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techntrek · February 2015

vBulletin Support wrote: »

No there isn't, the nearest is to have a daily email.

A lot of people requested that the software be changed to email on EVERY reply. So that is what was done in the new version. I thought it was fine as it was, but some people do take a different view.
However, there is now a request in to have it changed back to the former behaviour.
"You should only get one email notification until you've returned to the board again, per vB2/3/4"

I guess this is one of those "can't please everyone" scenarios.

Just add both as an option. But I can't believe someone would want to be notified for every new post on an active thread like this one. The old way would be better.

vBulletin Support · February 2015

Options are nice..BUT, with the number of customers vBulletin has, you can easily end up with an option for everything, which makes things cluttered and slow.

A request is definitely in place for this functionality to be reverted back. Not sure if/when it'll be done. I don't make any of these decisions, I too preferred it as it was.

mike95490 · February 2015

vBulletin Support wrote: »

Where are you seeing this? Are you able to take a screenshot?

In posts themselves, background is currently very light grey, with text in black. I also enlarged the font.

Today, it's a bit different, Better, sort of an orange/peach color.

vtmaps · February 2015

vBulletin Support wrote: »

For now, go to your username at the top of the page, click it, and from the dropdown menu select "My Recent Posts". This gives you a list of recently updated threads that you have posted in.

When I do that, the list I get is many pages long. Unfortunately, the list is NOT sorted correctly... I want the most recent updates on top, but the sorting does not work right... I have to scan through several pages of list to see if there are any recent updates to threads I have posted in.

and, Yes, it is set to sort by last update and in descending order.

--vtMaps

westbranch · February 2015

Just tried a personal message , I think that page needs a bit of work as the 'write here' are actually is to start a new topic and not an area for a personal message, you have to click on he 'message'' button over on the right side.. a bit confusing

westbranch · February 2015

For some reason I am getting a lot of "site not found' error messages today??? all day so far...on/ off in minutes, NSA again?

BB. · February 2015

I have not had any problems (comcast and cell phone) with the site.

-Bill

westbranch · February 2015

maybe our ISP or also, Telus is doing a lot of fiber optic cable work in the town these days

CDN_VT · February 2015

vtmaps wrote: »

Why not please everyone? Make this a user-configurable option.

--vtMaps

Use : https://xenforo.com/ and fix the problem
As midnight evolved , this is DOS 101 .

vBulletin Support · February 2015

vtmaps wrote: »

When I do that, the list I get is many pages long. Unfortunately, the list is NOT sorted correctly... I want the most recent updates on top, but the sorting does not work right... I have to scan through several pages of list to see if there are any recent updates to threads I have posted in.

and, Yes, it is set to sort by last update and in descending order.

--vtMaps

Not seen that before...I'll have to investigate and potenially log a bug, I've only ever seen it in the right order but if it's not showing that way, there's an issue somewhere.

vBulletin Support · February 2015

westbranch wrote: »

For some reason I am getting a lot of "site not found' error messages today??? all day so far...on/ off in minutes, NSA again?

BB. wrote: »

I have not had any problems (comcast and cell phone) with the site.

-Bill

westbranch wrote: »

maybe our ISP or also, Telus is doing a lot of fiber optic cable work in the town these days

I've had no problems accessing the site, suspect as has been pointed out, may be a connection issue.

vBulletin Support · February 2015

westbranch wrote: »

Just tried a personal message , I think that page needs a bit of work as the 'write here' are actually is to start a new topic and not an area for a personal message, you have to click on he 'message'' button over on the right side.. a bit confusing

Not sure what page you're going to there.

To send a new message, click on "Messages" at the top, and then "Compose New" on the left.

Aguarancher · February 2015

I am having a problem with the most current posts not updating on the forum homepage. I can see the posts if I go to todays posts or look under the individual topics. I have made no changes to my settings, ever..used to work but for the past 2 days not showing the most current posts? Am I the only one? Also it happens whether or not I'm signed into my account. Have tried other computers with the same result?

vBulletin Support · February 2015

Aguarancher wrote: »

I am having a problem with the most current posts not updating on the forum homepage. I can see the posts if I go to todays posts or look under the individual topics. I have made no changes to my settings, ever..used to work but for the past 2 days not showing the most current posts? Am I the only one? Also it happens whether or not I'm signed into my account. Have tried other computers with the same result?

The results there tend to be cached. I'll try shortening the cache time.

BB. · February 2015

Do see a strange sorting error on the Today's Posts screen:

http://forum.solar-electric.com/search?searchJSON={"last":{"from":"lastDay"},"view":"topic","starter_only":+1,"sort":{"lastcontent":"desc"},"exclude_type":["vBForum_PrivateMessage","vBForum_VisitorMessage","vBForum_Report","vBForum_Redirect"]}

Here is a copy of the middle of the page. Note that the second result is from Feb 12th, the ones above and below are from Feb 13th.

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February 13th, 2015, 6:03

Sizing an off-grid system for a summer cabin - please help
Started by jhauger, February 12th, 2015, 11:30 in Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems

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February 12th, 2015, 16:36

VFD/Soft start ?
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by waynefromnscanada
February 13th, 2015, 2:04

Low-Amp WASHER
Started by cupcake, February 12th, 2015, 19:26 in Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems

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by waynefromnscanada

But there is really a new post from Feb 13th (that I have not read before, and is in the thread if I click on it:

http://forum.solar-electric.com/forum/solar-electric-power-wind-power-balance-of-system/off-grid-solar-battery-systems/330724-sizing-an-off-grid-system-for-a-summer-cabin-please-help?p=330812#post330812

February 13th, 2015, 5:45

-Bill

Aguarancher · February 2015

Thanks for the tweak..the post are now staying current..at least on my end

westbranch · February 2015

BILL>>>> how does one change their signature line? Have snooped the options and can not find it...???

vBulletin Support · February 2015

westbranch wrote: »

BILL>>>> how does one change their signature line? Have snooped the options and can not find it...???

Username at the top > User Settings > Account.

About half way down is an "Edit Post Signature" link.

solar_dave · February 2015

Thanks for your support MARK!

Seems to work pretty good from here, got the new post thing straightened out it looks like.

Cariboocoot · February 2015

Upgrade? What upgrade?
There were a few flaws in the old version that needed fixing. Instead vBulletin has changed the entire look & feel of the software to something that is truly ugly, and introduced so many new problems that 14 pages doesn't even cover them all.
The idea of an 'upgrade', people, is to fix what's wrong; not to make the thing a dysfunctional mess.

I sure hope NAWS hasn't paid one dime for this version as it is utter crap. It should be removed and reverted back to the one that worked.

BB. · February 2015

Mark,

The right mouse click when editing in the Posting Editor is popping up fairly often for me too when trying to spell check. If you can plead with the software powers that be to turn off the editor right mouse click override--Please have them do it. I am not sure, but for longer posts, the 2 entry right click menu seems to happen more often (or just may be more spelling errors in longer posts).

-Bill

westbranch · February 2015

Bill, I have found that clicking outside that annoying box and re-clicking on the misspell gets the proper box to appears...grrr

mike95490 · February 2015

Holding the LEFT SHIFT key down while right clicking for spell correction, WORKS.

vBulletin Support · February 2015

Not much I can really do on editor stuff. There's a bug report over the spellcheck thing but it hasn't got very far because it would require further hacking of the third party editor that's used...that invariably breaks other stuff, so it's more work than it sounds.

solorone · February 2015

Odod, all I does is righth slick and hit spelld chack, wroks find ??? ---. Seriously .

techntrek · February 2015

New software isn't preventing double (or quadruple) thread creation. See 1st and 2nd pages: http://forum.solar-electric.com/forum/solar-electric-power-wind-power-balance-of-system/solar-beginners-corner

BB. · February 2015

Mark fixed a problem with the Database indexes last night. I think that may have generated these multiple posts/threads.

I am going to leave this alone for the moment so that Mark can address this problem from his side (and I do not confuse the issues).

Thank you Techntrek.

-Bill

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24V hydro wind solar system - need help
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BB. · February 2015

I should add that Mike's Left Shift key solution works perfectly for right mouse spelling corrections (when needed) on FireFox and Windows machine.

-Bill

vBulletin Support · February 2015

Those were made sufficiently far apart that the software wouldn't pick it up, and they had different thread titles. The people posting them have made them twice for whatever reason.

The flood check is set to 30 seconds, so anything posted further apart than that, won't get flagged up and blocked.

solorone · February 2015

BB. wrote: »

I should add that Mike's Left Shift key solution works perfectly for right mouse spelling corrections (when needed) on FireFox and Windows machine.

-Bill

I am using explorer and have no problems with the spell check, Just an FYI.

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