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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 07, 2015, 06:13 AM »

I'd expect 1 name (and not my own) to "stand out from the crowd", here

-Ath (September 07, 2015, 02:04 AM)

i must admit, i don't see any difference, though in my browser there is one.  The current forum code uses inline html <strong> to indicate buddies; let me change it to use css and lets see if that fixes it.

-mouser (September 07, 2015, 05:32 AM)

I checked page-source in Pale Moon, and even though 1 of my buddies is on-line, one of the <a> tags has an attribute <strong>, but it's not visibly different from the other items

Then I fired up Chrome, and checked the source, (in the meantime a second buddy came on-line) to see this <strong><a href="https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=987654321" style="color: #0000FF;">user</a></strong> (userid and name hidden to protect the innocent) for the first buddy-user next to my name, giving it a blue color (strong isn't really recognizable), and this: <strong><a href="https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=987654322">user2</a></strong> for another user, making it totally not distinguishable from other users in the list

This looks like a bug(gy) in the buddy module.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 07, 2015, 02:04 AM »

can you just confirm to me that we are talking about the same list? maybe a screenshot,

-mouser (September 06, 2015, 01:27 PM)

I'd expect 1 name (and not my own) to "stand out from the crowd", here
(Screenshot taken from Pale Moon)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 06, 2015, 01:23 PM »

The only difference I currently see is for the members that I clicked on their name to view their profile. Admins used to be red (saw that when you had un-hidden your status for a short while) and buddies used to be boldface, and possibly dark-blue, but it was quite different from both 'visited link' and 'un-visited link'. Now buddies aren't recognizable at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by Ath on September 06, 2015, 01:13 PM »

Well, I've told before about my 'adventures' with AVG, and that I ditched it years ago because it was hogging the system to a crawl, even on an i7 860 (quad-cure, with HT) running off of a SSD. A couple of months ago I re-tried AVG on my system, and ditched it for exactly the same reasons.

I fail to understand a) Why AVG can't deliver their services like (most) other A/V packages with a normal resource-usage, and b) Why people are still using (and even buying ) that system-hog application???
Yes, this is a honest question (I don't expect the a) part to be answered, btw ).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 06, 2015, 01:00 PM »

Well, I think the set of bbc-buttons is quite on-par with the purpose of the (quick)reply forms.

I'd be more interested in getting the buddy-list visible in the current user list at the forum-frontpage by them having a different color (or colour for the UK based members) like old dc had

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Basic Calculator

« Last post by Ath on September 06, 2015, 04:38 AM »

You might want to add a hex/dec/oct conversion option to attract the tech-savvy crowd here, but it looks refreshingly different in the awfully white Win10 world

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 03, 2015, 02:52 PM »

You may be looking at an Avast (or other antivirus product) inserted certificate

Ath, can you explain, i don't get it.

-mouser (September 03, 2015, 10:11 AM)

Some AV programs insert their own certificate in your browser and man-in-the-middle your HTTPS connections in order to be able to scan/filter them.

The ones I've seen are usually not using the best encryption, probably because they only serve to re-encrypt the traffic locally for your browser.

-Jibz (September 03, 2015, 10:58 AM)

^This.

After the forum-upgrade there where https-issues, then I looked at what FF reported on the certificate, and I saw both SHA-1 and SHA-256 encryption listed. After the https-issues where resolved I didn't check anymore, but now I only see SHA-1 encryption listed, even with Avast https checking enabled Must have been related to the https-issues then.
The Avast mitm fake-CA reports SHA-256 encryption for itself, though.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 03, 2015, 10:04 AM »

Any opinions on this?  Looking at DC's certificate, I think I also see SHA-256 so may be it's not a problem.

-ewemoa (September 02, 2015, 08:07 PM)

Nope: (not SHA-256) so, Yes, it's a minor problem for Chrome and Firefox(based) browsers.



You may be looking at an Avast (or other antivirus product) inserted certificate

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 02, 2015, 01:50 PM »

the list of active users, including buddies (not yet (3) highlighted like old DC had, hope that's returning too,

-Ath (September 01, 2015, 01:51 AM)

This is probably another css setting to tweak? Buddies aren't recognizable from the logged-in users-list at the bottom of the forum front-page

like (4) buddy management in the profile that I couldn't find yet)

-Ath (September 01, 2015, 01:51 AM)

Found it , it's pretty hard to find using a tablet (no mouse-hover fly-out menu's)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 02, 2015, 12:40 PM »

What do people think of the default option to show a popup messagebox when you receive a new personal message on the forum?

-mouser (September 02, 2015, 12:32 PM)

I'd like to turn it off, but it didn't happen often enough yet to dive into my profile setting to find that setting

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 02, 2015, 06:24 AM »

(1) I can't recognize the links that I've read from the ones I haven't read; On old DC the link-color changed after visiting he link, but on DC2 the link color stays exactly the same This may be due to the color-scheme in the theme, I can't tell, but it is a nuisance hunting down the unread links from the Active Topics list.

-Ath (September 01, 2015, 01:51 AM)

This issue seems to have been tweaked out, thanks!

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on September 01, 2015, 01:51 AM »

In the "Info Center - Active Topics" section would it be possible to re-enable the feature where it shows "Re:" at the start of the title for posts that are replies (as opposed to brand new threads without any replies)? This made it possible to distinguish at first sight between a new post without replies, and an older discussion with new replies.

fixed -- and discovered a substantial inefficiency in the code making that list, so forum should be a little faster to load now too.

-mouser (August 31, 2015, 09:42 AM)

Now there is only one thing missing from the Active Topics list: (1) I can't recognize the links that I've read from the ones I haven't read; On old DC the link-color changed after visiting he link, but on DC2 the link color stays exactly the same This may be due to the color-scheme in the theme, I can't tell, but it is a nuisance hunting down the unread links from the Active Topics list.
Unlike mouser, I also look at this list when returning to the DC browser-tab, press refresh and see a couple of new/updated messages.
From that same workflow comes the request (of others, but I'm joining) (2) to have an Unread Replies button/link at the bottom of the forum frontpage, like old DC had it also has the list of active users, including buddies (not yet (3) highlighted like old DC had, hope that's returning too, like (4) buddy management in the profile that I couldn't find yet) and the latest new member that I try to recognize for palindrome- and other nice numbers

So that's 4 issues/requests...

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 31, 2015, 02:15 PM »

Hey, where did my footer go?
Ah, it's still there, just some others are blatantly absent

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 01:23 PM »

Finally, or at last , I've been able to again capture a palindrome user-id, 491194:


Unfortunately, it does seem to be a forum-spammer, for what I've seen.

Even though I don't recognize any Cyrillic writing...

NB: The new forum-theme makes it much easier to capture the name combined with the user-id

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 01:12 PM »

Mouser, I've sent you a PM with an issue...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:52 PM »

I confess: I had to 'restore' it a little ;-)

-tomos (August 30, 2015, 12:48 PM)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:50 PM »

Another issue:
Some users seem to have lost their Avatar (f.e. Contro, Innuendo) in 'favor' of some default forum-avatar. Most likely because the list of forum-avatars has been revisited/added to/removed from (aka: renumbered). (Some of us are OK as we've uploaded a custom avatar )

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:34 PM »

can you give me the url of the pages where this happens?

-mouser (August 30, 2015, 11:38 AM)

The front-page of the forum... ('Active Topics' as the previous list of Recent Posts is now called)

Edit: Post #11 has a changed title, but it didn't show like that in the Active Topics list when it was the most recent

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:33 PM »

Another funny fact:
The recent list shows the original title of the thread, instead of the title (subject) of the last post of the thread (testing this now by inserting 'your' in the subject)
<snipped>
Advantage to me is that https refreshes the page when backing out a thread to the Recent list Very useful when on a tablet.

-Ath (August 30, 2015, 11:22 AM)

Additional advantage of showing the actual title of the last post is/was that most browsers display the link as 'visited', in a somewhat different color, after it's read, so any new messages can be easily recognized when refreshing the browser after returning to the page after some time (from other work). So yes, this is a feature I'd like to return

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:24 PM »

HTTPS does seem to work OK now, tested on Windows (FireFox and Edge), Android Phone (FireFox) (tablet is on the charger, I'll test that later)

-Ath (August 30, 2015, 11:48 AM)

Just tested on the tablet with Firefox on Android and all is fine there too, now that https is set up correctly

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 12:03 PM »

And Just For Fun (c), I'll post my 2525th post in this thread 

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 11:48 AM »

is https access of the forum working now?

-mouser (August 30, 2015, 11:37 AM)

It does seem to work a lot better now! I'll keep testing for a short while...

Edit: HTTPS does seem to work OK now, tested on Windows (FireFox and Edge), Android Phone (FireFox) (tablet is on the charger, I'll test that later), and iPhone (iOS8 Safari).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 11:48 AM »

Now switched to Windows, and Firefox on Windows only started behaving somewhat decent after disabling Avast WebShield HTTPS scanning, as it inserts a fake root certificate, probably unacceptable to Mozilla.

The Donationcoder.com StartCom SSL certificate does support both SHA256 and SHA1 encryption, and SHA1 (with expiration after January 1st 2016) is declared unsafe by Google (first) and Mozilla (hours later), even though it should be accepted with expiration date until January 1st 2017 (See SHA1 Deprecation)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report your issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 11:22 AM »

Another funny fact:
The recent list shows the original title of the thread, instead of the title (subject) of the last post of the thread (testing this now by inserting 'your' in the subject)

Edit: Confirmed.

NB Could the http/https issue be a webserver setting? All links, like the Reply button switch over to http when startjng off on https.

Advantage to me is that https refreshes the page when backing out a thread to the Recent list Very useful when on a tablet.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2015, 11:16 AM »

Hm, have to take back some of my words:
Funny fact: When accessing the forum using https, the recent post links at the bottom connect over http (https wasn't available/tested in the trial conversion)