Board makeover/ refresh

[amidar]

Yep it doesn't seem as intuitive in that it doesn't remember what you've read although I don't know if that's down to me cleaning my cache out. I notice there is a 'new topics' which is good. I did see a 'Todays Posts' but I cant find it anymore. On another forum (non-music related) that I use from time to time it has a 'view new posts' and 'view today's posts' which is generally what I use to browse it. It's a high traffic site which is always up to date as it's run by a techie and it generates hack attacks and Spam almost daily.

I think a lot of people used the function on the old site to just read all the unread new posts. I also notice you click on a newly updated thread and it doesn't take you to the end of the thread.

All good though it's just case of getting used to everything.

I think it's now 'New Topics'. Which is misleading, perhaps, as its mostly new replies to existing topics.

I notice there's a Blog tab. And another labelled Articles.
Can I suggest one of these be used to host the original content of the vgplus site...?
Or am I overlooking something?

[SirSlim]

What's this under my name? A power bar? How do I charge it up? Down, Down, Down, Up, X?

Hover over it and all will be revealed...

[Turboellis]

Tried to post a photo from my camera roll. Message came up saying the picture needs to be 800x800, mine were something like 2400x2400. So my question is how do I resize photos on my phone that are in my camera roll?

On my android phone I use Photo Resizer. There'll be a similar app for the iphone ...

[Cacapo]

I notice we have an articles section now. Just a thought but it would be nice to feature some threads in there maybe? The infamous UK Jazz chart comes to mind and probably loads more that are buried deep in our rich history.

[ashra]

Apols if missing this but I used to click on 'new posts' or whatever it was called and it would show all threads with posts I hadn't read in them in chronological order. Is there an option for this I'm missing. On similar vbulletin sites there is a 'view unread posts options'. Sites starting to look great though, logo back, pic loading all super tis a bit bright but I'm sure someone will play around with different 'themes'.

Is this the link you're looking for?

https://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/searc...ssage%22%5D%7D

[amidar]

Cheers ashra that's it. I assume you filtered the results or is there a direct link from the board? Either way I can book mark the URL for the mo. Thanks.

[bennyboy]

Cheers ashra that's it. I assume you filtered the results or is there a direct link from the board? Either way I can book mark the URL for the mo. Thanks.

You should have 'New Topics' under Forums, top left?

[amidar]

Yep got that, will that show you new posts in threads or just new threads? I really need to sit down and faff about I'm using a tablet at the moment which doesn't lend itself well to browser tweaking.

Wait a moment, seems it does, cheers Benny.

You should have 'New Topics' under Forums, top left?

[Hayes]

Is there any way to get the 'view first unread post' option back within threads? That was very handy with any of the longer threads. As Amidar has kind of mentioned it already I'm guessing it's not possible? I'm not referring to the New Topics or Today's Posts options, I mean when you're already inside a thread and want to skip to the first unread post within it. There used to be a button for it at the top of the page when you clicked on thread / topic.

[bennyboy]

You can go to the first unread post from the thread title - in the column on the left for Last Post, click the blue arrows under the username. That any help?

[amidar]

Yep just tried it, the man is right, big help cheers Benny.

You can go to the first unread post from the thread title - in the column on the left for Last Post, click the blue arrows under the username. That any help?

[Hayes]

You can go to the first unread post from the thread title - in the column on the left for Last Post, click the blue arrows under the username. That any help?

Am I being thick or does that just take me to last post in the thread? Rather than the newst one since my last visit to the thread... My brain's not functioning properly yet... I'll add I'm viewing the forum on a mobile in Chrome on Android.

[amidar]

I'm pretty sure it takes you to the last unread post as from memory last night it took me to a post above a post at the end of a thread so it could be that the last post you saw was the first unread post or I could be wrong again.

I've just signed into the forum on opened 4 unread topics in new tabs and then remembered the blue arrow on the last one so my brains not much better!

Am I being thick or does that just take me to last post in the thread? Rather than the newst one since my last visit to the thread... My brain's not functioning properly yet... I'll add I'm viewing the forum on a mobile in Chrome on Android.

[bennyboy]

Am I being thick or does that just take me to last post in the thread? Rather than the newst one since my last visit to the thread... My brain's not functioning properly yet... I'll add I'm viewing the forum on a mobile in Chrome on Android.

Yeah, you are probably right - it is flagged up as 'last post', so think it just does that. So, the answer is probably no, unless admins can do something under the bonnet?

[Milesago]

OK, here's a weird difference with the old site: I posted some photos to the finds thread yesterday and it worked. However, if I'm not logged in and I view that post, I don't see the images, instead I see a number of links which, if you click them, give some sort of "invalid URL" or "invalid filename" error. However, I CAN See the images in the finds post before mine. SO what's going on? What did I do wrong?

For example, the first image in my finds post displays (when I'm not logged in) as:

35324411483_4f46971a7e.jpg

which is an active link. The link address is:

https://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/filed...p;d=1500906170

...some sort of lookup table for retrieving the original link to the image I posted (the image is hosted on flickr).

If I'm logged in, this link works, i.e. it displays the associated image.
But if I'm not logged in, it returns the error message "Invalid File Specified".

So, the links to external images are no longer stored in the body of the post as explicit URLS, instead they were references to some sort of lookup table . . . but this lookup table ONLY works if you are logged in. Who thought that one up???

I assume this is something I did wrong when I inserted images in the post. So, what shoudl I have done instead?

How do you include a link to an externally hosted image which will display even when you are not logged in?

BTW my background is IT but not webdesign, so I can talk about this intellgiently to some degree but I am no expert.