Upgrading forum software to version 4

**ZippyTheChimp** · April 12th, 2010, 01:53 PM

**ablarc** · April 12th, 2010, 02:01 PM

The height of the window where you type an "advanced" message should be taller, so you can see more of your message without scrolling. How do you scroll in that window, anyway?

**Ninjahedge** · April 12th, 2010, 02:11 PM

Quick Reply is always liked. I have had it on other forums.

I have found out what is up with the links/latest and other things. Seems that anything that was "remembered" from the older version is not quite in sync with this. So if you replied to something last week on the old version, it will remember you did, but not remember exactly where (probably syntax). When I clicked on one of the threads I virwed/posted at today, it came back to the head of the first new post.

**Edward** · April 12th, 2010, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Merry

The font appears slightly smaller to me, but particularly the spacing between characters (kerning) is smaller and words appears squashed.

I looked at old version and current version side by side and the font and spacing look the same.

**Edward** · April 12th, 2010, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by ablarc

The height of the window where you type an "advanced" message should be taller

You can increase the window height by clicking on the Increase Size icon

on the right side.

**ZippyTheChimp** · April 12th, 2010, 02:19 PM

@ Ablarc:

There are up-down arrows just to the left of the A icon on the upper right to adjust the size of the window.

However, in the previous version, if you increased the size of the window and then hit preview, the window stayed at the new size. Now it collapses back to default; so if you want to re-read the entire post before submitting, you have to either scroll or increase the size of the window again.

**Edward** · April 12th, 2010, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by ablarc

The emoticons are no good. Can we have the old ones back?

They are back

**ablarc** · April 12th, 2010, 04:00 PM

Wow ... thanks!

**195Broadway** · April 12th, 2010, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by DMAG

Try clearing IE's browser cache (and cookies for that matter). Your browser may still be trying to access the files of the last version of the board when clicking on a post. Try the following steps:

Clear cache
Clear cookies
Close browser
Restart browser

DMAG, thanks for the suggestion.
In internet options, I deleted the cookies and the temporary internet files, then restarted the laptop. Unfortunately, this did not fix the problem. Any further suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

**stache** · April 12th, 2010, 05:50 PM

Firefox?

**Edward** · April 12th, 2010, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by 195Broadway

Windows xp internet explorer.

What version of IE?

**Merry** · April 13th, 2010, 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by Edward

I looked at old version and current version side by side and the font and spacing look the same.

What browser are you using, Edward?

I'm using Firefox. I just had a look in IE8 and the font appears quite different, but still squashed. Not post content, though, that's fine, just text with the dark blue background, thread titles, people's user names, etc.

I've experienced problems with fonts between browsers before.

**Merry** · April 13th, 2010, 05:40 AM

Is it possible to reduce/eliminate the several-second wait before the "Add an Image" window appears after clicking on the "Insert Image" icon?

Just a tad frustrating, especially when posting multiple images. The old functionality was quicker and easier to use.

Also, when the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" in the "From URL" tab is checked, I get the following message:

Remote file is too large

Is this how a size limit is being enforced?

If that option is unchecked, the image is inserted in the post OK.