New Forum look!!!!

[leek]

Haven't had any probs with logons, but am suddenly having problems with the read / unread indicators within each section... Basically nothing is showing up as unread, so I have to go by the date and time of posting...

[MattC]

The new look took a little getting used to. I held off on my comments until I had a chance to get used to it. It gets a thumbs up from me.

I have not had any of the difficulties described by others.

One thing that I would like to see. Localised time. Times are displayed as GMT +10 - corrected for DLS?? My location is GMT +9.5. There is a 1.5 hr difference between TC and Sydney. It just means a mental calculation as to what was posted when. Most people think in terms of local time.

Cheers

Matt

[fozzie]

In profile, I have set my Timezone to GMT +10 when in fact it should be +10.5 for Adelaide, but default not available.

I too have noticed the problem beetleboy quote 'The only problem I'm having with the new interface is the "View posts since last visit (x)" doesn't work for me! When I click on it I get a screen that says "No topics or posts met your search criteria" no matter what the number is in the brackets. About 1 out of 5 times I get the proper list with the posts' unquote.

I am running XP/SP2.

Cheers,

[Nnnnsic]

At the moment I'm here and not Dad so I'll see if I can find anything or add anything into the code in relation to the time settings for those of us in places that don't like following regular timezones... now, where's that server cable...

[MattC]

Nnnnsic,

I'll just go and hide my head in the corner. I totally missed the timezone setting in my profile.

Cheers

Matt

[gstark]

Matt,

You may now come out of the corner. Your whip awaits you.

I'm curious that it's only those from Adelaide who seem to be reporting issues with the posts since last visit link.

ISPs, gentlemen, if you will?


And did anyone else see a disconnection for about an hour today, at around 3 ish?

I'm at Lindy's, and couldn't see any of my hosts during this time. I was surprised that nobody SMS'd me, and talso that there's been no comment about it here.

Leigh, perhaps that was simply a Swiftel issue, as our outbound connection, and Lindy's, are both Swift?

[sirhc55]

Yep Gary - lost it in Neutral Bay

Chris

[gstark]

Chris,

Thanx. If you don't mind, who's your ISP ? Just trying to isolate the problem to one place or another.

To me it seemed as if the router's plug had been pulled, but that didn't happen, nor did the server go down, so it was upstream from there.

[birddog114]

Me too, I couldn't log on to, am with Optus.
I thought Gary might doing something, but look: since yesterday afternoon, I did not see him on line, wondered what was happened again

[sirhc55]

Chris,

Thanx. If you don't mind, who's your ISP ? Just trying to isolate the problem to one place or another.

To me it seemed as if the router's plug had been pulled, but that didn't happen, nor did the server go down, so it was upstream from there.

Gary - Hellstra Bigpond Cable

Chris

[lejazzcat]

And did anyone else see a disconnection for about an hour today, at around 3 ish?

I'm at Lindy's, and couldn't see any of my hosts during this time. I was surprised that nobody SMS'd me, and talso that there's been no comment about it here.

Yep - down for about 15mins(Sydney). I was wondering about the lack of comment too...

[phillipb]

Same here, I figured you were still fine tuning things. I'm with optus as well.

[gstark]

Me too, I couldn't log on to, am with Optus.
I thought Gary might doing something, but look: since yesterday afternoon, I did not see him on line, wondered what was happened again

I was at Lindy's till latish this afternoon, and spent some wuality time with her. (I do have a life)

Also spent some time resurrecting her old Toshiba laptop. Fun and games - tried to install W2K and got a RED screen of death. Three times!

Revrrted to W98SE, but that wouldn't boot. Seems like a stuffed CDROM driver on the original installation disk. Bypassed that, but of course had no CD. With no CD, couldn't load the network drivers ...

Eventuall located some 16 bit CDROM drivers, got the WLAN running ... it can surf the web, but won't talk to any of its local hosts.

Bloody Windows 98. What a heap of shit!

[gstark]

Ok ... a couple of optus, a couple of swiftel, one helstra ...

that points to something on the exetel side.

Thanx.

[Nnnnsic]

Like I said before when you were asking me to check the router... It was an Exetel dropout, in my honest opinion, as it's been happening all week, and from what I hear, it's Telstra caused.

[sirhc55]

Actually I have lost connection with Hellstra Bigpond about 5 times today

Chris

[Onyx]

RE: the new NEW forum structure changes.

Thank you Gary and Leigh for implementing these changes. I have a question - why is the humour section restricted to members only? Are you suggesting new members don't have a sense of humour?

Anyway, perhaps we could rid the "Meeting Reports" as most of the posts of that nature tend to continue on from the discussions of the meets themselves, under "Locale". Lastest post in Meeting Reports was dated November 7 of last year. That might save some vertical real estate as the list of forums grows!

[gstark]

Onyx, I did that because the other three sections in there were "private", and I figured that rather than have the generic "Other Stuff" section, I could group them together as "Members Only" which meant that I then either needed to move the humour section, or reclassify it.

I'm happy to reclassify it again if that's the concensus, but it SLAGIATT.

And yes, I'll do that with the meeting reports ... thanx for pointing it out.