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The upgrade isn't really done yet. Just done enough to allow people in again. This was a major upgrade with software that is really not ready for prime time. There will be issues. If you find any, post them here and I'll look into it. Known issues: GS Logo: Looks like crap. It's what happens when you start an upgrade and forget that you still need a logo. I threw it together in about 5 minutes and I have no photoshop skills. Paw is working on a better one. Creating new blog entries apparently isn't working. Getting permission denied errors. If you notice diferent, let me know. Shoutbox needs to be recreated. But.... There are a ton of new features, some most will like, some will drive others nuts. Should be interesting. One new feature of note is the ability to rate a post as good or bad --- which builds a user's overall rating. This should be really interesting. :)

Someone out there is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)! DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT THE EYES: ! When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE THE MORSE CODE : When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: IM A DOT IN PLACE THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE: MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands! (Probably a son-in-law)

nevermind it's messing up my pc

I have the same problem with my family! :lol: George

Ha! Too funny Dooj! Here's how I always keep it straight. Pee Wee danced to Tequila on top of the bar – and Vee Pee drank Drambuie and wound up under the bar.

And it was indeed the bottom of the drambuie glass that he said he saw through darkly. . . . . especially as he uttered those now famous last words.

what is the sewers camping experience?

Well, we all have our "pluses and minuses" now, don't we? :P

now you're at +1 and i somehow have a -1 so you're doing better'n me.

i have a green plus button that says "click to configure post options" and below that i have "add reply", "preview post" and "cancel" should i click to configure post options ? i thought i did that and it got weird. i'll try after i hit reply here thank you for trying to help me i got a million green + and red - scrolling all the way down the screen i clicked on the red and got a green 1 and minus red 1 i don't know those were two posts up above there, if that helps now 3 ha ha ha ha ha oh well and the long line of little green and red boxes with 1's are still there at the moment i did just find that my reputation on here is a -8. i guess that's less than a zero. i'm liking this new site better all the time.

Excie - it might be that you're waiting too long to edit a post. As far as the PM function goes, When I hit on the little envelope which is the icon for a PM under a person's avatar, the main screen darkens and a PM window pops up. Something similar happens when I try to PM from a person's profile. Everything is working fine, just looks different. Actually, I like the way it works now.

Crop circles in Australia are caused by stoned Wallabies in medicinal poppy fields. Australian crop circles

hi, i don't know where the "edit post" button is when i click on a member name and then click "send me a message", everything changes colors and kind of freezes there's other stuff, but i can't remember now thank you

...and I was taught that his last words were "Mecka Lecka Heiney Ho" ...which of course,is a well known Italian curse. This phrase is usually followed by sweeping the top of the hand under the chin and immediately biting the hand. No doubt...the Cyclops was attempting to conjure up the power in his mind.

Thanks GT - This could come in handy.

Multi-quote has been around for a bit. Basically, it allows you to select up to 5 posts to quote all at once in a reply. You click the multi-quote button on each post you want quoted, then hit the reply button. All posts should be quoted for you. There may be a current bug with multi-quotes. Not sure. Think I remember reading about it though...

I used to see an edit button before the update on this web site, but no more. Now I only see "Reply" and "Multiquote" underneath the plus minus symbols. But I am going to see if there is a refresh button that I can click. Maybe the web page needs to be updated for me. Thanks Hap. It is good to figure stuff out with others. Here is my edit: There it is. I clicked the refresh button with the up and then down green arrows at the top of the page towards the right hand side and now the edit button is back. Thanks for going over this with me Hap. Have a good day my friend.

Thanks for tracing that down. It makes sense to me too!

Okay - this is a question and not a complaint. How is "Multi-quote" supposed to work. Thanks for being so patient with all the questions.

Well, it makes sense now.....after looking at my own buttons on my posts.... No need to PM yourself. And hopefully you're friends with yourself already. :) But for everyone else, they're there for them to use.

nope - - not on my own posts or my own profile.....but I see them on other people's. I do see the one for gallery. I've always had that one.

Buttons are there: Not seeing them?

I think I found the problem with the missing buttons. For those that were experiencing it, have they shown up now? If not, could you try force reloading a page (CTRL + R) and see if they appear. If that doesn't work, try clearing your history. Hopefully they work for all. Krys -- could be the same issue with the buttons you're not seeing. Try the same steps.

Thanks for all the hard work.

There is no "icon" next to my posts where someone can click to add me as a friend or send me a private message. Can you fix this? or did I do something wacky. Being friends is nice....but it's more important to get private messages to keep annoying comments and scathing remarks off the main boards.

Thank you Thank you Thank you, GT and Paw, for all you're doing while you could be sleeping and eating and other life stuff to get stuff figured out.

Buttonology looks fine in Firefox. I suspect you may be consigned to hell for using Windoze and IE

Here is what the buttons are supposed to look like, using Safari 4.

Shell, you can scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page, under the page numbers and below the Google ad of the day, and you should see a "Fast Reply" box. Once you click on the box like you're going to write, it expands and you can type in it.

GT, thank you for all you're doing here and I gotta toss my own question in here. Thanks for the other answer, as well. I can't find the 'reply' feature and I'll bet I'm looking right at it. To reply, I hit the quote button, then erase that quote, then reply. Not a big deal, just probably there is some other way; a right way that I'm missing right in front of me.

There are a few quirks I've noticed with where one ends up after clicking a link. The blogs are the worse. May be fixed soon, but not anything I can do about it now. Can you shoot me a screen shot? Either posted here or PM. If you're on Windows, pressing ALT+PrintScreen will capture the current windows. Open up MS Paint, paste it in. Save it as a JPG. You're all set to up load it.

i can't find my controls and nothing happens when i click the dropdown box next to my name and clicking my shadow picture just takes me to my profile and i am logged in. oh oops. i clicked on a little picture that had nothing by it and nothing came up to tell me what it was but guess what? it was "edit my profile" or something. but i can't see most of the buttons now just the pictures but not the words or the outlines.

I do plan to put together a summary of the changes and new features eventually -- once I get everything running correctly. But briefly: Each post has, at the bottom right, a green plus (+) and a red minus (-) and a green or red number next to those. As you're reading along, if you like or dislike what someone wrote, you can give it a rating point (or take one away). Or you can do nothing. Posts that receive a rating of +30 or more (I think -- it's adjustable) get highlighted. Posts with a low negative rating can be auto hidden (a user settable preference). Over time, as people rate what you write, that becomes a part of your reputation.

Just a thought. The wording under a Topic heading (the description) is in really tiny type, and it may be helpful if that could be perhaps a size larger?

It looks like they may have changed the meaning of the size numbers. Not sure, never really used them much myself. Size = 1 Size = 2 Size = 3 Size = 4 Size = 5 Size = 6 Size = 7 Don't think it's a bug -- more of a new way of handling font sizes.

Looks like the icon for Go to last unviewed post is working properly now. Thanks. This "fast reply" box is good, too.

The place looks GREAT! I see the status bar on the right, but can't see how to post on it. Is it right in front of me? :)

My picture (avatar) doesn't seem to be there. Guess it needs to be re-loaded. This all looks so different.... Ooh, like the Smileys box! ****** Oh. Now I posted this...the picture is there. Guess it must go and grab information when somebody posts the first thing in this new format. ****** Gosh, I see it's three years since I joined the Cafe. Three years of getting my head back together. It's gone by quicklyl

George just start Firefox, File->import->IE

Ohhh Pretty Shiney Different. Looks around slightly confused... wanders off to play in the new toy!

Thanks should go to GT, he's been the one that downloaded the entire forum, backed it up, upgraded and now is tweaking the whole thing.

Didn't realize we lost some of the stock avatars. I'll see if I can hunt them down too. Probably in the back room drinking spiked coffee.... They were --- the lazy bums.

I believe the pre-upgrade quoted text will be corrected by the morning. Hopefully the emoticons are working again. Little buggers thought it was time for a coffee break....

emoticons are an issue. I'll look into it. All the posts are being rebuilt. It's about 25% done, quite a ways to go. I'll wait until tomorrow to address any formating issues in posts. Thanks for the feedback.

I think the blogs are fixed now. Anyone with a forum ID can create a blog here. Just click on your ID in the upper right and go to settings, then blog.

Apparently another issue is that the forum has forgotten which threads/posts you've already read. Not sure I can do anything about it. Chat room is offline also for a bit. It's on the todo list.

and the claim is that they can re-make the wheel with sub-standard resources.. tired, worn out, unqualified and/or unemployed"teachers" whose only claim to fame: they were "trained" or ordained by the vicster the grifter. Apparently someone there is charismatic enough to round up a few volunteers..

Half a God ??! I don't even think we knew who God was! Or we had the wrong God all along. They taught you must believe!! Believing equals receiving.. Yeah, what God does that?! Oh, the YOU GOD! And the off shoots haven't figured it out either.. CFF still teaches the believing junk.. STFI/CES goes a step further.. Their God is just like you, only a little smarter. He makes mistakes since he's not all knowing, but since he knows more than us, he makes better decisions, just not always the right one! Who could trust that God?! Yeah.. I know I got suckered into ignoring the "other" side of God that doesn't bark when I believed He should be barking!

ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil what's funny is they always focused on "ye shall not surely die" people want to be their own god, vpw said it was okay.