i know, i know.

So what's going on with the threads over 50 pages long? When I click the arrow to go to latest post it keeps serving the first page of the thread?

I just clicked around and it all worked. What thread were you looking at? I looked at names to faces.

bike porn has been doing it for a few days, and names to faces did it today, prompting me to mention it.

the 'last page' button has code to the right place but the little black arrow far right next to last post userName point to http://www.londonfgss.com/thread29.html#post171882
seems to be missing -57 between 29 .html

i'm seeing this in firefox.

that's by design if there are no new posts on the thread, since you last read it.

I think

I'm getting it too.
now to do with new posts

you just don't wanna be left out :)

It's working as designed.

The "Last post" link goes to... the last post! It doesn't need the page number in the URL, and yet it correctly goes to the last page.

Logic like this:

• Links on the left
  • Have there been new posts since you logged in?
    • Yes: Go to the first new post in the thread
    • No: Go to the first page of the thread
• Link in the "Last Post" column
  • Go to the very last post in thread, whether you've read it or not

Anything unexpected by that?

he's right, David, it's not working (on firefox anyway)

if you click on last post, say on the spotted thread, it takes you to the first post.
and on other threads with more than 50 pages

Oh fuck, he is right.

OK, give me a moment.

Fixed.

Required the update of a piece of the forum software, and a few hundred lines changed (thank God for regular expressions).

eek. Thank god for you understanding RE. They annoy me so much because they are so damn confusing.

It's the only way I code... write code that writes and adjusts code so that I save my time and sanity.

Social Groups.

I've now added a feature so that the owner of a social group can send an email to all of the people in that social group. Particularly useful for group announcements.

Example: If there were a polo social group for those who regularly go to the Sunday polo, then if there were something affecting that and the members hadn't visited the forum recently then a email to that group would notify all interested parties what had happened.

Of course, UserCp preferences about receiving emails still take effect and you can opt not to get emails if you're a member of a social group.

I've added auto-tagging to new threads... it creates the tags based on the thread title if you haven't supplied any tags. If you supply tags, it will use those.

If you want to be lazy and have this work well, just make your thread title informative.

Is there any way of setting up firefox not to embed youtube videos but just provide a link to the video at you tube? I can't find one.

I find that if I am in a thread with one or two you tube videos on a page all is fine but if I go to a thread with lots of youtube embedded videos on one page firefox grinds to a halt. Top tells me fire fox is using all my cpu.

Is anyone else having this problem?

I updated my flash player after the security scare I never had this problem before. Is it just me?

Are you on the latest FireFox and everything (Ubuntu 8.04 I take it?)?

And using adblock to prevent anything from the following file loading would do it:
http://www.londonfgss.com/addons/jqmedia/jqmedia.js

VB - quick question changing main thread titles, after they've been posted (thanks by the way), can i do that?
just gave it go... and i can only edit the internal title not the main thread title.
thanks

Thanks VB I'm looking at firefox now jsut have to update a data base first.

Thanks to T-shirt money I updated the RAM on the server a couple of days ago. It should now be quite zippy (where it had started to slow a little at busy times before the upgrade). The site is now running on a 2GB RAM server, up from a mere 256MB thing when we started last year.

Will there be enough RAM for an iPhone theme now ;-)

Sure, when you've finished writing it for me I'll upload it for you.

What are all the green squares about?

The little green squares?

They're an experiment.

I may turn them off. I'll leave them for a week and if you like them I'll keep them. Click the bit to the right of them to have them make a little more sense... it's basically a measure of reputation on the site... you can approve/disapprove with things people say, and this helps build a picture of how the wider community views people.

It's to help newbies know who to pay attention to, and could also help identify trolls when they turn up (lots of people giving negative reputation at once would reflect on someone).

I'm not really sure if it is worth having though.

The messages entered, well the ones you receive are shown in your UserCp.

It may just be clutter. But I'll only really know by seeing if it has any value at all.

any chance all current posts can go back more than 24hrs?

Not really.

That link is clicked more than 20,000 times a day. Increasing the size of the resultset would hit the performance.

However... why?

You can use Quick Links > New Posts to show everything that you've not read in that format.

And if you know you're looking for something specific you can just search.

And if you're browsing you can browse by category.

In case people missed it, we just got a style/theme for mobile devices like iPods, Blackberries, and phones that can do the internet.

It should magically just work when you access the forum using one of those devices.

I forgot I had this thread... perfect place for it though.

Members get the randomised headers.
Non-members get one pre-chosen header... the blur one:
http://static.londonfgss.com/images/lon...eader_blur.jpg

The reason for this is bandwidth.

Each image is 50KB > 90KB, which is fine if you're visiting the site repeatedly as the images get cached by your browser and you only ever get them from the server once so it costs us very little to have many headers.

For guests, and they make up 70% of visitors to the site, they don't really come back frequently and so with 12 possible images we could have served 1MB to each visitor, and there are thousands of visitors. And because they don't come back frequently, no useful caching occurs so we serve this over and over.

So guests now get just the one header, and that means we serve only 50KB rather than a potential 1MB per visitor. It also means that the key caching servers within an ISP cache one file with a higher priority than many low priority files... so it should prevent some requests from reaching this server.

I'm worrying about bandwidth because of two things: 1) The money from T-shirts isn't going to last forever. 2) The pound sliding against the dollar is making that money burn faster than is desirable... we're going to run out of money sooner than I anticipated.

That said, the money from advertising (to non-members) is currently delaying my coming cap in hand to you guys, as that has helped make the kitty last longer than it would've done.

I'd happily pay a few quid to help out sir.

banners arent coming up for me this morning. doesnt bother me if it's there or not, just wondering, did you change the location of the banner pics or is my workplace widening their banned sites. im on https

Ah, I know what it is.

I'll fix it :)

Nope, it works already. I had changed things, but nothing that you should have noticed.

What browser are you using?

Forget that, I've just taken a look... you're on IE7 on Windows XP.

Ahhhh. Is this why there's a Specialized banner now?