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Hi GEOFF ... I don't see the ability to be able to allow/send other members email directly from the forum, like we could in the older forum. PM's yes. Emails NO. I looked in my user CP to find an option for that but found nothing. I don't know if that function just doesn't come with this new upgrade, or ??? Sorry if it's right in front of my eyes and I'm missing it somehow ... ?

Your head must be spinning with all the upgrade and forum work you've had to be doing on top of everything else you have on the go

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Vets Dottir 2nd

Hi GEOFF ... I don't see the ability to be able to allow/send other members email directly from the forum, like we could in the older forum. PM's yes. Emails NO. I looked in my user CP to find an option for that but found nothing. I don't know if that function just doesn't come with this new upgrade, or ??? Sorry if it's right in front of my eyes and I'm missing it somehow ... ?

Your head must be spinning with all the upgrade and forum work you've had to be doing on top of everything else you have on the go

Done. Click on their name to email them through the system.

And yes, my head is turned around backwards right now, but there's a lot more yet to be sorted!

Excellent!!! Thanks for turning that on

And I believe you completely about lots more to be done. Seems like most, if not all, of the most important stuff is functional "enough" for you to breathe and rest a bit more than you have done the last couple or so days, but then again, I know it takes a lot of time configure a forum etc ... good thing this isn't from scratch where you have to build all the forums categories and areas from scratch, hey?

Oh and BTW ... if you can find a way to make the admins names highlighted from the rest somehow for members to easily spot 'em/us, that would be cool too. I didn't see any options for that either

(I've seen other forums, this version, admins aren't "bold or italics" but they are different colours for members to spot in the crowd)

[Phil Waterman]

Realize that a lot of the changes were necessary to keep up and ahead of outside forces.

It will take some exploring to find all the changes and how to use them.

Do notice the spell check feature, thank you from those of us who are spelling chanllenged.

One question, and it may be that I just have not found it yet, where is the new posts since you last logged on?

Keep up the good work and thanks

Phil

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

One question, and it may be that I just have not found it yet, where is the new posts since you last logged on?

Keep up the good work and thanks

Phil

Hi Phil,

Look above to the top of this page's menu bar where it says "New Posts" I believe THAT one shows you all posts since your last visit ... in the "Quick Links" you can view just "Todays Posts" I think.

Just play with the links to see what's in them too, many have dropdown menus of more options etc, which is what I'm doing too to learn my way around in here

[Bill Murray]

Hi all:

Just a couple of random thoughts.

Geoff may remember that he helped me investigate starting my own vBulletin forum a couple of years ago. It was to be a site devoted strictly to soft skins of the period 1935-1945.

What I learned from Geoff was that in no way was I going to set up my own forum. I can only admire him for having set this one up in the first place and then having to make a major upgrade to a version with a lot of new templates and choices.

For those of you who have never investigated the possibility, the choices go on for page after page and the language is very computer geeky. As I recall, there were few warning signs that if you "did this" it would "affect that".

And, if it goes gunny sack, as MLU sort of did last week, you have two choices. You can open a "ticket" and they will try to fix what may be a problem on their end. You are then left to do all the repairs to your own forum after they fixed the problem or, in this case, did a major upgrade to a new version.

Or, and this was the path I would have had to take, you pay them to do everything from A to Z and that is very expensive.

Geoff deserves one hell of a lot of credit for doing most of it himself.

Second observation.

This is a "photo rich" forum and thank goodness for that. But, photos take bandwidth and slow down the response times.

Personal opinion only, but I think the thumbnail option is probably better for all of us. It is in it's own way, as state of the art as getting all of the photos to show up in their original size, just more efficient.

I also like the feature that allows you to choose to load from your own data base or an img from another location on the first go.

Just some thoughts for today.
Bill

[wim sikkelbein]

Geoff you did good to upgrade to this new version, it looks good and handles easily

wim

Btw will the forummeister be requiring a test e-mail from this side of the world?

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by wim sikkelbein

Geoff you did good to upgrade to this new version, it looks good and handles easily

wim

Btw will the forummeister be requiring a test e-mail from this side of the world?

So far so good Wim, but thanks for asking! Server glitches aside, so far this seems to be working well. Just remember that if we get into the do-do for whatever reason, I always have my corowa30 sympatico address running anyway, so I'm never out of comms.

Bill, I thank you for your comments, but I should point out that all I did with this one was to set it up, coach them along and try to keep things pointed in the right direction while everyone went nuts! I was configuring this up until last night at about 2230, and there's lots left to go yet! Putting one's own signature on things is sometimes more difficult than what they do, but that's only because I'm a picky bastard at heart...

Let's hope this works as well as it seems to on into the future. I know already that spam traffic is going to be far easier to control, and code-wise, it runs far more efficiently than the old package.

[Bill Mulholland]

It'll take some time to have a look around, so far looking good. Gotta have my daily lurk! Thanks!
Cheers, Bill

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Let's hope this works as well as it seems to on into the future. I know already that spam traffic is going to be far easier to control, and code-wise, it runs far more efficiently than the old package.

Thats all great to hear!!!


EVERYONE: I can NOT access MLU through the .org address again since yesterday. Anyone else having that problem? I'm wondering if I need a new and fuller link rather than the simple mlu org/forums one I currently use ...

Thanks.

[Pedr]

Have found the links to PM and email from within MLU by left clicking on the persons name. This will reveil a drop down menu with several options relating to that member including email, PM, viewing profile and some other options.

[Jon Skagfeld]

OK...I've re-logged in. Am I really here? Will my avatar show up?

Why is life so bloody complicated?

Here goes..."Submit reply".

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

OK...I've re-logged in. Am I really here? Will my avatar show up?

Why is life so bloody complicated?

Here goes..."Submit reply".

Wow!!! I'm here!!! So, what's with the different coloured balls after one's name. I know what they activate, but why the colours?

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Wow!!! I'm here!!! So, what's with the different coloured balls after one's name. I know what they activate, but why the colours?

Your Avatar shows up fine Jon ... and hurrah, am glad you're in!

Do you find pages load better and faster for you with all the
pictures made into thumbnails and links now? Just wondering
as I know you're on slow dialup or something

Yappy

When the little balls are green, they aren't hurtin', just showing you're online right now Greyed out means not online

[Alex van de Wetering]

Good work Geoff!

It was really frustrating to find out that our beloved forum was offline for a while. Anyway, it's good we are online again and with several new features to discover.

So far so good, if you ask me. I do have to agree with Tony that inserting pictures in messages is a little odd. Linked pictures from other websites seem to show up in full size, while uploaded pictures into the forum are only shown as a link or as the small thumbnail. I hope there is a way to make pictures visible full (700px) size like before, but I haven't got a clue what that means in terms of programming.

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

I just had a go with the search function. You can now launch a search directly after another, in stead of having to wait 30 seconds

I did try searches like "C8", "C15" and "cwt", which doesn't result in any matches. The problem seems to be the length of the word, just like on our previous forum version. "Chev" and "C60X" does result in hits. So, it seems your word needs at least 4 figures......or is the "no Chevrolet matches" function "on"

Alex

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I just had a go with the search function. You can now launch a search directly after another, in stead of having to wait 30 seconds

I did try searches like "C8", "C15" and "cwt", which doesn't result in any matches. The problem seems to be the length of the word, just like on our previous forum version. "Chev" and "C60X" does result in hits. So, it seems your word needs at least 4 figures......or is the "no Chevrolet matches" function "on"

Alex

Alex
Use your (*) as a wildcard..
Or C8**
Should work..
Alex

Hi Folks,

I just noticed that ALL of the smilies show up beside the compose box in the "PM" private messaging, area (36 of them show on the right side of page)

BUT only 27 of them show up, on the right side as well, when composing a post in the forum ... which makes me think/wonder if the compose box etc on the posting page is just bigger and less space available for all the smilies to show up? I'm just guessing this might be why??? Don't know if there is a fix for this, but it is annoying to not be able to access and use ALL smilies when posting.

Maybe when Geoff back from the States he can look into this ...