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JCsites.com
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 169

Posted 5/26/2002 4:55 AM (GMT -6)

Gang,

This discussion board has been upgraded from version 3.1SR4 to Version 3.3.05.

So while things will look very similar, if you look closely you might notice some new or different things. Probably the most notable change is how the e-mail notify feature works.

Now you have the ability to subscribe to get e-mail. So you won't have to get a notify e-mail if you don't want one. Also, if you are just a lurker, you can subscribe, and get e-mail notify messages to a particular topic thread or entire category. That is, provided Adiaphora allows for that from her admin tools.

So in the past when you've posted anything, you had a checkbox to enable if you wanted to get an e-mail notify in case anyone responded to your post. That checkbox is no longer there because of the subsciption feature.

To subscribe at anytime, look near the top right of the board for the link to subsciptions.

If you would like to know what other new features are in this version, Adiaphora has a list. I lost it, otherwise I'd post it. But maybe Adiaphora can do that?

Anyway, enjoy!
JCsites.com guy

Tom
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 10353

Posted 5/26/2002 6:37 AM (GMT -6)

JC-

Thanks again for the great work. The site has become a home away from home for me.

Blessings,
Tom

"Every saint has a history and every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde

adiaphora
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 123

Posted 5/26/2002 1:22 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks JCsites guy!

Here are a few of the new features:

Private Forums
Email Topic To A Friend
Search Topics/Forums
URL postings, show links to other sites/pages
Archive topics that haven't been active since a selected time. (Archived topics can still be viewed and searched by members, existing links to archived topics still work.)
Improved unsubscribe
Members now have a link to "My Subscriptions" where they can see all current subscriptions to either the Board/Categories/Forums and/or Topics.
Short(er) urls—Forum-titles and Topic-Titles are no longer passed in the urls of Forum.asp and Topic.asp That means that a member can link to a topic by using: TOPIC.ASP?TOPIC_ID=12345. If a topic is archived the link doesn't break, if the topic isn't found in the live forum, and it exists in the archives, the visitor is automatically redirected to the correct topic in the archives.
Improved Members-page—Members can now be searched by (part of) their Membername, Firstname or Lastname.
Fixed a lot of bugs and improved security

I’ll be tweeking some of the admin features in the next couple of days, so you may notice some other small changes. We may also add some mods (e.g. a poll feature—other suggestions welcome) after evaluating their security and stability. I will let know if we add anything fun like that. In the mean time, let’s take this board for a test drive!

adiaphora

Edited by - adiaphora on 05/26/2002 6:27:12 PM

BBBCanada
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Total Posts : 2763

Posted 5/27/2002 9:20 AM (GMT -6)

I don't know for sure, but I don't think I am recieving my e-mail to notify me that someone has posted on a thread that I have been a part of. I tried "subscription" thingy and a window came up saying that I am already subscribed. Yet, I don't think I am recieving e-mail notifications. Can someone help me with this?

Brandon
"Nerds," incidentally, are almost always men." 6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization

adiaphora
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Total Posts : 123

Posted 5/27/2002 2:15 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
I don't know for sure, but I don't think I am recieving my e-mail to notify me that someone has posted on a thread that I have been a part of. I tried "subscription" thingy and a window came up saying that I am already subscribed. Yet, I don't think I am recieving e-mail notifications. Can someone help me with this?

Brandon
"Nerds," incidentally, are almost always men." 6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization

Hi Brandon. I messed around with the subscription feature, and so far none of the things I’ve tried make a difference with the email. I’ll keep working on it. adiaphora

Electra
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Date Joined Feb 2002
Total Posts : 611

Posted 5/27/2002 2:51 PM (GMT -6)

I like the new “Send Topic to a Friend” and “Printer Friendly” options. Thanks, Electra

~·•·~·•·~·•·~·•·~
He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?”
I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”
Ezekiel 37:3

BBBCanada
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Total Posts : 2763

Posted 5/28/2002 3:13 AM (GMT -6)

Your's and Electra's posts never showed up in my e-mail. Thanks for looking into it. Should I try and resubscribe?

Brandon
"Nerds," incidentally, are almost always men." 6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization

JCsites.com
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 169

Posted 5/28/2002 4:33 AM (GMT -6)

I'll look into this today. Not sure what the problem is. I do have some anti-spam features on the web server that host's this board so that could be what the problem is.

I'll let you know when I find a solution.

JCsites guy

JCsites.com
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 169

Posted 5/28/2002 10:30 AM (GMT -6)

As I suspected, my server's anti-spam features were creating a mal-function of the "send to a friend" and "subscribe" e-mail features.

I came up with with a work-around that I believe will satisfy everyone.

So all e-mail features are working and have been tested.

As for the subscription feature, it can be a bit confusing, I expect to have it more straightforward and clear in the next version upgrade.

Anyhow, if you had subscibed to "whole board" and now you want to unsubscribe, you will need to e-mail adiaphora, as the process will be manual. Sorry for the inconvenience here. Subscribe problems should have been better understood before the upgrade.

Anyhow, this version supports possible subscription levels from the whole board to the topic level. What seemed like the most powerful, easy to manage level was to set the board to a forum subsciption level. And this has been done.

Thus you will notice that when you come to board and log in, on the far right hand column you will see this icon:

This is the subscribe icon. When you see it, it means that this item is something you can subscribe to. If you so, in the future, should you wish to unsubscribe, you can use that icon, or similar looking one you'll see at the topic level to unsubscribe.

Hope that all makes sense, I think Adiaphora will possibly be sending more info. and fielding questions on this.

JCsites guy

BBBCanada
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 2763

Posted 5/28/2002 2:39 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks JCsites guy! You're my herooooo!!

But your post didn't show up on my e-mail either. Weird. These kinds of problems would drive me nuts! Anyhoo...I hope I will get some a notification on this one at least. Also, how would you get to do a private forum?

Brandon
"Nerds," incidentally, are almost always men." 6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization

JCsites.com
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Date Joined Jun 2001
Total Posts : 169

Posted 5/29/2002 4:12 AM (GMT -6)

BBBCanada,

Do you have MSN Messenger, Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or ICQ? The reason I ask, is cause if you do, we could set-up a time to use these programs to do a real-time chat over the net.

This would enable me to better help you get your subscriptions working. But I need to be able to ask you questions and get answers in real-time so chat would be the best.

I think cause you originally subscribed to the whole board, before we got this thing really working, you need to unsubscribe to the whole board. Unfortunately that's where I will have to help. Because at the moment with the board set-up, you can't unsubscribe to the whole board. Bug in the software.

So I will likely have to shut the board down for 1 hour, edit it's database to reset your subsciptions to none, and then show you how to subscribe.

But before I go that far, I thought a chat session with q&A might find a resolution.

JCsites guy

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