Forum update - comments here please

[wheelinround]

We've been working furiously in the back room for the last couple of weeks to get the new WoodWorkersWiki ready to go on line (hopefully open it to the public next Monday). One thing we have found is, the coloured backgrounds look ratty and is harder to read and follow, so are the blogs, etc.

So the white background has been set in the hope that when everything comes on line you will be able to log in to the forums and move seamlessly from section to section without having to resort to changing skins because you can't see links etc in the other applications.

We will probably get another couple of lighter skins ready that should also look fine and integrate easily but for now you may find that this one sort of grows on you. I do admit it's a bit of a shock to the system first up but after trialing it for almost a week I find it hard to go back to any of the others.

Also it will help pages load just that little bit faster as it doesn't heve the same amount of graphics to load.

Cheers - Neil

Give it a trial for a day or so and then switch back to your old skin and see what you reckon. You may be surprised.

Wheelin - The orange room don't show if you're not logged in.

All this hard wakka and no respite for those in the backroom and it being a long weekend poor buggers.

Thanks to you all for all the hard yakka.

Orange room still not there if logged in unless you mean logged in seperate to the Orange room.

[RETIRED]

unless you mean logged in seperate to the Orange room.

Yep, has seperate password.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I know the lads are busy, but could someone please look at getting the SW to remember what skin we were on when we logged out? Or at least change the default from the wiki skin to one with less glare?

Every time I log in I'm blinded by the blasted thing...

[RETIRED]

Once you select it, it should remain Andrew.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Once you select it, it should remain Andrew.

It should, yes. But it doesn't.

Unless it's because I flush the cookies every time Firefox exits? But this wasn't a problem before the latest skin changes...

[RETIRED]

It should, yes. But it doesn't.

Unless it's because I flush the cookies every time Firefox exits? But this wasn't a problem before the latest skin changes...

Yep that will probably do it because it can't remember your settings. I tried it with mine and it did the same.

[Wild Dingo]

AND!!


Oi you!!!




Yeah its me again





Have I got your attention yet? Well thank goodness for that then






I just wanted to say...














Thank you whoever it was for moving the pics section UP the page!! Well done

cheers
Shane

[joe greiner]

Not exactly the current update, and search was inconclusive.

Is there a built-in delay on iSpy listings? For vetting, perhaps? Seems to be a lag of about 20-25 minutes between iSpy and New Posts (New posts newer). Some earlier posts with subject of "iSpy" indicated the opposite. Or perhaps variable depending on time of day?

Joe

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Just browsing through the WoodWiki (TTiTs intraspecific antagonism) and clicked on the image link - which seems to be broken, BTW, but the page is incomplete anyway so that's irrelevant.

What is relevant is that the www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au vs. www.woodworkforums.com domain bug has reared it's ugly head again and it's telling me I'm not logged in...

JFYI.

[wheelinround]

Forum pages slow to load

Understand the worlds greatest is being overloaded

[Groggy]

Wheelin, that may be your ISP. I am on dialup from Brisbane at the moment and it seems quite fast.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Yeah. Last night I couldn't get on... I assumed 'twas a slow server.

I also couldn't get on today, so I tried using the Telstra proxy (I'm with Optus. SSSH! ) and logged straight in with no problems since...

[DJ’s Timber]

I've been getting that too, this site is slow to respond but other websites no probs at all, comes and goes.

[BobL]

I don't know if its just me but does there seem to be too many announcements and stickies on the top of every forum? On some pages you can't even see the threads. Sure some of these could be handled in another way?

Rant over

[wheelinround]

Wheelin, that may be your ISP. I am on dialup from Brisbane at the moment and it seems quite fast.

Could be that Bigpond doesn't like WWF as everything else is fast on Cable.

I guess thats the way Mexican CEO emigo's work, lets slow em down make em think something is wrong so they'll upgrade to faster even slow usless systems.

No problem at 4.30am but then not many logged on I guess.