Luminous Landscape Forum
Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: PeterAit on September 17, 2015, 08:58:57 am
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"Fixed" as in made worse. In a thread, all posts except the most recent have only a Quote button, no Reply, Notify, etc. Can we go back to the old arrangement?
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It's being worked on today.
Michael
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Also, when you are not logged in, the welcome message is "Welcome, %1$s. Please login or register." Some variable substitution gone awry?
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Quick Update . . . Many things dressed and fixed today. Still a few to work on. Should have everything addressed early next week at the latest.
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Not sure it's on the list, but the Preview functionality is very broken under Safari, that wasn't the case in the past. On Safari, if you click on the Preview Button, you see a tiny, single line of text of what you wrote. Prior to the updates, the entire text would be shown, no scrolling.
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Another bug I believe. I have personal messages set for Notify by email every time you receive a personal message: yet I no longer get those emails.
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I'm having trouble adding a hyperlink. I'm not too sure if it's my new computer or changes to LuLa.
Cheers,
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I don't know about "fixed", when I logged in it greeted me as "%1$s" or some such.
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I'm having trouble adding a hyperlink. I'm not too sure if it's my new computer or changes to LuLa.
Hi Tom,
It's the changes to LuLa. Currently, as of this writing, the forum software offers no option to embed a URL automatically, so it can only be done manually (which is a drag, and should be fixed).
Clicking the "Insert Hyperlink" by itself, currently, does not provide a dialog but it just adds the 'url' open and close tags. If a text was selected first, then the tags enclose that text.
One currently needs to edit that opening 'url' tag by adding "=yourhyperlink" (without the quotes ) after the "[url" bit and before the "]", so between the square open tag brackets. The content between the URL tags can be anything, a hyperlink, text, an image link, etc. .
It should be fixed IMHO, like it was before (or better), by at least offering a dialog (e.g. as attached) where the user can enter/paste a URL.
Cheers,
Bart
P.S. Unfortunately we seem to have also lost the ability to use colors for text. I tend to use a blue color on my hyperlink text to make it stand out in the midst of regular text in a line. It's a bit more work but much easier to read. Also hyperlink text underlining seems to be gone/missing.
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Hi Tom,
It's the changes to LuLa. Currently, as of this writing, the forum software offers no option to embed a URL automatically, so it can only be done manually (which is a drag, and should be fixed). the URL tags can be anything, a hyperlink, text, an image link, etc.
Cheers,
Bart
Thanks, updating a computer usually takes about a month to sort out the bugs and changes. I'm getting closer to being happy.
Cheers,
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Another bug on this end. While I can ask for a word to be underlined, ([ u ][ /u ]), it isn't applied after posting.
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Another bug on this end. While I can ask for a word to be underlined, ([ u ][ /u ]), it isn't applied after posting.
I have to test that one. This word is UNDERLINED.
And if that doesn't work, I'll try
This.
Which will probably send a line all the way across instead of under just one word.
Do Bold, Italic, or Strikethrough work?
Interestingly, neither the underline nor the horizontal rule appeared in the Preview, but the Bold, Italic, and Strikethrough do.
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It's on our list. Most issues have been addressed. We'll get the underline working again.
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It's on our list. Most issues have been addressed. We'll get the underline working again.
Hi Kevin,
Good to hear. I'd also appreciate it if color text would also be re-enabled. It's not really a feature that is abused much and probably very easy to switch back on again, and it is very useful for making [COLOR="Blue"]hyperlink text[/COLOR] (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=103936.msg855394#msg855394)[/url] standing out in a block of text. Readability is also part of clearly conveying a message or explanation with external references.
Cheers,
Bart
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Hi Kevin,
Good to hear. I'd also appreciate it if color text would also be re-enabled. It's not really a feature that is abused much and probably very easy to switch back on again, and it is very useful for making [COLOR="Blue"]hyperlink text[/COLOR] (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=103936.msg855394#msg855394)[/url] standing out in a block of text. Readability is also part of clearly conveying a message or explanation with external references.
Cheers,
Bart
+1 on that.
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I'm having trouble adding a hyperlink. I'm not too sure if it's my new computer or changes to LuLa.
Cheers,
Is this going to be fixed, or is it permanent feature?
Cheers,
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I am away but before I left the team said they were working on this. I'll check next week and see where things stand and in a week or so I'll do an update on the forum status.
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seems preview still doesn't work, get one line in a box that can't be resized. pretty useless.
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Notifications are a bit wonky (iffy) on this end.
Preview functionality prior to Post is still not working. Only showing one line then scrolling is necessary to see any additional text in the preview.
Underline? Previews, doesn't update after Post.
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Ok. Thanks. We will look into these.
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"Fixed" as in made worse.
Yup. The nice little distinctive favicon has changed to a dull monochrome one that looks like it's been stolen from a Pink Floyd fan site :-(
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The login button between Search and Register upper left is still there, but while the one on the upper right still works it's now an unlabelled light grey square.
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Just so you know we didn't change many of the issues that are being commented on. When we upgraded the forum software these old stuff changed just as many things do when you upgrade software. We had to do the upgrade for security and a number of other reasons. Our guys have been addressing the comments as quickly as they can. The Favicon has now been fixed. Some things are easy to customize and fix, others are not. All comments have been noted though and if possible will be addressed.
Thanks for being patient.
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The login button between Search and Register upper left is still there, but while the one on the upper right still works it's now an unlabelled light grey square.
It's back. Cool.
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Hyperlinks are still not working.
Cheers,
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Please send me a PM about what you are experiencing. I tried Hyperlinks out and they work. Want to make sure I understand your issue and I'll have someone look at it. Let me know your browser and OS too. Thanks.
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Please send me a PM about what you are experiencing. I tried Hyperlinks out and they work. Want to make sure I understand your issue and I'll have someone look at it. Let me know your browser and OS too. Thanks.
Hi Kevin,
Inserting hyperlinks works for me, although one final improvement would be worthwhile.
When I want to create a hyperlink, e.g. to explain part of a sentence or add a reference to it, I usually/preferably do the following:
1. Look up the website URL and copy it to my Windows clipboard (CTRL+C) memory.
2. Select the text in my message that I want to add the hyperlink to.
3. Click the 'Insert Hyperlink' icon.
4. I expect that the hyperlink on the clipboard is automatically pasted in the dialog, or I paste it there myself.
5. The second dialog box should preferably fill in the text that was selected in step 2, or be empty for me to type text in if no text was selected in step 2.
6. Finish the creation, and if the step 5 box was still empty, fill in the URL from step 4.
Cheers,
Bart
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Email notifications are still hit or miss on this end. I'll get one, then see other replies after or not see one until I look at a post I know I've subscribed to. Anyone else?
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All of my notifications seem to be coming through OK for the last few days.
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As far as we know everything is working and notifications are working at least on our machines. We addressed everything we could on the forum software. As I have said before if you find something PM me and let me know what you are seeing, the OS, the computer and which browser you are using.
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Kevin,
We addressed everything we could on the forum software.
Were you unable to address these (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=103840.msg853625#msg853625) two requests?