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Re: Welcome to the new Reefs.org Discussion Forums!

Postby Len » April 1st, 2009, 12:36 pm

budhaboy wrote:IE7. This is a company puter - I cant change browswers...

still getting the "forbidden errors" but they're less frequent now...


Do you have 403 messages at home too? Same browser? If so, can you try Firefox at home? Also, did clearing your cookies help?
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Postby chris&barb » April 1st, 2009, 12:39 pm

wings wrote:The time is still off by an hour, even when I choose the correct time zone. (I'm thinking daylight savings is throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing).



You can change that in your UCP-> Board Preferences->Summer Time/DST is in effect:, set to "yes". In the fall you need to change it to "no"
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Postby wings » April 1st, 2009, 8:52 pm

chris&barb wrote:
wings wrote:The time is still off by an hour, even when I choose the correct time zone. (I'm thinking daylight savings is throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing).



You can change that in your UCP-> Board Preferences->Summer Time/DST is in effect:, set to "yes". In the fall you need to change it to "no"


That worked. Thanks much. :)
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Postby JimM » April 1st, 2009, 10:24 pm

I still feel dizzy.
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Postby Len » April 1st, 2009, 11:34 pm

Change the style in your profile to sub2-RDO and it'll look very close to the old site; I'm not a fan, but if you really don't like change, that's the best solution ;)
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Postby JimM » April 2nd, 2009, 7:45 pm

Nah, I'm liking this.
A new day and all...just getting used to it still is all. It was a shock.
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Postby seven » April 2nd, 2009, 10:26 pm

JimM wrote:I still feel dizzy.



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Postby Lawdawg » April 3rd, 2009, 1:00 pm

Len wrote:Change the style in your profile to sub2-RDO and it'll look very close to the old site; I'm not a fan, but if you really don't like change, that's the best solution ;)


FWIW, that profile seems to work best on my crackberry. Both the stock Blackberry browser and Opera have some issues with both of the newer profiles.
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Postby The Escaped Ape » April 5th, 2009, 10:28 am

Is there any way you can get rid of the auto-cropping for hot-linked images?
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Postby Len » April 5th, 2009, 1:43 pm

I'll look into it. It doesn't look like it's a easy change.
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Postby The Escaped Ape » April 5th, 2009, 2:51 pm

Thanks Len.
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Postby Magilla Gorilla » April 8th, 2009, 2:07 pm

Len wrote:I'll look into it. It doesn't look like it's a easy change.

Please don't!
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Postby Len » April 8th, 2009, 2:41 pm

That's the reason why the current system crops. I'm still looking at the possibility of removing this feature, but I don't know if I will if I could. To view images in full, right clicking is a simple way. But really, how many people have a good reason to post huge pictures in threads?
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Postby Mr. McFeely » April 8th, 2009, 3:15 pm

Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?
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Re: Welcome to the new Reefs.org Discussion Forums!

Postby Len » April 8th, 2009, 3:49 pm

Mr. McFeely wrote:Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?


These are hotlinked (outside) images, and the problem isn't file size but dimensions being too big to fit on some screens (the system "crops" the images instead of making you scroll). Attachments have kb and dimensional limitations. There isn't any way to automatically reduce picture attributes when you upload.
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Postby Mr. McFeely » April 8th, 2009, 4:24 pm

Len wrote:
Mr. McFeely wrote:Excuse my naivety about this subject, but could the board simply make all posted pics full screen size and automatically reduce the resolution of pics that exceed the maximum kb allowed by the site?


These are hotlinked (outside) images, and the problem isn't file size but dimensions being too big to fit on some screens (the system "crops" the images instead of making you scroll). Attachments have kb and dimensional limitations. There isn't any way to automatically reduce picture attributes when you upload.

Thank you for the explanation. I don't know how to hotlink an image.
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Postby The Escaped Ape » April 8th, 2009, 5:02 pm

Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.
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Re: Welcome to the new Reefs.org Discussion Forums!

Postby Len » April 8th, 2009, 5:07 pm

The Escaped Ape wrote:Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.


Alas, I can't. Hotlinking is simple language (for bb codes, it's simply [img]) which does nothing but fetch an image from the web.
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Postby The Escaped Ape » April 8th, 2009, 5:13 pm

Len wrote:
The Escaped Ape wrote:Could you not get it to do what it does with attachments? That is, add the scroll bars, so that someone can click on the picture if they wanted to see it full size? If not, don't worry. It just seems to work pretty well with attachments.


Alas, I can't. Hotlinking is simple language (for bb codes, it's simply [img]) which does nothing but fetch an image from the web.


Yet the autocropping does work? Seems odd. I'm sure you're right, but as someone who knows nothing about how this works, I would have thought if it could do that, it could do something else.
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Postby Len » April 8th, 2009, 6:08 pm

The Escaped Ape wrote:Yet the autocropping does work? Seems odd. I'm sure you're right, but as someone who knows nothing about how this works, I would have thought if it could do that, it could do something else.


I'm sure there's a hack for something similar to what you're asking, but autocropping is written into the program (would be easy to write) whereas placing hotlinked images into framed scroll boxes is not.
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