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Oh gosh. Those are really good points. Hmm... {back to the drawing board} I'm not about to give up on this. I refuse to use those forums until this problem is resolved and I really want to contribute to help solve the problem.
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The way I see it there are two problems:
1) The forums we're supposed to use aren't popular, so using them is pointless.
2) Intentionally putting an out-of-forum post in the lounge in order to get it the visibility it deserves breaks the posting guidelines (posting to an appropriate forum if one exists) and draws the ire of people like Drew .
Item 2 has brought on further issues in that popular members can post pretty much anything to the lounge without so much as a hint of trouble (unless I happen to see it, 'cause I'm not much swayed by celebrity).
I don't see a solution to 1).
The only answer I see to 2) is to make it legitimate. It's that way now anyway, might as well accept it's going to continue and have a special status for certain people that just plain allows them to do that or allows them to post an advert. in the lounge pointing to their post in another forum.
I don't think this would fly, however, because it's not the way things are 'supposed' to be; despite the fact that it already, to a certain extent, works that way.
I'll be honest Rex. I don't see much difference in the lounge than I see in a big group of people anywhere else I've been. Some are jerks, some are pretenders, some are slicksters, some can't behave and some are just great to be around. No different here.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Another thought would be to have RSS feeds for some members. Perhaps platinum with more than 2k posts or some such criteria. That way I could subscribe to a Code-Frog feed
I'd definitely subscribe to certain members as I'm usually more interested in what they have to say than what forum it happens to be in.
Cheers,
Drew.
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It's an interesting suggestion. I suppose it could work along the lines of the MOST POPULAR box on the home page.
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Drew's comments kind of shoot it down. Have a read up above. He makes good points.
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Still not fixed: blank line before sig was dropped. Please put it back.
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We've removed the blank line but we've put in place a space (so visually the same)
Do you specifically want a blank line (Which, on thinking about it, makes text-format reply emails look better) or just a bigger space?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Do you specifically want a blank line (Which, on thinking about it, makes text-format reply emails look better) or just a bigger space?
I want it to look like it did before - which looked like there was a blank line.
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Several people have commented on the Visual Studio forum being MIA. Is it gone permanently or just misplaced?
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the math and algo forum is missing as well, and the list as a whole looks a little short so I wonder if there's more that didn't make it.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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They weren't in the navigation section at the top of all but a few forums [Insert rant about it not being available in the lounge, etc]
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Yep, and Math and Algo is even in the list on top of this page (it wasn't right after the
make over).
There always have been differences between the three-column list on top of most forums, and
the others lists elsewhere (such as the "Message Boards" pull-down menu, and the list page).
There used to be 30 forums in the 3-column list. Now there are 25 in the 3-column list,
some 15 of them in the pull-down (with slightly different names).
I have never understood why they are populated differently, with different names and orders.
I expected this to be streamlined with the make over, instead it went a bit backwards.
Several people have reported this. Fixing this seems like a small effort with a big return.
BTW: I continue to suggest you drop the "Visual" in the "Visual C++" forum name, it attracts
lots of people that get confused since they all use Visual Studio; and I suggest to add
"Unmanaged" to all C++ forum names but one.
Regards,
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Hi Elina,
the 30 titles are back on a couple of forums I checked. Thanks for that.
I do have one complaint though, they seem to hop around a bit:
C# is always in the left column (so far)
.NET Framework sometimes is in the left column, sometimes in the right column.
Don't know about all the others, I guess some of them move too.
This is rather annoying, I try to visit a couple of forums in one session, having
them move in the table makes that rather difficult (and when I hit the same one twice,
it adds to your server's load !!)
Actually I would suggest to give them all a fixed and logical order, say grouped similar to
what the list.aspx page gives.
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Hi everyone!
I guess this has been discussed here before but I couldnt find anything.
My question is: Why is the threads sorted only after when the thread was created?
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I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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After you post a reply to a particular thread in Lounge, the website always loads the first page of Lounge. It forgets the current page and thread context.
Anyone else still facing the issue?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: It forgets the current page and thread context.
well... not really forget... misplace.
After replying to a message and it takes you to the front page.... do not click on any more messages... instead click on the "next" button on the page list at the bottom... boom, it suddenly finds and takes you to your message. After this point the next button will function as a real next button.
_________________________
Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Sounds like a time-out issue.
Is it still happening?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Prior to CP's upgrade, I made my home page the query results of the last two weeks of MFC/C++ article submissions. It was great, but now I get all sorts of .NET and C# stuff mixed in with it. They were not there before and I have no interest in that. Can you add the ability back to only get MFC/C++ without C#?
Thanks
Jose
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We've installed the filter control that will allow you to filter out those articles you aren't interested in
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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There used to be a dropdown which lists all the forums in old CodeProject. This should be located somewhere near the currently displaying text ("Got a Programming Question? Click here!"). I find it missing mysteriously now and now there is an extra click (navigation) forced into list.aspx and then to chose an appropriate forum.
Some hamster has taken this dropdown and ran away during one of the upgrade nights?
Why should we force additional .ASPX processing on poor servers which are already reeling under high loads?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Reposted since initial posting was in the SB by mistake.
Is there any fix/workaround for this in the work? Having all messages marked as read because my last vist date is regularly set into the future is a royal pain.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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something I just noticed that's probably related. Onthe forum list page it was reporting my local time as 5:18 on the 18th. My local time was 14:18 on the 17th. My local clock and my timezone setting are correct for Eastern (GMT-5).
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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I recently posted to an article, but the site complained I was using unicode and wouldn't let me post: "Please do not use Unicode characters in posts. ASCII only". I wasn't using unicode or any special symbols.
I was, however, using HTML encoding to hide my email address in my signature using the '[ampersand][pound][ascii_number];' notation in the HREF and hyperlink text. I could post if I removed this portion.
I've had it like this for quite some time now, but I haven't posted in a long time so I'm not sure when this changed.
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Shawn Poulson
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