Site-related issues (problems, suggestions)

I’m not sure what you mean – the /docs page still exists. Does each talk topic in the forum need a link to /docs? Or do you mean each talk’s abstract under /docs needs a link to the corresponding forum topic?

A lot of the links in a reddit thread I saw ended in /index.html

I just added a couple of global re-directs in our website to make those work,
should be all better now. At least the re-directs worked in my testing…

Why aren’t forum topics showing up as threaded? When I reply to several posts in a topic they all wind up together at the bottom with no indication of what they were responding to. I haven’t found an option to turn threading on – doesn’t WordPress do that?

Ivan

Yes, WordPress (or the bbPress plugin in particular) does do comment threading.

I now have the correct box checked to turn this on! (defaults!! Aarrgh!!)

My posting in the memory topic at January 3, 2014 at 6:27 pm contained a link right after “see”, but no link appears on the page when I view it. I used the “link” button to make it, not manual tagging that I would certainly screw up. ????

I posted some code to the “Application walkthrough” topic, but the forum software squeezed all multi-blank sequences to a single blank, destroying the formatting. If this is an option please reset it, or post to that topic how to work around.

If you want code to show up with indents unscathed, paste the code in, select it with the mouse, then click the “code” button on your edit bar.

like this:

void function(int &a, int& b) {
   // just some junk to illustrate
   a = b;
}

When I look at the freshness column, it doesn’t seem to show the most recent poster nor time! For example, I posted to the Markets thread but it doesn’t show. And the names of who posted and the times don’t seem to match either.

I do see updates in the freshness column without fail – after I refresh the page.

I do ”’not”’ have anything like page refreshes being pushed out periodically, which would eliminate the need for manual page refresh but introduce other issues, particularly when posting comments! (Say you are in the middle of composing a comment when the pushed refresh happens – not good!).

Reading new replies to threads is very difficult with this forum’s threading interface. You have to use reply numbers or dates.

I’m not familiar with wordpress, but Discourse is a next gen discussion software that is extremely awesome. I’m pretty sure there’s a wordpress plugin as well. It’s rather new, so I’m not sure if you guys want to move to it, but I thought you might want to know.

There should probably be a min-width set for the whole page. Deeply nested comments can be unreadable on mobile. This can be simulated by simply making the browser very narrow and observing how some of the posts above become just 1 character per line.

Can mods (like myself) host images on ootbcomp? WP normally has add-media dialogs, but I cannot find them for ootbcomp.com.

I seem to have lost the ability to edit my forum posts.

Edit: Or maybe not. Is it time related?

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by  baking.

The WordPress registration link in the sidebar is broken, only found the real page using the search.

POSTs are rejected (403) unless the targeted HTTP Host is millcomputing.com, yet sometimes Google points to the older ootbcomp.com address, leading to confusion. Canonicalizing the hostname (by issuing 301 if not canonical — several lines of Apache config, f.ex.) should also help to increase the search engine visibility.

I tried to post not so long post (about 1216 chars) and got… nothing (empty response). It looks like longer POST requests are just ignored.