Fixes & Updates
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Category: Site Support
Forum Name: Ideas / Issues / Problems / Fixes / Updates
Forum Discription: Find something broken, Have an Idea, Find something new!
URL: http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7
Printed Date: 16 Jun 2024 at 3:48pm
Topic: Fixes & Updates
Posted By: James
Subject: Fixes & Updates
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2006 at 1:11pm
We are 1 day into the new site and there are already a few little
things here and there that I am seeing that need to be changed. This
list we be an updated view of what is in line for change and
improvement.
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2006 at 6:52pm
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Nice Oyster eating Avitar!
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Posted By: tradguy2
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2006 at 9:43am
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Skookie Snacks! ------------- ... preparing for a river beating! |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2006 at 4:36pm
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Added new Thumbnail control for forum images. Thumbnail Tests Test Complete ------------- |
Posted By: Courtney
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2006 at 4:52pm
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James,
With the old site, I would respond to a topic and would get reply's sent directly to my inbox. Can we set that up again? I'm not getting them anymore.
Courtney
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2006 at 5:00pm
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Courtney, The option is still available you just have to re-select the Auto-Notify option in your settings. Let me know if further explanation is needed. When I migrated the data over there was alot to do and, well quite honestly I took a few shortcuts here and there. User Bindings was one of them. Sorry. If you had settings on the old site, you best get in there and re-set them. James ------------- |
Posted By: arnobarno
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2006 at 7:10pm
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James, Hey. I am new to WW kayaking and even newer to PP and I find this site to be fabulous. Lots of super great people and valuable information. Thanks very much for the work on the site. Take the following feedback in that context... 1) I'm not sure why you removed the "forum" feature of the trip planner. It seemed to me to be valuable for people to be able to post trip related questions, etc. and hang that information with the trip. Perhaps the intent is to use a separate thread for this or even PM but it seems that something was lost here. 2) The old site had tons of interesting information to a newbie. When I first discovered this site, I searched for information on rivers, etc. and found the information "database" that was embedded in the old forum to be very valuable. It would be great if somehow this info wasn't lost forever. I know you had a link to the old site when you first went live with the new site but that doesn't seem to work for me anymore. Furthermore, if there was someway maintaining this info in some form when migrating, I think it will be even more valuable in the future. As an example from another sport, I'm really into mountain biking and I've used the mtbr site as an amazing reference for getting beta about trails, repair information for bikes, etc. Sometimes that information is years old but still super relevent. 3) I started to play with some of the new personal page settings. Entered a Bio about myself. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong but it isn't obvious to me when this information shows up or how I can browse other folks info. I know I can click on someone's name in a post but it isn't clear how to pull up the bio from there. There is a link to a "gallery" page but mostly that returns an error message (yours doesn't; but others do). That's all the feedback for now. Thanks again. arn ------------- arn9schaeffer@gmail.com (remove 9 for my real email address) |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2006 at 10:31pm
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Arno, Thanks for the feedback, Check it dog. 1. Thread Feature was removed because I was sick of people including my self of hyjacking trip threads off into other random discussions ... Also so much chit chat does down in those threads that as details changed it was difficult to keep track of what was going on. I do hear you though. I have missed that feature myself. Here is how we can meet in the middle. I will create a new forum room called trip planner. it will be closed to all posting of new topics. When a trip is created a thread will be posted there for discussion regarding that trip. A discussion thread link will also appear on the Trip Planner. This will keep the details easy to find and no mis communicated by thread yakin, and it will allow for trip chat. 2. No argument. It needs to come over, I agree. The real question is When? Until then were building a new base baby. 3. It is hard to explain but there are different areas of the site and the members can participate in the site how ever they want. - All members have a Profile, This is mandatory because it is the basis of registration. (User Name, contact methods etc..) - All members can have a Gallery with Albums, But not all members choose to. I need to fix the error that is displayed when a user does not have a gallery. (Bad Coding) - All members can have a Personal Website (Personal Page), but again you don't have to. You can have a Gallery and no Personal Page, just as you can have a Personal Page and no Gallery. The Gallery, Favorite Runs, Blog, and Trip Reports are little extensions of your personal site. The About me page is more indepth detail about you, and the home page is obviously an introduction page. It is clear that this is all unclear and I need to kinda go through and make it all fluid. When you are building this stuff and emersed in it daily, it is hard to step back and imagine what people will think when they have never interacted with it before. And now lastly. As a tribute to my first argument. This thread will soon get very long. Because it is an important one that everyone should want to participate in (Lurkers). When it gets long people stop paying attention to the list I have made at the top, and they only read the last few posts. It is hard to step into a thread that is like 25 posts long so people don't read the first ones. Just FYI. Read that First Post it gets updated almost daily. Some days I bump it and other days I don't ... You jes gotta watch it if ya care. Thanks again Arno for the input ... watch it go to work bro! ------------- |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 11:37am
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Yea or Neigh on the Homepage Gauges? Keep or Toss?
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Posted By: xanthopb
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 11:56am
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Yea. I was going to make a request for the homepage gauges. Tried to upload an avatar but the link goes no where for me (ie nothing happens). -Brad ------------- O-Qua Tangin Wann |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 12:46pm
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Brad, Make sure your avatar is less than 25k in size. If it is bigger you are not allowed to make it your avatar. Try re-sizing it and then uploading it again once the size is under 25k ------------- |
Posted By: Yotes
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 1:53pm
| I'll vote with brad here, keep the homepage gauges. |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 2:01pm
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Gauges stay.
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Posted By: tradguy2
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2006 at 2:02pm
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keep 'em ------------- ... preparing for a river beating! |