The ST 6.0 Department of Technical Affairs

[bluemoose 223]

(sorry, i didnt know whether this had to do with simtrop or imgshack)

[DustyLee23 6]

when looking at cj's posted by the creator themselves, the post is over the page with a bar to scroll right at the bottom of their post. what can i do to change that cause its kinda annoying to have to keep scrolling down then scrollong right and back up on long posts like updates

[JakeMD 107]

malibu_man: Your screen resolution may be too small.

Right click on your desktop.

Choose properties

Go to the Settings tab, (in XP) or in choose the Display Settings (in Vista)

adjust the slider bar to the right.

The resolution 1024x768 is plenty to view this site, but larger ones are more optimal.

[rainyday 2]

Actually Jake. I found that with my old pc that has a monitor with a maximum resolution of 1024x768, there were problems with viewing the page. My guess would be that this is casued by the toolbar on the very left of this page that includes links to the chatroom, favourites, etc. The actual width of the forum is 1024x768 while that toolbar adds on extra.

Luckily, I am on my laptop most of the time and have a higher native resolution.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Am I the only one for whom the STEX isn't working at all? The masthead is ok, and so is the STEX Selections mask on the right hand of the screen. The menu to the left is working as well.

Everything else, however, most importantly the actual STEX List, behaves like an empty background. The mouse cursor remains an arrow, doesn't indicate any link, and nothing is clickable at all.

I'm using Opera 9.64 with Java Runtime Environment 1.6 Update 15 on a WinXP Service Pack 3 machine with DIrectX 9.0c. I already tried logging off, deleting cookies, and logging back on - to no avail. Any ideas?

[JakeMD 107]

T Wrecks - Everything seems to be fine for me. I'm using Firefox 3.5.x with Windows XP Professional SP3 dx9.0c.

[rainyday 2]

In the CJ Section, there seems to be a problem, where the white background doesn't contunie to the bottom of the page, just a grey background. I know it's only minor, but I just thought I'd point it out

[Dexter 41]

Something strange is going on, at least for me. It appears that every post in the forums is appearing twice, and the end of some threads are cut off.

[JakeMD 107]

This is a bug, we all are encountering it right now. Dirk has been doing some tweaking, so for now, try not to report any bugs.

[LivingInThePast 364]

Wow, congrats on the new Simtropolis! I think we an dub this Simtrop 6.5. Cool. Except for the excess of underlining everything hyperlinked (Reply/Quote buttons, page links, topic directory like Simtropolis

[JakeMD 107]

The underlining is a little error in the CSS Code and dirk should fix that soon enough.

[Dirktator 2,328]

Originally posted by: LivingInThePast

Wow, congrats on the new Simtropolis! I think we an dub this Simtrop 6.5. Cool. Except for the excess of underlining everything hyperlinked (Reply/Quote buttons, page links, topic directory like Simtropolis » Simtropolis Social Forum » Simtropolis Related » The ST 6.0 Department of Technical Affairs) everything looks good.quote>

Thanks, this is just one of a few small updates coming out this week, we had a bumpy start as posts were being duplicated but that bug got squashed. 

The whole underlining thing is another new error, it doesn't seem to happen everywhere though, but I'm tracking it down.  

[JakeMD 107]

It seems to only be happening on messageview.cfm for me, haven't had any where I view a page from index.cfm. Hope that helps!

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: LivingInThePast

I think we an dub this Simtrop 6.5.quote>

Nope. Verison numbering doesn't work that way. You can't have a 6.5 until you've had a 6.1, 6.2, 6.3,and 6.4.

Now, if you want to call it ST 6.1, then that would be fitting.

Another thing I noticed which I find intriguing:

Now, I certainly haven't made 774 private topics, so this logically must be the total of private topics started by all users. Interesting!

Also interesting is that the displayed topic totals appear to include old topics which have "dropped of the page".

And, on that note, the drop of the page time seems to have increased to an even two years, as opposed to the "it'll randomly disappear after anywhere between 12 and 24 months, usually by 14 or 15" it used to be (I suspect it was always supposed to be two years and that that was just a bug that's now been fixed).

[The Arrowz 3]

Yep mine is the same as Duke's comment.

I dunno if this was intentional, or if was brought up before, but would it be possible to swap the topic link colors? So the unread is in dark blue, and the read is in light blue (so the emphasis is on unread threads)?

[LivingInThePast 364]

Originally posted by: SWAT-MEDIC

This is a bug, we all are encountering it right now. Dirk has been doing some tweaking, so for now, try not to report any bugs.quote>

Whoops, didn't read this before I posted. So sorry. 

[TV-VCR 15]

In the profile settings page, all of the entries in the Province/State field are listed twice (i.e. "The Yukon, The Yukon, Alabama, Alabama, Alaska, Alaska, Arizona, Arizona," and so on).

[reedalson 0]

Now I can't search anything! For example, if I search for "water pump" I get:

Your search contained ignored words, ignored words are words like a,and,to,between.Please re-construct your search without these ignored words.

<< back

But there are no ignored words.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: TV-VCR

In the profile settings page, all of the entries in the Province/State field are listed twice (i.e. "The Yukon, The Yukon, Alabama, Alabama, Alaska, Alaska, Arizona, Arizona," and so on).quote>

On that note, since when do Yukon and Northwest Territories have the definite article in front of their names?

[JakeMD 107]

Originally posted by: reedalson

Now I can't search anything! For example, if I search for "water pump" I get:

Your search contained ignored words, ignored words are words like a,and,to,between.Please re-construct your search without these ignored words.

<< back

But there are no ignored words.quote>

Use the ccustom google search that was set up on the top right.

 

[bluemoose 223]

i noticed when clicking "last page" from the forum "lobby" screen, it goes one page beyond the final page. It seems like paggus flippus buggus's evile opposite twin....

this is a serious problem for me!

[JakeMD 107]

Does it do that on every thread? It only does that for me on certain ones, and only those. No new ones.

[AndisArt 2,068]

Originally posted by: bluemoose

i noticed when clicking "last page" from the forum "lobby" screen, it goes one page beyond the final page. It seems like paggus flippus buggus's evile opposite twin....

this is a serious problem for me!quote>

I have the same issue, most of the SimMars sticky threads have more than one page. Opening them results in the same and requires to click the main thread again to go to page 1 first.

Also the quick links to the forums on the left side of the main page are not working anymore, but I guess you are aware of that.

I like the new forum structure!

[Cockatoo 2,262]

Hey dirk, the advanced search feature is broken again, it keeps giving the ignored words error.

Some people don't really like to use the Google search, so this is an issue for those users.

[AndisArt 2,068]

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893

Hey dirk, the advanced search feature is broken again, it keeps giving the ignored words error.

Some people don't really like to use the Google search, so this is an issue for those users.

quote>

I'm experiencing the same

[JakeMD 107]

The google search is a little more comprehensive than the forum search. I suggest using that.

[Cockatoo 2,262]

Originally posted by: SWAT-MEDIC

The google search is a little more comprehensive than the forum search. I suggest using that. quote>

Exactly. When I search the forums, I don’t want links to STEX uploads or profiles.

[Chptrk 86]

I've noticed that on the homepage, the recent city journals links take you to the table of contents for the CJ, not the update it mentions. (Like it used to) Is it supposed to be like this? Does anyone else have this problem? If not, then I guess I'm just mentioning a bug for you guys.

[rainyday 2]

I have t say well done an the updates to the site this week, Dirk and all of the admins. The site looks better than ever.

I also want to ask what's up with the points thing on my profile? it says --points and when I hover, it says that it's calculating my points. Is this a new user rating system or something?

^_EDIT:I'd also like to point out that there are still some visual problems with the cityjournal section. I know you probably know this already, but just in case...!

[cogeo 960]

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893

Hey dirk, the advanced search feature is broken again, it keeps giving the ignored words error.

Some people don't really like to use the Google search, so this is an issue for those users.

quote>

I would like to second this. Not only the advanced search, the normal search is broken too, and it's a long time now. This should be fixed, as it seriously degrades the functionality of the site.

I would also like to post two requests:

- Is it possible to disable those news bands at the bottom of the page? Ideally on a per user basis (in the user's Personal Options). This should make the site faster too (as a result of fewer requests/deliveries).

- When you update only the description in a STEX upload, the "Updated:" field should not be updated. Many times you have to update an upload only for correcting a spelling error, add a tip or update a dependency link. And this isn't just a "decorative" thing, people may click the "Recent Updates" button to check for updates of their downloads. So the "Updated:" field should be changed only for the real updates (when the .zip file is reuploaded). I know it's actually a different operation, the description-only update is immediate, while the content update is scheduled for the next update cycle. It would be best to extend this to the images too (ie updating the images should be considered a description-only update). Don;t know if this last one is really easy to change though.

I think these would actually make the site better.

EDIT: It would also be nice to put a Search box in the threads pages, not just in the categories.