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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
I have just deployed some changes to the back-end of the NS Forums.  Everything should look and work exactly the same as before, and if it doesn't then something is likely wrong. 

Please reply below if you have any strange behavior in the Forums today.  I'll do my best to fix it ASAP.

13 years ago
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
don't kid yourself frenchy, you're still a total n00b-troll. The only difference now is that we've learned to accept you the way you are. Our little 'special' guy !
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13 years ago
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.frenchy
Posts: 18231 - Karma: 12,399
Hahaha awwww! I'll take it as a compliment ! :)
13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
Cant change my icon/profile picture. Says upload starts but never does anything
13 years ago
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bustinthejus
Posts: 2419 - Karma: 74
I feel like they should be able to fix it, it's just a matter of time/effort. If I had to guess, I'd say that the forum generates pages based on the number of replies. So, when someone makes a reply, number of replies goes up one. Once it hits a multiple of 50, a new page is made and subsequent replies is placed on the new page. But, when mods delete replies, there's no code in place to subtract one from the number of replies, causing new pages to be made, but replies still being placed on the old page.


That being said, I don't know how the forum is coded, and maybe it's a simple fix, but the time it would take for every single thread to be updated might be too long for this to be worth it.
13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
they only happen when posts are deleted from previous pages. The current page is fine, but when it happens on previous, it sucks everything back to fill that spot and doesnt update
13 years ago
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corona
Posts: 12845 - Karma: 33,290
not important, but new pink names are a different pink than old ones

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13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
omg there are red ones wtf
13 years ago
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
Wow, good catch guys ;)

Yes, employees of NS can choose to be Red.  Those few members you saw in Red was a bug.  I've changed their tags to Pink (as they should be) and am deploying a fix to prevent this from happening again.
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corona
Posts: 12845 - Karma: 33,290
I though I was crazy. I had to zoom in on both and compare to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
13 years ago
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
Yeah I'm surprised what people can notice sometimes :)

13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
well I knew of the red employees, but the random names suddenly red caught me
13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
speaking of which, why don't YOU have a red name?!
13 years ago
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22738 - Karma: 77,008
Paul is like the supreme overlord of Newschoolers.com.

He does absolutely whatever he wants.
13 years ago
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1337
Posts: 31078 - Karma: 29,667
Lame that he choses orange, make yourself yellow or purple or gold!
13 years ago
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Holte
Posts: 10751 - Karma: 7,996
The link to the photo of the day at the bottom of the index splash page is missing in Firefox 15.0.1, and clicking on the photo uploader's name links to my profile instead.
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