New Version Bug Reports

Um, it’s nothing fancy. They just set the background and color attributes on the option tag… Here’s the code:

<select name=“f” onchange=“this.form.submit();”>
<optgroup label=“Site Areas”>
<option value="-1">Please select one:</option>
<option value=“cp”>User Control Panel</option>
<option value=“pm”>Private Messages</option>
<option value=“subs”>Subscriptions</option>
<option value=“wol”>Who’s Online</option>
<option value=“search”>Search Forums</option>
<option value=“home”>Forums Home</option>
<option value="-1">--------------------</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label=“Forums”>
<option value=“2” class=“fjsel” selected=“selected”> About This Message Board</option>
<option value=“1” class=“fjdpth0”> Comments on Cecil’s Columns</option>
<option value=“6” class=“fjdpth0”> Comments on Staff Reports</option>
<option value=“3” class=“fjdpth0”> General Questions</option>
<option value=“7” class=“fjdpth0”> Great Debates</option>
<option value=“13” class=“fjdpth0”> Cafe Society</option>
<option value=“12” class=“fjdpth0”> In My Humble Opinion</option>
<option value=“4” class=“fjdpth0”> MPSIMS</option>
<option value=“5” class=“fjdpth0”> The BBQ Pit</option>
</optgroup>
</select>

And then this is in the CSS file:

.fjsel
{
background: #3E5C92;
color: #E0E0F6;
}
.fjdpth0
{
background: #F7F7F7;
color: #000000;
}

That didn’t seem to work when you did it but I’ll try it:

:slight_smile:

… Okay I just looked at the first part of this message in preview and both your’s and mine should up as the smiley gif this time. But in your original post it didn’t, it looked like the following (without the code box of course):


:)

Strange…
But this still doesn’t answer the question of why nothing happens when I click on the smiley icons. Am I the only one experiencing this?

That should have been “showed up as the smiley gif” rather then “should up as…”

Well of course it didn’t work. I disabled smileys. How useful would it have been if I had done this?

:slight_smile:

I don’t know if this is a new version bug, but the thread Homeopathy is a con job??? appears to be messed up. All the posts are by “Guest”.

System: Win2K Japanese, Opera 7.20

Look at the post dates and get back to us…

Doh! (I wish I knew how to type in the “slap smiley” because I deserve one for missing that.) It still doesn’t explain why clicking on the smileys doesn’t work. Also, I just noticed that the formatting icons and dropdowns don’t work.

I know it’s an old thread. Are you saying poster ID info for old posts are not kept?

From what I gather (and this was before my time, so the details are fuzzy at best) at some point the board crashed hard, and a lot of stuff was lost a few years back. Thus, in threads posted before that happened, a lot of member’s names show up as Guest. There were a few threads about this here in ATMB, and when the search function is working again, you ought to be able to find one or two of them. I know for sure that this precedes the switch to the new version, so I’m surprised you never noticed before.

Regarding the premature logout bugginess.
It seems to happen every time the board goes down for a few minutes and displays its “There seems to be a slight problem with the database” message.

I suppose again not really a bug but hopefully something that can be mended. When a spoiler is included early in a post it is included in the preview without being blacked out. For instance in Cafe Society if you get the preview of Wolfian’s thread titled “When are they showing the season finale of Justice League?” the text in the spoiler box is clearly displayed.

Not sure if there is a way to get the preview boxes to ignore all text in spoiler boxes. Just thought I’d mention it.

Not sure if this has been mentioned but haven’t got time to check.

When searching a username the search engine no longer looks in quotes. If someone has quoted me in their reply I will not find out using the search engine.

:: blinks ::

But the page is centered. ALL pages are centered. There’s about a half inch or so of white space before the text box starts, and if I scroll off to the right, there’s another half-inch of white space following the text box.

My example post (on my system) just stretched things further out to the right; it didn’t change the left-hand margin at all for me.

Very weird.

I also have to log in again at the start of every session.

Also the threads in “New Posts” don’t show up in sequential order. If I hit “New Posts” now, and then a few minutes later I refresh the page, the newest threads may appear well below some threads that haven’t had a new post since the first time I hit “New Posts”.

IE 6, Win98

There is no longer a 60 second wait to post again. I foresee this becoming a problem with trolls.

There is no longer a button for “report this to a mod”. Please bring it back as it was helpful for forums with a small number of mods maintaining it.

The quick reply box at the bottom of threads have been removed. Is it possible to bring it back? Or is there some reason not to?

It’s still there, but now looks like an exclamation point, and it’s in the upper-right.

Yes, there is. It’s the [!] button at the top right of each post, except for your own.

Oh, but I should add one thing that’s bothering me, you can’t report your own posts anymore. I used this feature a few times for good reasons (I thought). It’s useful for things like if you mess up the spoiler tag and it really should be fixed.

I was surprised no one posted this one yet, but I ran thru several browser tests and it appears to be quite browser specific.

OS: Win98SE.

Under Opera 6.05, selecting “About this message board” from “Forum Jump” list on the bottom of the page gives a “No forum specified.” error message. The URL is

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=2&f=

instead of the correct

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=2&f=2

It does get handled right by a couple of versions of Netscape and the current IE.

Looking at the code Achernar posted above, I note two differences in the code. The first is it has “fjsel” instead of “fjdpth0” style, which I don’t think matters. The second is the 'selected=“selected” ’ setting, which I think Opera is mishandling.

And so the point I’m trying to make is, err, well, um. It would be nice to jump directly to ATMB from wherever without going thru the top level. I guess. Just typing out loud here. Not officially complaining.

So if someone’s mucking around with that, it would be nice if it were fixed. Otherwise, they can do Something Important instead.

I frequently have to log back in, but think it only happens after the cite has been down; haven’t really paid that much attention. I don’t believe I’ve seen anyone mention being able to no longer browse SD pages off-line which is another problem I’m having now. Perhaps, the problem is on my end, but I can still browse other web cites pages off-line just fine.

JZ