You also want to specify that the image must be a gif within a specific resolution. We dont want wierd huge jpgs of beachcats. LOL

Mary, the quick reply is here to avoid you having to click to open the reply page. The quick reply also does not have all the quirks of the forum. For instance the smilies, tags, etc etc all teh BB Code stuff.

Its usefull for the 1337 /\/3rD5 that know their codes. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

The current flame image is 15x15 pixels. If you have any sugessted replacement image, please post them here as an attachment.

BTW: Currently you can attach .txt, jpg, .gif files. Are there any other formats that may need to be allowed in this forum?

.pdf .tif

Some people have tried in the past to post .doc files but I can understand why you might not want to allow those

Is it possible to get the highlighting of modified threads back?

Nope, the quick reply does NOT reply to the last person who posted. Guess the forum is too fast now. I was replying right after my own post, and it still gave me as the replyee, even though three other people posted in between my two posts. But that's GOOD. It knows who I INTENDED to reply to.

Mary the thing is, if you take a long time to reply and others are replying at the same time, that will happen.

It will reply to the last person who replied into the thread, not the last person you have on your screen. What you see and what is going on are two separate things.

You can now upload the following file formats:

.txt,.gif,.jpg,.pdf,.tif

Also, the maximum file size is set to 2Mb.

Admin:

Can we get the new post highlights back? The instant gremlins don't work.

Doug

I still don't see any reason for the flame thing in the first place with a web site of this type, but it will be up to Rick whether we eliminate that feature or not (by upping the numbers to astronomical). And it will be up to Rick if we continue to use this feature but adopt some other icon (hopefully one that doesn't include motion). <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Mary why are you so against it? Does it slow down your PC? It is a default feature in the forum. Tons of other forums use this feature as well. I think its a cool thing to have.

My vote goes against eliminating it.

was feeling (burp) a bit queasy myself

I think it just needs to be a different icon which doesn't stand out as much.

Also, I have the search working now. You can search back 1 year. The longer back you search, the more load it places on the system and the longer you searches will take.

I think the 30-40 number sounds pretty good. I mean, I read most every post but there have been times most recently where I have to scan for some especially interesting stuff and skip the others just to save some time. As the volume on this forum continues to grow (which it has considerably in the last 6 months) it will be nice to have something like the flame indicate that the topic is very active. There will probably be a time (probably soon) where it will be difficult to read every post (without getting fired at work!).

Okay, for now we will let the flames burn based on what Chad has set. But if there are too many flames burning, I will have to turn on the sprinklers, because I just hate stuff moving over there on the left side of my peripheral vision.

Mary there is a way to turn it off, strictly on your PC. Let me know if you are interested. It will affect all animated gifs though. So just a heads up.

Thanks, Robi, but I want to be sure I am seeing what everybody else is seeing on our web site. It's not a personal thing.

Also, the migration of email, website, and the store were major upgrades to new hardware. If anyone finds anything that does not appear to be working elsewhere on the site, please post that info here as well....

now that's funny!

Just thought I'd mention that the new search function is excellent! Quantum leap over the old one! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I would like to vote for entlarging the search time frame.

Currently it is 1 year and that is too short.

Maybe we can have it default at 1 year but still allow longer time frames.

I personally use the search function alot to do fact checking. Also thread dealing with trim, spi sailing are often out side of the year timeframe.

I also miss the "or" / "and" option in the keyword search. With the new search engine you can much less fine tune your search parameters.

Wouter