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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 06, 2015, 01:35 AM »

For the unread topics list I haved switch from using 2 icons in front of each message to using Jibz icon to indicate when you have participated in a topic; it is also now used on the main message list for a board.
Keep in mind the new indicator that shows you have participated in a topic is only shown when the icon for the topic is standard. Special topic icons will now show such an indicator.

Here's how it looks now:
[ Invalid Attachment ]

I think that's ok since we rarely use topic icons other than the default one (in fact normal users are not given the choice of changing the topic icon when they post) -- that's to keep down the visual noise. I sometimes use a special icon on newsletters and other official announcements.

If we really wanted to show an indicator regardless of the topic icon, we could probably do it by changing to some css that makes use of a small overlay. Jibz maybe you can make me a tiny transparent image with just your overlay? Or we could use a different overlay image if people think they can improve on the one jibz chose.
-mouser (September 04, 2015, 12:33 PM)

To expand on that bug...I tried quoting and attaching a file...just to see what happened (I will edit if it did something odd)

//EDIT - Heh, so yeah...it takes YOUR attachment, and just plops it in there...that could be problematic if you are quoting a post with an image, and replying with an image

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 04, 2015, 09:02 AM »

Although I will answer some points here, could I ask that further discussion about the CMS (specifically the CMS) be moved here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=41547.0 - That way we don't have fragmented information and I only have to keep an eye on one thread to answer things

I didn't mean to say mouser or Stephen66515 or anyone else working on the technical aspects of the CMS need to come up with new content. I was saying let DC members give DC the gift of new content to celebrate its renewal. I was just suggesting though, not trying to convince anyone. So never mind...
-phitsc (September 04, 2015, 08:49 AM)

From my perspective, the more content the DC community can create for us, the better! - If anybody does happen to want to take on the challenge of writing a new review, article, short story or whatever, then PLEASE DO IT!.

Those who DO write content, will have their content placed on the new sections dedicated to this exact thing! - Seriously...adding more pages during this stage is not an issue whatsoever and like phitsc says, it would be a perfect way to celebrate the upgrade!

I have no problem if you guys do A and B first. What I'm suggesting is that we go live with plenty of C.
-phitsc (September 04, 2015, 01:51 AM)

Unless someone volunteers to make that content, and to coordinate the making of content, that's a massive effort on top of a massive effort that's already taxing mouser. So I'd say first things first. Get the CMS up, get some testing like with the forums, and get it to a stable experience that represents the site. Then the content can come organically as the tools give more people the ability to create the content.
-wraith808 (September 04, 2015, 08:05 AM)

There is no real coordination required in the creation of this content as it could just be a review, a mini-review, a short-story...well....anything really, it honestly doesn't matter...we have the means to now accommodate pretty much anything a content writer wants to submit!

"Then the content can come organically as the tools give more people the ability to create the content." <---- For this, I have to admit the content creation part of things MAY be an issue, BUT if people want to write them before the CMS is live, then they can do so by either doing it in plain-text, or if they have skills as a website designer, they can always just ask for our CSS classes, or even have us style it for them AFTER we get the rest of the stuff that needs doing; done.

"that's a massive effort on top of a massive effort that's already taxing mouser." - A huge amount of that pressure has been lifted off mouser so he can stop being close to a complete and utter nervous breakdown (see here)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 03, 2015, 03:11 PM »

WOOOOO-HOOOOO! It's been a long time coming. Congratulations mouser on getting started on this! And thanks Stephen for helping him out. He needs (and deserves) it.

My only feedback so far is that the look of the top menu is really quite... Windows 95. Any plans to change that? I know it's a somewhat minor quibble.

Edit: I realized I had another question - what are you using for the software listings!? I really hope you looked closely at using a directory listing type plugin.

- Oshyan
-JavaJones (September 03, 2015, 02:38 PM)

1. Not a problem at all! - Have to keep this short so I don't lose my steam moving all the pages xD!

2. Well...the menu I must admit, is not my creation, nor am I overly keen on it and am certainly open to changing the design! Will have to get mouser to see what he can create

3. Software listings are simply article pages - It was discussed many times for us to use some listings plugin, or repository software, but in the end a suitable one could never be found, and we are quickly learning that having them as articles on the website makes them just as easy to keep updated as any plugin/repository would be.

Currently, the process is something along the lines of - I bring pages over, realize we don't have a CSS class for a certain bit of the site, so mouser will then create that, then I drop that class into the code to make the page pretty with mousers CSS classes! We have started getting a bit more 'fluid' with how we are working, and with each page we move over, the quicker we are getting. I think the main killer points right at the beginning were trying to get the actual DESIGN of the site done to a point that it looks...remotely like DC and still looks "new", and now that's done, it is certainly a much easier thing to manage!

Nothing in the design is really set in stone right now and any images that are shared could be subject to change at any time (based on people's suggestions/ideas etc). - One thing I will point out...is those people who had access to the Beta Forum, also had access to see the CMS

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 03, 2015, 11:26 AM »

Here's a little sneak preview of the top of the site with the navbar, logo, and improved site search (With smart-auto-completion to make searching far easier!)

But yeah, if anybody wants updates, wants to offer up a feature suggestion - or other questions about the CMS, feel free to ask and one of us will update as often as we can!
-Stephen66515 (September 03, 2015, 11:20 AM)

VERY good point! - Don't be scared if we don't answer this thread for a little while...we are probably just busy as hell adding countless amounts of data to the new site lol

Yes, except for the fact that it's taking all of our concentration to focus on migrating the current pages, so please refrain from deep discussions about big new features and content until we get the old content migrated.
-mouser (September 03, 2015, 11:22 AM)

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 03, 2015, 11:20 AM »

Working hard and having fewer nervous breakdowns now

But yeah, if anybody wants updates, wants to offer up a feature suggestion - or other questions about the CMS, feel free to ask and one of us will update as often as we can!

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 03, 2015, 11:10 AM »

Ok, was searching this thread because I wanted to make a suggestion: how about we come up with some original content to celebrate the switch to a proper cms. Was thinking about stuff like reviews, short stories, new SW, member discounts, whatever.
-phitsc (September 02, 2015, 04:06 PM)

Do you mean this suggestion Phil? We are working like mad on the CMS at the moment and I fear mousers brain is close to exploding with everything that needs doing so he may have simply overlooked it
-Stephen66515 (September 03, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Yep, that's the one

Thought it would be a shame to have an all shiny and new CMS but only old stuff to put into it
-phitsc (September 03, 2015, 10:28 AM)

One of the aims behind the move to CMS is to make it easier for content writers to be able to upload their articles to the site and have them features in a nice way (Which will also be auto-posted to all the DC Social Network accounts to raise viewership!) so - from my perspective on this...please write as many new articles as you can possibly write! The more, the merrier! - There are already sections set up in order to accommodate these articles and there will be a help file available for formatting options!

At the moment, work is slowly progressing on the CMS as we bring over all of the current static pages (mousers software pages and such things) - Now that the design stage has been (almost) finalized, that content will be far faster for us to add and the CMS should be here in no time at all!

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 03, 2015, 10:27 AM »

Ok, was searching this thread because I wanted to make a suggestion: how about we come up with some original content to celebrate the switch to a proper cms. Was thinking about stuff like reviews, short stories, new SW, member discounts, whatever.
-phitsc (September 02, 2015, 04:06 PM)

Do you mean this suggestion Phil? We are working like mad on the CMS at the moment and I fear mousers brain is close to exploding with everything that needs doing so he may have simply overlooked it

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 01, 2015, 02:24 AM »

Concerning the translate box: harmless, yes, a distraction non the less.
-phitsc (August 31, 2015, 03:41 PM)

For Firefox, the Remove It Permanently add-on seems to work toward this end.

For Chrome, I tried Page Eraser, but didn't figure out how to get it to work across an entire site.

Just tried Stylebot with some success -- right click on element, choose 'Stylebot', choose 'Style Element', look for the 'Layout & Visibility' section, and click on the 'Hide' button. Not ideal perhaps and may not work specific elements only, but at least it can hide the 'Translate' pop-up...

Don't know about other browsers / platforms.
-ewemoa (August 31, 2015, 08:51 PM)

Thanks for the suggestions ewemoa!

Nevertheless, @mouser, I would prefer '-translate', if it's easy to do.
-phitsc (September 01, 2015, 01:19 AM)

I assume you use AbBlockPro (Assuming cause...well...I don't know anybody that doesn't) - if so, click the icon, click "block element" then click the translate box (and anything else you wanna hide) - they are now gone

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 31, 2015, 05:13 PM »

rj, can you elaborate a little bit -- since i don't often view the pages that show replies to my posts, i'm not familiar with what used to be shown/possible from there.

or to put it a different way -- im not sure if you are saying that there was a page of replies that used to behave differently, or use to have additional options, or if you are saying just that you used to be able to ignore topics on a one by one basis -- and if the latter -- can someone tell me how this option to ignore a topic was presented -- i.e. where the choice to do that was.
-mouser (August 31, 2015, 05:01 PM)

Explained on IRC since I didn't notice you asking this here and I want the same thing...but to clarify for others:

On this page: https://www.donation...action=unreadreplies there used to be an option that allowed you to select which posts you wanted to never hear from again - sometimes we post in things and the discussion becomes irrelevant to us and we lose interest - on DC2 we can only mark as read which is a pain when you comment on a lot of different topics that you lose interest in so being able to "Ignore Selected Topics In The Future" is a pretty nice thing to have (Which we did on the old server)

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Living Room / Re: Is pranking Josh unfair?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 31, 2015, 02:17 PM »

I've had my revenge >-)
-Josh (August 31, 2015, 02:10 PM)

By reviving a 4.7 year old thread?

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 31, 2015, 11:09 AM »

The mobile version looks fine on my Android. Great work, mouser!

The main website will soon (in 30 days or so?) be completely moved to cms and it will also be responsive/mobile friendly -- we have that working well already. So looks like we are on the right path.
-mouser (August 31, 2015, 08:51 AM)

Orly?

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 30, 2015, 05:04 PM »

Embedded YT video working here in PaleMoon without a Flash plugin

Testing

[VIDEOS]

EDIT// works here in PaleMoon *without* a Flash plugin
-tomos (August 30, 2015, 04:38 PM)

-tomos (August 30, 2015, 04:45 PM)

Yeah, YouTube stuff has been changed to HTML5 on DC now - It also supports vimeo videos using [vimeo][/vimeo]

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 30, 2015, 04:08 PM »

Very minor:

The 'Forum' link at the very top of the page (in the menu style row of links) does not work when one is in the forum -
there is a logic to this - but it's not the case with the other links up there, so a lack of consistency there.

(Me, I would just set it for forum home and leave it at that.)
-tomos (August 30, 2015, 01:13 PM)

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 30, 2015, 10:19 AM »

For quicker access to that, bookmark: https://www.donation...action=unreadreplies

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgrade Will Occur September 1st, 2015

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 27, 2015, 12:00 PM »

yourvideo.webm. You cannot upload that type of file. The only allowed extensions are txt,jpg,jpeg,gif,mpg,png,zip,rar,7z,ahk,fbs,mov,avi,mpg,rm,exe,mid,mp3,wav,grid,opml,tgz,gz,xml,ini,alias,wma,ogg,xz,pdf,apk,wmv,mp4,asf,webp.
-DonationCoder

webm is (was?) the declared future of videos on the web, and is regarded as safe content in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge. Surely webm is a must for allowed filetypes here on DC?!

http://camendesign.c..._everybody/test.html
https://support.mozi...io-and-video-firefox
-Curt (August 27, 2015, 09:19 AM)

Probably just something he missed, it was only last year I alerted him to the fact JPEG files couldn't be uploaded yet JPG could be (SMF is very literal when it comes to things lol)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgrade Will Occur September 1st, 2015

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 26, 2015, 07:02 PM »

The actual upgrade *might* take place a little earlier than the 1st.. perhaps this weekend, in order to guarantee that the upgrade is smoothly finished by the 1st.
-mouser (August 26, 2015, 06:49 PM)

I shall translate that for everybody:

"I just want to get this over and done with as quickly as possible then I can go back to having some sort of real life again"

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General Software Discussion / Re: MySpace anyone?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 26, 2015, 07:38 AM »

Same crap trying to sign on through facebook. No button.

-MilesAhead (August 26, 2015, 07:38 AM)

Take it as a hint and don't bother

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Living Room / Re: First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 25, 2015, 08:07 PM »

http://www.microsoft...c&topic=FA144268

FAQ - I cannot enable Cortana alpha in India. How do I get it work?
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In this way you can get Cortana’s alpha version working on your phone in India.

First of all, you need to have Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1, check your phone OS version from Settings > about > more information. You will need OS version 8.10.14141.167 or later. Try to get an update from Settings > phone update > check for updates if required.

Then, set your phone to the correct region, language and select English (UK) speech language:

Region - India,
Language- English (India)
Speech language - English (UK)
To do that, follow the steps below:

Select Settings > region, tap Country/Region, select India and tap restart phone if required.
Select Settings > language. If English (India) appears on the language settings screen, long tap on it and select move up. Or add a new language: Tap + add languages, select English (India), tap done and finally tap Yes to start downloading. This change requires restart, tap restart phone.
Select Settings > speech, tap Speech language and select English (United Kingdom). Tap Yes to start downloading and track its status from Settings > phone update. Once the speech package is downloaded, tap install and your phone will automatically restart.
Wait for your phone to install the update, during that you will see gears rotating on the screen for up to 10 minutes.
Once ready, a new screen stating that the update is completed. Tap done, and go to Settings > speech, tap Speech language and select English (United Kingdom).
When your phone is set to the correct region, language and speech language, go to Cortana by pressing the Search key. You will see two Cortana acknowledgement screens, where you will need to review the info and accept the conditions for using the Cortana alpha version.

Want to disable it?

Disabling is easy. Just change your phone's language back to English (India) and Cortana will disappear. When you tap on the Search key, you would get Bing search instead.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgrade Will Occur September 1st, 2015

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 25, 2015, 07:46 PM »

Just for funs: http://www.swts.co.uk/

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General Software Discussion / Re: MySpace anyone?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 25, 2015, 05:40 PM »

I am trying to sign up. After filling in the form, there is no Submit button. Pressing Enter in any of the fields does nothing. Pretty strange.

Anyone know the secret handshake?

-MilesAhead (August 25, 2015, 05:32 PM)

OK..I'm gonna just come right out with it...

WHY?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgrade Will Occur September 1st, 2015

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 25, 2015, 03:52 PM »

Always a pleasure!

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Living Room / Re: Brightness Settings Reversing - No apparent reason.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 19, 2015, 06:18 PM »

Are the Acer power-management tools/drivers/add-ons installed? They caused similar behavior on a slow Acer laptop I serviced few weeks ago, where this happened when the Acer-'enhanced' power-setting was enabled. Switching to a standard power-scheme fixed it for me.
-Ath (August 19, 2015, 10:42 AM)

No too sure off hand if they are installed, but the power settings don't (seem to) change at all no matter if I am plugged in or on battery (I set the power options to do that awhile ago whilst troubleshooting another issue that would make the laptop lag o hell when it was plugged in)

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Living Room / Re: Brightness Settings Reversing - No apparent reason.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 19, 2015, 10:12 AM »

...Needless to say, I am very confused. ...
__________________________
-Stephen66515 (August 18, 2015, 08:42 PM)

Me too, perpetually.
You have my sympathies.
Disregard @rgdot's silly comment about "Poltergeist" - maybe he's got his pills mixed up, otherwise his technical causal problem analysis skills would seem to be clearly lacking. Still, you could try exorcism if you feel he might be on the right track, I suppose.

It does sound like an unusual problem though - at any rate, I don't recall having heard of it before now. I tried this search: Brightness settings reversing on Acer Aspire
Not sure if there's anything useful there. Your query on DC forum comes up in the list.
-IainB (August 19, 2015, 01:42 AM)

Yep. can't find a damn thing about it haha - Nothing on Google, nothing on Acers forums, nothing even remotely close to it...very odd lol

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Living Room / Brightness Settings Reversing - No apparent reason.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 18, 2015, 08:42 PM »

Over the past few weeks (Before upgrading to Windows 10 and since the upgrade) my laptop has been acting rather odd. When I close the lid (Which puts her into hibernate) or reboot the laptop, the brightness settings reverse. It happens regardless of if I am using mains power or battery...If my brightness settings were full when I shut the lid, when I open it, I have a black screen and have to turn brightness DOWN for it to be UP...then if I reboot/shut the lid and open it, it will do it all over again.

Laptop is an Acer Aspire E 15 (E5-51-C619) - My Mrs has one of these as well, though she hasn't had this issue (still on Windows 8.1 on here, but since my problems started whilst on 8.1, I doubt that's really important). I haven't installed anything in ages other than Win 10 (Except for one Windows Store game which I added after the problem started) and have not uninstalled anything except for Fallout: NV, which was yesterday via Steam. Checked for Malware/Spyware/Viruses etc, nothing detected -_-

Needless to say, I am very confused. Anybody have any sort of clues as to why this is happening?

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Living Room / Re: OnLive.com has shut down.......

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 16, 2015, 03:05 PM »

Were you on regularly? I would just be surprised if you paid for content and there wasn't a migration plan put in before 4/30.
-wraith808 (August 16, 2015, 09:47 AM)

Just because you make the effort to notify everyone and offer a migration plan, doesn't mean that people will pay attention to their e-mail, see it, respond to it appropriately, and in a timely manner.
-app103 (August 16, 2015, 11:53 AM)

Would have been nice if they even did that, but they made no attempt to care. Those who purchased the onive hardware after April this year got refunded, but that's it! People who had the premium service for CloudLift at least managed to keep save game files - I just lost everything I ever purchased there.

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