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6:59 pm
9 Nov 2007


Rance

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I’m running what could be one of the busiest boards that use SF, and there’s quite a few "bugs" that the computer nerds on those boards are reporting…

It would be wise if you’re looking for a change list to visit our forums and the Bug Fix Requests forums here:

http://epilepticgaming.ggl.com/forums?forum=5&page=1

Here’s a couple of requests:

 When changing the ‘Display Name‘ in user profile settings (in wordpress, the ‘Display Name‘ is not changed in Simple Forum.  I have just changed my display name in Wordpress to Rance from djRoME and the forum still refers to me as djRoME.

The ‘Most Recent Topics With Unread Posts‘ block isn’t sorted by chronology, and that’s something that my users are interested in as well, newest at top, oldest below using the ‘Last Post’ column for sorting.

Another possible bug reported by my users is outlined in this thread,

http://epilepticgaming.ggl.com/forums?forum=5&topic=1665&page=1

Small image bug reported in this thread:

http://epilepticgaming.ggl.com/forums?forum=5&topic=1884&page=2

 Please know that the users on the forum do have a rough tone when reporting bugs, it has mostly to do with the premise of the website that the forums are on.  It’s an internet TV gaming show with extremely explicit language and harsh American tone, so excuse the crude whining lolz  its all part of the act.

Of course, any streamlining of code to lower page render times is greatly appreciated, especially in a decent traffic forum like ours.

OK, thanks alot for this wonderful plugin!

 

7:45 pm
9 Nov 2007


Yellow Swordfish

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Peterborough, England

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I read through the first link and couldn’t find anything I could actually identify as a quantifiable problem.

Actually this is also true of the second and third links. Lots of ranting but if there is a repeatable problem in there that is applicable to 2.1 then again - I didn’t see it.  

As to the display name - it uses the WP display name for all users except for the admin. The admin can override both their login and display name in the first options tab. I actually did this for my own  use as I don’t want my WP ‘display name’ to appear - I wanted to use an alternative in the forums. For everyone else, it uses the WP display name.

The Most Recent Topics with Unread Posts (beneath the forums on front page) ARE chronological. I just went to your site to take a look at yours and they are perfectly sorted. So you could help by explaining a little further just what you mean here please.

9:44 pm
12 Nov 2007


Rance

Guest

 
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this screen cap shows that the most recent threads is NOT sorted chronologically, at least by last post which is what they want

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/1989093577_82118c13b0_o.jpg

The first users’ report was that if you have pagination set at 20 posts, if there are 20 posts in the thread the thread is a blank page until post 21 comes, then it paginates correctly.

The second users’ report was one of a missing icon in the install, shown in this image:

http://www.pbase.com/fatbaby/image/87420568/large.jpg

Again, the users do curse alot, but they are right and are mimicking the character of the TV show (Epileptic Gaming) whose website they are on… You weren’t able to read thru their language I guess :) I wouldnt expect anyone who speaks the king’s english to handle it anyway :)

Thanks for setting me straight on the Display Name report, I hadn’t tested it with a non-admin account, sot hat makes sense.

Hope this clears up the report and gives you a few things to think about.

 

12:52 am
13 Nov 2007


Yellow Swordfish

Admin

Peterborough, England

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New Post Sorting: Of course when I looked at your site I was not logged in so I saw a Guests view. Looking again tonight - for me they are perfectly sorted. It’s somewhat odd though as the posts in that view are sorted by the ID of the post which is auto incremented. But I’ll take a look.

Pagination: Well this, as far as I could tell, was raised before 2.1 which, as far as I am aware, resolved that problem. If anyone knows differently then I’d like to hear about it.

And yes - there was a missing icon in the install on one of the skins. But again - I think that was 2.0.



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