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Post by NigelMoore on Feb 25, 2017 19:26:29 GMT
Icon right hand end of reply window toolbar, looks like a magnifying glass over a sheet of paper. You can then choose to see how you post will look in different types of browser (desktop, tablet, phone) Gotcha [to be plebian about this]. Thanks - just tried that out - but I notice that one has to start again by returning to the original attempt, rather than correcting any flaws in the window that comes up. Not to worry.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 19:31:49 GMT
Gotcha [to be plebian about this]. Thanks - just tried that out - but I notice that one has to start again by returning to the original attempt, rather than correcting any flaws in the window that comes up. Not to worry. Is it not meant to spelled Plebeian? Plebian sounds a bit like how a Pleb would spell it. Edit for typos and punctuation !
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Post by JohnV on Feb 25, 2017 19:38:49 GMT
Oh lord ..... if people start changing their names at will ..........I'm going to get a headache
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 20:03:04 GMT
I refer you to Kris's comment - he's right as well. Why the fuck should most of us on here care? And more to the point, this site shouldn't be used to help make their decisions (and isn't or so we were told...) Man up and make your voice heard if you dislike it that much. and you think I haven't? I am way past playing silly games where I avoid the other place on principle. Believe it or not, both sites have their pros and cons, and the number of threads and posts on CWDF far exceeds this place. Ho hum, each to his own ........ Well, seeing as you yourself said you hope those ejits responsible for ruining your precious cwdf read the more strident criticisms & comments on this site its fair to assume you haven't told them it's a fucking load of old shit yourself - particularly as you run the risk of having your pants pulled down and your bottom smacked for being a naughty boy, now fuck off and sit on the step where you belong.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 25, 2017 20:10:35 GMT
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Post by NigelMoore on Feb 25, 2017 20:20:39 GMT
Is it not meant to spelled Plebeian? Plebian sounds a bit like how a Pleb would spell it. It is always gratifying when one's little in-jokes are understood.
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Post by jam on Feb 25, 2017 23:17:07 GMT
so please Delta don't mess with this site like that one..else Ill be all all alone..sniff... Would not worry to much about that. The basic structure of a ProBoards forum cannot be changed by the Admin, only simple layout and themes can be changed. ProBoards did a major change on their forum software a couple of years ago (and a lot of Admins didn't like that) so I would consider there is some time to go before the next change. With regards to CWDF, has anyone also noticed how much slower it is?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 23:31:20 GMT
so please Delta don't mess with this site like that one..else Ill be all all alone..sniff... Would not worry to much about that. The basic structure of a ProBoards forum cannot be changed by the Admin, only simple layout and themes can be changed. ProBoards did a major change on their forum software a couple of years ago (and a lot of Admins didn't like that) so I would consider there is some time to go before the next change. With regards to CWDF, has anyone also noticed how much slower it is? I noticed that. It's slow as moses. I can't even be bothered to read it anymore, let alone post.
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Post by bodger on Feb 26, 2017 9:10:23 GMT
and you think I haven't? I am way past playing silly games where I avoid the other place on principle. Believe it or not, both sites have their pros and cons, and the number of threads and posts on CWDF far exceeds this place. Ho hum, each to his own ........ Well, seeing as you yourself said you hope those ejits responsible for ruining your precious cwdf read the more strident criticisms & comments on this site its fair to assume you haven't told them it's a fucking load of old shit yourself - particularly as you run the risk of having your pants pulled down and your bottom smacked for being a naughty boy, now fuck off and sit on the step where you belong. you really should try Gaviscon
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Post by Saltysplash on Feb 26, 2017 9:39:45 GMT
I refer you to Kris's comment - he's right as well. Why the fuck should most of us on here care? And more to the point, this site shouldn't be used to help make their decisions (and isn't or so we were told...) Man up and make your voice heard if you dislike it that much. and you think I haven't? I am way past playing silly games where I avoid the other place on principle. Believe it or not, both sites have their pros and cons, and the number of threads and posts on CWDF far exceeds this place. Ho hum, each to his own ........ Whats wrong with having some principles in a canal world of skullduggery. I was member for almost 10 years and the place has become stale and self important. Of course its posts and threads far exceeds thunderboat, its been going a long time and people put a lot of effort and contributed financially in to it. Both sites do have their pros and cons which is why I chose to move to thundrboat when it first started. It reminded me of how CWDF used to be and I prefer the view from here
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Post by chas61 on Feb 26, 2017 12:20:46 GMT
I've never posted a lot here ,or the other place .....
Just had a look in and it's terrible
I left the following ..
"Never posted a lot but liked to read what's going on ....frankly it's a bigger bag of shit than ever before.... thunderboat for me it seems ! "
Chas
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 12:42:42 GMT
I've never posted a lot here ,or the other place ..... Just had a look in and it's terrible I left the following .. "Never posted a lot but liked to read what's going on ....frankly it's a bigger bag of shit than ever before.... thunderboat for me it seems ! " Chas Just had another look as a guest and part of the problem seems to be you have to be logged in to get the benefit of all the new 'features'. Lots of people like to look at forums without registering and previously if you looked at CWDF as a guest you could still click on and see 'new content' in the same way as you could if you were logged in. Now that you seemingly can't do that any longer guests are going to find it very off putting and I think it will discourage people from visiting the site which in turn will further reduce numbers who sign up.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 26, 2017 12:53:59 GMT
Would not worry to much about that. The basic structure of a ProBoards forum cannot be changed by the Admin, only simple layout and themes can be changed. ProBoards did a major change on their forum software a couple of years ago (and a lot of Admins didn't like that) so I would consider there is some time to go before the next change. With regards to CWDF, has anyone also noticed how much slower it is? I noticed that. It's slow as moses. I can't even be bothered to read it anymore, let alone post. If the platform is Xen Foro (and no doubt others too) a selling point is the moderators dirty tricks bag. One favourite to make people you don't like go away without actually banning them slows the forum to the extent that it's barely useable. For example it would take 30 minutes to read and reply to a PM, complete with time outs, page faults etc. You might have to hit post 20 times, then back page to try again after a minute or two each time when the time out or site not responding message appears.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 13:00:51 GMT
I noticed that. It's slow as moses. I can't even be bothered to read it anymore, let alone post. If the platform is Zen Foro (and no doubt others too) a selling point is the moderators dirty tricks bag. One favourite to make people you don't like go away without actually banning them slows the forum to the extent that it's barely useable. For example it would take 30 minutes to read and reply to a PM, complete with time outs, page faults etc. You might have to hit post 20 times, then back page to try again after a minute or two each time when the time out or site not responding message appears. On a site I moderated on we had a feature called 'global ignore'. If this was applied to a member their posts appeared to them but to no body else on the forum (except ISTR the mods). So they would blithely post away completely unaware that not a soul amongst the general membership could see a word they had posted, it was rarely used and generally saved for the real PITA's. Of course if somebody created a sock puppet account and logged into that, they could see exactly what was going on because they couldn't see their other posts.
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Post by lollygagger on Feb 26, 2017 13:14:40 GMT
"XenForo has a built in "Discourage User" Option which makes it difficult or impossible for a user to navigate the site. It's similar to the very popular vBulletin mod called "Miserable Users". Basically, navigation slows way down, error messages randomly pop up, and sometimes you end up on pages you don't expect to see. This slows down unwanted visitors and sooner or later they leave, especially if they think the problems are sitewide rather than aimed at them individually."
Pretty common then.
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