I'm lost!

iamback

... or maybe the forum lost me?

When I registered (yesterday) here my very first action was to set up my profile - including a location. I see posts from many people here where the location is actually displayed in the left box ... but mine is not. Why not?

On another vBulletin-powered forum I frequent, locations are always shown (including mine). See my public profile there (v.3.6.5) and here (v.3.5.2). The location text is even literally the same, and yet doesn't show up here with my posts. What gives?

ivar

iamback wrote:

... or maybe the forum lost me?

When I registered (yesterday) here my very first action was to set up my profile - including a location. I see posts from many people here where the location is actually displayed in the left box ... but mine is not. Why not?

On another vBulletin-powered forum I frequent, locations are always shown (including mine). See my public profile there (v.3.6.5) and here (v.3.5.2). The location text is even literally the same, and yet doesn't show up here with my posts. What gives?

Hi Marjolein,

3.5.2 has a small problem, it needs to have data in the field 'dream goodies' for the location to show up. I just entered a period in that field for you, and now it shows. You can change it to something else of course.

I couldn't access the profile on the other forum, as you needed to be registered I believe.

Welkom bij Digital Grin trouwens! Als je vragen hebt, stel ze gerust. Zie mijn 'signature' voor 'how to do most anything' of dit forum, alhoewel het meeste je wel bekend zal voorkomen

iamback

ivar wrote:

3.5.2 has a small problem, it needs to have data in the field 'dream goodies' for the location to show up. I just entered a period in that field for you, and now it shows. You can change it to something else of course.

Aaah, I had some gut feeling it was somehow version-related <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/mwink.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > - that's why I listed them. But I'd never have thought of that one! Thanks for the hack - it does indeed show up now. (I left that field "intentionally blank" since I don't really have any "goodies" dreams atm. Honest! (Except a new computer (dear old Grace is faithful but rather ancient now), but that would be a bit off-topic here.)

ivar wrote:

I couldn't access the profile on the other forum, as you needed to be registered I believe.

Duh, I wasn't sure of that, I'm always logged in ... Just go to the home page and you can find all my posts - I'm using the same nick iamback there.

Welkom bij Digital Grin trouwens! Als je vragen hebt, stel ze gerust. Zie mijn 'signature' voor 'how to do most anything' of dit forum, alhoewel het meeste je wel bekend zal voorkomen

Jawel... (ik tik zelfs normaal gesproken rechtstreeks de BBcode in, da's veel sneller dan die stomme buttons) <grumble> maar die dubbelepunt-groteD van je werkt dus niet meer, en ';)' of ';-)' evenmin. Had gisteren dus behoorlijk ruzie met posten hier. 't Zou toch wel handig zijn als een aantal van de "klassieke" smilies gewoon zouden werken en je niet alsmaar in een popup moet zoeken of er iets is wat er een beetje op lijkt </grumble> - zo is er geen lol aan.

Enne... dubbelepunt-ivar werkt ook niet meer: als je naar de lijst met smilies gaat blijkt dat er een heel aantal is waarvoor (nog) wel een code is maar geen bijbehorende smilie (meer?).

ivar

iamback wrote:

Jawel... (ik tik zelfs normaal gesproken rechtstreeks de BBcode in, da's veel sneller dan die stomme buttons) <grumble> maar die dubbelepunt-groteD van je werkt dus niet meer, en ';)' of ';-)' evenmin. Had gisteren dus behoorlijk ruzie met posten hier. 't Zou toch wel handig zijn als een aantal van de "klassieke" smilies gewoon zouden werken en je niet alsmaar in een popup moet zoeken of er iets is wat er een beetje op lijkt </grumble> - zo is er geen lol aan.

Enne... dubbelepunt-ivar werkt ook niet meer: als je naar de lijst met smilies gaat blijkt dat er een heel aantal is waarvoor (nog) wel een code is maar geen bijbehorende smilie (meer?).

dubbele punt-grote , dubbele punt-ivar: :ivar werkt volgens mij toch wel aardig? Mis jij smilies? Alle smilies die gelist zijn zouden gewoon moeten werken.

Zie:

(Click on image for a larger version)

en :-) hebben we niet hier, sorry.


sub-titles: Smilies seem to be working for me. Are you missing smilies? All smilies listed should show up. We don't have and :-) smilies.

The BBcode can be entered in all three editors we have by the way, including the wysiwyg one (shudder), and should work correctly. It is the way I use it as well.

iamback

ivar wrote:

dubbele punt-grote , dubbele punt-ivar: :ivar werkt volgens mij toch wel aardig? Mis jij smilies?

Ja dus... (yes, I'm missing those smilies - and more!)

Alle smilies die gelist zijn zouden gewoon moeten werken.

Hmm, "zouden moeten", maar dat doen ze bij mij niet (ik zie je code pas als ik quote). Zie attachment (three missing smilies in this part!) - een deel van de hele popup, maar hier zie ik al 3 lege vakjes - verderop nog meer. Hmm - ik heb een user stylesheet in FF om reklame uit te filteren maar het lijkt me stug dat dat op zulke kleine plaatjes triggert, daar kun je geen ads in kwijt. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <== die werkt in elk geval wel (that one does work)!

The BBcode can be entered in all three editors we have by the way, including the wysiwyg one (shudder)

Brrrt!

<grumble>Now Dgrin tells me my perfectly valid PNG screenshot is not a valid image file! Had to convert it to GIF.</grumble> I'll get used to it, I guess...

ivar

Interesting.

Try clearing your browser's cache. For Firefox 2/Windows:
From the Tools menu, select Clear Private Data, and then choose Cache.

Let me know if this helps.

iamback

ivar wrote:

Try clearing your browser's cache. For Firefox 2/Windows:
From the Tools menu, select Clear Private Data, and then choose Cache.

Cache cleared (successfully - it took quite a while for all the ("working") smilies to load into the popup window again). Unfortunately, it didn't help: exactly the same ones are missing - and also missing from the little box next to the editor window (see attachment vB still won't let me upload valid PNG images; converted to GIF).

Full list of "missing" smilies:

• : D
• :ivar : ivar
• : barb
• :patch : patch
• :whew : whew
• :lynnsite : lynnsite
• :deadhorse : deadhorse
• :saurora : saurora
• :jfriend : jfriend
• :mlane : mlane
• :seamus : seamus
• :rutt : rutt
• :cavig : cavig
• :bwg : bwg
• :lurk : lurk
• :skippy : skippy
• :davidto : davidto

(lurk is lurking but gone is not gone! )

Things that might help hunting for a cause on my side:

• Can you see any commonalities there?
• Can you give me exact pixel sizes for the images listed above?
• Are all smilies being served from the same server?

iamback

I figured it out, but it took some doing: all the "invisible" smilies are served from an Amazon S3 server (not within the SmugMug domain), and sitting in a directory with a name starting with "adv". That triggers the ad-suppression stylesheet.

I've no commented out that line, but still need to decide what's more important: seeing a bunch of silly smilies or not seeing all ad images sitting in a directory starting with "adv"...

(Why not all smilies are served from the same server at least, beats me. Never mind. <shrug/>)

Andy

iamback wrote:

(Why not all smilies are served from the same server at least, beats me. Never mind. <shrug/>)

Because we get better performance from the ones on S3

iamback

Andy wrote:

Because we get better performance from the ones on S3

?? That doesn't explain why they're not all in the same location! Don't you want that better performance for all of them instead of only a minority of them?

And it might help to put them in a directory that doesn't have a name that suggests advertizing. If you want them to actually be seen after the server has already been hit, that is.

Andy

iamback wrote:

?? That doesn't explain why they're not all in the same location! Don't you want that better performance for all of them instead of only a minority of them?

Hello Iamback,

We do the best we can here with the resources possible. At some point, in the future, we will soldier all these up. Frankly, it's not a high priority for me, I'm sorry it is for you, and I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you.