options i doubt anyone would ever use. Would it be possible to move the mark this forum read button out the drop down? :smile:

What are you talking about Bastet?

Look at what Gandalf wrote in his post at page 4:

Quote from: Gandalfhehe :lol:

Oh, I've added 'Mark Forums Read' to the menu bar at the top.

Looking into the breadcrumb at the bottom now.

That "Mark Forums Read" has been been on that top bar for a couple of days already...  Just look two to the left of that "Quick links" drop-down.
How about trying to pay some attention:narnar:


And bdw, I have one more thing I miss: when you quote stuff, you don't see the date/time of the post you are quoting, and you don't get that back-link functionality either.
Keep up the good work admins :clap:

Ooops... seems like I was a bit late there :blush2:

Quote from: BastetMark ForumS Read yes, i am talking about 1 specific forum, like banter, not the whole Dead Man Talking forum tree.

Ahh, I see, the mark this forum read option.

I'll have to have a look at that one.

Quote from: GandalfAhh, I see, the mark this forum read option.

I'll have to have a look at that one.

forum tools menu --> mark this forum read

...seems to work?

yeah, I know. They just want it in an easier to get to place as clicking a menu then the link takes up time :tongue:

Quote from: DuVeLDoggers: For me it was deleting the cookies and it all worked again. No more re-loggin now.

Doesn't work.

Hi, it's me again - I just have a few more things I would like to give some feedback to :happy:

First of all, when you edit your posts, you no longer see the post with "This post was last edited by on the ", and that's not a good thing.  I assume it's important that one can see if and when a post has been edited :smile:

Secondly; when replying to a post, there is quite much "stuff" put between the area where you write your reply and down to the list of posts.  Just take a look at this screenie:
(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4500/postreply1gc.th.jpg) (http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4500/postreply1gc.jpg)
Often when posting in a thread, you're replying to one of the more recent posts, and than it's a good advantage to be able to actually see those posts without having to do much scrolling.
Both the "Post Icons" area and the "Additional Options" area could be positioned either on the sides or on top (or perhaps possible to remove if you'd like that) of the area you write your message in.  That way the most recent posts in the thread will show up just below where you're writing :smile:

I've also mentioned this before, but it didn't seem like anybody took any notice of it, so I'm just gonna say it again 8)

when you quote stuff, you don't see the date/time of the post you are quoting, and you don't get that back-link functionality either.


That's all for now :byebye:

Edit: just testing to edit to see if Gandalf is correct :smile:

It should put the edited by thing in there. However, I believe you have a few minutes grace to edit your post where it won't add that so you can correct simple typos, etc.

If you try editing your post now, it should add that edited by bit at the end.

Yeah, seems that you are correct there Gandalf.

One down, and two to go than :happy:

cool, as for your other suggestion. I'm reluctant to make too many template changes yet as we're going to be looking at a complete style change shortly.

However, I don't think there'd be room to stick that down the side, not everyone runs the browser at full screen full res. If it was down the side on my screen, I'd be scrolling side to side all the time!

One to think about.

It appears that the 3.6 release will contain many of the things requested here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186803

Yeah, that 3.6 release really seems to cover quite a bit of what's mentioned :smile:

Is this some update that will be applied to the forum in the nearest future?

Quote from: Threbrilith... Is this some update that will be applied to the forum in the nearest future?

As soon as it's released and Gandy has the time to upgrade I'm sure we'll be seeing it here.

There's more stuff there than you can shake a stick at. I expect it will make our lives soooo much easier. :blink:

Whenever I make a post ...and then refresh the browser I dont see my  post come up as a new post ... sorry if this has been answered previously

It won't as you've read it already. The read flagging is database based and not cookie based now, which is why it is doing that.

Quote from: GandalfIt won't as you've read it already. The reading is done from the database and not cookies now, which is why it is doing that.

...and much better it is too :)

Ehrm, switching back to the first -=[dMw]=-site doesn't seem to be working.
Firstly you could click deadMenwalking again and get back to the mainpage.
I allways use it. Could we get that back please?

when i got to Edit Avatar...there is no place to really put in a avatar :(

hello tealeaf, i've tried to recover my password but it doesn't recognise my email address, so i really need your help.
my email address is leonardod@vin.ci thank you

Quote from: unregisteredhello tealeaf, i've tried to recover my password but it doesn't recognise my email address, so i really need your help.
my email address is leonardod@vin.ci thank you

Check your email :smile:

Thanks mate:biggrin: :clap:

Sometimes when quoting a post and adding some text yourselfs it gives:
 

Quote from: someonestuff you quoted
 
doesnt close the quote tag, and it would eat the text msg you typed.
 
i just had it in http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14737 (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14737)
 
typed:

Quote from: delanvitalPlenty of room to sit, hardly any real visitors, most were other drivers and staff.
 
During the launch break there was free passenger-rides for an hour in the cars around the track. Too bad the queue was enormous

them 2 statements work against one another
 
Seriously though, id love to attend something like that sometime when i got the time to do so
 
After posting i ended up w/:
 

Quote from: delanvitalPlenty of room to sit, hardly any real visitors, most were other drivers and staff.
 
During the launch break there was free passenger-rides for an hour in the cars around the track. Too bad the queue was enormous

Jamoe here, appears i tried all variations of my password befor finding this post.

Can someone unblock my account. :)

tar

Jamoe

Quote from: UnregisteredJamoe here, appears i tried all variations of my password befor finding this post.

Can someone unblock my account. :)

tar

Jamoe

Hi Jamoe

Use the password retrieval option and check your email at yoru hotmail account - the one using your full name:

J****L******P*****@hotmail.com

If this email addie is not working then MSN me and I'll sort it for you.

TL.

Hi TL, I had done that but it was after my account got blocked. It seemed to take longer then 15 minutes to unlock.

nm, all sorted now :)

A side note, I haven't been able to access the forums from work since last weekend, was there a problem with forum.deadmen.co.uk??

My home internet was turned on yesterday. :)

Nice work btw :D

Cheers

Jamoe

Quote from: JamoeHi TL, I had done that but it was after my account got blocked. It seemed to take longer then 15 minutes to unlock.

nm, all sorted now :)

A side note, I haven't been able to access the forums from work since last weekend, was there a problem with forum.deadmen.co.uk??

My home internet was turned on yesterday. :)

Nice work btw :D

Cheers

Jamoe

The forum has moved to:

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum

There is a re-direct on forum.deadmen.co.uk

Thought I would mentioned this, the redirect doesnt appear to work from my work place. Perhaps my work have done something funny thats stopping redirects working. The proper url seems to work fine though :)

It might be worth putting a note on the website saying the forums have moved/url changed. Also might be worth changing the link.

Redirect works fine fromand form other sites I have visited.  Must be something to do with your end or your ISP's end as the DNS changes went through on the same day as the forum upgrade.  Sorry.

TL.

No need to be sorry, www.deadmen.co.uk/forum (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum) works fine for me.

I just thought that if others where having the same problem it would be worth changing the deadmen front page. I'll have a word with our IT admin later.

:)

EDIT:

ok for some reason redirect isnt working in Firefox, It works fine in IE..  thats just odd.

EDIT2:

I lied, its now working in firefox as well, probably DNS being slow at my end.

Cheers sorry bto bother :)

TL.
 
I can see the WOW forums right down to the post detail.
 
Just thought you should know.
 
NF

The old paste info over from the avail page doesnt work now.... ya really gotta frig around with the info to make it legible ... :thumbsdown:

any chanca of getting the multiple quote button back?
really usefull for replying to multiple posts in 1 hit (I don't wan't to get a name for post spamming like Lumi, Neff & Bastet)
















:devil::whistle:

oi, i resent that, and you forgot Duvel :narnar:

Quote from: Bastetoi, i resent that, and you forgot Duvel :narnar:

oi, I resent that remark young man.
Plus me and Blunt go way back (cider @ LANs with Dutch cheese and Apfelkorn :flirty: ).
 
EDIT:
If you go to: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/index.php (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/index.php) you usually could click Deadmen again and go back to the main-dMw-site, could you guys get that back up again?

Quote from: DuVeLEDIT:
If you go to: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/index.php (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/index.php) you usually could click Deadmen again and go back to the main-dMw-site, could you guys get that back up again?

No point doing that at the moment as some major changes are coming on the web end soon.

TL.

Quote from: TeaLeafNo point doing that at the moment as some major changes are coming on the web end soon.
 
TL.

Ah okay. Was just asking because I allways check posts first and use that button to go near the availability site.

Is anyone going to fix the login forwarding URL?  I go to http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/ (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/) , login (still manually because it still won't save my username and pass despite deleting every cookie I could find on all the PCs I use to browse - both Linux and windoze) and the forwarding doesn't work (not with FF anway), and clicking on any of the links/buttons takes me to the main Deadmen webby, where I have to click on the forum link to get back here.<_<

Don't suppose we could have the old forum reinstated could we?  This one's a bit, well, shite, to be honest.

Oh, and I'll take the "well it works OK for me" followups as read, just to save the usual suspects from the effort of contributing their 0.00002p worth.

D "losing the will to bother" M

I've had a quick look through my cookies in Firefox. I have cookies for:

deadmen.co.uk and forum.deadmen.co.uk

Tried deleting both lots? You probably have but it would be daft of me not to check :)

I'm confused about URL forwarding. Not sure what you mean. I just have a bookmark to:

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/search.php?do=getnew

Which gets me all the posts since last visit. (PS I have tried original URL and that does work OK for me - you got DNS caching anywhere?)

Quote from: BlueBallWhich gets me all the posts since last visit. (PS I have tried original URL and that does work OK for me - you got DNS caching anywhere?)

There's no point in bookmarking anthing because I have to log in - manually - every TANGOing time.  Allow me to expand, ranting-stylee:

When I do log in I sit and look at the non-functioning redirect for a bit until it's time to click on a link that takes me out of the forum to the deadmen site just so I can click on the forum link to finally get to where I wanted to go in the first place - where previously I just used one click on one bookmark in the old forum.

Quote from: DogMeatThere's no point in bookmarking anthing because I have to log in - manually - every TANGOing time.  

I've tried it using FF with no issues. I've checked your account and found nothing different to any other Charlie member.

Sounds like client-side probs to me. Got any local DNS gizmos running? Hosts file etc.

Tell you what DM

Why don't you just go sort it yourself - you seem to have everything covered!

I'm outta here, see you all in a few weeks!

DM I have checked the web forward and there does not appear to be anything wrong with it, I have checked it from several locations.  I'm really not sure what else to suggest :(   I use FF from home and work and all works well.

BB, the web forwarding may be the pointing of
forum.deadmen.co.uk > //www.deadmen.co.uk/forum

TL.

Quote from: BlueBallTell you what DM

Why don't you just go sort it yourself

Cheers m8, this would be the new dMw ethos then - "**** you Jack, I'm alright.":angry:

Doggers, I'm real sorry you've got problems, but ranting at us when the problem does not appear to be one at our end is not very productive.  I fyou would liek to suggest what might be wrong with the url forwarding then please do say so, I have checked it, BB and OB have checked it, it seems to work for us.

Have you perchance got something written in your host file pointing it to the wrong place?

TL.

Quote from: DogMeatCheers m8, this would be the new dMw ethos then - "**** you Jack, I'm alright.":angry:

No, that would be the "I'm sick of you throwing your toys out of the cot and ranting at people" attitude!

Quote from: BlueBallNo, that would be the "I'm sick of you throwing your toys out of the cot and ranting at people" attitude!

It's not a rant at people per se, just crap software I'm ranting about.  For instance I'm writing this on a brand new, pristine Linux installation.  I went straight to the forum, logged in, told it to remember me (the redirect worked this time) looked at a thread, logged out and closed the browser.

With me so far? Good.

I opened the browser and went to the dMw forum - guess what?  No details remembered.  Nothing to do with cookies, DNS caches, sunspots or the price of cheese in Ipswich.  That leaves the browser or the forum software.  FF worked fine on the old forum, it still works fine on other forums doing as its told and remembering login details on every PC I use it on.

The only place it doesn't work is this forum.  

AFAIK, no-one was asked about changing the forum, nor was anyone asked to do any testing before it was implemented, just wham-bam there you go, like it or lump it.  OK, that's your privilege as admins, but if it causes problems the attitude shouldn't be "sort it out yourself".

Still, If that is the attitude, that allow me to respond in the same forthright manner by inviting you to shove your forum at least as far as your colon.

Quote from: DogMeatAFAIK, no-one was asked about changing the forum, nor was anyone asked to do any testing before it was implemented, just wham-bam there you go, like it or lump it.  OK, that's your privilege as admins, but if it causes problems the attitude shouldn't be "sort it out yourself".

Still, If that is the attitude, that allow me to respond in the same forthright manner by inviting you to shove your forum at least as far as your colon.

Doggers,

Off Topic:
Much as it dissappoints me to say so, your attitude is unacceptable.  Please remember the standards you are meant to adhere too.  As co-founder of dMw you helped set the standards originally.

Back on topic:
Re the url forwarding.  I'm glad you find this to be working for you now.  

Re testing, yes things were tested, so you stand corrected.  We didn't just jump in blind - a considerable amount of time went into testing before we did the live migration.  More changes to style, content are due shortly, the changes to be rolled out are made possible by the software we now use.  

Re being asked about the changes.  Yes people were asked about the changes: the relevant people discussed it as part of the overall plans for the community.  This does not mean all members were consulted about any changes, the decisions were taken by the Admins responsbile for running the community, much as you took decisions when you ran the clan.  You better than most know that these are not decisions we just jump into, but are well thought through and carefully considered.

Re the cookies.  Every now and then I lose cookies on a site whether or not it is this site or some other and irrespective of whether I am using IE or FF.  This site seems to work for me and the vast majority of other members, many of whom use FF.  I am not saying there is not a problem, but it appears that if there is one it is an unusual one.  I will therefore, on your behalf, spend some of my time at home today researching this to see if this is a known problem and if there is a solution.

I hope this explains things better for you.

TL.

This is odd..

Firefox -> trying forum.deadmne.co.uk

I get the following error.

QuoteERROR

 The requested URL could not be retrieved

   While trying to retrieve the URL: http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/ (http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/)
 The following error was encountered:

• Zero Sized Reply

Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is support@cspencerltd.co.uk (support@cspencerltd.co.uk).  
 
  Generated Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:43:45 GMT by proxy.cslnet (squid/2.5.STABLE1)

Now I try www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/ (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/)

Works fine. Try forum.deadmen.co.uk and it produces same error.


Now i goto IE and again try forum.deadmen.co.uk.. works fine.

Back to firefox and try forum.deadmen.co.uk and guess what... it works again.


Conclusion.

None, I can reach the forums, I haven't had any problems with login in, cache, read/unread posts. Just this wierd Firefox problem of spacking out, then working again after trying IE.


EDIT:


bit of digging around squid and I find this

http://www1.it.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ.pdf (http://www1.it.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ.pdf)

Quote11.51 Why do I sometimes get Zero Sized Reply?
This happens when Squid makes a TCP connection to an origin server, but for some reason, the connection
is closed before Squid reads any data. Depending on various factors, Squid may be able to retry the request
again. If you see the Zero Sized Reply error message, it means that Squid was unable to retry, or that all
retry attempts also failed.
What causes a connection to close prematurely? It could be a number of things, including:
1. An overloaded origin server.
2. TCP implementation/interoperability bugs. See the 14 (System-Dependent Weirdnesses) section for
details.
3. Race conditions with HTTP persistent connections.
4. Buggy or miscongured NAT boxes, rewalls, and load-balancers.
5. Denial of service attacks.
6. Utilizing 14.2.7 (TCP blackholing on FreeBSD).

Doesn't help me much. It may just be how my work have configured squid, or the differences between fhow irefox and IE send headers, maybe after IE has worked it effects future calls to that webserver.

Anyway, thats me done.

...and that saved me a bit of typing because that's pretty much all I found too.  Thanks Jamoe.

TL.

I tried a tracert to forum.deadmen.co.uk and to www.deadmen.co.uk (http://www.deadmen.co.uk). They appear to differ, might mean sometihng to someone.

H:\>tracert forum.deadmen.co.uk

Tracing route to wfb.zoneedit.com [66.180.173.32]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  wiki.pdc.cslnet [172.16.64.1]
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.91
  3     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  195.224.64.41
  4    30 ms    30 ms    32 ms  a1-0-0-2.ar07.tn5.bb.pipex.net [195.224.216.65]

  5    55 ms    33 ms    44 ms  g1-1-5.cr02.tn5.bb.pipex.net [62.72.140.2]
  6    30 ms    32 ms    31 ms  ldn-b3-geth3-1.telia.net [213.248.100.213]
  7    31 ms    32 ms    31 ms  ldn-bb1-pos6-1-0.telia.net [213.248.65.237]
  8   105 ms   134 ms   122 ms  nyk-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.249.249]
  9   133 ms   124 ms   127 ms  chi-bb1-pos6-0-0-0.telia.net [213.248.80.153]
 10   168 ms   131 ms   130 ms  at-t.telia.net [213.248.84.70]
 11   134 ms   145 ms   144 ms  tbr1-p033703.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.4.14]
 12   131 ms   132 ms   131 ms  gar5-p300.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.57]
 13   144 ms   143 ms   144 ms  12.118.104.98
 14   153 ms   148 ms   150 ms  ibdr-01.netsonic.net [66.180.162.242]
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.


H:\>tracert www.deadmen.co.uk

Tracing route to www.deadmen.co.uk [87.240.138.27]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  wiki.pdc.cslnet [172.16.64.1]
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.91
  3     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  195.224.64.41
  4    37 ms    31 ms    33 ms  a1-0-0-2.ar07.tn5.bb.pipex.net [195.224.216.65]
  5    33 ms    30 ms    44 ms  g3-1-5.cr05.tn5.bb.pipex.net [62.72.140.5]
  6    31 ms    30 ms    33 ms  Gi3-0.lonth-inter-1.interoute.net [195.66.224.53]
  7    33 ms    32 ms    41 ms  PO2-0.lon-wal-core-2.interoute.net [217.118.119.53]
  8    33 ms    31 ms    32 ms  Te4-1.lon-wal-access-3.interoute.net [217.118.119.34]
  9    31 ms    33 ms    40 ms  84.233.186.90
 10    34 ms    34 ms    35 ms  host-87-240-128-50.hi-velocity.net [87.240.128.50]
 11    48 ms    60 ms    34 ms  abigail.storms-uk.com [87.240.138.27]

Trace complete.

Usually I'd connect through www.deadmen.co.uk (http://www.deadmen.co.uk) but tonight I got connected to http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/[/COLOR] instead of www.deadmen.co.uk/forum
[/COLOR]

I keep having problems sometimes that when I quote someone and I type a responce after that and then hit the submit reply button only half the quote shows up and my message is gone.:unsure:

Latest FF update makes my browser crash alot when im on theese pages. Dunno if youve changed anything, or FF did.

The only time i have firefox releated problems is when the profile gets corrupt. Try exporting you bookmarks etc and deleting the profile, but back it up first.