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New Forums BAD? OLD GOOD?

davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
edited 2013-09-27 19:45 in General Discussion
I do not know what was changed behind the scenes with the forums, and I have not been on the forums in a while. That said:The forums now seem to have some significant issues (at least with RISC OS + Netsurf), I note that with same OS and Browser last time I was on these forums these issues did not exist.1: Code sections seem to overflow into multiple folowing posts.2: On submissions the posted form of a message seems to often ignore the Caridge Returns in the submitted text.3: The thread listing is no longer in the boxes, though rather looks like some thing that you might see in a realy old news reader with expanded views enableld.I hope that the CRs show in this post, if not I apologize..

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  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-25 09:39
    Sorry about the CRs not showing up, that is one of the listed issues.
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    edited 2013-09-25 10:52
    Hey David,

    There's an internal upgrade planned for our vBulletin installation in October or November. I don't know if it will address the issues you are experiencing with the OS and browser you are using or not, but I thought I'd better let you and others know this is on our project board.

    Ken Gracey
  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2013-09-25 11:14
    What Ken said. The upgrade will fix many problems.
    Thank you for hanging in with us in the meantime.
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-26 07:01
    Ok I will wait for the upgrade. Maybe that combined with the incremental updates to NetSurf will address the issue. For now I will just have to use [ code ] [ / code ] sections for line breaks . 
    .
    I do note that these issues are only about half as bad with FireFox 2 on the same system, though FireFox is almost unusably slow on RISC OS in its current state.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2013-09-26 07:25
    davidsaunders wrote: »
    Ok I will wait for the upgrade. Maybe that combined with the incremental updates to NetSurf will address the issue. For now I will just have to use [ code ] [ / code ] sections for line breaks ..
    You can use 'br' tags to create line breaks - I have been doing that for a very long time now, since the forum software update that caused this problem.
    Unfortunately I can't get the forum to display the exact tag (how to write it), because even inside 'noparse' it'll just create a line break. But you write the 'lesser than' sign followed by br followed by 'greater than', at the end of the line where you want a carriage return. And put one alone on a line to create a blank line, like I do below.

    -Tor
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-26 19:29
    Tor wrote: »
    You can use 'br' tags to create line breaks - I have been doing that for a very long time now, since the forum software update that caused this problem.
    Unfortunately I can't get the forum to display the exact tag (how to write it), because even inside 'noparse' it'll just create a line break. But you write the 'lesser than' sign followed by br followed by 'greater than', at the end of the line where you want a carriage return. And put one alone on a line to create a blank line, like I do below.

    -Tor

    Ok thank you.<br><br>

    I did not realize that you could use HTML tags inline in posts. Many forums do not allow this. <br><br><br>
    Thank you.
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-26 19:30
    Oh well as you can see it kind of works though the br tag shows up. <br>

    Thank you though.
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-26 19:37
    Ok I see the problem, HTML code is off. I do not know how to change that setting.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-09-26 20:50
    davidsaunders wrote:
    HTML code is off. I do not know how to change that setting.
    You can't.

    -Phil
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2013-09-27 01:53
    davidsaunders wrote: »
    Oh well as you can see it kind of works though the br tag shows up.
    Strange, that doesn't happen with me. In fact it's impossible (by any method I've tried) to write that tag without creating a line feed.. and not showing the tag. I bet the one I quoted from your post won't show up either, it'll just create a line feed..

    -Tor
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-27 09:53
    I am not sure what changed:

    All of a sudden they began to work, br tags are now doing there job.
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2013-09-27 19:45
    Well I still hope that the update is helpful RISC OS + NetSurf. For now I am running Rasbian on my RPi, and find IceWeasel (FireFox rebranded) to be quite usable in this enviroment (less slugish than FireFox on x86 Linux on a much much faster machine with much more RAM).
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