Posts by Dani

Should be fixed. Unfortunately it had to wait for me to wake up and make it over to the computer to notice the problem.

> Then hide the quick-reply on threads that are older than N days.
Hmm ... Interesting. I will think about making it grayed out by default or something like that.

> And from the standpoint of "other forums", who cares. We are not "other forums". We are allowed to be better than them.
Yes, we should be better. But essentially I am also saying we need to be realistic. If this is a HUGEEEE issue for just about all other tech forums out there, it's not realistic for it to not be a problem at all for us. It is nice to know a starting point -- where we fall compared to everyone else out there -- so we know how much improvement really is an improvement.

> I worked with a warehouse storage system which guaranteed no more than 1% misstored (lost) merchandise. Sounds insignificant. When you calculated that 1% it came out to hundreds of pallets of merchandise. No longer insignificant.
But at least in that case you were able to quantify the problem at 1% and knew just how many that was. In this case, we're dealing with a VERY subjective couple of mods saying, "I've noticed more than I would like to see." I think a big part of setting a goal for improvement is actually sitting down and finding some way of calculating a starting point, knowing where we want to end up, and then figuring out what we need …

Do we really get a significant number of bumped threads considering how many pageviews and new posts & threads we get daily as a whole? Is the ratio really much more than on other forums?

> how about placing a date check script on the reply buttons
Because the majority of people use Quick Reply, not the full reply button to go to the advanced editor. The message that the thread is older than N days is located directly above the Quick Reply.

/server irc.daniweb.com
/join #DaniWeb

Still not sure why it wouldn't give you an error message.

I have an iPad and the only issue is the purple toolbar for logged in members not scrolling due to the darn iOS devices not adhering to CSS standards.

Not sure what you mean by link optimization? Backlinks? You always want a steady number of new links pointing to your site from relevant deep pages on other sites, linking to relevant deep pages on your own site.

Try different browsers and all have the same problem. Beside javascript, can spam cause the website to load smaller?

Not sure what you mean? Try Ctrl+0.

The static server issue was fixed yesterday (if not the day before yesterday).

I believe the problem is related to one of our static file servers that serves images and JavaScript. The hanging can be a result of JS not loading.

I'm experiencing the same problem right now. Some of the avatars in this thread are broken. Reaching out to blud ...

You shouldn't have to manually submit your site to any of the search engines anymore. Engines like Google find your site by crawling the web, following links from other sites pointing to your site. The more sites that link to you, and the more "authority" those sites have (based on how many links point to them), the higher your Page Rank, which influences your ranking in the search engines.

Because either they are posts in the Community Center (where reputation isn't affected) or the people who gave you rep don't have any rep power themselves to affect your reputation.

It means that those particular votes haven't affected your reputation positively or negatively.

I've thought about this many times, but have decided to hold off until the next reincarnation of the DaniWeb design. In the meantime, exploring all of the many vast features of the site is half the experience.

> Some members the way they are answering for doubts are really useful.
> I said they are giving impressive answers quickly for java queries.

Why didn't you say so in the first place? :)

I got my permit as soon as I turned 16, my junior license later in the year while still 16, and it automatically converted to a full license on my 17th birthday.

While I agree with you, the flip side is that it's really difficult to organize categories and subcategories in a forum where there is overlap just about everywhere. Every technology can be used with every other technology. That's why we use tags so that you can cross-reference topics. A lot of the newer Q&A communities such as StackOverflow work off of tags alone, completely eliminating the need for a prewritten static selection of categories.

Signatures don't show up unless you're logged in.

Eyal left to pursue a job offer in the city. He was running our monthly meetups, acting as our event coordinator, director of PR, and editor. His duties have been dispersed among myself, Adam and Kerry.

You can go into a member's profile, and in the left sidebar, it shows a count of how many threads they started vs how many replies/comments they made, how many code snippets they've contributed, etc.

This is possible. When accessing the page, the user will be presented with a Facebook dialog box from Facebook asking them if it is okay to share their public profile Facebook information with the current website.

Sometimes you see a similar dialog box when loading Facebook games such as Farmville.

Or use the links at the bottom of the web browser for new posts in forums you're interested in.

We're using it, but mostly because I'm afraid that if we don't we'll get left behind, as from what I understand Google will start including it as a factor in search ranking.

What if you try to clear your browser cache? (not your cookies)

Is it a beta version of Chrome? Hmm ...

If all they do is redirect, they shouldn't be showing up as soft-404 pages.

You can use the noindex meta tag on soft-404 pages so that they don't count against you spamming the Google index with lots of low quality pages.

Yes, that's true ... Google won't be able to follow internal links to pages only accessible from pages within the /site/ folder, if the /site/ folder is in the robots.txt disallow list. What's more, Google probably knows about these links from external backlinks (or from before the /site/ folder was disallowed), and because it cannot find any links to them anymore, considers them "orphan pages" -- aka a bad navigation structure.

In that case, disallowing the entire /site/ folder is not a good strategy.

If there are no pages within the /site/ folder that Googlebot has any reason to visit at all, then it's fine to leave it disallowed via robots.txt (in my opinion). When you ask if googlebot will still be able to "look around and sort the rest" are you worried that there are pages that are NOT in the /site/ folder but are only linked to from pages within the /site/ folder?

I've moved you into the registered users usergroup. Please go into your control panel and double check that the email you have on file with us is still accurate.

Just tried it ... the trick is that you need to refresh the page before/after the undo.

To change upvote to upvote+reputation ... You need to upvote, then undo the upvote, then redo the upvote and leave rep this time around.

There was a long discussion about this in Area 51 over the past week, but I forgot to make the public announcement. To copy & paste what was written there:

The main problem that I do have with our reputation system is, as Sanjay put it, that it feeds the rich and buries the poor. All of the regulars have a crazy amount of reputation power. Everyone else can't even affect reputation by one point.

So here's what happens ... The majority of members leave reputation amongst each other, but they never increase their reputation because none of them have any power to affect each other.

They all rely on a top poster who has lots of reputation to affect them. The only chance they have of ever climbing up the reputation ranks is to receive rep from a top poster. Meanwhile, all of the top posters are all friends, and run into each other on the site on a daily basis, and throw reputation at each other left and right. Therefore, the rich get richer.

So here's what I've done ...

Firstly, you may have noticed that your reputation has shifted slightly. I've made some adjustments to prior reputations that some people received, therefore affecting your reputation today.

Firstly, reputation used to be very different back 5, 6, 7 years ago when it was brand new to us. Rep power was crazy back then, and if AD thinks that +30 is crazy, it used to be +150 and …

I use thousands upon thousands of keywords, split across about 250 ad groups. Each of DaniWeb's 100 forums has about 2-3 ad groups. For example:

Forum being targeted: Networking
Ad Group: Networking - Routers
Keywords: router, routers, routing, using routers, about routers, with routers, configuring router, linksys router, cisco router, etc
Ad Group: Networking - Switches
Keywords: switch, switches, switching, using switches, about switches, with switches, configuring switches, linksys switch, cisco switch, etc

I'm not saying I actually use those exact keywords. That's just the general idea of what I do.

Glad you got it sorted.

When you started the thread, you entered keywords into the part where it said Tags. However, as a fairly new member to the community, you can only enter tags that are already in the system. You can't add your own new words.

No, they wouldn't. You would need to use <strong>Some text in here</strong> You can then code that strong tag however you want
You can even do strong { font-weight: normal; } so that it will have SEO weight but it won't look bold to the website visitor.

It's possible the page was found because someone visited the page while using the Google Toolbar in their web browser. Google finds out about pages all sorts of ways.

We have flag bad post. We have infractions. We have rep.

Maybe we need a button for whiner!

It's called the ignore list.

If you don't want it to show up, add it to your robots.txt file or add the meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

... Coming from someone who never bothered to fill in their bio or their primary role at their company/occupation within their member profile. (Incidentally, for the past year, new members are automatically presented with the questionnaire upon completing their registration).

Here's another way to do it ...

Go to the Advanced Search page and enter your username in the user field, and then select Code Snippets. However, you also have to change the dropdown menu below the user field from 'Find Posts by User' to 'Find Threads Started by User'. Where you went wrong was you were searching for all code snippet threads that you posted in, instead of just the ones you started.

Go into your member profile
Halfway down the page, on the left, it says 'Ancient Dragon has contributed XXX posts to our community'
Within that block, it says 'Code Snippets' and has a link to your code snippets, as well as a link to the stats page for your snippets so you can see at a glance how much traffic your snippets have accumulated.

Walt, had you cleared your cache?

Fixed, but you may need to clear your cache.

OK, I will check it out :)

Not sure what you mean. Whether or not it is "new" is a built-in vBulletin feature.

There are no plans to create a mobile app version of DaniWeb. There are plans, however, to investigate creating a very mobile-friendly version of the website.