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Edou wrote:

I understood why the ads were showing up, nothing against trying to get some running cost back.

Just the way it's implemented shouldn't keep the browser busy indefinitely when it can't connect to the script. That would mean for myself to allow googlesyndication each time I land here - or globally altogether (which I'm really not planning on).

I'll always be getting the generic ads by the way because I've disabled tracking with Google itself as well.

Ok, very good
The implementation of the ads is a pure Google script, nothing special, the same as any other site using Google Adsense I guess.

I like the look of the new site, most of the changes seem to be for the better, even if ways of doing things are a little different


I have spotted a few issues though:

Trying to add image files to a post I get an "Attachment file size exceed limit allowed by configuration" error message - initially I tried to post eight 640x 480 pics (as would have been fine on the old forums), I kept reducing the number of images (files were between 157 and 207kB) thinking I might be coming up against a 1mb limit ("Maximum File Size: 0.1 MB Maximum Image File Size: 1 MB") but no ... it looks like the 0.1Mb rule trumps the 1mb rule as a 48kb image was fine.

A couple of other connected issues - an attached file doesn't show up in a post unless you insert it. 2nd, there's no warning that images with errors won't be uploaded when you click submit.


Other issues:

Constant "connecting ..." issue is still there, even with adblock disabled.

Default reply text box size of one line is a pain - yes you can resize it, but I think most posts here are longer than one line

Grey text while writing a post is too faint.

The first thing I knew about the upgrade was a site down for maintenance message when i tried to log in, it was several days before I got an email about it; the Facebook page never had a mention of it at all.

Jonny wrote:

I like the look of the new site, most of the changes seem to be for the better, even if ways of doing things are a little different


I have spotted a few issues though:

Trying to add image files to a post I get an "Attachment file size exceed limit allowed by configuration" error message - initially I tried to post eight 640x 480 pics (as would have been fine on the old forums), I kept reducing the number of images (files were between 157 and 207kB) thinking I might be coming up against a 1mb limit ("Maximum File Size: 0.1 MB Maximum Image File Size: 1 MB") but no ... it looks like the 0.1Mb rule trumps the 1mb rule as a 48kb image was fine.

A couple of other connected issues - an attached file doesn't show up in a post unless you insert it. 2nd, there's no warning that images with errors won't be uploaded when you click submit.

Adjusted some settings: test upload:
3072x2304, 2875 KB




Other issues:

Jonny wrote:

Constant "connecting ..." issue is still there, even with adblock disabled.

I'll look into that later.

Jonny wrote:

Default reply text box size of one line is a pain - yes you can resize it, but I think most posts here are longer than one line

Agree, cant find the definition for the height, but will work on it.

Jonny wrote:

Grey text while writing a post is too faint.

Agree, will see if I can change that.

Jonny wrote:

The first thing I knew about the upgrade was a site down for maintenance message when i tried to log in, it was several days before I got an email about it; the Facebook page never had a mention of it at all.

I have not kept the Facebook page updated, I must admit, and emails to you are always a couple of days delayed...

-Lars

Jonny wrote:

Default reply text box size of one line is a pain - yes you can resize it, but I think most posts here are longer than one line

Grey text while writing a post is too faint.

I think I have corrected these two now.
-Lars

Link worked fine Lars to login,thankyou and thanks Jonny for forwarding my message, just need to work out the photo upload deal!

Really small grey text in the PM reply box is a bit of a PITA

I also see that the "more statistics" page that was accesible from the forum index page is no longer there - not a critical ommision, but it was interesting to look at occasionally

It is still accessible, just click on the word Statistic

Doh!

The new site is nice . Only some reflex to take to use the forumlike older version.