[edited] "fan submissions" and Forum Issues sub-boards

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Hey, so far I've noticed three problems w/ the forums.

1)I know people have said this before, just not sure if it was here - the search button does absolutely nothing. [fixed]

2) "Fan Submissions" sub-category of "Sins of a Solar Empire" does not show up on the home page like the others. [not yet fixed, same thing with this sub-board]

3)Noticed in thread "Digi*Cons Wars" the spock digicon sometimes glitches and gives this " (\B):vulcan:(\B) " [fixed, I think]

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

That is the actual spock glitch happening above, not me copying what it shows when it does it.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Fascinating :fuzzy:

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

figures spock would be the first to respond to a spock glitch.:P :borg:

the glitch doesn't always happen, and it doesn't only happen to me (another person in Digi*Con Wars had it happen as well)

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1. I clicked on the search button and it worked just fine.  I even made a few searches and only pressed the search button and they all worked.  We are talking about the same search button right?  The one for the forums at the top of the page where it says "Welcome [username]?"  Let me know.

2. That may have been done on purpose.  If Zoomba doesn't see this I'll bring it to his attention.

3. Odd bug.  I'll add it to my list of "Forum ToDos."  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Bara

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

@1 might be using firefox..... i am and the search does not work, it does in explorer

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 4
1. I clicked on the search button and it worked just fine.  I even made a few searches and only pressed the search button and they all worked.  We are talking about the same search button right?  The one for the forums at the top of the page where it says "Welcome [username]?"  Let me know.
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Sorry, your search for 'thalans' returned 0 results.

Quoting voidcore, reply 5
@1 might be using firefox..... i am and the search does not work, it does in explorer
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It does?  Wonder why.  Never checked, to be honest.

 

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

1)I know people have said this before, just not sure if it was here - the search button does absolutely nothing.
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If you are usin Firefox may I suggest Ubiquity + the custom searches Shirley built?

https://forums.wincustomize.com/?postid=326818


Awesome!

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting voidcore, reply 5
@1 might be using firefox..... i am and the search does not work, it does in explorer
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I'm using Firefox 3... I dont get anything for "Thalans" but I do get results for other searches, such as Stardock (15 pages, which for a forum as small as GuiChamps, isn't unlikely).

Bara

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, I tried using the Spock emoticon heaps of times and got the same error, I suspect Fuzzy is using HTML, I'll give it a shot now in html mode:fuzzy:   

Edit.. It's already been fixed by the look of it, sweet ;)

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

well i tried searching for stardock.. and ill be damned the first time it worked in FF 3.0.5 today! :D praise the lord! and hell has frozen over! it is a small step for man a huge leap for mankind!!  :borg: i will mark this in my calender and celebrate years to come :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: .... btw those are real ive already had em ;P

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is Spock!?  :fuzzy:   OMG, I thought it was Eddie Munster!

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

I have IE, and it was a little while since I've checked them.

note: just checked search, turned up 0 results on the first two things I checked.  searched for "Korigul", "Remnants", and "Sins".  in that order.  Remnants is part of the name of my story in sins general, Korigul the main ship so far.  "Sins" turned up three pages, so I'm not sure how it works anymore.  does it search titles, content, or what?

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting k10w3, reply 11
This is Spock!?    OMG, I thought it was Eddie Munster!
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LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he's a cross-breed:blush:

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Odd bug. I'll add it to my list of "Forum ToDos."
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while there's a list going   :D .......little thing.....not all of the 'Classic' smilies displayed...end up the same when posted....

 

for example....sad   : (    ...comes up angry.....       and..... Yum  : d   becomes ..big smile   : D

 

thanks....in anticipation...

 

 

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

so............ any news?

I know the Search has been fixed

note: add Forum Issues to the sub-topics not displayed on home page.  my suggestion, and if there's a lot of mistakes, forgive me, it's 5 a.m.:

(for Sins site)

SOASE general

General

Modding

Multiplayer organizer

Sins Dev journals

Sins news

Strategy

Multiplayer

Fan Submissions

Technical

general

Beta Feedback

Forum Issues

Sins Clans

General

Clan Presentation

Member lists (may be stickied in Clans general instead, under announcements threads)

Off-topic

General

PC gaming

Personal Computing

Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

2) "Fan Submissions" sub-category of "Sins of a Solar Empire" does not show up on the home page like the others. [not yet fixed, same thing with this sub-board]
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As far as this item there are at least dozens of forums across Stardock's 12 different forum sites that have this same problem.

I refer to these as "invisible" forums and there may be more than 100 of them. One thing is that some of these forums are actually listed in the pulldown menu that's accessed by the down arrow at the right side of the top level forum listed in the sites category list (of course this only applies to top level subforums, sub-subforums are not visible using this method).

You can also see all forums accessible on a particular site by "walking the tree". For example if you select the Sins of a Solar forum and scroll down to the bottom of the post list then you see all of the subforums listed including Fan Submissions in the Sub Category list. If you do this for all forums and subforums on a site you will usually find many such "invisible" forums although naturally there are far fewer of these on the newer sites than on the old established sites like JU and WC.

You can also see that the forum exists and post to it by simply creating a post anywhere on the Sins site and use the pulldown menu on the post category.

But the most obvious way to see the forum is to see a thread that's in the forum scroll by on the recent posts list.

Like I said this is nothing new and something that applies to many if not hundreds of other forums scattered across SD's 12 forum sites.

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

2) "Fan Submissions" sub-category of "Sins of a Solar Empire" does not show up on the home page like the others. [not yet fixed, same thing with this sub-board]
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It's intentional. Only the more commonly used categories are put on the front page to reduce clutter. Brad or Zoomba typically decides which ones will appear there.