It’s been a little while since the forum upgrade and there are still issues. Hopefully they can be collated here for fixing. We’re appreciative of this great place but it can be made better!
Encoding support. Most characters with diacritics are complete gobbledegook, especially noticeable in the Greek/Russian forums.
Formats. The gallery images are dated using the American system (MMDDYY) but enhanced quoted posts are in German. Is it just me?
There’s a problem with some gallery images displaying a black screen.
Status updates are better if one person overwrites their old one, I have three at the moment, one being a spelling error fix.
Do we really need line spacing in posts?
Lack of smilies, old ones are not parsed correctly.
Only certain posts are added to the “new posts” tab, this one wasn’t. It seems replying to older topics in certain forum sections will bump that list though? This wasn’t the previous behaviour.
When receiving PMs, it also automatically triggers a notification. This is not useful, because I already get the red mark next to the messages symbol.To get rid of the red notifiaction mark, I need to have a look at the notifications, although I already know that there is a message waiting for me… Unfortunately, the “administrator has disabled this option from being toggled” in the notification settings.
I am missing the “go to first unread entry” button that used to be located in the upper right corner of the topic panel. This was the single most used feature for me when checking the forum, and I’d really like to get this back if possible.
Concerning the character issue: this is a known migration issue, and we can’t fix it.
Actually Twin-X asked me if it’s ok for me to bring the forum back online without solving this issue - I agreed because I had no better idea.
We can edit the subjects and manually correct the characters this way - just need help from people who can give us a template
To the other issues: I need your help to find out, how to configure this, resp. how to fix this
The IPS Support forum is here, maybe you will find the answers? I will change on demand, but I’ve no time to search for solutions:
The Gallery behaves very strange for me both in Chrome and Firefox
Thumbnails don’t show, and the images don’t show when you click on them
Also the Members Gallery comes up in reverse order?
I performed a rebuild of the images in the Gallery yesterday. So hopefully the thumbs are better now. Still looking into the sorting order. The setting in the AdminCP is set to “Most Recent” but it still shows as “By Album Title” and in reverse order (Z->A).
It’s been a little while since the forum upgrade and there are still issues. Hopefully they can be collated here for fixing. We’re appreciative of this great place but it can be made better!
There’s a problem with some gallery images displaying a black screen
At my side there is the same problem.
Sorry if I opened a tread about this issue after this one after LatigidOn
Yes, there are still some forum software bugs present, methinks.
Antix:
Regarding the old image gallery problem. This is really bad…
First, I’ve examined the HTML source below the lightbox settings. The thing is, that the image is present, it just is not handled correctly by the IPB forum browser. By tweaking a few HTML attributes, it is possible to display the image (not when clicking on the lightbox link). It just thinks it has a picture size of 0x0px, and therefore hides the image. So, the IPB gallery image database is kind of broken (probably happened during one of the last updates).
To remedy this problem, I’ve googled a bit for other people with the same symptoms. The common recommendation here is to perform a “gallery rebuild” in the admin panel (ACP > Community > Gallery > Settings > blue link “rebuild existing images”) , which I’ve tried twice. The problem is, that it crashes reproducably after about 25% of the images are processed. What is even worse, is that it takes up more and more diskspace after each run, so this is not recommended.
So, my recommendation is, to report this issue to the makers of IPB (TK. paid for the license from the community donations) and hope for a bugfix for the image rebuilding.
Latigid on:
that is really a strange bug, too! Which browser are you using? It is not shifted here, running a new Firefox build… Can you try a different browser and report back?
Latigid on: maybe I’ve found, what causes the problem on your side… the third icon from the left after the first horizontal spacer truly is the “code” icon.
Best guess: your images are cached and outdated and should be reloaded. Can you clear your browser (image) cache or Shift-Reload the page?
The problem should definitely go away if you install a new browser to test (e.g. Chrome, if you don’t run that already, or Firefox if you run Chrome :-)).
