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I like the new format well enough, but there is one small problem I found. When you go to the User Showcase list of songs posted (http://www.pgmusic.com/user-showcase/?genre=jazz), clicking on a title used to take you to the song. Now it returns you to the main forum.

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I like the new format well enough, but there is one small problem I found. When you go to the User Showcase list of songs posted (http://www.pgmusic.com/user-showcase/?genre=jazz), clicking on a title used to take you to the song. Now it returns you to the main forum.

Definitely a bug and clearly not intended based on the URL.


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Hi,

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is there any way I can turn OFF the topic preview?

I find it quite distracting...


We've added a setting in the Preferences turn disable the "tooltip style" topic previews

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I like the new format well enough, but there is one small problem I found. When you go to the User Showcase list of songs posted


Yes, we're aware of this and it should be fixed within a couple of days.


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Hi,

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is there any way I can turn OFF the topic preview?

I find it quite distracting...


We've added a setting in the Preferences turn disable the "tooltip style" topic previews



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Andrew, when I comment on a thread then tick "Add this thread to my Watched Topics." I don't think it follows. I assumed that I would be notified of any subsequent activity on the thread. Am I wrong?

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Hi Don,

There is a setting to be emailed on watched topics in the User Preferences. Is that set to Yes?


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Thanks, Andrew. I didn't find that option earlier. With the old format, I'd start my day by checking my email for any forum activity in the topics I had been following. This will be way kewl!

Btw, Majorgeeks dot com has a nice feature on their forums that you may wish to explore - When you enter your title for a new topic it does a dynamic filtering/search and looks across ALL of their forums to see if that specific question/topic has been asked/discussed previously. Then a drop down appears showing the 5 or 6 nearest matches. Clicking on a suggested match takes you directly to the desired thread thus eliminating duplicate topics. I find that very convenient, especially when you don't remember exactly where (what forum) a topic was located.

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Thanks, Andrew. I didn't find that option earlier. With the old format, I'd start my day by checking my email for any forum activity in the topics I had been following. This will be way kewl!

Btw, Majorgeeks dot com has a nice feature on their forums that you may wish to explore - When you enter your title for a new topic it does a dynamic filtering/search and looks across ALL of their forums to see if that specific question/topic has been asked/discussed previously. Then a drop down appears showing the 5 or 6 nearest matches. Clicking on a suggested match takes you directly to the desired thread thus eliminating duplicate topics. I find that very convenient, especially when you don't remember exactly where (what forum) a topic was located.


Thanks, we could consider adding a feature like that in the future.


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Andrew, unfortunately, something is still wrong. I am still not being notified on new comments to threads I want to follow. The little magnifying glass icon appears next to my name on "followed" topics but I am not being notified of new comments by email. Does it work correctly for others or is it that dreaded "Irish Factor" again?

I don't know what other settings or prefs to change.

TIA

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I just noticed that embedded links to forum threads (pre-update) are now broken. Links made AFTER the forum upgrade work.

Here's a current link to a thread. This link should work. However, the thread contains older links that don't work anymore.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202960&#Post202960


(scroll up from the last message to see the older links that are broken)

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Andrew, might i ask, how long is a thread kept on the forum for?

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I think I've finally got it setup correctly. Excellent Andrew!

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Hi Andrew,
umm, something doesn't seem quite right to me...

On the old forum, and all the other fora I frequent, if I went into an area and checked for unread posts, I'd get a highlight to show which threads I needed to visit. I'd maybe visit some of the threads with a view to coming back for the others I was interested in if time was a bit short and it would all be OK.

But, on this new forum it seems (and I stand to be corrected because I haven't yet absolutely confirmed it) that if I come back to the forum to read the posts I hadn't seen on my last visit, they are no longer listed as unread...

Can this be confirmed, and if possible corrected, please?

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Just found another problem, dunno if there's something strange at my end or if there's something to look for...

I'm using Win7 Pro and IE8 at the moment - normally I'm on XP and FireFox but today I must use my Win7 box.

Anyhow, I can't seem to see any of the buttons in posts. E.G. when I go to post this message I have to watch the cursor and wait for it to change to a hand before I know I'm over a button - there are no outlines or text - I gotta guess which button I'm over.

I found the right one by by accident on my last post...

I've changed themes (various aero, high contrast, Win7 standard and so on) to no avail. Checked colour settings, calibrated the display and other stuff - still no buttons - is this a coding problem related to IE or am I still looking for something at my end.

For what it's worth, I probably won't be using this computer again for a while after today but I'd still like to get it sorted.

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Originally Posted By: Lawrie
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But, on this new forum it seems (and I stand to be corrected because I haven't yet absolutely confirmed it) that if I come back to the forum to read the posts I hadn't seen on my last visit, they are no longer listed as unread...


Bit more information - I realised I noticed it when I would check some threads on one computer and then go to another, perhaps at my office instead of my home, and the unread posts would be missing... Are you using cookies to track instead of a database at your end perhaps?


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Andrew, might i ask, how long is a thread kept on the forum for?

Cy


There is no particular expiration date for threads.


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Originally Posted By: Pat Marr
I just noticed that embedded links to forum threads (pre-update) are now broken. Links made AFTER the forum upgrade work.

Here's a current link to a thread. This link should work. However, the thread contains older links that don't work anymore.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202960&#Post202960


(scroll up from the last message to see the older links that are broken)



This should now be working. I.E. links to specific topics within the forum that were posted before the upgrade should now be redirecting to the correct topics.

Let me know if you find any issues with old links not redirecting properly.


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Hi Lawrie,

Thank you for your input...

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umm, something doesn't seem quite right to me...

On the old forum, and all the other fora I frequent, if I went into an area and checked for unread posts, I'd get a highlight to show which threads I needed to visit. I'd maybe visit some of the threads with a view to coming back for the others I was interested in if time was a bit short and it would all be OK.

But, on this new forum it seems (and I stand to be corrected because I haven't yet absolutely confirmed it) that if I come back to the forum to read the posts I hadn't seen on my last visit, they are no longer listed as unread...

Can this be confirmed, and if possible corrected, please?


The way it currently works is this:

On the main forum list, the forum icons are grey if the forum is 'unread' or yellow if the forum is 'read'. There are two ways to make a forum 'read'.

Either...
1. Open the forum.
2. Double-click on the icon.

A forum becomes 'unread' again if there are new posts in it since the last time you read it.

(Note: If you enter a 'yellow' forum, and then use your browser's back button to return to the forum list, the forum will still be yellow - this is because you are viewing the previous page that your browser has cached, rather than submitting new information to the forum. If you use the Index button to return, or refresh your browser than it turns grey.)

Within a forum, 'new topics' or 'topics with new posts' have a yellow folder icon and a bold font. A "New" topic is defined as one that is "New since your last visit to the forum board".

This is basically the same way that the old forum worked, except that the old forum had light bulb icons. The old forum also used purple text for "visited" links - this isn't something that is stored in the forum database, but is a 'browser thing' (i.e. clearing your browser history will turn the purple links back to blue). It tended to look a bit messy. We could implement that easily though.

Perhaps you could post in links to other forums that work the way you want, and we could take a look at them...?


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Just found another problem, dunno if there's something strange at my end or if there's something to look for...

I'm using Win7 Pro and IE8 at the moment - normally I'm on XP and FireFox but today I must use my Win7 box.

Anyhow, I can't seem to see any of the buttons in posts. E.G. when I go to post this message I have to watch the cursor and wait for it to change to a hand before I know I'm over a button - there are no outlines or text - I gotta guess which button I'm over.

I found the right one by by accident on my last post...

I've changed themes (various aero, high contrast, Win7 standard and so on) to no avail. Checked colour settings, calibrated the display and other stuff - still no buttons - is this a coding problem related to IE or am I still looking for something at my end.

For what it's worth, I probably won't be using this computer again for a while after today but I'd still like to get it sorted.


Hmmm.... that's very strange, and I don't know what the explanation is. Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing? One thing - you say that you are using IE 8 on Windows 7, and I don't think that is possible, has to be IE 9 or 10.

One thing you should try is pressing Ctrl+F5 (force refresh). By itself, F5 is a refresh (reloads the page), however Ctrl+F5 also re-loads any linked files that may be cached by your browser.

Let us know what you find.


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Originally Posted By: Andrew - PG Music

The way it currently works is this:

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I need to recheck a things - after I posted it seemed that the behavior had changed from what I remembered. I'll keep an eye on things and if there's still a problem in my mind I'll follow up.

Originally Posted By: Andrew - PG Music


Hmmm.... that's very strange, and I don't know what the explanation is. Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing? One thing - you say that you are using IE 8 on Windows 7, and I don't think that is possible, has to be IE 9 or 10.

One thing you should try is pressing Ctrl+F5 (force refresh). By itself, F5 is a refresh (reloads the page), however Ctrl+F5 also re-loads any linked files that may be cached by your browser.

Not near that machine at the moment and maybe not for a while. It's definitely IE8 (as shipped - I've had it for a few years but I never use it on Win7 - the machine dual boots to XP and that is what I usually use on it.

Can't give a screen print for the moment, but basically there are no buttons or icons/text where the buttons belong, though the"hand" appears when you mouse over where the buttons are supposed to be. Done all the different refresh's etc. but will try again - probably next Wednesday when I'm next in tat office.

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I just noticed that embedded links to forum threads (pre-update) are now broken. Links made AFTER the forum upgrade work.

Here's a current link to a thread. This link should work. However, the thread contains older links that don't work anymore.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202960&#Post202960


(scroll up from the last message to see the older links that are broken)



This should now be working. I.E. links to specific topics within the forum that were posted before the upgrade should now be redirecting to the correct topics.

Let me know if you find any issues with old links not redirecting properly.


WooHoo! It works!
Andrew, you da MAN!
(seriously, thanks for applying your amazing smartness to the forum)

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