Have there beeen any changes/upgrades recently (last week) ?

[peteski]

I have been accessing (reading/composing/uploading photos) the forum for long time from the same computer. Nothing has changes on my end, but when I accessed the forum early in the week it behaves differently.

1.  the notifications symbol (bell) in the upper right corner.  When I used to click on it, it would then open a small window directly under it showing a list of notifications.  Now instead of that, it gets me to a full-window page showing the notifications.

 

2. When viewing threads with photos, instead of showing the photos in-line like before, I see either blank areas where the photos or videos shoudl be or URLs of them.

3.  The "Quote" button on the lower left of a message is missing.

4. When I try to either start a new thread or reply at the end of a thread the window where I would type in the message is just a narrow slit and I can't type in it or stretch it.

5. There are also other small problems like when I hover the cursor over a thread title in the threads list, in the past a window would pop up showing me the first and last thread. That no longer happens.

I cleared the  browser's cache and cookies - no change.

I'm actually composing this message on another computer because I can't post from my regular computer.

Edited February 6 by peteski

[LennyB]

I'm not seeing any of those issues, bell is as normal and quote button there as it should be. You say you are using another computer to post this. How does it appear in the other computer?

Have you tried using another browser on the first computer? My guess this is a browser issue, perhaps the browser did an update in the background.

[peteski]

The forum behaves correctly on the other computer - that is why I can post from there.  The problem is obviously compatibility of the old browser with whatever changes must have happened in the forum software. There are no automatic or any upgrades being done to that browser, so something on the forum's side must have changed.  I'm just curious what it was.

[Xingu]

The software is updated regularly. Dave usually posts when the site is down for an  update. I don’t remember when the last one was. We are at the mercy of the software provider, it is possible that they do not completely support all/older browsers and platforms. I suspect someone out there is using Windows 95 and calling us every name in The book because things don’t work like they did when the board was first created.

[Rodent]

42 minutes ago, Xingu said:

The software is updated regularly. Dave usually posts when the site is down for an  update. I don’t remember when the last one was. We are at the mercy of the software provider, it is possible that they do not completely support all/older browsers and platforms. I suspect someone out there is using Windows 95 and calling us every name I. The book because things don’t work like they did when the board was first created.

We have a customer using a deprecated version of Firefox on a Win8 machine that can't figure out why PDFs in our product aren't working for him.

[peteski]

3 hours ago, Xingu said:

The software is updated regularly. Dave usually posts when the site is down for an  update. I don’t remember when the last one was. We are at the mercy of the software provider, it is possible that they do not completely support all/older browsers and platforms. I suspect someone out there is using Windows 95 and calling us every name in The book because things don’t work like they did when the board was first created.

Thanks Dave.  LOL about Windows95. I actually still have a dual-boot PC running Win98SE and XP.  No, that's not what I use for accessing the forum. I run my Alps MD and old HP DeskJet printers on it. It is on my internal network for transferring files from my other computers.

As for the problem browser, it is SeaMonkey.  It is actually up to date, but even so more and more of today's websites are not rendering on it properly. Will have to access the forum using Firefox.