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Hey all, Just a quick note on a new feature. I added a "kudos thread" field to the member profile. When you put a link to your kudos thread into that box, it will appears: On your profile in the left hand columns Under your name in the block to the left of each of your posts This has been requested in the past on the old boards, but we didn't have a good way to do it. The new boards makes it easy. It's also helpful since the default on the new boards for new members is for signatures to be turned off, so some people don't see that link in your signature. (No, I can't change that, or I probably would. I think signatures are cool).

Added a field to the profile page that allows linking of your kudos thread. That will then appear under your name when you post.

Sometimes. But the top of the emoticon pop up is everything you've used recently. Also, try the search. It's handy. Also, try the categories. They're handy. That pop up is scrollable. It shows the first 25 messages in your inbox. And from that pop up, if you click on the black dot, it goes right to the unread messages in that thread. Well, we'll see how the vote turns out. If it's close, maybe we'll install it, let it run for two or three weeks, and then run another poll to see whether to remove it, or adjust the # of lines after people have had experience with it. I think in most cases, what will happen is: Most quotes will fall below the line limit, and will just show up. Sometimes someone will quote something really long without breaking it up, but when you see the first 5 lines, you will remember what was quoted, you'll know what they are replying to, and you won't need to expand it. I think the number of times you'll want to expand will be pretty limited. But we'll see.

This change has been made.

According to that screen shot above, yes.

Abbreviate quoted text - helpful or annoying extra click? I saw this plugin today that seemed like a potentially good idea. What is does it hide anything more than X lines of quoted text under a "more" link that can be clicked to display the rest by the reader. Most quoted text is reasonably sized, so this plugin wouldn't affect it, as we'd choose to always display several lines by default (exact number to be determined). But in cases where someone quotes 40 lines of text, some of it would be hidden.

That isn't possible in the new boards. No way to add it, and can be a performance problem if we did, so we are not currently planning to adjust this. There are a ton of features that make browsing faster and easier on the new boards to offset that change though. Please explore the options!

After personally testing this, the above turns out to not be true. Updated in the parent post.

BY THE WAY! This is a great opportunity to mention that I created a new kind of board in the moderation area specifically to post questions / issues with a moderation decision that you would like to directly speak to moderation about. It's a private board, in that only you and the staff can see your posts, but it makes it easier to have a team look at the issue rather than funneling it through me - which , I'll be honest, is going to be hit or miss on timing, and delayed on response if I don't know anything about the action in question. That board is here: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/92-moderation-review-request/

Looks like it was due to the thread disruption. I think, properly, the disruption should have been cleaned out and the original thread left in place. Which board was it in originally?

I have to look into this to see why since I didn't do it. I got your pm but you didn't link the thread or provide the thread title, so I couldn't find it easily.

how could I miss that.

I updated this post to show how to do this in the new boards format.

Sorry, what is the point you are making?

You could try a registry set. Whether you prefer a competitive or a custom set - either way, the format itself encourages you to think about the theme of your collecting and participate in something with a goal and a focus.

It's firefox specific, I think. I just loaded the page in firefox and it was slow. Chrome was fast.

That's weird. Even if I reset my cache, that page loads very quickly. Something is up with your internet connection or browser. Are you running any funky extensions like adblock, or a privacy guard that is doing something weird? That page is 2.6s for me on my home cable internet connection, even with the browser cache disabled. To get it to 12.8s, I had to turn off the browser cache and throttle the load speed down to mobile 4G speeds. What device and connection are you on that it's taking 20seconds? There is 6meg of images / content there, so if your connection is slow, there's no getting around that it will take a while to load.

TL;DR version - hold down control and hit F5 to reload the page and reset your browser cache. OR, just wait it out and it should fix itself. Long version: This is because those images get cached (a copy of them is saved) at multiple levels in the chain. Each one of those cache spots has what's called a "time to live" - a certain amount of time before the base resource is re-checked for a new version. Here are the places that image lives: Photobucket A cached copy retrieved by the boards so it can be served encrypted to prevent browser warnings A cached copy stored on servers spread around the globe so anyone who asks to see the image can fetch it from a nearby server Your browser - so that if you load that page more than once, the subsequent page loads will be super fast because you don't have to get the image from the server again If you use something like Chrome to look at the images while they're broken, then Chrome will cache the broken copy, and until that cache expires, it will keep looking broken. Then, if you load it in explorer at a different point in time, maybe some of the images have started to work, and it caches those. If you hold down control-F5 you can reload the page and reset your browser cache. That won't help you if there are still broken versions stored at steps 2 and 3 above, but it will fix your local copy in the browser.

Some progress here, guys. It does turn out that photobucket blocked our server. I'm still trying to find out precisely what events precipitated that outcome. The current status should be that you CAN now embed photobucket images again. The OLD photobucket images that were cached by the boards server are still broken. I THINK that with the server block lifted, that over the next few days, those cached images will refresh and start working again with no user actions - but I'm seeking to verify that.

Yeah, I don't think it would, because the volume is much lower, and the cache expiration is set higher - so far fewer requests. I have a request in at photobucket to ask if this is a thing, but they haven't responded yet. This wouldn't have been a problem on the old board, because we didn't proxy the images - we didn't need to because we weren't serving via https. In truth, we don't need to for photobucket either since they allow https links, BUT the proxy isn't smart enough to check that before deciding to cache and proxy the image. Even when the boards don't cache the image (i.e. I turn off that feature) the boards still check to make sure the link is a valid image - even that basic check is failing for photobucket right now, but ONLY for the CGC boards. This is what makes me suspect that the problem is that photobucket is rejecting this specific server's requests for some reason. I can't prove that myself because I don't control the server, and Invision support isn't confirming it, but I'm working on it.

I added some pretty VITAL information to the block about search. Please see the red text to help you find things when searching: SEARCH Hover over the magnifying glass at the top on the right for a quick search box you can click in, without having to use the whole search form. Click it to get a more advanced search. NOTE: a general search will only search the most recent number of years of content - if you need to find older content, go to an advanced search and specify a date range!

Does anyone know if photobucket will block an IP address that requests too many images? Maybe the proxy is being blocked for heavy access since it basically loads all of the images for every user. I can't find anything in their knowledge base about this.

The board server. Since this works on the NGC boards, it seems clear that it is a boards issue specific to the CGC instance.

This has to get fixed at the server. When you request a Photobucket image with the wrong headers, you get back an html page instead of the image. They are fetching those images with a proxy on the server to make sure they are encrypted when delivered. Something about the proxy if fetching them (I am guessing) in a way that gets the html page instead of the image, and that breaks the display. Could be wrong, but that's my guess. It was working though, so this should just be a bug they can track down, I hope.

I have this as an issue filed with Invision to fix. I've confirmed that photobucket is working on the NGC instance, and we know it was working here as well. I think it's related to the fact that we now have to proxy any embedded images to make them display as https. Something about the board proxy fetching the images is not getting along with photobucket. I will SPECULATE that this will be a reasonable fix and that once fixed (and the cache expires) the images will just come flooding back. We'll see what response I get to the ticket.