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No, no, no, i'm NOT saying it was closed BECAUSE of the harassment. I'm saying that, from what I was told, that contributed to the decision. But the MAIN reason, yes, was bandwidth. It was slowing things down tremendously.
-Nicholas
Thread: Search results showing first line - need to show thread title instead | Forum: Community Center
Keep in mind that thread subjects have ALWAYS shown up ... on the thread results. The thread title has been there fromt he beginning. It was the reply results that it showed the first line as the subject. So if you were seeing the first line, you were actually seeing a reply, not a thread. I have, however, fixed that and you will now see "Re: [thread name]" in reply search-results titles. I'm just waiting until i finish the rest of these search fixes and package them up to change things over here. Also keep in mind that before the new forums, search was not enabled at all for non-moderators. So, even if you say this search is useless for you, it is more useful than the time you didn't have a search at all. Disallowing search by username was NOT a matter of paranoia. It was based on the fact that when the old forums had a search, users really WERE hunting down other users and harassing them. It became a serious problem that partially led to the decision to turn the search off altogether. Remember that, while ten or twenty users being harassed isn't that many in 30,000 forum users, it IS a big deal when you have a much SMALLER number of moderators to deal with the problem. And we have less time to spend monitoring other areas of the forums when we spend so much time policing harassment. This was not my decision. Ultimately, I agree with and stand by the decision that was handed down to me, but it was not my decision to make. Originally, the new search allowed searching by username, but it was decided that it was best left a mod/coord/admin feature only. I will address your concerns to the rest of the admin team and offer some ideas that I have to them that might enable us to prevent these problems and still allow you to search by username. Things will improve. We can't fix everything over night. We've got a thousand people breathing down our necks . sNw
-Nicholas
Thread: Search results showing first line - need to show thread title instead | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "The whole search function is completely useless!!!! Relevancy?!!!! What the heck is that? I should be the one to determine the relevancy of what I'm searching, not a search feature. Also, you can't search by user name now either. "
Any time you search in Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc ... a search feature determines the relevancy of each result and sorts them by this. This is no different. Relevancy is calculated by 1) how many times the search query shows up in a result 2) how close to the beginning of the body it is 3) whether or not it's in the subject line (highes priority) 4) how many elements of the message it shows up in. We're working on the bugs y'all are having. Thread subjects will show up in response search results in a bit. The memory overload errors we're having are about to be solved. But we will not be allowing user's to search for other user's posts. This is to prevent people from basically following other people around and harassing them in the forums. Nicholas
-Nicholas
Thread: Attached image bug :( | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "Do you also have fixing any non-image attachements on the list ?"
Clarification: The error was with any attachment, not just images. My typo. And when we fix it, it will be fixing it all, not just images. Sorry for the confusion.
-Nicholas
Thread: Attached image bug :( | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "In the new look fora, images I attached to to a post is seem to get attached to every subsequent post in that thread, even posts that are not by me. See these threads for examples: Creating smart props... Conformers & Targeted Crosstalk - A Method Can this be fixed please?"
This is not a problem with the forums. This is an error that we encoutered while converting the OLD data. You will not see this happening on new posts. We will eventually go clean up the multiple images. However, that is at the bottom of our list, as there are bigger problems that need to be fixed, and that is not affected the usability of the forums. Sorry :sad:
-Nicholas
Thread: okay | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "one of the reasons coders don't care about netscape is that its DOM is stricter than explorer's, e.g. hence, sloppy coding will work in explorer, but not in netscape. not that I'm saying these guys ever make misteaks here, mind you, but with millions of lines of code, a few errors are bound to slip in, here and there."
Actually, sloppy coding works WORST in IE than any other browser. IE is a very unforgiving browser. FYI, I wrote these forums on a Mac using Safari and Firefox, both Mozilla-based browsers like Netscape. I then tested every feature thoroughly in Safari, Firefox, IE, Netscape and Opera for Mac OS X, and IE, Firefox and Netscape for Windows. If your lines aren't wrapping, something is either wrong with your settings or your installation of Netscape. Make sure you have the most recent version of Netscape. I would say, however, that an equally-Mozzila browser, Firefox, is a much better and user-friendlier alternative to Netscape. I gave up on Netscape for Firefox long ago.
-Nicholas
Thread: New Search Function Useless :( | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "The whole search function is completely useless!!!! Relevancy?!!!! What the heck is that? I should be the one to determine the relevancy of what I'm searching, not a search feature. Also, you can't search by user name now either."
This was an executive decision made by the admin team. Only admins, moderators, and coordinators can search by author. You can, however, search through all of YOUR posts by going to "my stats" and clicking on "view user's posts".
-Nicholas
Thread: Anybody like the new forum? | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "To answer an earlier question, PHP is just a scripting programming language. There is nothing about PHP that makes "PHP"-Forums similar, or like anything in fact. It's that most are based on earlier Open Source coding efforts, i.e. they are mostly all iterations - some small some large - of an earlier work, that's why they look like "PHP-Forums". This Bondware 2.something < 3.0 Forum is clearly based on something like phpBB. While it is probably contractually and legally safe to hide it's original source, it is copyrighted code being used as a base, and it is normal to credit that effort publicly on the site somewhere. That Renderosity doesn't do it, when it itself gets so "high and mighty" about copyright infringements, I find unacceptable. As should many readers here... Another problem, as noted earlier this was not designed to run quickly, but it is clearly 2 to 3 times slower today than it was day 1. Time to give up on it, me thinks. "
FYI: Don't talk about things you don't know anything about. These forums were written from the ground up without the use of even so much as one line of code from another forum such as phpBB. How do I know? Because I've spend 150 hours writing it so far. I know there are problems and we are working on them. I know speed is an issue and we are fixing that. If it's a color choice, I didn't do it. The site design team did. If it's a coding issue, you can guarantee I've already heard about it and we're doing our best to make everyone happy. Keep in mind that each thing someone has asked for, there has inevitably been someone else pleading with us NOT to do it. So sometimes we have to make hard decisions. Things will get better. I promise. And eventually, it'll grow on ya.
-Nicholas
Thread: Post Bumping - Is it coming? | Forum: Community Center
Actually on the day we revealed the new forums, 2100 members were IN the forums at the same time. And we currently have over 30,000 active member records in the forums. Those are straight statistics from the DB. Dunno what to tell you. :mellow:
Quote - "SO... are you saying that the automagically marking of threads read (and the colour of the stars) is NEVER going to be fixed?! Because of... database limitations? Then how does other sites handle this? And PLEASE don't give me the 115000 members bs, we all know that only around 2000 are ever in the forums at the same time. And I doubt the number of ACTIVE users are more than 6-10000. "
-Nicholas
Thread: Why can't we change colors & font size in the reply area??? | Forum: Community Center
-Nicholas
Thread: How do we see full-sized graphics in the forums | Forum: Community Center
Quote - "but why are the images restricted to only 400 pixels wide,surely it can be widened to fit within a post? it's not just smaller but the quality is reduced also Cheers"
The quality is not changed. The images are resized proportionally. If you click on it full-size, you will see that no quality has been lost. Some images saved in higher-compressed states look grainy when displayed smaller-than-full-size. sNw
-Nicholas
Thread: image compression in the forum | Forum: Community Center
The image can be clicked and shown full-size. It isn't shown full-size in the actual FORUM because large images could blow up the page design.
-Nicholas
Thread: Any chance I could get back control of color and sidebar back? | Forum: Community Center
Just letting y'all know that if you go to the "my options" link you can now control the look, feel, design and colors of the forums for yourself. Keep in mind two things: 1) The header and sidebar are not part of the forums. They are part of the Renderosity Bondware 3.0 site. The forums still have to fit within the scope of this page, so you will not be able to change the colors of the header and side bar (yet ... you never know where around the corner that may or may not be in the community conversion ). 2) The interface for controlling your design isn't perfect ... yet. We have bigger fixes at the top of our priority list. However, we wanted to get some control in your hands right away. Later, we will change the way you control the look and feel of the forums so that it is friendlier and requires less tech-saviness. Hope this makes things easier on ya. sNw
-Nicholas
Thread: Post Bumping - Is it coming? | Forum: Community Center
What you say is true that they are only interested in ten percent. But then they would forever see yellow stars on threads they don't read. And if someone clicked "mark all read", it would mark every thread ever written read for that user. Even if someone said they only wanted to be able to mark threads in the Poser forum read, you are still talking about thousands (if not tens of thousands) of threads for each user who selects that forum. Additionally, you are adding a higher level of complexity. When someone marks something read, it first has to check if that forum is in the list of forums he/she is allowed to mark read, then mark it read if it is and display an error if it isn't. Which still leaves us with the problem: what do you do with all the forums that still have yellow stars. (And, for the record, I didn't design the stars. I had a different set of icons designed and the site admins used the ability to create custom icons for the Bondware Forums. :rolleyes:) I'm still, of course, open to suggestions. I'm not shuttin y'all down. Just respond do your ideas with the facts. sNw
-Nicholas
Thread: Post Bumping - Is it coming? | Forum: Community Center
Quote - ""sort by last post" -- YAY!!! thank you thank you thank you!! "mark all before xx:xx read" -- not so fabu...... if each thread can't automagically be marked as read by reading it, could we maybe have a link at the bottom of each thread that says, "mark this thread as read"? "
I'm sorry to inform you that we cannot mark individual threads as read. If we could, we'd be doing it automatically. However, you have to keep something in mind. There are over 450,000 members on Renderosity, and over 350,000 threads at present. Do the math. If we marked every thread read for every user, we'd be in trouble. The database size would be enormous. We had a meeting today to discuss the best way around this. We talked for over an hour about the best ways to approach the problem. But we simply cannot put that much data into the database. The only way to mark reads efficiently and practically is on the forum level. So we came up with this method hoping it will make everyone happier and still keep our database reasonable.
-Nicholas
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Thread: Search results showing first line - need to show thread title instead | Forum: Community Center