Post new board problems and questions here

[swlovinist]

I fixed the problem I had. For being a retrogamer, I feel like an idiot when it comes to computers. I like that the forum is back, my true home.

[sisko]

Bam.

I had to crop a pixel off the animations, but they're looking good. Hope that helped. :)

Thank you for resizing them. I'll upload them as soon as I get the chance.

[sisko]

The official avatar galleries from PHPBB have been brought over.

[robotriot]

I edited them without losing a pixel, it's not 100% perfect though of course.

[InsaneDavid]

Thanks for the avatar size fix and darkening the red a bit.

[sisko]

Edit:
If you want I can try to fix the other icons too. DK JR looks okay, but he still looks too... modern. ;P

I just noticed the second half of your post.

The only icons that have been altered were the fireball icons. If you want to improve the DK Jr icons though, you are more than welcome to.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I just noticed the second half of your post.

The only icons that have been altered were the fireball icons. If you want to improve the DK Jr icons though, you are more than welcome to.
Nah, I took a look at it and it seems fine.

stonic:
GIFs are still allowed as avatars, they just have to be under 20k.

[diskoboy]

YAY! Thanks for bringing back the old avitars! :)

I missed the ol' Super Breakout space man...

[Darren870]

Your signature contains too many lines and must be shortened. You may only have up to 2 line(s).

i thought it was 4

[Predatorxs]

Alittle thing i did notice, if you try to change an avatar and use (Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website) and you enter a URL it just hangs and then gives you an inactivity error message, i thought it might have been the file size but it's only a 15kb gif?

Not sure if it's any kind of error per say? maybe just little teething?

But thanks again for everyones efforts behind the scenes! its great to have DP back?

PS. Will the Arcade and meseta return? just out of interest! :P

[ghostangelofcky]

I'd just like to say that I like the new setup, good job all who where involved

[MegaDrive2]

I've requested my password a number of times and never recieved my e-mail to help log back in. So I had to make an entirely new account. Has anyone else had this problem?

[Darren870]

How come it seems to be only me that cant do the 4 line sig

[norkusa]

Alittle thing i did notice, if you try to change an avatar and use (Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website) and you enter a URL it just hangs and then gives you an inactivity error message, i thought it might have been the file size but it's only a 15kb gif?

Not sure if it's any kind of error per say? maybe just little teething?

Yeah, I got that same error. Instead of linking it, I just uploaded it from my computer and that seems to work fine. Would be nice if that was fixed though. :)

[sisko]

I've requested my password a number of times and never recieved my e-mail to help log back in. So I had to make an entirely new account. Has anyone else had this problem?

This sounds like an operator error to me. Perhaps you entered the wrong email address or have spam filters on?

Likewise, have those of you with the PM email alert disabled your spam filters as well?

[MegaDrive2]

This sounds like an operator error to me. Perhaps you entered the wrong email address or have spam filters on?

Likewise, have those of you with the PM email alert disabled your spam filters as well?

It's the only e-mail address I normally use and I have no filters

[MegaDrive20XX]

It's the only e-mail address I normally use and I have no filters

Sisko, you were right. It was a filter that was causing all the e-mail to be pushed back.

[Kitsune Sniper]

This sounds like an operator error to me. Perhaps you entered the wrong email address or have spam filters on?

Likewise, have those of you with the PM email alert disabled your spam filters as well?
I've got a spam filter applied by my provider, but it's NEVER blocked DigitalPress nor targeted it as spam. Likewise with all the other forums I visit.

So unless something changed dramatically with this new board, I see no reason for it to block you guys. Even if it did, I'd get an email notifying me about a possible spammer.

[Niku-Sama]

Are you using quick reply? Do you have JavaScript enabled?

VB utilizes a technology called AJAX, which allows you to update a page without refreshing it. A manual refresh will immediately fix any oddities, and this is likely the cause of your funkiness.

quick reply or not and java is installed updated and running

[robotriot]

quick reply or not and java is installed updated and running

JavaScript and Java are two pairs of shoes, so you might want to check if your browser has it enabled :)

[sisko]

I've got a spam filter applied by my provider, but it's NEVER blocked DigitalPress nor targeted it as spam. Likewise with all the other forums I visit.

So unless something changed dramatically with this new board, I see no reason for it to block you guys. Even if it did, I'd get an email notifying me about a possible spammer.

Everything changed dramatically with this new board.

Is anybody else having this problem? I am unable to duplicate it.

[MarioMania]

I site went offline last night...I thought with the new stuff it wouln't

[Kitsune Sniper]

Did you guys change servers? If the mail server you use is being tagged by Spamhaus as an open proxy server, the email will likely get tagged as spam and/or deleted...

[Niku-Sama]

JavaScript and Java are two pairs of shoes, so you might want to check if your browser has it enabled :)


still enabled

[sisko]

still enabled

Sorry, but I'm not sure what to tell you then. Is anyone else having this problem?

[sisko]

Did you guys change servers? If the mail server you use is being tagged by Spamhaus as an open proxy server, the email will likely get tagged as spam and/or deleted...

No.

Try signing up for a free account with yahoo or gmail to see if you still get the same problem. Note that changing your email address will require you to reactivate your account.

[Kitsune Sniper]

No.

Try signing up for a free account with yahoo or gmail to see if you still get the same problem. Note that changing your email address will require you to reactivate your account.

I changed my email to my Gmail account, and sent myself a test PM... and it was not blocked. I got it normally. So I dunno.

[Jorpho]

A message notifying me about the nearly-full state of my inbox happily evaded Yahoo's spam filter, at least.

[Blitzwing256]

Glad to see the boards mostly back up :-)

[SkiDragon]

Holy crap, I didn't even realize the boards were back up because there were no "recent articles" on the main DP page. Somebody should at least announce on that page the the boards are back up.

Cool, I can edit. I wanted to mention that whatever was done also killed the rarity guide, it seems.

Edit #2.
It also seems that some of the older threads are gone, at least in the Technical and Restoration forum.

[sisko]

Edit #2.
It also seems that some of the older threads are gone, at least in the Technical and Restoration forum.

They are there, you just need to modify the settings to display threads 'from the beginning' as opposed to the last month.

[sisko]

I changed my email to my Gmail account, and sent myself a test PM... and it was not blocked. I got it normally. So I dunno.

I hate to say 'it sucks to be you,' but if you are the only one having the problem, and everything here is set properly (so it seems anyway), there is nothing I can do.

Sorry.

Obviously, the problem lies within your mail host. Try disabling the spam filter completely, and get a spam protectant email client, like Thunderbird. Sure it isn't *as* effective, but it gets the job done.

[Sanriostar]

Is it OK for me to just post here to see if I've got my settings the way I want them for the new board?

I LOVE HAVING DP BACK!!!!!!! :D

[Kitsune Sniper]

I hate to say 'it sucks to be you,' but if you are the only one having the problem, and everything here is set properly (so it seems anyway), there is nothing I can do.

Sorry.

Obviously, the problem lies within your mail host. Try disabling the spam filter completely, and get a spam protectant email client, like Thunderbird. Sure it isn't *as* effective, but it gets the job done.

I -can't-. Spamhaus is used directly by the mail server as it receives messages. And of course my admin takes like two weeks to reply to my queries, if ever. Though there should be some sort of rejection message on your server's mail logs. I dunno.

Anyway, right now the only other bug or just general weirdness I can find is the lack of uh... pages in topics on the main list. You know how before the move, the board listed topics like this?

Blah blah blah (page 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and so on)

Well, now it's truncating everything from page 3 onwards for some reason. I've seen boards which go about doing that in this way:

Blah blah blah (page 1, 2, 3... 5, 6, 7)

I'm wondering if this is possible with this board, if it's a bug, or if it's something I can modify. This thread only lists up to page 3, and then it lists "Last Page". It skips everything between page 3 and the last one. This may or may not be a bug, I know, I'm wondering if this is a "feature" from the board.

Edit:
And before anyone yells at me, I'm saying all this -because you asked me to-. I know it looks like I'm complaining but for the most part I'm trying to let you know about whatever kinks I find, ok?

[dreams]

Anyway, right now the only other bug or just general weirdness I can find is the lack of uh... pages in topics on the main list. You know how before the move, the board listed topics like this?

Blah blah blah (page 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and so on)

Well, now it's truncating everything from page 3 onwards for some reason. I've seen boards which go about doing that in this way:

Blah blah blah (page 1, 2, 3... 5, 6, 7)

I'm wondering if this is possible with this board, if it's a bug, or if it's something I can modify. This thread only lists up to page 3, and then it lists "Last Page". It skips everything between page 3 and the last one. This may or may not be a bug, I know, I'm wondering if this is a "feature" from the board.

If you click on the little down arrow next to the page number listings, you have the opportunity to put in whatever page you would like to jump to. :)

[XYXZYZ]

My av isn't showing up... 97X125, 15k. It displays okay in the user CP, just not in my posts.

[Docman217]

This is icarwngs55. I hope I am not dumb but digital press won't let me log in under my user name. The only way I could post was to create a new user name so I did. HELP! Email me at Docman217@yahoo.com PLEASE

Mike

[sisko]

This is icarwngs55. I hope I am not dumb but digital press won't let me log in under my user name. The only way I could post was to create a new user name so I did. HELP! Email me at Docman217@yahoo.com PLEASE

Mike

Have the system assign you another password. You signed up with your prodigy email...

[sisko]

I
Well, now it's truncating everything from page 3 onwards for some reason. I've seen boards which go about doing that in this way:

Blah blah blah (page 1, 2, 3... 5, 6, 7)


I expanded this to display up to five pages in either direction.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I expanded this to display up to five pages in either direction.

Cool. Thanks. That's about all the things I've found so far. :)

[Jorpho]

So I guess there's no way to insert smilies anymore other than to manually look up the appropriate code in http://www.digitpress.com/forum/misc.php?do=showsmilies ?

[sisko]

So I guess there's no way to insert smilies anymore other than to manually look up the appropriate code in http://www.digitpress.com/forum/misc.php?do=showsmilies ?

Select either the 'Standard Editor' or 'Full WYSIWYG Editor' in your profile.

[Docman217]

Have the system assign you another password. You signed up with your prodigy email...

I may have done a boo boo. I remember I used to have prodigy.net back in the day, I guess that is what I signed up with. But to post here to tell you I could not get into my old account I made a new user name

Docman217

with a new password under my docman217@yahoo.com email. So now it just changes my password for Docman217 and I have no clue on how to get into icarwngs55 again????? HELP

Mike

[Docman217]

BTW I no longer have that prodigy account and nothing transfers over to me from it...so that is a no go

Mike (icarwngs55)

[FantasiaWHT]

Does the board time need to be set at GMT? I get confused heh

[Kitsune Sniper]

Okay, here's another thing. This was already mentioned, but the signature line amount is still not working. I tried changing my sig to update the links on it, but I can only get two lines instead of four. What's up? :)

[Mayhem]

I think that's the default setting for now. Anyone already with more than 2, count yourself lucky heh.

Oh, one spot. The CGE forum seems to default list by alphabetical thread title, not last post date for me. All other forums are default last post date.

[jonjandran]

I'm not receiving e-mail notification of PM's or subscribed to threads.

No spam filter on my email. Notification settings are correct in my settings. And email address is correct.

Any ideas ?

[Mr.collection]

I see everybody is mentioning the shade of red but I think there is to much red like ovr where it has our mini profile next to the posts that should be black like it was and on a quote the background is red, not black.
What about all our feedback threads?
Otherwise its fantastic, and its just like the neo geo forum so I'm use to everything.

[Synergy]

Wow, ok. I figured since the roundtable links weren't showing up the forums were still down. I took a blind leap (err..click) of faith and I'm seeing the new look for the first time. Looks good so far!

It's very nice to see the roundtable up and running again! :)

[Jorpho]

What about all our feedback threads?

The feedback forum is right there below Buying & Selling. Hasn't gone anywhere.

[Kitsune Sniper]

The feedback forum is right there below Buying & Selling. Hasn't gone anywhere.

The links have changed, though. :) My Feedback link in my sig is not pointing there because of the "It's two lines, not four!" signature bug in the board.

[sisko]

I'm not receiving e-mail notification of PM's or subscribed to threads.

No spam filter on my email. Notification settings are correct in my settings. And email address is correct.

Any ideas ?

Sign up for a generic yahoo account just to double check.

[sisko]

The links have changed, though. :) My Feedback link in my sig is not pointing there because of the "It's two lines, not four!" signature bug in the board.

A lot of forum id's have changed in the conversion, rendering most thread to thread links inoperable. There is nothing that can be done for this, aside from the original author updating the links.

[Kitsune Sniper]

A lot of forum id's have changed in the conversion, rendering most thread to thread links inoperable. There is nothing that can be done for this, aside from the original author updating the links.

I know. I was just letting him know, in case he tried to follow an outdated link.

Any idea on what's causing the signature line limit bug?

[sisko]

Okay, here's another thing. This was already mentioned, but the signature line amount is still not working. I tried changing my sig to update the links on it, but I can only get two lines instead of four. What's up? :)

Changed this.

[sisko]

This is icarwngs55. I hope I am not dumb but digital press won't let me log in under my user name. The only way I could post was to create a new user name so I did. HELP! Email me at Docman217@yahoo.com PLEASE

Mike

You probably can't login to read PMs anymore, but since I have enough information to prove that you are you, I have manually changed your email address on your icarwngs55 account to the email address provided.

You should be able to reset your password now.

[yok-dfa]

Don't know if this has been mentioned already, but could the date-format be changed? Now it shows month-day-year (which is US format right?) which IMHO is very confusing and doesn't make much sense. Could that be changed to the more commonly used day-month-year format?

[GrandAmChandler]

Don't know if this has been mentioned already, but could the date-format be changed? Now it shows month-day-year (which is US format right?) which IMHO is very confusing and doesn't make much sense. Could that be changed to the more commonly used day-month-year format?

That's really in the eye of the beholder. Almost everyone in the U.S. would agree with me that this way is easier. I believe this is the same setting as the last forum, so I am going to have to say it's not going to change anytime soon, since most of our users are in the United States. Sorry! -GAC

[Oobgarm]

Not a complaint or gripe, but I just wanted to state that I get a feeling of claustrophobia when browsing the forums. Everything seems like it's compacted together. I'm thinking it has to do with so much red(which I understand is being addressed).

Possibly change the background in the quote boxes to the darker red and make the left bar black instead or red?

And...is it possible to adjust the number of threads on default view? Especially in the B&S forum. Perhaps bump it to 50, which was the original PHPBB limit?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Don't know if this has been mentioned already, but could the date-format be changed? Now it shows month-day-year (which is US format right?) which IMHO is very confusing and doesn't make much sense. Could that be changed to the more commonly used day-month-year format?

I could've sworn we could change that, but it's not available. o_O I need this too, eheh.

[puxley]

Where is the "Ebay assistant"?
Has it been done away with?

I enjoyed using it, but I understand if it has been removed.

Thanks -
pux

[jcalder8]

I'm wondering how the fruit works. I think it has something to do with posts. Is there a breakdown anywhere to show how close you are to the next level?
Thanks

[Gapporin]

One piece o' fruit is added every 200 posts. Once you hit 2,000 posts, you will have all of the fruit pieces.

[LAGO]

Wow, ok. I figured since the roundtable links weren't showing up the forums were still down. I took a blind leap (err..click) of faith and I'm seeing the new look for the first time. Looks good so far!

It's very nice to see the roundtable up and running again! :)

I did the exact same thing. It is good to have the forums back.

[neuropolitique]

And...is it possible to adjust the number of threads on default view? Especially in the B&S forum. Perhaps bump it to 50, which was the original PHPBB limit?

User CP -> Edit Options -> Thread Display Options -> Number of Posts to Show Per Page

You can choose from 5, 10, 20, 30, or 40 posts per page.

[Mr.collection]

When I looked at the feedback forum after I noticed my link did not work there was only 3 pages but I see they are all up and fixed my link.

[Mattiekrome]

Ok, I guess Im a dumbass since I still cant get the "view all my posts" option to work right, but I think I might be going about it wrong. I am currently clicking on "USER CP", then "VIEW ALL SUBSCRIBED THREADS". It is showing the threads that I have been active in since the new boards came up, but nothing from my posts back before the switch over. In a way I guess it makes sense

[sisko]

Ok, I guess Im a dumbass since I still cant get the "view all my posts" option to work right, but I think I might be going about it wrong. I am currently clicking on "USER CP", then "VIEW ALL SUBSCRIBED THREADS". It is showing the threads that I have been active in since the new boards came up, but nothing from my posts back before the switch over. In a way I guess it makes sense

Right, because there was no subscribtion table in phpbb. The "view all posts" over there was a search macro.

[oceanfr]

posts l;imited to 10,000 well it necessary when putting a list of games

[Trumpman]

Can you raise the limit for avatar pics to 20 kb flat out? I have an avatar that is 19.7 kb. Why does it have to be 19.5? That is such an arbitrary number.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Why is the number of images per post limited to ten? I hated this "feature" over at AtariAge and I prefer to have multiple images on my sale threads so people can see the items without having to cilck on links...

[tom]

The 'move' command in the Room of Doom doesn't work.
Comes up with:

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log.

[dylan0228]

I`m having problems trying to make a Collection List on here. It keeps telling me to log in, but I`m already logged in. Thanks for any help.

John

[digitalpress]

I`m having problems trying to make a Collection List on here. It keeps telling me to log in, but I`m already logged in. Thanks for any help.

John

Oh yeah... THAT isn't going to work anymore. The online guide is tied into the phpBB login system which has been disabled. I know that sucks and someday perhaps we'll tie them back together but for now I'll need to remove the personal collection lists from the online guide. Sorry for the confusion.