+briansnat Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Someone is going to start this, so it may as well be me. Why are two year old threads at the top of the page? "An appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill Link to comment
+SimonG Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:Why are two year old threads at the top of the page? They're more or less in reverse order. Go to page 126 for the most recent threads. I've emailed Elias about it, so hopefully he'll sort it out. SimonG.org - now with added blog! Link to comment
+Daisy&me Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 The users Public Profile doesn't include caches Found/Hidden like the old version. It was useful for spotting trolls. Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by SimonG:so hopefully he'll sort it out. I hope you realize how bad of a pun that really is. BTW - this is already fixed? Compliments: I really like the layouts. The Java'd window for replies is kind cool - saves the iframe tag. Ah - I hope that search engine works really well. I've got my markwelling cut out for me. I think every post in the new forums will be starting off... "I think I read this before, but I can't find the thread." Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
+washboy Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote: In this announcement, Elias, says:Unfortunately the messages in the database have different unique id numbers so all old links are broken... I guess Markwell's not gonna be too happy about that! (Dang! Markwell got in there just before me ) ===== There's no such thing as a free lunchbox! Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Daisy&me:The users Public Profile doesn't include caches Found/Hidden like the old version. The problem is that the public profile doesn't take you to the right page. Clicking on Markwell takes you to the forum version of my profile instead of this version. That's not good. I thought these were supposed to be more integrated? Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
+Daisy&me Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 The number posts at the bottom of each post is wrong. I have posted more than 3. Link to comment
+DeerChaser & Company Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Losted my post count too. Really doesnt matter I guess. Other than that I like it Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:The number posts at the bottom of each post is wrong. That's a good thing. I was about to break 2,000 posts. Now I'm back down in the 780's. I no longer look like a loser who has nothing better to do than post here. "An appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Heh- I still look like a loser, but at least I don't have the 2100 I had prior. Those numbers for Brian and me look strangly like the number of posts we had made in the old forums prior to the infopop conversion back in February of 2002. I had made about 1200 posts before we converted. The sort order is REALLY messed up. I went back to page 126 to see the most recent posts (yep, still messed up), and then started to go back page by page. There's one current topic from the last couple of days at the top of each of the pages. Elias: PLEASE resort. I know - he's sleeping at this time of the day (4am in Washington). Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
+brdad Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Many of the items like the ones listed under the avatar for user profile and such, cannot be opened in a new tab or window, that kind of sucks for me. The rest will take some getting used to, but it does seem faster which is nice. If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway? Link to comment
SE7EN Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Layout looks good, the order is screwed up, but for some reason it seems a lot slower than the other one. I can count "one thousand one, one thousand two" between screens. Huh!? I do NOT like the new profile page. I DO like the new REPLY window. Anyway, I'm sure the bugs will get sorted out. Link to comment
+SimonG Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Markwell: quote:Originally posted by SimonG:so hopefully he'll sort it out. I hope you realize how bad of a pun that really is. It wasn't intentional, honest! SimonG.org - now with added blog! Link to comment
+Dersu Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I wake up (which I am happy to do)and my world is upside down. This will take some getting use to. I have flouted the wild, I have followed its lure, fearless. familar, alone; yet the wild must win, and a day will come when I shall be overthrown. By: Robert Service Link to comment
umc Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 These look like the atv forums I frequent. Nice familier look. To add to the list of problems: The polls have lost all counts that were in them. Now my whining poll will have to be started all over. ______________________________________________________________________________________ So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again. Link to comment
umc Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 The real bad thing is that if my post count doesn't go back up to where it was, y'all know what will happen. and a frog ______________________________________________________________________________________ So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again. Link to comment
+flask Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 i don't understand all the little icons yet. i am afraid of change. change is bad, even if it has a nice clean spiffy look. it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Link to comment
+Tubby Rower Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I thrilled with how fast the searches are now. The old Markwells will need to be updated with the new URL's but hopefully this will prevent a lot of the repeat questions. kc row, row, row your boat Link to comment
+Tubby Rower Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Still can't delete posts.... [This message was edited by Tubby Rower on March 28, 2003 at 05:26 AM.] Link to comment
azog Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 There used to be a pull-down list, at the bottom of every page, which would jump directly to a selected forum. I found that nice, since I might be reading some threads in the General forum, and decide to suddenly go to the Northeast forum, without having to navigate a jumble of backward links. ---------- Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him. Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 I agree Azog, that pull down was convenient and I'm sorry to see it go. I also agree that the new profile page stinks. No avatar, no find and hide counts. Besides, it looks like it took my profile from some time ago, rather than my latest one. "An appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 The Pull down list is now on the little house icon at the top and bottom of each page . Just click it and you will see them. The globe icon has the "new since your last visit" link. Link to comment
+SpongeRob Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 To quote my comic book friend from the Simpsons. "Worst Episode Ever...". Nice "high tech" layout but I think I prefered the content of the posts to the look of the forum. Guess i'll just have to get used to it. -- SpongeRob rwmech@keenpeople.com www.keenpeople.com WPWU826 Cache'n Retrievers Link to comment
+CYBret Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Weird . . some of my posts have one of my old avatars on it (the guy with forks over his eyes). Ok . . I'm just posting this to see which one it uses this time. Interesting setup . . It'll take a while to get used to, but I'm sure I'll adapt. Bret "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44 Link to comment
+Travers Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 It's also turned everyone male in these new profiles...and you don't seem to be able to change it! Link to comment
+Mopar Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by mtn-man:The Pull down list is now on the little house icon at the top and bottom of each page http://ubbx.Groundspeak.com/infopop/images3/misc/breadcrumb_forum.gif . Just click it and you will see them. The globe icon has the "new since your last visit" link. Hmmm, I don't know if this is good or bad, but under Netscape 4.8, everything still looks like the old forum. No new icons, Azog's dropdown menu is still here, no tabs, no java stuff.... Pretty much the only thing different is the geocaching icon is in the top right corner now. Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Link to comment
+-=(GEO)=- Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Things are getting a little weird... All of a sudden, my former login (1000111-1000101-1001111) has re-appeared in the forum postings even on the posts written as -=(GEO)=-. It also seems like the number of posts for a given user got mangled too. Otherwise, from a cosmetic standpoint, the new forums are nice except for this icon which is just too loud when repeated so much: What happened to the user profiles? It's no longer showing the same info, especially found/hidden. [This message was edited by -=(GEO)=- on March 28, 2003 at 06:29 AM.] Link to comment
+brad.32 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Hmmm. Why isn't this thread under the geocaching.com forum? Link to comment
+Salvelinus Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I'm finding that topics with many posts have been truncated and the most recent posts are gone. In one example, a thread that has been posted to on a daily basis was truncated back to October! Lots of valuable information was lost! Am I missing something or what? Salvelinus "The trail will be long and full of frustrations. Life is a whole and good and evil must be accepted together" Ralph Abele Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Hmmm. Why isn't this thread under the geocaching.com forum? Because a lot more people visit this one. There is a similar one over there. "An appeaser is one who keeps feeding a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last" -Winston Churchill Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I really like the 'new since last visit' feature. It keeps me from having to bounce to different forums. Link to comment
+JetSkier Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Just seeing what my post count is now. I didn't have that many to begin with. Also wanted to make sure my avatar was working. Let's see... Update: It shows 28 posts. I know I had at least 50 and I only started posting the end of 2002. Avatar still works! Link to comment
+JetSkier Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 This is interesting ... It shows only 28 posts for me but when I view my profile and then view the posts, all 62 of them are there! Link to comment
+welch Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by JetSkier:Update: It shows 28 posts. I know I had at least 50 and I only started posting the end of 2002. Avatar still works! Don't worry, seems everyone's numbers got rolled back a bit. I see the option for "Notify me of New Posts by welch". Is this something new? Or have I always been able to spy on people? Link to comment
+welch Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 test Nope, still can't delete posts Link to comment
+brad.32 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: quote:Hmmm. Why isn't this thread under the geocaching.com forum? Because a lot more people visit this one. There is a similar one over there. Why isn't there just one big forum for everything then? Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 It was kinda weird seeing a post with 18 replies that has only been viewed once... At least they didn't change my gender(my wife would have been so upset) ...I'm still intact Link to comment
+Team Tecmage Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 *Second attempt* This is going to take some getting used to, but might be very cool. <rant> COOL?! Cool is why my son needs new basketball shoes every month. COOLis why my daughter's boyfriend has his tongue pierced. COOL costs me money! But with the new forums, the reply box is very nice! COOL!<ranting commercial> Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Test I want to see what happens when I post since my old avatar is showing up in some places. Plus I want to see what my number of posts stat is! Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Problem! Some topics with multiple pages seem to have lost the most recent posts. E.g. in the TB forum, the cannonball run topic now ends at page 5. Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by -=(GEO)=-:What happened to the user profiles? It's no longer showing the same info, especially found/hidden. Ick, you're right! It goes to some forum-specific profile. I complain about this particular change. The other options when you click a username are interesting, though. "Winter's just the curtain. Spring will take the bow" -- Richard Shindell, Spring Link to comment
+GrizzlyJohn Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I like how it looks. The only thing I am missing is when I click on a person's profile I don't see the list of the various hides and finds for that person. Am I just blind and don't see it or is it really missing? Other than that I think everything looks great. I hope the rest of the site gets the same sort of make over and soon. Link to comment
+Nurse Dave Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I just think they look ugly. ---Real men cache in shorts. Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by carleenp:Problem! Some topics with multiple pages seem to have lost the most recent posts. E.g. in the TB forum, the cannonball run topic now ends at page 5. It looks like posts from the last few days are gone PDOP's GPS Pages Link to comment
enfanta Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 eww! Ick! It's ugly!!!! And it's hard to read. Gimme back the old formatting and keep the new features. My eyes hurt now... AND I'M NOT MALE!! X is for X, and X marks the spot, On the rug in the parlor, The sand in the lot, Where once you were standing, And now you are not. Link to comment
+carleenp Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 HEY!!!! My profile says that I am a male too!!! I also can't seem to change it. The page to set it up shows all the old info, but when I update it, nothing changes when the profile is clicked on here. I don't care for the profile format at all! But hopefully it will all get fixed! Link to comment
Elias Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Daisy&me:The users Public Profile doesn't include caches Found/Hidden like the old version. This is a bug. I'm working on it. Elias Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I want to thank Elias for his hard work. He's been working on getting the forums moved over to a dedicated box for around 8 months without losing the 2 1/2 years of discussion topics. 8 months! And the result has been some minor irritations but otherwise intact forums. The profiles you see are the actual UBBx profile, which should point back to the Geocaching.com site. We're initiating a bug report to the folks at Infopop so they can fix it. Apparently you can still click on the "who's online" usernames and it will take you directly to the correct profile page. I appreciate design comments like the flag is too loud. It's my fault for having overzealous designs on the page. I'll try to subdue the flags though I think it's a neat addition. If you're logged in they will gray out when you are caught up on the topics (if you're logged in). Some patience please, but keep the bug reports coming. Elias is currently working on a list to send to Infopop. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I'm not sure if this is a bug but at the top of the screen where it says Hello XXXXXXX I get Hello Jennifer instead of Hello Jennifer&Dean. How does it know that I am online in teh forums and Dean isn't? AMAZING! The changes are happening as I watch! -Jennifer ************************************ According to his or her personal experience, each person must decide by himself or herself where they have been. Always for me the most important thing is not where the others have gone but the experience lived through.-Reinhold Messner Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 And thanks for Jeremy and Elias for being understanding. If Markwell can live with broken markwells, everyone else should be able to. It gives you all a chance to use the search feature and practice markwelling. We went through a knee-jerk hating of the "new forums last Feburary (2002). That soon quieted down as people got really used to the new look Complain about bugs. If something is broken, they'll try to fix it, I'm sure. But don't expect everything to immediately be utopian. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
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