Technical issues

[AfterCrescent]

Ah, good to know. Here I was thinking the CO migration swarmed your servers 

[DavidWL]

New question / request - is there a way to change the view settings so that we can view many posts at once?

Right now the max you can see on one page is 15 posts ... I'd love a personal setting that let us up that to 50 or 100.

Best,
David

[Josh]

When I picked this hosting company it was because a number of people recomended it.  Specifically Coverville said that when they were Slash-doted and when they were mentioned in Penny Arcade the site never went down.

[Josh]

New question / request - is there a way to change the view settings so that we can view many posts at once?

Right now the max you can see on one page is 15 posts ... I'd love a personal setting that let us up that to 50 or 100.

Best,
David

I just upped it slightly, the problem is that it is not controllable at the user level.  Personally I thought it was definitely showing too few topics and posts.  It is now 25 topics and 20 posts.  Let me know if that is a problem for anyone.

[DavidWL]

New question / request - is there a way to change the view settings so that we can view many posts at once?

Right now the max you can see on one page is 15 posts ... I'd love a personal setting that let us up that to 50 or 100.

Best,
David

I just upped it slightly, the problem is that it is not controllable at the user level.  Personally I thought it was definitely showing too few topics and posts.  It is now 25 topics and 20 posts.  Let me know if that is a problem for anyone.

Thank you Josh. 

I suspect this is one of those things that people could argue about endlessly.

Best,
David

[pfooti]

I've noticed that a number of the forum icons aren't loading properly in my browser, I'm getting broken image icons. The most notable one is the "jump to new post" icon that I imagine follows the thread title in the forum view of threads with new posts. I can click on it, but it's not displaying.

The image is supposed to be:

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/Themes/default/images/english-utf8/new.gif

But it's not showing up, if I load that graphic I get redirected to the homepage (In other news, your 404 redirects are just going back to the homepage, I dunno if that's what you want).

[pfooti]

I also cannot see Josh's Avatar, or the fancy-pants icon that goes under his name showing how cool he is.

[Josh]

I also cannot see Josh's Avatar, or the fancy-pants icon that goes under his name showing how cool he is.

My icon is actually an *.

[pfooti]

I also cannot see Josh's Avatar, or the fancy-pants icon that goes under his name showing how cool he is.

My icon is actually an *.

But this is what I see:

[Meg]

What browser are you using?  Can anyone else not see it?

[pfooti]

I use Safari, but it looks the same in Firefox. In both cases, I'm on a Mac.

Your icon isn't showing up either, I see your avatar, but not the level icon (mine is the two-star thing, and I assume yours is a bulb of some sort, due to the URL).

The image in question _should be_

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/Themes/default/images/bulb2.gif

But that image doesn't exist. I bet it's a forum theme/skin issue, since bulb2.gif is probably a custom icon, but you didn't get it to get added to all the skin folders.

Let me repeat, I'm seeing the same thing for the "new message posted" icon, the URL to the image I'm supposed to be seeing is above.

[pfooti]

An extra bit: the reason Josh sees a "*" for his level-icon is because that's the alt-text in the image tag. Firefox displays just the alt text when there's a broken image, whereas safari displays the "no image" icon.

Similarly, it looks to some people like Josh has no avatar, but really he has an avatar that points to a broken link with no alt text, so nothing gets displayed in Firefox (I just checked on that). When I see the site in Firefox, the new-post image still isn't there, but the alt-text (new) is displayed instead.

[AfterCrescent]

Josh's avatar & the "New" image for posts also does not load on my browser. But I use IE 6.0

[Meg]

the * for our icon I knew was broken.  I just have to upload the little bulb again.  I should be able to fix Josh's avatar too.  The new icon though I'm still confused about?

[pfooti]

The new-post icon is supposed to be this file:

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/Themes/default/images/english-utf8/new.gif

Which isn't there.

[AfterCrescent]

The new-post icon is supposed to be this file:

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/Themes/default/images/english-utf8/new.gif

Which isn't there.

Here's what it looks like on my screen...[spoiler][/spoiler]

[ksbsnowowl]

I see the same thing as aftercrescent.

[Meg]

Ok, I fixed the icon under the Gameologists' names.  For the new icon... I don't even see where that should be.  But before I get to that point- how to you look at your recent unread posts?

[AfterCrescent]

Ok, I fixed the icon under the Gameologists' names.  For the new icon... I don't even see where that should be.  But before I get to that point- how to you look at your recent unread posts?

  If your top bar is not shrunk (the + or - button in the upper right corner) There should be that area below "Hello aftercrescent" like in the picture above. Click on Show unread posts since last visit. That'll get you to where my picture is from

[ksbsnowowl]

Ok, I fixed the icon under the Gameologists' names.  For the new icon... I don't even see where that should be.  But before I get to that point- how to you look at your recent unread posts?

If I'm understanding your question correctly, clicking on the broken "new" image still activates the link to go to the first new post in the thread, it's just that the image itself is broken.