Image pop-up previews! - November 13, 2003 09:09 AM
Based on a kick-ass idea from Damon I implemented a preview popup for images. If you have Show Tool Tip Message Previews turned OFF in your profile then you will not see them.
To activate, simply roll over any image icon beside a message. The first image in the message will pop up for previewing.
Enjoy!
Written by Greg (Dallas)
Events viewing problems have been fixed - October 25, 2003 11:57 PM
Anyone who has had trouble getting a blank page in Events when you are logged in, should notice that this problem has gone away.
Written by Greg (Dallas)
Please don't post certain images 'inline'. - September 06, 2003 11:40 AM
We would prefer to not see anymore 'service manual' images inline (posted visibly on this site) or 'parts diagram' images (unless it's one from our own Docs section). If you want to link to the page or image, that's OK. We just don't want to see them inline in messages anymore.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Multiple ads in Classifieds will be deleted - May 13, 2003 10:20 AM
There are a lot of people lately that just post as many classified ads as they please. As a courtesy to everyone else that uses the Classifieds section, please consolidate your ads down to at least 2 (TWO), not 12, not 5, not 3, but TWO a day. Most of them can be done in 1... I usually send a nice little admin message explaining the rules that are stated at the top of the Classifieds posting page about only doing 2 at a time. I'm tired of that, so just expect your posts to get deleted. If you persistantly do it, then I'll just ban you. Simple.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Carfax requests will be deleted - May 06, 2003 08:51 AM
Greg had a sticky message posted, I figured I'd make it permanent over here in NEWS. Repeating, Carfax requests will be deleted.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Modification to a new feature - April 21, 2003 11:11 PM
Many of you have seen the new 'tool tip' message preview on all of the main forum pages. While I think it's pretty neat, and a lot of others do too, we're all about personal choice around here :-)
So... the tool tip message preview is now a profile setting. Go to Members->Edit Profile and scroll down towards the bottom and you will see a Yes/No setting for it. If you wish to turn it off, just set it to No and save your profile. By default, everybody is set to Yes.
Enjoy!
Written by Greg (Dallas)
New Feature ... thanks to Kyle(MN) ! - April 20, 2003 01:16 PM
At Kyle's request, I have added some options to the search page that allow you to now search classifieds for only SELLING or WANTED posts as well as all posts. Seemed to make a lot of sense to me when I saw the request.
Enjoy!
Written by Greg (Dallas)
Couple of new changes - April 18, 2003 08:26 PM
In addition to a bunch of bug fixes, there are two new features out:
1. Auto-preview. On main forum pages now, if you put your cursor over a message subject and leave it there for a few seconds, you should get a 'tool tip' style pop up window that shows you the first few hundred characters of the message. It has been received well so far and can be quite useful.
2. For those using the default 'synthtk' theme, you should now see the elusive PSI counter. For those that are not familiar with it, this shows the count of people who are currently online on TwinTurbo.NET. (Thanks to clever Damon, PSI stands for 'People Seeking Intelligence') :-) If you click on the PSI counter it will take you to the online members page which gives details of who's online and what they are doing.
If you run into any bugs or other odd troubles, please email me directly at: greg@twinturbo.net
Written by Greg (Dallas)
Hit by 'Slammer' SQL database worm last night - January 25, 2003 01:36 PM
Which sucks. We upgraded to the latest patches to avoid getting hit again and our search indexes (sp?) got toasted. Search will be slow and inaccurate, not to mention the entire site will be slowed down because of having to reindex everything. Probably take a few days to get back up to speed, we have almost 1.5 million messages between tech and general now (general finally passed tech for total posts a couple weeks ago). Don't worry, all the data appears to be there and worst case, we have complete DB backups from yesterday.. so all the data is safe one way or other. I'm just glad the worm wasn't data malicious...
Written by Dallas DamonZ
Some bug fixes - December 17, 2002 02:44 PM
Well, I'm sure many of you have run across some 'idiosyncracies' in the new software. Rest assured I have been behind the scenes trapping errors, figuring out what's wrong, and fixing stuff like crazy.
Most recently fixed: 1) Replies in events should now work. 2) Some troubles reading the NA/TT Conversion message at the top of Technical are fixed. 3) Problems viewing some user profiles have been fixed.
Also, if the other bug I corrected works properly, you should be looking at this news page instead of whatever forum you were headed to. I've implemented a feature that automatically forwards you to news when a new News item has been posted. Once you've seen it once, your flag is reset and you won't come back here involuntarily until the next News item gets posted. This is a way for us to reach all members regardless of how long a stretch between accesses they may have.
Enjoy! Keep posting bugs under the 'bugs' post in General. I'm knocking them out as fast as I can.
