For the love of God, don't put any daft time limits on editing. I go back and edit my posts from years ago to help future googlers (and myself) - if the steps to fix a problem have changed, for example.
eg. http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...angs-on-removing-applications-solved.2400405/
Most of the disruptive editing (backpeddling, editing posts while users are responding) is done within 5 minutes anyway, so the time limit is utterly futile and stupid.
ya, I know I have edited posts days later, when I notice some atrocious spelling....but I honestly don't mind a reasonable time limit on the option. Keeps people honest, but that doesn't really matter in the end.
Edit now working--score. Now onto posts per page, theme/contrast, and that obnoxious bar on the right side.
AnandTech has always given unlimited posts per page. Why change the rules that have worked just fine for 17 years?
A time limit prevents you from removing stuff from a for sale thread. It prevents people from reserving the first handful of posts for a review or guide. It prevent you from keeping a guide up to date, etc.
If someone is being a tool, someone will quote the original text and there is nothing the OP can do about that, so the history is preserved any ways.
It would be nice if there was a link back to the sub forum at the bottom of the page, though.
Posts per page is now a global forum setting that affects all users. Since we are unlikely to come to a consensus on how many to display, it's being left at 20 while we focus on addressing bugs and account issues. There's probably an add-on that will allow us to return posts per page to an individual user setting.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but it sounds like everyone except the staff wants more than 20.
"More than 20" is a pretty broad range
More than happy to increase this; just find me a number that everybody agrees on.
Quick Navigation, the little icon just over Privacy Policy on the bottom or top right.
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.
Neither of these options are correct from what I'm looking at. Here is a screenshot of what I'm seeing. As you can see, there is no option to "Start a New Conversation" anywhere. Even after typing in the recipient's name, the option still doesn't appear. Going to their information tab also doesn't show anything either. I'm beginning to wonder if it might be my browsers. I'm using the latest version of Chrome x64, and Edge on Redstone. But I don't see any conversation options anywhere
That is because you don't yet have the permissions for it; in order to send a PM/conversation on AnandTech, you have to have made at least 25 posts. This is a policy that has been in effect for some time, I believe.
Posts per page is likely staying at 20 in the interest of load speed. Almost all the modern forum software platforms have a less than 25 setting here. Though we might look into possibly increasing the default of 20 at some point. (We need to see what load times are like once we have some data)
Likes are staying - it's part of core XenForo. You don't have to use 'em, but the kids like 'em.
Seriously? I could run 100 posts per page in 1999 on Fusetalk when I was using Dial-up. There is no forum I am a member of that will not allow you to adjust posts per page, including others on XenoForum. 20 posts per page is incredibly annoying, especially if you are trying to find a specific thing.
Threads/page is a personal setting that you can find here: http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=account/preferences
Posts/page is currently set to 25, but we'll look into expanding this given all the requests for it.
Posts per page is now a global forum setting that affects all users. Since we are unlikely to come to a consensus on how many to display, it's being left at 20 while we focus on addressing bugs and account issues. There's probably an add-on that will allow us to return posts per page to an individual user setting.
start a thread in personal forum issues. that's how we've always dealt with this issue.Well in my actual account I am a diamond member with over 4,000 posts, but since my old password and account no longer work for whatever reason, I was forced to make a new account. I want my old account back though, which is why I wanted to PM the community manager so that he could take a look at it.
^ Wise decision. It's particularly useful if you're creating a new thread that keeps track of a list of something, (eg, links to review roundups or a hardware issue that affects many people) and making the first post in the thread a summary that gets updates over a period of days/weeks/months.Post edit time limit has been reverted to unlimited after clearing up a minor miscommunication.
The max avatar file size is currently set to 25,000 bytes. So you should be able to upload something bigger than 7KB.I think I figured out the avatar issue: it's only taking files ~7 KB max for new uploads. I kept downscaling and trying different formats until I figured it out.
I recall the vB filesize being low, as well - my old avatar was under that - but I was trying to upload a new one that I hadn't downscaled or converted to GIF of < 7 KB. Which is a minuscule limit given the current avatar size of 96 x 96 and profile suggested minimum of 200 x 200 pixel size, so I hope it's raised to something reasonable. Even a few KB more would have accommodated all the old avatars; right now it appears all the working avatars (at least the ones I checked) are under 7 KB.