The Update Thread v3.5

[boostdemon]

This is the update thread for version 3.5
We'll be listing all the changes made to both the site and the board in here so you can keep up to date with whats going on, check out new features, and let us know if there are any repercussions from the changes.

[boostdemon]

changed the coppa user field in the database to clean up all users. shouldnt have any problems with this now.

changed outter border width to be 80% rather then a fixed pixel size.

[boostdemon]

Added the new "Turbo Style" which is an option at the bottom of the board. This is the style/theme that i will be modifying. You may use it, but it could at any time durring the process be "screwed up" until everything is finished. Meanwhile you should still be able to use the "Default Style" and things shouldnt change.

[boostdemon]

-added the 300+ club back in, still dont know where to go to "join" yet though :???:
-Added the seller/buyer comments forum in the for sale section.
-changed the logo on the "default" theme to turbobricks, (also made it 1/3 the size).
-Enabled HTML (i think) on the forums

[boostdemon]

change the board so it only shows 1 signature per user per page. This should cut down on the physical length of threads but still allow people to see everyones sigs

[boostdemon]

updated all users to accept private messages and display a pop-up when a message is received.
You can go back and change this setting if you wish in your "User CP" options screen

[boostdemon]

updated the board code to 3.0.1
Click here to read about what was changed: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101628

[boostdemon]

got teh menu done for the turbo style. Also added the mousepad to the store from cafepress (still need to change the storefront though)

[boostdemon]

upgrade board code to 3.0.2 and then 3.0.3 (god i love this board). Set TurboStyle as the default style. You can change back to the other one if you'd like. The link is at the bottom left of the page in the dropdown menu.
As requested, a 56k style is soon to come.

[760T man]

...and the 1 sig per user per page thing is only going to be in the 56K version...RIGHT??? :-D

[boostdemon]

nope, thats actually a small change in the board code itself. The 56k theme will hopefully change all images in threads to links, no smilies, and will have very few small (in size) images... im still debating on avatars being shown.

[boostdemon]

removed post counts in the thread view, also changed usertitles to either be:
posts/title
0/lurker
1/newbie
20+/Board Member

If you would like a custom title, make a donation (or you have made a donation since 11/02) and Send me a PM and i'll be glad to change it for you.

[760T man]

Dana, is it possible to make the post count thing an option? I'd rather see them all....

[boostdemon]

nope, but you can go into the public profile... and maybe in the memberlist, i havent tried

[760T man]

yeah, that's how it always was...alright well that's cool then. i'm weird anyway...(ie i want to see the sigs over and over again like it always used to be, etc :-P)

hey while we're at it, could you add this as an emoticon: http://www.pbase.com/image/32922745.jpg

[boostdemon]

Added Daves overdue feature article, he takes all the credit for it since he left very little for me to do to get it up there :rockon:

[boostdemon]

since this new board has been using MUCH less bandwidth then the last one, I changed the avatar size to 100x100 and the profile picture size to 640x480

[1stRaven]

Has the file size of the avatar been changed?

[boostdemon]

nope... its still under 7KB which shouldnt be a problem... mine is less then 3KB and its animated

[boostdemon]

Changed the page contact section to use the board contact us feature instead (hopes of reducing spam and site spiders).

Completely renovated the cafepress store options, added new items and replaced the "turbobricks.com" logo on all items.

[boostdemon]

with the new host we got lots more space/bandwidth - so i enabled the attachment feature. Contributors and upload attachments to a thread, gif jpeg jpg jpe png zip doc and pdf. Registered users can download/view them.
This is enabled in all forums except offtopic and the classifieds section.
Just another bonus to donating.

[1stRaven]

Sounds great!

[kyle242gt]

Excellent`e, now I don't have to host random screenshot images!!

Thanks Dana!

[boostdemon]

Completed a mass upgrade tonight... went from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 to 3.0.6 theres a LOT of little quirks that this fixes so im not going to post them all. Let me know if you notice any new problems.

[adrianpike]

Completed a mass upgrade tonight... went from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 to 3.0.6 theres a LOT of little quirks that this fixes so im not going to post them all. Let me know if you notice any new problems.

....GASP.....*breath*.....GASP....
It's back!
And I'll bet these updates will be nice, probably some good security updates along with 'em.

[boostdemon]

it should be a bit faster too.

[stylngle2003]

on the memberlist, the "last visit date" heading is messed up, not sure why, but for instance Chigga's said 11-18-2002, towery's says 9-18-2002, Boxdriver2's 11-12-2002, etc

maybe a small glitch

[boostdemon]

you sure thats not "join date" cause thats how mine fills out

[stylngle2003]

heres what i see, doesnt matter too much in terms of board operation:

[boostdemon]

this is what i see with opera7. I say log out of the board, clear your cache, close firefox, open it back up and log back in. See if that fixes it. If not try IE6 and see if its the same.

[stylngle2003]

i'll try that, thanks dana

[boostdemon]

Upgrade to version 3.0.7

a security fix, and some bug fixes. Let me know if you see any problems.

[boostdemon]

Our host figured out the problem with 403 forbidden errors... that should be all set now

Updated the front page of the site so that your avatar shows up on the front page and a button link back to the forum on other pages.

let me know if anyone is having problems with either of these changes.

[boostdemon]

loaded clubvolvo.com's backup from just before they were shut down and upgrade it, cleaned it up, and imported all the users/threads/posts/PM's/forums into turbobricks. They will be re-sorted out into the correct tbricks forums and members will need to search the memberlist for their old username on cv to be merged into their tbricks name.

thank Doug for saving all the data and for making sure the volvo tuner community doesnt lose any great threads!

[boostdemon]

Updated to the latest version of Vb 3.0.8... added some new buttons, and ran some updates

[1stRaven]

its different!

just like a modified volvo is. :lol:

[Vercetti]

Frickin' sweet!

[boostdemon]

Contributors are now able to upload attachments in "for sale"

[boostdemon]

upgraded to the latest stable version of board code. Hoping this fixes some of the issues we've been having with the replies

[Vercetti]

Thanks!

[SquareD]

Dana, I know I don't say this enough, but I love you. Oops, I was supposed to say that to my wife this morning...

Huh, that was akward, let's try it again. Let's see, oh yeah... Dana, I know we might not say it enough, but thank you for your hard work keeping the board up and running smooth. Yeah, that's better.

[boostdemon]

lol dont confess your love for me just yet... it may or may not fix the problem :x:

[mAydAy]

This is "Update Thread v3.5" so heres my question....when do we get vB v3.5??

[Donny]

Just a suggestion... It would be nice to be notified of any new post on a thread that you have either contributed to or have on a watch list. Is there such a feature on vB?

[boostdemon]

This is "Update Thread v3.5" so heres my question....when do we get vB v3.5??

when its gone gold. I dont have time to hack around with it if anything like replies locking up on people happens :-(

[boostdemon]

Just a suggestion... It would be nice to be notified of any new post on a thread that you have either contributed to or have on a watch list. Is there such a feature on vB?

yes, "subscriptions". You can subscribe to any thread manually through the thread tools menu, or you can set it in your user cp to automatically subscribe to all threads you start.

[Donny]

yes, "subscriptions". You can subscribe to any thread manually through the thread tools menu, or you can set it in your user cp to automatically subscribe to all threads you start.

I see. I tried it before but I thought it kept emailing me like an old-style email list. That is exactly what I was looking for. Carry on.

[boostdemon]

contributors now have an increased avatar size of 15kb

[blu92in99]

contributors now have an increased avatar size of 15kbThanks Dana! :-D


-Justin

[boostdemon]

rather large update on the board code... some things are still being worked on as far as the turbo style templates, but i thought i'd bring it back up since it took longer than expected thanks to work

[blu92in99]

I assume one of these 'bugs' still present from the update are the avatars that don't show on the forum, but do show up in my profile?


-J

[1stRaven]

Avatars are now links?

and new logo at top?

[kyle242gt]

I'm seeing people's sigs in every post, not just once per page anymore.

[boostdemon]

yes, there are a lot of changes through out the templates that were updated... I have not updated the templates i customized for this theme yet because i will have to revert them back to original, then make the changes again.

cliff notes: things are going to be funky until im done editing it. Hopefully it will be done by tonight.

[760T man]

I'm seeing people's sigs in every post, not just once per page anymore.

not that there's anything wrong with that. I miss it personally, sigs are how I identify posters in a long thread. makes it easier for me to find a specific post by a specific person, the 1 sig per person per page thing has driven me nuts since it started

[CEHepp]

Why did you stop allowing animated GIFs for avatars?????

[boostdemon]

:huh:

i dont know what you're talking about, but as far as i know theres no way to differentiate on the server between animated and non animated gifs.

[CEHepp]

:huh:

i dont know what you're talking about, but as far as i know theres no way to differentiate on the server between animated and non animated gifs.

Every time I try to change my avatar to another one, it says...

"vBulletin Message
You may not upload animated images."

So, I have just been stuck with my tard cart one.

[boostdemon]

Updated to the latest board code - lots of security fixes and some other tweaks. As always, let me know if something isnt working

[boostdemon]

Every time I try to change my avatar to another one, it says...

"vBulletin Message
You may not upload animated images."

So, I have just been stuck with my tard cart one.


sorry for the delay, problem fixed... new setting default was "no".

[boostdemon]

updated to the latest code. Skype contact info has been added... for those who dont know what Skype is - http://www.skype.com/ and some other security fixes as well.
Also removed the three icons and descriptions at the bottom of the forum index - our icons are pretty clear what forums have new posts or not... dont need to explain it.


as always, let me know if something isnt working right

[Vercetti]

updated to the latest code. Skype contact info has been added... for those who dont know what Skype is - http://www.skype.com/ and some other security fixes as well.
Also removed the three icons and descriptions at the bottom of the forum index - our icons are pretty clear what forums have new posts or not... dont need to explain it.


as always, let me know if something isnt working right

Thanks again !

[boostdemon]

you're welcome :)

[frpe82]

When I have added my skype name, the skype icon that should be next to the MSN icon is not showing. It´s only a placeholder with an "unavailable pic"-symbol.
Been like that for a few weeks now. Is the icon missing in the system?

Thanx for an otherwise very good software!

[boostdemon]

latest and greatest... plus added a new "tbricks-lite" style down there... dont click it yet or you'll get stuck with it (ok if you're looking you can click this and change it back: http://forums.turbobricks.com/?styleid=1 )

anyways, the new style is designed for WAP which is what cell phones, PDA's, and other random high tech gadgets use to parse websites. However, since its so trim and tiny... once i get a few links in it (for your pm's, search, and to change styles) it could work really well for those of you with archaic internet connections... or just have a minimalistic view of content layout and design :grrr:

so... uh... carry on

[boostdemon]

sorry, delayed post from maintenance on early saturday morning...

the forums have finally gotten rebuilt to include all the previous threads in the search engine. This includes all the CV stuff, as well as rebuilding everything else from over the years.
Normal performance maintenance was also done on the database as well as rebuilding some of the user data that had been screwed up over time.

[Freq]

"Actilve group-buy threads only."
Might wanna change the Group-Buy subhead. :)

[boostdemon]

nice catch! fixed.

[Freq]

Not to sound like an SOB grammar Nazi, but you need a period at the end of it, too. :P

[boostdemon]

psssh periods are for girls... and people dat cant read to good :rofl:

i went back and updated all forum descriptions to be in proper english with the correct punctuation.

while i was at it, i updated the WAP/Tbricks-lite style to have a link to privatemessages for those that needed info while away from the computer, and also added a link back to the default turbo style so those of you who got stuck could switch back ;-)

[boostdemon]

working on getting the rss syndication working

rss sucks, it doesnt do anything for us in regards to the board since it doesnt allow a forum specific feed easily

[boostdemon]

upgrade to the latest code, added the skype icons and a few of bug fixes

[boostdemon]

Upgrade through latest betas/RCs and running on v3.6
lots of new stuff, lots of updating, still more tweaking to do.

enjoy


p.s. No, the header areas will go back to the way they looked before. thats just the default

[boostdemon]

Ok, as far as i can tell, everything should be just like it was. If i missed something or forgot something let me know.

/edit - and also, im not going to modify the "default" style anymore except for the logo it will continue to be all 'stock' settings and code. So if you're someone who really wanted to see post counts, signatures on each reply, etc... default is for you :)

[blarf]

The "multi-quote this message" lacks an icon.
The site feels a bit more bloated (seems to be thrashing my hard drive a bit more than previously).

[boostdemon]

icons are there now, site shouldnt be any different as far as displaying or downloading.

[adrianpike]

icons are there now, site shouldnt be any different as far as displaying or downloading.

Posts have additional space between them, and there's a slight blue tinge to post backgrounds. Looks nice though. :e-shrug:

[tacogremlin]

the border around everything is throwing me off a little but otherwise things seem normal.

[mikep]

I like the additional mod options.

[adrianpike]

I like the additional mod options.

Is there a "ban all" function yet?

[boostdemon]

Posts have additional space between them, and there's a slight blue tinge to post backgrounds. Looks nice though. :e-shrug:

posts do have an extra few pixels between them... not sure if thats new.

i dont see any change in color of the backgrounds however, looks exactly the same (and cant see why/how it would have changed since its a style option), however i'll double check it.

the border around everything is throwing me off a little but otherwise things seem normal.

What border? maybe something updated in the CSS? i'll clear my cache and refresh... what browser you using? can you take a screenshot or describe what you're seeing?

I like the additional mod options.

Yeah, the new mod options are interesting... gonna be kinda fun throwing soccer foul cards at people :)

[boostdemon]

you talking about the blue border around the form boxes in the "reply"? cause that I dont remember... also seems to be an awful lot of space between the box and the smilies when you "go advanced".

all things are possibilties that i might have changed in the style templates - all of which i reverted to the latest version instead of going through and updating all the new code (there was a lot this time).

[tacogremlin]

What border? maybe something updated in the CSS? i'll clear my cache and refresh... what browser you using? can you take a screenshot or describe what you're seeing?


http://lazycody.kicks-ass.net/lines.jpg <---screenshot. before the solid lines weren't there. the colors just butted up to each other. I don't know if anybody else has experienced it or noticed it but when I got home today things looked different, but I didn't notice it on my PC at work.

[mikep]

Is there a "ban all" function yet?

no, and no "shock collar" option....yet..

[boostdemon]

http://lazycody.kicks-ass.net/lines.jpg <---screenshot. before the solid lines weren't there. the colors just butted up to each other. I don't know if anybody else has experienced it or noticed it but when I got home today things looked different, but I didn't notice it on my PC at work.

thats how its always looked for me, both in IE and Opera, but maybe its more noticable if in face adrian was right about hte posts having more space between them.

could be that it cahces the CSS file and when you got home it grabed the updated one.

[kiwibrick]

Yeah the I see the borders around each post as well since the update, I use FF1.5.0.6 at home and at work, was weird for a few hours but I'm used to it now

[blarf]

Looks like the bold text for posts with new threads has been moved into CSS, as w3m is no longer showing bold thread titles where appropriate.

[boostdemon]

more new hotness... 3.6.1, still updating a few pieces of the templates but let me know if theres any errors

[boostdemon]

;-) added the smilies link in the quick reply again.. now just to change that stupid icon it uses

[boostdemon]

:barf:

[boostdemon]

added all the smilies back, plus some new ones. Also made an icon for the 300+ guys so they can be recognized when they post.

[Hank Scorpio]

300+ is bad ass :-D

[adrianpike]

300+ is bad ass :-D

fawk I need a turbo now.

What's the requirements again? 250 dyno'ed wheel or 13s?

[boostdemon]

fawk I need a turbo now.

What's the requirements again? 250 dyno'ed wheel or 13s?

check the FAQ ;-)

btw, hit me up when you get a chance your EvW project is next on the hit list :cool:

[boostdemon]

added link to the auctions in the for-sale forum.
a team effort from a bunch of volvo message boards. Still being worked on, but is operational.

[boostdemon]

added the abv. and translation sections to the FAQ.

PM me to add/update items to either.

[boostdemon]

upgraded to the latest update to repair some security holes

[CAPT_BLOTTO]

can we please have C&M v. 3? if we ban the hoe?

[grizlyadams]

The search doesnt work and comes up with...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sanitize_search_query() in /home/turbobri/public_html/forums/search.php on line 268

Griz

[CHESH740R]

The search doesnt work and comes up with...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sanitize_search_query() in /home/turbobri/public_html/forums/search.php on line 268

Griz

Ditto

[tjts1]

Word. No me gusta.

[thelostartof]

yea search does not work and i need it haha

[boostdemon]

fixed. functions file uploaded as 0 bytes... re-uploaded and its working now.

[Aoder1]

cheers that it works now!@@!

[rx7sins]

Admins

The search is button is an error message machine. NO other forum I frequent has this level of frustration. There is a wealth of information on here. PLEASE, make it easier to find.

stock and exhaust and 740 and turbo-error
change timing belt- error, but using changing worked
check valve-error
broken exhaust manifold stud-error

[SwedishBrick242...]

I'll second that. I understand that a lot of work goes into the forums and it is appreciated, but the search errors have been a problem for a long time. And it sure doesn't stop the repost nazis from calling it out or the people who say "SEARCH FIRST!". Its kinda hard when we can't.

[boostdemon]

yes, it will be fixed... see thread on search errors

[boostdemon]

search should be fine now. Let me know if anyones still getting errors.

[boostdemon]

updated the board code to the latest version. Tweaks and changes are being applied while the board is live, please wait till i say go before telling me what i missed :lol:

[boostdemon]

ok, go find missing items or any bugs. Im gonna go to sleep so i can get back to work on the board tomorrow :zzz:

[boostdemon]

converted the search database to use mysql's 'fulltext' search functions. This is to reduce the load on the server and hopfully get rid of that pesky memory error we've been haunted with for the last 6 months.

When using boolean fulltext search, you can use the same operators that the normal vBulletin search supports, .e.g. OR AND NOT. You can also use quotes to surround phrases.

[towerymt]

Sweet, I can search for "turbo" now and get results.

[blarf]

HTML is disabled in sigs?

[boostdemon]

HTML is disabled in sigs?

yes, thats a security measure i should have taken a while ago. sorry

[boostdemon]

added 2 more articles to the site

[blarf]

yes, thats a security measure i should have taken a while ago. sorry

:roll:

[the poi]

does this mean i can't make harmless albeit hilarious jokes in CSS anymore? (http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=113200&p=1415352)

edit:// actually, can't you just have vbull parse the script tag so it doesn't display? i suppose embedded flash can be just as bad though, right?

[boostdemon]

the store is back online with the first wave of items and a limited design catalog. http://www.turbobricks.com/store.php

[Krisverde]

i cant find the THE COMPLETE GEEK'S GUIDE TO TURBOCHARGING YOUR B23F/B230F thread now.

[Three Fat Tigers]

Is there a way to leave HTML display on but turn off the ability to post new HTML on a user group basis? There are a lot of existing threads that are messed up due to legacy HTML.

[boostdemon]

not that i know of. if theres something worth retaining its structure on for furture use let me know i'll convert them as i have time

[adrianpike]

Well what about just strip out javascript?

This no-embed, no-style, no-ul is a killer. :-(


edit: I mean I know blacklisting is the devil and all, but jeeeez

[boostdemon]

i cant find the THE COMPLETE GEEK'S GUIDE TO TURBOCHARGING YOUR B23F/B230F thread now.

you talking about http://www.turbobricks.com/mods.php?content=art0024 ? its an article on the site in the modifications section

[boostdemon]

Well what about just strip out javascript?

This no-embed, no-style, no-ul is a killer. :-(


edit: I mean I know blacklisting is the devil and all, but jeeeez

how about that EvsW script... can i get that finished up so you can get paid? :-P

[760T man]

k, minor annoyance that went askew sometime in the last year or so and never got fixed I guess...

when hitting the insert image button on the advanced editor, use to be if you highlighted the image URL then hit the button, it'd automatically add the tags to the highlighted URL. Now, no matter what, it requires you to put the URL into the box that pops up. I've been waiting patiently to see if this was ever going to be fixed, but it doesn't appear that anyone's noticed or gotten around to it.

[SkyWriter]

blah... bring back old search. i never search for anything except 'T6'. that's why i come to this board - for information on that engine!

T6* sort of works i guess... nm :)

[boostdemon]

added RSS2 feeds. Everyone should be able to subscribe to individual forums or even threads now as well

[boostdemon]

Added a human verification question to the registration process to defer spam even more. Hopefully this will clear up the problem

[MrBill]

just tried it, really cool

[boostdemon]

updated to the latest patch... version 3.7 should be out soon... lots of nice fixes/additions to come.

[tacogremlin]

I don't know if its because I'm using Opera or it's something that happened with the update, but the "favicon.ico" file up in my toolbar has changed to the default vBulletin image.

[MrBill]

I don't know if its because I'm using Opera or it's something that happened with the update, but the "favicon.ico" file up in my toolbar has changed to the default vBulletin image.

yep I was about to complain as well.
must have tb icon

[Poik]

The time seems to be off by 12 minutes.

[boostdemon]

I don't know if its because I'm using Opera or it's something that happened with the update, but the "favicon.ico" file up in my toolbar has changed to the default vBulletin image.


yup, my bad... I'll upload ours again

[boostdemon]

update to 3.7.0 code. Please be patient as I redo the turbo style.

[boostdemon]

test line2 line 3

[dl242gt]

I didn't see anything about this so I thought I'd drop it here. The smilies aren't working in off topic and nonperformance.

[blarf]

Tags aren't working. :-D

[boostdemon]

yup, again, bare with me as i "fix" things. yeah, tags work... too well :lol: they have potential, but will take some tweaking.

[adrianpike]

Can we get <a href="http://forums.turbobricks.com/search.php?do=getnew">New Posts</a> somewhere easily accessible again?

Thanks! :wave:

[boostdemon]

ok, major ajax/javascript issues going on that i dont have time to fix in the next few hours. Mostly this is affecting the posting form and smilies. I have disabled quickreply temporarily until i can get this cleared up. Sorry about the mess... i'm workin on it. on a good note, theres some really cool new stuff we can play with.

[adrianpike]

ok, major ajax/javascript issues going on that i dont have time to fix in the next few hours. Mostly this is affecting the posting form and smilies. I have disabled quickreply temporarily until i can get this cleared up. Sorry about the mess... i'm workin on it. on a good note, theres some really cool new stuff we can play with.

Images & groups seem pretty cool thus far.

[the poi]

Images & groups seem pretty cool thus far.

You sure like your bloat don't you mister.

[boostdemon]

props to adrianpike for finding the bug... post/editor should be working normally now. tbIT doing its job ;-)


this should be like line 4

[Lord Tentacle]

maybe tags should be limited to some responsible individuals
and perhaps banned from the OT section

[adrianpike]

You sure like your bloat don't you mister.

The chips never stood a chance to the almighty that is smrat people.

[impulse922]

so, uh what happened to 'New Posts' thing under the PMs

[TerribleOne]

so, uh what happened to 'New Posts' thing under the PMs

Yeah, what gives?

[boostdemon]

yup, again, bare with me as i "fix" things. yeah, tags work... too well :lol: they have potential, but will take some tweaking.

...

[boostdemon]

ok, things should be all caught up.

few things i'm leaving as is:
*who's online will no longer have the AIMchat link or color key for users online
*not going to put the eleven2 logo back on the bottom as its just a waste of bandwidth (not getting anything for it)

few things i still need to do:
done *1 sig per page
done *remove post count from thread view
*double album edit links
*adjust album image size and permissions

[adrianpike]

smrat people is no more... :-(

[1stRaven]

Yes it is. At least, I can see it. http://forums.turbobricks.com/group.php?groupid=1

Anyway, liking the updates. nice work.

[760T man]

few things i still need to do:
*1 sig per page
*remove post count from thread view

HUMBUG

:-P

[760T man]

OK, Dana-

Please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssss ssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fix the insert image button. It's been messed up for about 2 years now...

Used to be it'd wrap IMG tags around highlighted text, now it pops up the input image URL box no matter what. Yeah, it's a minor thing I know, but it's annoyinggggggggggg

thanks...

[boostdemon]

i dont think thats something thats broken, thats how it is? is it the same in all 3 editor modes?

[boostdemon]

contributors, increase in size limits for you guys: attachments and albums 10MB each (20MB total)

[760T man]

i dont think thats something thats broken, thats how it is? is it the same in all 3 editor modes?

Seems to be.

I know we used to have it set so it'd automatically wrap the tags around highlighted text, and I've been on other VB3/3.5 forums where it was set that way as well.

I mean if its gonna be too much to set, then just don't worry, it's not that big of a deal, I was just hoping it'd be some easy little tweak on your side.

Oh, and sweet deal on the attachments/albums :-D

[boostdemon]

nah, its not a setting anywhere... it would require modifying the way the editor system works, which isnt worth anything to me. Now if it was a plugin/product i can load and give folks the option of pop-up or highlight encapsulation, thats not a big deal.

[VQ]

The Mobile theme now won't let you reply to posts, saying there's a major error, can we get it fixed as I spend a fair bit of time using it? Please?

[boostdemon]

grabbed a new style... i didnt like that last one very much.

[VQ]

Thanks, it's not much different which is good :)

[SquareD]

Is there anyway we can get buyer/seller feedback threads linked to people's profiles or something? I know people will say "just search!", but people change names and the threads don't always get updated with the new username. The feedback threads carry a lot of weight with me, so any way to find more about a person's reputation is A-ok with me. Just an idea.

[frpe82]

Is there anyway we can get buyer/seller feedback threads linked to people's profiles or something? I know people will say "just search!", but people change names and the threads don't always get updated with the new username. The feedback threads carry a lot of weight with me, so any way to find more about a person's reputation is A-ok with me. Just an idea.
I second this motion.

[boostdemon]

to the latest and greatest... couple bug fixes but nothing big.

[gsellstr]

Guess that might explain why it had randomly jumped to hybrid thread display mode this AM, instead of my usual linear.

Thanks for all the upkeep Dana! Without TB I'd be a bored SOB at work. :)

[boostdemon]

updated to latest code version. let me know if anyone sees any glitches.
thanks.

[Redwood Chair]

Searching ' All posts' under user stats produces only 6 pages of posts.
I was looking for an old post for reference,and it wouldn't go back far enough.

[boostdemon]

is that a change or has it always been like that? I remember setting a search cut-off at 500 returned items

[Redwood Chair]

is that a change or has it always been like that? I remember setting a search cut-off at 500 returned items

I used to be able to go back much further,
I think all the way to the find Members first posts.
It is hard to find info that you can't remember the thread,
but you know who posted it.
Dead threads nonwithstanding,there is alot of info buried in the forum,
and the search is hampered by the 6 page cut-off.

[boostdemon]

update to fix some bugs and hopefully knock out some ram issues. major update is coming up from vB sometime soon. I'll be adding a few more things as well.

[MrBill]

it's important that the next version can do word replacement.

****ed needs to be replaced with daved

[Lord Tentacle]

I want a 10k message PM box....
it cant take up that much HD space could it?

[boostdemon]

why on earth would you need to keep that many PM's?

also added prefix options to the maintenance, for-sale, and wanted forums.

[Lord Tentacle]

why on earth would you need to keep that many PM's?

also added prefix options to the maintenance, for-sale, and wanted forums.

I have just that many dealings going on
it would be worth it to me to say have a second level of contribution of say $100 a year and getting the yet again bigger inbox and.... hmmm a green screen name?

[boostdemon]

no prob. doubled it again for you. cont. get 2000 messages.

[frpe82]

no prob. doubled it again for you. cont. get 2000 messages.
Thanks! That was really needed. Now I just have to empty my PM's a few times a year.

(Yes, I get that many PM's)

[boostdemon]

I would suggest since vb has yet to put searching/sorting into PM's... that everyone create sub folders and sort your mail. it makes cleanup muuuuch easier. Alternatively, you can also download a spreadsheet with them for archived storage

[MrBill]

I just posted something and then again and it looks like sigs are turned on for every post after your update, not once per page.
Is it a personal setting or global setting?

[MrBill]

and just to see if im a retard, a double post to see sig

[adrianpike]

Definitely a personal setting, I only see your sig once.

[MrBill]

nope now it's there once it was twice
edit: now i see there's one in this post and my first post

[The Aspirator]

Sweet on 2000 messages! I've been creeping on the limit for a while, just emptying my sent stuff. Keep up the great work on the forum Dana, we all really appreciate it.

Ian, that happens to me too, just after you make a quick reply you can see your sig no matter how many posts you've made in the thread, but once you refresh it goes back to 1 per page. I guess it's a weird bug but it's not really a problem at all, just a bit trippy.

[MrBill]

Sweet on 2000 messages! I've been creeping on the limit for a while, just emptying my sent stuff. Keep up the great work on the forum Dana, we all really appreciate it.

Ian, that happens to me too, just after you make a quick reply you can see your sig no matter how many posts you've made in the thread, but once you refresh it goes back to 1 per page. I guess it's a weird bug but it's not really a problem at all, just a bit trippy.

yeah i never noticed it. I guess I'm getting too lazy to edit my posts and I'm just making another one :lol:

Yes kudos to Dana and his team. After hearing about some of the bull**** you go through I feel bad for you :omg:

[boostdemon]

slight modifications to the mobile theme style.
contest winner t-shirt "Dash Lights" has been added to the store.

[boostdemon]

Updated to the latest release of 3.8.1... some key addins you will find are:
Social group discussions, Private message sorting and filtering,Private message history, Private message quick reply, Private message reporting, Profile privacy (limit blocks to a subset of users), and Lightbox navigation

Please report any missing board images or errors here so i can fix them.

also added the ever pending dark theme "the dark side"

[Hodginsa]

Love the theme, just changed it right now, It will take some getting used to, but looks great!

[Karl Buchka]

Love the icon for the dark theme.

[MrBill]

dark theme is sooo win :lol:
nice contrast on everything too, especially like on the logged in users area.

[760T man]

dark theme is sooo win :lol:
Nice contrast on everything too, especially like on the logged in users area.

+1

[boostdemon]

Love the icon for the dark theme.

cool, yeah there was more to it up until a few weeks ago when i was putting it together... this was intended on being the bottom left of the background

http://www.saliv8.com/beta/tbricks-dark.jpg

[Karl Buchka]

Damn. Did you paint that?

[boostdemon]

yeah started to for this theme, its not done though... and i tested it out trying to use it how i had imagined and it just didnt work well so i left it out of the theme :e-shrug:

[fivealive]

Updated to the latest release of 3.8.1... some key addins you will find are:
Social group discussions, Private message sorting and filtering,Private message history, Private message quick reply, Private message reporting, Profile privacy (limit blocks to a subset of users), and Lightbox navigation

Please report any missing board images or errors here so i can fix them.

also added the ever pending dark theme "the dark side"

woo hoo!!!!!! dark side theme! it looks great so far. Is it possible to get the post boxes to be dark too?

[boostdemon]

yeah they will go dark when i have a few more hours later this week. theres a few tweaks left to do (a lot of the icons are "light background" designed)

[760T man]

Weirdness on the feedback subforum:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/mr740ti/Screenshot-21-2.png

[thebornotaku]

The dark theme is the tits.

Digging the skull with the shifter coming out of it's head.

[boostdemon]

Weirdness on the feedback subforum:



odd, yeah the hack to pull out the post icons on the dark theme went a little crazy for the one forum i had post icons turned off in.

[1stRaven]

Has the memberlist link disappeared in the black scheme?

[boostdemon]

yeah i took it out

[760T man]

yeah i took it out

Why's that? Technical difficulties?

BTW - since I haven't said it yet, thanks a ****ing million for the dark theme. I love it.

[boostdemon]

nah i just wanted to minimize the dark theme. I will add it into the quicklinks or something

[Poik]

Not sure if someone has mentioned it or not, but the group icons (300+ etc) are a red X, for me at least.

[harribert]

Not sure if someone has mentioned it or not, but the group icons (300+ etc) are a red X, for me at least.

that means the file didnt load to your computer

[Karl Buchka]

that means the file didnt load to your computer

That's an astute observation.

[harribert]

That's an astute observation.

sometimes the painfully obvious needs to be explained, my man.

[The Aspirator]

OMG searching through PM's is the best! You don't even have to remember the other guys full username. Wow, that makes life so much easier.

[thebornotaku]

cool beans

[boostdemon]

update to latest release.

as always, let me know if there is anything new that is missing/broken.
Thanks.

[The Aspirator]

Hey the TB clock is actually on time now! Well it's 6 minutes ahead of mine, but that's close enough. I still have to put GMT-4 when I'm really GMT-5.

[boostdemon]

update.

[boostdemon]

server upgrade done. As always, let me know if you see any problems.

[mikep]

An issue has been discovered by many VMware customers and partners with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 where Virtual Machines fail to power on or VMotion successfully. This problem began to occur on August 12, 2008 for customers that had upgraded to ESX 3.5 Update 2. The problem is caused by a build timeout that was mistakenly left enabled for the release build.

I'm quoting this post because it seems to be a websearch spambot. I did a search and found that first sentence all over the web.

Is this worth discussing? The reason I ask is this one was not banned yet, and the 2 posts it had made actually pertained in some fashion to the threads.

cross-posting in the mods section.

[badvlvo]

Spambot, maybe.
Mentally ill geek, maybe.

[The Aspirator]

The calendar stopped in 2009 ;-).

[doucheNozzle]

Is vBulletin ever going to get updated?

[WindowsBreakerG4]

Is vBulletin ever going to get updated?

:rofl:

[doucheNozzle]

:rofl:

:)

[dbh86]

Can you please revert the http://www.the370z.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif smiley back to the old one? (As per this thread: http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=214839)



THIS http://www.the370z.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif to this http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e208/schmeldenhoffer/emoticons/tongue.gif!!! NOW!!!

[Mark]

Can you please revert the :-P smiley back to the old one? (As per this thread: http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=214839)



THIS :-P to this http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e208/schmeldenhoffer/emoticons/tongue.gif!!! NOW!!!

I know it's a silly thing, but ditto. I really miss the old :-P and I hate this one.

M.

[dbh86]

Thank you! ... OR NOT!

[dbh86]

It's back to being ghey! WTF!

:grrr::-P

[DavidSamuels]

For the last couple of weeks the site seems to be, on random occasions, very slow to take message uploads. Sometimes very slow just to open a post.

[doucheNozzle]

For the last couple of weeks the site seems to be, on random occasions, very slow to take message uploads. Sometimes very slow just to open a post.

Yup. But don't worry, they'll lock your thread about it being SLOW.

[ZVOLV]

Yeah, thats ghey that I mentioned being a donating member and suggesting that its slow and they lock the thread with no response. Maybe I shouldnt donate next time I feel like donating after selling stuff in the FS forum.

[boostdemon]

Yeah im working out a deal now to move to a bigger server. I dunno what you're talking about with a locked thread.

[doucheNozzle]

http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=218754

[boostdemon]

sorry totally missed the smiles screw up.. looks like they overwrote some of our treasures. I think i have them all fixed now, if you find anymore that arent right let me know.

Also added some new ones... one for halloween too

:tehdon: :bummies: :halloween: :gtfo: :threadjack:

[abdlock]

Has something changed in the last few days?

Been having the same issues that i had the last time before the update...Very slow load times.Click on the posts in the forums and they dont load and eventually time out

just curious..only took 5 mins to post this

thanks

[DavidSamuels]

Hi, messaging seems to be down again. I'm sbcglobal.net, which has had problems in the past. Absolutely nothing came through since yesterday, but a ton of mail and such on the site waiting for me. Thought I'd drop a line.
DS

[Koston740]

When can we expect the search function to be back up and running?

[MrBill]

just use google's search

[linuxman51]

can we leave search permanently disabled? its providing a lot of entertainment right now.

[DavidSamuels]

Search has been disabled for awhile and at first didn't seem to make a difference. But the last few days, wow!

[gsellstr]

I think there's other things being added to help the speed, which seems to be coming back.

I really would like the new posts search back, but all the 'I can't search for how to search since the search feature is missing and I didn't read any of the other I can't search threads' are getting amusing.

[DavidSamuels]

Okay, I'm stupid. How does one use Google to search within the site?

[boostdemon]

theres a bunch of details here http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=234365

[DavidSamuels]

So Google won't work on the private forums. While the search is great for finding tech data and such, regulars need it to find sale posts! If the search is not viable, isn't there some way to restore access to our own posts from our profiles other than the public search? That is, the "all posts" and "all threads" links in profiles?

Just a thought. That would certainly drop the search traffic considerably.

[boostdemon]

Upgraded to patch L3. Added a 15 second timer to the registration process to help prevent bots from registering (hopefully). Added a function to remove the "report post" icon once a post has already been reported.

Let me know if you see any new problems. Thanks!
:ahoy:

[smokeyfan1000]

Okay, I'm stupid. How does one use Google to search within the site?

Go to google, and type in "whatever question you have" and add "on turbobricks.com" to the question.

Actaully works better than the TB search

[doucheNozzle]

Go to google, and type in "whatever question you have" and add "on turbobricks.com" to the question.

Actaully works better than the TB search

close. It's:

"volvo 240 kjet site:turbobricks.com" without the quotes

[DavidSamuels]

Wow, how did a post from April of last year get dredged up?

[ErikS]

Wow, how did a post from April of last year get dredged up?

How is that 240 I let sit out in front of my house for two months doing?

[abdlock]

Wow....5 mins per page load Times...... it's great

Just took 10 mins to post this

[audeo03]

I am having problems with iOS Chrome not keeping me logged in. Due to website Rev? Suggestions?