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If that's the case, other than the fact it states it closes at "board time such and such", what's wrong with the polls? Their times would still be accurate for the user looking at them based on their offset time.

Yes.

I'm just saying this has caused confusion before, and with an actual "board time" clock elsewhere, I doubt people'd be less confused. The ideal solution would be to fix the poll term, but last time I asked you said you couldn't do that, or somesuch.

Well, now that I know more of the programing side of things, I'll see what I can do.

Done.

That's better - you couldn't have done that before?

What, and miss out on all of your haranguing?

Okay, at risk of sounding "haranguing" - can you please put the recent posters bit back where it was?

Pretty please?

No. But thanks for asking.

Thanks

Can you find a hack so that when you enter a forum, a voice will come over the speakers saying "Welcome to (whatever the name of the forum might be)". I think that offers a friendly, warm, Wal-Marty feel to the boards. Whistling smilie faces are, of course, optional

I'll look into it.

What I see @ the top of the LW home page (response to shoutbox bit):

Gary - it's my custom title for sure. If I change that to simply "test," both avatar and status turn up.

I wonder - could it be something to do with the fact that the UBB never sticks and I have to re-enter my title every time I edit the profile because the font size info turns into HTML?

Being able to edit/quote the size function is a bug I've been trying to fix for awhile now.

The culprit for most matters seems to be the single-quote character. I changed my title from "Dawnstar's brother" to "Brother of Dawnstar" and re-logged in, and my title and avatar appear. It doesn't appear to balk on period characters.

Time displays for me only as Current Time, but I'm on Pacific time, as are Gary and the server.

The fader still doesn't fade, even after that change -- it displays the three text items in turn, full intensity. It worked in Netscape 7.02 (based on Mozilla 1.1). It now doesn't work, for me, in Netscape 7.1 (Mozilla 1.4).

I'm not that much of a fader-effect fan, as it may be slightly slowing the response time (as did the animated starfield background of some weeks ago). But I'm noting it, anyway.

I thought the fader may be one of those Netscape's-unique-HTML-quirks issues, but Gary said in tonight's Shoutbox that he could see it with v7.1.

Nope. You're right. Since I only logged on enough to check real quick, I didn't noticed that it wasn't fading just showing the words. This fader.js is supposed to work on all the major browsers. Obviously v7.1 has made some changes since then.

[Sanity or Madness?]
{[...] And this has come up before, it's not as if it's a purely theoretical thing. (God, I'm starting to sound like Grey. Please, someone, shoot me in the head ...) (Not literally, BTW)}

I resemble that remark!

I'm really that much of a grouse? You're catching up and surpassing me these days, amigo ... 'tis the nature of bug reports, though. Don't shoot the messenger, even when it's via AOL Instant Messenger {g}

Test for the posting icon on the quick reply.

The front-page Current Time display seems to be 12 hours off, as it's now displaying 12:18:00 AM (PDT), where it should be 12:18 PM. Time stamps are otherwise correct for the forums, posted messages, and edited messages.

(By the way, I've posted a few notes here in SPHQ about such bugs and board hacks so that they'll have a record, and not to "shout" about them twice to get them noticed. Gary notices things quickly. What's posted in the front-page Shoutbox, though, evaporates pretty quickly with new shouts being added ... unless the shouts are archived?)

Oh, now THAT is strange ... it's 1:10 PM (PDT), and the Current Time display now says, you guessed it, 1:10 PM, as it ought to.

Whatever script creates this time display is parsing the hour after noon as being "AM"! (And, presumably, the hour after midnight as being "PM".) Yoicks!

Methinks somebody "sold" Gary a lemon of a Current Time script *sigh*

Gary just curious if this was a hack you installed or if it was part of the upgrade. But since when don't we have to use the [url] code to post an url?

Scott - that's been there from the start. Heck it was around on the oldDCMB's version of UBB, and that was v5.

That's interesting because even back on the old DCMB if I posted a relative url I had to put the code in otherwise it was just text instead of an active link.

Here's another question. In the new Shanghalla why does my edit in the Waid/Kitson thread come up as edited by Annoying Lad? Especially when I was the one to edit it.

And I have to ask is having a repository for all edits made really worth while, especially since it will cause an extra load on the server? I edit my posts frequently and hate to think of how much more space that will take up.

I'm gathering the impression that some of us are reporting more bugs than Gary or Scott would prefer to hear about -- or, perhaps, even have the time to talk about or deal with. Which last I could certainly understand. Still, I know I don't want to offend either of them.

Should I not have said anything about the main-page "Current Time" clock not working properly? (Once gain, the hour periods starting at midnight, as "00:01 AM", and noon, as "12:01 AM", are not really displaying accurately.)

I ask this because nobody, in the SP HQ thread or in the Shoutbox, has said anything at all in response about it for four days. So I have to wonder if I, and others, are reporting too much. Scott did call it "haranguing."

Nothing personal, but I don't want to be wasting either your time or mine, or cluttering this forum or the Shoutbox. If you would rather not have reports from us about such things, I, for one, will stop posting them. Please tell us on the board if we should stop doing so.