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Pogue Mahone
Officials say drugs may have played a part
Hey, just a suggestion: There is a character limit when you search the site and you have not put enough characters into the search box. I assume this is to prevent huge stress on the server when somebody enters something like "Buk". But other times, a 2-word search is prevented when those are exact 2 words.
Thanks for all the upgrades!
Mike
Thanks for all the upgrades!
Mike
that's what happened, when I looked for U2.
mjp
Founding member
I think they've always been there, but they're more visible now. As you can see, they don't really do anything unless you're a moderator, so I'm not sure why they're even visible outside of the moderating group...
mjp
Founding member
I don't know what to do with those. There should be some kind of indicator there for active or long-time members, but I'll be damned if I know what they should say.
Golden circle of the insane?
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
UNITY should read INSANITY
I've never watched SOA and it doesn't sound like my kind of series, but I did like the idea of batches that have a hidden meaning only known to mambers of "the gang".
Maybe we can find similar things out of the Bukowski-world.
(Like "Most beautiful woman in town" - or better not. No I'm sorry. I apologize. Just imagine the former "first-9" to wear that batch!
Or have members with fewer than 100 posts labeled "Jimmy the Dwarf"! No, No, I'm sorry.)
mjp
Founding member
Yeah, I liked that they weren't really obvious descriptions too. I thought about Bukowski-related things, but they're all pretty long. To keep these on a single line they need to be 16 or so characters.
We could go back to using those SOA descriptors, they would just be in text form. I got the images to work in this new version, but they break pretty badly when you look at a thread on a phone or small tablet.
We could go back to using those SOA descriptors, they would just be in text form. I got the images to work in this new version, but they break pretty badly when you look at a thread on a phone or small tablet.
Try the first season, you may change your mind.
They were not, indeed. I only learned today that Sons Of Anarchy is an American television series, and that those badges were obviously related to it...
The concept of "Active members" and "Well-known members" was unclear, at least for me. "100+ posts" and "1,000+ posts" is more convincing. The overall look of the forum and its functionality are great. Clearly the work of a pro.
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zobraks
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mjp
Founding member
I tried redirecting the URLS that end in: showthread.php?t=0000 but I couldn't get it to work. I'll try again one of these days.
Only on stage?!
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Call it "the Martin"
mjp
Founding member
There's a kind of major forum software update coming soon, and it has a built-in bookmarking function, which is great, but unfortunately I will have to disable the current bookmark feature, or else the built-in bookmarking in the updated forum will not work.
So if you use the bookmark feature now, you may want to go in there and copy your bookmark URLs and save them somewhere so you can re-do them in the new forum. Once the forum is updated your current bookmarks will not be available.
I don't know exactly when the software update will happen, but probably some time in January.
You will be able to do that with the new built-in system after the update.
One pretty cool thing in the update will be the option to receive "push notifications." Meaning the forum will be able to annoy you with popup notifications on your desktop or phone whenever someone calls you a name or posts a picture of a spray painted cock or something.
A few other things will be coming, like post "reactions" similar to Facebook, etc. So when you hover over "Like" you'll have options other than just "like."