Here We Are...

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

One question, and it may be that I just have not found it yet, where is the new posts since you last logged on?

Keep up the good work and thanks

Phil

Hi Phil,

Look above to the top of this page's menu bar where it says "New Posts" I believe THAT one shows you all posts since your last visit ... in the "Quick Links" you can view just "Todays Posts" I think.

Just play with the links to see what's in them too, many have dropdown menus of more options etc, which is what I'm doing too to learn my way around in here

[Bill Murray]

Hi all:

Just a couple of random thoughts.

Geoff may remember that he helped me investigate starting my own vBulletin forum a couple of years ago. It was to be a site devoted strictly to soft skins of the period 1935-1945.

What I learned from Geoff was that in no way was I going to set up my own forum. I can only admire him for having set this one up in the first place and then having to make a major upgrade to a version with a lot of new templates and choices.

For those of you who have never investigated the possibility, the choices go on for page after page and the language is very computer geeky. As I recall, there were few warning signs that if you "did this" it would "affect that".

And, if it goes gunny sack, as MLU sort of did last week, you have two choices. You can open a "ticket" and they will try to fix what may be a problem on their end. You are then left to do all the repairs to your own forum after they fixed the problem or, in this case, did a major upgrade to a new version.

Or, and this was the path I would have had to take, you pay them to do everything from A to Z and that is very expensive.

Geoff deserves one hell of a lot of credit for doing most of it himself.

Second observation.

This is a "photo rich" forum and thank goodness for that. But, photos take bandwidth and slow down the response times.

Personal opinion only, but I think the thumbnail option is probably better for all of us. It is in it's own way, as state of the art as getting all of the photos to show up in their original size, just more efficient.

I also like the feature that allows you to choose to load from your own data base or an img from another location on the first go.

Just some thoughts for today.
Bill

[wim sikkelbein]

Geoff you did good to upgrade to this new version, it looks good and handles easily

wim

Btw will the forummeister be requiring a test e-mail from this side of the world?

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by wim sikkelbein

Geoff you did good to upgrade to this new version, it looks good and handles easily

wim

Btw will the forummeister be requiring a test e-mail from this side of the world?

So far so good Wim, but thanks for asking! Server glitches aside, so far this seems to be working well. Just remember that if we get into the do-do for whatever reason, I always have my corowa30 sympatico address running anyway, so I'm never out of comms.

Bill, I thank you for your comments, but I should point out that all I did with this one was to set it up, coach them along and try to keep things pointed in the right direction while everyone went nuts! I was configuring this up until last night at about 2230, and there's lots left to go yet! Putting one's own signature on things is sometimes more difficult than what they do, but that's only because I'm a picky bastard at heart...

Let's hope this works as well as it seems to on into the future. I know already that spam traffic is going to be far easier to control, and code-wise, it runs far more efficiently than the old package.

[Bill Mulholland]

It'll take some time to have a look around, so far looking good. Gotta have my daily lurk! Thanks!
Cheers, Bill

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Let's hope this works as well as it seems to on into the future. I know already that spam traffic is going to be far easier to control, and code-wise, it runs far more efficiently than the old package.

Thats all great to hear!!!


EVERYONE: I can NOT access MLU through the .org address again since yesterday. Anyone else having that problem? I'm wondering if I need a new and fuller link rather than the simple mlu org/forums one I currently use ...

Thanks.

Ok ... I just finally got in again through the .org address and currently in on it I hope its stays good for me! I guess I'm the only one having a problem with this as no one else has complained ...

Hey. something I like that I noticed with email notifications is that the posted messages are included in the notification now so I can read it at my email address and then go to the forum if I want to reply, don't have to make an special trip in order to view the post/message. An efficient little time saver for busy people who don't get much time online I should think? Anyways ... just wanted to mention I LIKE IT

[hrpearce]

Karmen I have to use the basement door at the moment. Robert.