Technical Problems - Forums, Features, Etc.

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Posted: September 30, 2007 - 2:47pm

Having trouble posting? Getting strange results when you load a page? Report these and other strange occurrences in the desert here! (Feel free to mention what OS and browser you're using also, as it helps nail the problem.) Thanks!

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Several questions

On March 14th, 2009 Parcher said:

How do you:

1. Put fan photos into your profile? I searched under the "Edit" area but could only change my personal information.

2. Post Youtube clips in a forum thread? Since there is no way to edit posts, I can't experiment. Many forums have the [yt] [/yt ] thing or the [youtube][/ youtube] thing . . . but I have no way of knowing how to embed short videos.

3. Post pictures in a forum thread. Is it the standard [img ] type of thing or is there something I don't know?

Also, is there a way to edit posts that I'm just not getting? My ignorance in these areas is profound . . . I am in desperate need of education!!

Thanks oddles!!
-Eric

Several answers

On March 14th, 2009 Mr. Pid said:

Fan photos can be uploaded by using the "Submit content" item in the nav stack to the left in the my dead.net section.

Forum posts allow standard HTML syntax. Whether or not client browsers will properly render the tags is another story. Note that there is a Preview comment button you can use to assess how your post might render.

Direct editing of committed posts by users is not an option. If you really want something altered, you could try sending a PM to our beloved mod Marye. As she has previously posted, no guarantee such requests will be implemented.

Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

Oh duh I'm retarded

On March 14th, 2009 Parcher said:

Thanks tons for:

1. The HTML tip. I'm pretty familiar with HTML

2. The proof of my dumbness because of the preview button. Now I can use the scientific method of trial and error.

I'm actually supposed to be quite intelligent . . . possibly "gifted" because my brother is. However, human error and plain dumbness is not alien to my procedings. Thanks for the help which you did perfectly.

Peace,
-E

Uploading

On April 29th, 2009 Steve-O said:

I've tryed posting a new pic of my boy and I twice. It still hasn't shown up yet.
Thanks
Peace

it's not going through

On April 30th, 2009 marye said:

please try again.

member identities not consistent

On May 6th, 2009 Alaskahead said:

So under the tour page posts someone will post a message. Three times now I've tried to reply but the link to their supposed name goes to a search page, when I manually input the name on a compose link within inbox, the name doesn't appear on the search list.
How can an identity (member name) appear underlined atop a post, but then not be there to respond to, or find under a search? I've fiddled around and wonder if the name gets corrupted, like adding a space, or an erroneous digit at the end of their name when they post their message?
Anyway,it's disconcerting cause I'm trying to respond to someone's need for tix.
thanks so much, mark

that's an odd one...

On May 6th, 2009 marye said:

one thing is that people can change their names pretty much on the fly. But a lot of them also include spaces or underscores or other none-too-visible characters in their names, too.

If yu're having persistent issues with a particular person on this, lemme know and I'll look into it.

wke up call

On May 7th, 2009 lethedoom said:

lethedoom

This week's Grateful Dead Hour is not included on the friont page 'The Latest' list and it is necessary to navigate through four pages to listen to it. Whoever is syncing your site is out of order or sleeping in.

http://www.dead.net/front_page -->

http://www.dead.net/features -->

http://www.dead.net/features/gdhour -->

http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-807

so about the Fan Pix uploads

On September 9th, 2009 marye said:

As many have had occasion to observe, the Fan Pix upload is not working just exactly perfect of late. Our intrepid tech Jonathan has made some tweaks that may help; if you continue to experience difficulties, please report details here.

One complicating factor appears to be that there is some caching involved and it takes up to 10 minutes for the file to actually be written to the server. If you don't see your pic right away, that may be the issue, and it won't hurt to wait a bit before panicking and/or re-uploading the file half a dozen times.

But we think there may be several issues happening here, so we would appreciate details on your experiences over the next few days while we're monitoring this.

Thanks!

please

On October 18th, 2009 c_c said:

hey anyone know about: phpbb version 3 ???

any phpbb version 3 admins that could impart knowledge about this to Zosofan (Greg)

he is the volunteer admin at jackiegreene.com/fan

please contact him direct over there or let me know and I will pass along the information.

thanks in advance,

peace,
cc