My plan is to keep this place available for a short amount of time once the new forum is up, so that if need be certain things can be retrieved. I'll just place it at a different URL (web address) so that we can keep all our equity the same sorta speak.
With that said, I need to remind you that the add-ons will no longer exist until reinstalled on the new forum. Which will not be immediately because the Final Version of the software were upgrading to hasnt been released, which means a lot of the add-ons arent completely ready either.
Once developers release a final version of the forum software, I'll update any changes made to the scripts which will bring us up to date with that and then we can start looking at adding the toys back. Some are saying February, some are saying Spring :shrug:
The only one I'm a bit concerned with is the Photo Gallery. There's no way for me to recover, save, or piggyback the images in there during migrating to the new forum. So if you have albums in there and those images are the only copies you have, you should start saving them to your PC.
I'm not real pleased knowing that images from the gallery that were used in posts will be dead, but I guess we have to have rain if we want flowers.
Noooo no :doh2: thats not what I meant. I dont want any flowers.
Good luck, Jim.
Even if the site implodes and we lose half the stuff, no problem, we will just start over. :wink:
:holdon: What are we gonna do till then ? :wo:
Eat cake :yoyo:
Till when?....it's not going to take long at all.
Add ons and toys? What are those? :confused:
With this new super-duper upgrade, does it include an increased storage capacity of the emoticons?? There has been a time or two I wanted to use a couple,
and found that they had already been used up, and insufficient time had elapsed for their regeneration.... :wink:
Quote from: weedwalker on January 06, 2011, 05:19:00 PM
Add ons and toys? What are those? :confused:
I think he's getting rid of all the :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: 's and :highclap: :highclap: :highclap: 's .... :alscalls:
Quote from: Yotehntr on January 06, 2011, 05:45:27 PM
Quote from: weedwalker on January 06, 2011, 05:19:00 PM
Add ons and toys? What are those? :confused:
I think he's getting rid of all the :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: 's and :highclap: :highclap: :highclap: 's .... :alscalls:
Oh boy, that's really gonna cut down on some of the post counts. :laf:
Where ya been Weed :laf:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 01, 2011, 06:08:33 AM
Since a lot of our toys, Photogallery, arial maps, chat, shoutbox, etc, have not been brought up to date by their developers, to be compatible with the upcoming version of forum software yet, we will not have a lot of those right away.
Let me see if I got this straight :confused:. We have to update software to stay up to date but the software we are updating to is not up to date yet :doh2:.
You couldnt be any more correct Slag :yoyo:
The change over is inevitable. Looking at the bottom of the forum you see where it says "Powered by SMF 1.1.12"
The new version is jumping to 2.0 but since it's not completely ready for public release they are releasing 2.0RC4.
The RC4 means Release Candidate. As in... if testers cant find anything wrong, that will be the final version. But right now it's a candidate.
The developers themselves are using 2.0 RC4 on their public forum and I did one fresh install using it for a new client and had no problems...and since I have to do this swap over migration for this place and six other clients. This place is gonna be the Guinea Pig. :wink:
:confused: :confused: :confused: I haven't been this confused since my wife asked me what clothes I was going to take on our honeymoon. :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:
That shoulda been an easy one BamBam..."NONE" :eyebrow:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 06, 2011, 08:47:53 PM
That shoulda been an easy one BamBam..."NONE" :eyebrow:
That's exactly what I was thinkin' . :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle:
The OLD forum is now located at http://www.finsandfur.net/praevius/
"praevius" being Latin for "previous" thank you :wink: I put a lot of thought into that.
I'll leave that up for a while in case anything needs to be retrieved.
All posting privileges have been turned off over there.
I've still got a little work to do here....but right now... me need sleep. :sleep:
So far I dun like it :noway:. BUT it will grow on me I am sure :biggrin:. Looks like its all working or at least everythigns working that is up to date :whew:.
Nighty Night Jim. Sleep well.
Jerry
What's not to like slag?? Nobody got lost in the shuffle & all our Friends are still here. :eyebrownod:
I like it. It is different but I was getting tired of looking at 22-250 shells. :eyebrownod:
Quote from: Semp on January 07, 2011, 09:57:01 AM
I like it. It is different but I was getting tired of looking at 22-250 shells. :eyebrownod:
Better those than bucks & turkeys! :puke: :puke: :puke:
While it may be nice for some of you guys :wink: I think it sucks cause I don't do change well :pout:.
The main page takes over a minute to reload :argh:. WTF I got better ways to spend my sleepy time :innocentwhistle:
Quote from: vvarmitr on January 07, 2011, 12:08:29 PM
Quote from: Semp on January 07, 2011, 09:57:01 AM
I like it. It is different but I was getting tired of looking at 22-250 shells. :eyebrownod:
Better those than bucks & turkeys! :puke: :puke: :puke:
You're right. I thought this was a hunting site. My bad. :rolleye:
When I get to the bottom of a thread, then click on "jump to" to go to a different section, it just runs a tab across the top saying it's loading. I don't know how long it takes to load because I got tired of waiting.
:rolleye: somehow I always get stuck being someones Guinea pig :doh2:
Yep, I too was gettin a little tired of the 22-250 back ground.... Jim maybe you should get a truck load of dead coyote and take pic for our new back ground :eyebrow: and then you could donate some of it to the LBL hunt prizes :biggrin: just a thought....
The jump bar is buggy, we already went over that somewhere I think.
I get the little "load bar" when I click the little black X thats by the time and date of someones post.
I still have no idea what that is linked to but a click shows that load bar. :laf:
We gotta remember were on beta software and the dips caused by me I can fix, the others will be fixed as they get reported and in the following version. :wink:
Not being able to jump from forum to forum sucks large :argh: Jimmie
I like the expandable reply box. :laf: :laf:
The whaAAA?
Now you got me trying to...OH! Cool! :jump: How the heck did you notice that?
:shrug: I just seen two little lines at the bottom of the box & ran the cursor over it. It gave me the old double arrow & I just ran with it. :laf:
So what happens if you move it closer together
:jump:
It gets really really hard to see what you're typing. :laf: You can shrink it down to nothing.
I like the "toggle view"
The button with the red A on it.
It changes the reply box color from black to white. Not sure what the purpose is, but it's....it's fun. :shrug:
My old eyes are having a hard time with some of the colors on this black wallpaper. JH's blackboard is a PITA to read, as well.
Tom, click the profile button up there.
Then click "Look and Layout"
The top item reads, "Current Theme: BlackRain V.2 (change)"
Click on the word "change"
Wala :wink:
WhooHoo! I'm back in the comfort zone! Thanx.
I changed the background color of the quote block. Ben had mentioned it wasnt real distinguishable and it kinda did suck.
QuoteThis is a block quote box
In the message section of the forum, when you start a new message and type a forumite's name a drop down box gives you suggestions. But that drop down box is white and the letters are almost white. They are very difficult to read. Any way to change the background color on that drop down box?
I'm not sure where your at Semp. :confused:
New Message/private message when you go to send one and start typing in the members name you will get a drop down box with selections the box is white and the letters are almost white
I am talking about the PM feature. Go and try to send a new message and watch the drop down box with name suggestions.
yeah the letters are white and the box is almost white
I had it backwards
What about the posts turning a different color after you've clicked on em and read them ?
The drop down box that you type a persons name in when PM'ing? :confused:
I've never done that. I click the persons name out here that I want to message and it opens with his name already in there.
But I went up and looked, and took out the person name I clicked on and typed a different name back in and I didnt see any drop down :confused:
Scott, I've never seen a function that would change the colors of read posts. What part of the read post would change colors?...the text? the title? the window?
Trying to envision this and if I'm looking at a post to see what color it is, I'm not saving anything by knowing whether or not I already read it because I'm going all the way in to look at its color anyway. :laf:
Jim
Go in to the message center, and click to type a new message. Then start typing the name and a drop down box will appear. That is what I am talking about.
The box won't drop if you type in Semp but I started to type finsn before the box dropped
Your guys Pm page is a lot different then mine as admin.
Some one send Foghorn a PM quick
OK, try this Jim
At the top of this page click on My Messages. Then under the Messages tab, click New Message. Then in the To: box, type tika. Now the drop down box will appear to give you suggestion to complete the name.
Ok...I found it. What color are we changing it too?
Lavendar?
Midnight pumpkin on the hood?
Dad!...Mom's sick again?
Who plugged the toilet?
Uhg, please dont look at me when you sneeze?
Horrific air plane disaster at the Stadium?
or
2girlsand1cup?
well like, say when you're at the Home page, and on the bottom where it says "Recent Posts",
and when you click on a post to read it, you read it, and then when you hit your Backspace button,
and are back on the "Recent Posts", I thought the one you just read changed from yellow to white,
or somethin like that. :confused:
I see the toggle view now. This is purdy cool too!! :biggrin:
Quote from: iahntr on January 08, 2011, 08:31:24 PM
well like, say when you're at the Home page, and on the bottom where it says "Recent Posts",
and when you click on a post to read it, you read it, and then when you hit your Backspace button,
and are back on the "Recent Posts", I thought the one you just read changed from yellow to white,
or somethin like that. :confused:
I'm hearing ya now. Kinda like a link color, a hover color when you run your mouse over it, and then a visited link color.
I dont ever recall the recent posts list doing that. I wouldnt even know how to go about incorporating it.
Quote from: iahntr on January 08, 2011, 08:31:24 PM
well like, say when you're at the Home page, and on the bottom where it says "Recent Posts",
and when you click on a post to read it, you read it, and then when you hit your Backspace button,
and are back on the "Recent Posts", I thought the one you just read changed from yellow to white,
or somethin like that. :confused:
And I thought I was the only one to do that. :innocentwhistle: :doh2:
:shrug:
:biggrin:
or, even like when you first login, and you click on "show unread posts since last visit",
when you go back to that page, it shows it in a different color, because you've clicked on it.
:shrug: :nono:
Maybe my computer is busted :shrug:
I just hopped over to the old forum http://www.finsandfur.net/praevius/ and tried it and the post links never changed colors over there either.
see, now when I just went back there, they went from blue, to white after I've clicked on any of them.
Scott-- The post topic changes or just the little blue oval "NEW" changes colors. :confused:
really anything I clicked on, a persons name, a category, a post,,,,
everything went from blue to white after I've clicked on it.
Ok...you must be using Internet Explorer, cause I just seen that Internet Explorer does use a "visited" link color over there.
There's not a "visited link" color even defined in this css style sheet here, so you'll have to rely on the blue buttons that read "NEW" by the new posts.
OK, but I'm actually using Firefox too. :biggrin:
I went back to IE about a month or so ago & things don't change colors on me. Your hanlde turns white when I click on it but it changes right back. :shrug:
yeah, here mine does that too, it turns white when you hover over it, then if you move your courser
off of it, it goes back to yellow. No big deal, it was just an easy way to see on the old forum that I've
already been somewhere. :biggrin:
It must be browser dependent, or what is the word I'm looking for?
I could rewrite the CSS sheet and add a visited link color if it's a big deal. I wont do it until the final version of the software comes out though, cause if they have to update this theme to be compatible again, it'll all be gone....and it's gonna suck doing it twice.
As good as I think I am...CSS sheets (cascading style sheets) are my weak point.
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 08, 2011, 09:39:41 PM
As good as I think I am...CSS sheets (cascading style sheets) are my weak point.
You want my help :innocentwhistle:.
:laf: I adore the willingness, but I'm gonna pass for now. :laf:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 08, 2011, 08:30:17 PM
Ok...I found it. What color are we changing it too?
Lavendar?
Midnight pumpkin on the hood?
Dad!...Mom's sick again?
Who plugged the toilet?
Uhg, please dont look at me when you sneeze?
Horrific air plane disaster at the Stadium?
or
2girlsand1cup?
No one answered me on this one. :shrug: :shrug:
So I went with blue, and no one squalled. Either it didn't work or it wasnt an issue to begin with. :laf:
Oh, I checked it out right after your 8:30pm post yesterday. Blue works for me!
I didn't say anything because I wanted that "2girlsand1cup" thought to die a quick death. :alscalls:
ROFLMAO!
Bluuuuueee? :doh2:
Everybody else does blue. :iroll:
Too late Vic...this meeting has been adjourned. :laf:
Adjourned :holdon:, I don't even know what your talking about :doh2:.
Mark All Messages Read tab at the bottom of the page. I useda could click that & mark everything read & stay on the Forums page. Now I get a page telling me they have all been read & need to use the Home tab at the top of the page to get back there. New system way of doing things or a bug? :shrug:
edited to say :doh2: :doh2: :doh2: :doh2: now it works fine!! :argh: :argh:
Barry, ya gotta pay attention :laf:
HaMeR... :huh: :loco:
Unless someone has a legitimate reason as to why it shouldnt be done, I'm going to delete the old forum (http://www.finsandfur.net/praevius/) this weekend.
There's doesnt appear to be anything missing other then the addons since the upgrade, and shedding that extra 475 meg will make nightly backups that much sweeter.
She served us well and may she rest in peace. :sick2:
Jerry
Would it matter if I had a reason :confused:. You would just tell me I'm doing it wrong anyway :innocentwhistle:.
:laf: :laf: Seriously? :doh2:
Have I damaged your self esteem that bad? :nono:
I think you can attest to the fact that I have never accused you of doing something wrong unless.....well.....unless your doing something wrong. And in my own defense I dont think I've ever just puked it out. You have always asked first. :eyebrownod: :sneer:
Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. :whew: