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Author Topic: New Site Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-05-2011 09:17 PM                     quote: Steve Guttag Perhaps, it would be a good idea to have the "chat room" button change color or indicate a "chat in progress" would help annunciate the chat better. Already in the works. Mark - I see what you are saying now. Not sure why that is the way it is, but I'll bet Adam can either fix it or explain that it isn't possible.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-05-2011 09:32 PM                        Mark, if you are in "Community" for example, clicking the Film-Tech Forums logo takes you to THE EXACT SAME PLACE the Film-Tech Forum link otherwise would have. It is the exact same thing. There is no missing functionality. The logo is about 250 pixels away from where the link would have been and that is not much of a mouse movement, to be honest. If the CHAT ROOM link lights up, that's cool. Just as long as whatever page I am on is not constantly doing a refresh to find out if someone is in chat because that is really annoying and fucks up viewing the site on mobile devices, especially when trying to post. I say people who are interested in chat should just go to the home page to find out.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-05-2011 10:50 PM                    How many forums have you been to, Joe? Most have some sort of bread crumb feature that functions exactly the way I described. I'm not complaining that the link isn't there or about how far I have to move my mouse. I have no problem finding my way around this site. I'm pointing out that Film-Tech's forum's bread crumbs disappear when you're one level deep in the forum, and that is NOT the way bread crumbs work in any other forum that I have seen anywhere on the Internet. That's all. Adam will either fix it or he won't. The world will continue to spin either way. Carry on!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-05-2011 11:39 PM                        quote: Mark J. Marshall How many forums have you been to, Joe? Well, let's see... I set up and administer all aspects of the forums at Magic Box and Sega-16. I also regularly visit the forums at PCEngineFX. Those are the main ones, along with Film-Tech, that I visit each day. What you are complaining about is a flaw in the ancient UBB Classic forum software which Film-Tech did not write and has long since been discontinued. Film-Tech must stick with UBB because of an individual who calls himself Adam Martin and all of the stuff he has written for it that is tied in to the rest of the site.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-06-2011 01:48 AM                     UBB6 has proven itself to be extremely stable, and yes much of the rest of the site is based around that database (for example, the entire "warehouse"). To change it and to preserve the forum archives would be a monstrous PITA taking weeks of non-stop work. At some point in the future we may upgrade, but for now it would be foolish.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-06-2011 04:53 AM                    quote: Joe Redifer I set up and administer all aspects of the forums at Magic Box and Sega-16. Nice working bread crumbs on both of those forums! (They're on the top left of the page.)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2011 12:18 PM                        I think I've heard the term "bread crumbs" more in this thread than in all the rest of my 54 years put together.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 01-06-2011 12:55 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer ancient UBB Classic forum software All about the vBulletin these days. One of the major forums I frequent found even that was too bandwidth intensive and pretty much rewrote the whole thing removing much redundant and useless code. With over 148,000 registered users, and as I type over 8500 logged in users, stock forum software just couldn't handle it. Kudos to Brad, Adam, et al for keeping this UBB distro humming along so well.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 01-08-2011 02:02 AM                     I feel like its staring me in the face, but where did the upload button go?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-08-2011 03:21 AM                     It is on the page where you submit your post.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 01-08-2011 11:55 AM                     Yup, staring me right in the face... lol Thanks!!  |  IP: Logged

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