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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Forum News => Topic started by: Prof.Witchheimer on February 15, 2018, 02:47:37 PM
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Dear LAF members,
welcome to the new LAF ship! We completed the handover, LAF left Germany and arrived in UK and I think it looks good :) Thanks to everyone being involved into the handover process for their great support and input. The software had been upgraded, some old bugs had been fixed, data transfer completed. From now on if you have any questions to the owner of LAF, please contact Nick Eyre (nicknorthstar). This is my last post in my role as administrator of LAF, looking forward to join the ranks of regular users now :)
Have a good time and thanks for your patience.
Best wishes
Alex
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Congratulations on what looks like a smooth transfer, all hail the new LAF :)
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Appreciate it, but is it really meant to look like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/f1XWFnP.jpg)
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Glad to see it back, but can I say that it seems a little squashed.
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Looking good! Nice to see it back! Bon chance!
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So, I don't post very often and mostly lurk and get inspired (I should post more but I get intimidated, sorry), but I just wanted to express my gratitude for the maintenance and continued upkeep of this special corner of the hobby world and the internet.
Thanks guys and gals.
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Good to see a site back. But formatting is very odd.
Sidebar combined with the user name and logo is wider than the thread post area.
Pretty much all the included images force the page to scroll off the side of the monitor.
Looks as if the column widths need to be amended.
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Good to see a site back. But formatting is very odd.
Sidebar combined with the user name and logo is wider than the thread post area.
Pretty much all the included images force the page to scroll off the side of the monitor.
Looks as if the column widths need to be amended.
That's odd. None of those things are happening for me.
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Well, that came - to me, at least - as a surprise...
Good to see it is back and thanks to prof. Witchheimer for running the site all those years :).
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Appreciate it, but is it really meant to look like this:
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Good to see a site back. But formatting is very odd.
Sidebar combined with the user name and logo is wider than the thread post area.
Pretty much all the included images force the page to scroll off the side of the monitor.
Looks as if the column widths need to be amended.
try to play with those buttons, it should become better
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Glad that the transfer seems to have gone well. I have a couple of minor issues such as my avatar going missing but I am sure I can re-load.
One annoying thing is that you can't navigate directly to your sent items without first opening the My Messages page, and even then you have to hover over the messages icon to bring up the options.
I also notice that the column showing who started the thread has been lost. I found that quite useful to find the canon of work of a particular member in that board section. Any chance of resurrecting it or is there another way to get that functionality?
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Thanks to all who navigated us through the transfer. We have now folded space...
Now to photograph and post some of the things I've managed to finish...
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try to play with those buttons, it should become better
No, it is the widths of the various columns that is causing me problems.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/31/5822-150218172648.jpeg)
This image previously remained within the thread post box area. Either the column widths are off or the resize is not working.
Also note the left hand half of the screen is taken up with the sidebar and member ID/Avatar panel. These are both much wider than they were before.
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Phew! LAF is back! The withdrawal symptoms were getting bad! lol lol
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robh - I've been able to toggle the sidebar on and off using the small arrow button immediately at the top left above the post. Any good?
More of a potential issue is that images previously uploaded to threads (rather than linked)aren't displaying for me, although they are showing as attachments and can be clicked on. Can this be fixed? Haven't tried uploading any new images yet; that'll be next...
I'm also not seeing anyone's avatars where these have been personally uploaded rather than taken from the forum stock images.
Anyone else having this problem?
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Excellent news.
Graham W
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More of a potential issue is that images previously uploaded to threads (rather than linked)aren't displaying for me, although they are showing as attachments and can be clicked on. Can this be fixed? Haven't tried uploading any new images yet; that'll be next...
I'm also not seeing anyone's avatars where these have been personally uploaded rather than taken from the forum stock images.
Anyone else having this problem?
Now weirdly they are displaying on my phone but not on the laptop. Suspect this means the problem is with my ageing tech rather than the site, but they displayed fine on both before. Probably just a temporary glitch.
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Al working fine and looking chipper, tweaked with the uppy downy buttons which takes the side bar away :D
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Okay I give up.
I thought it'd be a nice way to mark the relaunch with another dip into the copper jar. But I can't seem to locate the' donate button '
Mark.
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The new site looks good.
Thanks for al the hard work to get the transfer right.
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This image previously remained within the thread post box area. Either the column widths are off or the resize is not working.
Also note the left hand half of the screen is taken up with the sidebar and member ID/Avatar panel. These are both much wider than they were before.
Yes I know what you mean, this is an issue for me. However it does seem that the arrow at the top right of the thread / board hides the left hand column and gives enough room for the images.
I also notice that the column showing who started the thread has been lost. I found that quite useful to find the canon of work of a particular member in that board section. Any chance of resurrecting it or is there another way to get that functionality?
Yes that's the first thing I noticed! I would really like to see it back to how it was, as I like to be able to quickly scroll through and glance at user names to see who is behind each thread.
At least it's not like a certain other wargaming message board where it doesn't tell you anywhere who the thread author is until you open it....
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Yes that's the first thing I noticed! I would really like to see it back to how it was, as I like to be able to quickly scroll through and glance at user names to see who is behind each thread.
At least it's not like a certain other wargaming message board where it doesn't tell you anywhere who the thread author is until you open it....
It’s still there, guys, below the thread name:
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It’s still there, guys, below the thread name:
Yes but I can't now sort the thread by 'Started by' and see the whole of a members work in that thread. I found it useful to get a feel for a particular period and see someones whole work on that particular board. It is particularly useful tool to find those members who post lots of work but use a different thread each time.
On the other hand the less useful (at least for me) button to see how many posts/views is still available.
Can this be fixed?
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It’s still there, guys, below the thread name:
Yes I know, I just prefered how it used to be a separate column and was easier to see at a glance. :) It's just a minor thing, but if it's simply a different setting that could be switched I'm sure a lot of other people would prefer it how it was before.
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That appears to have been a pretty seamless transition. Thanks to the Prof for all the years of work and all hail our new overlord.
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I use an iPad, but after the move it does not work on a pad. What happened to the LAF. did you change the software?
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For the iPad, you will need to change to the new .com address. http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php
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Great work this smooth transition :) :)
To me the LAF seems to react faster and the access to the member galleries looks improved as well.
Thanks for the work and effort put in
cheers Thomas
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HURRAH! That was a long and boring couple of days!
The site is nice and open now, I'm sure a little jiggery pokery over the next few months will fix things ,but i like the more open layout.
It does look a little odd on mobile tho....
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+1 to the 'withdrawal systems'
Glad to have the LAF back, teething problems are to be expected, and will (hopefully) be soon resolved.
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I arrived at the Wargames Illustrated site using the leadadventureforum.com URL. Only after a couple of refreshes I arrived here. Anyone know how that is possible ?
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The new site works fine for me and have to say I like the new layout :)
Well done, guys.
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Man, I had some serious withdrawal.
Some of the formatting changes (the margins) are irksome but I guess it's growing pains.
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Once I remembered my password it worked.
The spacing etc is a bit odd on a tablet.
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For the iPad, you will need to change to the new .com address. http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php
My problem is, that the screen is not really fitting for iPad/Pads.
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I arrived at the Wargames Illustrated site using the leadadventureforum.com URL. Only after a couple of refreshes I arrived here. Anyone know how that is possible ?
I had the same at first. The correct address is http://leadadventureforum.com/
The address http://leadadventureforum.com/ redirects to Wargames Illustrated, which as Prof.Witchheimer and Nick have said provides technical support.
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God job Prof, thanks a lot
looking forward to join the ranks of regular users now :)
And you'll never be just "regular"
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Glad LAF is back.
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Let us know about any problems. Somethings we'll just have to live with of course, but if we can change anything we'll try to.
Mark from Wargames Illustrated did all the technical swopover stuff and gave us space on their server, which is why their address comes up. They've done it all for nowt, so thanks very much to Mark for his work.
I had a choice of asking WI, or getting my tech guy to do it. The difference is Ian who looks after the North Star websites isn't in the hobby, and WI are.
What'll they get for it? When I introduce the banner ads, you'll see me, Miniaturicum/ LAF Miniatures and Wargames Illustrated there.
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Seems fair Nick. A three day turn around is not bad at all. Thank you.
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Had to reset my Password but everything looks good to go!! Thanks for getting the best forum in the Net up and running again. A question though, it doesn't really apply to me but is the display of the swastika still forbidden now that the site is no longer hosted through a German provider?
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Had to reset my Password but everything looks good to go!! Thanks for getting the best forum in the Net up and running again. A question though, it doesn't really apply to me but is the display of the swastika still forbidden now that the site is no longer hosted through a German provider?
I had thought that too, but again It's not an issue I'll ever face.
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More importantly, now the forum is hosted in England do we have to start conversing in German?
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More importantly, now the forum is hosted in England do we have to start conversing in German?
Das wäre nur fair!
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Grats on successful migration
minor cosmetic and graphical discrepancy issues aside (that's the joy of new software versions!) glad to have my fix of LAF back.
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My problem is, that the screen is not really fitting for iPad/Pads.
Same issue with IPhone. Unfortunately when reading a thread the two left hand info columns take up half the screen, making it very difficult to see the actual post content. Other than that (which is a big issue for me as I don’t use a pc, just iPhone and iPad) it’s smoother/faster. :)
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So we are on board again! Thank you very much for all the work!
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I'd say keep reporting issues but give it some time for adjustments to occur. My basic concern is that the forum is now located near darkest Nottingham where much good hobbiness gets sucked into oblivion. Okay, a few good things come out of there, too. :?
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Yay - back with no dramas.
Very excited to be a part of LAF 2.0.
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Great to have LAF back. Everything works fine here. :-*
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Aber gerne doch. ;)
Ein deutschsprachiger Thread wäre schon nett.
More importantly, now the forum is hosted in England do we have to start conversing in German?
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Same issue with IPhone. Unfortunately when reading a thread the two left hand info columns take up half the screen, making it very difficult to see the actual post content. Other than that (which is a big issue for me as I don’t use a pc, just iPhone and iPad) it’s smoother/faster. :)
I would strongly recommend to switch off the left sidebar while using iPad, see the screenshot made on my iPad. Press the button on the right top and there will be a lot of space for actual content:
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Thanks Alex. That makes a massive improvement. 8)
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Thanks Alex. That makes a massive improvement. 8)
Glad to hear that!
The layout amendments aren’t finished yet, there is a lot of small things still being optimized, Mark is working very hard on that, so please bear with us
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Glad to hear that!
The layout amendments aren’t finished yet, there is a lot of small things still being optimized, Mark is working very hard on that, so please bear with us
Very happy to bear with ;)
Am glad LAF is back and thanks to all who put in the work (past, present and future) :D
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I would strongly recommend to switch off the left sidebar while using iPad, see the screenshot made on my iPad. Press the button on the right top and there will be a lot of space for actual content:
Thank you, this helps
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f***, i searched for my password ... ;)
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More importantly, now the forum is hosted in England do we have to start conversing in German?
lol
Did make me think of one question though, do we still need to censor certain WW2 symbols in pics of our models?
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Glad to be back on LAF again. I had to dig around for my password though...
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Alex and Nick,
Thanks for bearing with certain gripes. I am sure everyone is working hard to sort out the very, very minor issues. Great to be up and running again.
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Great work with the transfer and I definitely felt the loss of the LAF for those couple of days.
My only suggestion at the mo is to make the thread titles in bold on each board as now when I look at a board I kinda get a dyslexia-inspired blur and have to really stare at the text to break it down into thread titles in my head.
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Glad to have LAF back. Looking good!
Is there a way to increase the font size on the main topic page? Much smaller than before.
Thanks
Chuck
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Yay! All is right with the world again. (Wargaming world)
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Thank you Prof. I know I'm not alone in saying we appreciate all the work you've done to our community over the years. You service to our painting hobby has been invaluable.
We salute you!
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Hi Alec - I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for setting up this site and maintaining it for many years. It is without doubt the best War Gaming Site on the internet with the most civil and polite membership I have come across and this I believe is down to your guiding principles as well as the board moderators influence and I hope this continues.
I'll be honest and say that I am saddened by the fact that it has moved from Germany to Britain partly because it's likely to change from an Indie operation to a commercial one with what ever that might imply and partly because the War Gaming world is Anglo Centric UK and US and having this very influential forum based elsewhere just seemed a good thing to me. You will note I am from the UK.
The final thing I would like to comment on, are the few replies that have asked if it's OK to portray the swastika, the reason we have not done so in the past is because it's illegal in Germany but also because it offends quite a few people, hence the law, I believe we should continue to have the same respect for all our neighbours sensibilities in the future as we have in the past.
All the best to the new LAF and all who sail in her.
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LAF new site looks good - thanks for all those involved. :D
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Hi Alec - I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for setting up this site and maintaining it for many years. It is without doubt the best War Gaming Site on the internet with the most civil and polite membership I have come across and this I believe is down to your guiding principles as well as the board moderators influence and I hope this continues.
I'll be honest and say that I am saddened by the fact that it has moved from Germany to Britain partly because it's likely to change from an Indie operation to a commercial one with what ever that might imply
I couldn't agree more.
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Pictorum Plumbum te Salutant!
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Many thanks to the former admins, congrats to the current ones and Long Live Lead Adventure!
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Hi Alec - I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for setting up this site and maintaining it for many years. It is without doubt the best War Gaming Site on the internet with the most civil and polite membership I have come across and this I believe is down to your guiding principles as well as the board moderators influence and I hope this continues.
I'll be honest and say that I am saddened by the fact that it has moved from Germany to Britain partly because it's likely to change from an Indie operation to a commercial one with what ever that might imply and partly because the War Gaming world is Anglo Centric UK and US and having this very influential forum based elsewhere just seemed a good thing to me. You will note I am from the UK.
All the best to the new LAF and all who sail in her.
EXACTLY! ;)
BTW: Shitty new formatting and ping. It seems that UK would NEVER get things done with the proverbial German efficiency! :D
But North Star's Nick is widely known as a very nice and serious guy, so I am pretty sure things will improve with time! ;)
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A very hearty THANK YOU! To the Prof! Without you, none of us would be here.
Congrats on the switchover and to Nick on your new baby!
However, my colors are now all....
(https://i.imgur.com/2zTZBAj.png)
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The new site looks nice, the URL is clean, and I actually remembered my password. This is good.
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For the iPad, you will need to change to the new .com address. http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php
Mick you lost me. Have to do this for all right?
Had to do it on my PC as well as my tablet.
What am i missing?
Grimm
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Yes, for all, that’s just the new forum URL whichever device you’re using.
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Yes, for all, that’s just the new forum URL whichever device you’re using.
Thx Cap. The for the iPad" comment threw me. Thought those Sauce people were getting something special again. :-)
Grimm
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Did make me think of one question though, do we still need to censor certain WW2 symbols in pics of our models?
The legal imperative has gone and I'm sure there will be a relaxed rule revision in due course. Ultimately though it will come down to the owner's desires as to what he wants/permits to be displayed on his site.
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Any idea as to why my PMs involving different people have been combined into what resembles a single thread?
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It’s just the way they appear now. The forum software is a newer version, and the way some things manifest is not quite the same as it was before. PMs now appear to display in a chain, like a thread, as you say. Not sure if that’s a settings issue that can be changed by the admin, but it doesn’t seem like a problem to me? Just different :)
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It makes it rather tricky to follow a PM thread if they're all intermixed...
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Have you tried setting your PM preferences in your account? There is a conversation setting there.
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Here's another one - links within posts that reference discussions on the previous incarnation of the Lead Adventure Forum are now broken, e.g. one from this post about a previous Red Dragon junk build:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=106290.msg1329223#msg1329223
The previous, and now broken, link was:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=65109.0
It ought to work as follows, however:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=65109.0
Might I thus suggest a search-and-replace for URLs within posts that used to reference the old domain, replacing them with ones citing the new domain?
Without a fix, cross-references from before the migration will, effectively, be lost, losing some synergy and likely diverting the curious towards making more use of the search functionality.
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For info, anybody who was using feedly, or another RSS reader, should change the feed URL to http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml
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Might I thus suggest a search-and-replace for URLs within posts that used to reference the old domain, replacing them with ones citing the new domain?
I am informed that efforts are underway to resolve this issue. It is hoped that this will make manually changing all the links unnecessary. So you might want to hold off doing so to save yourselves some effort.
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I am informed that efforts are underway to resolve this issue. It is hoped that this will make manually changing all the links unnecessary. So you might want to hold off doing so to save yourselves some effort.
Surely a simple search and replace of the code could sort much of those issues out.
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Well I've got about a hundred links in my "Links to Colonial Battle Reports" thread. If there's an automatic way to fix all those, I'm damned if I'm going to do it manually. Sod that for a game of soldiers. :)
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Have you tried setting your PM preferences in your account? There is a conversation setting there.
Thanks! That did the trick!
However, what happened to my "sent" messages? Aha! Although the PM section and tree view seem to default to the Inbox, the Sent messages folder can be found by clicking on the "Messages" icon.
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Above the list of messages there's a tab that says "Messages Actions Preferences." The Messages option has a drop-down menu, one of the options on which is to look at your sent messages.
A bit clunky, compared with the old system, but there we are.
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Ah, here you all are!
Nice new place, same nice old decor.
Thanks for the tip about the column button.
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Is the list of users viewing a particular board/ thread gone now, or am I just missing it? How ever will be know when there's 1000 spam bots on the Post-Apocalyptic board now?! ;D
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Lotsa avatars seem to have gone AWOL lol
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Mark from Wargames Illustrated did all the technical swopover stuff and gave us space on their server, which is why their address comes up. They've done it all for nowt, so thanks very much to Mark for his work.
Might I suggest some sort of notice when redirecting, especially now that the transfer is still very recent? The difference between http://leadadventureforum.com and http://leadadventureforum.com isn't immediately apparent to everyone, I assume. Just a five second redirection notice along the lines of "Looking for LAF? Lose the www! This address leads to Wargames Illustrated, who are hosting LAF" might be useful for the first few months.
Other than that, absolutely no gripes. Great work!
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Glad to have LAF back. Looking good!
Is there a way to increase the font size on the main topic page? Much smaller than before.
Thanks
Chuck
I'm with Chuck on this. The font on my PC is a bit smaller than before making it a little less comfortable to read. Is there a button I can press to fix this?
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I managed to toggle the side bar using the button top right above the bit that contains the posts.
[This might have come up elsewhere in this thread,sorry if that is the case]
Could it be differences in browser rendering?
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I am informed that efforts are underway to resolve this issue. It is hoped that this will make manually changing all the links unnecessary. So you might want to hold off doing so to save yourselves some effort.
OOOoh yes.
There is a list of links to games AARs on my ruleset website, I just notice that they are broken too.
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It is a little bit strange, when you use the adress: http://leadadventureforum.com and you find yourself on the website from Wargames Illustrated.
Only the less popular site http://leadadventureforum.com brings you to the forum.
Does it mean, that this forum will be "eaten" by the wargames illustrated? Or how will the link redirect in the next days???
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At least the button to get rid of that annoying left panel is now working perfectly! :D
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Thanks for that NurgleHH.
That's a mistake. I'm not Wargames Illustrated. The new server for LAF is the same as Wargames Illustrated is on, because I asked my chums at WI to do the technical side of things for the change over. We'll get it sorted tomorrow.
Nick
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Alright, I'm now getting used to this outlook though there's one thing, likely just me having a problem with:
(https://i.imgur.com/iLWT9zd.jpg)
That line, it's just so barely visible there that it strains my eyes.
Any chance it could be made a bit darker someday after the more pressing concerns are looked after?
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Alright, I'm now getting used to this outlook though there's one thing, likely just me having a problem with:
(https://i.imgur.com/iLWT9zd.jpg)
That line, it's just so barely visible there that it strains my eyes.
Any chance it could be made a bit darker someday after the more pressing concerns are looked after?
Use Ctrl together with the + sign to make things bigger on your screen! ;)
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Thanks for that NurgleHH.
That's a mistake. I'm not Wargames Illustrated. The new server for LAF is the same as Wargames Illustrated is on, because I asked my chums at WI to do the technical side of things for the change over. We'll get it sorted tomorrow.
Nick
Good to hear, sometimes migration is pain in the a...
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I miss the "started by" column from the good old days. It made everything look much more organised. The board looks more scrambeled and cluttered now.
I realise I can stille see who started a thread, but it was easier to scan through before.
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I miss the "started by" column from the good old days. It made everything look much more organised. The board looks more scrambeled and cluttered now.
I realise I can stille see who started a thread, but it was easier to scan through before.
You still have a sorting option for "Started By" next to "Subject" in the board views. It's not yet there in the "Unread" view and related items (i.e. those views that collate Posts from various boards), but in the topical boards, you can sort by topic starter.
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Hi guys!
The Gallery between Calendar and Members is not visible to me.
Any idea how to get the Gallery to show up?
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Um. Don’t know Ray. It’s disappeared for me as well 🙁
Will flag it to the webmaster.
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Me too :o
I hope it comes back :)
However, the Gallery can be reached via this link
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery)
I haven’t tested it to see if images will still load
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Thanks for the link, pictures do load and link to reports, I've just done it. A very timely post as I was scratching my head wondering where the gallery had gone!!
I normally load pictures at 800 pixels wide and they used to display fine on the laptop - now they are overlapping the page on my post, has anyone experimented with picture size on the new layout to find out what displays correctly?
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Um. Don’t know Ray. It’s disappeared for me as well 🙁
Will flag it to the webmaster.
Might have to have something to do with moderator rights.
Dunno... I did clear my cache, but still no gallery.
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Just got the gallery back!
:)
And the images seem to work fine.
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A little thing but I'm not convinced the 'Notify' button works (y'know, so you get emails when your threads are commented on) - anyone else experiencing that? I tried toggling it too and it doesn't seem to be working...
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As you know the site admins have now fixed the problems with the gallery URLs (picture address) there are still a few errors hiding in nooks and crannies around the forum. I noticed one by people pointing out that the impressive array of Painting Club honours had turned invisible. The reason was that I had uploaded a jpeg-image with the honour badges into the forum gallery and linked to it in my signature. I had to go to my profile and change the address from 'http:// www.lead-adventure.de/...' to 'leadadventureforum.com/...'
See attached image...
The above case is just an example of how this issue can appear. In the described case you can amend it yourself in your profile but should you need help, let us know.
We have another issue where avatars have become invisible. It seems to be browser or device related. We are still working with that one but will let you know when we have resolved it.
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The Lead Apocalypse painting club badge survived across the domain change and redirects fine, but the Future Wars Painting Club: 101 Space Oddities didn't.
They are, however, both at the new leadadventures.com address if folk update their signature
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Apologies if this has been covered (in this thread or elsewhere) - I've rarely been on the site the last few weeks. Happy that the move went well though.
I'm colourblind and I have trouble with reading users names on the dark green (e.g. "zemjw" in his reply above. I didn't have this problem on the old version of the site.
Can we personally change colours or can that combination be tweaked to assist those of us that are colour blind?
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And I just ran a search and the highlight of my search term (different colour in bold) is impossible for me to read. I don't think all colour matches occured from the old to new site. Thanks in advance to the mods.
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A little thing but I'm not convinced the 'Notify' button works (y'know, so you get emails when your threads are commented on) - anyone else experiencing that? I tried toggling it too and it doesn't seem to be working...
Yep, not working for me either. Also tried to turn it off and on again, but it doesn't help.
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Yep, not working for me either. Also tried to turn it off and on again, but it doesn't help.
I actually found my notifications in spam - something to do with the domain change perhaps?
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I can confirm that gmail consider them as spam.
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After half a year off I was quite surprised by the changes. Not only because of the big banner-ad in the middle of the screen but also that I had to google the new address, because my bookmark was pointing to LA-minis website. Nevertheless I'm happy that this great community continues and that I can log in to my account without any problems. Good work! And a big "hello" from me to the "new" site!