What has happened to the forum????

[Semper Fidelis]

Re:

I don't have any experience with the inner workings of forums, so I'll take it that what you say is correct as I too experienced the same problems, it was just the way it was put across. I'm sure you wouldn't speak to someone like that face to face.

You have never worked in the oil and gas industry, ,,,obviously

 

[python]

Are you behind that sock puppet chewbakiedefense? You said you made a new account, I never figured you 5 troll,,,.hsha. king boonies just slammed yah. Invite him over to the sand box aka politics thread and we can enlightened him hsha........

You have never worked in the oil and gas industry, ,,,obviously

WTF are talking about wilson-hsha ??

i checked the thread several pages back...until your off-topic, disjointed nonsense, every poster ( i stress, every poster !) had so far shared his/her constructive concerns about the new forum with the new owner developers attempting to address it in the way we, the regulars, weren't spoiled by the old owners in terms of the devs communication !

what the fork - and most interestingly why - are you trying to flame a poster and the thread ?

what the fukc has chewie's suck pupps, 'king boonies slamming' anyone or your work in a particular field got to do with the thread topic

here's my heads up for the new owners (and their mods if there are any) - check glen wilson posting history...his multiple sock puppets, his 'last chance saloon' warnings, appologies etc.

all i'm saying, his several posts in the thread did not contribute to the very constructive exchange EVERY ONE SEEMED to have benefited from until his nonsense and i'd hope the CONSTRUCTIVE exchange is what we need now the most.

i hope so...

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Anyway back on topic, to what everyone else was talking about.

Can we pleasr have url turned on. Why couldnt they be turned on from the very start.

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Can you point at the font that is small please....

?

There is no attachment to view.

But without knowing what it was that you wanted me to look at, all of it is small. Some smaller than others.

The only text of a sensible size appears in the headers and footers.

 

[Netserk]

Anyway back on topic, to what everyone else was talking about.

Can we pleasr have url turned on. Why couldnt they be turned on from the very start.

it is on now.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/

edit: Cycling News

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Anyway back on topic, to what everyone else was talking about.

Can we pleasr have url turned on. Why couldnt they be turned on from the very start.

it is on now.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/

Can we have URLs like this with a word for the hyperlink.
Example:
http://www.cyclingnews.com]The website

 

[Netserk]

Anyway back on topic, to what everyone else was talking about.

Can we pleasr have url turned on. Why couldnt they be turned on from the very start.

it is on now.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/

Can we have URLs like this with a word for the hyperlink.
Example:
http://www.cyclingnews.com]The website

That works as well. There isn't a button for it, but it does work.

*Text you want instead of the link*

Example

 

[draussen]

Two things, we really need to be able to have more posts per page and can we get rid of the "Cyclingnews Forum • View topic -" from the title of each page so when in tabs each one starts with the actual post topic.

 

[Archibald]

Any word/progress on when the multi-reply will be functional again?

 

[purcell]

Well, all the adverts appearing mid page in the threads, on every page, is a bit of a turn off.

 

[Ferminal]

Sorry if it has been mentioned... Any chance of going back to webpage name = "Topic/Forum ID - Cyclingnews Forum" rather than how it is now? Makes multitabbing kind of tough...

Ok mentioned just above lol...

No Quick edit though.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Anyway back on topic, to what everyone else was talking about.

Can we pleasr have url turned on. Why couldnt they be turned on from the very start.

it is on now.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/

Can we have URLs like this with a word for the hyperlink.
Example:
http://www.cyclingnews.com]The website

That works as well. There isn't a button for it, but it does work.

*Text you want instead of the link*

Example

Race Design Thread will be all goes once we can get single post view. Looking good.

 

[Chris]

Re:

Sorry if it has been mentioned... Any chance of going back to webpage name = "Topic/Forum ID - Cyclingnews Forum" rather than how it is now? Makes multitabbing kind of tough...

This is on our list of things to do as well.

 

[Chris]

Well, all the adverts appearing mid page in the threads, on every page, is a bit of a turn off.

The intention is to have those there, but to ditch the full page ads and the ads around the edge of the page which move the forum about. This is a compromise we've reached with the ads team, so we still have adverts (which fund the website!) but do not have a forum which keeps moving around on the screen.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Re: Re:

Got it. Took a second, but thank you.

However, the older was was certainly easier, because you could simply click 2, 3, 4 posts you wanted to quote, then hit reply and start typing.

Still hoping for a solution to the cropped photos. Very disconcerting.

you could do it between threads too, which was useful if things drifted off-topic.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Advanced Search option, "Search within: [x] Topic titles only" doesn't.

Have not tried the other options as I never used them.

 

[Martin]

Has your forum been hacked or what does those silly posts with some strange (probably korean) symbols mean? See attached file.
I have these symbols on two different devices (mobile phone, PC), with two different OS.
It shouldn't have to do anything with my national settings.

 

[Pete]

No hacking, just spam unfortunately. We're looking at more spam-prevention tools for phpBB.

 

[Pete]

As for multi-quote, it is already possible if you go to the Full Editor, either by clicking the "Full Editor" button below the Quick Reply box or the "Post a reply" button. Underneath the text area for typing your post, there's a "Topic Review" section that shows the more recent replies to that thread. You can quote individual posts here, with the "Quote [username]" link on each post in the Topic Review.

 

[Pete]

Images should now also resize (rather than crop) if they're bigger than the post area, so the much-revered Babes on Bikes thread should now be showing the previous amount of flesh.

 

[Netserk]

Image test:

http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/hd-wallpaper-25.jpg[*/img]

I get this:

Your images may only be up to 800 pixels high.
Your images may only be up to 800 pixels wide.

edit: Yep now it's:

Your images may only be up to 1000 pixels high.
Your images may only be up to 1200 pixels wide.

 

[Pete]

Ok, the resizing fix I added was for images already in posts. The message you're seeing is the restriction on uploading them / embedding them in posts.

We need to have a limit, realistically. I've upped this to 1200x1000px as a maximum, instead of 800x800px. I think that's a fair line to draw - there has to be a point at which you need to resize an image before it's uploaded or embedded, otherwise we'll end up with huge images being resized to look smaller on the page, but still dragging the load time of pages down.

 

[Netserk]

Ah, ok. That is absolutely fair. Just wanted to test it out.

Okay let's see what happens when I post a big picture (1200x980):

Edit: Very nice result! Well done.

 

[fauniera99]

Thanks a lot for destroying the Race Design Thread. That was the best thread in the entire forum and now it's ruined. Well done.

Oh, and it was absolutely impossible for me to log on under my old user name. The promised email never came. Excellent work.

What was your old username? I can sort it for you.

fauniera

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Re:

Ok, the resizing fix I added was for images already in posts. The message you're seeing is the restriction on uploading them / embedding them in posts.

We need to have a limit, realistically. I've upped this to 1200x1000px as a maximum, instead of 800x800px. I think that's a fair line to draw - there has to be a point at which you need to resize an image before it's uploaded or embedded, otherwise we'll end up with huge images being resized to look smaller on the page, but still dragging the load time of pages down.

Checking with high quality pic:

Edit: its a big improvement, but frankly I still don't understand why sizing should be a problem on the web's biggest professional cycling site in 2015. I view bandwidth, computer power and storage as commodities these days.

Anyway thanks for listening.