| Author | Message | ||
| Richelson (Richelson)
Member Username: Richelson Post Number: 401 Registered: 12-2001 |
test | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1061 Registered: 12-2000 |
Speel checker tesst. | ||
| Steve Magnusson (91tr)
New member Username: 91tr Post Number: 11 Registered: 1-2001 |
test | ||
| Pauli Salmu (Psalmu)
New member Username: Psalmu Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2001 |
Rob, it's down to about 50K now. Much better, thanks. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 276 Registered: 7-2001 |
Did I read that right? Rob has a Barbie on his desk? Is she wearing a t-back? | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1056 Registered: 12-2000 |
Should be down to less than 50k, try again and let me know the results. | ||
| Pauli Salmu (Psalmu)
New member Username: Psalmu Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2001 |
The html code is incredibly verbose: general discussion page size seems to be more than 400K... it's nice to have broadband as user, but do you have to pay for hosting according to traffic volume? | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1043 Registered: 12-2000 |
test | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1040 Registered: 12-2000 |
Thanks Val. I work with Val and she gave me a Ferrari Barbie for Christmas. It's sitting on my desk along with all my models. No one better even think about taking it. | ||
| Valerie (Calicoval)
New member Username: Calicoval Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2002 |
Way Cool, Rob..... Very Impressive!!! | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1036 Registered: 12-2000 |
test | ||
| Tenney (Tenney)
New member Username: Tenney Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2001 |
It's a bit slow to load on my machine, too, but no big. I prefer the new format and it's still simple to navigate. Good one. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1031 Registered: 12-2000 |
The new upgrade is slower and I am working on it with the company. You will show as a rookie and it will take a little before the levels will apply. I don't want to ruin the fun, but it goes rookie, karting, formula ford, F3, ??? Everyone will figure it out soon enough. | ||
| stu cordova (Balataboy)
Junior Member Username: Balataboy Post Number: 193 Registered: 4-2001 |
I have the same issue as a few others - very slow loading! Is this related to the new format or is it due to a problem on my end? (I'm running on 10.0 Mbps/DSL) Otherwise - nice! Change, thought not always easy - is a good thing!! | ||
| Alberto (Aabreu)
New member Username: Aabreu Post Number: 35 Registered: 9-2001 |
I think I was used to the old format I guess, because I thought it was just fine and was a little more easily read. My concern is that this new format seems to be significantly slower than the old one. I tried it at home on my windows 3.1 machine and at work on my windows 95 machine. The site seems to be much slower than before. | ||
| Richelson (Richelson)
Member Username: Richelson Post Number: 381 Registered: 12-2001 |
With the red lettering I can't tell which topic I look at last and if someone has added a new post to this. Is anyone else having trouble with this? I could tell with the blue. | ||
| magoo (Magoo)
New member Username: Magoo Post Number: 13 Registered: 2-2001 |
I am also having a problem with the posting info. too large for my screen, no matter if I minimize the size or not. I also have to scroll Rt. to Lt. to get the entire post. I didn't think it was that way last night. When I finally got on everything seemed to be OK. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 272 Registered: 7-2001 |
On one of my posts below (number 270) I'm a rookie, on the very next post (#271) I'm into carting. Maybe 270 is the break? Looks great Rob! | ||
| Eric Hawley (Eric)
New member Username: Eric Post Number: 8 Registered: 8-2001 |
OK, I'm a happy camper, now that I found the Search for posts since I last Searched feature! And I actually figured out how to post a pic, too.- Goota short attention span, dontcha know. Just never took the time to understand the old process. Thanks for your hard work Rob. This looks great, and I know will just keep getting better as you put in the time. Now, when and how do people get to graduate from being "Rookies"? | ||
| Norman Aiello (Aiello)
New member Username: Aiello Post Number: 1 Registered: 1-2002 |
Great job Rob ... Ferrarichat is looking better each day. Check out the Shop Forum at this site for further enhancements and or ideas - www.mercedesshop.com Norm | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Junior Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 371 Registered: 6-2001 |
i think the reason for having to scroll is the the web page isnt taking into account the bar on the side with usernames and stuff. | ||
| Jerry H (Jerry)
New member Username: Jerry Post Number: 49 Registered: 3-2001 |
My profile...I Love my new eye color! LOL Great Rob, nice job on the upgrades. Great for posting photos too.  | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Junior Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 271 Registered: 7-2001 |
Hmmm...has anyone noticed when you click on the username now, you get an email box instead of a connection to the profile? | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
New member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 270 Registered: 7-2001 |
The left-right scroll would be the only complaint I have. The old version would 'compact' the text into whatever window size I chose. It isn't always prudent to have a large "Ferrarichat" window open! | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
New member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 370 Registered: 6-2001 |
The new layoout is great, the only problem is that i too have to scroll to the right to read posts. | ||
| Edward Gault (Irfgt)
New member Username: Irfgt Post Number: 794 Registered: 2-2001 |
The home page and some of the threads do not fit my screen without scrolling right to left. The Home page on the old format did not fit either.The password memory does not work anymore either. | ||
| Richelson (Richelson)
Member Username: Richelson Post Number: 380 Registered: 12-2001 |
Where is the edit feature now located? | ||
| Steve Magnusson (91tr)
New member Username: 91tr Post Number: 1 Registered: 1-2001 |
test | ||
| Michael (Mtabije)
New member Username: Mtabije Post Number: 210 Registered: 10-2001 |
I like this, I am used to this board format as other boards have this layout too. Great job, hope you get the bugs worked out and the suggestions sorted. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1014 Registered: 12-2000 |
Until I can find what happened to "new messages", going to "search" and putting a time range will work almost as well. | ||
| Eric Hawley (Eric)
New member Username: Eric Post Number: 7 Registered: 8-2001 |
Whoa! go away for a couple days and come back to "someone messed with FerrariChat". I find this layout much cleaner and elegant. It holds much promise. But, and this is a big one for me: I found the View New Posts feature to be the single most important feature that made weeding through the volume of traffic possible. I'll not lurk on this board for long without it. I found the expanded tree view of only those threads with new messages to be incredibly efficient for quickly wading through the chaff, and identifying the meat I was looking for. Or, cut down on the off-topic noise..Yeah, right, that'll happen  Keep up the good work! | ||
| Rolly Astrom (Swede)
New member Username: Swede Post Number: 17 Registered: 7-2001 |
Great new format Rob, thanks for all of your efforts. Like my cognitive powers lately however, things are slower.......seems to take ages to get back to the topics page. Might just be my server. | ||
| wm hart (Whart)
New member Username: Whart Post Number: 42 Registered: 12-2001 |
I liiiike it!! thanks, rob. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1012 Registered: 12-2000 |
I haven't found "New Posts" yet, but that was my favorite too. I know you can edit, but I haven't found it yet. I just switched our ancient "flat file" db to a relational db, so hopefully this will eliminate some of our problems. Please post bugs or questions in the topic below on the main page. Thanks | ||
| Marcus Adolfsson (Marcusadolfsson)
New member Username: Marcusadolfsson Post Number: 13 Registered: 10-2001 |
Edit! How do I edit posts now? | ||
| Marcus Adolfsson (Marcusadolfsson)
New member Username: Marcusadolfsson Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2001 |
Looks good Rob. Anyway to implement a feature like "View New Posts" since last visit? Or it already exists, where can I find it. I use vbulletin on one of the boards I run and that is the most used feature. http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/ Thanks, Marcus | ||
| David Albright (Dalbright)
New member Username: Dalbright Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2001 |
Testing again | ||
| Tyler (Bahiaau)
New member Username: Bahiaau Post Number: 82 Registered: 12-2001 |
looks great Rob...thanks for all your hard work! | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
New member Username: Tillman Post Number: 7 Registered: 11-2001 |
Good job, but there's something wierd in the profiles. Here's Rob's for example: Hair Color: 1986 328gts Eye Color: 1966 275 GTB/4 Pets: Club Racing, Autocross, Triathlons, Hunting, Fishing, Happy Hour Music Preferences: 1993 BMW 325is, 2001 Toyota Tundra, 1983 Mazda RX7 race car I'm guessing those fieldnames should just be updated (somehow). Other than that, it looks fine | ||
| Frederick Thomas (Fred)
New member Username: Fred Post Number: 333 Registered: 2-2001 |
test | ||
| Mike Dunn (Madferraristi)
New member Username: Madferraristi Post Number: 11 Registered: 6-2001 |
New format is a little slower to load and doesn't fit on my 17" monitor, has a slide bar on the bottom, old one fit OK. Otherwise I prefer the layout to the old one. Nice work. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1005 Registered: 12-2000 |
Hmm, you shouldn't have to re-register. Please let me know what you did and then what the system did. Magoo lost all of his stats and profile too. | ||
| David Albright (Dalbright)
New member Username: Dalbright Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2002 |
Test with photo attachment...my second attempt since it made me re-register.  | ||
| Magoo (Magoo)
New member Username: Magoo Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2002 |
test | ||
| Steven Pham (Stevendp)
New member Username: Stevendp Post Number: 25 Registered: 11-2001 |
very nice Rob! | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1002 Registered: 12-2000 |
Here's my to do list... 1) Get the banner ad display to work. 2) Move the banner ad and FerrariChat.com images up to the very top and what's on top now to right above the topics. 3) Fix up the menu bar for FerrariChat.com links, also add a menu bar and way to easily return to the board after going to those pages. 4) Clean up the bottom menu bar. 5) Add the hit counter back to the bottom. 6) Convert the current flat database to MySQL relational so we won't have any problems with user ids going missing. 7) Bring back the custom profile fields. 8) Make sure all the new functionality works like the automated password reminder (thank goodness, I've been doing about 6 password resets a day). ...and more and more and more. It's fun, I'll also create a topic for bug reports and suggestions. Jay, I decided awhile back that's it's better to display the newest messages first. I know this is different than most boards, but I think it's the best. I don't want to scroll down to the bottom every time I visit a thread I've already read before. All I care about is the newest threads. However, I will see if this can be customized from individual users, but i don't think so. | ||
| William_Huber (Solipsist)
New member Username: Solipsist Post Number: 166 Registered: 9-2001 |
Rob, this is very impressive. A job well done. | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
New member Username: Jay Post Number: 220 Registered: 10-2001 |
Cool just noticed that I can see how many posts we've made...I like! | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
New member Username: Jay Post Number: 219 Registered: 10-2001 |
looks good Rob, alot of hard work. One question. Is it possible to view threads from oldest to newest rather than newest to oldest? sometimes I find myself reading down and then having to scroll up for the next reply. I didn't see this choice in the preferences. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
New member Username: Art355 Post Number: 112 Registered: 6-2001 |
I like this a lot better than the old format. good job. | ||
| Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
New member Username: Future328driver Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2001 |
Looks good Rob. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1001 Registered: 12-2000 |
Hang in there guys, it's not done yet. I think you'll really like it when I'm done. | ||
| Mr. Doody (Doody)
New member Username: Doody Post Number: 55 Registered: 11-2001 |
way cool, dude | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
New member Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1000 Registered: 12-2000 |
test | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
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I just upgraded the message board. It will take a few hours for me to get some of the old links and the new design implemented. Once it's complete, I think you'll like the new design and functionality. Please report any bugs to me. Thanks, rob |