Forum upgrades

[King Boonen]

Re: Re:

Hi Andrew,

Embedded quotes. Any chance you can change the quote function so it only includes the post the user quotes and not anything quoted in that post? Editing them is a massive pain and it seems many users really struggle with it.

Cheers,

KB.

I would vote against this: it is useful to have the context for a quote.

Frankly, hard to understand how people are unable to delete the inner envelopes of citation if they want to do so. Even if they don't, the reader can easily enough concentrate on the outer levels of the wrapper if they are confident that they don't need any more clarification of the previous discussion.

I think it either needs to be updated or removed. I'm constantly seeing posts with a multitude of quotes incorrectly wrapped, many to the point where it is hard to distinguish what is the quoted text and what is the response. It's incredibly frustrating.

 

[Netserk]

It's the automatic quoting quotes together with the 5 quotes per post that makes it a mess. It means that people are forced to manually delete some of the quotes when the automatic quote has too many quotes in it. Some people then only delete some of one of the quotes, but in a way that messes with the rest. I believe it is not optimal the way it is now.

In the old forum you could still have quotes within quotes, but you had to add them manually, though the multi-quote option made it easy to just have a list of quotes after each other instead of within themselves.

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

It's the automatic quoting quotes together with the 5 quotes per post that makes it a mess. It means that people are forced to manually delete some of the quotes when the automatic quote has too many quotes in it. Some people then only delete some of one of the quotes, but in a way that messes with the rest. I believe it is not optimal the way it is now.

In the old forum you could still have quotes within quotes, but you had to add them manually, though the multi-quote option made it easy to just have a list of quotes after each other instead of within themselves.

Fully agree.

Also, wanted to ask this a long time ago, but what happened to all the signatures?

 

[Jspear]

Re: Re:

It's the automatic quoting quotes together with the 5 quotes per post that makes it a mess. It means that people are forced to manually delete some of the quotes when the automatic quote has too many quotes in it. Some people then only delete some of one of the quotes, but in a way that messes with the rest. I believe it is not optimal the way it is now.

In the old forum you could still have quotes within quotes, but you had to add them manually, though the multi-quote option made it easy to just have a list of quotes after each other instead of within themselves.

Fully agree.

Also, wanted to ask this a long time ago, but what happened to all the signatures?

They are still around. See mine for example. Some probably just haven't changed it back in their settings since the forum change.

 

[Red Rick]

Well I tried that, it didn't work

 

[krebs303]

Re:

Well I tried that, it didn't work

Me too

 

[Netserk]

Can the data limit for avatars be raised, please? It is now 6kb, and when I take a picture, crop it and then resize down to the 80x80, it is 15kb. So something like 30kb should be a great improvement.

In case anyone is interested in what picture I'm talking about:

 

[the sceptic]

is there any way to put people on super ignore so I don't have to read their quoted posts?

 

[Jspear]

Re: Re:

Well I tried that, it didn't work

Well I tried that, it didn't work

Me too

Go to User Control Panel > Board Preferences > Edit Posting Defaults > click Yes on "Attach my signature by default"

 

[hrotha]

Re:

Can the data limit for avatars be raised, please? It is now 6kb, and when I take a picture, crop it and then resize down to the 80x80, it is 15kb. So something like 30kb should be a great improvement.

In case anyone is interested in what picture I'm talking about:

This +∞

6kb is ridiculously small. You can't make out any details.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Re: Re:

Can the data limit for avatars be raised, please? It is now 6kb, and when I take a picture, crop it and then resize down to the 80x80, it is 15kb. So something like 30kb should be a great improvement.

In case anyone is interested in what picture I'm talking about:

This +∞

6kb is ridiculously small. You can't make out any details.

Yep definately. My old Avatar was so pixalated(Because it had to be so small) you could hardly make out Stybar winning Strade Bianche.

 

[Afrank]

I've sent an email to CN's development about doing this, will let you all know when I hear back from them.

 

[Afrank]

I've gone ahead and changed the maximum allowed avatar size to 30kb.

 

[BigMac]

Thanks Afrank.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Well I tried that, it didn't work

Well I tried that, it didn't work

Me too

Go to User Control Panel > Board Preferences > Edit Posting Defaults > click Yes on "Attach my signature by default"

Lol, only read this now, but thanks

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Thanks Afrank!

 

[Irondan]

Re:

I've gone ahead and changed the maximum allowed avatar size to 30kb.

Thanks for doing that Afrank!

 

[Dear Wiggo]

It would be good if people we were ignoring could not PM us.

 

[blutto]

....yup, that does, in certain special circumstances, sound like an absolutely grand idea....

Cheers

 

[Carols]

Re:

It would be good if people we were ignoring could not PM us.

Now that would be grand!!!