Problem with the hyperlinks!

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Reporting a problem with the new software…I think this has been mentioned in a couple of the many, many threads covering the software conversion. I’m giving it a new thread to draw specific attention, sorry if its overkill.

When using IE the thread topics that I click on don’t change color once I view them (i.e. keeping track of what I’ve read). A major problem for keeping track of the threads I’ve commented on. A couple of Netscape users I’ve asked say they don’t have this problem.

Is there a easy fix?

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For the record, I wondered about that, too. I’ve got IE5, no more changing color. Not that big a deal, just curious wha’ hoppen…

Just got up this morning–is there a final answer on whether the old thread links are going to work or not? Came into this thread thinking that’s what it was about. Isn’t there some way they can instruct the hamster that when someone asks it to go get a “forum7…etc. link #12345”, it really means go get a “threadID=12345”? Is it just going to be the SD thread links that we lose (“you’ll see in this thread that he said…”) or the hyperlinks, too (“you can see HERE that he said…”) Very sad if true. :frowning:

Whenever somebody has time.

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The conversion to the new vBulletin message board software did not import the old UBB threads in any consistent way. What was once say Forum 4, Thread 6012 is now Thread Id 23182. Forum 4, Thread 6013 is now Thread Id 24612, etc. There is no generic way to map from one format to the other because the import didn’t occur in a consistent manner.

What we did is to atleast map a click on an old UBB link so that it brings you to the message board main screen. Not of much value for people already on the message board but it brings the thousands of people clicking on a hyperlink within a search engine such as Yahoo! atleast to the main screen of the message board. If we could have done a translation we would have and it was one of our goals.

In the end I knew we were going to pay the price of losing the old UBB hyperlinks to get us to a more stable platform. I weighed the cost of staying on UBB with multiple crashes a week versus the benefits of moving to vBulletin which we believe will be a more stable product and we proceeded with the upgrade.

Jerry

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I think they’re referring to the fact that you assign the same color to all hyperlinks as you assign to visted hyperlinks. The code from the ATMB forum list shows:


.thtcolor {
  COLOR: #FFFFFF;
}
#all A:active {
  COLOR: #333399 ;
}
#all A:visited {
  COLOR: #333399 ;
}
#all A:hover {
  COLOR: #FF0000;
}
#all A:link {
  COLOR: #333399;
}

Note that the color code for A:Active is identical to A:visted (#333399). I’m not up on style sheets, (sticking with good ol’ C++) but this looks to be the objection.

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You’re right SingleDad, I was addressing Notthemama about the old UBB URLs and failed to address the OP. I’ve modified the CSS template so that the visited color is no longer the same as the active/link colors. That should resolve the initial problem.

Jerry

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Working fine…

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Working fine, but…

JDavis, could you please crank up the color contrast between the two a notch or something? On my computer, to my normal color vision 20/20 with glasses eyesight, there’s not much visible difference between the dark medium blue “Not visited yet” and the dark blue-ish maroon “Visited”.

Whenever you get all the boxes unpacked and get around to hanging curtains… :slight_smile: