What's the Matter With the Forum Software? Posted: 07-21-05 02:49am
I am very familiar with phpbb software,
having used it many times as a forum
member at many sites and as a moderator
and administrator of forums using this
software. A couple of things seem not to
work properly and I was hoping someone
could tell me why.
the back button (on my mouse or the
browser) does not return me to the
previous page position, only to the top of
the previous page.
my text formatting is not preserved -
when I capitalize a word it does not
display as capitalized. I have better
english composition skills than the
software.
the automatic redirect to the posted
message isn't working - I have to click it
manually.
although the software is open source
and free and there appears to be no
copyright worries since it is virtually a
stock layout, viewing the source (coding)
has been disabled (via standard browser
settings, not using an old partial source
viewer) and saving the page is also
thwarted.
i just joined and haven't spent a lot of
time here yet, so there may be more
problems than this. Can someone explain
this to me? Maybe the admin doesn't know
there are problems because there isn't a
forum to report these kinds of issues?
Thanks for any enlightenment.
Grump
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Grump
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: the Ether
Posted: 07-21-05 11:13am
Well, I have discovered it is not stock
layout. Someone has decided to
"customize" it so that I am notified about
private messages via my browser status
bar. This only works in ie, as far as I
can tell, and is not necessary because the
standard location of my pm status is still
where it normally is, in the upper left
corner of the header, below thje logo.
The back button does work when using
firefox browser, but I prefer ie. The
stock forum software works the same on all
browsers, with only minor graphical
differences. You have to mess with the
coding to break it like this. It's too
bad because there are a lot of very good
"hacks" made for the software that add
many nice functions and design
enhancements and there is great support
for them online to eliminate any
problems.
After a day, i'm wondering if an admin or
moderator will even reply to this.
oh yeah, turning html on doesn't help if
the software doesn't preserve text
formatting. Posting images is chancy at
best because of the same reason.
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