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Had a couple of these, it seems users who haven't had their first post approved yet can still spam via PMs, going to have to see if theres a PHPBB mod that can address this.

Normally I browse the forum offline, and when I want to reply to a thread, I click on reply, forum ask me to login, I do, and then it sends me straight to the reply page.

Well, that's how it was some weeks ago. Now, after logging in it sends me back to the board index, so I need to find the thread again to reply to it.

I know it's a very minor thing and I can live without it, but if it's something easy to fix, could you change it back to how it was before?

Thanks.

Log out and in, does it work now? Template bug due to the upgrade, it caused similar problems with the admin panel for me which is working now.

Works perfectly now, thanks a lot

Man, that was odd. I tried to do a clean install of Firefox the other day, using FEBE to carry over a few essentials (not Preferences, for example). I loaded up the cookies, though. Only for Shmups Forum, I'd log in, and it'd immediately take me back to the login page (or a logged-out view, if I tried another link). I suppose if there's any interest I might be able to pull up the old cookie (or the old cookie as it was loaded), but mainly just be aware that if you are migrating browsers that this can happen. The fix is simply to delete your cookie for Shmups Forum and start again. If you get that problem, you might as well nuke ALL your cookies and start over again.

The new tables function works pretty well, although I note that if you want to add color or other formatting to a table entry, you must do it for every cell (i.e., everything inbetween the & symbols), at least to get it to work reliably. Since red text looks terrible in cells at the default size, that's not a big problem, though. RIP "the old fashioned way"

On that topic, are there any formatting choices that will carry across at least one row of a table?

Issue & Solution

Issue: When visiting Shmups, I get bands moving up my LCD monitor, or even bright lines. They might seem to march all the way up the screen. (Should only happen when your monitor is connected via VGA plug, not a digital interface.)

Solution: Visit this page and follow its instructions. Then visit this page and view all the different patterns, which may highlight phase issues more strongly (looking for the same problem, vertically moving bands, instead of screen flashing, which is the goal of that particular page). It's not guaranteed to fix your issues across all types of media (some panels will show phase issues more strongly in certain situations than others) but at worst you can tweak the monitor to a more acceptable phase setting for your usual uses.

Hasty but hopefully accurate explanation: Shmups' background is challenging for many monitors hooked up with an analog connection. With such a signal, the frequencies of the monitor and the graphics adapter's output should match closely - yet the nature of analog signals is that they may not be evenly matched to the even spacing of pixels on an LCD monitor. This phenomenon occurs most frequently when viewing solid areas of medium gray, or relatively solid areas of illumination similar to medium gray, or in white-black pixel patterns (as seen on Lagom's test).

Do not adjust your monitor's clock setting, if it has one, unless you know that it is needed.

Issues:
Fix the members list "search by first letter" (nothing is in the drop-down).
Fix polls.

Suggestions:
Prune members with 1 or 0 posts every couple months.

there's a kill screen coming up if anybody's interested

(I am scared, I almost hit the post counter wrap-around)

Just testing if my post appears, the first one i made is nowhere to be seen.

Yup i only noticed it after that test message.

Not a bug, just a quick heads up: Is any mod looking after the Strategy Forum? At the top of the Index thread it still says "PM incognescente", and I don't think any of the threads created in the last few months have been added.

Has the forum moved server or something recently? This has always been the fastest of all the sites I browse, and continued that way ever since moving to China. In the last few days it's slowed to a crawl, sometimes failing to load content at all.

I can browse everything else normally: eBay, email etc, with no change. It's just shmups.org that's gone snail like (sometimes unusable) regardless of the internet connection. I've tried four locations so far and it's always the same.

Have there been any server-side changes?

None at all and nobody else has mentioned anything to me either.

Weird.

Better clear my cache/cookies and settings and reboot everything. Thanks for the heads up.

I just wanted to add that I have similar problems like Skykid. Just a minute ago I couldn't load shmups forum for at least 20 minutes. I tried it again and again with tears in my eyes. ;_;

It is a problem I had already a few times since a week or so.

There are definitely DNS problems today, that's for sure.

Suggest changing the index settings to allow for <3 character words to be searched for.

Just noticed that the inbox capacity for PMs has recently been increased by 100%.

Highly appreciated - thanks a lot !!

this and it's awesome!
I hated having to sort through and find a PM to delete just to read a new one

Something's been changed in the front page. I can't quite put my finger on it but it looks more compact than before. Great stuff.

The moderators' names were removed under each subforum. Everybody moderates everything anyway, so they weren't really needed.

Ah, of course! Great stuff.

Also, congrats to Icarus on getting moderator status.

How long are PM's supposed to sit in the outbox? I've had some sit there for half a day plus. Does this mean they aren't getting delivered promptly?

It means the recipient hasn't read them yet.

Thanks that clarifies it.

I don't know if this is planned or not, but I appear to be getting logged out of here every couple of days. I can't quite figure out why, as no other forum which I'm logged into are logging me out. Anyone else has this happening to them?

The only problem I have with this forum are links going outside (such as youtube or shmuplations or whatever). This is the only place I visit where they are opened in the same tab instead of a new one. I try to remember to right click -> open link in new tab, but sometimes I forget and it infuriates my OCD.

e: I use Chrome.

I can't seem to be able to log in under my old account, "xbl0x180." Whenever I enter the e-mail address, it says that the username or e-mail don't exist. I guess I could start anew and forget the old account

Hey, I wondered if that was you! Sucks about the old account, hope you can get it back. Quite the legacy of movie/anime posts there.