Michigan Airsoft
Discussion Boards => Off Topic => Topic started by: MIA-bot on March 17, 2015, 05:06:42 PM
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Let us know of any issues you have been running into as we transition to this new forum.
Before reporting a problem, check the previous comments in case your issues have already been resolved.
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If you want your post count to reflect what you had on MIA, PM luke213 so that he can modify it for you.
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Also include your existing Mia name just in case it's not the same as before. And I'll do them as time permits IE if I get a thousand then it might take a day or two to get them done. So be patient but if you send me a PM about it I'll get it squared away for ya.
Luke
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Is there any chance we can get a separate folder under the "events" section for national level events?
It seems to me that more people from MI are traveling out to places like Indiana and even SC for national events. I think we should have a place to distinguish between local and nation-wide events.
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As long as the other mods are on the same page I'd be happy to make a new section for it.
Luke
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That sounds good to me. Do we want two sections, "Michigan Events" and "Out of State Events"? Or do we want national events to be a sub-board?
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I'd prefer a national events board over an out of state folder.
Although you guys know what's best.
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Having log in duration set to forever doesn't seem to be working correctly.
Running on Chrome as a page set to open on Chrome start up.
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Having log in duration set to forever doesn't seem to be working correctly.
Running on Chrome as a page set to open on Chrome start up.
Might be a machine based issue, might not hurt to clear out your cookies and whatnot. Thus far I've only had to log in pretty much once per machine with the forever setting.
Luke
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I don't know if it was just a one time thing here, but when I sent a PM I had to do the verification again. I mean it is not terribly bad, but it is kind of annoying to send a message and have to both verify the letters and the name of the forum. Not a big deal, but something to look into.
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The verification only lasts for 10 either pm's or posts don't recall which. But basically it should stop people from spamming the forum by creating a new account and sending pm's to everyone.
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Having log in duration set to forever doesn't seem to be working correctly.
Running on Chrome as a page set to open on Chrome start up.
I get the same issue, I cleared my cookies too. Its surprising how something so simple can be so annoying.
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I've been looking at it but it's still 100% working here for me. If possible keep an eye on anything that might be a trigger on your machine or if you've got another machine try logging in there and see if it sticks. I'm just trying to figure out any variables that might be causing it but you two are the first I've heard of an issue so it might take some fiddling to figure out what's going on.
I think though if it were something on the server it would be doing it to all of us unless there is something common between you two as far as browser or plugin etc.
Luke
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I haven't had to log on in a while so it works for me.
One thing I have noticed though is if you go into miairsoft.org and then you switch over to michiganairsoft.org, you have to log in again. If you stay in just miairsoft.org you don't have to deal with it.
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I just changed my bookmark over to miairsoft.org instead of michiganairsoft.org and now I dont need to log in every time. It has only been about 2 hours since I changed but before it would log me out well before now.
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Hmm that makes some sense, I'll look into it and I'll do some testing using the Michiganairsoft.org site link, I may just have to turn that into a domain forward to make the whole site happy.
When I first fired up this site only the Miairsoft.org was working for a week or so till the transfer of the longer domain completed. So likely most of us that have been helping setup the site are all running the shorter name since that's what we used for the first bit. And for myself at least I've been typing miairsoft.* for so long that adding an org instead of a .proboards isn't too much of a change in my typing;)
Luke
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I am still logged in today so I am sure that it must be michiganairsoft.org logging you out. I am glad there was a easy solution. Just log into miairsoft.org and all the problems go away.
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Well in light of that bug I just made Michiganairsoft.org redirect to miairsoft.org so other guys shouldn't have any more trouble with that problem:) So one bug down a million little ones to go;)
Thanks for the help guys at least it wasn't a hard one to fix;)
Luke
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I know this is kind of trivial but, is there anyway to up the font size? Looking at this in chrome at 110% zoom is perfect, but 100% feels hard to read for some reason. If there was a profile setting to change it that would be great, but I didn't see one (maybe because I can't read it very well lol). Edit: Haha the word filters are inactive. (lol idk alot)
Edit: why are profile pics only 65x65? Can we change that to 150x150 like on Proboards? I mean we're talking about a 20KB profile pic here.
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I found how to change it at some point, and I was able to up mine to 100x100. Let me do some digging and see if I can make it global. I don't remember if I did it through my profile or through the admin panel.
[edit] I set it to 100x100. I didn't go beyond that because your avatar expands that date&time/PM/unread post panel at the top of the page and I thought most users would find a 150px tall version of that unattractive. The proboards site uses 100x100 avatars as well, I believe.
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In case this was missed, here is a picture guide on how you change themes.
It's not finalized but for those who want a more updated look, that is available and here's how you get to it.
Go to your profile and follow these steps:
Click "modify profile" and then 'look and layout"
(https://www.miairsoft.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FS0bHzWa.jpg&hash=06b7be44ded93d6e50fa40da50b3e6cdc3e4b5a6)
Click "change"
(https://www.miairsoft.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FnbQRhzS.jpg&hash=ed33e15bda841685aa373948e403fdec6a59f424)
Scroll down and select the "cake" theme (don't ask me why its called cake cuz I don't know)
(https://www.miairsoft.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSMq5xdx.jpg&hash=0266c7ba076fe2d71a3c8307b55779a8ba8a8be9)
Here's what that theme looks like:
(https://www.miairsoft.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FtoTqwYC.jpg&hash=654165871ac802a164dd7ae4a89ff6b4448ceba6)
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Nice tutorial:)
Luke
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In case this was missed, here is a picture guide on how you change themes.
It's not finalized but for those who want a more updated look, that is available and here's how you get to it.
Go to your profile and follow these steps:
Click "modify profile" and then 'look and layout"
Click "change"
Scroll down and select the "cake" theme (don't ask me why its called cake cuz I don't know)
Here's what that theme looks like:
This looks 100x better than the default theme. This looks better than Proboards.
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Why can't I post a video? Only a link to one.
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What kind of video like YouTube? I'm not sure anyone has tried it yet but give me as much info as you can and I'll see what I can do.
Luke
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Yes youtube video. I would like to be able to post them like on the old site.
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I'll take a look tomorrow on the computer and see what I can figure out for ya.
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Alrighty Youtube is working now for embedding but you need to use the "youtube" tags like you would "img" or anything like that, basically
[youtube]link-to-video[/youtube]
It doesn't autoload everything until you click the still image but then it embeds like normal.
Disregard all that info now just paste the video link into a post, and it will embed automatically.
Take care!
Luke
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It looks like the off topic folder image has reverted back to the circle on the front page (at least on mobile)
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Should be fixed now I believe or at least it seems to be for me, didn't realize the theme uses a different icon apparently when there are sub forums so when I added the sub forums it looks like it started pulling the old icon I hadn't replaced. So should be back in action now.
Luke
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What happened to the tab to post youtube videos?
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What tab?
To post youtube video's just post the URL and it will embed automatically now, and it works on Tapatalk as well so nothing needs to be done special now.
Luke
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Thanks just figured that out.
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No worries it changed a few times while I tried to get things to work the way I wanted them to. I posted a thread about the change a while back and edited a few threads where the video's broke when I made the change. Figured we didn't have that much youtube content yet so editing only took a few minutes.
Either way should be working properly now and a heck of allot easier to post videos along with being able to view them mobile which was very important since that's how I view the forum most of the time along with allot of other guys.
Luke
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So, I'm not sure if this is a bug in the site-script or if it's just a preference selected by the board administrator, but everytime I post in a topic... rather than it refreshing the page showing the topic along with the replies again, it instead reverts to the main board that the thread was started in. Slightly annoying and disorienting, especially if you wanted to keep reading replies in a thread after posting.
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I think it's a preference but I'm going to be out for the weekend I'll take a look when I get back home.
Luke
Sent from my XT912 using Tapatalk
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Alright just got a chance to take a look since I knew this was mentioned before, it's an option set by each user. There might be a global option as well but I sort of like the whole go back out thing after posting. But I guess it would depend on how you work with the forum, myself I read the whole topic before posting so typically once I post there isn't anything more I need to do there so exiting the thread so to speak makes sense for me.
If you open up your own profile by clicking the profile link at the top, then click "look and layout", then go down to the check box next to "Return to topics after posting by default." and uncheck that it should then return you to the thread once you post.
Take care!
Luke
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Awesome, that works out perfectly. Thanks for the solution my man!
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Not a problem I'm sure as time goes on we're going to find little bits and pieces of things like that to change, or ways to change them if needed. Trials and tribulations of completely changing the forum software after so many years used to the old system;)
Take care!
Luke
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It wont let me bookmark the site it is just giving me the logo its not that bad but I would like to bookmark it.
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Hmm be more specific, bookmark as in a browser? If so what browser and as much info as you can give and I'll try to replicate the issue.
Take care!
Luke