Beeblebrox Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Just a thread to thank and acknowledge Albert's efforts🙂 in maintaining AA and the recent server transition. Really appreciate all the hard work for this amazing site/community. Thanks also to all that support him. 24 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Glad you are enjoying the forum, and thank you for the kind words! I'm just glad the forum is up and working again, that's one of the longest periods its been down (the longest being about three days when a transformer exploded in the datacenter where the AtariAge server was located years ago, that took the entire site down!) Still have a lot of work to do to get everything up to snuff again, and the theme in particular has a lot of work ahead of it. But the forum seems much faster now, which is a nice improvement. ..Al 10 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Anyone with $5/$30/$50 to spare can support him by getting a subscription. Money well spent! https://forums.atariage.com/store/category/1-subscriptions/ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Just now, 5-11under said: Anyone with $5/$30/$50 to spare can support him by getting a subscription. Money well spent! https://forums.atariage.com/store/category/1-subscriptions/ This hasn't been tested since the upgrade/migration, I hope it still works! ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 41 minutes ago, Albert said: This hasn't been tested since the upgrade/migration, I hope it still works! ..Al I just paid for a 1 year subscription using that link, and as far as I can tell it worked just fine 👍 And I agree with @Beeblebroxon what outstanding work you do making this resource available to all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Just now, mytek said: I just paid for a 1 year subscription using that link, and as far as I can tell it worked just fine 👍 And I agree with @Beeblebroxon what outstanding work you do making this resource available to all. Thank you for purchasing a subscription, it's a big help! Especially as I'm having to renew / repurchase a bunch of third-party plugins and applications for the forum right now! And I'm glad to hear that you are also enjoying the forum and finding it useful. Now I just need to follow through with my threat over a year ago to add several new moderators to the Atari 8-bit Forum. ..Al 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 I WANT MY ATARIAGE!!!! (Still with withdrawal syndrome). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Yes... well done Albert!!! This is my favorite website... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Couldn't log-in with google for a while after this forum was restored.. was panicking for a moment. Now's all good ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Ricky Spanish said: Couldn't log-in with google for a while after this forum was restored.. was panicking for a moment. Now's all good ! Good, glad that worked for you! I still haven't fixed Twitter and Facebook logins, although nobody's complained about that (I don't think the Facebook one has worked for a while, because Facebook is always changing their APIs, and the old software was no longer compatible!) ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Only slight moan, the default theme does not show the sticky threads well, the star appears next to non sticky threads as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 18 hours ago, 5-11under said: Anyone with $5/$30/$50 to spare can support him by getting a subscription. Money well spent! https://forums.atariage.com/store/category/1-subscriptions/ I started a few years ago and try to maintain a subscription here, when I can afford it. So far so good. Thanks Albert. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Mclaneinc said: Only slight moan, the default theme does not show the sticky threads well, the star appears next to non sticky threads as well... This will be changed so it shows the green "PINNED" graphic as was done previously. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Super duper.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 @Albert This may well have been mentioned/ be on your list of things to implement/fix - so apologies if I've missed it. The signatures on the old AA threads used to be in a very small font and clearly separated from a post's text. They now appear the same size font and part of a post. Will they be reverting back to the smaller signature text and format? I realise the content in my signature is "busier" than most - but still even with users with smaller signature content it still takes up a lot of screen space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: The signatures on the old AA threads used to be in a very small font and clearly separated from a post's text. They now appear the same size font and part of a post. Will they be reverting back to the smaller signature text and format? Yes, I can make the default font for signatures smaller, and I will do that. Signatures will also be bottom-justified in post boxes as they previously were (that's one of the changes I requested yesterday). I'm also likely to start enforcing a line limit on signatures, perhaps down to 2-3 lines at most. 7 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: I realise the content in my signature is "busier" than most - but still even with users with smaller signature content it still takes up a lot of screen space. Yes, your signature is excessive, to be honest. It's cool that you have all that neat hardware, but I don't think it's appropriate to have a large paragraph of links like that in every single one of your posts. And I'm not singling you out, there are many signatures like this on the forum. The forum does have a mechanism for restricting signatures to 'x' number of lines, however, if you put everything on a single line (as your signature appears to be), you can easily get around that limit. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Albert said: Yes, I can make the default font for signatures smaller, and I will do that. Signatures will also be bottom-justified in post boxes as they previously were (that's one of the changes I requested yesterday). I'm also likely to start enforcing a line limit on signatures, perhaps down to 2-3 lines at most. Yes, your signature is excessive, to be honest. It's cool that you have all that neat hardware, but I don't think it's appropriate to have a large paragraph of links like that in every single one of your posts. And I'm not singling you out, there are many signatures like this on the forum. The forum does have a mechanism for restricting signatures to 'x' number of lines, however, if you put everything on a single line (as your signature appears to be), you can easily get around that limit. ..Al @Albert Thanks and yes I agree my signature has grown over time. I'll strip out some of the content that doesn't have a link to something. (A lot of the hardware fixes for certain A8s I've done I link to as I feel they are useful for anyone going though a similar hardware issue. I also have an Incognito instal blog I created which I link to - hence why I leave that in too. Anyhoo I'll go through now I try to slim it down. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 @Albert BTW is the timeout window for editing a post the same as before? I've just noticed with my post above I cannot edit it anymore after only a few minutes. The old forum seemed to give me at least 8-10 mins before I was locked out. Just curious.🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Just now, Beeblebrox said: @Albert BTW is the timeout window for editing a post the same as before? I've just noticed with my post above I cannot edit it anymore after only a few minutes. The old forum seemed to give me at least 8-10 mins before I was locked out. Just curious.🙂 That hasn't changed, regular members can edit posts for 60 minutes after they've been submitted. The edit button has been moved to the "..." menu that's in the upper-right corner of a post. I think this was a terrible move on Invision's part, so I've asked the theme designer to move this back next to the Quote button, and to also move the Report Post link back to the top of a post where it was before. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Don't forget that you can actually stop viewing of signatures. I started using this a while ago because some sigs were getting to be a bit too much.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 @Albert ah now that's interesting.... I wondered what was going on. Ok, found edit. Yes, moving it back to near quote makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 (edited) I'd assume that a lot of "defaults" should be turned off and just let the user decide to turn them on. I can't stand new software default settings, as I've noticed that trending in all packages out of California. Just like if I say, ignore Topic, I get another pop up asking ok? I wouldn't have chosen it if it weren't ok??? Turn all that crap off, if it's a mistake, which 90 percent are not, user can fix it. Duh Edited August 11, 2022 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 5 minutes ago, ls650 said: Don't forget that you can actually stop viewing of signatures. I started using this a while ago because some sigs were getting to be a bit too much.... In addition to this, there's a small "x" button in the upper-right corner of a signature. If you click that, a small menu appears that allows you to hide that single signature or hide all signatures: ..Al 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, GDMike said: I'd assume that a lot of "defaults" should be turned off and just let the user decide to turn them on. I can't stand new software default settings, as I've noticed that trending in all packages out of California. Just like if I say, ignore Topic, I get another pop up asking ok? I wouldn't have chosen it if it weren't ok??? Turn all that crap off, if it's a mistake, which 90 percent are not, user can fix it. Duh All settings are the same from the previous version of the software, and this includes any settings you may have made to your personal account. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to with "Ignore Topic". Keep in mind that "Ignore Topic" is a (paid) third-party plugin, so if there are issues with it, I need to send those to the plugin author. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 @Albert if I go to this link: https://forums.atariage.com/store/category/1-subscriptions/ I actually get nothing listed ("there are no products that match your criteria"), if I go to https://forums.atariage.com/subscriptions/ I do get subscriptions listed. I'm not sure if the previous is even supposed to work, just that it was referenced here and confused me until I re-navigated on my own =). Also, you don't do enough self promotion, I had forgotten this existed! It should be placed on the forums page somewhat prominently. I did a two year sub to make up for my previous lack of subness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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