I've not read this entire thread, so please don't be upset if this is a repeat, but is there a way to display threads so that the most recently updated thread in a forum is at the top of the list?

Holy Crap Mith! But...doesn't it do that anyway...? Only the stickies go atop it.

Chat is being nice again, I was sitting in it for an hour and no void. Makes me happy.

my computer hates chat, wont let it open.and my pop up is off.

Popup blockers have to be disabled - check for a Google/Yahoo toolbar, they do this as well. Javascfript must be enabled.

What browser are you using?

if there is a site option that enables the pm option link to appear near a user name plz enable it.

I spent 5 minutes getting t_catt11's wrong because of a hyphen vs an under line

Someone got poked in the eye over it
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Is there a way to view the thread/post I am replying to as I reply to it? Aside from opening everything in different windows..... which does work ok.

If you click the username you can PM from the user page. Also I just open it in a separate tab so I can see what was posted before.

Tcatt, my computer is stupid, and for some reason when I directly click some links, the whole browser freezes. I think I have some sort of virus. but I figured it out with chat, its not one of those links. I thought it was, but everythings hunky dorey now!

Missed the pm link at the bottom. Thanx Grugg

My pleasure, took me a bit to notice it when this site came up, took forever trying to remember how to spell people's name, huge pain .

A technical update, here.

We use a database table to track the activity of members. Basically, any time you load a new page while logged in, the site tracks it - this powers the "last active on..." section of the user profile.

As you can imagine, that table gets huge in a hurry; a typical visit consists of anywhere from a half dozen to thirty or so records for each time you log on. I have to manually purge that data, but I hate doing it, as it ruins the profile feature.

But the table had gotten above 700k records, so I wrote a little script that removes all but each individual's most recent record. We're back down to 502 records now. I'll set it to run every night, which should give us a small performance boost on page loads.

I dunno if its meant to do that or not. But on the user list the links to the various positions (Admin, Mod, etc) just take you to the top of the page and do nothing. Is there something going on Im not seeing?

Those are only there as a key, so that you can see that admins are in red, senior mods are in bold purple, mods are in purple.

That way, you can always know if a staff member is online.

I got tired of the page layout being broken anytime someone posted to a topic with a huge, long name, so I added a feature that trims topic names to a respectible length in the "Last Five Updated Topics" spot at the top of the page.

Thoughts?

Noticed that. Looks good. Might turn into a problem with a game's recruiting thread and Q/A thread, specially if they both have the same long name first. In that case, we could always have the "recruiting" and "Q/A" bit first, then the name.