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snap said:
favicon shows VB logo

nope do a ctrl+f5 refresh

@raabo: still when i click user cp tab it points to forum

amjath said:
nope do a ctrl+f5 refresh

@raabo: still when i click user cp tab it points to forum

not happening at my end

The highlight of "Forum" tab, even when I have selected "UserCP" is still the most annoying thing right now.

Vyom said:
The highlight of "Forum" tab, even when I have selected "UserCP" is still the most annoying thing right now.

That was before as well, and ico said it'd require "some kind of hack" to do it.

dashing.sujay said:
That was before as well, and ico said it require "some kind of hack" to do it.

I can hack it.but you'll ban me

Smilies are not working. Everything else seems fine though.

Edit: please enable bb code in signature :pray:

Nanducob said:
not happening at my end

favicon shows VB logo for me too

Luffy said:
Smilies are not working. Everything else seems fine though.

Where are smileys not working ? I can see them working everywhere.

Test -

try clicking the more button in smileys tab, most of the extra smileys don't work

Test

Yes, they don't seem to work.

Enable BB code in signatures.

harshilsharma63 said:
Enable BB code in signatures.

please do this

harshilsharma63 said:
Enable BB code in signatures.

+1 some sigs are ugly

Its faster now

logo default one vb. spoiler doesn't work in post and read my siggy ;p

Allow higher size avatars and enable BB code for sig please

Forum favicon and smilies fixed.

These are not working the rest are fine

:gentoo::mandriva::ubuntu::tux::deb::fedora:

Raaabo said:
Forum favicon and smilies fixed.

can i get the favicon link, so that without removing cookies i can make them appear

www.thinkdigit.com/forum/favicon.ico -- hit refresh

Raaabo said:
www.thinkdigit.com/forum/favicon.ico -- hit refresh

Thx

Unremovable ads when posting a reply to thread via iPad

Superayush said:
Unremovable ads when posting a reply to thread via iPad

What browser are you using. Or tapatalk?

Superayush said:
Unremovable ads when posting a reply to thread via iPad

Change theme to 6.5 or Neo TDF members.

I'm experiencing slowdowns with TDF. Other sites work perfectly, just TDF taking much time to load. IS anyone else experiencing this?

harshilsharma63 said:
I'm experiencing slowdowns with TDF. Other sites work perfectly, just TDF taking much time to load. IS anyone else experiencing this?

Nope, infact tdf is faster now (for me atleast).

harshilsharma63 said:
I'm experiencing slowdowns with TDF. Other sites work perfectly, just TDF taking much time to load. IS anyone else experiencing this?

was happening with me also before, currently everything is going good

harshilsharma63 said:
I'm experiencing slowdowns with TDF. Other sites work perfectly, just TDF taking much time to load. IS anyone else experiencing this?

Works fine at my end

amjath said:
What browser are you using. Or tapatalk?

Safari

Edit: changing the theme did it for me

though it's quite odd to have a theme which has unremovable pesky ads...

I use ad block on PC and android so didn't know about theme selection

the unwanted "Like feature" is showing up in some of the threads

so, the forums are being rearranged. Good to see mobile section above Laptop/portables section.

Enable bb code in sig and increase the number of characters allowed in the siggy... Cant put in all my gear and links.

And keep images and videos disabled in siggy.

bbcode in sig lures the spammers.

What???

Yeah, what? How?

Either put like everywhere and turn the Like*hores loose, or don't do it at all.

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I'd suggest a simple update though, 32kB image size is a bit too less, specially for GIFs, they don't attract much attention, you can raise the limit to say 64kB.

I did... likes are EVERYWHERE now

I just want to see the effect. Some people are bound to go crazy but for how long?

tkin said:
I'd suggest a simple update though, 32kB image size is a bit too less, specially for GIFs, they don't attract much attention, you can raise the limit to say 64kB.

Done, check now.

Raaabo said:
Done, check now.

OMG, its done, thanks dude, really appreciate this

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A bug found, if I update the avatar, though it uploads, it says fail to load, it gets updated correctly though.

There! BB code enabled in signatures. Let's see how long this lasts before we start seeing misuse of this and have to make a new user group called "Signature Abusers" who will not be allowed to have a signature at all... Mods please suggest signature rules, and we'll put them in the forum rules.

Raaabo said:
There! BB code enabled in signatures. Let's see how long this lasts before we start seeing misuse of this and have to make a new user group called "Signature Abusers" who will not be allowed to have a signature at all... Mods please suggest signature rules, and we'll put them in the forum rules.

Not working?

seems to be... see the posts above by Luffy and thehumanbot

Dear Raaabo sir, will you be so kind as to increase the word limit on the signature?? Please??

Raaabo said:
There! BB code enabled in signatures. Let's see how long this lasts before we start seeing misuse of this and have to make a new user group called "Signature Abusers" who will not be allowed to have a signature at all... Mods please suggest signature rules, and we'll put them in the forum rules.

Using img tags inside spoilers is allowed?

where's the "new posts" link?

Raaabo said:
There! BB code enabled in signatures. Let's see how long this lasts before we start seeing misuse of this and have to make a new user group called "Signature Abusers" who will not be allowed to have a signature at all... Mods please suggest signature rules, and we'll put them in the forum rules.

Excellent move!! Thank you!

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funkysourav said:
where's the "new posts" link?

Click What's New on top of that.

i didn't notice the "whats new" option had been repositioned ( the User CP has replaced it now )..

was roaming on my profile for some time before i realised it..

Signature characters have also been increased. Was 200 for one group and 450 for another; it's 600 now.

@Raboo , just out of curiosity, if not too technically confidential, what Version/Product of DB are you using in the managed systems?

Latest mysql, like all VB forums.

@Raaabo
IS it wrong to use imgg tags inside spoiler tags when deploying signatures?

would there be an option to "tag" a user to any posts?

like @insertname,
and the user insertname gets a notification that someone has replied specifically to him/her

new posts link is missing. meanwhile server your self : *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post

Raaabo said:
There! BB code enabled in signatures. Let's see how long this lasts before we start seeing misuse of this and have to make a new user group called "Signature Abusers" who will not be allowed to have a signature at all... Mods please suggest signature rules, and we'll put them in the forum rules.

I'm not a mod, but I'm still suggesting some rules:

1. Images (other than similes), videos should not be allowed.
2. Large font size should not be allowed.
3. Signature, if longer than 5 lines should be enclosed in 'spoiler' tag.

^^Seconded

Why was User CP, and PM tab removed?

harshilsharma63 said:
Why was User CP, and PM tab removed?

Usercp tab is just below Forum button

Raaabo said:
Signature characters have also been increased. Was 200 for one group and 450 for another; it's 600 now.

Omg!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!! :hyper:

harshilsharma63 said:
I'm not a mod, but I'm still suggesting some rules:

1. Images (other than similes), videos should not be allowed.
2. Large font size should not be allowed.
3. Signature, if longer than 5 lines should be enclosed in 'spoiler' tag.

+10...

Can't upload image via tapatalk saying contact forum Admin

root.king said:
Can't upload image via tapatalk saying contact forum Admin

Says you may not have permission... Meaning its a bug.

Now BB code is not working again in Signatures.

gameranand said:
BB img code not working in signatures.

Thats how it should be. Now if its a bug, its a good one.

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Raaabo said:
Signature characters have also been increased. Was 200 for one group and 450 for another; it's 600 now.

i think i have encountered a bug in the signature...

i experimented and found out that each line in the signature consists of 89 characters, after which any characters, if present is implicitly wrapped to a new line.
and there are 5 lines allowed in the signature. so that makes 5 x 89 = 445 characters available at most.

that makes the rest 155 characters a waste..

can someone else confirm this?

Probably correct. More than 5 lines not allowed. Will check about the 89 char limit

Raaabo said:
Probably correct. More than 5 lines not allowed. Will check about the 89 char limit

Thank you

gameranand said:
Now BB code is not working again in Signatures.

Its working now right?

@Raaabo
Does vBulletin provides an option in which the user can select "Dont show images in signatures" or something like that?
Coz there is a setting to completely hide all the signature content, that will include simple text too.

So if there is a possibility of an option like the one I stated, many users will be happy with it. Since Dota (and many be other games as well) players on this forum (including me) dont want to lost BB tags in signature either.

I am seeing advertisements in every page since the update.
WTF happened?
its quite irritating to say the least.

funkysourav said:
View attachment 13585I am seeing advertisements in every page since the update.
WTF happened?
its quite irritating to say the least.

Change display setting to 'neo tdf member' in below left of web page and in setting>general also its working for me

isn't 100 x 100 too small for avatar pics? before it was 180x180 if i remember correctly

snap said:
isn't 100 x 100 too small for avatar pics? before it was 180x180 if i remember correctly

120x120

btw it says 100x100 but many users have pics larger that.

Alright. Since UserCP have moved I cant help but to feel helpless. Problem is not with UserCP tab being pushed in second row. But the fact that previously it was available in every page of the forum.
Now UserCP is not available on "What's New" page. Which makes an accidental click on the "What's New" tab a time consuming mistake, when you want to open UserCP.

I can live with {"User CP" tab not being highlighted when clicked} problem but please give back the position of "User CP" back to it.

Pardon my ignorance,but why are these kind of faltu ads.Doesnt TDf has any control over the content of ads?

*s10.postimg.org/jb3js0f9l/Capture.png

Nanducob said:
Pardon my ignorance,but why are these kind of faltu ads.Doesnt TDf has any control over the content of ads?

I see no ads on the theme I use: TDF v6.5.

Vyom said:
I see no ads on the theme I use: TDF v6.5.

yeah,right.Changed theme to 6.5 and now there are no ads.but still curious

Nanducob said:
yeah,right.Changed theme to 6.5 and now there are no ads.but still curious

The ads are only in theme meant for guests, not for registered members. Change the theme from here, it will never revert back no matter where you login from.

@Raaabo any update on the siggy bug??

What bug? There is no bug, we don't want to allow images, so we don't enable bbcode in signatures. Bold italics and stuff should work I suppose.

Raaabo said:
What bug? There is no bug, we don't want to allow images, so we don't enable bbcode in signatures. Bold italics and stuff should work I suppose.

bold ,italics etc is not working for me...

Raaabo said:
Bold italics and stuff should work I suppose.

rijinpk1 said:
bold ,italics etc is not working for me...

No, not a single BB code will work. It's either all or none.

Raaabo said:
What bug? There is no bug, we don't want to allow images, so we don't enable bbcode in signatures. Bold italics and stuff should work I suppose.

anirbandd said:
i think i have encountered a bug in the signature...

i experimented and found out that each line in the signature consists of 89 characters, after which any characters, if present is implicitly wrapped to a new line.
and there are 5 lines allowed in the signature. so that makes 5 x 89 = 445 characters available at most.

that makes the rest 155 characters a waste..

can someone else confirm this?

Raaabo said:
Probably correct. More than 5 lines not allowed. Will check about the 89 char limit

this thing..

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Testing the signature thing

There, fixed now? Wasn't a bug, just a setting...

Raaabo said:
There, fixed now? Wasn't a bug, just a setting...

I'll try when I'm on PC and let you know.

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nope.. the 89 character limit is still there for me..

can anyone else try it out??

It's showing more than 89 char per line in your signature right now... What's the problem?

its working now!!

dunno what happened at that time.

anyway, the issue is fixed.

BIG thanks to you, sir!!

No Using imgg in signatures. Should I remove imgg? I can't remember why I added it in the first place

Raaabo said:
No Using imgg in signatures. Should I remove imgg? I can't remember why I added it in the first place

Can we use links ?

and pls remove the "like" system if someone wants to agree with a post let them post their views. Don't want the future of TDF begging for likes or anywhere around this system

No lets keep the likes system, and see how bad it gets. Removing it is easy, but I want to see what is this begging we all fear.

As for links in signatures, I thought I disabled that, but check if it works. Find flaws and point them out and I'll try and fix

^links are disabled : )

Raaabo said:
No Using imgg in signatures. Should I remove imgg? I can't remember why I added it in the first place

Yes, please remove them.

They were added to enable tab in quick tool box.

Wish for one feature is prohibiting users scores of features.

[quote="Piyush, post: 2073727"]Can we use links ?[/QUOTE]

[quote="snap, post: 2073747"]^links are disabled : )[/QUOTE]

BB codes.

Ok trying something new. From now on, a signature will show only once a page. Thus my signature will show on the first post that shows on this page, but not the ones after that

If imgg was for quick reply, then let's leave it I suppose... Let me see if I can find a better way to do

Raaabo said:
Ok trying something new. From now on, a signature will show only once a page. Thus my signature will show on the first post that shows on this page, but not the ones after that

If imgg was for quick reply, then let's leave it I suppose... Let me see if I can find a better way to do in quick reply for now.[/QUOTE]

Not good :(

^

not good

Raaabo said:
Ok trying something new. From now on, a signature will show only once a page. Thus my signature will show on the first post that shows on this page, but not the ones after that

If imgg was for quick reply, then let's leave it I suppose... Let me see if I can find a better way to do in quick reply for now.[/QUOTE]

Very very bad idea, sometimes when asking for a solution we tell people to look at our config in signature, your solution will severely affect this, signatures are quick reference to our hardware config, this is not a good idea, never seen this in any forum.

External
*i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/415/209/3b4.png

Internal no path

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/images/misc/cam.png

You guys love your signatures too much. Why should a signature show more than once on a page with just 30 posts? At best you will reply twice or thrice in that page, and if not, in cases where its a fight between two people, why see the same stupid signatures again and again?

Raaabo said:
Ok trying something new. From now on, a signature will show only once a page. Thus my signature will show on the first post that shows on this page, but not the ones after that

If imgg was for quick reply, then let's leave it I suppose... Let me see if I can find a better way to do in quick reply for now.[/QUOTE]

I think its actually a good idea . This way we can also enable images too :D
But seriously, its a good move to save people suffering with from low bandwidths/ bad FUP plans.

Yep.. I love my siggy. Too much.

Disable image and vid in siggy. But let the siggy appear with every reply.

Raaabo said:
You guys love your signatures too much. Why should a signature show more than once on a page with just 30 posts? At best you will reply twice or thrice in that page, and if not, in cases where its a fight between two people, why see the same stupid signatures again and again?

That's why other forums keep the signatures short, I have no issues with signature limits atm, and if someone hates signatures he can turn then off completely, we can quickly refer the signature for hardware config etc....

Piyush said:
I think its actually a good idea . This way we can also enable images too
But seriously, its a good move to save people suffering with from low bandwidths/ bad FUP plans.

You do know that if the signature contains images they will be loaded only once per page, even in next page the browser will most probably load then from the cache, that's how browsers work with static resources, it won't save any bandwidth..

Oh yes, it's not about bandwidth saving, just about easier on the eyes.

Vote on the poll. Whatever is majority we'll do.

Oh right. My bad. The content is downloaded only once per item. :facepalm:

siggs without images so that they appear in every posts

Reverted until poll is finished. Signatures back to normal. No BB code allowed again, and showing on every post.

voted!!

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is anyone working on the Siggy again?? coz the BB codes are disabled.. :\

Raaabo said:
Reverted until poll is finished. Signatures back to normal. No BB code allowed again, and showing on every post.

Both BB Code as well as images distract, so the old way of sigs was perfect, a little BB might be allowed, but images distract way to much. Learned that the hard way in another Indian tech forum

Raaabo said:
Oh yes, it's not about bandwidth saving, just about easier on the eyes.

Vote on the poll. Whatever is majority we'll do.

Finally, democracy!

TDF has always been a democracy, except the few times I've disagreed...

@Raaabo - Why am I getting color code disabled when normal users could use it ?

PS: How's Raaabo.rar ?

yeah, i keep forgetting about it..

how is Raaabo.rar??

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Raaabo said:
TDF has always been a democracy, except the few times I've disagreed...

king's democracy

I agree for "Signatures without images, make the pages lighter to load". But not because I want to make page light, but because I want them to be subtle.
Also can we have this option too? Size of "all" signatures to be reduced to one point less the regular font size. It would make siggys stand out from the normal post. And will look good aesthetically too.

Voted. As expected, I belong to the opposition party. :lol:

suddenly i'm getting tons of annoying ads all over the forum page, there is this buy iphone on left, some browser game ad on the right, make your PC faster down below. what went wrong, i dont have such extensions and it barely happened in this forum...this..so many ads!!

help !

go the bottom left corner and select TDF v6.5

sam_738844 said:
suddenly i'm getting tons of annoying ads all over the forum page, there is this buy iphone on left, some browser game ad on the right, make your PC faster down below. what went wrong, i dont have such extensions and it barely happened in this forum...this..so many ads!! help !

Change theme to Neo TDF members/6.5.

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testing something, ignore this post

Raaabo.rar is good, thanks for asking

voted

@Raaabo -

dashing.sujay said:
@Raaabo - Why am I getting color code disabled when normal users could use it ?

so all these BB codes in the signature are not getting enabled??

the_pwnzerschrek: Core i5-2400, Asus P8H67M-LE, 2x2GB Kingston 1333MHz, MSI R7770, Logitech G500, CX430v2, Seagate 1TB, Dell IN2030M, NZXT Gamma, APC350W, Win7 x64
Audio: Signature Acoustics C-12, Sansa ClipZip[rockbox], Sonodyne SiA 320 + Sonus 2605 v3
Photography: Canon 1000D, Canon 18-55mm, Tamron 70-300mm, DigiTek DFL002 Speedlite
PSN: anirbandd <==> GTAV, KZ3, UC3 =:::= Micromax A63

Flickr: goo.gl/q0pNq

Bring "Software" section between "Mobile Monsters" and "Hardware" section. It;s kinda lost in the bottom IMO. Same goes for "Gaming" section.

yeah and the feedback section should be second like before. No need for "mobile monsters" to be that high up but i guess it helps many new members and attracts other guests : )

Am I the only one thinks search is not working as expected

i also think the search is not effective

amjath said:
Am I the only one thinks search is not working as expected

Define "expected"

dashing.sujay said:
@Raaabo -

Try now.

Raaabo said:
Define "expected"

Wow the search works better now. But if I search for example "cruzerlite" the correct results shows but it doesn't take me to the right post from the thread.

I've disabled signatures and avatars completely for myself. Everything clean for me.

Only a while till we get onto this stage:

my ultimate rig
i5-2500k HD 6950 8 GB RAM

@ico but you have to see the sigs and moderate them :-(

snap said:
@ico but you have to see the sigs and moderate them

I'm on a low usage plan.

I pay Rs. 1550 for 15 GB internet. Tata Docomo dongle.

Raaabo said:
Try now.

It's working, thanks sir

.

But a supposedly new (probably created recently) rule is interfering with my sig -

You have included a total of 2 images in your message. The maximum number that you may include is 1. Please correct the problem and then continue again.

Images include use of smilies, the BB code tag, and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.
[/quote]

Edit: I see this is for limiting use of excessive smileys as ico pointed out. A very good move, I appreciate.

But it seems to be applied on our usergroup as well. Could you please look into it ?

anirbandd said:
so all these BB codes in the signature are not getting enabled??

the_pwnzerschrek: Core i5-2400, Asus P8H67M-LE, 2x2GB Kingston 1333MHz, MSI R7770, Logitech G500, CX430v2, Seagate 1TB, Dell IN2030M, NZXT Gamma, APC350W, Win7 x64
Audio: Signature Acoustics C-12, Sansa ClipZip[rockbox], Sonodyne SiA 320 + Sonus 2605 v3
Photography: Canon 1000D, Canon 18-55mm, Tamron 70-300mm, DigiTek DFL002 Speedlite
PSN: anirbandd <==> GTAV, KZ3, UC3 =:::= Micromax A63

Flickr: goo.gl/q0pNq

Click to expand...

so all these BB codes in the signature are not getting enabled??

As soon as I figure out how to enable all but the custom codes, yes they will get enabled.

a few days ago, they were enabled... i noticed that IMG and VIDEO tags were disabled.. that was not customised??

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Testing signatures

Trying to enable GS, youtube, imgg etc for posting, but not for signatures.

Testing in Posts:
[IMGG]images/misc/cam.png[/IMGG]

[gs]0AonXD_60lANRdEFVLWhVbHpDaDZvbjloekxHWHFkQXc[/gs] test

the "like" system encourages petty one liners. Not needed in our forum : )

Post all suggestions in the new thread only now please:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/feedback/181792-2014-new-tdf-suggestions.html