Feedback on forum software upgrade

Billy T said:
Text of quote in quote appeared but not show who is quoted in this post: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?114094-Origin-of-life&p=2959755&viewfull=1#post2959755 Why?
Same text quoted earlier in post 72 did show Fraggle had made original post.
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Same reason it did with the old software.

Because sometimes peple just type the quote tags without bothering to give it a user name to attibute it to.
And when you do that, it looks like this. Just the same as it always has.
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For what it's worth, I've been playing with the search function a fair bit trying to find old posts, and the most successful I've been is to change the "Sort results by" to "date" rather than "relevance", and the username field doesn't appear to work... however if I put my own username in "keyword" rather than "User Name" and then tick only "Posts" it appears to come up with everything.

Basically I believe the powers that be need to look into the "User Name" field, it doesn't appear to be working properly. But you can get around it.
 
Trippy said:
Same reason it did with the old software. Because sometimes people just type the quote tags without bothering to give it a user name to attibute it to.
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Perhaps, but as quote was more than three lines, seems unlikely it was all retyped, instead of just one click on "quote."
 
Another thing....

When I'm going through older threads it can get a little disorienting when the post date isn't shown along with the time in the top left corner.
Sometimes I take a look at who is reading what and read some random thread - it isn't easy anymore to determine whether or not it's an old thread.

A near-perfect example:
Whenever you click on "Who's Online" to figure out what is being paid attention to, this thread always appears somewhere in the first two pages. http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?57867-Why-black-men-have-a-bigger-penis
Now is there anything, once you go in there, to indicate that this is an old, old thread that is being picked up by a random googler and isn't current at all?
There is a post time in the top left corner. No date.
 
the font color of date matches its background
highlight relevant section and all shall be revealed

all hail spuriousmonkey for the penis thread
873,027 views and 556 posts
 
Gustav said:
the font color of date matches its background
highlight relevant section and all shall be revealed
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We shouldn't have to highlight things that ought to be readily visible. If the time can be in black, then so can the date.
 
The Marquis said:
Another thing....

When I'm going through older threads it can get a little disorienting when the post date isn't shown along with the time in the top left corner.
Sometimes I take a look at who is reading what and read some random thread - it isn't easy anymore to determine whether or not it's an old thread.

A near-perfect example:
Whenever you click on "Who's Online" to figure out what is being paid attention to, this thread always appears somewhere in the first two pages. http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?57867-Why-black-men-have-a-bigger-penis
Now is there anything, once you go in there, to indicate that this is an old, old thread that is being picked up by a random googler and isn't current at all?
There is a post time in the top left corner. No date.
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The date is there, but you have to highlight it at this time. This has been addressed already and is probably on a to do list somewhere beneath higher priority fixes.
 
advanced search > search multiple content type
user name: wynn (exact name)
find posts: any date and newer
show results as posts

and it renders 400 pages of results

as I tried to skip to page 400, it said it can't be found
and then the total number of pages of results went down to 399
then I tried to go to page 399
no matches
and then it was 398 pages of results
 
wynn said:
and it renders 400 pages of results

as I tried to skip to page 400, it said it can't be found
and then the total number of pages of results went down to 399
then I tried to go to page 399
no matches
and then it was 398 pages of results
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reproduced except mine went down to 198 pages from 400

the "jump to page" is defective
 
Billy T said:
Perhaps, but as quote was more than three lines, seems unlikely it was all retyped, instead of just one click on "quote."
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I didn't mean the quote itself was typed/retyped. I meant the [ quote ] [ /quote ] tags that went with it.

Some people copy and paste the quote, and type the tags. Either way, it's still just behaving the same way the old forum software did in that regard.
 
Maybe I'm having a brain fart... But, I don't think you can delete a post anymore. Is this right?

If you can, how does one go about doing this now?
 
Check under "Edit Post"

Gremmie said:

Maybe I'm having a brain fart... But, I don't think you can delete a post anymore. Is this right?

If you can, how does one go about doing this now?
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If you're still within the edit period, you should have the option to delete the post there.

Click edit; you should see something like the quick reply window. Below that, you should have four buttons—Save, Go Advanced, Delete, and Cancel.

However, I don't know; as a moderator, I always have those buttons available. I can't promise what you'll see.
 
they are there for me... and have deleted a few posts since upgrade successfully. [You need to check the box as well as push the delete button]
 
This is not a change, but while modifying new system can the period of post displayed when clicking on "settings" to see activity in your subscribed threads be increased (five fold at least)?
I often get msg that there are no posts to display or only a couple display and need to click again to see others that I have not seen before. My screen then shows the 10 most recent posts. I want it to display 10 posts directly with click on "settings" if that is easier to do than increase the time period by factor of five (or more)but a time period increase is best as it only shows posts since last look, I think.
 
Minor thing, but in the Tab on the top it is still showing the V for the bulletin board instead of the Sciforum logo. No hurry...
 
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