For details on how to upload an image please ready the pinned post here: New Forum Tips (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=45410.0)
For the URL's I think this is what you're after .. here's the syntax I used in the above url post:[url=http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=45410.0]New Forum Tips[/url]
Thanks for the info. The hyperlink tag insertion that you describe is rather cumbersome.
Hyperlink is certainly not as easy, but somebody here gave me a good tip: highlight the text you want to linkify, and instert a "=" followed by the URL between the first "l" and "]".
Holy shit! What happened to straightforward?
You get what you pay for; SMF (the software behind the forum) is free.
Yes, SMF might be free software, but I do have to say that it does circles performance wise around the previous forum software, which was commercial software. This version of the forums is much snappier and handles the load without issue. Yes the url building is a little less friendly but c'est la vie.
Yes, SMF might be free software, but I do have to say that it does circles performance wise around the previous forum software, which was commercial software. This version of the forums is much snappier and handles the load without issue. Yes the url building is a little less friendly but c'est la vie.
It also is the only available forum software that supports the new custom features that we're going to be rolling out in the days ahead.
Yes, SMF might be free software, but I do have to say that it does circles performance wise around the previous forum software, which was commercial software. This version of the forums is much snappier and handles the load without issue. Yes the url building is a little less friendly but c'est la vie.
Oh, it's fine except for the photo thing. And how often do you need to post images on a photography forum?
Does any of the smf mods ease image uploading? Seems like someone would have taken the time to fix it.
I am glad it all works for you on that side. I just wanted to join the chorus of other users who think the new software simply sucks for user friendliness on our side (and it is not just url building). And yes, I understand the site is free, hence I have no right to complain.
Mark, I've suggested a few things elsewhere that I imagine could be reasonably easily implement and which would improve things but I've had no response, so here they are again:
1. Relax the upper limit on attachment sizes. 1Mb is pretty small. This is a site for photographs. All seemed well before and, as Michael repeatedly observes, disk space is cheap.
2. Have the "Additional options" tab open by default when posting. Why not? It takes very little space and it's at the bottom of the screen anyway. Why force an additional click?
3. Fix the "insert url" button so that it works properly, as it did on the old site. The number of mal-formatted URLs which have been posted since the new software was introduced indicates that something is wrong (or that we're all idiots).
4. Restore the "your last visit was at" information: it's very handy for those of us who, like me, routinely use "show unread posts since last visit" to read the site (or am I the only one?). Similarly, putting that action into a button in the button bar would make life a bit easier.
I realise some of this is an attempt to persuade you to make the new board look and feel like the old one but what's wrong with that?
Jeremy
...One additional note about posting URL's, I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this or not ... unless you want to have a custom title to the link with this forum software you don't even have to use the URL button at all, you can simply paste the URL as part of the body of the message and the forum will automatically parse and link it up with no further intervention on your part, which I personally find the simplest way to post a link.
1. I increased the size limit a while back (probably right around when you asked about it).1. Thanks: I'd not noticed. Mea culpa.
2. I'll check into having this open by default.
3+4 "as it did on the old site" is not really an option, it's completely different software so there's no chance in rewriting large portions of it to work like different software. I will see if there are any mods available to replace the URL button. To me the previous method was clunky but if that's what users here require I'll see if we can make it happen. Personally I find it pretty easy to type the url tags as opposed to having to do more mouse clicking, but I'm a coder so I'm biased ;)
One additional note about posting URL's, I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this or not ... unless you want to have a custom title to the link with this forum software you don't even have to use the URL button at all, you can simply paste the URL as part of the body of the message and the forum will automatically parse and link it up with no further intervention on your part, which I personally find the simplest way to post a link.
Ok ... there's now a modified URL button in the post form that works as requested, and the Additional Options area is shown as open by default.
Is there a way to see a list of the most recent posts (as opposed to unread posts)? Another feature that drives me crazy with this new software. Say I read a post, then closed it. A few moments later I want to re-read it, or comment or... but I can not find it anymore! Unless of course I use search, for which I need to remember either the title, or author, or key words... utterly frustrating. Most other forums display posts in chronological order, with posts I read highlighted. Most other forums also give me a one-click access to my posts (here I have to go into Profile then find the link Show Posts). At the same time, there is a direct link to the utterly useless My Messages, as if this is Twitter or something. Rant over.
I'm a new member, so no "as it used to be" comments from me.
Let me just say that I've had zero luck attaching a pair of relatively small jpegs to my post. The board rejected them when I had sized them each to just under 4MP, so I resized them to total 3M for the pair. Then it took them, and it displays them about 2" x 3", but clicking on either of them to display them larger brings up an empty viewer window with a line of code at the top, but no image.
Clicking on the download link downloads a zero byte file. I've deleted and reattached them two or three times, but the result is always the same. Here's a link to that post:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=45647.msg398643#msg398643
Can you help me figure out what to do?
At the bottom of the main forum page there's a link titled "view most recent posts on the forum" (in the area called Forum Stats). Why they put it there who knows, but it does exactly what you're asking.