Upgrading our aged vbulliten forum

[chkdsk]

Dont even know where to check the time. However I have tried to upload my avatar using three different browsers so far (including chrome) and no dice. I was successful on uploading a pic to my signature tho .... strange but then im pretty computer stupid.

Hi Krank, The time part that I'm talking about is just above your post in the same white window part. It says your post on this was yesterday at 8:08pm, does it show you that on your screen? I'll take another look at the avatar part.

[chkdsk]

Hi Krank,Regarding Avatars; I just tried 30 different image files and it did have issues with some of them but most seemed to load. I just changed mine now.Can you do me a favour and try some other files to see if it works out? File size seems to be the key (although I'm not sure) as it seems to have issues with larger files. The ones that balked out on me were over 2MB's but smaller ones were just fine. If you're still hitting a wall can you email me a sample of one of the avatar files you are trying so I can see if it also fails on my end? Email is Jordan (AT) megacomputers.ca. Also please let me know what kind of issues you are seeing with a print screen (Alt-Print Screen).When I try a large file I get this screen shot:[ATTACH=CONFIG]n193874[/ATTACH]But when I try a smaller file I get:[ATTACH=CONFIG]n193875[/ATTACH]I hope you don't mind helping me with this, I know others want it solved too.Please let me know. Thanks.

[chkdsk]

I've noticed the forum removes all carriage returns when posting from an iPhone.

Can you guys with iPhone's and other Smartphones do some tests for me please? Use this thread to try posting in different ways to see if we can nail down the carriage return issue.What I would like you to try is using the Toggle Advance Editor feature within the Post Box. Try posting with it on/off and see if it makes a difference.Also while you're under the Advance Editor, try the remove format option to see if that helps or hurts. There are other tools in there too to try.Please experiment and let me know.Thanks.

[Jim Eh.]

Hi Krank' date='The time part that I'm talking about is just above your post in the same white window part. It says your post on this was yesterday at 8:08pm, does it show you that on your screen? I'll take another look at the avatar part.[/quote']Time works.

[Jim Eh.]

This is hte file I was trying to use as an avatar. It seems I am able to upload it in a message just fine.

[Corey]

Can you guys with iPhone's and other Smartphones do some tests for me please? Use this thread to try posting in different ways to see if we can nail down the carriage return issue. What I would like you to try is using the Toggle Advance Editor feature within the Post Box. Try posting with it on/off and see if it makes a difference. Also while you're under the Advance Editor' date=' try the remove format option to see if that helps or hurts. There are other tools in there too to try. Please experiment and let me know. Thanks.[/quote'] Copied above post and pasted from an iPhone as a test: Can you guys with iPhone's and other Smartphones do some tests for me please? Use this thread to try posting in different ways to see if we can nail down the carriage return issue. What I would like you to try is using the Toggle Advance Editor feature within the Post Box. Try posting with it on/off and see if it makes a difference. Also while you're under the Advance Editor, try the remove format option to see if that helps or hurts. There are other tools in there too to try. Please experiment and let me know. Thanks.

[Corey]

How do you get to the advanced editor from the mobile app? On that note, I'd love to have a toggle that would let mobile users switch to the desktop view. The mobile view sucks if you have a fast enough connection. I have two carriage returns plus multiple spaces between "...app?" And "On that note..."

[Jim Eh.]

O.K. I have been playing around with this yesterday and today and I have not been successful in editing the typo "This is hte file I was trying to use as an avatar. It seems I am able to upload it in a message just fine."Is a matter of fact, on the mobile, I cannot even see the text when i enter edit mode.

[Jim Eh.]

O.K. now I am really stumped ... I just successfully edited my post #42 but still cannot edit the text in my post #39???

[Corey]

I copied the original text before clicking the 'edit' button and pasted it. Then make the changes. Odd, but it works.

[Brian_Earl_Spilner]

Yeah, the avatar uploading is flaky. When you upload an image, it throws an error message saying it was unsuccessful or something, but if you refresh your profile, it shows that it DID take.

[Jeff]

I got no error message when trying to upload my avatar.When I choose a photo to upload, one of two things will happen: 1) Absolutely nothing; 2) It asks me to resize the photo but doesn't display the photo and all I can do is Cancel.

[Brian_Earl_Spilner]

I got no error message when trying to upload my avatar.When I choose a photo to upload' date=' one of two things will happen: 1) Absolutely nothing; 2) It asks me to resize the photo but doesn't display the photo and all I can do is Cancel.[/quote']Don't know what to tell you... mine worked, but I had to do it a few times before it would take. Yeah, I got to the resizing portion too, but there was no "save" button or anything. I just refreshed my profile after resizing, and the avatar was there. Buggy as hell.

[Jim Eh.]

Also I cannot just cancel or save to get back to the previous screen, I have to right click and select go back. It is like the page will not refresh on it's own after an input.

[Jeff]

I've noticed a lot of glitches in the reply field as well. When I move the cursor manually it sometimes skips me to the beginning or end of the current line, so I have to place the cursor several times before I can actually type or delete what I want to. This is a big concern, as I'm worried that some of the horrible things I type about people might accidentally get posted before I go back and delete them.It also sometimes just gives me some kind of error while typing when it's trying to autosave. Last time it did it in the middle of a long post while I was hitting the backspace key, so it took one of my backspaces as a 'Back' command in the browser, and the post was lost forever. :'(Overall I'm pretty frustrated with the changes. The site's utility has decreased substantially.

[Jim Eh.]

And here I thought it was some Win 7.0 prob. I get the same thing, or triple posts. I have noticed a huge delay in "writing" the post. Maybe a dB issue? Is it possible to turn "auto-save" to OFF?

[chkdsk]

Testing a post on a Blackberry Q10.

[chkdsk]

And here I thought it was some Win 7.0 prob. I get the same thing, or triple posts. I have noticed a huge delay in "writing" the post. Maybe a dB issue? Is it possible to turn "auto-save" to OFF?

Good idea, I will check.

Overall I'm pretty frustrated with the changes. The site's utility has decreased substantially.

Sorry you feel that way Jeff, obviously we're working on this and trying to improve it. Thanks.

[chkdsk]

After going through pages and pages of settings, here is what I have changed;- For image processing which includes thumbnails/avatars I have changed it from GD to NONE. Let's see how that goes with the Avatars. This could be wrong, we'll find out quick.- Finally found the setting and I have disabled "Auto Save" for messages, please let me know if that helps.- FINALLY found the signatures issues and it is now working. Test it out. You may have to edit your personal options to "Show Signatures" to see others plus you can edit your own signature.- For mobile devices there doesn't seem to be a way to browse in "normal" mode rather than mobile mode. I'm still checking that out.- On Chrome I know have an error popping up every 30 seconds or so saying bad server response. I will check in to that.

This is hte file I was trying to use as an avatar. It seems I am able to upload it in a message just fine.

Hi Krank' date=' I tried that same picture you were trying and it would not work for me although other JPG's did. No clue why. Also it appears this image is now being displayed in your signature line. Can you grab this image and see if it works for you on your avatar?. [img']http://forums.wscc.mb.ca/filedata/fetch?id=193954You don't have to use it, just let me know if it works as it does for me. Thanks.

[Jim Eh.]

I also tried the same pic using a download from a couple of my home computers as well as using the WSCC URL with no luck. I will try with the current settings and I will try your sample pic. One thing I did find was that most of my problems occurred due to the lag in writing anything to the site. Thanks for the work/time.

[Jim Eh.]

Nope no luck. I cannot even manually type in an address in the avatar donwload from box, only the URL box so to "browse" will not fill in a local file location to retrieve the file.

[Jim Eh.]

I cannot upload your picture from the WSCC URL either it gives me an "ERROR. Invalid URL" message. Omce again, I cannot "cancel" I have to right click and select "back" from the pop up menu.

[Jim Eh.]

One thing I did notice, the speed has improved greatly with no "working" info box at the top of the screen and no popup at the bottom asking if I want to save to my local machine.

[chkdsk]

I cannot upload your picture from the WSCC URL either it gives me an "ERROR. Invalid URL" message.

This error was my fault when I changed the "Auto Save" option to disable. I was getting the same error. Now that I turned it back on and changed it from 60 seconds to 10 mins it has gone away. Let me know if it has for you too. If it hasn't' date=' please let me know specifics like device, OS and browser.

Nope no luck. I cannot even manually type in an address in the avatar donwload from box' date=' only the URL box so to "browse" will not fill in a local file location to retrieve the file.[/quote'] Instead of typing in a URL, can you download that file to your device then use the BROWSE? It works for me on several different computers.I really appreciate your research on this.Thanks.

[Jim Eh.]

No, I cannot use the browse option nor can I type in to the file source box beside the "browse" selection button. Cancel will not work either. this is the case with IE, Firefox and Chrome.

[chkdsk]

No' date=' I cannot use the browse option nor can I type in to the file source box beside the "browse" selection button. Cancel will not work either. this is the case with IE, Firefox and Chrome.[/quote']Hi Krank, do you mind emailing jordan (at) megacomputers.ca please? I would like to touch base with you personally so we can take a look at this. Thanks

[Jeff]

Sorry you feel that way Jeff' date=' obviously we're working on this and trying to improve it.[/quote']Actually I'm sorry. That wasn't a very useful piece of feedback and I probably should have kept it to myself. I do appreciate the work you're putting into fixing everything.On a more constructive note, it appears I can no longer delete threads. In both cases, it looks like it's going to let me do it (asks for a reason and for my password), but when I try to complete the deletion I get an error.When I try to delete a topic from the list of topics (i.e. from outside the thread itself), I get this error: no_permissionWhen I try to delete the first post in a topic, I get this error: Error: Sorry, you are not authorized to view this pageIt looks like I can still soft-delete posts within a thread, but no longer have the option to hard-delete, which I sometimes do if I see duplicate posts, just to keep things clean.I am using Chrome and experience the same problems on WinXP and OSX.

[Jim Eh.]

~~O.K. So Jordan and I were experimenting with user setting tonight and seemed to have found what works to allow you to upload an avatar. Either that or the planets just aligned themselves exactly at the right time. Anyway what we found was a setting in user accounts had to be selected. I will outline what we did and what is selected in my settings to allow me to upload an avatar.On the Forums main page:go to the top right where your user name is and select “My Profile”then in the left hand frame under the blank avatar picture is listed some options, select “Edit Settings”then beside “Profile” select Account (slightly greyed out on my screen until it is actually selected)below your Email address boxes are some selections and mine are as follows:Private Messaging – UNCHECKEDReceive Private Messaging – From all Members – CHECKEDVisitor Messaging – Enable Visitor Messaging – CHECKEDEmailing – CHECKEDConversation Detail Operations – ALL CHECKEDDisplay mode – Topic View – CHECKEDPosts per page – Use Forum DefaultDate and Time Options – (GNT -6:00) Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City) SELECTEDDST Correction – Automatically detect DST settings – SELECTEDStart of the Week – Sunday – SELECTEDOther User Customizations – Show other user customizations – CHECKEDAnd no blocks – posts or names – YET ;)These settings should allow you to upload your avatar. Once you find that you can upload your avatar you can try to change these settings IF SO DESIRED. Then check to see what effect it has on you connection to the forums to see if all is well in the world. Just keep track of what you change and try not to make to many changes at one time.What I had to change was my "Visitor Messaging Enabled" setting. Go figure, don't know why but that's what it took to work.Hope this helps.DON"T FORGET TO "SAVE" BEFORE LEAVING THE PAGE.

[Jim Eh.]

Just tried posting on different Win versions. Seems there is an issue with Win 7.0 - 8.1 vs. XP. As I post this on a 7.0 machine I get the "OPEN or SAVE" messge at the bottom with what seems like a lag and a requirement to "refresh" to see the changes. Anyone else notice that?

[Need my Focusin]

I have. It looks like the site is returning a json file as a response to a post reply action.