Posts by Dani

Gah! I'll look into it this week (either Wed or Thurs).

New members don't use code tags because they just want a quick answer to their one-off homework question and so they post without taking the time to read our rules. You're kidding yourself if you think that they ARE going to take the time to do a couple of practice posts in a test forum before asking their question.

But what's the point of it? Right now we have new members learning about our system and introducing themselves to our community all at the same time. What would be the point of giving them a place to post complete junk?

Nope. It's just pretending to be a forum. It really isn't one. :)

It looks like a forum filled with complete jibberish. (IMO almost embarassing for Opera) I'm confused by the point of it. Why entice new members to get accustomed to our system by submitting complete jibberish when they're already learning how to use DaniWeb by formulating interesting threads in the Community Introductions forum which simultaneously helps build the community?

I don't know what MyIE2 is.

This is a known bug with IE6. It was fixed in IE7.

Weird. I wonder what it was.

Nope, and I haven't made any changes since yesterday either. Does it happen with every thread?

Hi. We run one Apache box and one MySQL box right now. Both machines are 1.8 ghz dual core dual opterons with a couple of gigs of ram.

> Come on Dani, even you know very well that people who don't use code tags after they have been warned 2-3 times are not the ones who would like to stick around.

I agree with this. I am referring to members who screw up on their first few posts by ignoring the watermark and announcement threads. Reread my scenerio :)

> A 'tech savvy' member who has a 'lot to offer' would definitely try to learn how to use code tags and understand the forum rules.
Eventually, most likely. But many wouldn't make the time investment until they see whether or not they like the site ... aka after at least two or three posts.

Sorry, I disagree. Picture this scene = You're having a horrible tech issue you've been trying to fix all day and you're completely frustrated. You find this forum from a google search that seems to cover the topic and you decide to give it a chance because you have nothing to lose. You take the minute to register. You take the minute to wait for your confirmation email in your inbox. You take the minute to check your email and activate your account. You take a couple of minutes to find your way around the site and navigate to posting a new thread. You FINALLY get to ask your darn question, knowing you will only have to wait you don't know how long for a reply. At this point, are you really going to make the time investment into reading allll of the forum rules before you even post without even knowing if this site is worth investing even more time in? First you'd see if the site worked for you. If you get a reply which impresses you, then it will make you want to learn more about the site. But for all you know, this site could just be not for you. You're not going to spend an extra 10 minutes before you even get to post reading a long list of rules, only to find out the site doesn't have anyone on it who can answer your question.

Besides, I point you back to Stymiee (our …

It did nothing to the following example I cut out of another earlier post.

from datetime import date

It will only work if you have matching opening and closing tags. So you need to close that /font as well :) I've also noticed that for some reason the strip button doesn't work in wysiwyg mode, so make sure the top right A button is depressed.

I agree that it should be a priority to not lose a new DaniWeb member. Sure - they may initially come just to get their one question answered. But if it is a good experience for them, they will return or tell their friends. If their first experience is a negative one because they didn't entirely realize how DaniWeb is set up, then we might have lost a potential tech saavy member who otherwise could have had a lot to offer.

EVERY new member is important and should be thought of as a potential regular ... we have to make them feel welcome enough to want to return or they won't. I would say that about 90% of all regular DaniWeb members first came here because they were having some sort of problem (whether it was with hardware/software or a programming issue or whatnot) they wanted resolved, and then they stayed because they got a quick, friendly reply that encouraged them that this was a nice place. IMO if too many people are posting once and never returning, it's because we're not doing a good enough job welcoming them and encouraging them to stay.

Give DaniWeb newbies some slack because they really just don't know - they're not out to violate the rules. Instead focus your "being irritated" energy on the people who should really know better but violate the rules because they really just don't care or want to troll.

The Rash repbot reputation was reversed yesterday. :)

Highlight the text and then use the top left icon of an A with an X through it to strip color away.

The problem is due to a particular thread title that is all one word (such as a long URL) which stretches out the thread title column of the table too much.

> pressed Search it changed the selection to "Entire Site" and produced a list of 3 pages
This is by design.

> But it will display only the first page even when I select one of the other two pages.
I fixed this bug. Thanks!

It's a well-known IE6 bug. There is a JavaScript workaround but the extra bulk is not worth it to me since FireFox is unaffected and the bug has been corrected in IE7.

This might be what you're referring to (done with JQuery): http://jquery.bassistance.de/accordion/

Check out www.jquery.com - it's the Javascript library that DaniWeb uses.

It works fine for me. Additionally, the thread has like 250 posts, which is an indicator that lots and lots of other people can view the thread fine. :(

Working on it right now. Making some changes to the menu. :)

Noooo! Don't just disable the second tooltip and forget about the problem. Tell me and help me fix this :)

The yellow one is generated by JavaScript by me. The grey one is generated by your web browser. The thing is ... the grey one is supposed to be auto-disabled when you see the yellow one.

Does anyone else experience this? Ancient, temporarily you can disable the yellow one that is DaniWeb generated in your control panel.

Everything in Canada is more expensive, why?
Even the gas is...

Canadian dollars are not the equivalent of American dollars.

There are two reasons why we use database thread tracking as opposed to cookie-based tracking. The first is that it was requested by members who want tracking information to remain consistant between their home or work computers. The second is that we have a lot of members in the tech talk category who very frequently clear their cookies.

When you create an aspnet snippet, it will be added to the menu :) Theoretically, you can enter any syntax language you want. The menu is dynamically generated based on the snippets that are available.

It should work if you enter "aspnet" as the syntax language. :)

That's why the option is there. Disabling it in your CP simply puts the same information into a browser tooltip (which appears when you hover over a link for a few seconds). The tooltip feature is just a more instantaneous way of displaying the same information.

For people like me, it's nice because it lets me quickly scan a list of threads to see what interests me without having to stop over each link for 5 seconds.

Fixed :) Let me know if I did it right.

Due to abuse, the edit button only lasts for up to 30 minutes after you post to fix typos, etc. Please PM the code change to myself or any software dev moderator and we'll fix it for you. Or you can just post it in this thread if that's easier. However, if the highlighter screwed up the code, then it might be related to a bug, so I want to look into it ...

So do I. Those links aren't going anywhere, but have you checked out the Subscribed Forums option explained in the previous post? Even more useful!

Wolfy, here's what you have to do. You have to subscribe with no notification to all the forums you're interested in. Then, in the sidebar, use the "new posts in forums I'm subscribed to" link.

By subscribing with no notification, you won't get any emails about them or anything. For example, I'm subscribed to the Internet marketing forums, the feedback forum, area 51, and the moderator's place, so whenever I hit that link in the sidebar, I get a nice listing of threads from just the forums I'm interested in.

As a moderator, I could see you using the "posts since last visit" link or the "posts with zero replies" link. As a member, I could see you scanning the list of threads, reading the descriptions associated with each, and clicking on what interests you.

Still having a hard time understanding when someone would be surfing all the threads in a forum, one at a time. Odds are you wouldn't be interested in all of them in a row, need or want to reply to all of them in a row, etc.

Oh, those. Yeah, we used ot have them, but I got rid of them while trying to unclutter the page because I didn't think that anyone used them.

Does anyone else want them back as well? I'd prefer to not put them back because IMO they clutter the page with two links to two pages you know nothing about. They're sorta like Google's "I'm lucky" button :)

No? I use Microsoft Outlook?

Huh??

Because I love it. I had to put it back b/c I missed it too much, and when it didn't follow the mouse around, it was nearly identical to having it disabled and using the browser's tooltips.

When you disable them in your control panel they appear the way they did up to today (generated by your web browser instead of via JavaScript).

I went ahead and changed the way it works so it doesn't follow your mouse around anymore, and you have to pause over a link before it appears. Better?

Go into your control panel and in Edit Options there's an option to "disable tooltips".

I was trying to clean up the page and I thought it was self-explanatory. For example, regarding the pencil, it should be pretty obvious after seeing the pencil a few times that it's threads you have posted in, and when you hover over the icon, it even tells you that you've posted in it.

And then the new post icon always corresponds to threads whose title is in bold, so that seemed a little redundant too.

I used to have a key but I got rid of it (sorry). The pencil icon means you've posted in that thread. The note paper surrounded by a yellow circle means there are new posts in that thread, or it's a new thread, since your last visit to that particular forum. And the fire means that thread is HOT HOT HOT ... it has at least X views or at least Y replies (I forget the values for X and Y).

So it works when .... what? Rounded corners enabled, dropdown menu disabled? Or vice versa?

That's crazy? They have absolutely nothing to do with each other? How can that be?

That's just the toggle between the wysiwyg editor and the standard editor?

I'm glad you were able to get the serial number.

Airmail is fine. :)

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