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I hit an bug where some (but not all) URLs are lost after editing at post.

The intended URL was
BMW Drive for Team USA - BMW North America
. I posted it at annoying car myths you've heard thread... | PriusChat. When I went back to edit the post, the BMW link was lost and just became regular text, while the CR link was fine.

It's easily repro. If I click Edit, in the edited version, sure enough, the link's undergone the loss. I also was able to repro in this post.

I also noticed more feature loss. In vBulletin, one could enter a title for each reply to thread. There seems to be no way w/this software.

 

Setting my default to read threads in newest->oldest order?

In the world of problems, this is just a personal preference. The old system let me set thread reading so I started with most recent and could quickly scan down. I found it much easier than always starting with the oldest post and having to jump to the end.

Is there any possibility that feature might show up again?

I am growing to like "Alerts" and do appreciate what a monumental task it was.

Thanks,
Bob Wilson

 

That would seem a little far fetched. And anyway, one person's posts are not crucial to such a big group as this. It seems that the most important stuff is well repeated.

What does happen is that something just plain incorrect gets posted, and deleting it is just doing a favor for anyone who comes along later to read the thread. I am still learning...

 

^^^
Yeah, users deleting their own posts seemed to be disallowed when we were on vBulletin (it's not that vBulletin didn't allow it, but rather the Danny didn't allow it).

However, here on Priuschat under vBulletin, I've seen posters go back and delete their posts by just changing them to "deleted" (or something to that effect) or a single period. :/

I hope this next issue hasn't been posted yet as I don't have the bandwidth to keep up w/all the posts here.

If links lead to somewhere beyond page 1 of a thread, one gets sent to page 1. Example: if you Bing or Google for for site: priuschat.com bwilson4web gasoline tests shell
(you'll need to remove the space between the : and p), if you click on the link that leads to page 41

Code:

http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii-2010-prius-main-forum/64211-warning-running-out-gas-gen-iii-41.html

, one will get sent to page 1 of the new thread on this site.

I don't know if this is easily fixable by Danny. I'm not sure if pages from vBulletin can map cleanly to pages on this new software.

 

Hi Danny, Nice job on the site, I know you worked long and hard to reprogram. I have one problem. I am using a IPad and cannot get smileys anymore, am I missing something? TY

 

A smiley free zone is not a bad thing.

 

Another vote to restore this feature. It makes it much more convenient to be able to click on a thread and see the recent replies that have been posted since the last time I looked at the thread. Thanks.

 

It's happened 3-4 times to me.
It's NOT happening at any other website I visit.
But since this changeover, I've now had 3-4 occasions at Prius Chat where the whole thing will simply freeze.
I can do nothing to reset or re-awaken, ctrl alt delete won't even work. I'm forced to shut down just to get my computer working again.
Since it only seems to be happening occasionally upon visits to the "new" Prius Chat, I wondered if anyone else would admit to having this happen to them.

 

I just wanted to thank you for the work you've put in. So far I've posted one message, so I haven't really had a chance to get bug-bitten yet, if there are any floating around out there. But so far, it LOOKS really nice. The work you put in shows. Thanks. [h/w+s/w: Lenovo Intel Quad Core, 8 GB memory, 320 GB HD, Linux Fedora Core + Firefox 11.0]

 

What prompted this change in Prius Chat? Was there a problem with the old style? Go back to the old, I don't like this new one.

 

Yes I too have been having system freeze problems. Just had to restart Windows Explorer upon hitting Post Reply for this post. I am using XP.

 

everything has been working fine for me, as far as i can tell.

 

Please relax about this change. I've had enough experience with vBulletin to suggest, in the politest way possible, please don't wish for a return to that package. Seriously, the problems of this software are but 'ghosts' compared to vBulletin.

Bob Wilson

 

It's never happened here. What if you hit Ctrl-Shift-Escape and leave the Task Manager up while browsing?

Have you checked your event logs to see if there's anything interesting around the time you're hitting lockups? What OS (including "bitness") and browser (w/version) are you using?

 

One other enhancement would be to allow us to list more than one Prius model. I've overloaded my address field to show the 2003 but it might be useful to have all Prius listed with each owner. Certainly, a future mileage database should allow multiple cars per owner.

Bob Wilson

 

Not sure if this is consistently happening but it seems to me that once I've read a thread, in total, and then I come back to the the mail PiP forum it may, or may not, have marked the thread as 'read'. I know that sometimes someone slips a reply in as I'm reading and so there actually is new entry that I haven't read. But that doesn't always seem to be the case. I know in the old format, it was very easy to see those threads that I had read and it was reliably accurate.

Overall, nice working site. Thanks for the upgrade.

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