News   Nov 12, 2024
16 Storey Tower Proposal South of Warden Station Grows to 27 Storeys
 866     1 
News   Nov 12, 2024
News Roundup for November 12, 2024
 570     1 
News   Nov 12, 2024
Financial Core Nightlights
 684     0 

Forum Issues Since Relaunch (Jan 20, 2010)

In the following thread, on the final page everything is blank for me. http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?10350-saveoursubways-(SOS)&p=366431

I can only read the final page when I'm logged out. As soon as I log in, everything is blank. I've tried a couple of different computers now. I haven't seen this on any other thread.

Edit ... Oh ... here's the problem. I had the first person who had posted on that page blocked. When I unblock them, it works fine. But it doesn't show the entire page! There's a software bug!
 
Last edited:
Urban Shocker said:
* Let's outlaw those endlessly repeated promo things that clutter the bottom of some posts. Not to single anyone out, because they're increasingly common and popular modes of expression, but on this thread alone we have links to "My favourite building"; "Flickr page"; "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather...";"Fish will be the last to discover water.";" If I had a penny for every time ..."; "member since april 23 1847. over 250 539 posts ..."; "The DRL: ..." and "(random ramblings on the urban landscape)". Some of these things are a Wild West of typeface and colour choices and claim disproportionate visual importance compared to the posts themselves.
Click to expand...

I totally agree. They appear to be more annoying on the new board too.
 
There's been a huge spike in the number of posters using shorthand like 'u' and 'ur' and 'lol', particularly in the twilight zone that is the New TTC subway cars thread. This is against the rules, isn't it? Can we find some way of remotely detonating these users' computers so that they die?
 
GraphicMatt said:
There's been a huge spike in the number of posters using shorthand like 'u' and 'ur' and 'lol', particularly in the twilight zone that is the New TTC subway cars thread. This is against the rules, isn't it? Can we find some way of remotely detonating these users' computers so that they die?
Click to expand...

If that can be done, could we import that to other sites/forums? Seems like a useful tool to me.
 
In summary, though there are some excellent new features, I think the visual identity has gone a bit overboard with icons - little speech bubbles with nothing in them, distracting self-promotions at the end of posts, star ratings, and the like. I realize this is still a design in progress, but I'm puzzled why the word "HOME" is clustered four times beneath the banner, for instance? Dial things down a bit, maybe?

Oh yeah, and the Mars Attacks banner ...

http://datacore.sciflicks.com/mars_attacks/sounds/mars_attacks_lawyers.wav
 
We're working off the vBulletin template. Something like "Home" four times is them. The question is whether we can modify the template to fix things like that.
 
Anybody having problems with two clicks to last post still? Also, try the search now to see if that been fixed. And besides designs any other things not working?
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top