Actually I want to "Go Advance" with most posts.
An option to default to the advanced editor would be nice.
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Actually I want to "Go Advance" with most posts.
An option to default to the advanced editor would be nice.
ok for the enhanced contrast :thumb: (*), but why do you insist with the brownish-green color ? is it to give a different/recognizable look in order to distinguish or avoid confusion with other vbulletin-based forums ( yes, they all more or less resemble each other ) ? if yes, I understand that ... but isn't there any better color ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
(*) BTW, just a very minor issue, the white icons in the bars become dark-blue on mouse over, which seems a bit inconsistent as it loses contrast instead of gaining it ...
In previous versions you coudl set the version fo the editor you wanted to default to. I don't see such a setting now. I'm not sure why vBulletin removed it. I've noted this request.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnW@Wessex
Isn't it the one you find when you click on Settings->General Settings ( on the left hand column under My Account ) ->Message Editor Interface ( under Miscellaneous Options ) , or am I thinkig of something else ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
Ah. Hannes, you are correct. I looked too quickly and missed the setting. You can choose the default editor setting in the settings --> General options.
In regard to the one step for going Advanced - I'm not seeing a way to do that without a hack..... However, you can click on the reply button twice and get to your default editor. The first time you click the reply button it does the inline quick reply. If you then click that same button a second time, it takes you to your default editor. While this is still two clicks, you don't have to scroll to a different button.
Brad!
About the icons: seems OK now, but I think the problem was with the color of the icons on mouse hover.
http://forums.codeguru.com/attachmen...1&d=1340635433Quote:
Originally Posted by superbonzo
I myself didn't find the gray icons particularly invisible.
About Message Editor Interface: I toyed with the Message Editor Interface options before (under this update), but it didn't seem to have any effect?
Well, the double-click on the "Reply with quote" trick to "go advanced" works pretty good! :thumb:
Thanks, Brad! :)
it does. Funky! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
OK, I have one not really an issue, but some annoyance. I have set my settings to recive a daily email from all my subscribed threads. This used to come through round about 7 AM every morning. This was quite nice as I could see what was going on directly from my emails. Since the forum change, this has changed to 9 AM. By the time I get the emails now, I already know what was said and done, as I logged into CG before 9 AM.
Is there some new setting that causes this?
Is someone still looking at the "Search" issue? I just did an "Advanced Search" on my own user name, and only one result came up: a thread from back in 2003.
Here's a screenshot:
Attachment 29989
Please let me know. I often search through my old posts, to answer common questions.
Mike
I didn't forget it, but not being an admin/mod I'm not making any experiments in that direction unless I see some indication that it might have been fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeAThon
The recent test results you present considerably irritate me though: While it seems that earlier searches simply didn't look back further than the point of the update, which looks quite comprehensible, your new results seem to indicate that now the search may or may not go beyond the point of the update, but doesn't find all the posts that are there. Now that doesn't seem to resemble any comprehensible (to me) logical pattern at all... :confused:
I do that myself too (at least when the search feature works), but perhaps the negative impact on users simply looking for answers effectively is even stronger.Quote:
[...] I often search through my old posts, to answer common questions.
BTW: I didn't mention that yet since it looked so obvious to me that it couldn't have been overlooked, but the "views" counting obviously is also broken: Any thread started after the update has a "views" count exactly equal to the number of replies plus one (IOW the total number of posts in the thread). In particular regarding the thread we're in right here this is plain absurd. This also applies to the download count of attachments. I tried it with an older thread in the Testing Area that had an attachment, and the download count didn't move a bit when I downloaded the attachment. (I find that particularly painful as a few of my own favorite uploads were just about to cross the 100 downloads boundary... :blush:)
The search indexes are being rebuilt. This ia very, very big forum and that rebuilding takes a long, long time . It has actually ran for a large numer of ours already and will be continued over the next few days. We are trying to run the rebuild at times when the forum isnt' the busiest to try to keep the drain on it the lowest. When I'm told the rebuilding is totally ccomplete, I'll let yuo know.
As to the views counts. I'll have to ahve someoen look into that....
Brad!
The same just happened to me when posting a visitor message to another user's profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by John E
I had a similar problem when trying to rate someone's post. It seemed as if ( after you have clicked the button ) nothing happens. I had to visit the post again later, and was able to rate it properlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Eri523
Talking about Rates .. I've just noticed that the Rate Post button is visible in the GD/CC and testing area forums.. But not sure if i see them because i'm a mod. ( never noticed this before)....Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
That is a bug... The Rating feature was disabled long long time ago for those forums. So nobody could see them.Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
Lol .. Okay .. I knew they were disabled looooooonnnnggggg ago, but since becoming a mod, i never checked if it was still MIA in those forums or if as a mod i still saw them...Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
Will add as a issue in the other thread.. :)
That's what I'm trying to say. Nobody, not even mods could see those features. I didn't see them in there. If those buttons are back now, then it is a bug now. :)
Just noted that the "Before you post" announcement isn't very noticeable in the new layout. Maybe make it bright yellow or green, flashing and three times as big. Lots of new people seem to miss it. ;)
Ratings have now been turned off in the Chit chat forum as well as the testing forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
Brad!
hmm i still see it and can rate... ( has this not maybe changed that mods can still rate in these forums.. i dont have a std account to check....)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
Lol .. 100 downloads is a milestone (But not for Images, I'm talking about Code snips).. then again wait till you get to 1000 , you throw a private party...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eri523
I know there are downloads with more but here's one that absolutely ran away and shocked me when it when it hit over 10 000 ... (7 d/d Average)....
I see it tooQuote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
What seems to be gone is the ability to rate threads (and that IMO used to be a rather productive tool especially in GD/CC, though I rarely used it myself). As a non-mod I can still see the post rating button too (didn't try if it works, though). Perhaps someone made an off-by-one regarding the vBulletin option to uncheck? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
Sure, the download count of images is rather irrelevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
Pretty cool! :D (However, the age of that attachment is more than twice the time I've been a member in total, so there's still some room for me to catch up... :)) One of my most popular ones (humble 82 downloads by now) is kind of related to image processing too: a PNG file dump utility. Seems to be a popular topic in general. (The popularity of both that download and the thread it is in may have been boosted by the fact that there's a link to it in one of the MS support forums.)Quote:
I know there are downloads with more but here's one that absolutely ran away and shocked me when it when it hit over 10 000 ... (7 d/d Average)....
Your attachment is just approaching another jubilee BTW: As of now it's 1,996 days old. :)
This site is now incredibly slow and incredibly unreliable for me. Has been since the upgrade. I can only get to it on maybe half the times I try, if I'm lucky. Even when it works, it's really, really slow. It's to the point it's almost unusable most of the time.
GCDEF - Is it slow loading, responding, or just slow overall?
Anyone else having "slow" issues? If so, please report this.
Thanks,
Brad!
It's been fine for me.
Windows XP 32bit
Google Chrome
I have this (or a similar) problem too. Most of the time the site works quite ok for me; loading is not quite "light-speed" and a noticable bit slower than the old version, yet the usability is quite acceptable. Sometimes, however, I experience quite intolerable page load times. If it just started that day and I'm not too annoyed yet, I can go to the fridge (really relaxed, not running), get a fresh coke and when I'm back have opened it an drank a bit of it, the page may have loaded in the meantime. About just the same number of times this happens I lose my patience while waiting, hit the browser's Stop button and then click the link again. This may or may not take me to the desired page quickly now, with the "may not" being at an unsatisfying at least 60%, estimated. And these "sloth attacks" have a burst character: When it happens, the percentage of slow loads is massive, though not all of them are slow then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
This site behavior is not completely new to me, BTW: I experienced that with the old forum software version as well. But the slow load times at least felt a good bit faster. Also, AFAIR "sloth attacks" were noticably less frequent, though this may subjectively distorted perception caused by the increased slow load time being more annoying.
I haven't done that yet, but if you're interested, I may try to collect some rough timing values of the slow loads. I've just made a new version of my own stopwatch app and this may be a good occasion for another practice test (and simply playing with it... :D).
Platform: XP SP3 and IE8 on AMD dual core, not high-end but quite decent.
All of that. Pretty much what Eri523 described. It took me about 10 minutes to reply to this post. Mostly if just hangs up saying "transferring data from forums.codeguru.com". Every once in a while it seems to respond properly and sometimes I get what appears to be just an unformatted HTML or XML script. Today is its worst day by a long way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
It just happened to me again when switching to this thread in response to the notification mail (not using the link in the mail, though, in case that matters). This time, out of curiosity, I started the stopwatch: Result: 2:30 minutes until I got the page. This was the first time today, though. And if the post is not marked edited when you read it, it didn't happen again when submitting the post. I think I'd never be patient enough to wait whole ten minutes. Sometime during the 10 minutes I'd probably consider the CG site entirely crashed and simply close the browser tab.Quote:
Originally Posted by GCDEF
I think I've seen what you describe here too, though rarely. I'm no expert on that, but to me it looks like a missing CSS or something like that.Quote:
[...] sometimes I get what appears to be just an unformatted HTML or XML script.
The 10 minutes involved probably 5 different attempts. I didn't just click reply and let it sit. It's been responsive, although slow, for an hour or so now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eri523
Whenever I receive an email, I click the link to view the relevant post but I'm often getting situations where the post is wider than my browser window. I end up having to use my browser's horizontal scroll bar to read the posts properly.
I think a similar bug might have existed in the previous version - except in that case, the post width was neatly matched to my browser width. In other words, I never used to see the adverts (or a big white space) at the right hand side of my screen.
I must admit that after a week or two using the new style site, I haven't really figured out what the improvements are. Most of the changes seem to be negative ones from what I can tell. The site has a klunky, amateurish feel to it now.
Don't know if this was a bug or just a coincidence....
When editing a post (like I just edited my last one) sometimes I don't see the text I want to edit. I have to press 'Go Advanced' for the text to appear. Other times when I select 'Edit Post', the text appears straight away but the cancel button doesn't do anything.
While testing this just now, the whole forum seemed to crash. For about 2 minutes I couldn't access it - even if I tried to select 'Forums' from the home page at codeguru.com.
Can you provide the Link that causes this problem .. There was an Issue with the Code blocks that went as wide as the longest line, however that has been sorted (Added scrollers to the Code block)..Quote:
Originally Posted by John E
Had simular problem ... Site was not responding... for about 10 min total...Quote:
Originally Posted by John E
Yes, it was the standard link in my notification email - i.e.Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...1&goto=newpost
At the time, post #132 was the newest post.
Actually, I've just started to notice a distinct lag between clicking on the email link and the page showing. Probably about 30 seconds.
Okay Thats a link to this thread... and there arn't any Code blocks but only Quote blocks in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by John E
Also you say it only happens when you use the Link from an email ?.. What Mailer you using and is your Browser already open? Can you try get the specific conditions this occurs so that we can place a proper Bug report on it...
Some additional information about the forum software creating too big container boxes for non-inlined attached images, perhaps it's helpful:
When I copied (via the image's context menu) one of the screen shots from http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...ebugging.....! and pasted it into Paint.NET for closer analysis, I got an image with dimensions 1310 x 737. The image I get in my browser display is 800 x 450 (as specified in the properties of the image displayed by the browser, matching my visual estimate). Looks like the forum software downscaled the images to neatly fit the screen (1280 x 1024) but created a container box with a width accomodating to the unscaled original image size, which of course is much too wide.
For illustration I attached a screen shot of what I see here, in case that may behave differently depending on the browser. I have pre-downscaled this one to 50% at my end.
We'll need to take a look at the image uploading to see if we can replicate the issue.
on a different note:
I've been told that there are some background processes running that are taking some time. These are set up processes like rebuilding the forum search index. Because of the size of this forum, I've been told these are likely to run for a few more days. When they complete, I've been told response times should improve.
I'd really love it that way, but unfortunately that's not what I get. :( In my IE8, code blocks seem to get an (enabled) horizontal scroll bar only if the longest code line is just a tiny bit (three or four characters at most, AFAICT) longer than the standard code block width. If they're longer than that, the lines get wrapped (see attached sceen shot, taken from http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...ip-to-hostname).Quote:
Originally Posted by GremlinSA
I already mentioned in an earlier post that I'd definitely would prefer scrolling over line wrapping but then I had no idea that other users may actually already get the scrolling capability I was missing.
In IE 8, i get the same as your Screen shot, with out any special circumstances ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eri523
Copy the link, Paste in IE 8 Address bar and enter...
When posting a new thread there are two buttons:- Submit New Thread and Preview Post. Slightly underneath them is a section called Additional Options which also has the same two buttons. Within that section however, I couldn't make the Preview button work this morning (although the other preview button worked). It's possible that the 2nd Submit button didn't work either although I didn't try it.
When simply replying to a thread (as opposed to starting a new thread) all the buttons appear to work.
It's bogged down on me again several times today. I'm running Firefox with Do Not Track and AdBlock extensions. I've tried disabling them on this site and it doesn't seem to make any difference. Sometimes when Firefox stops responding Chrome will work or at least get a bit further, but sometimes Chrome stops working too. When it's not responding, it just says Transferring data from Codeguru.com in the status bar.
Since the last update the response time of this site has been consistently bad. Not to the extreme of your experience, though a couple of times I closed the browser fed up with waiting for the page to show after several minutes.
I use IE 8 when in my office and the latest version of FF at home. In my office we have very fast internet connections, but there is little difference when I access it from home. It's quite annoying, on top of the bugs and other unrequested changes introduced with the update.
This used to be my preferred site, I used to check it constantly, all day, every day, whenever possible while in the office and then from home for a few more hours, but now I only visit it every now and then and am considering not coming back again. This is not only due to the negative impact of the update, I also found the posts in my favourite forums have declined a lot in quality (most of the time it's lazy bastards just looking for someone to do their homework for them).
Okay guys, it seems Advanced Search still fails to search posts by User Name, and this is getting quite frustrating.
Confirmed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Igor Vartanov
I'll ask someoen to look into the user name search issue. Thanks for reporting.
Brad!
On the subject of search.. The Search results used to include the Forum that the post/ Thread is in..
Also it does not show you if the post has been deleted already..