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[zinfamous]

@zinfamous

Notable members are usually ranked by post count. Current Visitors, self explanatory ditto for Recent Activity and New Profile posts are posts made to user's profiles.

yeah but what's the point?

 

[Stuka87]

Oh, having no area list on the left is aggravating. And please, less white!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

How the hell do you edit or multi quote?

 

[paperfist]

yeah but what's the point?

Give the natives something else to do? I would think OT would gobble up post count ranks. Recent activity is really just another way to see what's active instead of sifting though each forum.

I think the real strength of this software is when someone replies to your post you actually get an alert and can find it. I can't tell you how many times I made a post or reply and got sick of checking 30 pages to see if there was a reply.

The likes, yeah, yeah, yeah all Facebook like. I find them useful to see if other posters actually liked a post or not. Some forums you make a post in and no one comments even if they liked it or not. There's a mod that lets you expand them into funny, dislike, winner, etc and it for me adds another dimension to posting.

You can tag people out with the @ sign and again I think it adds depth to a thread.

 

[Ken g6]

Not that it's a big deal, but something's gone wrong with my trophies.

5+15+30+10+10+5+0+1 = 5?

 

[paperfist]

Oh, having no area list on the left is aggravating. And please, less white!

Not sure if it'll help you but at the bottom left of the forum is a double diagonal set of arrows that will shrink or expand the forum size.

How the hell do you edit or multi quote?

Looks like they forgot to tun on editing

 

[jpishgar]

Permissions issue is still affecting post edits - aware of the issue, working to fix it. Permissions got a little wonky in the transition, but fortunately, all the content migrated over rather smoothly.

Hey Purch guys, is there a way to have a per-user option to disable avatars and inline (user posted) images?

Not for nothing, but I'm an AnandTech guy. Hardly "other" people.
A minimalist option might be available, and if not, there's oodles of mods, add-ons, and plugins we can go for now that we've got a modern forum platform. The wonderful thing about XenForo is that it is incredibly, fantastically extensible. The current iteration you see is a trim vanilla we picked for the port, to make sure all the wiggly bits get moved and stable.

How the hell do you edit or multi quote?

Multi-quote is... an option somewhere here. I'll enable it right now. If it breaks the platform, you buy the beer.

-JP

 

[Suigeneris81]

PM jpishigar and/or the new community manager person that have posted in this thread. that seems to be happening to some members

How on Earth do you even send a PM? I don't see an option for that anywhere

 

[Carson Dyle]

Members' locations should be shown in the user info box, along with joined date, message count, etc.

 

[tidy]

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[Brainonska511]

Beyond the default theme, I haven't seen too many issues browsing the forums. I was even able to upload a new avatar (latest iteration of Firefox/Windows 10).

Edit: Testing editing

 

[Ken g6]

How on Earth do you even send a PM? I don't see an option for that anywhere

See the little white envelope icon (like ) in the upper-right, on the orange bar? That's how you start "Conversations", which are the new PMs.

Edit: (Yes, I have an edit button) I see a new problem: I tried to post an emoji (&#x1F582 but it was blocked.

 

[Titillating]

Is anybody able to edit their own posts yet? (Besides mods and admins)

Permissions for that should be fixed up, and the brief test I did with a dummy account seemed to work fine.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Avatar upload is working now for me. I think it's just really hard-to-believe slow. In fact, the forums themselves aren't particularly snappy, but that's nothing new.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Is anybody able to edit their own posts yet? (Besides mods and admins)

Permissions for that should be fixed up, and the brief test I did with a dummy account seemed to work fine.

Yes, I have an edit button now.

 

[Suigeneris81]

See the little white envelope icon (like ) in the upper-right, on the orange bar? That's how you start "Conversations", which are the new PMs

Yeah I saw that, but how do you select a forum member to start a conversation? I don't see an option to do that, even in the profile of the person you want to PM. The only thing I see is that you can leave public messages on their profile page, but that's not a PM.

I don't like this new system at all. It's very unintuitive..

 

[balloonshark]

Is anybody able to edit their own posts yet? (Besides mods and admins)

Permissions for that should be fixed up, and the brief test I did with a dummy account seemed to work fine.

I was able to edit my post #124. Nice work!

 

[Ken g6]

Yeah I saw that, but how do you select a forum member to start a conversation? I don't see an option to do that, even in the profile of the person you want to PM. The only thing I see is that you can leave public messages on their profile page, but that's not a PM.

I don't like this new system at all. It's very unintuitive..

Point to the envelope, click "Start a New Conversation", then type the user's name. I see what you mean, though, I don't see a way to start a conversation from a user's post or profile.

 

[jpishgar]

Edit permissions should be fixed now. We'll continue working on the remaining issues, all.
Thanks for your patience, everyone.
-JP

 

[Titillating]

Point to the envelope, click "Start a New Conversation", then type the user's name. I see what you mean, though, I don't see a way to start a conversation from a user's post or profile.

From their profile page, go to the "Information" tab. The option to start a new conversation is there.

 

[Brainonska511]

Is anybody able to edit their own posts yet? (Besides mods and admins)

Permissions for that should be fixed up, and the brief test I did with a dummy account seemed to work fine.

I have no problems editing posts now. Though, I didn't really check before when people mentioned the issue.

 

[Crono]

Edit permissions should be fixed now. We'll continue working on the remaining issues, all.
Thanks for your patience, everyone.
-JP

Really appreciate the updates

 

[paperfist]

Is anybody able to edit their own posts yet? (Besides mods and admins)

Permissions for that should be fixed up, and the brief test I did with a dummy account seemed to work fine.

I can too.

Is editing for an unlimited about of time or is it fixed?

 

[Brainonska511]

I can too.

Is editing for an unlimited about of time or is it fixed?

I can't tell if there was a time limit, but I was able to edit a post from a few days ago.

 

[Titillating]

I can too.

Is editing for an unlimited about of time or is it fixed?

I don't recall what it was previously, but it is currently set to be unlimited. This may change in the near future pending discussion and feedback from the moderation team.