New Host! New Features! Hooray!

xtrev

Now generously hosted by Eythian (purveyor of fine software to the eMu masses) in sunny New Zealand.

I've been trying out lots of new extensions, they seem to be working for me apart from the 'preview post' one. Which almost works. I've disabled it for now as it conflicts horribly with the 'Member List' feature. Tell me if you'd rather have a preview than a Members tab and I'll swap them around.

Let me know if anything else particularly bad happens when you try out the features and I'll investigate.

So, what are these marvellous new features?
Well, there's...

BBCode (as demonstrated in the Ground Rules & FAQ discussion)
Bookmarking of discussions - which will then appear at the top of your display
Discussion Filters - for showing only threads you've participated in etc.
Member List tab - displays a list of members and assorted related info
Preview Post feature - hopefully useful when you're using BBCode - DISABLED
Subscriptions - so you'll be emailed when there's new activity in a thread or category you subscribe to
A Clock! - so you have no excuse for not getting back to work
Randomly selected images in the sidebar beneath the clock - this might get annoying, but they amuse me for now

...and various other things mostly for my benefit as admin.

Enjoy!

eythian

Where is this 'sunny' New Zealand you speak of? I'm popping over to the UK for a bit in a month to get a bit of summer, that's how bad it is here at the moment :)

dubdance

Not quite sure what your idea of summer is, I believe it's quite different in different parts of NZ as it's quite big compared to many European countries, never been there, but have been to that bigger island the other side of the Tasman Sea quite a few times. But, it ain't exactly summer as we've got used to it being in the UK over the last 10 years or so, it's not that warm, the sun's on holiday somewhere else most of the time, but at least the beer's warm. Maybe it'll be more summery by the end of the month.

dubdance

Sorry, xtrev, got distracted by the weather, meant to add that in the week that I've been away from the site you've done quite a bit, it's got more bells and whistles, so far it's looking good with all the new stuff that I've tried. Personally I don't need a clock for work purposes, not being on the net at work, but I'm sure that there are plenty of others that do. keep the good work up, it is appreciated.

eythian

My point was that it's winter here it snowed last night. I'm also right down south, so even our summer is mediocre by some countries standards. 20-25C is typical highs for the middle of summer. That said, last time I was in Australia, it hit the 40's. I prefer 25 to that

xtrev

Sigh, snow in winter and summers that don't get too hot - sounds perfect.
Unlike here, where we get slightly chilly, damp winters and randomly warm/too hot*/wet/grey summers.

I need to move.


*too hot for me anyway.

xtrev

As of Sunday, June 8th, this site should now display the correct domain name in the address bar, even when logged in to the forum.
Thanks for fixing things Eythian!

It was a bit of a struggle to find all the bits to change though, so if anything doesn't work for you after a proper browser refresh, leave a message or email me.

eythian

It is pretty good. Although as much as I don't mind the cold, winter can get pretty miserable after a while. Currently have 30-40kph winds, but there's a storm front that's been passing through.

The forum has been working fine for me since we got it all figured out.

xtrev

Yep, working fine here too.
Only thing that seems to be different for me is that I keep having to log in, whereas before I could stay logged in for days. Might be after effects of logging in/out a lot in a short space of time on different browsers I suppose. I'll see how things go after a few days.

eythian

It shouldn't make a difference, neither how often you did it nor the domain changeover. Maybe have a look and see what cookies your browser is storing? I saw three, two had already expired and one that was a session cookie.

A note: I do see a couple of people who must have bookmarked the forum when it was under kallisti.net.nz ... it might be a good idea to drop the symlink and put a redirect in there to kick them over to here. I expect they'll get messed up cookies and styles if they use the old URL.

dubdance

I have 1 session cookie each time I visit emusers, I clear cookies when I shutdown so that's why I had no others. Whatever fine tuning you've done, my previous problems with the site not working with FF seems to have been sorted, it still works fine with Opera too, spoilt for browser choice here now.

eythian - sounds like this summer in the Uk will suit you fine, last few days have been high 20'sC, but we're now back to low 20's and expect 16 or so for rest of week. I know what you mean about Australia being too hot, we had the low 40's in W Aus the summer before this one down there.

eclectricity

Hey xtrev, any (easy) way to make links open in a new tab instead of the current tab? I can't seem to remember to right-click to open in a new tab.

xtrev

I'll look into it.

eclectricity

thx

brittleblood

eythian is prolly gonna fudge his gymmies when i release virtual tab support in the next release of 68OS.

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virtual tabs - regardless of your memory, tabs happen.

ps: eythian - i'm currently test-ratting taser enabled layout rewaffling. if you don't like all the junk a company has loaded on their home page (say flickr scripts for example) then you simply enable the taser feature and main line a respectable voltage directly to the code developer. what do you think?

eythian

I'm all for that!

Oh, @eclectricity: to open in a new tab (in firefox at least) just middle-click. It becomes a reflex quick enough.

eclectricity

hmm, not in Windows, at least for me. I'll see if I can make it work with the MS Intellipoint software I'm running though. Like tomorrow, when I can think.

mommio

The middle click (Windows XP) does work for me. I use it all the time. I do use Firefox, too, but I seem to have more problems with it lately than I do with IE.

eclectricity

Yes, Fx 3.5.1 seems to not be playing nice with that other place, I'm getting tons of "Not Responding" problems. I'm using IE (yuk) to browse my downloads and back-up all the tracks that were on my XP machine when it more or less died a year + ago. I'm on Vista now, and middle click opens that cool flip screen thingy that flips through all your open windows. I think I might be able to program my mouse to open links with the middle click, but right now I'm too busy trying to back-up everything one last time.

Brighternow

The members list looks strange.
The tabs you use to pick the different pages has "gone vertical" straight through the first page.
- Am I the only one seeing this ?

mommio

@Brighternow - it has always been screwed up on IE. I just checked Firefox - I'm on 3.5.2 - and it ines up correctly there.

Brighternow

- Not allways,
I've seen it displayed correctly untill not so long ago.

mommio

I'm using IE 7, and it has never worked for me. I even posted about it somewhere here and was told to use Firefox for that feature.

mommio

Hey, tracyk -- glad to have you along for the ride.

brittleblood

ummm. tracyk. can you remove the appended promo from y'er post? were an ad-free corner of the innerwebs and prefer distinguishing n00bs from trolls at the outset.

there is an intro thread somewhere about this place and its ideal to provide some background on yourself.

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cafreema

I'm pretty confident tracyk is a troll.

Craig

mommio

Given that there hasn't been another post, there's little doubt that it's spam. There are several Mods - the post can be sent into the ether.