[Isthmus]

Our fearless Admin has been at it again! Yesterday he spent the better part of 6 hours doing some necessary forum maintenance and took the opportunity to tackle some of the items on our to do list that needed to be addressed. Here are some of the changes that took place which you may or may not notice:

1. We upgraded to the latest version of our forum's software (RC3), which is much more stable and secure than prior versions and has a better Rich Text Editor;

2. The display (except for the banner) is now fixed. No more weird stretched out photos, or sigs, or text that goes over the side. We're still working on the banner;

3. New Smilies (these will probably change again before we settle on a final set);

4. The preview pane is temporarily disabled while a work around is found that will allow you to disable it at will; and

5. Mobile posting is now working on a full view of the forum. Try accessing the site from your mobile devise and posting.

We have a few other items that will be activated in during the next update, and over the next few weeks, we'll continue to work through our to do list to try and resolve issues you have brought up and make the forum better for all.

 

[Axel66]

Thanks a lot for the effort!
May it be, that by accident the feature that shows the nice bars in polls has been disabled? :'(

Cheers,

Axel

 

[time]

Thanks Axel for letting us know.
We will try to fix it ASAP.

 

[mrteatime]

good job gabe and co....the whole forum is a great place to hang out, and im sure the changes will make it even better.....

 

[Mike]

Great job, great job. Here are a couple of smilies for you:

Thanks for the continuing efforts!
Mike

 

[SPORTSHOOTER]

I'm replying via iPhone. Seems to be working well for us that are mobile!
8) thanks for the update Gabe!

Where's a smiley wearing a Seiko?

 

[sewingman]

Its getting better and better, thanks to all :-*


Bob.

 

[slashdotfx]

Oh my, new facelift, I'm going to enjoy this, thank you for the efforts.

 

[Pete26]

I'm a bit dissapointed that as a member of the old forum since 2000, I was not notified about the new forum and had to re-register to join again, where others received an email invitation. I feel like an outsider trying to break in. I have had to re-register three times in the last 12 months. I am a little sad as I thought I was amongst friends here :'(

Cheers

Peter

 

[Isthmus]

I'm a bit dissapointed that as a member of the old forum since 2000, I was not notified about the new forum and had to re-register to join again, where others received an email invitation. I feel like an outsider trying to break in. I have had to re-register three times in the last 12 months. I am a little sad as I thought I was amongst friends here :'(

Cheers

Peter

Dear Pete. We are sorry that you feel that we left you out. We actually sent emails to everyone that we had registered. In many cases the emails long standing members had on file with the old site were ones they no longer used or rarely checked. In other cases we were filtered as spam. IOWs we emailed everyone but not everyone got the email. If you have any problems with the new forum just contact us so we can help you out.

 

[valvestem]

Here is to the hard workers who made the new forum possible. And I'll also take this as an opportunity to suggest this "Cheers" smiley.

 

[Pete26]

Dear Pete. We are sorry that you feel that we left you out. We actually sent emails to everyone that we had registered. In many cases the emails long standing members had on file with the old site were ones they no longer used or rarely checked. In other cases we were filtered as spam. IOWs we emailed everyone but not everyone got the email. If you have any problems with the new forum just contact us so we can help you out.

Thanks Gabe, I ubderstand, I am getting used to the new style....slowly. Good luck with the new forum, I'm sure it will be successull

 

[sdoocms]

Why can't I make the smileys work, or for that matter other formatting tools? This happened after the new smiley's were added.

 

[Isthmus]

Why can't I make the smileys work, or for that matter other formatting tools? This happened after the new smiley's were added.

We had accidentally disable the rich text editor when we upgraded, but reactivated it a few hours later. everyone should be able to use all formatting tools and smilies. can you describe exactly what you are experiencing and in what browsers?

 

[Jim C]

4. The preview pane is temporarily disabled while a work around is found that will allow you to disable it at will; and

Well, it looks like the preview pop-up is back. Any word on when we'll be able to turn it off? I searched through the profile options and didn't see anything yet.

 

[sdoocms]

I am using Windows 7 Pro with Firefox 3.5.8 as my browser. When I click on a smiley to insert it nothing happens. If I want to change some text to a different font or center it, change the color, what have you. In the past I would hi lite the text and chose what ever I wanted on the formatting bar and it would format. It no longer does that. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[time]

try clicking the toggle view (the arrow on the right above the smilies), and do it again and let us know.

 

[sdoocms]

8) :-* ^-^ )

Thanks Father Time!!!
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[sailorH240]

Not a fan of the new smiley faces..... there are all a bit too much.
The calmer set that was present originally was better and more suttle. If I could, I would turn them off so as not have to look at them when I am trying to write a message. Its like having a gallary of crazy people staring at me and I get that all day at work

I also don't prefer the preview pop-up and would disable that feature if I could or knew how.

Yet.... a great site and great watch forum.
Thanks for asking for feedback.
Daniel

 

[LUW]

I also didn't like the new smileys... Too cartoonish and in your face. I would rather have those regular, smaller smilies.