There iss a lot that needs to be fixed, I e-mailed Rob about my wish list.
Just a few items:
1) If many of you have been wondering why I've been posting my signature (with a political statement) in non-polital topic, it's because the normal PREVIEW REPLY button doesn't give you an option to not add a signature. to NOT post a signature, you have to use the USE FULL EDITOR button to get thee option to not post your signature.
2) If there's an error, you can't currently edit posts. Even one second after you post, if you hit the EDIT POST button, it says, "the time limit to edit your post has expired" or somesuch. So no matter how well I try to proofread my post first, if I make an error or fuck up a link or other code, unless the edit function is improved, it's there forever. And I hate the redundancyof re-posting it a second time correctly, but that's the only way I know to do it for now.
3) I hate --HATE !!-- the forum topics pages where you see all X's for the pictures and icons, and it's hard to read even the titles because of weird spacing. I contacted Rob, and
Rob let me know how you can use a different skin that allows you to see a normal page. (the soriginal boards skin version is "Always Use Default Setttings", so you want to select UBT77 or UBBT77-dark (the 2nd and 3rd options).
Which I did, and now I see the normal icons and images on the FORUM pages, but still can't edit posts. What I used to do on the old boards is click-and-drag my post, delete the wrong post or topic, and then re-post it correctly, options no longer available, at least for now.
4) Some other wisdom offered from Rob on how to fix problems in the new boards version:
Hi Rob,
I realize it was a lot of work just to get the RKMB boards back just to this stage, but a few requests when you can get to them:
1) Can you get rid of all the "X"'s where images and icons used to be on the list of topics pages? It's kind of messy to the point that I have trouble knowing what to click. You probably have the images for all these stored somewhere, so you can just re-create the images. [Again, select UBT77 or UBBT77-dark (the 2nd and 3rd options).]
2) I have a heck of a time posting, that has discouraged me from posting as much. I can't get bold lettering to work ( [/b]), and that's never happened before. I also can't edit my posts if I make a mistake. It says "the maximum time to edit has expired" or somesuch, but there's no time whatsoever that you can edit. Can't that be fixed? I hope so. Even the PREVIEW screen doesn't allow me to see how my post actually looks in advance. [ you have to go through the PREVIEW button, then select USE FULL EDITOR to see it better, and have a check-box to add or leave out your signature in a post.]
I don't know why italics works ([i][/i]) , but for some reason bold does not ([b]) . [That part, either by Rob's efforts or just osmosis has corrected itself, and you can post bold and italic text now.]
I also miss the list of posters and private message features.
Another thing that infuriates me is that if I quote anything that has either an apostrophe (I’) or an * (◾) [or a quote/unquote ( " ")] it tuns into a weird code of characters instead. This has also happened to these symbols in old posts carried over from the old board. I hope that can also be corrected at some point. [on some posts, both new and old, this happens, but often they post normally. So you need to be super careful when posting that what you post doesn't have these characters changed to code when quoting someone else. ]
I know Rome isn't built in a day, but hopefully that gives you some initial things that can easily be corrected, that will make posting on the new boards a lot more easy to navigate.
--Dave (t W B)
I also asked Rob if it was possible to fix the women photo images to display again (instead of now X's] on all the WOMEN topics Wednesday/Jason E. Perkins posted. Many of those galleries have survived crashes for over 15 years! To lose them now, after all that... Rob let on they might be save-able. Some of Rob's own photos posted (such as his opening posts to the
Alyssa Milano topic) have also been lost. But both Rob's and Jason's photos were all posted with
www.PhausenEntertainment code, so I remain hopeful they can be recovered. Likewise the photoshopped images of many posters here in the
"All Right You Fucks..." topic (I think most of the photoshops were originally posted by Nowhereman).
Again, I know this has been a lot of work for Rob, and he has a full time job and a family beyond that, so I realize it takes time to bring all this back. I just hope the system allows bringing back all the features I (and probably all of us) enjoyed on the old boards.
