Bug reports

[cyborg]

Why do I have to log in every time.

It doesn't "remember" me. I'm hurt... .

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Two possibilities. You may need to make the TDR a "trusted site" so that your browser will allow it to set cookies. If you are running IE pull down your tools menu to internet options, then click on security, click on the trusted sites check mark and then on sites. Uncheck the "require https" box and add www.turbodieselregister.com to the list - recheck the "require https" box and apply the changes. If that doesn't work then you may have corrupted cookies on your machine - clear your cookies and then reboot your machine and log back in.



Let me know if either of those solves your problem please.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Hi Steve,

Appreciate all the efforts you are putting towards the upgrade. It may be just me, but it seems like too much white space on many windows especially when looking through the thread indexes and also when looking through the threads themselves. This seems to slow me down when reading through the threads, (although I could be part of the issue ).

I made a few changes tonight which should help. I closed up the space on the thread list by 3 pixels all the way around (it's 7 now - was 10). I tried 5 pixels but it was too tight IMO. I also changed the way the user info is displayed on the left side of the thread display to make it take up less space which will affect posts with fewer lines. Lastly I wrote some javascript code which allows you to collapse the user info if you don't want to see it which will tighten things up even further. This is the first time I've written any Javascript code so if you have any problems with it let me know - I surely could have screwed it up .

 

[John - K5AWO]

Collapse user info

... wrote some javascript code which allows you to collapse the user info if you don't want to see it which will tighten things up even further.

Garsh Steve,



You are a man after my own heart. Bless you.



The display is much more tolerable to my tired eyes, with that and the reduced pixels on the lines. I still vote for a thinner line though.



Thanks a bunch.



John

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "a thinner line". The site as it is now is more compact than the old site was. Here's a couple of screen shots of the same post on the old site and the new one for comparison. On the old site this post is 314 pixels high, on the new site it is 291 pixels high.

 

[John - K5AWO]

Steve,



On the old site, I had all that block stuff turned off. I just went for plain text with a single divider line between posts.



No imagination I guess



But I do really appreciate all of the tremendous work and effort you have put into this thing since you started.



You have listened to the masses and tried to be as accommodating as anyone I have ever worked with. More so than most.



The comparison between the first glimmer of what it might look like and the polish it shows today, is a true reflection of your devotion to this project.



I truly believe the huge and tremendous success of TDR is a direct reflection of those efforts.



Keep up the good work. You get 5 gold stars. (now where did I loose that icon for gold stars!)

 

[John - K5AWO]

Stupid Question Department

Steve,



Since the "Quick Reply Box" at the bottom now has no relevance since we can't use it directly..... Gotta click on a "thread to post about" button.



Why not turn the display off since when we do a post we get a new window anyway?



IMO this would make for a much cleaner presentation. To quote Joe Friday, "just the facts maam, just the facts".



I hope you haven't forgotten about the possiblity of introducing a hot-key for a thread reply. ALT-Q (quick), or ALT-N (new)... . This is still in the it can come later category, but would sure be neat.



I use both of the hot-keys already provided. Saves me a lot of time.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Because it does have relevance! Click on the last icon on the right on the bottom of any of the posts - it looks like a piece of paper with an arrow swooshing out of it. That's the quick reply button. When you click on that it activates the quick reply box. That is also what enables the threaded display mode. By clicking on that it knows which post in the thread you were replying to and therefore where to display your post in the threaded view. Pull the display modes menu down to threaded view and look at this thread and you'll see what I mean.



I do have the hot keys on my list - they are just a ways down there.

 

[John - K5AWO]

Because it does have relevance! Click on the last icon on the right on the bottom of any of the posts - it looks like a piece of paper with an arrow swooshing out of it. That's the quick reply button. When you click on that it activates the quick reply box. That is also what enables the threaded display mode. By clicking on that it knows which post in the thread you were replying to and therefore where to display your post in the threaded view. Pull the display modes menu down to threaded view and look at this thread and you'll see what I mean.



I do have the hot keys on my list - they are just a ways down there.

Okay, I see what the little icon did in the right hand lower corner. This is the first time I have ever seen it. I had to change my screen resolution back to 800x600 down from 1152x?, it didn't even appear to my eyes at the lower level. I also note that the cursor jumped inside the quick post box. That's good. ALT-Q for that icon will be super neato. I would prefer to reserve ALT-N for next page, seems that would be more logical.



As for the "activate threaded display mode". . didn't do it for me. I am in linear mode and it stayed that way. But I think you meant, that it activates the "thread" to put the post in. That I can go with.



I think the current over-all display is looking pretty good with the current pixel ratio. Enough so that a few weeks of use will let us see how it "sets" with the crowd.



Are you doing anything to earn beans and bacon during this overhaul? Everytime I get on the board, it says you are "online" and I see something that has improved since I last was here. And I think you have noticed, I have been monitoring a lot during the last few days.



-John

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

No, what I meant is that clicking on that quick reply button and using the quick reply that's how your reply gets attached under a specific post. Just change to threaded mode for a minute and you'll see what I mean. In threaded mode your reply appears under the post you were replying to - even if it was the 2nd post on this thread for example. If you clicked on quick reply on the 2nd post and looked at the thread in linear mode your post would be last, if you viewed it in threaded mode it would appear as a sub post under the 2nd post with the others coming after it. Make sense?

 

[Chipstien]

TDR Roundtable > Website > TDR Website/Roundtable (Members Only)



Steve, is it possible to make the line at the top of the page that tells you where you are (beginning of this post) and the page numbers blue like they were with the old software. These are how I have always navigated the site but they are hard to distinquish from the rest of the site now. So the top of the page would look like this instead.....



TDR Roundtable > Website > TDR Website/Roundtable (Members Only)

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Since the "Quick Reply Box" at the bottom now has no relevance since we can't use it directly..... Gotta click on a "thread to post about" button.



Why not turn the display off since when we do a post we get a new window anyway?

BTW, did you notice that you can close that up yourself? Click on the arrow at the right side of the quick reply header and it will close that window up. Look around on the forums and you'll find lots of those which will allow you to customize your view of the forums. You can do it on the forum list for example - if you aren't interest in 1st and 3rd gen posts for example just close those categories up and you'll only see the header line for them.

 

[ramtifosi]

Steve,

Quick question, I know you are probably inundated with questions, but how do you now subscribe to a post. I may have missed it. Spent over 30 years with systems first mainframes then PCs, no rush just would like to know. This is a well run board, you do a good job.

Thanks,

Charlie

 

[John - K5AWO]

Closing Quick Post Window

BTW, did you notice that you can close that up yourself? Click on the arrow at the right side of the quick reply header and it will close that window up. QUOTE]



Thanks Steve for the pointer. I had missed the "close" icon on the Quick Post view. However, I had found it on the Forum list page and noticed it there.



Did see that clicking on either post icon opens the appropriate window back up. Lots of things to find on vB 3. x it seems.



And, I second the question on "subscribing to a thread".



IF, you don't make a post to a thread, it isn't immediately obvious how to subscribe to that thread if you only want to follow it.



I do note that when making a post the user can then make a choice on subscribing or not. Saw there are 5 options for that too.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Steve,

Quick question, I know you are probably inundated with questions, but how do you now subscribe to a post. I may have missed it. Spent over 30 years with systems first mainframes then PCs, no rush just would like to know. This is a well run board, you do a good job.

Thanks,

Charlie

Click on thread tools at the top of the thread - it's in there.

 

[John - K5AWO]

Click on thread tools at the top of the thread - it's in there.

Uh, Steve... . unsubscribe yeah, but "To Subscribe"??

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Try going to a thread that you aren't subscribed to . It'll be unsubscribe if your on a thread you are subscribed to, subscribe if you are on one that you are not.

 

[dusthomps]

Steve,



I have an iMac running MacOS X 10. 3. With IE 5. 2 the logo at the top of the screen flash about 10 times and you can't open "Open link in new window. " I also have Netscape 7. 0 and everything does work fine in that browser. Hopefully you'll be able to get the site to work with IE.



Thanks for your efforts,

Dustin

 

[John - K5AWO]

Subscribing to Thread

Try going to a thread that you aren't subscribed to . It'll be unsubscribe if your on a thread you are subscribed to, subscribe if you are on one that you are not.

Smart Alecky Software!

 

[rrausch]

Posted by Dusthomps:

"I have an iMac running MacOS X 10. 3. With IE 5. 2 the logo at the top of the screen flashes about 10 times and you can't open "Open link in new window. " I also have Netscape 7. 0 and everything does work fine in that browser. Hopefully you'll be able to get the site to work with IE.

Thanks for your efforts,

Dustin"



Steve, I have the SAME problem--flashing logo and advertising, and can't open link in new window--very annoying. I am also running an iMac with OSX and Internet Explorer. I really didn't like Netscape when I tried to install and run it a few months ago.



This is not an emergency problem, and I can certainly put up with the annoyance for awhile, but every other site I visit I can "Open link in new window". Surely there are some patches out there which can fix these problems.



Thanks again Steve, for working overtime to get this new software up and running. We DO appreciate your work.