We should cut our loses, and let's go back to the old forums, eh?
Nice one Stevo!
Maybe not.
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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For some reason, there are some threads that had their last post 'Five years ago' in the active topics list for me. Screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/nasR3.jpg
Yeah, I fucked something up.... fixing it now.
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The five year old posts are fixed, thanks Nik! Is there any way
the Active Topics page could move to something similar to the old
system (before Drupal). Rather than simply being a list of all
threads sorted by time, it only showed the threads that had been
posted on since you were last on the forum. I think it kept a track
of the last time you visited, and cut any posts before that off the
list. It also had options to only show threads that had been active
in the last 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hrs 6 hrs etc. If this is too
much work then don't worry about it, what we have now works great.
It would just be a little bit easier to see which threads need to
be read.
Yellow Fever - Misery loves company
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Active Topics isn't sorted by descending last post date is it?
Founder
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How can we adjust it so the newest reply is at the top and on the first page in stead of on the last?
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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I think there is also an issue with clicking the 'X new posts' link
on the active page. For this thread there was 8 new posts for me, 2
last page and 6 on this page. Clicking that link brought me to the
first new post on this page, rather than to the first of the 2 new
ones on the previous page.
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ER, cant't find a fecking thing on Regional thread - only a few posts that are 5 years old.
Otherwise, like great.
Kotahitanga. We are one.
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it's all old stuff first. What was fixed?
No Arsenal subsection thread at all
no search function
no way to not sift through pages, instead of just typing in what
page you want. Last is not as useful as "go to Pg 32" etc.
TBH it's been months of this site being unworkable or back to
front. Great community, hard site for computer newbies like myself
to figure out. The "improvements " have all been for the worse at
this end. I can't even find a spell check. Often 3 or 4 attempts to
log in as well.
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
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Can't find the arsenal threads... we had our own sub-section, it was practically like a trophy for us since our team no longer wins them... please help
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Hi everyone,
Can you all please take a second to think about your tone when you post in here, because I'm getting sick of it.
Everyone who runs Yellow Fever does it for free, in their own time. We don't work for you, we are just fans like you.
We made a mistake trusting three young guys who told us they had the skills to build a new site for us. They had no clue. Their mate took thousands of our dollars. It was a fuck up. It just made more work for us. But we are working hard to fix it. We are doing all of this for you, for nothing. We do it because we love the game, and the fan group.
What are most of you doing? Whinging like bitches.
Well, fuck off.
If you'd rather we charged you a monthly subscription so that we could hire a developer full time, then let me know. In the meantime, if you have a constructive suggestion or request, feel free to post.
If you just want to complain that the old site was better (foal30) then jog on, we don't want you here. Start a rival site, and see how easy that is for you.
If you are grateful for the time we put in, then buy a tee shirt, and wear it proudly on Fever Fridays.
That is all.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Way past... :)
Seriously though, cut us a bit of slack, we are trying!
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Can't find the arsenal threads... we had our own sub-section, it was practically like a trophy for us since our team no longer wins them... please help
Where were they previously?
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ER, cant't find a fecking thing on Regional thread - only a few posts that are 5 years old.
Otherwise, like great.
Yeah, sorry about that - I fucked something up last night,
that should be fixed now?
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I think there is also an issue with clicking the 'X new posts' link
on the active page. For this thread there was 8 new posts for me, 2
last page and 6 on this page. Clicking that link brought me to the
first new post on this page, rather than to the first of the 2 new
ones on the previous page.
Hmm, yeah I've noticed this one. It's a tough bug to fix, so bear with me for now - it's on the board for me to look into :)
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How can we adjust it so the newest reply is at the top and on the first page in stead of on the last?
Hmmm, can you give me a bit more detail on that one?
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Active Topics isn't sorted by descending last post date is it?
Yep, descending last post date at the moment.
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To be a little fair,I doubt most people were aware of the situation. Any angst is surely aimed at the original screw up. And it is mostly positive suggestions and 'well done's now. I know where you're coming from,but it also seems a bit harsh.
Allegedly
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The five year old posts are fixed, thanks Nik! Is there any way
the Active Topics page could move to something similar to the old
system (before Drupal). Rather than simply being a list of all
threads sorted by time, it only showed the threads that had been
posted on since you were last on the forum. I think it kept a track
of the last time you visited, and cut any posts before that off the
list. It also had options to only show threads that had been active
in the last 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hrs 6 hrs etc. If this is too
much work then don't worry about it, what we have now works great.
It would just be a little bit easier to see which threads need to
be read.
Yeah, active topics was a tough one that I went back and forth
on a few times. Because I automatically remember people with a
cookie it's tough to define "when you last visited" - if it was the
last page you viewed (which is what I'm storing now) then you're
only going to get new posts in the last couple of seconds - not
massively useful.
I could do something like "the start of the last day on which
you visited" - would that make sense? The clearer I understand, the
better I can make it :D
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The five year old posts are fixed, thanks Nik! Is there any way
the Active Topics page could move to something similar to the old
system (before Drupal). Rather than simply being a list of all
threads sorted by time, it only showed the threads that had been
posted on since you were last on the forum. I think it kept a track
of the last time you visited, and cut any posts before that off the
list. It also had options to only show threads that had been active
in the last 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hrs 6 hrs etc. If this is too
much work then don't worry about it, what we have now works great.
It would just be a little bit easier to see which threads need to
be read.
What would the difference be?
I used to only use Active Topics on the old (Cakes) site, and
I can't work out what the benefit would be of being able to select
a time period? Surely you only scroll down as far as you want
to?
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Hi everyone,
Can you all please take a second to think about your tone when you post in here, because I'm getting sick of it.
Everyone who runs Yellow Fever does it for free, in their own time. We don't work for you, we are just fans like you.
We made a mistake trusting three young guys who told us they had the skills to build a new site for us. They had no clue. Their mate took thousands of our dollars. It was a fuck up. It just made more work for us. But we are working hard to fix it. We are doing all of this for you, for nothing. We do it because we love the game, and the fan group.
What are most of you doing? Whinging like bitches.
Well, fuck off.
If you'd rather we charged you a monthly subscription so that we could hire a developer full time, then let me know. In the meantime, if you have a constructive suggestion or request, feel free to post.
If you just want to complain that the old site was better (foal30) then jog on, we don't want you here. Start a rival site, and see how easy that is for you.
If you are grateful for the time we put in, then buy a tee shirt, and wear it proudly on Fever Fridays.
That is all.
Wow. I was asked was I was no longer here and even the contact format (to reply to YF admin) I couldn't work. So after a dozen requests from various YF members I posted online becasue the question at the top of the thread was "what is working/not working?".
Each of the lines I wrote are the issues I experience with the site, and if you read carefully you can see that I am indicating my knowledge of computers is limited. That you have taken such offensive is remarkable, bordering on the single worst piece of comprehension I've seen.
By all means charge a monthly subscription fee if that is what the clientele/community request and in fact provides a functioning website. Certainly if that option is provided maybe you might feel better? IME it's worked well for me on a Music site. My comment on the old style of the site is relevant, and despite being able to follow the instructions given around browsers and such things I don't really understand, the site still has exactly the same issues.
If you think this is bitch whinging you seriously need to grow a pair. I thought I was following the request and I could have typed exactly the same scenario months back.
I'll leave it at that.
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
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Whoa that was way too harsh.
Yeah, there's also quite a bit of chat going on in back
channels (email etc) so I think it's all getting a bit tough...
everyone buy Smithy a beer and I'm sure he'll cheer up.
I know the system is bare-bones, and that was always the
intention. I'd prefer to do 80% of the functionality and do it
right (i.e fast and reliable) and then work on the rest. It'll
dribble in over the next little while. There will also likely be
fuckups - like the now-infamous 5 year posts. I apologize in
advance for those, and hope I can make it up to y'all by being
available for little tweaks and things you want.
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Wow. I was asked was I was no longer here and even the contact format (to reply to YF admin) I couldn't work. So after a dozen requests from various YF members I posted online becasue the question at the top of the thread was "what is working/not working?".
Each of the lines I wrote are the issues I experience with the site, and if you read carefully you can see that I am indicating my knowledge of computers is limited. That you have taken such offensive is remarkable, bordering on the single worst piece of comprehension I've seen.
By all means charge a monthly subscription fee if that is what the clientele/community request and in fact provides a functioning website. Certainly if that option is provided maybe you might feel better? IME it's worked well for me on a Music site. My comment on the old style of the site is relevant, and despite being able to follow the instructions given around browsers and such things I don't really understand, the site still has exactly the same issues.
If you think this is bitch whinging you seriously need to grow a pair. I thought I was following the request and I could have typed exactly the same scenario months back.
I'll leave it at that.
(And I just realised nested quotes are broken by doing this,
fuck)
Yep, understand the frustration - and it's completely
understandable for Smithy to be a little frustrated too, so I think
perhaps let's just back off the ad hominem a little and try to get
somewhere constructive. Otherwise, I did build Bans ;)
I'm happy to work with you to improve stuff that's hard to
understand or outright broken, perhaps just throw in a couple :)
faces so we can see you're trying to help out.
What's wrong with the contact form? It's not going? Can you
give me a screen shot at all? We've come to far to go back to the
old site now, so the best thing to do is let me know what you miss
and I'll try to get that in amongst my own day job :)
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I think there is also an issue with clicking the 'X new posts' link
on the active page. For this thread there was 8 new posts for me, 2
last page and 6 on this page. Clicking that link brought me to the
first new post on this page, rather than to the first of the 2 new
ones on the previous page.
Hmm, yeah I've noticed this one. It's a tough bug to fix, so bear with me for now - it's on the board for me to look into :)
With the issue I mentioned with the previewing, I opened up the website in Chrome and did a preview with that. That worked the first time, but now it is just showing that same post rather than the one I mentioned earlier. I tried with IE, Firefox and Chrome and on different computers but I am still get that post showing.
But these are just minor issues really.
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Maybe a little harsh from me, but the point is still there - be nice, we are trying hard.
YF dominates my life, but I believe in it, so I keep boxing away. That does mean I take things a bit personally from time to time.
Mind your manners, and remember that we all want to get this thing going right. We are all in this.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Ok, shit, quoting is utterly fucked... so much for that sweet caching I thought was fixing everything...
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Ok, shit, quoting is utterly fucked... so much for that sweet caching I thought was fixing everything...
You're a useless fuck. Sort it out :)
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Ok guys I started a User Voice so y'all can go there and vote for the shit you think is most important.
I'll use some algorithm like:
((user_voice_votes / difficulty) * amount_smithy_hassles_me)^bribes_received = likelihood of feature being added
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Wow. I was asked was I was no longer here and even the contact format (to reply to YF admin) I couldn't work. So after a dozen requests from various YF members I posted online becasue the question at the top of the thread was "what is working/not working?".
Each of the lines I wrote are the issues I experience with the site, and if you read carefully you can see that I am indicating my knowledge of computers is limited. That you have taken such offensive is remarkable, bordering on the single worst piece of comprehension I've seen.
By all means charge a monthly subscription fee if that is what the clientele/community request and in fact provides a functioning website. Certainly if that option is provided maybe you might feel better? IME it's worked well for me on a Music site. My comment on the old style of the site is relevant, and despite being able to follow the instructions given around browsers and such things I don't really understand, the site still has exactly the same issues.
If you think this is bitch whinging you seriously need to grow a pair. I thought I was following the request and I could have typed exactly the same scenario months back.
I'll leave it at that.
(And I just realised nested quotes are broken by doing this,
fuck)
Yep, understand the frustration - and it's completely
understandable for Smithy to be a little frustrated too, so I think
perhaps let's just back off the ad hominem a little and try to get
somewhere constructive. Otherwise, I did build Bans ;)
I'm happy to work with you to improve stuff that's hard to
understand or outright broken, perhaps just throw in a couple :)
faces so we can see you're trying to help out.
What's wrong with the contact form? It's not going? Can you
give me a screen shot at all? We've come to far to go back to the
old site now, so the best thing to do is let me know what you miss
and I'll try to get that in amongst my own day job :)
thanks, I'm not frustrated, I just took offense. No worries now.
I'll private message the common or repeated things that crop up. I don't know how a screen shot works, sorry.
I like the site, I didn't mean to cause trouble.
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
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interestingly (or not) the quoting actually works now where on the old site it came up with;
//quote// so and so said at 10:42, MUFC bought more titles than
any other club etc..//quote// (or some such)
so I didn't bother with that function because it looked messy
and other uses complained, "why can't you quote properly?".
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I'll private message the common or repeated things that crop up. I don't know how a screen shot works, sorry.
I like the site, I didn't mean to cause trouble.
Sorry Foal, I picked on you but was just generally unhappy -
not really at you in particular.
By the way - no private messaging yet :)
Post stuff in here by all means, I promise not to rip your
head off again.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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Ok guys I started a User Voice so y'all can go there and vote for the shit you think is most important.
I'll use some algorithm like:
((user_voice_votes / difficulty) * amount_smithy_hassles_me)^bribes_received = likelihood of feature being added
and the first wag to add something like "create polls so we
don't have to use uservoice" better hide from me at the next home
game.
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Some of these may have already been mentioned:
In the active topics page:
- can it be ordered by most recent comment and not have stickied
topics above non-stickied.
- is it possible to indicate which thread the topic is from - so I can ignore topics from the trophy manager thread :P
- have at least 'last page' as an option for each topic
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Yeah,I'm sure the old active topics (sorry to compare) had threads under forum category. It was pretty useful. Obviously can do easily without so will be way way down on any priority list. Just thought I'd add it.
Allegedly
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I'll private message the common or repeated things that crop up. I don't know how a screen shot works, sorry.
I like the site, I didn't mean to cause trouble.
Sorry Foal, I picked on you but was just generally unhappy -
not really at you in particular.
By the way - no private messaging yet :)
Post stuff in here by all means, I promise not to rip your
head off again.
Ok thanks. I am a bit special needs with computers. You'll know when I'm whinging however (insert smiley here).
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Nik - you are doing a great job at the moment, much
appreciated. Even though lots of stuff is still a bit buggered it's
obvious from reading the back and forth in here that you are giving
it heaps and trying to listen to what people want.
Smithy, 2nd Best, Hard News and the rest of the YF team - you do a great job too, it really is much appreciated.
Peace, y'all.
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