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This is now installed! Very exciting!

To enable it, you have to go to your account settings for external accounts, click the 'Associate with Pushover' button, and then follow the directions from there. At one point you have to download an app (for your mobile device) or a plugin (for your favourite browser). This is a free 7-day trial, and after that you have to purchase it for a one-off cost of $4.99. (Or I think that was the price, can't remember exactly.)

Cool, will check it out!
 
Question primarily for you, IS.

Reprinted from VV's Sexiest People thread:

What do the logos of the snapshots with the red "X's" over them mean? Is there some technical problem with the source? Or are they removed for copyright reasons?
 
Question primarily for you, IS.

Reprinted from VV's Sexiest People thread:
These are hot-linked images that no longer work. Hot-linking means the image is not uploaded to VV, but instead resides on another website. If the image is removed from that website, or the whole website goes out of operation, then VV can no longer display the image.
 
These are hot-linked images that no longer work. Hot-linking means the image is not uploaded to VV, but instead resides on another website. If the image is removed from that website, or the whole website goes out of operation, then VV can no longer display the image.

Thanks for explaining that. :)
 
The alternative to hot-linking is, of course, to upload the images to VV. That way the images will be available to us for as long as VV is up and running, i.e. forever :)
 
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The alternative to hot-linking is, of course, to upload the images to VV. That way the images will be available to us for as long as VV is up and running, i.e. forever :)

Well, I uploaded Michelle Dockery, so she should not be disappearing anytime soon. :)
 
I come to Veggie Views once a day (or less) but often I linger for five seconds and move on. My issue is that I don't see how to quickly see all the recent posts across all sub-forums. I don't currently have a heavy interest in certain sections, but the forum as a whole. So I can see the latest one post from each sub-section on the front page but no more. If one sub-forum has an article updated 20 minutes ago, that is visible under latest but if the second and third most recent articles were only an hour ago, I wouldn't see that or know there were recent articles which might be worth commenting on.

To see all posts from the last day or two since I last came on here I would need to individually click on each of about 5 sub-forums separately (I can ignore the forums where the "latest" is 2 days old.) What might help is a way to see all threads updated in the last 1-2 days, or say the last ten updated threads, across all sub forums, in one place. Is this possible?

The "recent activity" tends to be likes from the last minutes and isn't really helpful. I would remove that and have recently updated threads on the right hand side.
 
My issue is that I don't see how to quickly see all the recent posts across all sub-forums. I don't currently have a heavy interest in certain sections, but the forum as a whole.
How about the New Posts or Recent Posts menu options? These are in the Forums menu at the top of the pages.

Your question is support for an idea I've been developing for a while. I think forum users are more interested in dynamic content (recent posts, maybe likes) than static content (i.e. the list of forums displayed on the main page). So it would make sense to give greater visibility to the dynamic content than what we so currently.
 
You're right. That solves my problem. I am sorry, I should have found that. The text is very small but I obviously didn't look hard enough.
 
@Indian Summer -- I figured I could just pose a quick question for you here.... What is this "Threadmark Label" thing I keep seeing in certain threads?? What's that about? What's it do? o_O
Ah, that. It's a sort of a sub-headline you can add to your post even if it's in the middle of a thread. I've put one in this post to demonstrate. This feature is made available by an add-on to the software, and I just can't decide if it's useful or not, and if I should just get rid of it to reduce the clutter.
 
I've just made it possible for newbies to post links and images in the Bazaar. This did't work previously. Hopefully, this will make the Bazaar more useful in the way it was intended.
 
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VV has been unavailable over night due to a problem related to certificates, it seems. Will need to dig deeper to figure out exactly what happened.
 
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Quick question ... what is the status of Tapatalk?
Tried to use that but could not log in with the user/password combination I use to access the forum...