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Re: New forum software

Postby John Smith » Sat 01 Sep 2007 4:24 pm

(Thanks, Andrew.)

I've now upgraded the forum software to RC5 (without incident of any nature!) and have reenabled compression - as RC5 has allegedly fixed the bug which caused style sheets to be mangled by Internet Explorer.

If anyone sees the "old problem" back again, please let me know, and I'll turn compression off once more.
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Re: New forum software

Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 01 Sep 2007 4:32 pm

I don't even use Internet Explorer and the forum looks perfectly jimdandy to me! I did just take a look at my earlier post with ∑ and π .. both look like themselves.

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Re: New forum software

Postby Karl R » Sat 01 Sep 2007 5:28 pm

John Smith wrote:I've now upgraded the forum software to RC5 (without incident of any nature!)


Can go off some people you know John :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: New forum software

Postby Eddie S » Wed 05 Sep 2007 7:04 am

Hi John,

This may be a big ask (I dont know, I'm an asp rather than php bod) but would it be possible to add RSS to the website?

I have RSS feeds on my homepage and it would be good to see new posts as they happen. Would no doubt be useful for moderators too.

Plus if you can do this..
I've now upgraded the forum software to RC5 (without incident of any nature!)
...I'm guessing RSS will be a walk in the park :)

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Re: New forum software

Postby John Smith » Wed 05 Sep 2007 11:58 am

Hi Eddie,

I've not yet stumbled across an RSS feed mod for phpBB3 yet - but it is certainly something I'd consider. I mean, if it's good enough for the BBC...!

But seriously, I think that Digest posts would be more useful in the short term, as the poorer-sighted people amongst us tend to use screen readers on their email programs already.

Don't worry though - it's on the list! :roll:
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Re: New forum software

Postby Karl R » Wed 05 Sep 2007 1:25 pm

Would this be what you are looking for John??

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=552465
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Re: New forum software

Postby Michael P » Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:50 am

Hi John, the forum is so slow in loading that it has almost ground to a halt. At least it has for me.

Is there a problem?
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Re: New forum software

Postby Anne Klepacz » Tue 09 Oct 2007 5:11 pm

It's a relief to know it isn't just me! There does seem to be a problem - it's taken me for ever to post 2 messages!
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Re: New forum software

Postby Elizabeth R » Tue 09 Oct 2007 10:57 pm

Hey there john.the forum not working very well.maybe it has a bug.really slow all not wroking at all.i dont no how software works.i hope all is well

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Re: New forum software

Postby Andrew MacLean » Wed 10 Oct 2007 9:57 am

The forum was really slow yesterday, and at times completely unavailable. Today things are much faster. Well done John.

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