Thanks for the new board system. It looks really good but will take some getting used to for the more casual poster.
Tommac
Throaty, looks like you figured out how to change your byline...nice choice, btw.
Thanks for the new board system. It looks really good but will take some getting used to for the more casual poster.
Tommac
Right above the text box in your reply, in the second line that starts B I U, go to the yellowish box that looks like a moon over two mountain peaks. Click on it, then insert your link in the script prompt that appears, click OK, and you're done.
I'll do it with your link:
Ta dah!
Oooh, I see how to do it in a post, but I was trying to do that for a signature. Can that be done?
It's looking great. Kudos!
The only "refinement" I'd still like is a WAP skin so I can use my Blackberry to browse the forums. I use it all the time for the main site, and it works quite well there.
The Blackberry Forums site is a great example of a WAP BBS. You can find it at http://wap.blackberryforums.com - but you can only see it if you have a wap browser (on a phone) or an extension to your browser. If you create a user ID, you can set all sorts of parameters.
Thanks again for the major upgrade to the BBS!
-jk
In the words of my 12 year-old... "Coolio!"... I feel like a kid on Christmas with a new toy! Great job guys!
One thought that just came to me while checking in on the different boards here... with only one thread currently on the Lacrosse board, when can we fold that back into the off-topic board???
-Son of Jarhead
The Duke fan formerly known as BuschDevil
Thank you thank you thank you
I love my DBR
Other vBulletin boards I visit have the ability to "view new posts since last visit" and to "mark all posts read". Will you add this feature here?
- Pacer
Avatars are working now. Yay!
Bylines, hmmm. I've changed from "Ornery Southern Galoot" as Boswell had me, to "Member" and then to "Active Member" just in the last few.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine
I've Galooted you again. I don't know why it changed. I didn't change it, and Julio's not at his computer.
Also, I have no earthly idea how you got an avatar. I went into the administration site, and it has avatars turned off. Hmmm, maybe it's not for moderators. I'll have to check it out.
Update: Yep, moderators have the ability to use avatars. I suppose we should allow either everyone or no one to use avatars.
Last edited by Boswell; 02-28-2007 at 11:44 AM.
...would be an excellent refinement. It was very useful on the old boards.
Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
Since I basically don't know what I'm doing with a lot of these features, here are the options I have, so if any experts can chime in, I'd appreciate it:
1. Inactivity/Cookie Based - once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time (the value of the session timeout option) all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read within a session via cookies. This option is how all versions of vBulletin before 3.5 functioned.
2. Database (no automatic forum marking) - this option uses the database to store thread and forum read times. This allows accurate read markers to be kept indefinitely. However, in order for a forum to be marked read when all threads are read, the user must view the list of threads for that forum. This option is more space and processor intensive than inactivity-based marking.
3. Database (automatic forum marking) - this option is the same as a previous option, but forums are automatically marked as read when the last new thread is read. This is the most usable option for end users, but most processor intensive.
Thanks in advance!
Right now, I notice that in the thread listing view, threads with new/unread posts are bold compared to those without... So, that's a good start...
I like the boards where the thread listing view also presents a button at the end of each thread title that allows me to jump to the first unread post within that thread...
(I realize that this would likely be dependent upon tracking the post readings, and as such is a level beyond what Bos is discussing above.)