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Post by rez on Sept 2, 2015 16:34:44 GMT
think this will be useful...but a couple of questions.
is it in the right place - might be better raised up to just beneath the two sets of topics?
do old shouts auto-delete after a certain amount of time (customisable setting for each of us?), can we leave them? I'm unlikely to go through and manually delete them
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Post by rez on Sept 2, 2015 17:12:38 GMT
shout box only goes back a few shouts. if a few people are shouting at once, then it's easy to lose the thread (as in life, so it is here lol)
any chance of increasing the buffer size / number of shouts retained?
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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2015 17:42:42 GMT
think this will be useful...but a couple of questions. is it in the right place - might be better raised up to just beneath the two sets of topics? do old shouts auto-delete after a certain amount of time (customisable setting for each of us?), can we leave them? I'm unlikely to go through and manually delete them Really, because it is on every page it has to be at the bottom or the top. Otherwise it gets a bit aaaahhhhhhh if it seems to be in different positions. Just an aesthetics thing. Shouts do auto delete after 200 shouts or the admin ( and maybe staff, I'd have to look at the settings etc ) can clear the whole shout-box at any time. shout box only goes back a few shouts. if a few people are shouting at once, then it's easy to lose the thread (as in life, so it is here lol) any chance of increasing the buffer size / number of shouts retained? Unfortunately , no. The shoutbox has a max of 20 shouts showing but a record ( as mentioned above ) is kept in the admin panel, just in case someone is being naughty or something important was posted. I think the thing to remember with the shoutbox is, and I've seen this argued about over and over again, is that it is meant as a quick chat method. Anything that is important , or likely to continue to be talked about, should go in a thread!
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Post by rez on Sept 2, 2015 17:58:45 GMT
location? understood. I wouldn't fancy changing it round for every page, absolutely fine where it is. number of shouts is fixed - we can do no more. so it's not a problem
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Post by klizy on Sept 2, 2015 18:55:36 GMT
It gets a bit weird when you open several pages in different tabs, shouts keep coming in one, not in the other. And now, either no one has said anything in the last hour, or it has stopped working for me. Might be a browser issue though. I'm on Firefox now. Otherwise I like it. Time consuming but nice
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Post by Kiwi Claire on Sept 2, 2015 23:53:21 GMT
reverse order? newest at top...?
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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2015 23:55:51 GMT
reverse order? newest at top...? Easy to do. Is that the general consensus that people would like? I think it would be better...
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Post by CEJ on Sept 3, 2015 0:22:44 GMT
AdminIs it possible to have it as an option for everyone to chose as they see fit?
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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2015 0:26:15 GMT
AdminIs it possible to have it as an option for everyone to chose as they see fit? Nope, it's one or the other. Majority votes ( or who shouts the loudest! ) get's their option.
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Post by CEJ on Sept 3, 2015 0:28:38 GMT
Ok, I vote for the current set-up
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 0:32:58 GMT
I can live with either!
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Post by CEJ on Sept 3, 2015 0:34:14 GMT
Admin, I think this is one for the first poll of this forum
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Post by db on Sept 3, 2015 2:09:29 GMT
I like newest on top.
Is the shout box available on mobile or is it just on the full site?
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Post by rez on Sept 3, 2015 4:02:09 GMT
if it's newest at the top, the text box to write in should be above it?? up, down? I'm easy. I've seen one too many polls in the last few weeks. well, 20 a day, asking which is the quickest car in the next TLE, at max, at pro, with/out ET, with whatever decal.....save me from polls, please. but this does sound like an opportunity for a useful poll. Admin do we also have to ask you if we want to view threads in the reverse order? I looked through settings, couldn't find it (though it's probably there somewhere), nor in help. tried to do keyword search, and the servers were down
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Post by CEJ on Sept 3, 2015 4:24:20 GMT
I am not keen on polls either, but my suggestion stems from Pebble's "majority votes" comment and this is definitely not a trivial issue as the ones you mentioned, rez
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Post by rez on Sept 3, 2015 4:34:28 GMT
I am not keen on polls either, but my suggestion stems from Pebble's "majority votes" comment and this is definitely not a trivial issue as the ones you mentioned, rez indeed, CEJ. a lot of the ones we have 'over there' are just questions. I fear the youth of today are desperate to see how popular they are, how many people have any interest in every little thought they might have. "ooh, can you guess what I had for breakfast? was it cereal, or was it cereal with fruit?"
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Post by CEJ on Sept 3, 2015 4:37:28 GMT
Hmmmm, I guess porridge?
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Post by rez on Sept 3, 2015 4:43:20 GMT
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Post by Silver FireWolf on Sept 3, 2015 11:49:57 GMT
The current setup is fine with me.
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Post by Loner on Sept 5, 2015 17:31:06 GMT
Hey guys, there are any sort of Private messages on this forum? If yes, where is it?
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Post by Sum on Sept 5, 2015 17:36:27 GMT
On the navigation menu there is Messages. Just explore it
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Post by Woollyhat on Sept 28, 2015 11:50:03 GMT
ahh, I quite miss the shoutbox...
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Post by db on Sept 28, 2015 13:44:32 GMT
I don't. The time difference for a lot of us is such that whole conversations would be lost, especially since there were only like 20 messages available. Some of it would have been helpful or interesting to the group. Or juicy gossip. For instance there was the time when one of the members admitted to being a... hang on, I'll finish this later.
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Post by hepz on Sept 28, 2015 17:48:24 GMT
I miss it too.
'Cause if you are tanked up the message disappears before you sober up.
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Post by sunfox on Oct 2, 2015 6:13:36 GMT
Shoutbox needs one of 2 things to work well:
1) a 24 hour backlog.
2) An advanced shoutbox that posts everything entered to a master thread so that conversations can be retained.
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