LAVA maintenance this weekend

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Everyone, the LAVA Forums will be going through upgrades, fixes, tweaks and a face lift. So please please please be patient as I work through this. The consequence will be that the forums and the other areas of the site will be mostly offline for Sept. 8 and 9 this weekend. The site may not be down for the entire weekend but there are no guarantees. In other words, you can try visiting the site at various times because you might get lucky and the upgrades may be done.

[Justin Goeres]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Sep 7 2007, 08:14 PM)

try visiting the site at various times because you might get lucky

My Premium Membership is finally going to pay off?

(And would that make me "Lucky in LAVA"?)

[crelf]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Sep 8 2007, 01:14 PM)

...the forums and the other areas of the site will be mostly offline for Sept. 8 and 9...

That means that I'll have to go outside and get a life

[Val Brown]

We can watch all the wireworkers arise from their internet connections and wreck havoc on the land. It will be like "Weekend of the Living Dead" only, hopefully, a lot more fun.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The initial upgrades are complete. Thank you for your patience. There are some minor glitches but all will be fixed over time.

Upgraded the forums to the latest release: Mostly bug fixes and theme\skin\style changes.

Upgraded the Gallery to the latest release: Some usability improvements. The noticable changes are a nicer quicker photostrip scrolling, now images popup in a thickbox when clicking the image to enlarge it and there are convenient URL boxes to the right of the image when you need to insert on another website or places where image attachments aren't allowed.

Also, I think you can now upload a zip file with multiple images and they will be decompressed and added to the gallery automatically.

There is also better navigation between currently viewed images:

[Val Brown]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Sep 9 2007, 04:48 PM)

...Mostly bug fixes and theme\skin\style changes.

http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_09_2007/post-2-1189381597.png' target="_blank">

I've got a good guess on the theme...because skin and style changes are so, uh, robust and inviting.

Seems like you had a fun weekend.

[Gary Rubin]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Sep 9 2007, 07:48 PM)

There are some minor glitches but all will be fixed over time.

Michael,

Thanks for the work on the site, as always.

Here's one of the glitches: View New Posts just brings me to a search window.

Thanks,

Gary

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

QUOTE(Gary Rubin @ Sep 10 2007, 07:44 AM)

Michael,

Thanks for the work on the site, as always.

Here's one of the glitches: View New Posts just brings me to a search window.

Thanks,

Gary

Same here.

This is the only way that I know of finding out what has been posted to LAVA lately.

Ben

[crelf]

QUOTE(Ben @ Sep 10 2007, 10:08 PM)

This is the only way that I know of finding out what has been posted to LAVA lately.

C'mon Ben - get with the times and http://forums.lavag.org/rss-8.html' target="_blank">try this...

[Tomi Maila]

QUOTE(Gary Rubin @ Sep 10 2007, 02:44 PM)

View New Posts just brings me to a search window.

Same here... this is the functionality of LAVA I used to use daily.

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

QUOTE(crelf @ Sep 10 2007, 10:14 AM)

C'mon Ben - get with the times and http://forums.lavag.org/rss-8.html' target="_blank">try this...

Are you serious?

I'd rather write code in C that try to make sense of that!

Ben

[TobyD]

QUOTE(crelf @ Sep 10 2007, 07:14 AM)

C'mon Ben - get with the times and http://forums.lavag.org/rss-8.html' target="_blank">try this...

I went with RSS feeds a couple of weeks ago. I don't like Internet Explorer as an RSS reader so I have them streaming right into Outlook. It's great! Makes it much easier to keep up with the posts and if I need to see the actual thread there is a link that takes me right to it.

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

QUOTE(TobyD @ Sep 10 2007, 11:35 AM)

I went with RSS feeds a couple of weeks ago. I don't like Internet Explorer as an RSS reader so I have them streaming right into Outlook. It's great! Makes it much easier to keep up with the posts and if I need to see the actual thread there is a link that takes me right to it.

I guess I'll try back tomorow.

Ben

[crelf]

QUOTE(Ben @ Sep 11 2007, 01:26 AM)

I'd rather write code in C that try to make sense of that!

You don't have to make sense of it - that's what your RSS reader is for!

[Justin Goeres]

QUOTE(TobyD @ Sep 10 2007, 08:35 AM)

I went with RSS feeds a couple of weeks ago. I don't like Internet Explorer as an RSS reader so I have them streaming right into Outlook. It's great! Makes it much easier to keep up with the posts and if I need to see the actual thread there is a link that takes me right to it.

Amen to that. I use Thunderbird for my email/RSS and it's great for keeping up to date.

[jaegen]

It seems there's a bug with the RSS feed now. If a thread is only 1 page long, links point directly to the post. If a thread has more than one page, the link just displays the first post - it doesn't drill down into subsequent pages (I'm using Sage in Firefox).

Jaegen

[Jim Kring]

QUOTE(jaegen @ Sep 10 2007, 09:54 AM)

It seems there's a bug with the RSS feed now. If a thread is only 1 page long, links point directly to the post. If a thread has more than one page, the link just displays the first post - it doesn't drill down into subsequent pages (I'm using Sage in Firefox).

Jaegen

I see the same problem in Thunderbird.

[crelf]

QUOTE(TobyD @ Sep 11 2007, 01:35 AM)

I have them streaming right into Outlook.

For those who don't know - the newest version of Outlook has an RSS reader built-in, older version can use http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/home.html' target="_blank">RSS Popper - it's great!

[TG]

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Sep 10 2007, 03:11 PM)

Same here... this is the functionality of LAVA I used to use daily.

Im also missing the view new posts feature

Feel kind of lost without it.

[Tomi Maila]

The RSS reader thing requires you to always use the same application for reading the feeds. If you use different computer at work and at home, then you are stick with online RSS reader providers such as google alone. Nothingwrong with google but I like alternatives...

[TG]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Sep 8 2007, 03:14 AM)

Everyone, the LAVA Forums will be going through upgrades, fixes, tweaks and a face lift. So please please please be patient as I work through this.

Great work Mike.

I can wait for the "View New Posts" to come back, No worries

[JDave]

QUOTE(TG @ Sep 10 2007, 10:36 AM)

Great work Mike.

I can wait for the "View New Posts" to come back, No worries

Yes, the pain caused by missing features just shows how much we appreciate this forum!!

I found that searching for the word 'the' within the last 7 days returns most if not all of the new posts. It seems that trying to jump to the new post in the thread doesn't work. But it is a workaround in the meantime.

[Val Brown]

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Sep 10 2007, 09:39 AM)

Amen to that. I use Thunderbird for my email/RSS and it's great for keeping up to date.

Perhaps it's "better but it doesn't work for me at all now while I'm traveling. All I have äccess to is IE at what amounts to an Internet Cafe.

Does this mean that "View New Posts"will now really mean: "Generic Search Window""?

[Jim Kring]

QUOTE(Val Brown @ Sep 10 2007, 06:37 PM)

Perhaps it's "better but it doesn't work for me at all now while I'm traveling. All I have äccess to is IE at what amounts to an Internet Cafe.

Val,

You might consider signing up for a Gmail account and use Google Reader as your RSS client. It works very well - give it a try

http://www.google.com/reader/

Cheers,

-Jim

[Val Brown]

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Sep 10 2007, 07:09 PM)

Val,

You might consider signing up for a Gmail account and use Google Reader as your RSS client. It works very well - give it a try

http://www.google.com/reader/

Cheers,

-Jim

Thanks for the suggestion -- that's what I'm doing. I just really don't like it. Or perhaps I'm not used to it but am still used to using the "View New Posts" option to, well, actually View New Posts. Maybe I'm missing something here but, why have the item/option if it doesn't work? If it's ONLY going to push you to a generic Search window then call it "Search".

But let me approach this another way -- what can I do from RSS to "View New Posts"? ie, if I use ALT-J or the RSS icon up on my IE toolbar, I go to what looks like a single page "precise" of the last post for a thread. Is there something I missed on THAT page to perform navigate around more effectively?

As Dr. Evil might say: "Throw me a bone"