New Forum issues

[Bronkster]

Originally Posted by Spicollidriver1

I know in the past there was problems with having the post counts visible, but I think we have all matured a bit

No personal attacks!

[Thor Simpson]

I dislike the post count being so prominent. It makes me look like a loser with no life. I prefer that new people have to read some of my posts before drawing that conclusion.

[Tracer Bullet]

The spacing between quoted posts and posts and between posts and signatures looks tighter. I don't like it.

[fumanstan]

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

The spacing between quoted posts and posts and between posts and signatures looks tighter. I don't like it.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I don't mind post count. There's some big gaps between titles anyway

[dx23]

I like the new updates but the only thing that still bugs me is the mediocre search function. It seems that it has gotten worse instead of improving.

On a side note, there seems to be a glitch with the Scorpion King 2 review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34287...a-warrior-the/

[matta]

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

What X said. Also, make sure that you have cookies enabled, and as a last resort add forum.dvdtalk.com to your cookie whitelist.

I've checked all my settings and everything is fine. I get logged out with IE and Firefox, on my home computer and my office computer.

It's worked fine for years, and after the forum update, it hasn't.

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by Brent L

This wont be a problem if I went back in time and haven't realized it yet. I'll look into that and update later.

If so, please call me and tell me to stay away from Elizabeth.

[Tracer Bullet]

Is the new multi-quote feature working? I clicked on the button. It turned red, but nothing happened.

[WallyOPD]

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

Is the new multi-quote feature working? I clicked on the button. It turned red, but nothing happened.

Click the button on each post you want to quote in your reply, then on the final post you want to quote just click the regular quote button and your reply will have all the ones you turned red.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

They show up when I quote or edit a post, but not at the bottom of the thread in the window I normally post in.

So, what's the deal with this? It's a hassle to have to add a [ b] and [ /b] and the beginning and end of every movie title.

[matta]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

They show up when I quote or edit a post, but not at the bottom of the thread in the window I normally post in.

Originally Posted by Numes

Ok. I'm just pointing out anything that is different than before. I fear change

For anyone else: You can edit your preferences for that in User CP->Edit Options->Default Thread Description Mode (whew!)

Originally Posted by pilot

Go here while logged in, http://forum.dvdtalk.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
Go down to Default Thread Subscription Mode and change it to what you prefer.

Originally Posted by scott1598

i guess avatar hope is totally lost now

Originally Posted by pilot

The admins and mods will all discuss what features we will and will not turn on or enable once IB has finished everything they need to do to get the site all configured on their end working and any bugs and such that pop up are corrected.

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

I think Pilot pretty much summed that up. Still, the admins and mods will be making their decision based on what they think is best for the community as a whole, not what they like / disslike. If they decide that it would make everyone happy to be able to have avatars, we'll turn them on and allow you to upload them. The issues in the past that discouraged that should no longer be issues.

Originally Posted by The Cow

The 'browser toolbar icon' seems to have disappeared.

It used to be a little DVDTalk logo and now it's just a folder looking thing (actually I'm not sure what it is). The logo graphic used to show up in the FireFox tabs also.

Kudos on the 'Post Quick Reply' without the full page reload

Originally Posted by scott1598

sounds cool. it wasn't a big deal anyway. just thought it would be nice.

Originally Posted by Tarantino

Dick,

Since you appear to be from IB, what's going on with the ads inside of posts? Are they staying, or going away?

*Edit - nevermind, it appears from the other post that it's only effecting people who aren't logged in. For some reason, it keeps making me login, and will not remember my password for the site or keep me logged in. Grrrr...

= J

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

Shoot. I thought I had replaced that image so it wouldn't get overwritten. I'll fix that up. It's the default vB favicon your seeing. FYI, it may take some time to uncache and show back up, but I'm changing the file back now.



I agree!

Originally Posted by matta

That's what it's doing to me. If I log in, I'll stay logged in for that session, but as soon as I navigate away, it's as if the session expires, and when I return, I have to log in again.

Originally Posted by X

Try losing your cookies if your login doesn't persist between sessions.

Originally Posted by Kittydreamer

how does barfing solve the login issue?

Originally Posted by mndtrp

I'm sure I'll find out sooner or later, but did anything change with browser inactivity marking threads read?

The quick reply and editing changes are very nice.

Originally Posted by 10-7

Thanks. Now I have to clean the coffee off my keyboard.

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

What X said. Also, make sure that you have cookies enabled, and as a last resort add forum.dvdtalk.com to your cookie whitelist.



Nice

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

We can change this setting, but it increases server load and slows page load times. It might be troublesome on a board this large. I'll run it by the moderators.

Originally Posted by Rogue588

I'm kinda missing the "Mark Forums Read" link in the blue border on the bottom of the "Search Results" page..

Originally Posted by Chrisedge

small avatars = cool
images in sig or big signatures = not cool

Originally Posted by Numes

Another - The quoted text now also shows up in the e-mail notifications!

Originally Posted by milo bloom

I like seeing the post counts, and would also be in favor of small avatars. I use Jar Jar Binks in another forum (non SW amusingly enough) and I like being able to find my posts when quickly dragging the scroll bar up and down.

Originally Posted by Thor Simpson

The update is awesome. I'm sure any kinks will get worked out, but I'm enjoying the changes already.

Originally Posted by fumanstan

More reason to avoid avatars!

Originally Posted by Spicollidriver1

I know in the past there was problems with having the post counts visible, but I think we have all matured a bit

Originally Posted by Bronkster

No personal attacks!

Originally Posted by Thor Simpson

I dislike the post count being so prominent. It makes me look like a loser with no life. I prefer that new people have to read some of my posts before drawing that conclusion.

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

The spacing between quoted posts and posts and between posts and signatures looks tighter. I don't like it.

Originally Posted by fumanstan

Yeah, I noticed that too. I don't mind post count. There's some big gaps between titles anyway

Originally Posted by dx23

I like the new updates but the only thing that still bugs me is the mediocre search function. It seems that it has gotten worse instead of improving.

On a side note, there seems to be a glitch with the Scorpion King 2 review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34287...a-warrior-the/

Originally Posted by matta

I've checked all my settings and everything is fine. I get logged out with IE and Firefox, on my home computer and my office computer.

It's worked fine for years, and after the forum update, it hasn't.

Originally Posted by Trevor

If so, please call me and tell me to stay away from Elizabeth.

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet

Is the new multi-quote feature working? I clicked on the button. It turned red, but nothing happened.

Originally Posted by WallyOPD

Click the button on each post you want to quote in your reply, then on the final post you want to quote just click the regular quote button and your reply will have all the ones you turned red.

I didn't know that. Very nice.

[grivet]

Originally Posted by pilot

The admins and mods will all discuss what features we will and will not turn on or enable once IB has finished everything they need to do to get the site all configured on their end working and any bugs and such that pop up are corrected.

Do you know if the issue of incomplete search results is one of the bugs being worked on? As of post #30 DVD Talk Admin didn't seem to think there was a problem with the returns.

[Tarantino]

Originally Posted by matta

I've checked all my settings and everything is fine. I get logged out with IE and Firefox, on my home computer and my office computer.

It's worked fine for years, and after the forum update, it hasn't.

Same for me. My laptop stayed logged in and is fine, but using the same browser, my desktop just won't stay logged in. Pretty annoying.

And PLEASE fix the search function. I just finished Prison Break Season 3 and enjoyed going back to the old threads to read what people would say about each episode. Now, when I search for 'prison', it gives me totally unrelated threads back from 2003. I can't for the life of me get to the threads I'd like to.

= J

[Numes]

I used the "Clear Private Data" option on Firefox with everything but "Saved Passwords" checked and that ended my logout issues.

I can also confirm some funny stuff in the Advanced Search page. I searched for "commentary" (titles only) and all the results were from 6-15-05 and before. I know nothing about vBulletin, but it almost seems like whatever variable the search function uses for the "current date" is set back to somewhere in 2005 and that's why it's not finding any newer posts.

Edit: Ok, I searched for my user name (Numes) in the "Search by User Name" and it listed all my posts (including this one).

Hmm.... I tried "commentaries" and it found some threads from this year. I guess my hypothesis was wrong.

[pilot]

Originally Posted by grivet

Do you know if the issue of incomplete search results is one of the bugs being worked on? As of post #30 DVD Talk Admin didn't seem to think there was a problem with the returns.

I believe it may still be compiling a search listing. I do not believe it ever will be perfect, but keep checking. IB-Dick can look into it to see if anything can be done if it seems to be worse than before.

Originally Posted by Tarantino

And PLEASE fix the search function. I just finished Prison Break Season 3 and enjoyed going back to the old threads to read what people would say about each episode. Now, when I search for 'prison', it gives me totally unrelated threads back from 2003. I can't for the life of me get to the threads I'd like to.

= J

It may still be compiling a search index, but see my previous response.

Originally Posted by Numes

I can also confirm some funny stuff in the Advanced Search page. I searched for "commentary" (titles only) and all the results were from 6-15-05 and before. I know nothing about vBulletin, but it almost seems like whatever variable the search function uses for the "current date" is set back to somewhere in 2005 and that's why it's not finding any newer posts.

Edit: Ok, I searched for my user name (Numes) in the "Search by User Name" and it listed all my posts (including this one).

Hmm.... I tried "commentaries" and it found some threads from this year. I guess my hypothesis was wrong.

Searching for just posts made by your username probably will always reveal your posts. I think. However that's pretty pointless.

As of this post though, I believe search is still pretty fubar.

[mikehunt]

search still sucks a huge one

go to tv and search thread titles for atlantis
the season 5 thread is no where to be found even though it's been less than 2 weeks since it was last posted to

[Numes]

I just received 5 e-mail notifications from the last message. I've received 2 e-mails before (rarely), but never 5.

[twikoff]

Originally Posted by mikehunt

search still sucks a huge one

go to tv and search thread titles for atlantis
the season 5 thread is no where to be found even though it's been less than 2 weeks since it was last posted to

i would assume the search indexing starts from oldest to newest

[Kittydreamer]

Originally Posted by 10-7

Thanks. Now I have to clean the coffee off my keyboard.

Originally Posted by IB-Dick

What X said. Also, make sure that you have cookies enabled, and as a last resort add forum.dvdtalk.com to your cookie whitelist.



Nice

I aim to please.

[matta]

Originally Posted by Numes

I used the "Clear Private Data" option on Firefox with everything but "Saved Passwords" checked and that ended my logout issues.

Hey, that seems like it worked. Thanks!

[mikehunt]

Originally Posted by twikoff

i would assume the search indexing starts from oldest to newest

it's the same problems this site has had with search for pretty much the entire time I've been coming here

[IB-Dick]

Originally Posted by dx23

I like the new updates but the only thing that still bugs me is the mediocre search function. It seems that it has gotten worse instead of improving.

On a side note, there seems to be a glitch with the Scorpion King 2 review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34287...a-warrior-the/

As previously noted, the search function was screwy because the search indexes were being rebuilt. Since the forum is so large, it's got to index 5 million posts.... that takes a lot of time. It should be good now though, although I won't be able to verify that it completed until I get back to my desk on Friday.

Originally Posted by grivet

Do you know if the issue of incomplete search results is one of the bugs being worked on? As of post #30 DVD Talk Admin didn't seem to think there was a problem with the returns.

It was one of the things being worked on, and it SHOULD be fixed. However, since we switched from a fulltext search to vB search, it will undoubtedly be different. It should be faster and produce better results.

Originally Posted by twikoff

i would assume the search indexing starts from oldest to newest

That is correct, so people should have had more problems when searching for current stuff.

[matome]

Love the multi-quotes!

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by matome

Love the multi-quotes!

Yeah, but the machocist in me liked doing it manually.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by dx23

I like the new updates but the only thing that still bugs me is the mediocre search function. It seems that it has gotten worse instead of improving.

Yeah, it's pretty much worthless. There were a couple of threads I was looking to update, and just gave up after a few fruitless searches.