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Odd Avatar Issue (no replies)

John Willoughby — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:59:58 +0000

Hi Tom,

I was unable to upload an avatar image using Safari 5.0.2 for Windows. The same image uploaded correctly in Firefox. When I tried to upload in Safari, after selecting an image but before clicking Save it would often jump to the front page of the Macedition forums. Other times, it would go to the front page of my Control Center. In either case, the image was not uploaded. This isn't a high priority fix (for me), but I thought that I should let you know about it.

Black Screen Macbook 2.16 when I try to upgrade Ram? (1 reply)

Drag N Fly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:42:04 +0000

I have tried 3 times to upgrade the ram in my MacBook2,1 Intel Core Duo 2.16GHz. w/OS x 10.6.4 It currently has 2- 512MB 2Rx16 PC2-5300S-12 by hynix I am currently trying to put in
2- 1GB 2Rx16 PC2-5300S-12 by hynix. When I make the upgrade all I get is a black screen. I have tried 2 other times to upgrade the ram with other brands and got the same result. That is why I matched the ram to the same as it came with only bigger. (also I am new here so if I posted in the wrong area go easy on Me.)
Thanks,
Drag N Fly

Sig line screwed up? (2 replies)

John Willoughby — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:45:16 +0000

Suddenly, my .sig line is showing me gibberish instead of quotation marks in Safari 3.1.1. I didn't change any local settings. Are other people seeing it, or is it local to me?

[EDIT] Huh. No sig in this forum. Look at my posts over in the Spork thread.

Print View? Whose the gutenberg? (3 replies)

rino — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:10:03 +0000

Speaking of buttons. At the bottom is a "Print View" button.

Seriously -- do we have an archivist in the house?

It's in the news. (7 replies)

ghidorah — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:12:55 +0000

front page stuff

Spell Check not Working (1 reply)

dharlow — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:18:19 +0000

Trying to use the check spelling button gives a nice Aspell program execution error.

Daniel

[Subject ] [Views] [Posts] [Last Post] [New] (1 reply)

Madaracs — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:21:36 +0000

How about a new header when reading the threads:

[Subject ] [Views] [Posts] [Last Post] [New]

Can that be added to the top of the forum when viewing the threads? It could contain a count of the new posts. And possibly link to the last new post? That would be helpful.

Mark forum read link (1 reply)

Steve Cordova — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:12:20 +0000

Can the "Mark forum read" be moved from first to last? Twice i have clicked it and had to dig through posts from the first page. I know my bad, but the mark read link is too close to the link to read the forum.

Having Trouble Reading New Posts (2 replies)

Madaracs — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:24:38 +0000

OK, in the non-spork template I'm having problems reading posts. I get to the bottom and see the place to put your response/entry and intuitively ignore the page [1] [2] [3] to continue on reading the thread. Can I suggest something radical for the new forum template? Reverse order the posts. Newest first. You read backwards. It's done elsewhere and works well. Opinions?

Slow-Loading Pages, Redux (28 replies)

John Willoughby — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:08:57 +0000

Tom, the situation got better for that evening, but I am routinely hitting 20-30 second page loads in the Spork Template area again. It seems slow here, too, but I haven't tried enough pages outside the Spork area. It is virtually every page I try; I might even say every page. It makes using the new forum agonizing. I click a link, then switch to another tab to do something else on the web and come back in a few minutes when things are loaded.

This is Safari 3.0.4 Windows.

Hide "Unwanted" Topics (no replies)

Madaracs — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:04:26 +0000

Is there a way to hide topics you don't want to read or contribute to? That would rule. And then maybe a "View All" when you're really bored and want to pick up a new thread...

It would be kind of like subscriptions I guess.

Edits private or silent... (2 replies)

Madaracs — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:03:25 +0000

When you edit, is there a way to have the edits not show up to other users?

Old Board Import (11 replies)

dharlow — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:03:50 +0000

I still would like to see if there is anyway to get the old boards imported into the new software. I might be able to commit some programmers to this assist in writing something to automate this if it would help.

Daniel

profiles (4 replies)

rino — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:24:34 +0000

... is that all there is? (and yes I am thinking about Peggy Lee)

I'm wondering if the profiles have other fields that can be turned on, like home page/url?

Icon (3 replies)

stan adams — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:17:30 +0000

Please. I have too many tabs and I all I ever do is look for the icons...

Crashing with Safari 3.03 For Windows (2 replies)

John Willoughby — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:01:21 +0000

I think there's an upgrade that I'll download, but Safari on Windows 3.0.3 crashes pretty consistently, at least with the Spork Template up.

Signatures directly underneath names? (3 replies)

ARL — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:06:16 +0000

Hi Tom,

My .sig is at the botom of this post. Is there anyway to get it to appear at the top directly under the username, ala spork?

Thx,

TL

Slow-loading Pages (2 replies)

John Willoughby — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:39:31 +0000

Currently, Firefox on Windows is taking up to 25 seconds to load a page. I'm really hoping that this changes when things go live.

Make "Home" "News" and Make "Forums" Default (2 replies)

Madaracs — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:52:07 +0000

I suggest making the tab "Home" read "News" instead and then make the tab "Forums" the default tab.

Just an idea...

15 Minutes of Fame (4 replies)

tomierna — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:33:19 +0000

As tliet requested on the old board, you now only have 15 minutes to edit your post.

More bewbies, please (5 replies)

El Jeffe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:19:32 +0000

I just like bewbies!

grumblings (4 replies)

bahamut — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:09:12 +0000

Not to complain about the snazzy look look, but... well, i'm complaining about it.

The color choice of dark green, grey, black, shiny fonts is all very cold.

The ads that assault me top, left and right make me feel ever chillier.

The Mac Professional's Resource may be good for macedition, but at the top we used to see ribaldry rumors rats.

Sure, maybe this is what the main boards need to look like, but you know I was in the subway last week before this went down and I thought to myself, I've been on spork for ten years. Will I still be on spork in forty? And I said, yeah, could be. The core group has learned to get along better and some of the outright jerks (not me! I only said some) have gone away, making it easier even if we've lost some great friends too.

But this design says to me that the spork boards are over, that we're integrated into something else. Even at Macweek, the boards were the knife boards. That set a tone. The tone here is we form the core of a new community that is business like.

I just can't imagine Soup posting his eloquent defense of alcoholism in Newport here. I just can't.

I'm not really sure what to do since this software is a b*tch and it sounds like we're not changing that, but how about a redesign of the colors and the graphics a little? Please?

Simplified Template/Layout (15 replies)

dharlow — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:11:27 +0000

One of the things I liked the best about the Spork boards was how simple the layout was where it was easy to read from one post to another. The design of this leaves a bit to be desired for the forum area (I like it for the regular site though).

Could we maybe lose the side bars for the search and categories and have the forum area go from edge to edge? Maybe put the search and google add at the bottom of the page? Or if you want to keep the search side bar just get rid of the categories one as they do not really relate to the forums area.

Also there area too many lines and separation between the reply's to a post.

Daniel

Font For Windows Browsers (5 replies)

Madaracs — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:03:46 +0000

Can we check the default fonts for the site to see how closely they mimic the previous Spork?

Mac Edition Logo is very Large (4 replies)

Madaracs — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:54:14 +0000

And Leon is getting larrrrrrger!

Can that be shrunk a bit?

"Autolink" feature... (12 replies)

ARL — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:18:34 +0000

One thing I liked about spork was it made links clickable automatically when you're in to much of a hurry to do the < a href="blahblah" > stuff.

Does it do that here? Let's see:

http://spork.macedition.com/cgi-bin/WebX?50@132.7KZ5amaRnHe.725627@.f4cbeaf/1305

Hmmm... It appears that would be a no...

Hard link to Original Spork Archive (8 replies)

Madaracs — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:56:38 +0000

Hard link to original board.

Following Every Topic by Default (1 reply)

John Willoughby — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:24:39 +0000

Is there a way to default to following every topic unless I say otherwise? If I have to scan each board every day for what's new, I'll miss a lot. Also, this board is currently very slow for me.

Top level view (4 replies)

bahamut — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:07:10 +0000

how about a top view like we had on the old boards? i have this bad feeling i won't be visiting here if it takes ten clicks to see what's new.

Check Subscriptions (13 replies)

tomierna — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:42:39 +0000

I'll go first. Check Subscriptions.

I want it too.

This will be a bit of time in coming though, because I will probably have to make my own Phorum Mod to do it. I'll be learning about the internals of a system I've only just installed a couple of days ago!