Board Upgrade Status

[Virgil Showlion]

Board Upgrade Status

• Adding Spellcheck : Not Gonna Happen
  
  with all the configuration needed on the back end, and at a minimum of $120.00/year simply to buy it, it ain't gonna happen.
  
  I recommend bookmarking the site www.jspell.com/public-spell-checker.html. You can copy-paste your post into it, check it, and copy/paste the result back into the reply box. Either that or follow Moonbeam's oft-repeated instructions on how to equip your browser with a built-in spellchecker.
  
  
• Adding Preview Button to Quickreply : Complete
  
  The QuickReply should now function identically to the normal reply, with a complete WYSIWYG editor and smileys interface.
  
  
• Double-Click-to-Hide-Avatar : Complete
  
  Note that this feature is now linked to your user account. On the options menu (gear icon) in the top right corner of every post, you will see a new menu item 'Hide Avatar'. Selecting this for a user will hide that member's avatar. To show the avatar again, select 'Show Avatar' from the same menu.
  
  If you don't see the menu items, refresh the page. If you still don't see them, please notify me (Virgil).
  
  
• Full List of Smileys : Complete
  
  The list will eventually be upgraded so that users can add their own smileys. But the basic interface is now complete.
  
  
• Adding List of Pages to Bottom of Threads: Top List Apparently 'Follows You' at Very Top as you Scroll Down
  
• Adding Custom Thread Icons : Complete
  
• Adding UBBC Support for Personal Text: Complete
  
  Supported formatting is limited to bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font size, font face, left/center/right/justified alignment, superscript, subscript, colour, and hyperlinks.
  
  Unsupported markup or damaged markup will appear as UBBC. Hence if tags are showing up in your personal text, your markup is either damaged or unsupported.
  
  
• Most Recent Topics Page : Complete
  
• Leave Message in Deleted Post : Not Yet Complete (Medium Priority)
  
• Fixing V- Skins : Not Yet Complete (Low Priority)
  
• Collapsible Forum Groups with Memory : Partly Complete (Medium Priority)
• Jump to Latest Post : Not Yet Complete (Low Priority)
• Multimode Profile Link Highlighter : Complete
  
• No Avatar Means No Avatar : Complete
  
  No more creepy-looking slender man placeholders.
  
  
• Word Games Enhanced Input : Complete
  

This thread will be updated as the updates are completed or new updated are added.

Miscellaneous features:

• Navigation Tree added at the bottom of the page
  
• "Back to Top" links in each post
• "Reply number" in each post
• Added a Reply button  to the floating pagination bar

[Opti]

Virgil,

In the old version of PB we had a comment section in our member profile
to store comments only we could see. In mine I had the URLs to various versions
of my avatar. It is the only place I had that information. Will you be
that feature to V5? If not, can you retrieve that info and send via PM or
email to me?

Also, I notice larger avatars are possible in the new version. I had
most my avatars sized down to fit the 100x100 v4.5 requirements. I don't
see an option to upsize my avatar to say 150x150. Will that be added too
sometime in the future? What is the maximum size supported for avatars
in V5?

Thanks!

[Deleted]

Ok. When I hit edit in the app, the original post just disappears, but not on the regular board. Guess ill just have to edit there...

[Jaguar]

Change The Word game has lost your touch Virgil.[Extreme Low Priority]

[Wisconsin Beth]

Virgil, the "save avatar" button is overlapping with the last choice (use no avatar?) in the avatar part of my personal profile. Obviously I was able to work around it but it should probably be looked at sometime.

[Jaguar]

Jan 15, 2013 9:33:18 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

Virgil, the "save avatar" button is overlapping with the last choice (use no avatar?) in the avatar part of my personal profile. Obviously I was able to work around it but it should probably be looked at sometime.

Same in mine they overlap. THANK YOU VIRGIL for the New Topics Button.

[Green Eyed Lady]

I second Sugi's "thanks". It really helps since I have used that since Day One and I was lost without it.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 9:04:58 GMT -5 oped said:

Ok. When I hit edit in the app, the original post just disappears, but not on the regular board. Guess ill just have to edit there...

I have reported this bug on support already - last week actually. It's on their list.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 10:07:46 GMT -5 @sroo4 said:

Is this the thread for our wish lists?

I noticed that the "Back to Top" button isn't on the v5 version yet, and the "New" button doesn't take you to the first unread post in a previously read thread. Those were probably the two that I used the most.

Sroo, you need to either press the HOME button on your keyboard, or Alt+D. That will take you to the top AND give you a drop down menu.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 8:56:55 GMT -5 Opti said:

Virgil,

In the old version of PB we had a comment section in our member profile
to store comments only we could see. In mine I had the URLs to various versions
of my avatar. It is the only place I had that information. Will you be
that feature to V5? If not, can you retrieve that info and send via PM or
email to me?

Also, I notice larger avatars are possible in the new version. I had
most my avatars sized down to fit the 100x100 v4.5 requirements. I don't
see an option to upsize my avatar to say 150x150. Will that be added too
sometime in the future? What is the maximum size supported for avatars
in V5?

Thanks!

Question 1: Go to your profile >edit profile >Personal tab. Check there.

Question 2. You would need to resize your avatar on your own then re-upload it. Max size is now 150x150.

There are an awful lot of things that people are wanting Virgil to do that would actually be PB's responsiblity. some things may be added in future versions, but please understand that we cannot do everything.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 0:58:37 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Adding List of Pages to Bottom of Threads: Not Yet Complete (Medium Priority)

Virgil, we don't need (and I don't want) a page changer at the bottom of the page.

If you all look at the top of the page, above the first post showing, that page switcher will float down the page with you!

[Jaguar]

I don't know where I should post this so Moon move it if you need to.

Jan 15, 2013 10:57:38 GMT -5 resolution said:

Jan 15, 2013 9:44:37 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

I'm having all sorts of issues this morning. I am missing all the "image" "youtube", etc., buttons. In addition, my
"participated" button isn't working. Thought it might be a pop-up blocker issue but it isn't. Anybody else having these issues?

I had some of these issues this morning, with the page numbers not floating with the screen, participated button not working and the gears missing on the right side of posts. I figured out my "compatibility view" was running. Once I went into the Tools menu and unchecked "compatibility view" everything started working for me.

[Virgil Showlion]

Jan 15, 2013 8:56:55 GMT -5 Opti said:

Virgil,

In the old version of PB we had a comment section in our member profile
to store comments only we could see. In mine I had the URLs to various versions
of my avatar. It is the only place I had that information. Will you be
that feature to V5? If not, can you retrieve that info and send via PM or
email to me?

Also, I notice larger avatars are possible in the new version. I had
most my avatars sized down to fit the 100x100 v4.5 requirements. I don't
see an option to upsize my avatar to say 150x150. Will that be added too
sometime in the future? What is the maximum size supported for avatars
in V5?

Thanks!

See Moon's comment about the new home of the personal account notes.

As for avatar size, it would appear the new maximum is 150 pixels wide/tall, with isotropic scaling. As far as I know, they've removed the ability to specify the size of an avatar. This was probably an attempt to simplify the interface. They didn't want people to have to enter the preferred image dimensions.

I actually do think that's an improvement. We won't have as many stretched or skewed avatars, and people's avs will always resize to the largest possible dimensions without upscaling the image, which is nearly always the desired behaviour.

In the case of your avatar set, the original image (and all of the modified versions) are native 100x100 pixels. If they were scaled up to 150x150, they'd lose their crispness.

I think I might importune Moon to cap the maximum avatar size at 100x100. These giant avs fill up a lot of space. :-\

Jan 15, 2013 10:04:50 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

I second Sugi's "thanks". It really helps since I have used that since Day One and I was lost without it.

Me too.

Jan 15, 2013 10:50:09 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Jan 15, 2013 0:58:37 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Adding List of Pages to Bottom of Threads: Not Yet Complete (Medium Priority)

Virgil, we don't need (and I don't want) a page changer at the bottom of the page.

If you all look at the top of the page, above the first post showing, that page switcher will float down the page with you!

I noticed that too.

I'll amend the OP.

[Value Buy]

I thought the reason we raced to be first to be messed with, was to be ad free.
I have ads at the top and bottom of each page.

[Opti]

Thanks Moon. Not sure if the Personal Notes section was there when
I checked earlier. Looks like all my enter characters have been stripped
out so I'll need to fix that.

Going to check on that compatibility view later as I'm working
this afternoon.

Thanks.

Jan 15, 2013 10:46:18 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Jan 15, 2013 8:56:55 GMT -5 Opti said:

Virgil,

In the old version of PB we had a comment section in our member profile
to store comments only we could see. In mine I had the URLs to various versions
of my avatar. It is the only place I had that information. Will you be
that feature to V5? If not, can you retrieve that info and send via PM or
email to me?

Also, I notice larger avatars are possible in the new version. I had
most my avatars sized down to fit the 100x100 v4.5 requirements. I don't
see an option to upsize my avatar to say 150x150. Will that be added too
sometime in the future? What is the maximum size supported for avatars
in V5?

Thanks!

Question 1: Go to your profile >edit profile >Personal tab. Check there.

Question 2. You would need to resize your avatar on your own then re-upload it. Max size is now 150x150.

There are an awful lot of things that people are wanting Virgil to do that would actually be PB's responsiblity. some things may be added in future versions, but please understand that we cannot do everything.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Giggle, we blew though 500,000 ad free pages already?

[mmhmm]

It may take a day or two for the ad-free status to take hold, folks. This is a big change for us, and a big change for ProBoards. Let's give it a bit of time before we complain about it, eh? It won't last that long anyway, with as many hits as we have.

[Value Buy]

Jan 15, 2013 11:44:42 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

It may take a day or two for the ad-free status to take hold, folks. This is a big change for us, and a big change for ProBoards. Let's give it a bit of time before we complain about it, eh? It won't last that long anyway, with as many hits as we have.

I was not complaining. I was asking a question.
We were told we would be ad free for awhile, and I thought it was "another glitch" in the system.

[moon/Laura]

The contest isn't over yet - not until tonight, or maybe tomorrow, i assume at the end of the day. and we can go through 500,000 views in no time.. 2 weeks, tops.

[Jaguar]

Virgil, you know I'm using one of your V skins cause I'm testing everything out. It's definitely more usable for me on V5 than it was on V4.5. I like how they are wider.

[mmhmm]

I'm on Chrome this morning, as well, Sroo, and the page number is floating for me.

[mmhmm]

I think we'll see a lot of these issues disappear as things progress. There are always little "bugs" in anything new.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 13:08:16 GMT -5 @sroo4 said:

I do feel slow today... I just noticed that the thumbs up icon is actually the "go to the top of the page" button. So I guess Yaaaa!

Now... I've noticed that the page next doesn't float with me when I scroll down. Is it browser dependent? I'm on Chrome.

Sroo, the thumbs up is the LIKE button. it shouldn't take you to the top of the page.

[thyme4change]

I love this board because Smilieys are a top priority.

[Steady As She Goes]

Adding List of Pages to Bottom of Threads: Top List Apparently 'Follows You' at Very Top as you Scroll Down (Done)

Not if your forced to use IE7 ... it doesn't "follow you" down the page.

Lots of businesses are still using older versions of IE and employees just don't have the option of upgrading or using something else. Software upgrades and changes are controlled by IT departments.

[Steady As She Goes]

Virgil, we don't need (and I don't want) a page changer at the bottom of the page.

If you all look at the top of the page, above the first post showing, that page switcher will float down the page with you!

Not a good answer, Moon. Like I said in another thread ... It works for "YOU" maybe ... but it DOESN"T work for a lot of "US". We're the USERS

[Chocolate Lover]

Ok, didn't read all the posts, but what happened to the back to top and the option to go back to whatever board you're on at the bottom of the quick reply box? I miss those already.

[Steady As She Goes]

Jan 15, 2013 13:26:38 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Jan 15, 2013 13:08:16 GMT -5 @sroo4 said:

I do feel slow today... I just noticed that the thumbs up icon is actually the "go to the top of the page" button. So I guess Yaaaa!

Now... I've noticed that the page next doesn't float with me when I scroll down. Is it browser dependent? I'm on Chrome.

Sroo, the thumbs up is the LIKE button. it shouldn't take you to the top of the page.

The "Like" (thumbs up) button on the top right of every post take me back to the top of the page also.

[Chocolate Lover]

I'm on Chrome and like is just like and the page bar follows me, until I scroll past the quick reply box anyway.
ETA: The keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-S to post) don't work for me though.

[moon/Laura]

Jan 15, 2013 15:06:42 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Ok, didn't read all the posts, but what happened to the back to top and the option to go back to whatever board you're on at the bottom of the quick reply box? I miss those already.

Back to top = Home key on keyboard.

the breadcrumb trail was a code we had before.. but you can get to a menu from anywhere on the page by pressing Alt+D