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Og, King of Bashan
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Is the left column of the front page stuck on Saturday night / Sunday morning? No matter how many times I visit the Ship, and no matter what device I visit on, it shows that there are 39 members actively discussing various topics, and the order of topics has no resemblance to the order on the main board pages (Right Wingers Cant be Christians is the top post, and the bottom Heaven post is stuck on Can You Read Music).
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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It's probably still catching up from the server migration on Sunday morning.
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St Deird
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Is part of the "If we found the bones of Jesus" thread missing?
The first post I can see is by David, on the 14th of October at 8:40 am. But it's referencing earlier discussion, which I can't find - and in trying to track it down, I went through Rolyn's post history, which lists 3 posts by Rolyn in the thread, but only one of them seems to be showing up.
...Just me?
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David
Complete Bastard
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quote: Originally posted by St Deird: ...Just me?
Nope, looks pretty rooted.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Seems OK to me now. This sort of thing does have a habit of popping up from time to time, and it usually goes away again eventually.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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I have a laptop! It's going to take me quite a while to get used to, as apart from difficulty with the routerand using it in different -parts of the house, I have to get used to the key strokes for SuperNova on laptops. However, my question at the moment is: do I have to register to be on the forum there, or can I just log in using name and password?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Your Ship login and password will be the same regardless of the hardware/software combination you are currently using.
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SusanDoris
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Thank you. I will do that as soon as I can.
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lilBuddha
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Completely trivial to board usage, but possibly indicative of real problems.
When viewing from the Community page, I've noticed that the most recent post listed on board is not always the actual most recent post. Even after refreshing. More likely spilled coffee on the decking than signs of a leak, but thought I'd mention.
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passer
Indigo
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I thought it was a managed feed, to exclude Hell and possible bad language, so presumably it's a batch job to do the extract, every hour or some-such.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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For a while now, after I hit "Add reply" I get the usual message of "Coming soon: your deep and meaningful thoughts in print." But then that message never goes away. My deep and meaningful thoughts are posted, but the screen just doesn't change. I have to open the Ship in another tab and window to continue.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote: Originally posted by passer: I thought it was a managed feed, to exclude Hell and possible bad language, so presumably it's a batch job to do the extract, every hour or some-such.
It's the top 7 threads in Purg, the top 3 in Eccles and the top 1 in Heaven. I don't know how often it refreshes, but hourly is certainly plausible.
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Marvin the Martian
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quote: Originally posted by Pigwidgeon: For a while now, after I hit "Add reply" I get the usual message of "Coming soon: your deep and meaningful thoughts in print." But then that message never goes away. My deep and meaningful thoughts are posted, but the screen just doesn't change. I have to open the Ship in another tab and window to continue.
Weird. There might be something in the "Coming soon" page that's causing your browser to freeze, though I'm not sure what that would be.
Is your browser set up to not allow a page to automatically redirect to another, or something? If you click on the thread name in the "Coming soon" page will it take you there, or does the whole tab stop working?
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Pigwidgeon
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quote: Originally posted by Marvin the Martian: quote: Originally posted by Pigwidgeon: For a while now, after I hit "Add reply" I get the usual message of "Coming soon: your deep and meaningful thoughts in print." But then that message never goes away. My deep and meaningful thoughts are posted, but the screen just doesn't change. I have to open the Ship in another tab and window to continue.
Weird. There might be something in the "Coming soon" page that's causing your browser to freeze, though I'm not sure what that would be.
Is your browser set up to not allow a page to automatically redirect to another, or something? If you click on the thread name in the "Coming soon" page will it take you there, or does the whole tab stop working?
I don't have this problem with any other page or website. I can click on the thread name to get back to my post -- I just don't know how long to wait to be sure it's posted. So I can never edit my post once it's up; I just have to proof carefully before posting. Not a major problem, just a bit vexing.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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I think you're OK to click on it as soon as it appears - speaking as someone with no patience (for websites) who always clicks rather than waiting.
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Pigwidgeon
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quote: Originally posted by Drifting Star: I think you're OK to click on it as soon as it appears - speaking as someone with no patience (for websites) who always clicks rather than waiting.
I'll try that.
It worked -- thanks! [ 08. November 2013, 15:58: Message edited by: Pigwidgeon ]
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote: Originally posted by Pigwidgeon: I can click on the thread name to get back to my post -- I just don't know how long to wait to be sure it's posted.
If you see the "Coming Soon" page at all, it's posted.
In fact, it will generally have posted even if your PC freezes before ever getting to the "Coming soon" page. Clicking on "Add Reply" is the only thing that has to happen for a post to be made.
I suspect this sort of thing has been the root cause of many double posts over the years!
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Gee D
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Another recent problem. A post will appear Ok, but when I hit the back button to return to the menu for the particular board, I get a drop down box asking if I want to send a for again. When this happened the first time, I clicked Yes and there was a double post. Now I click cancel, open a new screen and make my way back to the Ship's boards.
Are others having this problem? I use Safari, and there was an update the other day.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: Another recent problem. A post will appear Ok, but when I hit the back button to return to the menu for the particular board, I get a drop down box asking if I want to send a for again. When this happened the first time, I clicked Yes and there was a double post. Now I click cancel, open a new screen and make my way back to the Ship's boards.
Are others having this problem? I use Safari, and there was an update the other day.
I thought this was always the way that this (and many other boards) worked. After you've just made a post, the logical page you would go 'back' to is the page where you wrote the post. I don't know why you would expect it to go all the way back to the thread list, because that has to be at least 3 pages prior.
The easiest way to go back to the menu of the the board you're on is either scroll to the bottom and use the 'Go To' option, or scroll to the top and click on the board name. Which is easier depends on where you happen to be on the page. [ 11. November 2013, 08:10: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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Gee D
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Thanks - I'll try that. It's just that there has been a change, and not for the better.
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BroJames
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What happens for me when I post a reply on a thread is that I get a "Wait for it…" window, then I am redirected to the thread which now has my post on it.
Once I am on the thread again, if I press the 'Back' button then it takes me back to the posting process (i.e. back to the last window I visited) with a message about whether I really want to do that.
IIRC this has always been how it is. [ 12. November 2013, 12:27: Message edited by: BroJames ]
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Thyme
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quote: Originally posted by Pigwidgeon: For a while now, after I hit "Add reply" I get the usual message of "Coming soon: your deep and meaningful thoughts in print." But then that message never goes away. My deep and meaningful thoughts are posted, but the screen just doesn't change. I have to open the Ship in another tab and window to continue.
This started happening to me a while ago. I used to hit the 'Community' button at the top of the screen to get back. Very annoying because I often missed the edit window.
It fixed itself when I cleared ('reformatted'?) my hard drive and installed a brand new operating system (windows 8). So far everything is fine again.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote: Originally posted by Gee D: It's just that there has been a change, and not for the better.
It wasn't us who changed - it must have been the Safari update.
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Gee D
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Yes, I think that's right. I'm now using the trick Orfeo pointed out and at the end, creating a new screen, exiting the old. It swords well thanks.
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Jammy Dodger
Half jam, half biscuit
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Where has the Welcome Aboard thread gone? Seen a few newbies arrive and thought I'd click on the thread but it seems to have vanished?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Heavens to Betsy! Swept away by the Doom Broom in the last tidy up!
I'll see if an Admin can retrieve it.
Firenze AS Host
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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With my SuperNova software, it is best to set Tools Options to 'ignore colours and fonts'. The layout of the dialog box thing for doing this has changed and I seem to have changed the size of the font which used to be - nice, clear Arial. For instance, I've just done a preview and the font doesn't look the same size. I use the voice, but having the magnification on too helps me orientate myself round the screen and if I need to I can put it up very high and peer! May I ask if someone would be kind enough please to have a look at that dialog box and see if there's a place where this can be changed? Ah yes, I remember to add I'm now on IE10, which they also updated for me and which probably doesn't help!
The software has had a new patch which upset a few of my SuperNova settings , and I think maybe a few of theirs too!, which means I haven't been able to join a thread I'd like to!! [ 22. December 2013, 07:28: Message edited by: SusanDoris ]
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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I think I have, quite by accident, solved the problem. The voice said 67%, and I realised that it was saing the figure at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. I'd never thought of that, so I changed it back to 100%.... and am keeping my fingers crossed! All seems well so far.
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An die Freude
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The Hell thread "Offenderati" shows as having two pages, but the first four on the second page appear to me to be the same as the last four on the preceding page. Not sure if that's just me seeing that, though.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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My other half just told me the same thing. Time for a re-indexing methinks.
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Chocoholic
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I've tried getting into the cafe on my ipad but it keeps trying to open a Dropbox file.
Is it possible to open the cafe on a tablet?
(Apologies if this is an old query, I tried to search for an answer but couldn't find one)
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Alex Cockell
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quote: Originally posted by Chocoholic: I've tried getting into the cafe on my ipad but it keeps trying to open a Dropbox file.
Is it possible to open the cafe on a tablet?
(Apologies if this is an old query, I tried to search for an answer but couldn't find one)
Tablets preclude the use of Java SE - so no joy there, unless or until there was a tech change to how the cafe worked.
Over tablets generally - would help if there was a more touch-friendly skin - as it means pinching to grow then reaching for a stylus to advance to the next page in a thread....
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Chocoholic
Shipmate
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Thanks Alex, I'd not thought of that.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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I realise that this is not really a fair question, because it's probably got something to do with my Dolphin SuperNova (13.53) software, but it does seem to have a strong M/S connection too, so I'm just wondering whether anyone has any ideas. I was on the phone to ~Dolphin Tech Support this afternoon, and it seems to be a problem for them too.
For all the years I've been using a computer, to highlight and then copy or delete a line, or a paragraph when, for instance, composing posts, I have put the cursor at the end, then done Control+Shift+up arrow. This has highlighted the part I want. Now when I do that, on any window on the internet as far as I can see, everything above that line is highlighted. I have tried a test in the UB Practice thread, which failed.
If anyone has any solution, I would be most grateful.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote: Originally posted by SusanDoris: For all the years I've been using a computer, to highlight and then copy or delete a line, or a paragraph when, for instance, composing posts, I have put the cursor at the end, then done Control+Shift+up arrow. This has highlighted the part I want. Now when I do that, on any window on the internet as far as I can see, everything above that line is highlighted. I have tried a test in the UB Practice thread, which failed.
If anyone has any solution, I would be most grateful.
Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow highlights all the way to the top of the selected paragraph in Internet Explorer. Shift+Home works to highlight a single line once the cursor is placed at the end.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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quote: Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow highlights all the way to the top of the selected paragraph in Internet Explorer. Shift+Home works to highlight a single line once the cursor is placed at the end.
Thank you very much for your help. Re the Ctrl Shift Up Arrow, I think there must be a glitch in my IE then, because I've just tried it on an edit area like this and it highlighted right to the top. The Shift Home one I didn't know, but have tried for a line and it worked. So, fingers crossed, that's one problem solved.
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Wesley J
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I've just got a spam PM from a new 'member'. Who do I contact on this, please? Ta muchly.
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Kelly Alves
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A spam account has just been locked. PM me to make sure it is the same one.
Everyone, else-- if you receive a message requesting you urgently contact someone at a linked email-- do not respond. And for God's sake, don't click that link.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Actually never mind-- enough people have gotten the same exact PM that I have no problem outing the sender. If any of you have a PM waiting for you from monico, delete without reading. The account has been locked.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Wesley J
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Thank you, axe-wielding bunny.
-------------------- Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Marama
Shipmate
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As we are travelling with only one computer between us, my [shipmate] husband and I are sharing it. I am logged in to the Ship, but if he wants to post something, can he log me out and log himself in instead?
Hitting "logout" seems only to provoke the automatic message " you can never leave".
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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You should be able to log out, and the other log in. I don't know why that's not working.
An alternative approach is to install a different browser. One of you can be logged on in Chrome, the other in InternetExplorer (or, whichever two browsers you have).
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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OK, I've just logged out (for the first time in years!) and got the "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave" message. Which is the result of an Admin with a sense of humour.
But, above that is a link to either login or register. ie: it might say "you can never leave" but you have left! Or, at least, I had left.
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Marama
Shipmate
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That tip worked in Internet Explorer but not in Mozilla Firefox.
With Firefox, the line under "ship of fools' remins unchanged after hitting 'logout' ; it offers 'register', 'my profile' etc but NOT 'login' as an option.
We have 'solved' the problem by me logging in under Mozilla and him under IE, so we have a work aroudn but the ship still has a technical issue for the IT gurus to work on.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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If it's working in some browsers but not others, then it's probably a browser issue rather than one with the Ship itself. I don't have Firefox so I can't try to replicate the problem myself.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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I just logged out and I'm using the latest version of Firefox.
[shudder] That was weird.
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Taliesin
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All afternoon, the ship was offline... or was it just me? It said closed for maintenance.
you WILL survive!
but since there is no comment here, I'm wondering if it was just me.
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lilBuddha
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I noticed it as well. Doubting the "reassuring" message I might have, survive I did. Though my keepers now bear mental scars beyond the most twisted existential imaginings. Two needed to be restrained themselves. Not quite sure I quite trust the one who seemed to manage unscathed.
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