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I have been tinkering with the notification system some more, to allow users who want it to get notifs after every reply. It seems to be working, but required a nasty hack, so it will need additional testing, which Sandi and I will be doing during the coming days. If it works all right, we'll make it available to everyone.

If you notice any strange behavior while posting, please let us know in the Bug Reports forum. Please do the same if you are having notif troubles.

One thing that has changed, which is not a bug, is that you may see this after your post:

(http://www.expertsrt.net/forum/23_1147688719.png)

instead of the usual screen. Don't panic -- the hasnt been hacked or anything ;-) If the notif mod I've made seems to work acceptably, I may make the page prettier later, but for now, you'll just have to get used to it :?

SITE MANAGERS: I'll be away for the next couple days. If this causes problems, comment out the code between lines 980-1000 in forum/includes/functions_post.php

Looks fine "as is".
Although I did get a nice little adrenaline rush the first time.
 :thumbup:

Yeah, what he said.   :wink:

I'm still not getting all the notifs damnit.  Mostly I'm missing notifs for new topics that have been posted.   :-s

OK, I have finally finished the notif management page, which any member who is logged in can now use:

http://www.expertsrt.net/forum/manage_notifs.php

It works pretty well for receiving all notifs for replies. The new topic notifs are still a bit buggy, though I'm not sure why. I'm just about out of patience for tinkering with phpBB, and more than out of time, so I have no immediate plans for working further on this, especially since phpBB will almost certainly be replaced in the upcoming months. If another site manager or developer would like to take up the fight, you're more than welcome, and I'll give you any access that you need to do so.

In the meantime, I ope everyone enjoys the modest improvement in the notif system...

Matt

Thanks Matt, you're a peach!    :notworthy:

a peach! - there's one I may never have been called before!  :glasses7:

And next you'll be telling me that you've never had your cheeks pinched by an old lady like me!   :wink:

OK, OK, you caught me   :D
But you don't count as old, cause I'm pretty sure my mom is at least 10 years older than you  :-$

Flattery will get you.....fresh baked cookies!  Actually my son (and oldest child) is older than you by a few years so I'd suspect I'm probably older than your mother.  But I'm really young at heart and mind.   :wink:

HMph.... you are all just kids...

 :^)

BTW,

Could all those test threads be put in the archives or in a non-accessible area.  The only thing showing up in the "latest forum threads feed is those test threads, an they are not going to bring any action or do anything for our image.

Good point - I hadn't thought of that...that whole forum can just be deleted now, which I will do in a second. In the future if I need to do it I'll make an access-restricted forum for it.

Yeah it looks good now good threads from 5 different forums.  :^)

Have we been getting very many hits back into the forum off of those feeds?

Already done----> http://www.expertsrt.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=77

Forum 77?  ====>> "The forum you selected does not exist"???

Soemthing you deleted, or a forum that I don't have privilege on?

I think it is probably one of the ones I deleted -- afaik you have permissions on everything...

:thumbup:

Thought so; the old db does not have a 77.

Matt's correct.  I use the group permissions usually and you're still an admin here Roy.


I was at the casino with mom on the 20th and almost looked in at the poker games for you.  She was in on that big drawing and had a bunch of food credits to spend so we made a night of it.   :D   God I love sushi!

Aha! you found the buffet  :-$

I was there that night.  Most of the regulars in the poker room had tickets in that draw...  I didn't win it  :sad3:

You would have found me in the poker room, in the club lounge, or in the hotel.  It's okay we will be getting together when the love of your life comes over next month.

 :^)

Just in case you want to go looking for me next time:

(http://coboldinosaur.expertsrt.com/dinosaur.jpg)

That is what a dinosaur really looks like.

well thanks a lot for ruining all our fantasies...I'm still going to pretend my mental image of an actual dinosaur pounding on a keyboard is true  :wink:

Actually I am just a hologram projected from another planet, so I can take nay form I want.   :-$

I probably passed you in the hall at least three times that night!  Dang!  Did you happen to see a very bored looking, short woman with dark hair past her butt tagging along behind a similar looking woman (short hair) pulling an oxygen tank behind her?   :wink:

Probably, but it would not register unless I was looking for you.   :-#

Kewl! A bearded Dino.    =D>

The funny thing is that I was looking for you!   :sign5:   I knew you were going to be there for poker that night.


And btw, your expertise is needed here--> http://www.expertsrt.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7884#7884

Finally!! We get to see the dinosaur! You silver fox you!

Somehow I thought there'd be more snarl and a big green tail..

Anyway I still get a little lost around here. I still wander the halls occasionally and peek in and find interesting things..

(Hi all!)

 :angel5:

Welcome back girlfriend!  Matt has worked a bit on the notifs so you might want to subscribe to a few forums again.   :wink:

Hey there Huntress! I have gone to several forums that I had subscribed to before and they say on the bottom "stop watching this forum" so I assume I am subscribed.. but I don't get (most?) notifs.

You might want to try unsubbing and resubbing on some of them to see if that jump starts it.

The forum notifs are not working particularly well, and you will have to update your subscription prefs here:

http://www.expertsrt.net/forum/manage_notifs.php

so that you receive notifs for every post (if that is what you want). I'm looking into putting ERT.net on an entirely new system to replace phpBB, but it may be a while until this is operational. For a number of reasons, development help has been scarce lately, and my time to do things here has been diminished (and will be for the foreseeable future). Apologies for the inconvenience until we get something better.

Okey dokey. Done. Sheesh that was a lot of unsubbing and subbing. I wonder if it's possible to have a page where you could check all the forums you want to subscribe to and do it all at once (but not like the feeds page).

Thanks for the suggestion to jump start! We'll see what happens..

Of course! I should have thought of that..

Thanks!



You volunteer your time and it is appreciated.. it is no inconvenience at all. I'm amazed at how much work you've done!

He really has done an amazing job hasn't he?   :cheers:

Yep, all y'all are doing great things here!  =D>

:oops:  Yhanks!