I will say I am pretty happy with the PC (larger screen) version. And it is good to see a mobile friendly version. I simply wish it was more similar to the PC version.
If you prefer the PC version of the site, you can always tell your mobile browser to request the desktop version of the site. You can do this by tapping on the 3 dots in the address bar on the right hand side. That's where it is on my Android Chrome browser. It may be different for Apple or Firefox mobile browsers. But when I do that on my phone, it loads the PC version of the page. I hope that helps.
Website administrator for Northern Arizona Wind & Sun
So what do all these badge things do... can they be deleted?
They are just something that members get for earning different achievements. I don't know if we will keep using them or not. If the members decide they don't like them, I can disable them. But I don't think it can be disabled on a single user. They are either enabled for everyone or disabled for everyone.
Website administrator for Northern Arizona Wind & Sun
There is no link to the online store. Clicking on the "wind&sun" at the top of the page goes no where?
This is something we will add in the near future. I want to get the forum operating smoothly for everyone first and then I'll start adding stuff like links to the store.
Website administrator for Northern Arizona Wind & Sun
On the other board I frequent which uses badges, they are a somewhat useful indicator of who has made a lot of posts that have been acknowledged as a solution. For them to be useful on this board would take user acceptance of the feedback mechanisms the new software has.
When using the Quote feature on a post with an existing quote, I got a data entry box in which it was not possible to move the insert point out of the nested quote structure. I had to switch to HTML view to complete my post. Also, there was not Delete or Cancel button for the attempted post to allow me to start over. Using the browser back button just took me back to the list when i reeentered that thread the partial post in progress was still there.
I think it doesn't have a cancel or delete button because you can just use the backspace key and delete any text or formatting that was in the comment post box. I tried this by clicking on the "Quote" button for someone's post. It added the quote to my comment box. Then I just backspaced over everything and then my comment box was clear.
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Ok, I think I see what I did wrong. Try it now and see if it works.
It works. Not only that, it added the signature to all my previous posts... I'm not sure I like that... have to think about it.
--vtMaps
It has to work that way. It builds the display of each post by fetching your current signature. Otherwise the signature would be taking up database space for each post. Just like your oldest post reflects your current membership category rather than what you were when you made the post.
It has to work that way. It builds the display of each post by fetching your current signature. Otherwise the signature would be taking up database space for each post. Just like your oldest post reflects your current membership category rather than what you were when you made the post.
I doesn't HAVE to work that way... it didn't work that way on the vbulletin software. --vtMaps
All forum signatures work the same way on any forum I've been on, to the best of my recollection. . Change at any time and it changes on all past, present and future posts.
It's nice that we can also select where or not to show signature images and to select to not show any signature on a mobile device or to never display any signatures ever.
Rick, Thanks for all your help, support and attention to the forum. Minus a few bells and whistles from the old software, this new package is already far superior. I'm sure you guys will have most issues ironed out soon. Gary
I doesn't HAVE to work that way... it didn't work that way on the vbulletin software. --vtMaps
Odd, I seem to remember it working that way in vBulletin too. Signatures, "titles" and images all seem to be added at display time. I guess I need to do some experimenting....
Tried to Edit a Post, but could not seem to make it work.
Tried adding a Link, and it seems to take a bit of gear-shifting, and Right-Click/Paste does not seem to work well (this is always the way I've done it forever) With right click, seems that the Link gets embedded into text above the cursor. Ctrl V seems to work OK for pasting, though.
Thanks rick, and BB Bill for all the efforts getting this new software running well.
And Thank You BB Bill for being SO Moderate. You do a lot of work behind the scenes, and we cannot imagine the amount of effort that this requires. Thanks! Vic
Off Grid - Two systems -- 4 SW+ 5548 Inverters, Surrette 4KS25 1280 AH [email protected], 11.1 KW STC PV, 4X MidNite Classic 150 w/ WBjrs, Beta KID on S-530s, MX-60s, MN Bkrs/Boxes. 25 KVA Polyphase Kubota diesel, Honda Eu6500isa, Eu3000is-es, Eu2000, Eu1000 gensets. Thanks Wind-Sun for this great Forum.
I finally found the "Mark /All Read" option in the little gear symbol up in the upper corner with MY PROFILE options. Is it possible to move it to the main page?
KID #51B 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024, 2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge, Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
FWIW, that image is hosted on photobucket and rather than use the usual IMG tag as I would on most forums I had to use the "Direct" tag that photobucket has. Other hosts may vary
I doesn't HAVE to work that way... it didn't work that way on the vbulletin software. --vtMaps
Odd, I seem to remember it working that way in vBulletin too. Signatures, "titles" and images all seem to be added at display time. I guess I need to do some experimenting....
I just ran a test on another vBulletin board and any change to signature immediately affects the display of old posts. Perhaps threads which are old enough to be auto-archived are handled differently. I did not test that.
I may have found a bug in the "mark all as read". used that option went another site using same page, came back here a few hours later and there were 2 "NEW" posts but I had already read one , the other really was a new updated post...
KID #51B 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024, 2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge, Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
Powerfab top of pole PV mount | Listeroid 6/1 w/st5 gen head | XW6048
inverter/chgr | Iota 48V/15A charger | Morningstar 60A MPPT | 48V, 800A
NiFe Battery (in series)| 15, Evergreen 205w "12V" PV array on pole |
Midnight ePanel | Grundfos 10 SO5-9 with 3 wire Franklin Electric motor
(1/2hp 240V 1ph ) on a timer for 3 hr noontime run - Runs off PV ||
|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
|| VEC1093 12V Charger | Maha C401 aa/aaa Charger | SureSine | Sunsaver MPPT 15A
View latest posts (old board) is Not Equal to New Discussion and Mark All Viewed does not empty the list of New Discussion
Powerfab top of pole PV mount | Listeroid 6/1 w/st5 gen head | XW6048
inverter/chgr | Iota 48V/15A charger | Morningstar 60A MPPT | 48V, 800A
NiFe Battery (in series)| 15, Evergreen 205w "12V" PV array on pole |
Midnight ePanel | Grundfos 10 SO5-9 with 3 wire Franklin Electric motor
(1/2hp 240V 1ph ) on a timer for 3 hr noontime run - Runs off PV ||
|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
|| VEC1093 12V Charger | Maha C401 aa/aaa Charger | SureSine | Sunsaver MPPT 15A
View latest posts (old board) is Not Equal to New Discussion and Mark All Viewed does not empty the list of New Discussion
Yes, because New Discussion (just clicking the Discussion button) shows all new posts whether read or not. This is a serious lack of functionality. The New Discussion does not seem to be equivalent to the old Today's Posts either in that it goes back far more than one day. If you have read a page full of latest posts you have to go to an earlier page to see other unread posts.
PS: That should be Recent Discussion. New Discussion is the action button to create a new thread.
PPS: I am not sure I understand the distinction between New Discussion and Ask A Question. (The two choices in the New Discussion dropdown.)
Trying to fix my signature line, Had to enter info as It seemed to have disappeared. Still cant seem to figure out how to get it to show up anywhere in my postings. The signature settings have choices to hide , but not show. Also I noticed the forum site seems to think I am a solar expert. Cant figure out how to change that as I don't consider myself an expert.
Bottom line here, after fumbling around on this new forum, I really don't like this new format. The older format was WAYYY more user friendly.
2.1 Kw Suntech 175 mono, Classic 200, Trace SW 4024 ( 15 years old but brand new out of sealed factory box Jan. 2015), Bogart Tri-metric, 700 ah @24 volt AGM battery bank. Plenty of Baja Sea of Cortez sunshine.
And what do you know?? my signature line has appeared.
2.1 Kw Suntech 175 mono, Classic 200, Trace SW 4024 ( 15 years old but brand new out of sealed factory box Jan. 2015), Bogart Tri-metric, 700 ah @24 volt AGM battery bank. Plenty of Baja Sea of Cortez sunshine.
More of an observation than a question, but looking at users online shows visitors in the single digits. On the old forum that count was always in the hundreds. Is the website still blocked in some areas?
More of an observation than a question, but looking at users online shows visitors in the single digits. On the old forum that count was always in the hundreds. Is the website still blocked in some areas?
I've noticed this as well. I'm not sure what the reason is. The new forum has been online for a couple of days now, so if it's due to the DNS settings, we should see an increase sometime today in the number of guests. It normally doesn't take more than 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate around the globe. Otherwise, I'm not sure why there are so few guests unless Vanilla just doesn't show them all for some reason, which I find unlikely, or maybe the numbers that vBulletin was showing us were incorrect. It's hard to say why, but I'm going to keep and eye on it and see if it improves.
Website administrator for Northern Arizona Wind & Sun
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For them to be useful on this board would take user acceptance of the feedback mechanisms the new software has.
--vtMaps
It has to work that way. It builds the display of each post by fetching your current signature. Otherwise the signature would be taking up database space for each post.
Just like your oldest post reflects your current membership category rather than what you were when you made the post.
BTW, signature works for me now too.
It's nice that we can also select where or not to show signature images and to select to not show any signature on a mobile device or to never display any signatures ever.
Thanks for all your help, support and attention to the forum. Minus a few bells and whistles from the old software, this new package is already far superior. I'm sure you guys will have most issues ironed out soon.
Gary
Tried to Edit a Post, but could not seem to make it work.
Tried adding a Link, and it seems to take a bit of gear-shifting, and Right-Click/Paste does not seem to work well (this is always the way I've done it forever) With right click, seems that the Link gets embedded into text above the cursor. Ctrl V seems to work OK for pasting, though.
Thanks rick, and BB Bill for all the efforts getting this new software running well.
And Thank You BB Bill for being SO Moderate. You do a lot of work behind the scenes, and we cannot imagine the amount of effort that this requires. Thanks! Vic
KID #51B 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
I just ran a test on another vBulletin board and any change to signature immediately affects the display of old posts.
Perhaps threads which are old enough to be auto-archived are handled differently. I did not test that.
KID #51B 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
|| VEC1093 12V Charger | Maha C401 aa/aaa Charger | SureSine | Sunsaver MPPT 15A
solar: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Solar
gen: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Lister ,
|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
|| VEC1093 12V Charger | Maha C401 aa/aaa Charger | SureSine | Sunsaver MPPT 15A
solar: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Solar
gen: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Lister ,
This is a serious lack of functionality.
The New Discussion does not seem to be equivalent to the old Today's Posts either in that it goes back far more than one day.
If you have read a page full of latest posts you have to go to an earlier page to see other unread posts.
PS: That should be Recent Discussion. New Discussion is the action button to create a new thread.
PPS: I am not sure I understand the distinction between New Discussion and Ask A Question. (The two choices in the New Discussion dropdown.)
Trying to fix my signature line, Had to enter info as It seemed to have disappeared. Still cant seem to figure out how to get it to show up anywhere in my postings. The signature settings have choices to hide , but not show. Also I noticed the forum site seems to think I am a solar expert. Cant figure out how to change that as I don't consider myself an expert.
Bottom line here, after fumbling around on this new forum, I really don't like this new format. The older format was WAYYY more user friendly.
2.1 Kw Suntech 175 mono, Classic 200, Trace SW 4024 ( 15 years old but brand new out of sealed factory box Jan. 2015), Bogart Tri-metric, 700 ah @24 volt AGM battery bank. Plenty of Baja Sea of Cortez sunshine.
2.1 Kw Suntech 175 mono, Classic 200, Trace SW 4024 ( 15 years old but brand new out of sealed factory box Jan. 2015), Bogart Tri-metric, 700 ah @24 volt AGM battery bank. Plenty of Baja Sea of Cortez sunshine.