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lid0n - 4/11/09 at 02:46 PM

is it possible to get an email when you recieve a u2u?

Fozzie - 4/11/09 at 03:23 PM

Nope

Fozzie

thefreak - 4/11/09 at 03:26 PM

Time for a forum update then?

l0rd - 4/11/09 at 03:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
Time for a forum update then?




Daddylonglegs - 4/11/09 at 03:29 PM

quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
Time for a forum update then?


Coo, you're brave

thefreak - 4/11/09 at 03:31 PM

quote:



What? It's 7 years old now isn't it? every other forum I use gives you notification of a private message. Some even let you receive notification of a new topic if you subscribe to that section so you can keep an eye on all the posts etc, and EVERY forum bar this one automatically subscribes you to a thread when you reply on it by default

thefreak - 4/11/09 at 03:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
Time for a forum update then?


Coo, you're brave



I know it's a Locost forum, but does the forum also have to be locost? I know there's plenty of free forums out there we could migrate the data over to

Fozzie - 4/11/09 at 03:49 PM

If you log into the forum...

and you have a u2u....

it will tell you on the front page...

right in the middle.......

No different from reading/checking emails really.........

Oh and you can subscribe to as many threads as you want to follow.......

and

you get an email ..... telling you when people have replied to it....

even if you haven't replied on the thread

you just click on 'subscribe' at top left of the thread...........

It has always been there...

I belong to many forums...and none give you the amount of space to have your own picture archive......

and this one is far more stable than many others.....

Fozzie

thefreak - 4/11/09 at 04:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
If you log into the forum...

and you have a u2u....

it will tell you on the front page...

right in the middle.......


And if you dont log into the forum for a day or so, the message sits there unread. A simple mail prompt wouldn't hurt.

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
Oh and you can subscribe to as many threads as you want to follow.......

Yep by going through each thread and clicking subscribe. A pain in the ass if you happen to miss one, then spend 1/2 an hour searching... but lets not talk about the search function

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
you get an email ..... telling you when people have replied to it....

So long as you remembered to click "Receive e-mail notification of new replies?" if you didn't you spend 30 minutes trying to find the thread (see note above)

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
I belong to many forums...and none give you the amount of space to have your own picture archive......

But that's not really a massive selling point, with the likes of photobucket and other free photo storage sites available.
The storage issue is easily addressed with the hosting company for a small cost.

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
and this one is far more stable than many others.....
Fozzie

Again, more often than not down to the hosting company. Get a decent host, get decent reliabilty.

Dont think I'm having a go here, it's more construtive critism. Just out of all the forums I use, this has to be the most clunky of them. It could do with being dragged into the 21st Century

[Edited on 4/11/09 by thefreak]

omega0684 - 4/11/09 at 04:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
If you log into the forum...

and you have a u2u....

it will tell you on the front page...

right in the middle.......

No different from reading/checking emails really.........

Oh and you can subscribe to as many threads as you want to follow.......

and

you get an email ..... telling you when people have replied to it....

even if you haven't replied on the thread

you just click on 'subscribe' at top left of the thread...........

It has always been there...

I belong to many forums...and none give you the amount of space to have your own picture archive......

and this one is far more stable than many others.....

Fozzie


YOU GO GIRL!

speedyxjs - 4/11/09 at 04:52 PM

I think it may be time to get the popcorn

thefreak - 4/11/09 at 04:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
I think it may be time to get the popcorn



I moderate and help run another car related forum and have done for about 10 years and we welcome suggestions on how to make the forum better and run slicker.
We're currently in the process of upgrading to PHPBB3 (I believe) due to the extra features it has both for the end user and the backroom staff.
Just because it works, doesn't mean it cant work better

James - 4/11/09 at 05:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
Time for a forum update then?


You wanna watch out mate... talk like this can get you banned!

jollygreengiant - 4/11/09 at 05:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
I think it may be time to get the popcorn


TOO LATE I've already got mine.

Fozzie - 4/11/09 at 05:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by James
quote:
Originally posted by thefreak
Time for a forum update then?


You wanna watch out mate... talk like this can get you banned!



Really James?
..... I've not personally banned anyone for blimmin years!

Mr Freak ...... one thing is for sure, there is no pleasing everyone, when it comes to Forums.... there are always going to be sites that are 'better'

The forum owner has been working on a new one for quite a while now.
When will it go live? I do not know, he has his own business, and in this current climate, that must come first.

I 'admin' this in my spare time, also running a business or two.....but then I do not design websites.....so what I do, or, don't is irrelevant.

However, until then, as long as we can please some of the good folk on here, some, or, most of the time, that is fine by me.

Fozzie

[Edited on 5-11-09 by Fozzie]

Breaker - 4/11/09 at 06:06 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
I belong to many forums...and none give you the amount of space to have your own picture archive......

and this one is far more stable than many others.....


Perhaps I'm not looking very well but it also would be nice to browse trough the user's photo archive. Now you click on a description and then the picture opens. If you want to see the next picture you have to click back and click another description. It would be nice if there was a "NEXT" button so you can quickly look at the following pictures in the archive.

MikeR - 4/11/09 at 06:26 PM

my money is on fozzie & i'm holding her popcorn so get your own .... not sure what she'll be doing to win but she'll win.

(she's a girl don't you know!!!! i've not met one yet who didn't win eventually)