Author Topic: New Board...growing pains!!! (Read 17767 times)

dolphin · « **on:** April 13, 2006, 10:10:16 AM »

I have noticed that many...(Kelly's was the first to catch my eye) members avatars are not showing...!

Is this just a growing pain of the new software or do they have them turned OFF

BTW...I love how some of the upgraded software features work...eg BOLDCOLOR

kcourt · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:25:37 AM »

It's good to be back - and the board looks so different.

They didn't accept my password yesterday but today it came through loud and clear.

for all of your work to make this site even better than it was before.

Kathy

Gregg · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2006, 12:20:13 PM »

You have a sharp eye, Roy. I wasn't paying attention to that.

Maybe it has something to do with custom vs. 'smorgasbord' avatars.

Let's see...

jb · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2006, 12:22:40 PM »

The previous board was slow as molasses compared to other forums. This new version is as
slow as wet cement, due no doubt to "growing pains". For your information I measured the
time to open the Posts page and also the time to open a Topic, with various browsers.
Here are the results:

I hope that by the time our growing pains are over our new board will be as fast as some other forums. Still we must thank our leaders to have such a grand outlook for our future. A hell of a good job is being done.

jb

swhitset · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2006, 01:08:08 PM »

wet cement is faster than this

Guess I'll try back later

Steve

katscan · « **Reply #5 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:18:15 PM »

I am confused.
Does this mean TechSurvivors has not Survived?
I really liked it the way it was.
Must be that old saying.....
"In Spring a Young Mans fancy turns to thoughts of LOVE...ing to change things"
I.m going to try a different browser to see if it helps.

gunug · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:30:17 PM »

Maybe some of the people who have avatars can share the method by which they were established with those who haven't got them anymore! This is after everything else is working. I feel naked without one but if I can stand to run around naked then you'll all have to bare with me!

The lucky one's were those who have custom avatars stored somewhere else addressable as a URL; this I know. I just don't have a space, either in Flick'r or my Yahoo photos where and individual photo can be addressed by a permanent URL. I have a webpage, dedicated to my father's memory, and I suppose I could figure out how to link a one picture page to that! I'm a hardware technician not a webwacker!

MacHeadCase · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:38:33 PM »

Welcome back, mister k!!!

The admins on this board had to upgrade the board software because of security reasons. The forum was under attack by vermin that would put javascript macros on the pages and force advertising and pop-up and pop-under pages to appear against the admins wishes.

The board software still needs plenty of tweaking to get it up and running faster but IPB and the admins are working on it as posted in other threads.

Now the forums should be safe again. *Phew*

QUOTE(gunug @ Apr 13 2006, 03:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe some of the people who have avatars can share the method by which they were established with those who haven't got them anymore! This is after everything else is working. I feel naked without one but if I can stand to run around naked then you'll all have to bare with me!

The lucky one's were those who have custom avatars stored somewhere else addressable as a URL; this I know. I just don't have a space, either in Flick'r or my Yahoo photos where and individual photo can be addressed by a permanent URL. I have a webpage, dedicated to my father's memory, and I suppose I could figure out how to link a one picture page to that! I'm a hardware technician not a webwacker!

I simply had to reassign the link to my image that is hosted on my iDisk.

Flickr is free, why not use it to host your avatar? Same as photobucket and other free image hosting places...

jcarter · « **Reply #8 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:57:07 PM »

This is really great, its a nice new look. Thank you ALL for working on this!
It is quite slow here too, but I dont think that will last, its just so new.

I did notice that way down in the right bottom corner, the time and date is given. The date is OK, the time I think is Pacific time, but the minutes are off.

Will you artists be able to create banners?

Anyway, Thank you all for this, its indeed nice.
Jane

RobW · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2006, 03:13:23 PM »

MHC, thanks for explaining the need for the change. I realized that katscan came aboard after the problems we had with the attacks, and was getting ready to post the reason. I do expect that the banners will soon return!

katscan, I don't think the speed (or lack thereof) is a browser issue. The work on the upgrade is not complete, and there is still work being done, including getting the speed issue resolved.

gunug · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2006, 04:10:51 PM »

I tried Flick'r (now owned by Yahoo as well) today and couldn't get it to show me a link for a single picture to put into the place in the avatar profile. I'm not in a hurry; I want the board fast before I worry about my avatar. I'll read up on Flick'r. Thanks!

I guess I've been lucky in that I never saw any pop-ups or whatever on my PC's or my MAC's with the old software.

MacHeadCase · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2006, 04:44:57 PM »

Just testing if this will work...

It does!!!!

Ok how to do this with Flickr, gunug... You need to isolate the picture you want in another window. Click on your avatar that is hosted there so it goes in a window by itself. This won't really isolate your picture with an URL you can use yet. You need to right-click (or Option-click) on the image and ask for "Open image in new window". This will give you a workable URL. Flickr will add some stuff like "?v=0" at the end of your image's URL. Just delete that till you get the right file format like ".jpg" or ".gif" or whatever file format your avatar is saved as.

My example is this URL I got: http://static.flickr.com/35/111647748_e31c687855.jpg?v=0

So I delete the "?v=0" and the image tag becomes "http://static.flickr.com/35/111647748_e31c687855.jpg" and that works fine!

jcarter · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2006, 05:25:32 PM »

Hi Gunug, I never saw any of the problems either. Thank goodness. I dont know why.

I will work on my avitar later, I should change it, as our dear YellowLab is no longer on Earth,,,,,,,,,

I use Flickr for my blog photos, Flickr is really great.
I do use Pbase or .mac for most other things, will have to see if it works with them.
Thank you all for this info, I will have to work on it later.

I do have a bad email issue that I need help with, never encountered anything like it before, its rather awful for a Mac user. It is a PC problem, but it seems to have hit a few people using our cable ISP,,,,,But I will wait until we are up and running full speed before I ask for help with it.

Jane

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #13 on:** April 13, 2006, 05:36:52 PM »

QUOTE

I have a webpage, dedicated to my father's memory, and I suppose I could figure out how to link a one picture page to that!

If you've got a web page, you got space on that server. That's all you need—a place to store the image. For you web page, you probably have some images as well as the html files. Just put the avatar image in with all the other images and use the Profile prefs area at TS to insert the url [http://www.yourSitesName/YourAvatar.jpg] Or, if the images are in a folder at your web space, throw in the name of the folder just before the name of the image name. Url's are almost exactly like path names to your OS X stuff; "yourHardDrive/UserX/Documents/Images/YourAvatar.gif"

beacher · « **Reply #14 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:25:37 PM »

Thanks, guys, for all the hard work to get us back "up & runnin' " !

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Author Topic: New Board...growing pains!!! (Read 17767 times)

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