Please report GLITCHES with update here!

[QUOTE=Zu Zu;4490340]
This is a minor problem - just wanted to alert a moderator - I log out but when I pull up coth again - I am already logged in ??? :eek: It looks like I am permanently logged in :lol:- I guess that is better than being permanently logged out ! :lol: Never mind - guess it could get worse.[/QUOTE]

Hi Zu Zu ~

You may have clicked the “remember me” box when you logged back in the first time after the relaunch. I’m not sure if you’re actually using the log out link when you leave or if you’re just closing down the page.

If you don’t want to be remembered, click “log out” from the far right of the blue bar near the top of the page. That will clear the “cookies” from your computer. When you log back in, be sure that the remember me button is UNchecked.

If you’re still automatically logged in each time after trying that, please let us know.

Thanks!

Testing and Known Issues

Mod 1, here is the list of glitches that I have logged so far:

1. The remember me box in VBulletin is NOT allowing you to log out.
2. Premium members images did not port over and prem members cannot upload images. Error copied and sent to the dev team.
3. Overly sensitive drop down menus
4. Ads are overlapping the content area in the Private Messages screen.
5. ** is the lost password for vbulletin working now??**

I am in the process of adding text to our main site login, registration and password reset pages to clarify the difference between vBulletin and our CMS login. (As an aside, I’ve written to vBulletin/JelSoft to ask them to enhance their forums product to allow more open registration… if and when they finally do, we’ll be all over it!)

Is anyone experiencing any other strange functionality issues?
Thank you all for your input, this is incredibly helpful as we work out the kinks!

For those noting that the Quick Reply box is now too small, is the height of the box shorter so that you see fewer lines of text at one time when you’re composing a message, or is it a function of the forums now being narrower, so that a given number of words now take up more lines?

I don’t typically use Quick Reply, so the change isn’t apparent to me.

Thanks!

Erin ~

To be sure they get the proper info (and not clutter up your inbox any more!), at least for me, the issue with the private message content/ad overlap only emerges when you have opened up a message to compose a reply.

That’s when the ad bar overlaps the side of the message composition area/smilie menu.

Thanks!

Actually Mod1, it seems to happen with any new messages that have been sent since the switch. I just went and opened the a messeage in my ‘Sent’ folder that I sent yesterday and it also overlaps in that view. Any older ones are OK.

FYI–I tried it at home on FoxFire and had the same issue.

Thanks for reporting your experiences.

For me, all of the messages (in my inbox or sent folder) are fine when I open them. But when I go to reply to any of those messages, the overlap occurs.

We’ll let the pros figure it out–thanks again for the additional info!

ETA: My PM overlap issues have been resolved as of last night.

I still have none of the clickable icons within the message panes for reply with quote/multiquote/quick reply showing in individual messages.
The only way a Ican reply is to use the quick reply box at the bottom of the page anc cut and paste any text I wish to quote.

This is in Firefox 3.5.5, Win XP.

The icons are present on the same computer if I use (ick) IE.

The icons were present in Firefox before the “upgrade”.

yes same here in firefox

I can’t connect from my mobile device.

Getting the page with the forum message telling me the site is closed for “upgrade”

Disgusting that the moderators have taken upon themselves to remove feedback.

The “Upgrade” is shambolic and a mess and you can remove such comments from my postings for all you want.

You still won’t change the situation until you get the forums fixed and sorted.

So:

Get rid of all the white space at the side

Get mobile connection sorted

Get a decent reply box back again

Stop editing users posts where they’re critical and give meaningful feedback which is honest.

So step up to the plate and say:

Do you think that it’s acceptable to have half a screen with white space?

Are you intent on changing it or is this a talk to the hand because we’ll keep editing and removing posts situation!?

When will the improvements be made?

What will you do this time round for User Acceptance testing and how will you ensure there’s better user experience?

I agree the old format was so much better. I have a 24" in monitor and the box I am tying in right now is all of about 2" wide (not exaggurating) ?! The forums are almost 80% green sidebars and a narrow little strip of text in between. It’s horrible. :no:

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I wanted to adress the slowness in a serious manner, not just to pile on complaints about the slowness.

The site seemes to bog down after the third click or forth click to new pages on the site, transitioning to another page. Sad, because when I come to the site, I will usually spend several hours and click to 50 or more pages, reading all the threads, many of the forums, and all the sometimes hundreds of pages on a thread. Now I’m limited to just 3 or 4 before I have to give up and shut down the browser!! That’s bad!!!

I used the css fix that LoriB posted, which eliminates the fixed width colums and ads. The site is faster, at least this evening, with out the fixed width and without the ads. To me this means that you have serious architectural problems with your website.

[edit]

I have them in Firefox 3.0.15 (also Win XP)

I didn’t read all of the other posts.

One glitch I see (IE) is, on loading any page, a black sidebar appears for a while, then disappears when the page fully loads. It’s pretty annoying because there’s a lot of movement going on.

I think th eblack sidebar might be associated with the Magazine tab on the upper left. I don’t click on that or run my cursor over it, but it seems to drop down anyway. Can’t read the words, if they’re even there, because they’re behind the post column.

Every time I receive a new IM, I get alerted to it twice, as though it were brand new. I fall for it every time because it could be a reply to one I sent - but it has always been the same message I read last time I logged on.

I really liked the old color scheme. I don’t mind change if it’s an improvement, but the old site was so easy on the eyes and easy to read. This is all too bright and weird.

This server is like molasses in January in New England. It’s been years since I frequented a site so consistently slow. On first loading as well as between pages. I can’t stay here very long at one time because it’s so slow. It’s been like that for a long time, and I was expecting the new site to run a lot faster. But it didn’t happen.

Thanks for listening and working to make it run better.

[QUOTE=AnotherRound;4491907]
. . .
I used the css fix that LoriB posted, which eliminates the fixed width colums and ads. . . .[/QUOTE]

AR, where is this css fix? I can’t find it and I’m sick and tired of this fixed width crap.

Thanks
Eileen

Im another who has to log in every itme I come here.

Its not major just an annoyance.

and the reply box is itty bitty

Beta testing in customer hands after product release is an ancient and honored practice in the software world. Microsoft has done it for years. Vista comes to mind.

Seriously, my hope and expectation is that the identified issues – whenever and however they are identified – can be addressed systematically. There would be no shame if necessary in migrating backward for a couple of weeks if fixing the issues while live proves to be too much of a constraint.

Just now as I was browsing posts the ‘join our community’ and ‘rss feeds’ boxes were overlapping the forum so I could not easily see what section the threads were in. (I had used new posts.)

Firefox (not sure what version) and Vista.

Erin, first time I’ve been able to post for several days… I use Internet Explorer, but I’m using a cover website to get to COTH, since Barracuda has banned your new server from my work computer.The cover website is called covermy.info.I’m thinking that’s why I’m unable to access the smilies and use paragraphs.

[QUOTE=Moderator 1;4491164]
Thanks for reporting your experiences.

For me, all of the messages (in my inbox or sent folder) are fine when I open them. But when I go to reply to any of those messages, the overlap occurs.

We’ll let the pros figure it out–thanks again for the additional info![/QUOTE]

Hmm–I just check another mesage and it was OK. THe one with the biggest problem had a picture embedded. I am thinking that the screen width is Auto sizing based on the size of the message but the ads are not moving to accomodate it.

BTW–loading MUCH quicker now.

On the being slow thing. I am sure they realize this but it is not near so bad when I am on in the early AM before many people are even awake. This time of day (mid day) it is painfully slow still. I keep getting timed out. It was not slow this frequently before the changes.