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BallReviews-TECH

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Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« on: April 23, 2012, 03:35:27 PM »
We will be performing maintenance on the site beginning at 11:45PM CST on April 26. Currently we are estimating completion by 7AM CST on April 27th. During this time the site will be unavailable.
 
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Edited by BallReviews-TECH on 4/23/2012 at 11:15 PM
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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2012, 01:48:17 AM »
this is the worst.

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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2012, 05:09:48 AM »
1. When there is a series of replies, I find it difficult to see distinctly where one ends and the other begins. I think they need to be delimited by sharper boundaries with colors or lines.

2. When looking at the list of "unread posts since last visit", the same applies, plus it's harder to tell from what forum they came. The info is there but is harder to discern.

3. Where are the tags to mark a url? I placed one in a reply I posted and it appears as a solid line. I'd like it to appear either like before or just highlighted and underlines like it used to be. As it is, no one can tell what it is without you saying so, somewhere in the post.

4. While there was a lot of color before, at least it made things easier to see. Now with the extreme lack of color, it's much harder to pick out information, but it is easier on the eyes.
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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2012, 08:01:17 AM »
While I completely understand that some people are not going to like it when things change I want to thank you Charlest (and others) for giving some actionable feedback.

I'll check out #1,#2, and #4 probably on Monday since the 15 hour marathon session on Thursday night/Friday followed by more Friday night has taken quite a bit out of me and didn't leave me with an ecstatic fiance either.

As for #3, the forum now uses bbCode which you can read more about at: http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Bulletin_board_code. If you check the "See Also" links on that page there are some lists that cover the different codes. The code you're looking for is url. it can be used in one of two ways:
Code: [Select]
#1: Just makes the url clickable [url]http://www.siteiwant.com[/url]
#2: Makes your text clickable [url=http://www.siteiwant.com]My Text[/url]
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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2012, 10:09:54 AM »
It's difficult to find my recent posts and threads I've started. I have to manually go to the forum section where I posted in order to get to it. There used to be the tab on the left that took me to all threads I started....unless I'm missing it?

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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2012, 10:27:37 AM »
You can see those in your profile (go to profile and hover over profile info, show posts) but I'll look at adding some quicklinks to them. For you, the topics you started should be at:
http://www.ballreviews.com/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;sa=topics;u=33660

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Re: Scheduled Maintenance for 4/26 beginning at 11:45PM CST
« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2012, 07:06:29 PM »
8 PM Eastern, 4/30/12
I see the "Unread posts since last visit" now has the forum name as a header for the latest reply and each is more positively differentiated from the next one - I.E> more easily seen, more quickly.

Thank you!
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