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[Ungodly]

First a very big and grateful thanks to Great Ape today for designing and tweaking some lovely new logos for the site. At one point this morning Great Ape, Joe Bloe, and I were all in the chat room working on testing logos. I think the new logos look great, try a few different themes, you might see one you like.

A new feature installed yesterday allows us to feature a selected blog post on the forum index page, start your own blog or add a new post to your existing blog to possibly be featured next.

New skins (themes) are still being added and tweaked. We hope to find one that will be a better choice for the default theme.

Have you tried the new Gallery? It's freakin' fantastic IMHO. Please upload every image you want to upload, make new albums, go wild, there are over 500 gigabytes of hard drive space free on the server.

[Joe Bloe]

Re Gallery - Humor section.

I can get the first picture (the dog turd ) but the others look like this:

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BTW the attachment (above) doesn't enlarge in the preview. We'll see what happens when it is posted (edit - looks OK after posting)




The other galleries work OK, I'm having trouble only with the Humor gallery.

[Ungodly]

I checked on the Humor album, there were about 75 images listed as available but actually missing.
All of the same images that were broken here are also broken on our test site. I believe this problem dates back to an earlier server migration or some other disk activity. The only viable solution was to manually delete all 75 or so of them, one at a time, and I did. They are gone.

I also, as I hope you saw, replaced the default theme yet again based on reported issues with the skin that was default overnight. Observe near the top at the right end of a navigation bar there is a new icon that resembles a page of images. Go there in the Infinite skin only to change the color of the divider bars.

What else needs to be fixed?

[Storybook]

I like the new logos!

[Cousin Ricky]

What else needs to be fixed?

Are we really allowed to "like" our own posts, or does it just look that way? (I haven't tried clicking on it, lest it actually go through.)

[Ungodly]

I just tried it, and it did let me Like my own post. This looks like an opportunity for improvement, well spotted.

If somebody is especially proud of a particular post and they want to promote it, well, perhaps this is fairly harmless.

[Great Ape]

Oooooooh, I'm proud of all my posts! Click!, click!... click!, click!, click!... click!, click!, click!, click!, click!............click!.....click!....click!..........


Click!

Click!

Click!

Edited by Great Ape, 18 April 2012 - 07:37 PM.

[Great Ape]

First a very big and grateful thanks to Great Ape today for designing and tweaking some lovely new logos for the site.

You're very welcome.

I like the new logos!

thanks!

Edited by Great Ape, 18 April 2012 - 07:39 PM.

[Joe Bloe]

Yes, I like the new logos as well. Thanks Great Ape and Ungodly.

I'm using the IP Board - the red and white image with the black lettering works very well.

[Great Ape]

Yes, I like the new logos as well. Thanks Great Ape and Ungodly.

I'm using the IP Board - the red and white image with the black lettering works very well.

You're welcome.

[Great Ape]

Are we really allowed to "like" our own posts, or does it just look that way? (I haven't tried clicking on it, lest it actually go through.)

One cool thing I noticed is when someone likes a post, it shows the persons name next to the like button.

[Joe Bloe]

Christian Forums hand out "Blessings" and "Reputations" by the millions, billions, and kazillions:

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[Ungodly]

Christian Forums hand out "Blessings" and "Reputations" by the millions, billions, and kazillions:

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Is this a formal feature request, or were you just bitching because we never bless people here?
j/k


EDITED LATER:

I checked at the IPB store and they have nothing for prayer. I wonder if all of the prayer mods for IPB somehow failed validation testing?

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[Great Ape]

Christian Forums hand out "Blessings" and "Reputations" by the millions, billions, and kazillions:

Wowzers! That is a lot of blessings and reps. That's just silly.

I checked at the IPB store and they have nothing for prayer. I wonder if all of the prayer mods for IPB somehow failed validation testing?

Nothing fails like prayer. Ba da bing!

Edited by Great Ape, 20 April 2012 - 10:06 AM.

[Joe Bloe]

Is this a formal feature request, or were you just bitching because we never bless people here?

It used to happen to me quite often when I was younger. I can still hear mum saying, "You blessed kids - stop that!"

Wowzers! That is a lot of blessings and reps. That's just silly.

I'm thinking about the hyperinflation in Germany during the 1920s. Eventually they had to cross 12 zeros off every banknote. It had got that silly.

My favourite story of the period: A guy left a wheelbarrow of money unattended on the footpath for a moment. When he returned the money was still lying on the pavement, but somebody had pinched the wheelbarrow.

[Cousin Ricky]

Christian Forums hand out "Blessings" and "Reputations" by the millions, billions, and kazillions:

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If every man, woman, child, Christian, and heathen on Earth were to give out one rep every second, with no time out to eat, sleep, pray, or tithe, it would take 5½ years to rack up that many reps. If only Christians were giving reps, it would take 17^[1] years, longer than this guy has been a member. If only True Christians™ were giving reps, it could take centuries.

 
^[1]19 years when I consider the change in population over the years.

Edited by Cousin Ricky, 20 April 2012 - 01:40 PM.

[Great Ape]

Them Christians are cheating. I just know it.

[Great Ape]

It used to happen to me quite often when I was younger. I can still hear mum saying, "You blessed kids - stop that!"

lol

I'm thinking about the hyperinflation in Germany during the 1920s. Eventually they had to cross 12 zeros off every banknote. It had got that silly.

My favourite story of the period: A guy left a wheelbarrow of money unattended on the footpath for a moment. When he returned the money was still lying on the pavement, but somebody had pinched the wheelbarrow.

I thought you were just kidding until I looked it up. It got so bad, people had to shop with wheelbarrows full of money. That is crazy.

Life in Hell: German Weimar Hyperinflation

Edited by Great Ape, 21 April 2012 - 12:53 PM.