Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
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Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
You can compose your post in Notepad or a similar text editor, and the IMG and URL vBCode will work. Or you could click 'Source' in the editor and do it that way. I guess you could also switch editors, although I haven't looked into that yet.
But if you're copying/pasting a URL directly from your browser window, the editor will automatically make it a link, which supercedes any IMG or URL code. I'm trying to get in the habit of using the buttons in the toolbar now.
#302
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
You can, but there's a bit of a workaround required.
You can compose your post in Notepad or a similar text editor, and the IMG and URL vBCode will work. Or you could click 'Source' in the editor and do it that way. I guess you could also switch editors, although I haven't looked into that yet.
But if you're copying/pasting a URL directly from your browser window, the editor will automatically make it a link, which supercedes any IMG or URL code. I'm trying to get in the habit of using the buttons in the toolbar now.
You can compose your post in Notepad or a similar text editor, and the IMG and URL vBCode will work. Or you could click 'Source' in the editor and do it that way. I guess you could also switch editors, although I haven't looked into that yet.
But if you're copying/pasting a URL directly from your browser window, the editor will automatically make it a link, which supercedes any IMG or URL code. I'm trying to get in the habit of using the buttons in the toolbar now.
#303
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
I tried to copy and paste the text of this article into the forum. The forum software deleted all the paragraph marks and ran it together into one big block of text. I had to paste into Wordpad and then copy it again as an additional step just to keep the formatting. What's the deal?
#304
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
How do you upload pictures now?
#306
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
#307
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
I click on the image icon and paste the link. Same thing I did on the old version. Nothing changed as far as I can see.
#308
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
We used to be able to type the img tags from the keyboard like this: img ctrl-V /img. That option is no longer available. Now we are required to use the mouse.
#309
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
Change your editor to the "Standard Editor - Extra formatting controls" version. It's probably more like what you used before and will allow you to type the tags from the keyboard. Be aware that is has a couple of foibles - mostly when doing a "Reply to thread" (Can't adjust the edit window horizontally more than ~1").
#310
Administrator
Thread Starter
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
Wikiposts have returned, so that would be the most effective way to emulate a mass of information, albeit with some editing, since it would still not appear in table form.
#311
Administrator
Thread Starter
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
Trevor, I see what you mean about the wrong wikipost in the wrong thread and will ask tech.
#312
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
Still don't see an option to edit an existing WikiPost, or create a new one. I see that you just edited one, so maybe only admins/mods can do it currently?
#313
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
#314
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
#315
Administrator
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Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
#316
Administrator
Thread Starter
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
This is an ongoing 'problem' and still exists with the forum software upgrade, so I'll ask, here...
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
From the Pet Peeves thread:
My only pet peeve is that the forums are automatically marked as read after a certain amount of time. So if you get distracted, while reading the forums, you may find that they're suddenly all marked as read, so you can't tell which posts are new. Other forums don't necessarily do this, for example the Steve Hoffman music forums. I couldn't find any way to control that behaviour, nor can I find a way since the upgrade.
Is there some way to control this behaviour? It's very frustrating. I would prefer that threads are only marked as read if I've actually read them, rather than after some non-controllable time.
#317
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
FWIW, this (all being marked read) happens within an hour, at least for me. That is really a guess, but I think it's a reasonable one.
#318
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
I think it's actually much shorter than that. If I stay logged into the site on my PC, and am inactive for 10 or 15 minutes, everything gets marked as read.
#319
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
You're probably right. I guess I meant that it's a reasonable guess relative to what Joel mentioned regarding a week.
#321
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
I don't know if this is related to the unread posts thing, but anyone remember a loooonnnnggg time ago, the forum used to get really really slow, then crash. Something along the lines of the temp directory in the DB got filled. And as a fix for that, they automated something to clear that out, and as a result of that if you ran a search (New Posts, etc) the url would only last so long before it turned into a page not found.
Every time you do a search, you get a searchid=, so if you had 10 pages of results you would only get so far before the searchid expired and then everything would be marked read.
It would seem to me, since the forum is not as busy as it once was, this could be adjusted (assuming it is still activated somewhere). I very rarely have over 2 pages of results anymore, unless I'm not around for awhile.
Every time you do a search, you get a searchid=, so if you had 10 pages of results you would only get so far before the searchid expired and then everything would be marked read.
It would seem to me, since the forum is not as busy as it once was, this could be adjusted (assuming it is still activated somewhere). I very rarely have over 2 pages of results anymore, unless I'm not around for awhile.
#322
Administrator
Thread Starter
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
Try editing wikiposts now.
Still working on the wikipost content "randomizing", but please send me all examples, either in this thread or through PM.
Still working on the wikipost content "randomizing", but please send me all examples, either in this thread or through PM.
Last edited by IBJoel; 01-15-19 at 05:24 PM.
#323
Administrator
Thread Starter
Re: Jan. 3rd 2019 Upgrade Master Thread
I spoke with tech and I think I fixed unread thread marking. They did say it will take a couple of days to kind of "clear out" all the cookies from before.