I am Freddy G

Almost everyone on our site uses externally-hosted avatars... things will not be pretty if they can't continue doing so.

Have to agree. I cannot access my test site at the moment (to confirm if this has been removed), but the removal of externally hosted avatars/photos does not make sense either.  Fine to combine the two things, but removing the ability to have avatars and not photos (externally hosted, animated, select from a hosted collection) is a step too far IMHO.

Having selected avatars in the upgrade, the same options should be available to members. Otherwise if someone currently hosts externally or has selected from a number of avatars/badges supplied in the forums, it will add to confusion when they try and replace the said avatar.

On the flip side - the forums do need to move on and every feature cannot remain for ever - however in this case I think it would be better to have removed avatars all together rather than keeping giving the option and then removing the ability to use them as fully as before.

Well currently friends are mostly useless as there is no real advantage to adding people as a friend. I would like to see some more functionality in the friending system aswell...

Alright. Well here it is.

If it seems like I bounce around a lot, it is because I do. My brain rummages through everything first, then dives in.

Thanks,
EBrown

I see you contacted us three times:

• Tue 01 Jun 2010 03:46:13 PM EDT and our staff replied on Tue 01 Jun 2010 04:12:17 PM EDT but you never replied back to us.
  
• Fri 04 Jun 2010 02:56:53 PM EDT and our staff replied on Fri 04 Jun 2010 03:16:44 PM EDT you replied back on Fri 04 Jun 2010 05:30:46 PM EDT and we once again replied Mon 07 Jun 2010 03:05:03 AM EDT but you never replied back to us.
  
• Thu 10 Jun 2010 04:31:55 PM EDT and our staff replied on Fri 11 Jun 2010 10:19:26 AM EDT (in fact this reply was by myself) but you never replied back to us.

At no point did we ignore your requests and actually each time replied well within our quoted terms as part of our license.

If you do not reply to our messages there is nothing we can do about that

I am Freddy G, on 31 May 2010 - 02:45 AM, said:

I agree that the Arrow Button is NON intuitive. However I propose to change the word to Publish!.

Previously my forum had an Update button for status, newbies thought "update" meant that it will "update" (ie AJAX style refresh) that section of the screen.
We ended with a lot of "What's on your mind?" in many newbie's status.

I changed the button label to Publish! and the problem went away.

I like it. It's like the comment box on your page, except for status replies.

I don't speak officially on this, but I don't have a problem with affiliate links in signatures. It's an incentive to help out - Wolfie (and others) help out in return for the hope that someone will click their link to buy. Providing they are helping, and not actually spamming it pointlessly, is that a problem?

One part I can see might be divisive is the flashing banner, so perhaps you might consider stopping the flashing bit Wolfie

I have a dark skin and a light skin. Problem is no matter if I set the reCAPTCHA theme to normal or chrome, it looks utterly crap in one of the skins.

Is it an easy fix to assign a recaptcha theme to a skin? Or is that something that would require a rework of some core code?

Manual patch instructions:

admin/sources/classes/bbcode/custom/defaults.php

~line 1839 find

$this->cache->updateCacheWithoutSaving( '_tmp_bbcode_media', $existing );

add after

		//-----------------------------------------
		// XSS check
		//-----------------------------------------
		
		if( !IPSText::xssCheckUrl( $content ) )
		{
			return $content;
		}

Tried a new mod and it's 98% working:



The only problem is when I save; it's not updating the 'div' description... you need to reload the page.

Trying to fix to release it asap.

Is this an ACP option? If not please consider adding it.

I think most users would opt _not_ to tick the box in the current set-up, but this is a pain for everyone else. I would much prefer an Admin ACP option where we can set it to around 5 minutes or so.

I do that all the time for installs. I upload the zip file and then unzip it on the server.

As per bug report (more feature request though)

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I hope you guys aren't sick of hearing us old vB users ask for things we loved in vB :/  I honestly feel one of the best features with vbulletin (and most under appreciated until lost) is their thread subscriptions, similar to the watched topics for IPB.  Maybe it's just my board or the options I have, but I have made it so that all the topics I post in are watched.  It never shows up that there's a new post in one of my watched threads view the side bar unless it's an old topic that was subscribed years ago (for some reason).  So like I said, maybe it's just my board.

But I think a page to show ONLY the topics which have new posts in it would be phenomenal.  All of my users (literally, all of them) are complaining about not having a page like this like we had for vB.  It helps keep track of threads you've been posting in...especially when you have such a busy site like mine.  I no longer can keep track of everything going on even with the watched topics...but again, it could be b/c my side bar is broken and the fact that there's like 5-6 clicks just to get to the watched topics option in the setting/user cp, where vB had it in front of you once you clicked settings.

I wouldn't be bringing up anything to ask for you guys to add an option similar to vB unless I knew that it would make functionality of your software much much greater.  I love everything you guys have done and are doing with your software!  I just hope little tweaks like this can make it through into production (asap).

Thanks,

Justin