Texas Justice

Going to address just these two points.

You can also ignore users from your UserCP. There is a link on the left labeled Edit Ignore List. Of course, you have to manually type someone's name in the box to Add them, and if you have the memory problems I have that's not always easy.

I would much rather that they find a mod that adds an Ignore User icon into the area where a Users name and information are. Heck, they could even replace the Add Reputation icon with it. I'm wondering how soon it will be before they remove Reputation entirely, just like they did with the Stars on the old forums.

And for those of you that are worried about your Reputation, you can go into UserCP and click Edit Options to turn off the capability to Show Your Reputation. I've seen several do that already. (BTW, this was a freebie I threw in to go with the two points Aggelakis had.)

I agree that we need more control over what images we turn off. Luckily, we can uncheck the Show Images box (bottom of the three options) and turn off images in posts while still being able to see avatars, text sigs and links in sigs. If someone, such as Positron for example, makes a post with an image in it that I want to see, it will give me a clickable link instead and if I CHOOSE to see the image and click it then it opens a new window with the image only in it. I'd still prefer being able to turn off images only in sigs only, but until then this will work and doesn't need an addon that only works in certain browsers.

From what I've been told by someone that knows vBulletin very well from having run several vBulleting forums in the past, it wasn't that simple.

For one thing, all of the links on the UBB forums referenced a post by number, and I believe they do on vBulletin as well.

The problem is that when they ported over the old forums to the new ones they were given new post numbers, so the old links didn't work. It is difficult to write a script to change the links since they need the new numbers but the posts that have the links may come in before the linked post so that the linked post may not have a number so the script gets borked. It becomes a Catch-22 situation rather quickly.

I feel for the people that have guides or other posts with links to posts that are going to have to manually find the other posts and then hand edit the links.

I'm not 100% satisfied yet with the new forums, I'm just willing to try to figure out how to do the things I want to do instead of being like some of the people in other threads that just whine and complain without trying to figure out how to do simple things. Especially when there have already been posts in the same thread telling them how to do it, or posts replying to them telling them where to look for answers.

All in all, it's another change that I can't control, so I'll do my best to adapt.

Shame on you, bringing logic and common sense into a discussion on an internet forum.

What browser are you using to post? I've been using IE8 and Firefox 3.5.1 on Vista x64 with no problems.

I too used the Select-all/Copy habit on the UBB forums due to losing long posts, and still do in some cases, but the only post I've lost so far was due to me losing my internet connection while I was typing the reply and not realizing it until AFTER I'd hit the Submit Post button. And it wasn't really a long one.

Since I use links a lot in troubleshooting posts, I often take a really long time to create my posts, and again, I've not had the problems with getting logged out.

We have a thread in the Technical Issues and Bugs forum for Firefox users, but it doesn't seem to have come up with a recognizable pattern to what is causing the problems for some but not others.

Agreed.

And it's even worse for those with visual impairments of any kind.

Odd, I was on Justice during that same time frame and had no issues at all. Of course, I spent most of my time in PI and Bricks, when I wasn't in instanced missions.

I finally logged out due to losing Internet completely for about 45 minutes or so beginning around 10:45 Central.

Of course, as you know, I'm not one that likes to team if I can help it, so didn't have others with me.

Happy to be of some assistance.

I've been having quite a bit of trouble sleeping of late, and rather than just lay there staring at the wall or ceiling trying in vain to get back to sleep, I've been getting on the computer a lot. That coupled with the recuperative time from the surgery at the beginning of the summer has given me LOTS of time to research things. When I can stand to sit for that long. And even then, I have the laptop in the Den and can lay down and surf the web.

The past 4 nights I've gotten "maybe" 8 hours of sleep total. I need to find something to do, and last night I used the time to dig into vBulletin somewhat.

While I am glad I can be useful to a few people, I'd still much rather have my sleep. Lack of sleep is keeping me from doing some things I'd like to since I'm afraid that it may affect me adversely and cause me to injure myself or others. Today would have been a gorgeous day to ride the motorcycle, but I just don't trust myself on it in this state.

Ah well. Hopefully once school starts back up I'll get so busy that I'll get the sleep due to pure exhaustion.

I did? Where? I didn't see it. I still don't see it.

Unless you are referring to me having three posts in a row.

/headscratch

I'd like to thank Kat in my own special way, but she's just too darn far away from me for that to work out to my liking.






























The good news for Kat is that this way it is probably more to her liking.

Most of those issues you listed at the bottom are some of the VERY reasons they went to vBulletin. Especially the post deletion control.

They still have some work to do, and there are quite a few mods for them to look at to decide what will best serve their needs and the posters needs.

For now, I'll live with having Images turned off in my UserCP Options settings. I can still see emoticons (ugly as they are right now) and avatars, but I don't see the forum signature images. I can still see text sigs and links in sigs, so that's my preference.

And if someone posts something with an image in it that I want to see, I can simply click on the link in the post and open the image in a new window.

It'll get there, but it'll take some time.

Why would they take a stuffed Barney animal to the Mental Ward?

Mac. Ugh. Sorry, I'm no help there.

I'll ask the obvious question though. Are you using the boards.cityofheroes.com address or a different address?

Have you cleared your cookies? (However you do that on a Mac).

Oh, they read it, they just seldom respond here.

Let's see, 5 PM Pacific time. Most likely the day shift is heading home, some of the equipment in the datacenters may have been rebooted to try to hold through the night until they can get back in the morning to monitor things directly.

Or it could be something at the Data center before we get to the servers themselves switching modes on their equipment that gives higher priority during business hours to the customers that are actually their main business. Someone mentioned a while back what that was, but I really didn't care so didn't bother to try to remember.

Or it could be as simple as the power company switching modes on the grid to pull more of the power away from the areas that aren't using it as much, like the business areas that shut down at 5, and that is causing an issue.

The world may never know.

Thanks MissInformed. It's very much appreciated when people take the time to thank people for the effort they are putting forth to help others.

It's been a somewhat trying day here in many ways, and this was the EXACT post I needed to see right now to make me sit back, take a deep breath, and let things run off my back like water on a duck.

I haven't found a way to set that so that it happens automatically, even on the Enhanced Editor. But, I do get a Preview Post button next to the Submit button.

I'm learning to hate the new QR box, mostly for the things it DOESN'T provide that I prefer it doing.