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On 13/02/2021 at 19:28, Chris Bott - Moderator said:

robk there will certainly be posts missing if they were made after last Thursday's cutoff. There were many warnings posted, over and over.

Do you think the missing ones you are referring to are from before that?

Hi Chris - I think they were before the cut-off date but no worries they weren't crucial.

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Page Turning

 

I have reset my options so that when I open a forum I go to the last page ie the most recent entry whereas some sites revers the order of the posts so that the most recent appear on the first page you open. I wouldn't advocate changing that but...

 

Nonetheless when you go back a page using page turning you are taken to the top of the previous page rather than the bottom, so you have to scroll down to the bottom as you are working in reverse order. I hope that is clear.

 

So when you are working forwards from the front, the page turner takes you to the top of the next page - as it should - but when working from the end and the most recent post, when you turn the page it show take you to the bottom of the previous page not the top?

 

Can this be changed?

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33 minutes ago, Peter Garsden said:

Page Turning

 

I have reset my options so that when I open a forum I go to the last page ie the most recent entry whereas some sites revers the order of the posts so that the most recent appear on the first page you open. I wouldn't advocate changing that but...

 

Nonetheless when you go back a page using page turning you are taken to the top of the previous page rather than the bottom, so you have to scroll down to the bottom as you are working in reverse order. I hope that is clear.

 

So when you are working forwards from the front, the page turner takes you to the top of the next page - as it should - but when working from the end and the most recent post, when you turn the page it show take you to the bottom of the previous page not the top?

 

Can this be changed?

That makes a lot of sense.

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Just had a look on the "members new models" section.

I clicked on the bubble to go to the last post this was ok, but when I clicked on the prev button it took me to page 1, which is not what I wanted. Surely it should just go to the previous page? I didn't fancy scrolling through over 600 pages to see the second from last page....

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Hi Mods

I wrote a thread in "All Things Model Flying" entitled "Ever wanted to get into or improve your aerobatics?".  When I last looked at it in the old forum it showed something like 120,000 views.  It is currently showing 135 views.

My question is, has the views counter been reset and are these 135 views happened since the new Forum went live?

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Peter

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On 26/02/2021 at 23:14, Martin Harris - Moderator said:

Gary, there's no mystery.  Forum moderators have extra functionality which is built into the standard forum software.  We only became aware of this when investigating the problems encountered by the unusual situation created by importing the albums required by the anachronistic software used by the old forum - something which itself was a special request.

 

Sorry, but the forum software will not allow users to move the non standard import of photos into albums without expensive customised software being commissioned and tested.

 

From here

 

 

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Sorry I maybe didn't explain that very well.

1) Do a search to bring up a list of items found.

2) Then select an item off the search list.

3) Scroll through and read the posts in that selected item.

4) Then press the arrow at the top left of the page to return to the search list displayed in 1)

 

You go back to the top of the search list NOT to the item you selected in 2) hence you have to scroll through all the items you have ignored previously. When there are a number of items you select from the list 1) its a real pain to have to scroll through ignored items time and time again. 

 

Sorry guys I posted this in Sandbox by mistake. tried to copy and past with limited success. 

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That's true but it takes you back to the same page of results rather than the start of the search on several different browsers and devices that I've tried.  It's standard practice for the forum software - I've checked other sites running on the same Invision platform and they all work this way.  To be fair, there are only 25 results per page which I don't find much difficulty scrolling through.  If it's different for you, could I ask what you're accessing the site on/with?

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There appears to be some security lapses - when I went into my own photos in Images it went further on and allowed me to get some of Danny Fentons images!    Previously I found one of my photos had been 'nicked' from there by Aerofred and put against a plan they were offering.  

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9 minutes ago, kc said:

Is it right that others can download photos from my images and use them for whatever they want?

I cannot delete them because other threads will lose the photos that were part of that thread!

 

As I understand it yes anyone can download photos and presumably do what they want with them. I understand that this has always been possible.

 

You can delete the photos and the threads will not be affected. I have tested it and it has been confirmed by Martin that this can be done. However the photos will continue to be accessible from the threads and downloadable from there. Plus deleting the photos is a long winded time consuming process. Others have tried and will confirm this.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

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