Website Update

[John Fox (foxy)]

Since updating the website we have posts that need approval from the moderaters before posting, can someone explain?

[Andy Millne]

Which posts are you referring to? Nothing should have changed in that regard. There have always been some forums that require approval to post in, such as the announcements forum.

[John Fox (foxy)]

Keiths last post re ignorant tourists in Northumberland Chat. If I go to reply it says it will not be posted until it has been checked by a moderator

[Malcolm Robinson]

Not on my screen foxy?

[John Fox (foxy)]

It's still showing on my screen. Its in a box next to the avatar.

[Malcolm Robinson]

You must have ''ultimate mod' status!

[threegee]

Keiths last post re ignorant tourists in Northumberland Chat. If I go to reply it says it will not be posted until it has been checked by a moderator

That's likely because you weren't logged in. The Northumberland Chat Forum is special in that it allows posts from non-members. If you haven't logged in your post will require approval, if you have it won't. It has been that way for a long time.

[John Fox (foxy)]

I was logged in,I have logged out and logged in again and it is still showing.Don't know if it's relevant but Malcolms avatar is blank as well

[Keith Scantlebury]

I was logged in,I have logged out and logged in again and it is still showing.Don't know if it's relevant but Malcolms avatar is blank as well

I agree with Foxy. Every time I posted on there I had to wait for approval. I am signed in all the time.

[Keith Scantlebury]

Just realised , Malcolms avatar is blank, gggg ok , foxy ok , ggg blank, thats on this thread. But there again I could be doing summat wrong 'cos a is fick.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I am blank most of the time foxy but I have put a pic on my avatar now..........

Normally if a posting needs approval it comes up in red on the mod screens and one of us has to approve it but as GGGG says thats in the announcements section not the chat forums? I have never seen one auto flagged in the chat sections.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I have just posted a test on the Northumberland Chat and it behaved normally.

[Keith Scantlebury]

got ya pic now Malcolm, I always wondered what you looked like

[Malcolm Robinson]

Well keith thats just on a good morning!

[Andy Millne]

Moderators can bypass queues. Northumberland chat is working normally, posts in there require approval regardless of whether you are a guest or member.

For avatars, the new version of the software has done away with the distintion between Avatars and Profile Photos as the concept was confusing. There is now only a single profile photo which appears everywhere. It does mean however that some people will need to re-add their photos.

[Keith Scantlebury]

just looked, it says " This post needs approval from a moderator before this post is shown". in a green strip next to moderator

[Keith Scantlebury]

The edit facility seems to be not working , I realised a mistake straight away with the above post and tried to replace the word moderator with avatar and it did not work.......... maybe I broke it , oops

Edit: This is 4G logged in as Keith editing

Edited August 29, 2011 by keith

[Andy Millne]

The green strip is normal. Whereas before you would get no warning that posts in that forum need approval now there is a note. This is to prevent people wondering why their post does not immediately show in that forum once it is submitted.

The edit facility seems to be not working , I realised a mistake straight away with the above post and tried to replace the word moderator with avatar and it did not work.......... maybe I broke it , oops

I just logged in as you and was able to edit, what specifically is not working when you try, what happens? Do you get any error message?

[Keith Scantlebury]

The green strip is normal. Whereas before you would get no warning that posts in that forum need approval now there is a note. This is to prevent people wondering why their post does not immediately show in that forum once it is submitted.

I just logged in as you and was able to edit, what specifically is not working when you try, what happens? Do you get any error message?

clicked the edit button, changed the word moderator to avatar, clicked saved changes button and notthing happened, Did all this immediately after posting as I realised the mistake so nobody had the chance to read it .

[Andy Millne]

clicked the edit button, changed the word moderator to avatar, clicked saved changes button and notthing happened.

Is it repeatable? If you try and edit a post now does the same thing happen?

[Keith Scantlebury]

will try

just trying to edit (Cympil)

[Keith Scantlebury]

will try

[Keith Scantlebury]

Is it repeatable? If you try and edit a post now does the same thing happen?

still wont work. typed in the words "will try" posted it then clicked edit button and added "did it work", pressed save changes nothing happened, then when I returned to thread , the original post was gone as well

[Keith Scantlebury]

still wont work. typed in the words "will try" posted it then clicked edit button and added "did it work", pressed save changes nothing happened, then when I returned to thread , the original post was gone as well

now notice the orginal in twice

[Andy Millne]

I love tracking these down. When you can't reproduce a problem it takes much longer to identify. I have more questions unfortunately. Which browser are you using? Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc? and which version number?

Can you please also try pressing ctrl+F5? That will ensure you have the latest copies of any javascript being used. It is possible you still have cached copies from the old version.

Is anybody else having problems editing?