The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet

[djensen]

@Commander_Jen Yeah, it’s now “accurate” in that it only includes what wasn’t deleted over the years. The old post count never decremented when I deleted old game posts.

[simon33]

@djensen said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

@simon33 It shouldn’t do that. Actually what it should be doing is automatically adding the intermediate post (no refresh required) to the end of the topic whole you’re working. I think it even gives you a notification in the lower right side.

Hi @djensen ,
It fails to include it every time when the intermediate post is posted by Triple-A with my login. It isn’t really what I want to happen.

I’m not 100% sure the notifier works when someone else posts via Triple-A in a game thread which I am watching. But often they also post something the normal way so I then get the notifications. I’ll see if I can notice something here, although it’s looking for a negative.

Seems to work when someone else’s login posts via the forum poster.

[Commander_Jen]

@djensen said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

@Commander_Jen Yeah, it’s now “accurate” in that it only includes what wasn’t deleted over the years. The old post count never decremented when I deleted old game posts.

Eeek, you “delete” things? How dare you. lol. (I am an electronic file hoarder, I know I am. I have files from my first computer still. hehe.)

Now I just have to figure out how to update my profile again. And where my badges are, cause yes, I need those “stinkin badges!” lol.

[Panther]

@Commander_Jen said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

… I just have to figure out how to update my profile again. And where my badges are, cause yes, I need those “stinkin badges!” lol.

Just look here, that will help :smiley: :
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32443/tips-and-tricks-nodebb/

[Midnight_Reaper]

I don’t know if this is the place, but something I noticed is that, for at least some posts, I can’t see linked pictures. Example posts include:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32624/triplea-ww2v3-paratrooper-move/2 - Panther’s answer is given in an animated .gif, and I can’t see it. When I click specifically on the gif, I get the error: “Not Found”.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32588/grasshopper-s-photo-album - Young Grasshopper’s pictures all turned into links, which now go nowhere but “Not Found”.

I just thought I’d light the @djensen lamp.

-Midnight_Reaper

[djensen]

:scream: Phew, thanks for finding that. The mounted network volume got disconnected when I did the upgrade.

[Midnight_Reaper]

@djensen

Your work on Google SEO has payed off in the usual way: spammers have arrived. Or a spammer, anyways: marieclint123fdr has been up to no good on the forum. That user has posted only three posts, but all three are for ielts and other testing spam. I just thought you should now. I’ve marked their posts as spam already.

On the bright side, if the spammers have you in their sights, they must think they will get some visibility from posting here.

-Midnight_Reaper

[Panther]

@Midnight_Reaper
Thank you for flagging the spam. Not the first one, unfortunately. Anyway, actions have been taken.

[KaLeu]

Thanks again for all the work done on the forums!

I have two questions, rather minor issues really.

1. My posts show my login name now instead of my full name, as it used to be on the old forums. I’m sure that this has been addressed before, but I can’t find it. Is it a setting I need to change somewhere?
2. When viewing the online users, I don’t see myself. Is this also a setting?

Thanks in advance for letting me know!

[Panther]

@KaLeu said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

Thanks again for all the work done on the forums!

I have two questions, rather minor issues really.

1. My posts show my login name now instead of my full name, as it used to be on the old forums. I’m sure that this has been addressed before, but I can’t find it. Is it a setting I need to change somewhere?
2. When viewing the online users, I don’t see myself. Is this also a setting?

Thanks in advance for letting me know!

Regarding #1 please look here: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1237429

Right now the “full name” can’t be shown with postings or @-mentioned. You need to change your login name to have it shown like you intend.

Regarding #2 please click on your profile image on the top right of the screen and select “Online”.

(Added #2 to Tips and Tricks )

[KaLeu]

@Panther Thanks. As for #1, I’ll just wait and see, it’s not a big thing.

As for #2: regardless of what I select, it stays at ‘Invisible’ and I still can’t see myself at https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/users?section=online
I can see a few others though, so there must be a difference somewhere. And I think that more people are having this issue because the number of people I see online is typically much smaller than with the old forums.

[Panther]

@KaLeu That is an unexpected result indeed. Please perform a hard refresh (reload) with your browser the next time you set yourself to “online” and try again, then. In case the problem persits please look out if you see me being online (that should be visible) and contact me by chat… we will try something out, then.

[djensen]

@KaLeu said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

I can see a few others though, so there must be a difference somewhere. And I think that more people are having this issue because the number of people I see online is typically much smaller than with the old forums.

The old forums may have been less accurate. I think the “online” timeout is now 30 minutes without activity. It might’ve been much longer previously.

[KaLeu]

@Panther said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

@KaLeu Please perform a hard refresh (reload) with your browser the next time you set yourself to “online” and try again, then.

Thanks, that worked. After I did a Ctrl-F5, I could indeed set it and it now remains at ‘Online’, even after logging out and in. Problem solved!

[KaLeu]

@djensen I see… yes, that may be the case. However, I suppose it’s also possible that other users are having the same issue I had and which has now been solved by following Panther’s suggestion (see above). Especially if ‘Invisible’ has become the default after the conversion. On the old forums, my own setting was ‘visible’.

[simon33]

Just tried updating the forum poster to include blocks which are supposed to disable the code block of markdown: enclosing in <div> </div> and single quotes. These don’t appear to work in the forum, even though they do in Dillinger.

I don’t know. There’s should be an easier way of doing such things! Not impressed that it is this difficult. Seems that there might be some way of configuring it off in the forum but that deactivates it globally I would guess.

[CWO Marc]

I’ve just noticed that the oval “Axis&Allies.org” graphic at the top left corner of the forum page doesn’t lead (as it used to on our old platform) to the www.axisandallies.org main site page; it simply leads back to the forum page itself (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/), i.e. clicking on it from the forum doesn’t actually take you anywhere else. I assume this is just a migration error that needs to be tweaked.

[Panther]

@CWO-Marc

What you see behind the “A&A .org” graphic is adjustable in the settings. So when you access the settings you can set the site to be linked under “Select a Homepage”:

(“None” is for the forum’s main page by default).

For directly accessing the axisandallies.org homepage we have this icon/button to be found in the toolbar to the right of the graphic:

[CWO Marc]

@Panther said in The new forum has been a lot of work and it's not done yet:

(“None” is for the forum’s main page by default).

For directly accessing the axisandallies.org homepage we have this icon/button to be found in the toolbar to the right of the graphic:

Thanks for the info. I’ve changed the Homepage setting to None, as you suggested, and I got a confirmation that the setting was successfully saved, and indeed it remains as “None” when I sign out and sign back in. The oval graphic, however, still keeps taking me to https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/. The little home icon you mentioned, however, does take me to https://www.axisandallies.org/, so I’ll use that to access the homepage; thanks for letting me know about that option.

[Panther]

@CWO-Marc

Just to confirm:
With “the forum’s main page” I referred to https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/, indeed.