Welcome to the New Forums!

[Mark]

You may have spotted that the forum software has changed, back to vBulletin which is what we were using before the big forum hack and many have expressed a preference to going back to, so here we are finally :D

Some issues to be aware of:
* Your login should be the same as you've been using, however it relies on contacting the old database to verify the password - this has quite a possibility of going wrong, so if you can't login let me know (details below) and I'll reset your password
* Permissions were not inherited from the old forums, these have to be set up from scratch, if it says you're banned, don't worry you aren't! Again let me know
* Any other issues you find again let me know, there's bound to be loads.
* New registrations are currently disabled until the spam firewall is in place - we got inundated with spam just during the install process!

Email: mail@markhewitt.co.uk

[BleAivano]

Looks good, when/if will we be allowed to get avatars?

[Markadmin]

Looks good, when/if will we be allowed to get avatars?

They will be coming, there's masses of options to go through, as it's starting from scratch again.

[BleAivano]

OK no problemo take your time... *impatiently tapping my fingers against the desk*. ;)

[A FONDO]

my ighore list is empty :(((((((
I dont have controls when posting - for bold, italic, color etc. no emoticons too

[Markadmin]

Your ignore list won't have been imported, but I can see the bold etc and a small amount of smilies work.

[A FONDO]

also the small grey buttons for "Edit" and "Reply with quote" do not work - it just makes the mouse cursor "think"

[Markadmin]

also the small grey buttons for "Edit" and "Reply with quote" do not work - it just makes the mouse cursor "think"

Strange cos it's just worked for me.

[BleAivano]

Strange cos it's just worked for me.

and for me as well.

[steveaki13]

Wow. Hi all It looks Good.

Few questions (no rush to answer just wondering)

- How come Mark you've only got 21 posts?
-Will in time the "Like" Button be able to return?
-Will we have a lot more fun on this version?
-Where do I find smilie's? I don't appear to have any editing tools at all. Including like slowson said, no bold/underlined

[steveaki13]

My edit/quote buttons work though.

[Storm]

glad we are back to the old s/w

[steveaki13]

Also. Just out of interest Where have the older threads gone? i.e Chit Chat only has 2 pages.

[A FONDO]

Strange cos it's just worked for me.

yeah seems like it is on for me again :)

editing too

p.s.2.: but still no B I

[henners88]

Looks so much better, should encourage me to post more too as I didn't like the old template at all.

[Mirek]

Thank You Mark for going back to this forum. Take Your time for solving all gremlins :)

Quotes work for me. Editing my posts too. Larger photos embed in forum work. Ignore list works (when I put the members there again).

Here few points from me for the future.

When I deleted my post I could still see an empty post with my name with no icons for editing or reporting. Is that purposed feature? You can check here if you see it too: http://www.motorsportforums.com/showthread.php?28327-R5-News/page155 (below post 1548)

Is it planned to make embed videos working?

Is it planned to implement "view new posts" and "view unread posts" features for subforums?

[Mark]

- How come Mark you've only got 21 posts?

Seperate acccount created as part of the import process, this one has my correct number!



-Will in time the "Like" Button be able to return?

I'm working on a couple of ways for that to happen, so yes.



-Will we have a lot more fun on this version?

Of course :D



-Where do I find smilie's? I don't appear to have any editing tools at all. Including like slowson said, no bold/underlined

Good point, I think it's a permissions thing.

[dimviii]

Is it planned to implement "view new posts" and "view unread posts" features for subforums?

that i would like too.

Take your time Mark!

[dimviii]

Is it planned to implement "view new posts" and "view unread posts" features for subforums?

that i would like too.

Take your time Mark!

[steveaki13]

Seperate acccount created as part of the import process, this one has my correct number!



I'm working on a couple of ways for that to happen, so yes.



Of course :D



Good point, I think it's a permissions thing.

Thanks Mark.

What does permissions mean?

[Rallyper]

Thanks for the "new" forum back again. Take your time. Let´s hope to see some old members back.
Will the Pickem´s follow the new look and will it appear before Portugal (those of you involved)?

The dates of old posts are in four (three) numbers - is that a overcoming problem or something we´ll have to live with. I suppose new posts will have proper dates.

[Markadmin]

Each type of user, e.g. registered user, moderator, admin, has a big list of things they are allowed or not allowed to do and which features they can and cannot see.

[BleAivano]

is just me or does the dates look a bit strange?

I.e.
Today in history;

Started by BleAivano, >>1041<< August 2013 11:23 1 2 3 ... 11 Replies: 108 Views: 25,500 D-Type >>807<< March 2014, 17:54 Go to last post

Also I noticed that Auto detect DST also does not work.

[Markadmin]

Thanks, date format fixed!

[Mia 01]

Thanks for your work Mark! Earlier today I was a bitt worried when I couldnt log in.

[Dave B]

Meet the new forum, same as the old forum :D

[BleAivano]

Thanks, date format fixed!


Good Work!

[A FONDO]

-Where do I find smilie's? I don't appear to have any editing tools at all. Including like slowson said, no bold/underlined

open your profile settings http://www.motorsportforums.com/profile.php?do=editoptions

then scroll down a bit 'til you reach this:


Miscellaneous Options
Message Editor Interface:

Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing
Basic Editor - A simple text box
Standard Editor - Extra formatting controls


and choose the first or third one

[steveaki13]

Cheers Slowson.


Got it now. Thanks a lot:):o

We need a bigger range of smilie's in the future once everything else is up and running. Where will Taz find his sailor. :D

[BleAivano]

Cheers Slowson.


Got it now. Thanks a lot

We need a bigger range of smilie's in the future once everything else is up and running. Where will Taz find his sailor.

There is a work around for this and that is that you can google smileys and link them as embedded images using the img tags.
The same goes for smileys from other forums. like this: Londoners when they wakes up and realizes that there is half an inch
of snow on the ground: http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/images/smilies/scare.gif ;)

[Jag_Warrior]

Oh wow!!! Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, Mark!!!

[steveaki13]

Oh yer

35 http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/aktion/action-smiley-057.gif http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/alles_moegliche/mixed-smiley-030.gifhttp://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sport/sport-smiley-018.gif

[BleAivano]

Hey why can Steve have such a large avatar while mine is so small? http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-angry019.gif ;)

[donKey jote]

cool :D

please sir, can I have my flag back ? :andrea:

[steveaki13]

I don't know how I got such a huge avatar image. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/fragend/confused-smiley-013.gif

To be honest I am glad I did. Its a great picture don't you think?

The two 2000 Minardi's of Gene and Mazzacane. Just love that livery. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/liebe/love-smiley-011.gif

[BleAivano]

I don't know how I got such a huge avatar image. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/fragend/confused-smiley-013.gif

To be honest I am glad I did. Its a great picture don't you think?

The two 2000 Minardi's of Gene and Mazzacane. Just love that livery. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/liebe/love-smiley-011.gif


yes it is a nice picture. :)

[Tazio]

Thanks, date format fixed! Thanks Daddy-0 :cool:

[Koz]

Yay! So awesome to have the forum back!!

Thanks Mark!

[Franky]

Mark, how close is the forum to the final configuration?

With the Opera (Mac) the forum thread display keeps going back to displaying the oldest threads first every time I return.

[garyshell]

Scroll down the page to the bottom of the threads and you will see some dropdowns to control this behavior.

Gary


Mark, how close is the forum to the final configuration?

With the Opera (Mac) the forum thread display keeps going back to displaying the oldest threads first every time I return.

[garyshell]

Well maybe not. I used those settings and I thought they were persisting. But I logged out and back in and they had reverted back.

Gary


Scroll down the page to the bottom of the threads and you will see some dropdowns to control this behavior.

Gary

[Mark]

It did that to me once but I clicked to resort and it was ok. Don't know what happened there.

There is still a lot of work to do to get things back to where I want then to be.

[steveaki13]

I have started having issues that I thought I would let you know about.

Now the old threads have been rediscovered I am getting the threads in a jumbled up order.

I go down the page to Thread Display Options and it is ordering the threads by "Thread Title". I change it too "Last Date" as I normally view threads. (with latest threads active listed first) and select "Descending" order and it returns to as I am used to

Threads listed with most recent activity at the top going down as the threads get older. Which is OK

Then I go into a thread and when I return to the Forum homepage all the threads are jumbled up again and I have to change settings once more. It continues every time I leave a thread over and over again.

Is this happening to everyone?

[Mark]

Default sort order was to sort by thread title for some reason!

[steveaki13]

Well done Mark. Sorted now. Thanks

You're doing a great job sorting all the issues. We all really appreciate it.

[BleAivano]

Default sort order was to sort by thread title for some reason!

Thanks Mark. http://www.chopcult.com/forum/images/smilies/bowdown_smilie.gif

[Storm]

Can we get back the old icons?? I loved our old icons.... the green man with the teeth :D <-is now this ? :(

this is like yahoo messenger with its shitty icons

[Markadmin]

Can't be having Yahoo! Messenger here :shock: :D

[steveaki13]

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/aktion/action-smiley-030.gif I like the old icons, but I have found plenty of fun new ones too. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/ernaehrung/food-smiley-010.gif http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/ernaehrung/food-smiley-004.gif

[Mirek]

I'm facing troubles now. When I am in a thread I can not jump to other pages. It does nothing or jump to first page and only shows this:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/forum/html/includes/block/html.php(95) : eval()'d code on line 7 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/forum/html/includes/block/html.php(95) : eval()'d code on line 7

[Markadmin]

That's because I'm messing with it ;)

[Mirek]

And a second issue. When I post, it shows to me that I try to post twice although I clicked only once.


The following errors occurred with your submission
This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between posts. Please try again in 30 seconds.

EDIT: Thanks Mark.

[Storm]

Can't be having Yahoo! Messenger here :shock: :D

:cheers: Mark=:cool:

[Markadmin]

Flags are now available to choose :)

[RAS007]

Great stuff. Good to have the old forums back!

[Mirek]

Mark, maybe You know about that but when I try to change something in my settings (for example unsubscribing threads which I didn't subscribe) it shows to me a message that I was banned. Although I can normally post otherwise.


vBulletin Message

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

[donKey jote]

flags are back yippeee :D :andrea:

[BleAivano]

Good for you Mr. Senior Donkey. ;)

[donKey jote]

Shh... Mark might notice and plug the gap ;) :andrea:

[Rally Power]

Nice layout. Thanks to Mark and all the people that makes this forum possible!

[OzoneVibe]

Hi
Realise things are busy ... no urgency ...

If I select to subscribe from the "Thread Tools" ... I get a message that I'm banned ...
However, clicking on "Thread Tools" a second time suggests I am subscribed since the option has changed to "Unsubscribe from this Thread".
However, on my Control Panel page (or whatever the term is) under "Subscriptions" ... nothing is listed.

Also, under "Edit Email and Password" in settings ... there does not appear to be an option to edit email address.

Thanks! Good luck! :)

[slorydn1]

Man I am so glad we went back to VB!!!


SO, do I have to do push ups to get my mod stuff back?? lol

No seriously take your time I have been really busy at work I am just really glad to be back to this format :)

[odykas]

I never liked phpbb.

Much better now! :smokin:

[A FONDO]

is there any chance that avatars can become 100x100 at least ?

[Markadmin]

As long as they don't start making the tables go out of shape I'll look into it.

[makinen_fan]

Nice to have this back! But I have a few issues with it:

Sometimes when I click the 'go to first unread message' button next to the thread title (two down arrows), I just takes me to the very last message of the thread and not where I left the last time I was here.
Editing a reply in advanced does not show the usual button to insert image, url, emoticons etc. Is this a browser problem? I am using chrome (both Mac and Win).

[Mirek]

The forum showing wrong time to me. I'm in CET zone summer time now and while I have 17:52 the forum shows at my post 15:47.

[BleAivano]

The forum showing wrong time to me. I'm in CET zone summer time now and while I have 17:52 the forum shows at my post 15:47.

What are your settings (Time Zone and DST Correction Option) set to?

I am in the same time zone as you and I have selected GMT+1 and DST always on, which gives me the correct time stamps.

[Alfa Fan]

5 minutes slow for me now. I seem to remember the last vbulletin installation on here got horribly out of time too.

[steveaki13]

I have also had the website freeze a few times. Never did it before, its just since the banners has gone green at the top.

Don't know if that was a particular change or coincidence.

[N4D13]

I don't know if it has been reported already, but here it goes - when I open my profile, the links on the right are unreadable (see the attachment). Highlighting them works but this is undesiderable. Is this happening to someone else or just me?

On a totally unrelated matter - is there any way to change one's username?

Edit: this is my 777th post! Do I get a prize? :D

[steveaki13]

I don't know if it has been reported already, but here it goes - when I open my profile, the links on the right are unreadable (see the attachment). Highlighting them works but this is undesiderable. Is this happening to someone else or just me?

On a totally unrelated matter - is there any way to change one's username?

Edit: this is my 777th post! Do I get a prize? :D

You used to be able to change username. Not sure about the current way to do it though if you still can.

Ask Doc/Taz/ whoever. :p

I also went from aki13 to Steveaki13

[N4D13]

You used to be able to change username. Not sure about the current way to do it though if you still can.

Ask Doc/Taz/ whoever. :p

I also went from aki13 to Steveaki13
Will do! Thanks a lot. :D

Oh, and does the issue with the unreadable links happen to you (or anyone else) as well or is it just me?

[steveaki13]

Doesn't happen to me I am afraid.

[donKey jote]

Nor to me I am happy :)

[N4D13]

It's happening to me in IE, Chrome and Firefox, with and without extensions! This is weird - I'll keep looking into it and see if I can figure out what could be causing it.

[Firstgear]

Is there a problem with PM's? I don't think it's working.

[BleAivano]

Any chance of getting an upgrade to the latest vBullentin version?
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/4364672-vbulletin-5-2-6-connect-is-now-available

[KevinR]

I started posting here because I thought this is a place for the new users to introduce themselves! My mistake, I know, but maybe we should create a thread for introductions? What do you guys think?

[Starter]

I started posting here because I thought this is a place for the new users to introduce themselves! My mistake, I know, but maybe we should create a thread for introductions? What do you guys think?
As good a place as any. Welcome.

[AdmissionPro1234]

Hey, HI all.. its great to be here.

[Indreq]

I was semi-active of WRC section since Märting drove and have been occasional reader ever since, more now that Tänak is on the roll again. Today i felt like posting something over several years and found that my user name wasnt any good. No problems, registered again and here i am, but just out of curiosity - were old inactive users deleted at some moment?