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I've tried this with a couple of URLs that look broken. Some don't load even going directly to Photobucket, and some redirect to an html page instead of a direct image load. Not sure what has changed yet, Photobucket or the boards, but we are tracking it down.

You don't. You can just use the "insert other media" drop down and choose insert existing attachment. It's kind of interesting to scroll through your history of attachments.

This feature seems to be growing in popularity, so we'll likely be keeping it.

Redirects are in place at this point. However, the old links will only work when going to the the start of a thread. If it's a link to a particular comment deeper in a thread, then it may not work.

I turned off the ability to like admin posts because that was part of what the shill was targeting.

Not easy to remove likes. It is easy to manually adjust a number on user, but you can't take it off of the content and you would have to manually tabulate all of the shill likes per user to remove them correctly and then remove them one user at a time. So that isn't really going to be a thing. Eventually I may create a group that separates brand new accounts from regular members, but that will take some time investment. Should we reduce the likes again?

Because Seasoned Veterans are by definition not shill accounts that signed up yesterday specifically to troll the system by liking a bunch of things to make a point. Part of the point of the limit was to constrain the annoyance that can be caused by a throw-away account.

Yep, I get the theory, but we also get some positives (as well as negatives) with the leaderboard. I want to make sure we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I try to look at both the annoyances and the gains we get. If we only look at annoyances then we can end up drawing half-informed conclusions. I also like to let the usage settle out enough that we can tell what is really working and what isn't. For example, the most vocal early voices wanted to (and may still want to) entirely turn likes off. Now we're discussing whether to raise the cap instead. Opinions change as we start to see different value or solutions to a problem - that's natural and smart. So, bottom line, I'm waiting on tossing out the leaderboard. But we can't have stasis either. Here's a tweak. Members have 15 likes now, Seasoned Veterans have 30.

No, that is not a configurable option. We could turn off the leaderboard though. I am not convinced that is worth it at the moment.

Considering it... considering.... considering... aaaannnd no. Just kidding. We'll probably keep evolving how the like system works. I'm watching feedback like this, and thinking about whether to treat likes as just a general social approval mechanism, or as a surfacer of quality content. Maybe if we took the limits off and let people like whatever they wanted, the quality stuff would still rise to the top on its own. Not sure.

Thanks for pointing out that ad. I've filtered it out.

Galleries - give it a try The gallery area of the boards hasn't been explored much, but it's time to check it out! Right now I've created two categories Top Pop CGC Graded Comics - a place for people to post any comics that they think are an example of the finest graded Test gallery - just a place to play around and try it. I may wipe out these images from time to time just so we're not storing a bunch of extra junk that was only a test. We could make other galleries - like Got a comic room??? I'm interested in suggestions on how best to use this area (no promises on what the final results will be).

Birthday on the calendar coming - CHECK YOUR BIRTH YEAR Hi all, When we first tested the migration to the new boards one problem noted by the beta testers was that the birthdays showing up on the calendar ALSO showed the age of the person in question because the birth years had been entered. That was disturbing to some, so we made two changes: We asked Invision to remove everyone's birth year We hid all the birthdays on the calendar until we were sure how #1 would work out SO, I think Invision deleted all of the birthday data - not just the year - but I can't be sure since I can't query the database. I also can't check that they cleanly deleted everyone's data, but I think they did. BEFORE we turn the birthday calendar stuff back on, I wanted to give everyone a chance to check their birthday data. You have a few choices: Re-enter your birthday data if it's missing Wipe out your birthday data if it's there and you don't want it to be Change your birth year In all three cases above, you have "not telling" as a birth year choice. I'll turn on the birthdays in about a week after this post. You can find your birthday by editing your profile - it's at the top:

The "Activity" menu at the top.

But it doesn't remember that the next time you visit the website on another tab, or after closing/re-opening your browser. But the plugin will.

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Quick tip for Chrome users on boards display Hey guys, I was thinking about the varying preferences on display sizes for the boards. We've offered three different themes and the ability to customize the width of the display using the pencil icon at the top; however, preferences vary more than to three types. In Chrome on desktop (and most any browser) you can zoom a web page in and out by using cntrl + and cntrl -. This would let you adjust the web page to a size / zoom level of your preference, effecting everything on the page. The PROBLEM with this is, it also affects all of your tabs and any web page you view, which may not be preferable. Just because you'd like to see web site #1 smaller, doesn't mean you want every web site smaller. Option: A plugin for Chrome I haven't messed with this extensively, so this is more like a heads-up to try it than a solid recommendation, BUT -- there is a plugin that will allow you to specify a browser zoom level (either pull page or just text) by the domain name / URL of the page you are viewing. It's called Zoom Page WE. IDEALLY you would be able to make a rule to zoom only the boards - but right now it seems it's either one specific URL, OR the whole domain (meaning the boards and the main CGC website). But still, it might be handy.

We adjusted this a while back, but just to follow up. There are now three themes on the board - all of them have had the fonts adjusted downward. Two of them are responsively designed, so they'll resize on a small screen - with a choice for larger and smaller fonts inside the posts themselves. One is forced to desktop, so that if you prefer to be able to zoom in and out on the pages, you can. That has the effect of allowing you to shrink the fonts significantly for more of an "at a glance" view.

Try the new CGC Journals! CGC has launched a new and improved CGC Journals! Available on CGCcomics.com, the new CGC Journals improves upon the popular platform to write blogs and discuss them with other members. The new CGC Journals has an improved design that makes it significantly easier to post and read journals from any device, including smartphones and tablets. Adding images has been made much simpler, and the CGC Journals now give users the ability to create polls and "like" other entries. A popular feature of the old CGC Journals was the ability to open an entry to comments from other users. This feature has been retained and enhanced — users can now comment on the same page as the original Journal entry, creating a seamless experience. Best of all, the same login can be used to post Journals, make comments and access the other features of the CGC website. Old CGC Journals entries will be migrated to the new CGC Journals soon. In the meantime, users can make posts to the new CGC Journals. To get started, create a Journal and make an entry. Unlike the old NGC Journals, you create a single Journal and then add new entries to it. Your Journal can be customized with a cover photo, and you can choose to make it available to all users or only to the users that you select. You can also choose to receive notifications whenever people comment on one of your entries. Scroll below for helpful tips on using the new CGC Journals or go to the new CGC Journals now > Instructions / Tips To get started, you must first create your Journal and then you can add entries to that Journal. Choose Journals from the Browse menu if you are not already on the Journals page Click Create a Journal Name your journal, add a description, add a photo, and choose if you want all users to see your journal or if you would like it available to a specific audience only. Click Continue to move on to the next step where you can add you first entry! Click Add Journal Entry to add a post to your journal Commenting on another user's Journal is easy. After selecting a journal to read, scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find the field where you may enter your comments and see the comments others have posted.

Added this: GOING TO UNREAD REPLIES IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE Click the black dot from the pop-up you get from the envelope at the top. NOTE: This currently does NOT work from the full InBox page. We have filed a feature request to fix this. For the technically minded among you, you CAN just paste this: ?latest=1 onto the end of the URL for a private message and it jumps you there, but that's a pretty difficult way to handle it. Better to just use the black dot from the envelope view.

Hi! First - heads-up, it looks like you might need to post int he Account Merge Requests forum to get your posting history back. Second - no, the old feed doesn't work. You CAN however, go to Activity --> My Activity Stream and make a custom stream for just certain forums. When you load that stream's web page, there's an RSS feed link for it.

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Don't panic - we value all that old stuff too! There are a few things that are good to know here: Redirects There is a redirect file that translates old board URLs into new board URLs. It's working, but it seems there are either some odd URL patterns, or some posts missing from the process. But, for example, if you visit the Noob Guide, you can click lots of links in there - all pointing at the old boards, that now land on the new boards. SOME of the links aren't working right . We're finding out why. Here are two examples - one works, one doesn't, but they are constructed the same. We have a ticket filed with invision. Doesn't work http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8074615#Post8074615 Does work: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1460472#Post1460472 Boards Search This is currently limited to the last 4 years of content. However, we anticipate cranking this back up to the full database eventually. Google Search Now that we've started doing redirects from the old boards to the new, the search engines will be plowing through the content here and indexing it all, regardless of whether the old boards links work. We are currently seeing over 1,200+ guests on the boards for exactly that reason - lots of spidering and crawling. So if it isn't indexed now, it soon will be. We won't end up losing anything.

This marketplace post has not followed the marketplace posting guidelines, so the thread has been locked. Please review the rules and re-post. If everything required is listed in your post, and you appear to meet the guidelines, it's possible that this has been reported for being listed as for sale somewhere else besides this board. If that's the case, the post belong in the eBay / Advertising forum.

Anything is possible, it's just a matter of: Demand Actual benefit Effort to do it Effort to keep it maintained as the software updates The like button is on the same line of text - except on mobile when screen width prevents that. Are you talking about mobile? Given the preferences you seem to be expressing, I'd ask: have you tried the pinch-zoom theme? It seems like more your style?