I seemed to have lost my membership. I show up as a guest now. I re-upped my subscription last month. My profile seems to have been deleted.
Keerist, this thing is slow. I’ve been timing out all evening.
The board seems to be working for the moment, but its been sucking pretty much all day. Timeouts or blank pages for hours. I take it something went pretty far south with the migration.
(times 3)
See? The spammers are already in force.
I am concerned about the fact that our email addresses are completely visible now. Go to the User CP and click on the Your Profile link and select the Contact Info tab. If you previously had “receive emails” box checked, that has now translated to having your email address visible.
Some people may not care, but since I did I went back under Options and deselected that box. This seems like a big change and folks may not realize that this personal info is now completely available.
The Bookmarks listing on my Firefox 3.0 shows a favicon (SD, in the colors of the banner at the top of the page) but it does not appear in the web address line. It first showed up after I used the bookmark to go to the Straight Dope front page, but I can’t recall if it was Friday or Tuesday. Just a data point for the consideration of whoever is responsible for those things.
In Reply, it appears black is the only choice in the drop down menu for text color.
I’ve disabled mine as well, thanks for the heads-up.
Hmm, I see I’ve also lost my Charter Member badging. Hmmph.
Why not just set up a webmail account that’s specific to the Dope and related things?
Because its a pain in the ass? I already have enough e-mail accounts to keep track of, thanks.
Well, I’m finally able to get a reply box! Slow, slow, slow, timeouts, timeouts, timeouts, and slower than slow. Pretty much unreadable at this point. I’ll be shocked if this posts properly.
Hm. I think it sped up now.
It sped up. Still slow to post.
Nope, it’s snappy.
Upon entering the SDMB from the SD, it takes forever for the SDMB home page to arrive. Many times it times out completely.
Upon hitting the preview button, the page times out more times than not.
Attempting to insert a URL brings up only the URL box and not the text box as well. One must manually replace the URL with text you want folks to see.
Actual posting times out way too much. Or worse, my browser thinks newreply.php needs to be downloaded to my machine and not open in the browser. Sounds like a server mime issue.
Tested on several WinXP machines all running Firefox 3x with different ISPs.
First time all day I’ve gotten as far as a Reply to Post box.
Let’s see what this here vBulletin 3.7 can do… or what they forgot to turn off, heh heh…
Let’s see… bold [del]strikethru[/del], :smack: :dubious:…
Red Trebuchet
Monaco for Macs, freehanded in
<HTML>
<A HREF=“http://www.google.com”>Also Google</A>
</HTML>
[complex email url](mailto:joe@domain.com?subject=Hello world&Body=testing testing one two three)
http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/smack.gif
Edit: hot damn, complex email URLS are now supported!
For me, the drop-down “Quick Links” menu is weird; it cuts out short, not displaying the “My Profile” text at the bottom (or whatever the text used to be, I forget), though still displaying just enough of the blue background color that accompanies that text for it to remain clickable. Between “Edit Signature” and “Edit Options” I have a blank bit of blue background as well; clicking it reveals it to be “Edit Your Details”, but you’d never know without trying. Also, very often, I cannot drop down the “Quick Links” menu at all (as far as I can tell, this is always the case from the subscribed threads page); clicking it does nothing. All very odd and minor, but still annoying.
And, yeah, the board is slow and [often [times out]], and even oftentimes out, and all that. I’m sure you’re already aware of that, though.
Oh, and another “Missing, but there” slot in the Quick Links menu: under “Mark Forums Read”, there’s one which brings up some kind of pop-up contacts list. I guess it’s supposed to say “Contacts” on it, or something like that.
I’m getting errors now when I view topics…nothing too bad but there’s an exclamation point in the status bar and I also notice clicking on anyone’s profile isn’t working (at least for me). I’m using IE7
I get an error message when I try to log out.
Hmm, there seem to be an abnormal amount of double/triple posts. Did the quick post lockout mechanism break? Or is it a database issue?
Thought I’d report it either way.
Has the edit function for your own posts disappeared?