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- Error going into inbox
Posted on 6 days ago
When I click on the inbox icon I get:
Execute Access DeniedThis Virtual Directory does not allow objects to be executed.
- Just to let you know
Posted on 6 days ago
Yes, today I logged in and first my skin was gone, then when I went to read email I got "
Execute Access DeniedThis Virtual Directory does not allow objects to be executed.
Broke again !!
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 16 days ago
Babs_oz
I don't know what skin you are using but on the classic skin we use the first post is not repeated on subsequent pages of my forum.
The fact that first posts are stored in the record header for the Thread and not in the same table as the rest of the replies is a basic falure of SQL data normalization that has plagued this version of the software since 2007.
That's one of the reasons that merging threads causes one of the first posts from one of the two threads to be lost forever.
- Help banning user
Posted on 16 days ago
I need help banning a user.
They have set up an Aimoo account named
"Only letters(a-z, A-Z), numbers(0-9,)hyphens(-), and underscores(_)."
I am not kidding you.
Their profile is spam and I want to remove them as users but when I try to ban someone of that name it does not let me.
The Aimoo software cannot process a user with this name so please remove this profile from Aimoo.
Thanks
- Do you prefer the forum width being set at 100%?
Posted on 21 days ago
The problem is Aimoo often fails to detect the correct with of the end users screen. For example this page is formatted too wide for my screen, and I am running 1152x864, which should be enough pixies for most of life....
The new skin style is even worse. The edit box that I am typing should be centered in the screen, but it is not, it's way over to the right.
Even with the old standard skins, on some threads Aimm's software fails to get the column formatting right so that the messages do not line up or format correctly.
Instead of making more and more funky skins and user experiences I think they should concentrate on the classic skin and get it to format correctly every time, for all users, what ever screen width they are running. There are so many things in the classic that need fixing, we just don't need more frue-frue.
I don't want to be frigging with percentages and pixels. If I wanted to do that I would write my own software or get my own free copy of phpBB and customize that.
- Trendy question.
Posted on 27 days ago
I am very keen on Firefox, because of it's very productive extensions.
I can have extensions to help me, for example extracting the correct legal citations from Westlaw, or provide dictionary lookup, copy to plain text, etc.
I can have extensions that protect me, that prevent scripts from running unless they are from sights I like, (NoScript) or add blockers.
I can have extensions that even allow me to switch between rendering engins so sites that don't work in Firefox, like Microsoft update, can run using IE Tab or IE View from within Firefox. One click switches rendering engines. Very cool.
There are some very useful and powerful extensions available that extend it's functionality in just about any way you can imagine. Some of them I have come to depend on and could be without.
It's open security architecture is also good. Any flaws get fixed fast, because there are a lot of eyeballs taking a hard look at what is happening under the hood.
I have used all sorts of browsers and am sticking with Firefox because of it's stability, extendability and security.
Any software that is going to be competitive on the web now must support and display correctly in the current major browsers, IE and Firefox.
IE has more than 60% of the market just because it comes pre-installed on almost every PC. Firefox has around a 25% market share that it has earned the honest way, by being a better browser. Chrome is doing a good job but is still only a tiny little slice of the market, around 2% to 3% and Safari only exists because it is bundled with Macs and pushed out to the unsuspecting though Apple Itunes downloads.
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 27 days ago
Karrier, Sorry for my error in accusing you of deleting messages. I was wrong you were not deleting posts.
I was, as you guessed, just
confused because this version of the software repeats the first post at
the top of every page.
I saw the first post, and the last posts, and did not see the posts in the middle and thought they were deleted. They were just on another page.
Being accustomed to working with a large forum with the page length set
to 50 posts per page it did not occur to me that the missing posts were
on a prior page. With this new software it was not obvious to me that I was working on a
subsequent page. The repeating first message caused probably caused the delusion.
My apologies again. You were innocent. JM
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 28 days ago
Karrier, I was wrong you were not deleting posts. I was just confused because this version of the software repeats the first post at the top of every page.
I saw the first post, and the last post, and did not see the posts in the middle, for they were on another page.
Being accustomed to working with a large forum with the page length set to 50 posts per page it did not occur to me that there were other posts on a diffrent page. It was not obvious to me that I was working on a subsequent page. The repeating first message caused probably caused my delusion.
My apologies. You were compleatly inocent. JM
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 28 days ago
I agree with Karrier. Sorry for the 'slanging match' but I no longer tolerate idiots who personally attack me or suggest I don't know what I am talking about.
Failure to call idiotic ideas stupid is what allows people to continue believing with fundmentist religions and nutty ideas like reading black type on a white background makes you blind. It's what they know that just ain't so.
(Not to mention that most forums on Aimoo were never black on white to begin with, not even the help forum.)
Karrier, sorry for accusing you of deleting messages. I was wrong you were not deleting posts.
I was just
confused because this version of the software repeats the first post at
the top of every page. I saw the first post, and the last post, and did not see the posts in the middle, for they were on another page. Being accustomed to working with a large forum with the page length set
to 50 posts per page it did not occur to me that the missing posts were on a prior page. It was not obvious to me that I was working on a
subsequent page. The repeating first message caused probably caused my
delusion.
My apologies. You were completely innocent. JM
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 28 days ago
P.S. The editor in this version sucks. When I attempt to edit my post if I change the color it removes all the line breaks, if I attempt to change the font it does the same.
If I fix the foreground color, and the background color, and the font size to what I want it strips them all and turns the lot back to the default text and font size.
Instead of trying to write a 'Trendy' version they should have stuck to fixing basic things like the bugs in the editors. We run the basic editor on our forum just so we don't get all the problems associated with the other version.
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 28 days ago
MDBones your still and idiot. Don't lecture me on not complaining about software when people are committing the CRIME of alpha testing software in a live production environment. But then I guess you don't actually know what an alpha test is or what the difference between test and production environments are. I would suggest that once you get to university you take a course in IT management, it might help.
We went through a complete meltdown of Aimoo.com for many months back in 2007. It was terrible. That two was caused by rashly implementing new and very unstable software on the live production servers without first testing it. As a result Aimoo lost almost all it's paying customers.
Back in 2007 a few of us stuck around and tried hard to help them out. We spent many hours attempting to help them figure out what was wrong with the software including reporting the SQL database debug information and figuring out why some of their errors were occurring. During the transition data and information was lost and it took many months before the board was usable. Even today the software still has a number bugs left over from that time.
Having been a victems of that meltdown, and as one of the active hard working end users who helped get it back on it's feet, myself and some of my peers have won the right to say:
1) Don't test on production servers.
2) Don't mess with the help forum because that's how we feed the error and bug reports back to the Admin. It is also how we see what problems other users are having.
3) Don't mess with funky screens that are hard to read or difficult to navigate for the same reasons as 1 & 2 above.
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 28 days ago
There are some texts that are invisible, and cannot be seen by me unless I highlight that part of the screen where I think they are,
then they appear in contrast to the highlight.
For example the big block of space at the top of a post contains about a full half screen of search tags, but for me it's just 1/2 a screen of blank space. Same with the labels along the bottom starting with "new/unread".
The default text on the Halloween backround is gray. Gray on black is a disaster and that is hard to read. Maybe it's only because I use a traditional high end CRT monitor that has the ability to show the subtly of various grays. It does not matter why, the fact is dark gray text on black lacks something called CONTRAST.
To the idiot who thinks a anything other than a black screen will make you go blind, you are an idiot. I should warn you that masturbation makes you blind and you will grow up to be a Republican pastor from Utah. You may be unaware of this but before you were born people used a technology called 'books' that were made from black type on crisp white pages. Reading them did not make people blind and neither does white on black text. If the screen is blinding then turn down the brightness and contrast.
As to Trendy, don't inflict this on users. The whole structure of message boards is categories and sub-categories. That is what should be the first thing people see. If we wanted to have a site that looks like a twitter feed we would use twitter, if we wanted it to look like a bad teenage myspace page then we would have used myspace. It is not. It is a MESSAGE board system.
After running one of Aimoo's more successful message board that has been going for over 6 years and with over 11,000 registered members I do know something about arranging a successful message board that is easy to navigate and creating a skin that is easy to read. Trendy is not easy to navigate.
You should not have to learn the quirks of trying to find information. A message board should be obvious to navigate and should show users where to find information on various subjects, and from the Moderators point of view, should clearly show them in what category they should post.
If if its not obvious where the correct category is, or they can't find threads on the subject, users will post in the wrong places and start lots of needless new threads instead of replying to existing ones. I realize that's not much of a problem if you have a small quiet forum but with a vibrant and active board people posting in all the wrong paces or starting hundreds of needless threads is a nightmare.
Maybe I am just old fashioned and suffering from being over 20 years old but I don't see any advantage of 'Trendy'. If this help forum is meant to be an example of it's 'advantages' then it fails.
The help forum should be HELPFUL not a nightmare to navigate. We should not have to hunt around to tray and find the support we need.
- Please fix this help forum and the buttons
Posted on 29 days ago
The standard "Post Reply" button at the bottom of the quick reply form often fails to work when using the Firefox browser. Even refreshing the screen does not activate the button. Seems the code behind it is doing something strange or a script is failing to run.
Also the Aimoo help forum is completely un-navigable with some menus coming up black on black. Please, if you want to try out new skins do them on your own forums NOT on the help forum. People are already fustrated, that's why they are coming to the Help forum. Don't piss them of further by having a totally un-navigable skin.
I had to email one of the people I know who is a moderator of the category to ask them where to find the "Start new Topic" button. When an experienced user, (6 years with Aimoo), who uses the system every day and runs one of your largest forums, (more than 11,000 registered users), has to ask where to find the buttons you know you have succeeded in your goal of total confusion. I guess that's one way to
cut down on the complaints.
Change this help board back to the old skin so we can read it and find our way around with ease! Or at least to a skin where items are NOT black on black.
You folks have got to learn not to play with everything at once. Stop efing with the live code, to do your testing on a test system, not the live user message boards.
Don't mess up the Help forum where people come to ask questions when they have problems. Leave the skin alone. The Halloween skin is not cute. It is stupid, because it makes it more difficult for users to solve their problems or report bugs.
- Has your forum gone missing? POST here Please
Posted on 1 month ago
I am tired of this crap too:
Aimoo Online Community Request error ! This page has been sent to Administrator.
The error may be caused by Network.The error may be caused by the invalid variable.Date and Time:Thu Oct 22 2009 17:48:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Time to fix it. Just get it done and quit monkeying around with the code.
- Re:Ads In Diamond Forum
Posted on 1 month ago
Same problem in my forum. With a large and active message board like mine this causes a lot of problems. Git it fixed !!
- Re:Post numbers for my members are not updating
Posted on 2 months ago
I would really like it if there was a re-index or recount option so that we can get the system to update the post counts by actually counting the messages and replies. IN my case I am less cared about how many messages an individual has posted, in fact I don't care at all about the individuals counts: What concerns me is the numbers of posts in a thread or category being reported incorrectly.
This should not be difficult programing to do since each post is indexed and so you don't even need to look at the table with the messages in it, just the number of items reported in the index. It should be quite a simple recursive program that should be less than 1/2 a page of code.
Please, there have been, and there continues to be some functions that fail to update the counters. Having a function to correct the totals when they get out of whack would be wonderful.
- Re:Message counters showing incorrect totals.
Posted on 08/07/2009
It is not just that counter that gets wrong, over time, and we have had lots of time being a board that is seven years old, things go out of whack.
Fixing the individual bugs where numbers do not get updated correctly is good. But what we really need is some form of indexing program to go through all the categories on the message board and correct the number of replies.
My board shows about the same number of replies as it did two years ago, and yet people have added 2 to 4 thousand more replies in the intervening time.
This is like a re-index problem but simpler since most databases support a query to an index for a total count on how many records in the index match that message thread ID without having to go and read each message. The script should just open each category in turn and then query the reply index for the 'count' of matching records for each thread ID. This is simple stuff to write, and should run in a matter of seconds.
I applaud fixing the errors in the code that lead to these discrepancies but we also need a tool to rebuild the numbers from scratch.
