test # 5 million...

Errr clearly it does.

I second that.

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when i said test # 5 million i meant it!

more like test # 12

im stil trying to edit the above post

ENTER THE MODERATOR: MW here - what's the problem then - even I can edit your posts EXIT THE MODERATOR

Edited by Martin Walker (01/09/04 12:56 PM)

honestly

i cannot post a message it really isnt happening

im gonna have to post in the old forum and link to it from here

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But you've just posted 3 Stat? What's the prob matey?

Glen

ok here's a link

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You're right matey. I copied it and pasted it in and it won't let me post it either.

Hmmm, will have to ponder that one.

Glen

hiya MW

not sure what was going on it seems to be fine now...

but every time i tried it would sit there thinking for a few minutes, then take me to an empty page with just the SOS banner on it...

some of the links are broken - i've found the menu that drops down from the forum button works OK, but if you just click the button (which i was trying at first) it takes you to the old infopop. so does the link at the bottom of the page...

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You're right matey. I copied it and pasted it in and it won't let me post it either.

Hmmm, will have to ponder that one.

Glen

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Statick - just replied to your old forum post, and forwarded it to Ian so he knows what's going on.


Martin

thanks!

anyway, now that it does seem to be working, its a lot faster than the old infopop, which is *definately* a good thing...

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Bit weird, it is not the length of post that does it, cos I just created a huge random text post about four times that length and it was fine.

Temporary gremlin or just didn't like what you said Stat?

Glen

Yes, the top forum banner entry does still take you to the old forum. I suspect that's intentional - only those who specifically want to explore the new forum via the other links get here for the next few days until the old one is forever frozen in time, left to the vagaries of wind and dust.

I expect we'll have a few wrinkles during the changeover phase (although I suspect Ian's probably got most of them from setting it up in the first place )


Martin

It is definitely different, that is for sure, but it seems to be working for the most part. I had a lot of the same problems as Statick, lots of security messages, etc.

I tried to post a signature, but it kept telling me that the sig was too long, and go back and fix it. The max length is 100 characters, but I had less than 40! I think it has to do with the line feeds. If I make my sig "DH" it works, but as soon as I press ENTER twice to get a double-spaced sig, it gives me the error...Can you pass this along too Martin?

Thanks!

Otherwise...lookin' good!!!

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" ~Napoleon Bonaparte~

I have had a few problems this morning - more to do with the forum loggin me out after I have posted, or giving me a spurious error message to do with filling in all the fields on a post (I figured that one out - it took me a long time to compose the post - and it must have lost my session half way through the composition - so then when I cam to post hence a funny error message)

Hey!!! I'm a virgin again!!! Can I bring my wife in here from time to time??? LOL!!! Just kidding!!!

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" ~Napoleon Bonaparte~

aaaahhhhh!!!
It did it again..
logged me out after I posted....
first indication - as soon as I previewed then submitted the post
i get an error message saying - there is a problem looking up the post in the database - it logs me out - but posts anyway

Ermm... Am I working, I've subscribed and registered my details but my forum thingy says I'm blocked from the forum...?

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ah
worked okay that time
Possible locking problem with the thread???

is this now the thread to register forum problems?

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I'm not even a bloody virgin... and how come eveybody's got 5 red balls but me

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it's logged you out - try logging in again

This is definately a locking problem - Martin are you there???
I only get logged out or error messages when I am posting a reply to an existing topic and somebody else is posting at the same time.....
I composed my last message - when there was no replies - when I posted and got logged out again - then I cam back in and found out that there were 2 replies before my error'd post...
Never happened when I am the first one to reply
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Great, now you have 5 red balls (I'm sorry to hear that, btw... ), but I am "ball-less"!!! (OUCH! At least I can finally hit those high notes I have been trying to hit for years!!! Hehe...)

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" ~Napoleon Bonaparte~

Statick et al,

Not sure why you cannot post the message you attempted to and refer to in the old forum, but we're looking into that. Message length is unlimited AFAIK. No deliberate censorship going on here, but there is lots of security code working to stop people including javascript and such-like in their posts, as this forum now runs on our servers and if they hack it it's SOS that gets hurt now not Infopop!!

Please bear with us and we'll overcome things. A lot of it is not the forum not working, but the main registration catching people out. We have code to prevent duplicate emails, dupe IPs, and lookups of whether emails are real or fake etc, and there's a heck of a lot going on backstage/under the hood.

Will be back later to answer more questions...

Ian
(aka Blue-arsed Fly )

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Grrrr...everytime I make a move (like trying to edit my profile), I keep getting logged off, and have to re-log back in again, with all the security messages, etc. Hopefully, somebody will get this straightened out soon, I have faith in Ian and Company!!!

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Great, now you have 5 red balls (I'm sorry to hear that, btw... ), but I am "ball-less"!!! (OUCH! At least I can finally hit those high notes I have been trying to hit for years!!! Hehe...)

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Now castrating members as they join is just not fair...

Can DH have his balls back please

Don't worry DH I still appear to be unclassified...

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Can DH have his balls back please

Don't worry DH I still appear to be unclassified...

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Haha Reg...there is *no* way to classify you!!! You just have no class!!! Haha!!!

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you seem to have a ball now !!!

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It would appear somebody has rated DH as a 1 star user - (a load of pants by the way as his Mic help is always excellent)... I just rated him a five and he has averaged out to a three...

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Edited by RegressiveRock (01/09/04 01:56 PM)

Reg, I gave you red balls... It's not catching though

When you click ona User Id, at the bottom of the profile screen, there isa "rate this user" option.

you can then select 1 to 5 "stars" (that look like red balls) and the displayed result is an average of everyone's rating of a person.

Now I've explained, I trust you lot won't abuse the feature TOO much in the rush of new toy excitement...

Max

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Thanks reg!!! I feel better now that I have *some* balls!

I have a feeling that the balls issue is going to turn into a popularity contest, and they will go away eventually. I've seen several forums make attempts to use them when they upgrade the software, and without fail, they remove them in a very short time.

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" ~Napoleon Bonaparte~

Sage words from Max and DH... I predict a short period of decorum followed by a mad rating war...

We'll see...

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nah i reckon here it will be a case of everyone trying to remove everyone elses balls

i wonder who's balls will be the last to drop?


/coat

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I believe the thread in the off topic section has realised your fears max.....but it was too tempting im afraid!

Sorry g'vnor!

OK...so where is the off-topic forum??? Am I just blind, or am I blind *and* stupid???

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OK...so where is the off-topic forum??? Am I just blind, or am I blind *and* stupid???

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whats the rating system is about? (ref to the red balls under a few of the names)

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whats the rating system is about? (ref to the red balls under a few of the names)

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An attempt to see if we can fairly rate each other in terms of - I dunno - good motives and trustworthy advice and such like...

I think we'll just have to wait and see how that works...

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