[another_someone]

Mark as read button consistently returns a “Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again” - even if I log out and log back in.

George

[another_someone]

Still not sure what the tick boxes, either on the thread index, or on the messages within the threads, are meant to do.

Tried to report to moderator function – again, not sure what that is meant to do, since no messages entered my inbox (and I am supposed to be a moderator).

Still a problem that report to moderator returns you to message index, so if you want to report several messages within the thread, you will have to drill down the thread again.

Still a limitation that you only have one line of text for the report to moderator function – this is not a lot in which to describe why you have reported the message to the moderator.

George

[another_someone]

Set up a poll.

I have no problem voting in the poll.

No problem removing the vote.

When I have voted, the I can see the current voting results.

If I have not yet voted, or have deleted my vote, then the current results do not appear (this is not a problem).  But what does appear is a button that says 'View results' – but that button does not seem to do anything.

George

[another_someone]

A slightly misleading error message.  I tried to register a new user, logged out, and register a second user, and I get the message “Sorry, but you're not allowed to register multiple accounts at the same time from the same computer”.

In fact I can register as many users as I like from the same computer – I simply cannot register them from the same session – i.e. I have to close down the browser and open it up again in order to register a new user.

There are in fact some good reasons why a user would want to register more than one user from the same computer (e.g. more than one family member using the same computer).

George

[another_someone]

The registration process states it requires a valid email address – in fact, it only requires a valid domain name on the email address.

The only way to actually validate an email address is to send an email to the address (which would not be a bad idea, but clearly you are not doing this, but merely doing a DNS lookup on the name, or allowing a valid non-local IP address).

If you fill out the registration, you need (not unreasonably) to click on the 'I agree' tickbox before the 'Register' button is enabled.  Problem is that if an error occurs in the registration, you are then taken back to the registration entry apge, with the password fields cleared, but all other fields left as they were.  This includes the 'I agree' tickbox remains ticked, but the 'Register' button is disabled.  You actually need to untick the 'I agree' box, and tick it again, before the 'Register' button is enabled again.

George

[another_someone]

Tried to click on the 'notify' button in the 'Chemistry' forum.  Then created a new topic within the forum.  Did not see any notification.

Do not see where there is any indication of whether notification is active or not.

BTW, I notice that you have removed the list of moderators from the topics list.  This is good, since it used up real estate, and few people actually need to know who the moderators are – they just need to be able to contact the moderators (e.g. by the 'notify moderator' option).

On the other hand, the moderators themselves might like to know which topics they are moderators for – how would they find this information out?

George

[another_someone]

I was given the understanding that in the new forum moderators would have more power over individual users (i.e. to delete or lock users, not only their messages).  Was this understanding in error – I see no way of managing users in the forum?

Incidentally, when I have the members list up, I have the search option at the top (not the 'search members' button, but in the heading area, the same search option that exists everywhere else).  This is a little confusing in this context, since that option is still searching the topic messages, even though I am not in a topic context.  I would expect the only search facility to be available when viewing members information is a search of members, not a search of topic.  I would advise either removing the field when viewing members information, or changing it to search the members records, to at least to relabel to 'Search topics' so that it is clear that the function is not context dependent.

George

[another_someone]

BTW, I don;t see anyone else posting much here.  Am I a 1 man testing team, or are others sending responses through direct email, or otherwise less visible means?

George

[another_someone]

The new members list actually contains less information than on the existing site.

The members list does not contain the date of the most recent post, or the country of the member.

George

[daveshorts (OP)]

Sorry have been away for the weekend

quote:I was given the understanding that in the new forum moderators would have more power over individual users (i.e. to delete or lock users, not only their messages). Was this understanding in error – I see no way of managing users in the forum?

Sorry I think I had not goven you enough permissions. I have now made you a global moderator, and I think you should have an admin option at the top within which you should be able to do this.

quote:Spellcheck

After an exciting exercise in recompiling PHP and Apache we now have a spellcheck option when posting messages.

[Karen W.]

YAAAAAY!! I LOVE SPELL CHECK!!!

Karen

[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by Karen W.

YAAAAAY!! I LOVE SPELL CHECK!!!

Karen

lukerlee ..eye downt kneed shpell  chek !!

Men are the same as women, just inside out !

[another_someone]

Since most responses I compose in a wordprocessor before copying onto the web page, I already have been using a spellchecker most of the time.

George

[Karen W.]

YOU DO SO, SIR!!!! YOU ARE SO.... BAD, But so am I when I get sleepy your lucky if I can spell anything!!!

Karen

[another_someone]

quote:Originally posted by Karen W.

YOU DO SO, SIR!!!! YOU ARE SO.... BAD, But so am I when I get sleepy your lucky if I can spell anything!!!

Well  you spelt 'anything' correctly this time - so he must be lucky []

George

[daveshorts (OP)]

quote:On the other hand, the moderators themselves might like to know which topics they are moderators for – how would they find this information out?

At the moment it is listed on the front board index page, as there is plenty of space there I thought it wouldn't hurt.

[daveshorts (OP)]

quote:Still not sure what the tick boxes, either on the thread index, or on the messages within the threads, are meant to do.

There should be a little form (a couple of dropdown boxes) at the bottom of the list of messages/topics with lots of moderation options, these will be applied to all the selected posts, this means you can delete loads of posts/topics at once.

If you prefer the old system there is an option in your profile to change it back. In look and Layout, change 'Show quick-moderation on message index as' to your prefered option.

[daveshorts (OP)]

quote:Mark as read button consistently returns a “Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again” - even if I log out and log back in.

I think I fixed this as a byproduct of fixing something else, is it working now for you as well as me?

quote:A slightly misleading error message. I tried to register a new user, logged out, and register a second user, and I get the message “Sorry, but you're not allowed to register multiple accounts at the same time from the same computer”.

In fact I can register as many users as I like from the same computer – I simply cannot register them from the same session – i.e. I have to close down the browser and open it up again in order to register a new user.

There are in fact some good reasons why a user would want to register more than one user from the same computer (e.g. more than one family member using the same computer).

Yes it does only work on the session, I think it is to try and discourage incompetent spammers who would make lots of accounts and post spam from them. I think it may annoy more people than it will stop, maybe I will disable it.

[daveshorts (OP)]

Ok I think I am getting there, have just spent ages adding a little box to the 'Unread posts' page so it will show you all the posts since a date, like the present one. Does this now behave in a relatively logical way to you guys now?

[ukmicky]

My first look in three weeks and its looking good Dave i'm well impressed ,i cant wait for it to go live.

I cant see many problems apart from the missing icon from the last post box and when you place the mouse over the UNREAD box a popup box appears and says logout in error .

Some of the forum title's are in bold while some arn't.

I will hunt a bit more deeper.

ps
Dave where's me and neils global moderator status []

Michael