Tactical Gamer Forums Upgrades!

[Begbie]

Exactly correct. New posts will have some new capabilities that the old posts do not. The new forums actually have the ability to show you similar threads based on content scores at the bottom of the page view for each individual thread. Really handy when doing searches for stuff too.

Yes, I like this... Linuxquestions.org has that ability.. and its really handy.

[Apophis]

It just happened to me. I started to check out these cool new forums, set up my profile the way I wanted, was called to dinner and guiltily watched NCIS on the boob tube, and came back to forums that had everything marked as read. Frustrating, as this is how I sometimes miss some very important Sandbox posts...

Did the phpBB forums exhibit this same behavior for you? I can extend the session timeout but that apparently will also extend the amount of time users are listed as being online for once they finish browsing. I believe it is set to 15 minutes right now.

You could try a non-email notification thread subscription.. Those are really nice and keep track of all your active threads you are participating in on the main screen of your User CP.

[Apophis]

just noticed im not a Mod anymore :cry:

Almost none of the moderators are set up yet. I need to complete the proper access rights for that group (lots of new stuff added now!) and then I will be adding everyone in. Most likely sometime early tomorrow.

[CingularDuality]

Did the phpBB forums exhibit this same behavior for you? I can extend the session timeout but that apparently will also extend the amount of time users are listed as being online for once they finish browsing. I believe it is set to 15 minutes right now.

Nope, it didn't do it on the phpBB forums, if I left my browser open. At least not that fast... Of course if I closed my browser, it automatically marked everything as read...

You could try a non-email notification thread subscription.. Those are really nice and keep track of all your active threads you are participating in on the main screen of your User CP.

I'll try this.

[Apophis]

Nope, it didn't do it on the phpBB forums, if I left my browser open. At least not that fast... Of course if I closed my browser, it automatically marked everything as read...

Okay.. So it's purely the cookie and not anything to do with the session. I can work with that I think. I'll play around with it this evening and tomorrow and see if the problem goes away for you.

[CingularDuality]

Okay.. So it's purely the cookie and not anything to do with the session. I can work with that I think. I'll play around with it this evening and tomorrow and see if the problem goes away for you.

Thank you, sir.

[CingularDuality]

You're not going to like this, Apophis...

Now, my posts aren't marked as read when I read them.

I can read all the new posts, they mark themselves as read, I close my browser, then when I reopen my browser and check the forums, all the posts are marked as unread again.

edit: when I manually mark everything as read, they stay that way.

[Apophis]

You're not going to like this, Apophis...

Now, my posts aren't marked as read when I read them.

I can read all the new posts, they mark themselves as read, I close my browser, then when I reopen my browser and check the forums, all the posts are marked as unread again.

edit: when I manually mark everything as read, they stay that way.

After a half an hour they should be marked as read! Opening and closing your browser won't have anything to do with it anymore. It's all just based on the timeout in that cookie now.

[CingularDuality]

After a half an hour they should be marked as read! Opening and closing your browser won't have anything to do with it anymore. It's all just based on the timeout in that cookie now.

Works for me! All I have to do is remember to mark manually if I want to check on posts within any half hour time period. Cool. Thanks!

[CingularDuality]

Within the last 15 minutes the load time for the website has increased dramatically for me. It takes about 20 seconds for the main TG page to load and about 35 seconds for the main forums page to load completely. My connection to other websites seems OK, but it still could be something in between us causing the slowdown. Thought you might want to check it out, though, just in case...

Edit: seems back to normal now. Weird...

[Apophis]

Within the last 15 minutes the load time for the website has increased dramatically for me. It takes about 20 seconds for the main TG page to load and about 35 seconds for the main forums page to load completely. My connection to other websites seems OK, but it still could be something in between us causing the slowdown. Thought you might want to check it out, though, just in case...

Edit: seems back to normal now. Weird...

I was doing a full database backup.. Kinda intensive.. But wanted to get it done now that the forums are mostly completed.

[CingularDuality]

Yes! You can access the old forums here:

Old Forums

I will keep that database system online for a couple weeks to allow people to get whatever they need to out of it before it disappears.

Well, I went back to check on some poll results, but couldn't get the old forums to come up at all...

(that's gonna cost you some rep points... )

[H-Hour]

So far, it seems like this doesn't update read messages very quickly. I'll read something, browse around a couple minutes and come back and it will still show as unread. Is there something I can set that will mark it read once I've viewed it?

[H-Hour]

Two more small things (you guys are going to love me by the time I'm done poking and prodding you about these forums!).

1. Max message length for PM's is 1000? I just hit that length by quoting two short messages in my own message. Seems a little short.

2. When you send a PM a popup says, "Would you like to receive a reciept?" Your two options are Yes and Cancel. While it took a minor bit of deducing to figure out that cancel would still send my message, you might want to change that to No so a user doesnt think he has to hit yes for his message to get sent.

[Apophis]

Two more small things (you guys are going to love me by the time I'm done poking and prodding you about these forums!).

1. Max message length for PM's is 1000? I just hit that length by quoting two short messages in my own message. Seems a little short.

2. When you send a PM a popup says, "Would you like to receive a reciept?" Your two options are Yes and Cancel. While it took a minor bit of deducing to figure out that cancel would still send my message, you might want to change that to No so a user doesnt think he has to hit yes for his message to get sent.

I'll fix the max message length. It should be a lot higher than 1000 charactes.. 100,000 I believe.

The return receipt thing needs a lot of work to keep it from being intrusive. I'll see what I can do.