NEW STAMPBOARDS goes live - ** JUNE 1 ** - please read up!!

CMJ · Post by **CMJ** » 07 Jun 2020 09:46

norvic wrote: ↑
07 Jun 2020 07:51

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
07 Jun 2020 01:12
Wayne - works identically for EVERY Forum .. just did a test post in Sales Forum, and it worked fine as can be seen -

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=90853
No we can't see -

and Drag and Drop isn't available in the sales forum either, I tried a test post as well.
[Edit - can't add images, even as an answer on a post that I can see.]

This may be to do with forum privileges that are still set differently for mods? But only a suggestion.

As Glen has said, this shouldn't be the case, but it does seem to be.

To save anyone else reporting it, this is currently under investigation by the Techies.

Chris (for the volunteer mod team)

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 07 Jun 2020 11:33

GUTTERS wrote: ↑
07 Jun 2020 08:21

Wayne, fchd &Rog you are correct the attachment tab is not there and is present on other forums.

I believe this should be fixed. Can you verify?

Ubobo.R.O. · Post by **Ubobo.R.O.** » 07 Jun 2020 11:36

Confirmed.

Rog · Post by **Rog** » 07 Jun 2020 21:10

Attachments tab now showing here, many thanks.

fchd · Post by **fchd** » 07 Jun 2020 21:36

Rog wrote: ↑
07 Jun 2020 21:10
Attachments tab now showing here, many thanks.

I can confirm that it looks OK to me as well. Thanks Glen and Yuriy for sorting this out.

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 08 Jun 2020 04:24

A small point:

previously when quoting the Address of another thread we were encouraged to use the " Insert url" facility so that the quote came out as "https://www. stampboards etc." rather than just "viewtopic etc.". Although this facility is still available the result is the latter form. Is this O.K.? (as about to start a new thread).

Otherwise all great!

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 08 Jun 2020 04:48

OldDuffer1 wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 04:24
A small point:

previously when quoting the Address of another thread we were encouraged to use the " Insert url" facility so that the quote came out as "https://www. stampboards etc." rather than just "viewtopic etc.".

Although this facility is still available the result is the latter form. Is this O.K.? (as about to start a new thread).

Otherwise all great!

Mods have raised this internally. I do not like it either, and will discuss with Yuriy what our options are on this one, going forward.

I do not like any links truncated here, except the super long ones.

Glen

Ubobo.R.O. · Post by **Ubobo.R.O.** » 08 Jun 2020 10:56

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=6615880#p6615880

I just did a test re the OldDuffer1 enquiry inserting the link between url/url and this is the result.

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 08 Jun 2020 21:17

URL test:

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90748&start=150

Using the URL tab. Hmmm.

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 08 Jun 2020 21:21

OldDuffer1 wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 21:17
URL test:

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90748&start=150

Using the URL tab. Hmmm.

Trying now Quote. Doesn't seem to truncate as apparently did before so may not matter?

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 08 Jun 2020 21:23

Ubobo.R.O. wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 10:56
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=6615880#p6615880

I just did a test re the OldDuffer1 enquiry inserting the link between url/url and this is the result.

Since I am getting a different result this may be Browser dependent? (On Chrome).

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 08 Jun 2020 21:51

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 04:48

OldDuffer1 wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 04:24
A small point:

previously when quoting the Address of another thread we were encouraged to use the " Insert url" facility so that the quote came out as "https://www. stampboards etc." rather than just "viewtopic etc.".

Although this facility is still available the result is the latter form. Is this O.K.? (as about to start a new thread).

Otherwise all great!

Mods have raised this internally. I do not like it either, and will discuss with Yuriy what our options are on this one, going forward.

I do not like any links truncated here, except the super long ones.

Glen

What is the desired behavior?

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 08 Jun 2020 21:59

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Yuriy for 15 years, we have urged members to add a link, highlight it, click the URL button that was in the reply box and the entire link appeared - clicking on this shows the desired behavior in first post -

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=191&start=98

Super long inks that sometime appeared Mods would removed that coding via edit but it was a clean looking board as a result.

Right NOW anyone cutting and pasting what shows here i.e. -

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=191&start=98

And adds that to blogs or emails to others etc is a total dead end - it does not work or open.

VERY strange that phpBB moved away from what was a VERY sensible and practical older feature!

I am sure you can wrangle it back, just have no idea why they messed with a VERY good feature.

Glen

: THIS is how URL's used to appear and hopefully will again.

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 08 Jun 2020 22:11

As I said above this does not seem to matter as is apparently not further truncated on using "Quote". Why different users are getting different results may, as suggested, depend on browser used?

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 08 Jun 2020 22:15

OldDuffer1 wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 22:11
As I said above this does not seem to matter as is apparently not further truncated on using "Quote". Why different users are getting different results may, as suggested, depend on browser used?

How this gets display is decided on the server end, so the behavior is definitely going to be consistent for everyone. Can you link me to the two posts where you believe it is currently different?

I'll admit that I am still a bit confused about what the exact problem is. Is the desired behavior to disable URL shortening entirely and just always display the full posted URL?

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 08 Jun 2020 22:25

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 21:59
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This ideally is what we can revert to - was simple on the older phpBB version when you hightlighted any URL and then clicked the URL button in the POST REPLY BOX

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 08 Jun 2020 22:29

Marshalrusty wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 22:15

I'll admit that I am still a bit confused about what the exact problem is. Is the desired behavior to disable URL shortening entirely and just always display the full posted URL?

The older version certainly shortened URL's UNLESS the procedure in post above was followed.

I can't see leaving that be is any issue - just looks messy - IMHO.

95% of members, after 15 years of training, and requests, highlighted links and pressed the ''URL'' button.

NOW we have a URL button that appears to do zero when a link is highlighted and that button is pressed - I think that is what is being raised.

If you need to add a ''URL'' button next to ''CENTRE'' button to replicate what used to occur, that would be handy.

The current button appears to do nothing from my uses of it. No idea why phpBB felt this change was ''progress'' in any way!

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 08 Jun 2020 22:44

I see. The more generic/correct version of this procedure is to right click on the link, and copy the address (displayed in the attachment).

Which will work for any of these situations:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90748
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90748
NEW STAMPBOARDS goes live - ** JUNE 1 ** - please read up!!

But I'm happy to make the behavior whatever you folks like; it's not difficult to do.

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 08 Jun 2020 23:25

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Yuriy .. might have to do with each different Browsers?

On Firefox no such option offers itself to me. No matter what I do, I get truncated links.

So if we can replicate just what we had for 15 years?

Adding the ''URL'' button to right of CENTRE would be most useful, no matter what browsers folks use - this is how things looked a week back -

: ''The Good Old Days'' ... of May 202o!

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 00:02

Done

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=6620772#p6620772

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
08 Jun 2020 23:25
On Firefox no such option offers itself to me. No matter what I do, I get truncated links.

In Firefox, it's "Copy Link Location"

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 00:14

Yuriy, nope all I get is COPY among 20 other meaningless command options on Firefox drop down.

Anyway we are not writing messy tutorials covering 10 different browsers, for 70 year olds who often have trouble using the very simplest features, when EVERYONE who clicks the "URL" button as they always did, will all get there comfortably in 2 mouse clicks in 2 seconds, thanks.

Glen

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 00:25

Also made the URL button clearer, as requested.

Unfortunately, to make the URL shortening fix retroactive, we'll have to reprocess all the posts again.

Does it now all work as desired?

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 00:26

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https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17322&p=6620764#p6620764

https://glenstephens.com/rarity.html

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Brilliant Yuriy ... you have excelled once again.

Hope it did not screw up too many things to undo and amend for next update?

No need to fix those in past week rally unless a smooth process .. having it fixed going forward was the goal!

Glen

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 00:32

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 00:26
Hope it did not screw up too many things to undo and amend for next update?

We're up to about 15 changes at this point, the vast majority of which are in the style. I've kept a record, so it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes to do.

Marshalrusty wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 00:25
Unfortunately, to make the URL shortening fix retroactive, we'll have to reprocess all the posts again.

Shall I do this?

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 00:38

Yuriy,

Running a fix and swap over past untruncated posts probably not really a big deal, unless it is pretty smooth sailing stuff to do your end.

Going forward having it there is the key.

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 00:41

Let me see if mega long links truncate of their own accord as hopefully they do!

Top one with no commands and lower one with the URL button.

Top marks - PHP software now bypasses the super wide pages that used to occur!

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

Well at least lower one does not make the page go super wide as they did before!

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 00:54

I can make these truncate, if you like.

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 00:41
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 01:08

Yuriy .. if that is possible without too much stuffing about, well done -- anything much longer than this can be chopped -

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8846&start=450

Maybe 30 more characters than this gets the chop down?

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 01:16

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 01:08
Yuriy .. if that is possible without too much stuffing about, well done -- anything much longer than this can be chopped -

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8846&start=450

Maybe 30 more characters than this gets the chop down?

Done. Should work exactly as you said.

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 01:30

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

Yep the huge one now posts as below - well done!

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=Uz_eX ... KMQ4dUDCAw

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 09 Jun 2020 01:48

URL test:

https://www.stampboards.com/posting.php?mode=reply&f=1&t=90748

Poifect!

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 09 Jun 2020 03:22

All posts/signatures have now been re-parsed with the new rules.

PeterG · Post by **PeterG** » 09 Jun 2020 19:22

I am still having the same problem with screen width, as I have large white spaces either side and I want to fill the screen width as the old version did. The problem exists whether using Safari or Chrome and I am using the latest version of OSX on a 21" iMac 1920 pixels wide.

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 19:43

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Peter .. it does not seem to be an issue anyone else is seeing or reporting.

If it occurs in all browsers you try it on, it presumably is a settings issue on your device and nothing Yuriy can assist you with.

Maybe google the issue with your phone model, to see if others report it on some websites?

PeterG · Post by **PeterG** » 09 Jun 2020 20:43

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 19:43
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Peter .. it does not seem to be an issue anyone else is seeing or reporting.

If it occurs in all browsers you try it on, it presumably is a settings issue on your device and nothing Yuriy can assist you with.

Maybe google the issue with your phone model, to see if others report it on some websites?

Well I have tried everything so far. When I and several others reported the problem when testing I did check the old version and that was fine and worked as normal which it had done for years. Yes I have Googled the problem and it would seem to be something to do with CSS settings, not being a programmer at this point I give up

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 09 Jun 2020 20:56

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Perhaps give the nearest 13 year old geek kid a 5 quid note, and he'll have it sorted in minutes probably.

Or else send me a large sum to cover mail cost, and I'll ship you my low tech ASUS 17" laptop, where the screen displays perfectly.

Rog · Post by **Rog** » 09 Jun 2020 23:36

Just wanted to say that the new addition of notifications is really handy

AdmiralCollector · Post by **AdmiralCollector** » 10 Jun 2020 02:34

Global Administrator wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 19:43
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Peter .. it does not seem to be an issue anyone else is seeing or reporting.

If it occurs in all browsers you try it on, it presumably is a settings issue on your device and nothing Yuriy can assist you with.

Maybe google the issue with your phone model, to see if others report it on some websites?

I have the same problem using the Firefox browser.

PeterG · Post by **PeterG** » 10 Jun 2020 04:22

AdmiralCollector,

Many thanks indeed for showing the problem.

After a lot of searching and talking to a "Geek" It seems this site is currently using the default PHP skin (I think someone else spotted it before), which is called Prosilver. This particular skin is designed for smaller screens than ours maybe 18" but covers about 1400 pixels wide.

There are alternative style skins that use the whole screen width which in my case is 1920 pixels wide. Obviously the previous Stampboards site was using a skin that fitted for 1920 pixels wide. Of course if you were using a smaller desktop screen or a laptop before you would not have realised or seen these white edges because the program automatically wraps the text. There are a lot of styles for PHP skins and what is needed is something like this one here:-

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/allan_style_subsilver/demo/3.2

It gets better I found a website which shows the screen settings in use around the world. The number one choice for desktops in Europe, USA, UK and Australia is the 1920x 1080 size.

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide

Hopefully this can be solved as the improvements Glen has had done are brilliant!

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 10 Jun 2020 04:45

PeterG wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 19:22
I am still having the same problem with screen width, as I have large white spaces either side and I want to fill the screen width as the old version did. The problem exists whether using Safari or Chrome and I am using the latest version of OSX on a 21" iMac 1920 pixels wide.

That's not even an especially huge resolution; mine is 3840 X 2160, and the site looks fine. Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

PeterG · Post by **PeterG** » 10 Jun 2020 05:03

Marshalrusty wrote: ↑
10 Jun 2020 04:45

PeterG wrote: ↑
09 Jun 2020 19:22
I am still having the same problem with screen width, as I have large white spaces either side and I want to fill the screen width as the old version did. The problem exists whether using Safari or Chrome and I am using the latest version of OSX on a 21" iMac 1920 pixels wide.
That's not even an especially huge resolution; mine is 3840 X 2160, and the site looks fine. Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

Global Administrator · Post by **Global Administrator** » 11 Jun 2020 02:54

AdmiralCollector wrote: ↑
10 Jun 2020 02:34

I have the same problem using the Firefox browser.

I use Firefox, and have no such issue. Clearly something to do with YOUR settings. (Of which there are many.)

Same with PeterG. (Which he has been advised before, but does not want to listen.)

And thanks so much for telling us which of the 100s of different phpBB 'skins' to now use on this FREE to you board.

We are sticking with this one thanks, which we chose after much careful exploring of options, and we like, and all others here seem to like and comment favorably on, and it shows neatly on their devices.

Next board YOU set up, go for your chosen drab grey boring choice, by all means.

Glen

AdmiralCollector · Post by **AdmiralCollector** » 11 Jun 2020 08:29

Glen:

I'm not sure what I said to get this sort of reply. I'm sorry if I offended you in some way. All I did was say I saw the same thing PeterG saw. I did not express an opinion on the issue. I did not mention phpBB skins.

Since I usually do not view web pages at full screen, I rarely pay attention to the issue. It is not a problem with this website because the typeface is large and easy to read.

As for my monitor settings: there are only 4 of them: 1280x720; 1600x900; 1920x1080; Default for Display. I have had Default for Display selected since I got the computer, and have never had any problems.

There are at least 2 other philatelic websites I visit that also have large white areas on each side the their web pages (American Philatelic Society (all but the front page) and the British North America Philatelic Society), so STAMPBOARDS.com is in good company.

But, the pages of many other websites I visit do expand to completely fill the browser window when I enlarge it.

OldDuffer1 · Post by **OldDuffer1** » 16 Jun 2020 05:55

Hit a bit of a problem which I don't know if anyone else has noticed- part way through preparing a post which included images loaded directly decided to save as draft. However on reloading draft these images were "no longer available" and lost from the "Attachments" window. An image picked off a previous post using "copy image address" was still OK. Any thoughts?

Pale Rider · Post by **Pale Rider** » 20 Jul 2020 02:18

What a fantastic bunch of overachievers!

Thanks for the forum itself plus turbo charging it!!

MargoZ wrote: ↑
01 Jun 2020 00:36
And... the new board is up and running 30 minutes before 1st June.

Congratulations and thanks to our guru Yuri in New York!

Happy reading and posting to all 8)

Ubobo.R.O. · Post by **Ubobo.R.O.** » 20 Jul 2020 09:09

It's made Pale Rider's day.

DehlnazT · Post by **DehlnazT** » 13 Aug 2020 16:23

Congratulation to the whole team.Teamwork is the key to success.

Princestamps · Post by **Princestamps** » 05 Oct 2020 16:32

I LOOOVVVEEE this new look.

Best part is you can upload the images you want directly - no more 3rd party sites and thank goodness over on the coin community forums, they have banned imgur as its just "filth" as they describe.

Speeds are quick too, thanks to everyone who has done this.

Marshalrusty · Post by **Marshalrusty** » 15 Dec 2020 13:06

At the end of July, I wrote a script that automatically checks whether the search is working (every 3 minutes) and if it isn't, automatically takes a variety of steps (up to fully deleting the entire index and rebuilding it from scratch) to attempt to recover from a variety of issues.

20 minutes ago, it detected a fault and automatically recovered, with a total downtime of 4 minutes

I also fixed the strange issue that was causing slow pageloads. Will investigate that one further. Things should be speedier now.

fletches1 · Post by **fletches1** » 15 Dec 2020 13:36

Yuriyi.

Can you please post the location in the Control Panel to the Header and footer files. I am stuffed if I can identify them. I need to change out one of the links in the footer.

Thanks Steve