Hmmm, that's not good to hear. I suggested to my Cap'n we change our password because one of our members can't get in using the current one. We really want to get her on the ship again!

I visit the boards nearly every day, and post nearly every day... so why is it that at the top of the forums index page I see:



October 24th? WTF?

Ha! Mine says Oct 25th, never even noticed that before.

So here's an interesting one, and as far as I can tell, just started a few days ago.

If I open up one of the forum subsections (Fun or Real World Discussion, for example) while I'm not logged in, and then log in, somehow all of the threads in that section get marked as read, even though I haven't read them all.

Weird, huh?

The read/unread thing has been unreliable since we got the new forum. If I mark a subforum read and go to another subforum, then come back a few minutes later, multiple threads that I already read are now marked unread. Sometimes it even happens just by going into a thread and then when I finish and return, 3 or 4 of the read threads are marked unread. It can be a little irritating but I've gotten used to it.

But I didn't do anything that should have marked anything read or unread. And it's happened multiple times now.

Step 1) from a computer that you haven't/aren't logged into the boards from go directly to one of the forums, say the Fun Forum for instance.

Step 2) Notice that you're not logged in, and click the login link at the top. Log in.

Now everything in the Fun Forum is marked as having been read for you.

It's odd.

I switch computers between work and home which is how I end up going into a forum w/o logging in first.

Why are the smilies switching positions all the time?

In the beginning, there was light.

No, that's not it. In the beginning, these smilies were on the first smilie tab. They were also on the first tab last night. Now they are on the third smilie tab.

Are you trying to confuse us?

So I'm not the only one with ever changing smilies? That's good to know.

I thought I was having flashbacks...glad I'm not alone

Why does my gender keep getting turned off? With my user name, I really like folks to know I have girl parts.

*pats Hero's hand*

We know you have boobies, Hon. We know.

Good!

Trust me...we know you have girl parts!
*waggles eyebrows a la Groucho Marx*

*snort*

But every now and then I wonder into somewhere that I usually don't go, and people start calling me "he" and it's disconcerting.
At Skiffy, I was smart enough to register as HeroineOfCanton, but here, alas, I wasn't so clever.

I must admit, when I first saw your name many moons ago, I thought you were a fella too.

I humbly bow in apology.

No problem. It's my fault for not having my quick wit at hand the day I joined.

I figured it out when you started talking about Mr. Hero. Although that's a little un-PC of me, isn't it? I s'pose you could've still been a guy then.

Don't fret--you were just playing the odds.

Hi! This one isn't high priority... just a touch annoying is all.

So I am setup to "track" several topics, including my thread in Fun. With that thread, I get lovely little e-mails every time somebody posts to my thread after I've read it.

I'm also tracking the Fantastic Christopher Eccleston thread over in General. Not sure why, but I only get e-mails about 10% of the time when that one gets posted to.

Any idea why that might be? I'd like to get the e-mails when folks post...

Could be related to the issue with generally not getting email notification of things, resolved just the other day. Keep an eye on it and see if it is still happening now.

It is. Weird huh?

And now I've had two messages posted in my thread, which has always been reliable before... and not gotten e-mails.

weird.

The two things that immediately springs to mind (and possibly obvious enough that you've already tried them, but I can't know that) is to check that you havent become unsubscribed from the threads (i upgraded the board recently, might've reset some things) and also check any spam filters you have (given that the mailing system was altered it might now have a problem with the source of the mail)

Beyond that I'll have to investigated the support forums more thoroughly

K. Just checked my controls and I'm still subscribed.

I did also get one mail regarding a post to my thread in Fun, so that's good.

I'm having a rough time finding gmail's spam setting, but I get so little spam that I actually check the folder when I have something in it and I never see anything from serenitymovie.org in there... so I don't think that's it.

Hmmm, ok i'll keep looking

Thank you.

Mass PMs. I am the leader of a team and I cannot edit any posts OR send out mass PMs to all of my members...


What up with that?

I've never been able to mass PM my team, but if I could, it would be awesome!

Hey Dev... this isn't a big deal, but strikes me as odd.

When I look at the overall top 20 posters list, I'm not there.

I checked my number of posts against the folks in there, and I should be there, right towards the top.

Why do I not see me? Do you see me when you look?

I've noticed the same thing about me.

Whoa. I pulled up a member search for all members with over 500 posts in descending order and I'm not even on there!!



Please, dev, we wanna come back to the light. It's cold and dark out here!



ETA: It appears that all the paid members are now excluded from ... lists of some kind. O.o I'm hurt.

You people actually look at those lists?

Weird.

Fixed.

Thanks dev! The Austenites love looking at that and teasing me about the people I pass. You've returned a very weird joy to their lives.

Yep. I'm actually wondering when Hero will pass me.



Thank you!

Stop by the Austenites--there's a pool going for when I'll hit 20K.

Can I bet?



*is not comtemplating betting never and then banning Hero at all*

Hey! That's not right!

Ask FlyVote. He's keeping track of the bets and offering a Barnes & Noble gift card to the winner. Also, gossi used to stop by the Austenites on rare occasions, and we'd be more than happy if you did as well.

Yeah but your conversations about the upcoming zombie kitten apocolypse and how crappy skiffy is scares me.

dev you just made my arse fall off and roll around on the floor.

I suppose we are an acquired taste.

Lol. I may have to do that.

Is it back? testing to see..

Yes it's back, and yes it was gone, I spent several hours yesterday and then a few hours this morning working on it but couldnt fix it. Eventually (about 20 hours after I submitted a support ticket) the nice but slow people at IPB fixed it for me.

They also advised me that it was all Gojiro's fault/.

Wow. Sorry to hear that, dev. Thanks for putting in the work, though. We *really* appreciate it.

It still seems like the boards are going down from time to time, but they come back up a little bit later. Still working the kinks out?

What Joni Said™.