Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Yeah but you're odd.

Down with view counts!

Just testing something - when editing your post the save/cancel etc buttons sometimes have the wrong text on them.

Edit 1: "Vote Now" "Go Advanced" "Delete" and "Cancel"
Edit 2: buttons have correct text.
Edit 3: still have correct text - though sometimes I also see "Vote" instead of "X" in lightboxed images.

Just testing something - when editing your post the save/cancel etc buttons sometimes have the wrong text on them.

Edit 1: "Vote Now" "Go Advanced" "Delete" and "Cancel"
Edit 2: buttons have correct text.
Edit 3: still have correct text - though sometimes I also see "Vote" instead of "X" in lightboxed images.

trying new post - nah correct buttons again.

In Google Chrome by the way.

For absolutely ages I've been saying how you should be considerate to other forumengers and not post images that were needlessly too large because there are poor fuckers out there who don't have broadband, or are accessing via a phone or something, and it's just not fun to have a few MB to download just to view a page.

And I know today was exceptional with the thread hijacks, etc... but visiting one of the threads ( http://www.londonfgss.com/thread18873-5.html ) resulted in about 10MB of downloads.

10MB! For one freaking web page that only 41KB on it's own.

That's:
[code]

41KB of page

10,240KB of images
[/code]

Which frankly is too much.

So images are now being replaced with links to the images whenever the image is unfeasibly large.

Hopefully this will keep the forum usable when things get silly.

And it is a shame that thread was derailed... Amy should be supported, and not have her thread 'jacked.

Nah VB.. we should leave all the massive bandwidth requirements in place thereby encouraging users to adopt faster connections or petition telecoms to supply faster wireless. :)

Pages can still be large. It just helps prevent them from being unusable.

I used the Firefox magnify functionality to view the images on the page in reduced size, and then magnified them again to read what little text there was.

I rather prefer the chimp technique, with manageable image sizes, in inflammatory threads, but I guess it wouldn't have been quite appropriate here.

VB, I noticed a couple of times, if I edit a post instead of saying "Save" it says "Vote Now" on the save button, It works fine though.

I'm on Safari 4 beta OSX Leopard.

Anyone else finding the static file server a bit slow? I'm finding avatars will take a while to load at times. Maybe it's just me...

It's just you.

it's cos your avatar is so fat.

Anyone else finding the static file server a bit slow? I'm finding avatars will take a while to load at times. Maybe it's just me...

I've had that once, for about an hour, one afternoon so far. Hasn't bothered me much yet.

Added http://twitter.com/lfgss to the quick links on the navbar.
Added http://www.londonfgss.com/shops.html to the navbar.

On the currently active users bit on the bottom of the front page some peoples names have a small + after them.

Why is this? Secret club?

They're your friends/buddies.

Hmmm, secret club indeed...

Cheers for uber-prompt response.

dovoneil failed to recognise his friends.

genius

i think i have a p.m. from you asking the very same thing :)

dovoneil failed to recognise his friends.

genius

Second time today I've been given this moniker

mumbles

I thought the sign was to indicate those people who know to ignore me - generally the poor sods who have met me in real life.

i would just like to report that i found a spider in my lounge yesterday... does this count as a bug or an arachnidic problem? thanks in advance!

arachnid

If you don't have an avatar set, we'll go and see if you have one over at Gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/

And then we'll use that.

This means that if you see a geometric pattern as your avatar... then you can either choose to set an avatar here (on your usercp) or over at Gravatar.

It also means that if you have an avatar here, and you would rather use your gravatar... just set the preferences here to say that you don't want to have an avatar, and it will use a gravatar instead.

If you don't have an avatar set, we'll go and see if you have one over at Gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/

And then we'll use that.

Does this mean that having some kind of avatar is compulsory? (NB I don't think that's a bad thing, as I like avatars.)

It also means that if you have an avatar here, and you would rather use your gravatar... just set the preferences here to say that you don't want to have an avatar, and it will use a gravatar instead.

Would the same effect be achieved by deleting a non-Gravatar avatar from the User CP?

Does this mean that having some kind of avatar is compulsory? (NB I don't think that's a bad thing, as I like avatars.)

It means that for those who have avatars enabled (to view), they should always see an avatar for someone even if they haven't set one.

It also means that those who use gravatar won't have to bother uploading one here if they don't want to... it will just detect and use their gravatar one.

Would the same effect be achieved by deleting a non-Gravatar avatar from the User CP?

Yes, that's what I was saying.