[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

I’ve noticed when i reply to a thread it does not automatically subscribe me to it like it used to

Yes! This is a huge improvement from what I can tell. It tends to get lost on my relatively slow Internet connection when there are a lot of heavy images before the post being linked to, causing the page to “bounce” as they load. But after the images are cached the direct post link does work if clicked again. I even tried it in the middle of the crazy long 1000+ comment threads.

I always wanted this fixed, the what you got today and home depot deals threads are the worst.

Sorry I kept you in the dark. I did try to pop in to the shoutbox from time to time, but I got so engrossed in the problem solving I was working through that I just couldn’t manage to break away. I barely got out of my chair during the whole time period, if that’s any explanation of how concentrated I was. :slight_smile:

I actually disabled that because I never really saw much value in a subject for a forum post, especially since most just left it blank and it got filled with the first ~25 characters of the actual post. I think it looks cleaner and more streamlined without them, but I’d be more than happy to re-enable them if the majority prefers it that way.

Hmm, ok, good idea. I could probably move it to a different “block” region.

This is a bit more difficult. I agree that it’s not ideally placed. But even if it does get bumped, it doesn’t register as a spam click unless you also hit the confirmation button.

Thanks for the good feedback!

Yeah, I was trying to add it back, but it’s very poorly documented and requires an intricate knowledge of several underlying systems to know how to code it properly. Maybe if some expert (cough @ToyKeeper) could give me a few tips I could probably figure it out.

You mean you don’t have that moment burned into your long term memory and celebrate your BLF inscription anniversary? :smiley:

Strange. At any rate, everyone should have the new address via DNS by now.

Correct, that whole system is temporarily disabled for now, except for manually subscribing to threads and seeing updates at My Subscriptions.

Long term memory
I think I lost that back in the ’80s …

I still haven’t seen anyone else that’s missing a Private Message button . Just me . Not that I get many PMs .

I see one for you. I assume the system doesn’t show a button to you because you are, well, you. :slight_smile: I also don’t have one for myself.

Oh .

I lost a lot back in the ’80s .

The new site looks pretty sweet, sb!

...though I have a couple of requests.

1. Could you bring back mouseovers for images?

2. Could you make it so that we can choose our default "Text format" on the forum, and in private messages?

(I use "Advanced Post Editor" for both, and have to make that change with every post and PM.)

Thanks!

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Also...

Congrats on 5001 posts, sb56637! *drinks*

very good update the page number on top and bottom are very good news.

Reminds me of a line from this old joke

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/safe.fax.html

I propose that in honour of this accomplishment we create a new ISO 5001 standard related to lumen measurement and CRI

Hey, no mouseover images. :frowning:

don’t know if it’s already been addressed or not. If it has been, don’t yell at me (hey, no Smileys!?)

I’m not getting e-mail notifications to Subscribed threads. Is this a work in progress? Not being pushy here, at all. Just pointing things out.

thanks.

Me neither.

I’m not 100% sure, but that might be a side effect of the signatures getting truncated to 255 characters. You may simply need to re-build your signature.