Nice work, guys!

I don't understand.

It was discussed earlier in the thread, how with the old software the bar at the top of new posts would be a slightly different color. But it's more than just a CSS issue, I'm sure.

Oh, right. Yeah, it's definitely more than CSS, but it might be possible to change.

Thanks! I missed this theme. Like Tony said, it feels like home again.

1) Not sure this a board problem really, but using IE7, page up and down often (and home / end) stop working and after some mouse clicking in the window they seem to work.

2) I don't seem to be getting any email responses to watched threads. I have it set correctly in my preferences.

Absolutely!! Thanks, guys!!

Thanks for the old theme!!!!!

New feature!

The BBS now accepts HTML character entities, like Ω (Ω), — (—), and “ (“). This is something I asked for years ago.

My favorite new feature of the board so far:

Using the quick reply box, it's now possible to easily quote multiple responses from the same thread.

Previously, I would open my response in a new window and switch between them, copying and pasting responses in between quote tags. Now you can click on "Quick Quote" as many times as you want, and you get the quotee's name in front of each. Sweet.

I just discovered something I miss from the old version -- the preference to "always preview post", before having it submit. I know, there's a "Preview Post" button right next to the "Submit" button, but, you know, I just never seem to remember to hit it.

The new preview isn't on a new page; it renders it dynamically on the same page. I assume this is why that option has gone away.

Added one.

The "View All" option for LARGE threads appears missing. The Wii thread (in which I just replied, so you could find it easier) page count appears in the thread list as:
( 1 2 3 4 ... 42 43 44
with no "all" at the end. I <URL="http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/289961/Board/14/fpart/all/gonew/1#UNREAD">built the URL</URL> by hand and it clearly works.

Also, is there a "View All" option once you're viewing the thread? That would help when you search, find a post, enter the thread, and want to view the entire thread (maybe to Ctrl-F search it yourself).

The Wii thread is a testament to how fast the new BBS is. The 44 page "all" view loaded in a few seconds. Interestingly, as I dragged the scroll bar through the thread, certain posts appeared empty, until I stopped for a second and the text was rendered. A Firefox limitation? It's irrelevant, but interesting.

Sorry to bring this back up but I'm still seeing strange behavior. I have expired the cookies multiple times.

I can read anything within General Discussion such as For Sale, Off Topic, and other subforums will keep their unread marks, as well as posts.

If I read something within empeg-car, such as inside General, it will remove the unread marks from other sub forums inside empeg-car, and sometimes posts in those sub forums.

During this session I read empeg-car/General and after that both Technical/Troubleshooting and Installation Notes had their unread marks removed. Inside Technical/Troubleshooting my unread posts were not marked, but all appeared read. Inside Installation Notes Sein's thread about his awesome Mazda 3 install was still marked as unread, although Installation Notes itself was not marked as unread. It will also remove unread marks from other main forums, such as Rio Hard Drive Portables.

Any ideas? Using Firefox 2.0.0.11.

I think I had something similar happen, a thread I hadn't yet read got marked as unread.

Is firefox trying to anticipate and pre-cache, thus "reading" forums ahead of us and getting them marked as read?

I've also seen something similar, in my case it was after I opened one of the forums and then left the page for a couple of hours, when I then opened one of threads and went back to the thread list all the threads had been marked read. Also on Firefox 2.0.0.11

Of course now it is working fine. Maybe I'm starting to see things.

Ummmm... yeah. What he said.

This has happened to me several times.

tanstaafl.

There is a difference in rendering the table borders between IE and Firefox. Do we care?

IE 6 or 7?

Not something I really care about personally, being that the way Firefox renders it is also how other browsers do, and I'd rather not add IE only hacks for something minor. Browser usage on the board points to Firefox being the most common browser as well.

I had this happen yesterday, when I took over an hour to eventually post something. (Woo, posts aren't eaten anymore). I logged out, and back in, and the boards returned to showing me what was unread. This was on Safari, so it's not any sort of odd issue with Firefox.

So for those that lose their read and unread trackers, try logging out and back in.

Oh, and by the way? The Firefox add-on "IE Tab" is awesome. Single click on a status bar icon to toggle rendering between IE and Firefox.

7, but I'll bet it's the same on 6.

I only care if you're going to suggest changing things to make Firefox render it the way it looks in IE.

An interesting one: today, when I looked at the baords, it showed 1 unread/active message in Installation Notes - but when I clicked on the forum, there were no unread messages. Clicking on a recent topic (the Mazda3 / Axela one), there were several messages I hadn't seen before, but when I read them and went back, even after doing a browser refresh, the "Forums" display still showed 1 unread message.

Hi all-

When I'm viewing a multiple page thread (flat) I see at the top right links to the other pages. Wasn't there an option at the top right to view 'all'?
I see the 'all' option for multi-page threads in under thread titles inside thread-list views (not sure what to call those 'section' pages).
I also see page number links in the top right when I'm viewing a section or search results, but I can understand why 'all' is not an option there!

Not a big deal at all, so far as usability is concerned... I'm mostly just checking my memory of what I think I remember.
A 'reality check', so to speak.

The board looks and runs fantastic, BTW. Thanks very much!

I guess it's taken a while for the favicon to show up for me, but is that the way we're going to keep it? It's not a great icon. I'd vote to remove it altogether.

Sorry if this has been brought up before...

I recently fixed the favicon last night, as it was coming up as a 404 error a lot for the dark theme. Seems the default install misnamed the file.

I have yet to see it myself, but I think someone around here posted an empeg specific one. I'll dig it up later.

Favicon changed to this one:
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showthreaded/Number/264203/an/

It's not an empeg or empeg specific icon, but should fit at least a little better.