Kryptronic Software Support Forum

Nick, where can we access our PM's?

I would also like access to my old PM's and will miss that feature on the new board.  Also wondering why the posts aren't automatically marked as read after I view them... am I missing a setting somewhere?

I'll look into how Punbb marks topics as read.  I know it works as it's working for me automatically.  As far as the PM system, it was being abused.  I'll get it back up this weekend for archive purposes and set up access so you guys can get your PMs.  Ill post a URL here after it's back up.

I'll second the need for PMs!

I agree with Big Dave and the others.  This is a very important part of the forum!

rachaelseven wrote:

I wondered the same, as well as not being able to mark individual area's as read.

If you go into your profile and change the theme to khxc, the areas you have already visited will be un-bolded like it should be.

I think the problem is the css code in the CCP theme.

.pun A:link, .pun A:visited {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline }
.pun A:hover {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline }

Should be

.pun A:link, .pun A:visited {
text-decoration: underline }
.pun A:hover {
text-decoration: underline }

Nick, could you make this adjustment in the CCP theme?

I'm using the KHXC theme and having the same problem with posts not being marked as read - it doesn't seem to make a difference.  Could there be a browser issue involved?  I've specifically listed the forum as an allowed site for cookies, so I dont' think that's an issue.  But maybe there's some other setting that affects it?  Is it behaving differently in IE vs. FF?  (I'm using FF, btw)

As far as Dave's comment about PM spam, I can't claim 3 years, but in my 9 months, I've never received a PM spam either.

Hmmm.... I'm using the KHXC theme and it works fine.  No problems whatsoever.  Post I have already read are non-bold... posts I have yet to read are bolded.

I'm using Firefox too.

sorry to say, still more spam registering, I run 3 VBulletin forums and yet to see any on them

If you want me to buy a licence for you Nick, send me an email

Ged

Hi

I think the problem Nick is talking about with PM is that when new users start to ask questions, they receive PM from members offering help (non certified members). Some of these are from scammers who are very helpful until you pay some money over for the help and then they disappear. I had a couple of customers complain about this.

As I always say only pay for help from certified support members!

I apologize for the lack of PMs since the forum went live on Friday.  I installed a PM function for the new forum today that functions much like the old VB function.  Look for the 'Messages' link in the top menu to access it.  Additionally I was able to access the old PMs stored in VB and migrate them over to the new forum.  You should see all of your old PMs in your inboxes.

I've also updated the CSS for the CCP skin.  New posts should show as bold.  I have confirmed that your login status affects how you see old/new posts.  New posts will be shown in bold, old ones in normal font weight.

Concerning the date issue, the software had a global setting of GMT for the server time and our server is actually in EST - that was causing a five hour difference on the times.  That may have also caused some issues with seeing new/old posts in the bold/normal context.  Times are correct now.

Concerning XHTML validation, my experience was that VB did validate as 1.0 Transitional on the front page and any system generated pages that did not contain user text.  PunBB validates on all pages, including those with user text on them.  It looks to me like PunBB was designed to be compliant from the ground up (much like the new KHXC) and VB adopted it somewhere along the way.

Any other issues?  I really want to expand on this platform over time as I do like it a lot more than VB.  I realize it's a simpler platform but it's speed and flexibility are great and the internals are much easier to work with than VB.

oh, and the server clock is still 8 minutes fast ;-)