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Re: Software update

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Excellent work, thanks for the quick response! Everything works as it should now.

I personally prefer to link to other FECC threads by hyperlinking the text I've written (rather than posting the URL), but your code is a nice feature to have, too.


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Hi Jordan,

I was wondering... is the search feature fully functioning yet? I'm trying to find a thread that asked a question about what song(s) Elvis whistled on but I'm coming up empty handed :(

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Vissie wrote:Hi Jordan,

I was wondering... is the search feature fully functioning yet? I'm trying to find a thread that asked a question about what song(s) Elvis whistled on but I'm coming up empty handed :(

Hope you had a lovely holiday ;)
Hi Vissie
Surpisingly - Not yet LOL
I'm always trying to catch the forum at "off peak hours" to do the indexing because it will slow the board down whilst it's running the bot. And the past few weeks there have been numerous people online all the time! It'll get done, just taking longer than expected.


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Vissie wrote:Hi Jordan,

I was wondering... is the search feature fully functioning yet? I'm trying to find a thread that asked a question about what song(s) Elvis whistled on but I'm coming up empty handed :(

Hope you had a lovely holiday ;)
Hi Vissie
Surpisingly - Not yet LOL
I'm always trying to catch the forum at "off peak hours" to do the indexing because it will slow the board down whilst it's running the bot. And the past few weeks there have been numerous people online all the time! It'll get done, just taking longer than expected.
Hi Jordan,

No worries! ;) I am very sympathetic to the issues you face regarding Fecc :D I hope you had a wonderful holiday!



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Re: Software update

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The forum software has been upgraded to the latest version. All modifications from the previous version have been carried over. If you notice any problems, please contact me here on this thread -- or via PM/Email.

P.S. Vissie, the search index is (finally) almost completely built :)


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fecc-mechanic wrote:The forum software has been upgraded to the latest version. All modifications from the previous version have been carried over. If you notice any problems, please contact me here on this thread -- or via PM/Email.

P.S. Vissie, the search index is (finally) almost completely built :)
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Re: Software update

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I have been tinkering with an issue that some may have noticed.
When you have an email address in your post - the software adds something like:

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me@fake-email.com
I have tinkered with the core code of the forum and believe to have fixed this quirk, though it is still popping up occasionally.

To make sure this does not occur, when typing an email address into your post - please use the "e-mail" button in the compose screen so it looks like this when drafting your post (just like you would do if you wanted to insert a quote/bold/italic etc):

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[e-mail]me@fake-email.com[/e-mail]
I have also gone back through the posts to the best of my ability to delete the: part in all the older posts.


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Re: Software update

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Some new features added.

1. A Strikethru code
2. Ability to:
Border your text
And the coolest one --
3. An ebay code...
All you do is type the ebay item number.. For example purposes --- 170317262394
Then highlight the item number, and press the "ebay" button above.

You will then get this:
[ebay]170317262394[/ebay]

An up-to-date status of that particular item.. Should be useful in the Trade Section!


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This new facility whereby you can strike through a word is pretty pointless great !
Not sure about the 'border' thing, or even if it works !


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I just tried to post using the new 'strike' & 'border' facility, but when I hit 'submit' my PC crashed !

I've got Windows Vista.

Oh, I see the post did arrive !

The crash was a coincidence, maybe ?

Will try it again !


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There is now a 'Strike' and a
border
facility.

Testing...... one...... two.......

Edit - seems OK now !


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Yep, must of been a coincidence Colin. Nothing funky about any of the new codes, they are just basic html converted over to the 'code' the forum uses.
What do you think of the ebay thingy??? Pretty cool imo.


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Thanks Jordan.



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The forum software has just been upgraded to the latest version. This update was a little more in depth, as it involved changing some core, structural things in the database. So if you notice any errors - please let me know here/via pm/or email.


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A bug that popped up its ugly head:
The topic reply emails had become severely malformed since the upgrade.
This has been corrected.


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The forum software has been updated to the latest stable version. If you notice any errors or bugs - please post here and give a detailed description of the error you are receiving.


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Update 11/11/10:
A "Similar Topics" Feature has been added to the bottom of each topic.


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fecc-mechanic wrote:Update 11/11/10:
A "Similar Topics" Feature has been added to the bottom of each topic.
Sounds like a handy thing to have !

How far back does it look for 'Similar Topics' ?


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ColinB wrote:
fecc-mechanic wrote:Update 11/11/10:
A "Similar Topics" Feature has been added to the bottom of each topic.
Sounds like a handy thing to have !

How far back does it look for 'Similar Topics' ?
Right now it goes back for 12 months. After a few days I may move it to 24 or 36 if there are no performance issues.


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fecc-mechanic wrote:
ColinB wrote:
fecc-mechanic wrote:Update 11/11/10:
A "Similar Topics" Feature has been added to the bottom of each topic.
Sounds like a handy thing to have !

How far back does it look for 'Similar Topics' ?
Right now it goes back for 12 months. After a few days I may move it to 24 or 36 if there are no performance issues.
Thank you. All members should acknowledge your work. Sorry for taking you "for granted".



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The forum software has been updated to the latest version.
As always, please report any bugs/problems in this thread.

Thanks!


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Not able to use in Post a reply...bold, italic, underline....youtube...font colors.



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EPA4368 wrote:Not able to use in Post a reply...bold, italic, underline....youtube...font colors.
Should work now.
Sorry about that :)


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fecc-mechanic wrote:
EPA4368 wrote:Not able to use in Post a reply...bold, italic, underline....youtube...font colors.
Should work now.
Sorry about that :)
No worries! You do a great job Taking Care of Business. Thanks! ::rocks



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The forum software has been updated to the latest version.
As always, please report any bugs/problems in this thread.

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