Forums Back Up

Published on February 18, 2008 By Zoomba In Sins News

Huzzah!

We've completed our work for the night and the forums are back up and running. You'll notice a number of visual changes, and you'll hopefully notice improved speed and general performance.

Please post any issues you run into here. We've done a lot of testing this past week and tonight, but if something slipped through we want to know so it can be fixed quickly.

Thank you all for your patience.

Comments (Page 2)

Uranium - 235

on Feb 18, 2008

I can confirm I can see your edits too, and I'm using latest Firefox as well.

All the carriage returns have obviously evaporated out of your post.

n003lb

on Feb 18, 2008

HTML line breaks do still appear to work.

One empty line between these? None between these?

Martok

on Feb 18, 2008

The only thing I can see that would be particularly useful would be to not just see posts by a user whose ID you click on but threads they’ve replied to as well.

I second Squidlord. In fact, I was really hoping to see this feature with the forums being updated. It would be nice to see *all* posts made by a person, and not just threads they've started. I also hope the edit function gets fixed as well. It's rather annoying, to be honest. The forum definitely seems to be faster, though, which is nice.

Martok

on Feb 18, 2008

I take back my previous post. The forums still has numerous problems.

Editing isn't working correctly, as everyone else has noticed. In addition, I noticed we *still* can't edit our posts after someone has responded to it. I also see that I can't break my posts into paragraphs -- it's as if the Enter key doesn't work. Please fix this as well! Otherwise we're going to have long rambling posts with no discernible breaks in them.

Martok

on Feb 18, 2008

Gah! Stupid edit function....

SquidLord

on Feb 18, 2008

There’s already an RSS feed for every forum and sub-forum. Click on the rss button that is displayed next to each forum.

Yikes, a tiny, non-standard RSS icon that blends into the background of date-static and hides, cunningly, in the upper right corner … and for some reason not getting picked up by the RSS auto-discovery in Firefox. Huh, I wonder why I couldn’t find it!

BigBadB

on Feb 18, 2008

Yeah, all my line breaks are disappearing.

Xan

on Feb 18, 2008

I take back my previous post. The forums still has numerous problems. Editing isn't working correctly, as everyone else has noticed. In addition, I noticed we *still* can't edit our posts after someone has responded to it. I also see that I can't break my posts into paragraphs -- it's as if the Enter key doesn't work. Please fix this as well! Otherwise we're going to have long rambling posts with no discernible breaks in them.

What browser you using? I'm not having that problem.

n003lb

on Feb 18, 2008

Okay, unless the small textbox issue has been solved already, then it appears to be an IE7 issue. I'm on my brother's computer right now, and he still has IE6 and the text box looks fine.

Now to see if the edit function still eliminates the carriage returns.

[EDIT] There should be a blank line between this and the last sentence.

Two HTML Line breaks before this sentence.

[EDIT 2] Woohoo. It seems to work fine on this browser. Maybe it got fixed while I was gone. I'll know when I get back home if it's good on IE7.

Zoomba

on Feb 18, 2008

The small edit box should be fixed now. Clear your cache, cookies, temp internet files and reload the forums.

maathyas

on Feb 19, 2008

Thanks for fixing the RSS feeds (yes I been asking for them since Beta 1).... as for the non-standard RSS icons... I'm kinda indifferent, but it might be a good suggestion for future upgrade.

n003lb

on Feb 19, 2008

Looks like everyhtihng is pretty much working now. I only see a couple of small glithes left, and they are quite minor.

In the "My Replies" menu, all of the "Your Last Post" and "Last Post" are relfecting only the last post ("Your Last Post" is not working right).

The second one is in the forum main area. All of the "Last Post Info" bits for each of the individule forums seem to be stuck at the time of the shutdown. None of the last posts have updated since the forum came back online.

As I said, quite minor problems. Other than that, it looks like everything is working well. There still seems to be a bug in the quotes on replies (see my earlier post for details).

[EDIT] testing the edit feature for carriage return failures.

mech9

on Feb 25, 2008

The only problem I've experienced is that now the forums have a slide bar at the bottom, I can't see a post without sliding back and forth. (

Looks fixed! Thanks!

Windexglow

on Feb 29, 2008

I just received this error when trying to make a post.

Code: c++
[img]http://www.brantacan.co.uk/EastWindow.jpg[/img]
[img]http://twooldbirds.com/db1/00078/twooldbirds.com/_uimages/nan0001.JPG[/img]
As you can see; the windows vary in size.  This is unrealistic and all windows should be the same size and style, to promote individualism and uniqueness.  We all enjoy seeing the same repetitive style on buildings!  So much in fact, that I am proposing we rally to have the building with the larger window demolished and rebuilt with more standard windows.  We must not care on when the building was built, what it was built with, the men who built it, or the money that made it.  We must ignore all other factors and abolish artists and their damning ways of public destruction and encouragement in non-repetive patterns.
[B]I am fully in support[/B] of making new textures and models for something that degrades the value of the game; [I]different sizes in windows.[/I]  We must ignore the fact that the ships cost different money; were made in different cultures, and some are older than others.  We must have repeating shapes!
Server Error in '/' Application.
Access Denied
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Access Denied
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Access Denied]
   Stardock.Builder.Page.ValidateAccess() +110
   Page_reply.ValidateAccess() +380
   Page_reply.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +50
   System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1436

Obviously the top part is the messenge; the bottom part being the error.
EDIT3: Just do a ctrl+a in the code box to see all the text.

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