That one forum had its permissions set wrong. I fixed it.

The method for viewing/setting permissions on the BBS is a bit of a pain. You can't group-set permissions for multiple forums, and you can't even see a grid of all the permissions for every forum at the same time. I don't think there's even a "default" set of permissions so that new forums aren't created wide-open (which is what happened with that forum I think).

Well, here's a couple grumbles and a question.

1. The UserList is wide open. It used to only be available once you logged in.

2. If you're not logged in, and you click on "Active Topics" you can see the first page. But when you click the "next" link to see the second page, you are told "must be logged in to use search features."

3. What's the shortcut to be automailed with responses to my posts, like in the old days? I'm afraid I might miss one and neglect to respond to someone asking me a question.

Please can we get the search page modified?

The 'Newer than' option is a pain in the butt because it doesn't default to a sensible value. Unlike other forums where last weeks threads are old news, this forum contains useful information in threads 2,3 and 4 years old. Ideally this value would default to 10 years and would catch everything ever posted that matches. If a searcher wants to narrow it down manually then he can easily. I'd settle for 1 year if you're concerned about server load.

I'd like to see the number of search results default to 50 per page,

What I'd also _really_ like to see is discrete links to pages in the search results. When I search for something and end up with more results than expected I'd like some method of advancing through 5 or 6 pages quickly until I get to the timeframe that I think I need without having to click 'next' 5 times and waiting for the results each time. It is possible to edit the URL to achieve this(*), so it should be possible to generate the links fairly easily. Something like "Previous, p-5, p-4, p-3, p-2, p-1, <p>, p+1, p+2, p+3, p+4, p+5, Next" would be ideal. (Similar to Google's handling of search results)

(*) If you edit the URL such that you ask for a page that is beyond the result set then you get a "You must be logged in to use the search engine" error.

FWIW, if you change the time unit to the blank one, then it searches all mesages. You don't even have to touch the number in the field in front of it. Not that a better default wouldn't be better, but until then....

Please can we get the search page modified?


Uhhh... yeah. What he said.

tanstaafl.

Sometimes I'm an idiot and when the new posts for a given thread span a page break, I miss it and accidentally go back to the index instead of clicking on to the next page. The old software would leave the second page's posts marked as unread, but the new software marks them read. The old way is better since sometimes I only just barely notice that there's another page, which makes me wonder how often I've just skipped past a page's worth of posts because I don't realize that they're there.

Sorry to hear about any medical issues, I hope those get resolved

I just wanted to see if you'd found out anything in regards to the user preferences problem. I thought I'd seen a couple people change their avatars, so I'm curious to hear what the problem is...

The user profile problem should be fixed. It was a bug where too many addslash commands got run under certain situations. If it's still happening, I'll need to file a bug report on it.

Yup, still happening

Any news on the profile problem?

I have the final 6.5 software that I hope to get installed sometime soon and that should fix it.

It's also why search hasn't changed the default days. I figure if I log into that server to make one change, I'll get sucked into upgrading the entire thing right then.

Go here first, then log in:
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads/logout.php?Cat=0

All fixed now. Excellent job, Tom.