Seriously, can we get the forum code (BB ?) working please.

Oldmacdonald
Oldmacdonald Posts: 926
edited July 2007 in The Crudcatcher
The place looks a bloody mess, and you can't hyperlink, bold or anything.

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  • miggillicuddy
    miggillicuddy Posts: 554
    Yes please. It's a disgrace. You could at _least_ do us the courtesy of having the forum actually work properly.
    ~~StumpJumper~~
  • RobA
    RobA Posts: 151
    Please put it back on, please? You know you want to.
    Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems!
  • Gingersaurus
    Gingersaurus Posts: 466
    Yeah please sort it out, too much code lying in peoples posts.

    And the sigs don't work.
    Brooklyn
    Marin
  • Matt
    Matt Posts: 5,288
    Nothing works. Some beta.
  • miggillicuddy
    miggillicuddy Posts: 554
    Can you please tell me what 'beta' means. You keep mentioning it and I'm lost.
    ~~StumpJumper~~
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,715
    Beta is the word used to describe the final test version of software before the final version is released.
  • miggillicuddy
    miggillicuddy Posts: 554
    So Matt is saying you are still testing this forum layout?
    ~~StumpJumper~~
  • RobA
    RobA Posts: 151
    Well you should have tested it before you let everyone on here, or closed the other forums.
    Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems!
  • Matt
    Matt Posts: 5,288
    miggillicuddy wrote:
    So Matt is saying you are still testing this forum layout?

    Yes, except usually you have most of it working before you release a beta...
  • Dean
    Dean Posts: 3,259
    What a half arsed attempt at a forum..
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  • Gingersaurus
    Gingersaurus Posts: 466
    Yeah sould have let us have the old forums untill this one was fully functional.
    Brooklyn
    Marin
  • Red Panda
    Red Panda Posts: 269
    This forum seems more like a pre Alpha test :shock:

    The white background is doing my eyes in
  • allyharp
    allyharp Posts: 57
    I've already ditched this forum because it's terrible.

    Alright, I'm here right now but I will be spending my time on other mtb forums from now on.
    My Kona
  • formerlyknownasbonj
    formerlyknownasbonj Posts: 483
    it's not that it doesn't work it's just that the formatting converters have been turned off. Some roadies were alleging it's because people kept putting big pictures in their sigs, and they haven't yet found a way of preventing that but allowing everything else.
  • extreme__dude
    extreme__dude Posts: 1,077
    a general rule banning people from having too large an image in their sig, and a kick in the nuts/bannage if they do?
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  • DomA
    DomA Posts: 530
    Would be nice to have some code working but it's not the end of the world guys.

    I'm sure they are working on everything as fast and as best as they can.
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  • Hairy Jock
    Hairy Jock Posts: 558
    The whole bloody thing is a mess, they should have disabled the old forums until the new ones are working.
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  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    A request to implement the phpBB module that allows BBcode in posts but not in sigs has been made to the development team.

    And in response to another common complaint, about the font, see this post:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... p=14526058
    John Stevenson
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    "a general rule banning people from having too large an image in their sig, and a kick in the nuts/bannage if they do?"

    I can't believe people want us to go around like some Old Testament god. "Here's a tool, but don't use it - and while you're at it, don't eat from that tree."

    No; there's a technical solution and we'll implement it as soon as we have developer time to do so.
    John Stevenson
  • Hairy Jock
    Hairy Jock Posts: 558
    "a general rule banning people from having too large an image in their sig, and a kick in the nuts/bannage if they do?"

    As someone who doesn't have an image in my sig, only a url, this is really complete bollocks. The old forums were working perfectly well, such a down grade in service only irritates the punters. The development team don't seam to understand the first rule of business, don't piss off the punters!
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    Best advice I ever got was "better get a bike then"
    Cycle commuting since 1994. Blog with cycle bits.
    Also with the old C+ crowd at Cycle Chat.
  • linfordlunchbox
    linfordlunchbox Posts: 4,834
    My 2 ps worth:-

    This forum is so busy, you will regret switching to phpBB software. The database gets to a certain size and then it hangs on a daily basis. phpBB is fine for small sites, but not not one of this size. We had problem logging in when there were more than 80 or so on line also.

    The forum I moderate on (and admin'd for a year) had phpBB and it was ditched in favour of SMF forum software (Simple machines) which is infinitely more stable and with a much lower server load !

    Not a criticism of the management as you wouldn't know this unless you have either been advised, or had to sort the shit out of crap forum software on a regular basis.

    As for sig size, we have a 500x100 pixel limit and we actively remove larger ones. They soon get the message !

    "I\'d clean my car with a baby elephant - if I had a baby elephant !"
  • BRUN
    BRUN Posts: 51
    loads of forums ive been on monitor the sig size, i cant see it being much of a problem

    IMO sod the sigs for the time being and sort out the colours as a priority, and then chop some sections off so its smaller, its WAY too big at the moment, then sort things like sigs out
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