Captain's Log

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I've upgraded the multi-prefix add-on to the latest version.

This add-on allows us to have multiple prefixes for threads. Here's an example of what it looks like from the General Discussion forum.
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I got a question or two based on my confusion.

In the Vegan forum, a user called Mommy Saving Money posted two messages about getting a free (how to be a) vegan kit.
If you click on the messages, the URL(s) have been removed, presumably because Mommy Saving Money is a newbie.

So far, so good.

BUT if you just "mouse over" the listing/title of the messages, you get a "preview" that contains the entire URL, uncensored.
So, what good does removing the URL within the message do? (Surely, if I could figure this out without hardly trying, then everyone on this Board could figure this out.)

If you go to that URL, it just provides you with a link to part of the PeTA website.

So, to cut out the middleman/middlewoman, just go to:


Am I missing something here?
 
I got a question or two based on my confusion.

In the Vegan forum, a user called Mommy Saving Money posted two messages about getting a free (how to be a) vegan kit.
If you click on the messages, the URL(s) have been removed, presumably because Mommy Saving Money is a newbie.

So far, so good.

BUT if you just "mouse over" the listing/title of the messages, you get a "preview" that contains the entire URL, uncensored.
So, what good does removing the URL within the message do? (Surely, if I could figure this out without hardly trying, then everyone on this Board could figure this out.)
Sorry, meant to answer this before: The feature to hide the URLs posted by newbies is not perfect, so they do show a couple of places. However, the most important reason for hiding these URLs is to make sure they're not visible to search engines. Spammers often seek to improve the search engine rankings of their URLs, and they do this by posting the URLs in multiple places on the web so that search engine spiders will see them, and rank them higher, depending on certain criteria.
 
Have just upgraded the board software to the latest version. Again no new features, just bug fixes.

I'm looking forward to the next major version of the software, which I hope will be released later this year at some point, but nobody really knows when it will be, and only the developers know what it will look like ...
 
Just upgraded to the most recent version of the forum software. No new features.

In other news, I'm growing increasingly more frustrated with Tapatalk and their business practices, so I will be removing support for Tapatalk in the near future.
 
Thanks, Amy. Tapatalk makes it easier to check in but every time they upgrade another annoying feature/glitch also comes with it. If I have to stop using it I suppose I'll just roll with punches.

Am I the only one left who uses it?
 
Am I the only one left who uses it?
I actually use it extensively myself because it works really well on my super low-spec phone. It's just that now Tapatalk has started copying content (threads, posts) from the forums using it to their own site, tapatalk.com, so I feel the need to pull the plug on it. This is on top of everything shady they've done in the past, such as inserting banners and pop-ups into the web version of the forum to make users use Tapatalk instead of the web version. I've just had it.

I'll have to buy a new phone for myself, but I can live with that!
 
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It seems I have stopped getting e-mails of new posts in the Watched Threads forums. This happened roughly two weeks ago.
 
It seems I have stopped getting e-mails of new posts in the Watched Threads forums. This happened roughly two weeks ago.
Thank you! This was actually a problem that affected all emails from the forum. I've put in a temporary fix which seems to work for now.
 
I'm coming here through safari more and more. One nice thing is I get to use the different ratings instead of just clicking "like" or using my own emoticons that some people don't even get to see. :)
 
There will be some downtime, around 50 minutes, potentially tomorrow morning UK time, when we upgrade our server to a better hosting plan.

Also, I've been making some changes related to images posted here that physically reside on other sites. (I.e. the IMG tag, not the ATTACH tag.) These images will now be cached here on VV. This is in preparation for enabling SSL a.k.a. HTTPS. If you're having trouble viewing any images, let me know ...
 
We recently reached a nice numbers milestone: 1000 members! Obviously, not all of them are/were active members, but this is not counting the ones that get flagged as spammers during the sign-up process because these get deleted. Still! Whooo! 1000! :)
 
Tonight I've enabled SSL (TLS) for VV, which means you can now access the forum securely without risking that a hacker will eavesdrop on the connection and learn your passwords. For this to work, the URL has to start with "https" rather than "http", and I don't yet automatically redirect from http to https, but I will do that once I'm happy everything works well.

Please do let me know if you discover any problems with this ...