Erik

Are you enjoying the new site update? Are you finding anything that isn't working? Are you finding the things you need, where it's located, and how to use it? Anything you'd like to see changed? Your input is very valuable to me. Thank you. E

I can't give you an exact copy of the OFF Skin but it'll be as close as possible. I have to prioritize the skin as the OFF forums don't have the use to warrant a high priority. I hope you understand.

The pagination thing is us. I'm working on resolving it. Please standby.

That should be fixed please let me know if it's working for you.

Fixed

The quick upload buttons drop down on the header "+Create" and in the downloads section "Submit a file" are now fixed. The lighter grey (un-highlighted) areas are category headings and do not allow uploads. The darker grey (highlighted) areas are the file categories that allow uploads.

The engines work on the same basic design. Air + Ignition + Fuel = RUN or to quote you Air + Contact + Boom = RUN. The AF sometimes collects exhaust samples from jet engines and they do this by getting a newly enlisted to stand behind a running/starting engine with a 55 gallon trash bag to collect an exhaust sample. Only the brilliant can accomplish this task and move up the ranks. All rumors of course.

You must venture out more often Hauksbee. I'm sure there's more links but I'm kinda pre-occupied. :)

Hmmm that's interesting but it makes sense since it's a real time lookup using the back button doesn't pass the lookup details back to the database. I'm not sure how to fix that but a workaround might be once you do your search and get your answers on the answers page right click a result link and choose "open in a new tab" that way your original search results stay on a tab by itself. Your signature image needs attention ... it says upgrade your photobucket account. LOL

All our pages should automatically redirect to the SSL version of the site. However the actual page "combatace.com/index" doesn't exist anymore due to everything being integrated now. The equivalent to that page is now https://combatace.com/forums/ but I don't think that's going to fix the non-responsive problem. I would recommend flushing your browsing cache. Also I'm still working on the machines that house the site and installing, updating, rebooting, and like behavior have been happening. That should be minimized now. Let's hope for smooth sailing from here on out. E

I understand what you're saying. One of the new inner workings of the site is that it's now fully integrated so things are just in different places. The categories and file listings you mentioned really didn't work like you described in the last version of the site. In that version we did have the ability to show random files in that category but it was never a full list. Now however we can supply you a full list. At the top of all the pages you'll find an "Activity" link. Click - Activity > The down arrow next to "My Activity Streams" > Create New Stream > on this page you can define a new stream you want to keep updated on. You can create multiple streams so they become one click access to the content you want. On your stream setup page first enter a title you want to call it "SF2 Cold War" as an example. Then find and click - Files > The down arrow for settings that appears > click the down arrows next to the category listings until you get to the one you want > then click that category to get a check mark (you can select more than one) > then you can select any other options on that page you like > [SAVE] After you hit save it will show you the stream results. On that page you can more redefine the results, edit the title, remove the stream, etc. After you set this up all you will need to do to get back to the stream you created is click - Activity > then select your custom stream you want to view. As you can see you can make a stream for all kinds of content and what's nice is you can tailor the stream to fit your exact needs. As for the displaying content in the category headings that won't be a high priority. Our library was changed a few years back to include all these new category headings to make it easier to upload and find things. It was argued then that doing our library any other way is just not possible. You're kind of asking for it to be like it was before with broad categories like "SF > SF2 > Add On Aircraft > Cold War. MigBuster spent months putting all those categories together he's going to be heart broken. We shouldn't mention this to him. LOL Okay I've typed enough. Thanks for the feedback. E

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Yes. I'm still working on so many other things but the skins are on my list to get done. They are just low priority compared to the other stuff. Thanks. :)

It's still pretty difficult to imagine the displacement and damage Harvey has caused. My heart goes out to the people of Houston and surrounding areas. This should be considered mother nature's last warning about global warming since we didn't listen to her when she threw Katrina at New Orleans. It's time we all stand tall and take notice. A few hundred jobs in the coal industry and flaming off unwanted gases while drilling for oil without a recovery method for other uses isn't worth it especially since greener fuels are available. It's time to break America's smoking habit with fossil fuel and rip it off like a bandage. Buy stock in Tesla. E

Bring any thoughts to mind?

No problem that's just the fix now I have to make that fix on all the other directories that house files.

Hmmmm ... that is a problem and I'll have to go back through all the categories to adjust them. I modified the settings for that category but nothing changed so can I ask you a favor? Go to this file: edit it and reupload your images. I haven't looked but you may need to delete your old ones then reupload new ones.

Yes that's a problem. You can use the stars on some files and not on others. It's on my list to fix. Thanks.

Work continues. 1. There's a ton of work to do in the download section. I've got all the categories up to date except for SF1 and SF2. So if there's any oddities there I know about them. The quick create buttons on the header and files portal are not showing the correct download categories. This is a problem with the core and a fix is being worked on. The work around is to manually browse to the location you want to upload by using the files categories. Once you get to the directory you want to put your file you should have a green "Submit a file" button. This still works so uploads are possible. The support topics weren't showing images and were pretty much horked. Those have all been fixed so now images and text appears correctly. 2. The gallery section. I've not touched it yet. All the categories need permissions set and a general look through of the application to make sure it's set up right. 3. The forum section. Permissions. 4. The online store. Should be squared away and ready to use. 5. The ancillary sections membermaps, leaderboards, site portal, search, and various other sections. Should be good to go for general consumption and use. 6. The skins. The site skins are just a mess right now. I've only brought the main skin online. That leaves the OFF skin, and DARK skin not even started. CA Default (Light) and OFF skins released. Working on a dark skin. There's minor work to be done in other areas but it's not causing any issues so I'll get to that when I have a chance. For now this list unless something is brought to my attention is considered the priorities from the most severe at the top to the least at the bottom. Thanks all and I hope you're enjoying the new site. E

Still working on the quick create menus not showing the proper permissions. Keeping everyone updated. Thanks.

In the meantime you should be able to browse to the download section you want to upload to and once you get to a location that allows uploads a green "submit file" button will appear. I'm still working on the upload feature honoring permission settings. Sorry for the hassle.

My humor sometimes escapes me .... standby I'm in the middle of fixing some issues.

I said I'll look into it. What more do you want? I have a ton of things I'm working on at the moment and this is on the list it's just not going to be something I do right away. I tried to explain to you how things work but you're taking it personally. There's no reason for that in the slightest.

The search feature is working as intended. If you select "This Forum" that means "This Forum ONLY" and so the search results are correct. If you want to search a forum and all sub sets of that forum then don't select "This Forum". You're asking me to rewrite logic so that the ONLY toggle can mean ANYTHING or SOMETHING SPECIFIC. In a binary world the choices are on or off, ONLY or NOT ONLY.

I understand what you're saying. From a software logic point of view it works as intended. By selecting "This Forum" and "Topics" the search pulls back all hits that would be in the OFF Root which is always going to nothing as the OFF Root is a forum that has no posts and no topics. It only holds sub forums which was excluded by the "This Forum" selection. Result=NULL You're better off searching the entire board by just selecting "Topics" in this case which will pull back everything in all topics but because the search term "TAC" is pretty specific you can get to what you're after fairly easily. STATUS: Working as intended though your argument stands for possible further development in the "fuzzy logic" department. IOW "This Forum" is a recursive lookup below "This Forum" and not held as strict. Thanks for the report.