The New Forum Software!

[tinkthank]

Hm, anyone have any suggestions on how to search better under the new software? Please?
Also, can it be that the polls have been removed? I can't find mine -- but then again, I think the search function isn't working as it should. Any help or suggestions appreciated, thanks!

Is there a way to see Private Messages that I've written? The old board presented PM conversations as threads, so it was easy to review what I'd written and which part of my replies were being responded to. Now I can see a long list of received PMs, and the ones I've replied to are marked as such, but I can't see a way to review the actual replies.

There is a heading for a list of PMs I've sent, but that list is empty.

What am I missing?

Mark

[Mindi]

I believe when you PM you have to click the option at the bottom of the page that says "I want to keep a copy of my message".

[Sheap]

The new forum seems to be prone to brief, temporary outages. I've had it happen a couple of times today, where the web page is generated with a message saying it cannot connect to the MySQL server. Sorry for not having the exact message available, but of course I cannot post to the forum when the problem is occuring

[Esben Mose Hansen]

The first part of error message is here, but I would guess that the server logs shows them clearly:
Code:

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Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10055) in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 35

 SQL ERROR: Wed, Aug 11 2004 13:11:47 -0500 Database error only visible to forum administrators

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Well, it's Windows, what did you expect?

[Agrajag]

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10055) in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 35
SQL ERROR: Wed, Aug 11 2004 17:34:13 -0500 Database error only visible to forum administrators

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 45

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 107
SQL ERROR: Wed, Aug 11 2004 17:34:13 -0500 Database error only visible to forum administrators

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 133

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 107
SQL ERROR: Wed, Aug 11 2004 17:34:13 -0500 Database error only visible to forum administrators

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 133

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 107
SQL ERROR: Wed, Aug 11 2004 17:34:13 -0500 Database error only visible to forum administrators

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php on line 133

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\mysql.inc.php:35 ) in C:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\threads\ubbt.inc.php on line 270


This is the full error I got, it happened when I tried posting a message.
Do with it what you will...

[Thufir]

Hm, anyone have any suggestions on how to search better under the new software? Please?
Also, can it be that the polls have been removed? I can't find mine -- but then again, I think the search function isn't working as it should. Any help or suggestions appreciated, thanks!

I'd say searching has taken a step backward under the new forum software. It's really *bad* that all the Posts for a given thread that fit the search show up in your results - IMO, this cripples the search functionality for this forum. At the most, this should exist as an option, that is turned off by default.

Also, it would be very nice to have the search options be saveable (I've seen this in other forums). How many people actually use the default of searching Messages <= 1 week old?! Also, maybe it's just me, but I usually search on subject only, and if we can't get saveable options, it'd be nice (from my point of view) to have that made default.

I've also found that it no longer defaults to the DOM2 forum when I go into search (although I know it did a few days ago). I'm not sure if there's been a server side change that's made this happen, or if I've changed my behavior in some subtle way.

Finally, would it be possible to make a few Dom2 sub-forums? The bug thread needs this badly, and there are a couple of other stickies that deserve to be a subforums, as well (namely AARs and Modding).

If anyone is looking for an example, my second favorite game shop (after Illwinter/Shrapnel, of course ), Paradox, has done an outstanding job on their forum setup, check out:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...splay.php?f=79

Also, Esben is dead on in his comments about setting fonts - I would appreciate it if the fix he suggests is implemented.

Hope this didn't come off as a rant - I'm really finding this forum very useful all in all, but I am frustrated by the current state of search functionality.

- Thufir

[archaeolept]

yeah, mysql is currently blowing chunks. almost half the time i load a page i get a results like what agrajag just posted.

[JJ_Colorado]

Hi,

A friend is having problems accessing the forum since the new forum software was installed. Here is what he wrote. Can someone help?

Thanks,
John

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I tried to access the forum with 3 different PCs, which were in no way
related to each other (one at work, one at home, one at a friends
house). I
can access the board as long as I don't try to login. After I login
however
I get a "The document contains no data" error and a blank window. From
this
moment on, every time I try to load the page, I get this message, even
if I
restart the pc.
As said above, this happened three times with different PCs. What do I
do
wrong?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

A friend is having problems accessing the forum since the new forum software was installed. Here is what he wrote. Can someone help?

Yeah, I ran into this, it's in this thread somewhere. You have to turn of the "Expand Threads" (or was it threaded mode?) in your profile, and it will work again.