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[Tinkerbell]

dratsucalex said:

its got a river and everything

(i think)

Nothing special, the vast majority of towns have a river, hence why people settled there!

[dratsucalex]

lol true and i dont get the whole venice thing, the river is a dump, and it was a swamp years ago! whats great about it??

[Tinkerbell]

But it's great now, and not as smelly as most people say.

But anyway...

[Goblin King]

;D

[Goblin King]

Okay I know that this thread became chatty (which gooood, all talk is goood) - it's still an Announcements Forum Maintenance thread thing, so I shall continue to use it thus. Thus? Oh dear. Erm...

Right, Proboards have upgraded the forum, hence the two colour blending - which I think, with our colours, looks almost gorey.

You may finding that old threads are being marked as new. I think that most of these threads date the start of the month. If you pretend to re-read those threads by clicking on them you can fool the forum into taking away the blue "NEW!" tags.

I'm really a bit worried about the extra box that has appeared in the "Info Center" at the bottom of the screen. I have a feeling that "Active Users In The Past 24 Hours" may actually scare people from logging in. (Although, it doesn't half make us look popular! )
I'm going to try to turn it off so that no-one can see it -but without removing the Info Center entirely (I'm having trouble finding the right toggle box).

Anyone else with a Proboards forum is welcome to throw in some advice here

Also the Proboards servers may be being a bit busy at the moment - I reckon this would explain some trouble we've hard trying to access the forum this weekend.

I might have a little browse on the Proboards help/tech forums at some point.

[lollipop]

I don't understand. What two tones? Looks the same to me...

[Goblin King]

Fixed it. Two-tone part. You miss all the fun, don't you lollipop.

Okay, the advice Proboards Support have about the Info Center makes very little sense ...

[lollipop]

[Goblin King]

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Okay "Last 24 hours" is apparently bypassed with this code which is smuggled into the main footer - how strange is that?

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// remove InfoCenter section- Dre

iTitle = "Active Users In The Past 24 Hours";

if(location.href.match(/action=home$/i) || !location.href.match(/(action|board)=/i)){
var td = document.getElementsByTagName('td');
for(i = 0; i < td.length; i ++){
if(td.item(i).className == "catbg" && td.item(i).colSpan == "2" && td.item(i).innerHTML.match(iTitle)){
td.item(i).parentNode.style.display = "none";
td.item(i).parentNode.nextSibling.style.display = "none";
}
}
}
//-->
</script>

[Goblin King]

Clocks change

Clocks have gone back a hundred years! (no wait, that's just goblin clocks on a leek year.)

The forum clocks have been set back to GMT (+0) - I recommend that peeps also adjust the time settings in their Profiles.

[Goblin King]

Clocks Change - forward 1 hour

*re-emerges from forum machinery with a spanner*

Forum clock has now been reset to GMT+1 - Your King advises that you re-adjust your profiles accordingly or tick the "Observing DST" box - also in your Modify Profile screen.

I tried to make clocks strike 13, but my goblin chrono-magic clearly not up to scratch these days - need more jaffa cakes.

[Tinkerbell]

Eeep everytime I change my profile I nearly click delete not modify!

[mehrfarbig]

Mar 31, 2009 11:38:12 GMT Tinkerbell said:

Eeep everytime I change my profile I nearly click delete not modify!

Same haha

[Goblin King]

Oops.
I knew I should have paid attention to those warnings from Yahoo-Geocities. We appear to have lost our smilies guide which used to appear at the bottom of the page. I'll get a temporary guide to the special smiley codes up soon.

[Darkness]

Please bring back the smilies guide!

[Goblin King]

We've pretty much lost the original forever. I'll look for that old smilies thread and see if I can put something together soon.

[Goblin King]

Forum clock has been reset to GMT+0 (clocks went back one hour)

Please modify own profile settings for correct time when posting (make sure you uncheck the "Observing DST" if its ticked)
(see 4 posts back on this thread)

[Goblin King]

LOGGING IN

Is anyone else having trouble logging in?
- I'm turning on guest posting for a bit.

[Goblin King]

Okay, time to sort that clock out again.

Everybody:
Reset profile time to GMT+1 or tick "Currently Observing DST"

I'll now go in and tinker with the forum clock so it tells the right time when we're not logged in.

[Goblin King]

I've turned off the Google search box at the bottom of the page on the forum because it never seems to work for me. Any objections?

[Goblin King]

New button:

A "New Topics" button has been added to the forum by proboards, between "home" and "help" in the top banner menu. Much better than the "20 most recent posts" link.

At least I thought it was working a few moments ago.

[Goblin King]

Clocks have gone backward. *starts babbling like Doc from Back to the Future*

The forum clock has been reset, but members may need to correct time in their own profile.

*drags large spanner on the ground*

[Goblin King]

Some proboards forums have been losing data recently. I may have to look into backing up the site.
Has anyone noticed any posts go missing?

[someone]

havent noticed posts vanishing... but have seen a myriad of different error messages while trying to access the forum recently...

[Goblin King]

Oops I don't think I can back stuff up. One proboards forum I know of lost everything posted since the end of January.
Eeps.
No worries.

[Goblin King]

Clocks gone forward forum time set to GMT+1 because I can't find a DST setting.
(remember to change your profile settings!)

[Tinkerbell]

I still hadn't changed it from the last time

[Goblin King]

*smacks head* d'oh! ;D

[Goblin King]

Default forum time is set to GMT+1 (because I can't find a summer time setting)

All members (of 5 of you ) may need to check your profile settings - set to "GMT-0" and tick the "Observing DST" button-circle thingy. If you're fussy about the exact time, that is.

[Goblin King]

Got this today:

This message was sent only to the "admin" account on this forum.

In case you haven't already heard, the ProBoards v5 Closed Beta is now in progress! ProBoards v5 is the next generation in forum software, containing hundreds of forum upgrades: everything from super speedy searching, "Like" buttons in posts, notifications, an avatar maker, a built-in shoutbox, and so much more!

If you'd like to get some hands-on experience with ProBoards v5, we would like to invite you to signup for the ProBoards v5 Closed Beta. The current v5 Beta Test involves testing all regular member forum functionality. You will be able to test administrator and moderator functionality at a future date.

Ready to get started? Head over to the ProBoards v5 Beta Signup website.

Thank you for your continued support of ProBoards. Have a great day!

The ProBoards Team
www.proboards.com

Cos we all like change.