New Site Feedback, Discussion, Problem Reports

BWX · Mar 20, 2008, 11:10 PM

Not sure if it is just a coincidence or not, but the front page layout looks a lot better now when using IE6 on Win XP. Probably not perfect like it would be in a newer browser, but still better.

EDIT- Oh, one other question, maybe already asked and answered. On the old front page it showed your avatar and stuff, with some other info about your identity, it showed your "rep power" too.. I do not see that anywhere in the user CP or forum. Is that info still somewhere that is viewable? (the rep power)

SkyBum · Mar 21, 2008, 01:08 AM

Looks like I have been neglecting this site since Sept 22 2007.

Just wanted to say.....GREAT new look! Amazing look actually. Nice job.

***craig5320*** · Mar 21, 2008, 03:19 AM

I will find out if and where Rep power is displayed and if not I will add the feature into the User CP.

Thanks for your comments SkyBum much appreciated and welcome back.

Son_of_Thunder · Mar 22, 2008, 04:54 AM

The area on the front page where I can select recent reviews and articles is not working in Firefox 3 Beta 4. It shows one image, but when I mouse over the tabs at the bottom (1, 2, 3, 4) the image does not update.

It works in IE7, and I'm going to update firefox to the latest version of flash to see if that helps anything.

Edit

The newest version of flash did not fix the issue. To be clear, I'm talking about the "Hot News" section.

[hobo]eclipse · Apr 2, 2008, 07:48 PM

hot news section still responding the same as above with FF3b5. Also noticed the DH downloads link links back to the front page, hope to see the downloads section return.

Son_of_Thunder · Apr 2, 2008, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [hobo]eclipse

hot news section still responding the same as above with FF3b5. Also noticed the DH downloads link links back to the front page, hope to see the downloads section return.

+1, it's still messing up for me as well. I rolled back to FF3b4 though because adblock wasn't working with with b5.

***Zardon*** · Apr 3, 2008, 02:51 AM

the DH downloads section works fine from the navbar... which browser is it not working from? im getting our coders to look into the hot news problems, although its no longer flash so updating that won't help.

CDsDontBurn · Apr 3, 2008, 11:05 AM

i've been noticing lately that when browsing through the forums, whenever i click on a link the link i click on takes forever to load. the page seems to pre-load with the page colors and the top ad banner, then like 3 or 4 seconds later the rest of the page loads up. i remember it being much faster than that before.

using ie7, haven't tested on FF yet.

***Zardon*** · Apr 3, 2008, 12:28 PM

when you say "forever" could you be a little more precise? most pages today are loading for me in a matter of 2-5 seconds.

CDsDontBurn · Apr 3, 2008, 12:38 PM

FF ver. 2.0.0.13 works just fine as ie7 used to. now, with ie7, i see the following for several seconds before the rest of the page pops up.

[hobo]eclipse · Apr 3, 2008, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

the DH downloads section works fine from the navbar... which browser is it not working from? im getting our coders to look into the hot news problems, although its no longer flash so updating that won't help.

the "looking for a driver?" button on the front page wasnt working for me the other day. I neglected to try the navbar link. all is well now and glad DH downloads is still available.

Dark Lord · Apr 7, 2008, 02:41 PM

i dont know if this has been discussed yet, but theres a slight issue in FF when trying to reply to threads that youve clicked to off the recent threads section on the main page.

it works fine with IE, and it also works fine in FF if i go through the forum its self.

***craig5320*** · Apr 8, 2008, 09:01 AM

That's an interesting issue - well for me anyway :-) will take a look, but it looks like it might be vBulletin itself causing that issue.

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark Lord

i dont know if this has been discussed yet, but theres a slight issue in FF when trying to reply to threads that youve clicked to off the recent threads section on the main page.

it works fine with IE, and it also works fine in FF if i go through the forum its self.

crlorentzen · Apr 21, 2008, 04:57 PM

RSS Feeds don't seem to grab the page I am looking at. I am trying to get back the old News Feed and I keep getting random sections of the forum. Or the RSS doesn't update correctly.

Is no one else seeing this?

***Zardon*** · Apr 21, 2008, 05:03 PM

have you any more info to help us look into this?

crlorentzen · Apr 22, 2008, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

have you any more info to help us look into this?

Test case
1. Open Firefox
2. goto www.driverheaven.net
3. Click on the News link to goto driverheaven news.
4. Note the top headline, now click on the RSS Icon on the top right, note that the top headline is not the same.

Tested Tuesday, April 22nd 2008 @ 10:51PM EDT (US East Coast)
Top News Item 'Twitter Japan launches, with ads'
Top Item on RSS 'radeon hd 2400 pro agp driver issues'

Edit tested in FF3, FF2 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.12.

***craig5320*** · Apr 23, 2008, 03:23 AM

Hi, the RSS feed link shows latest threads/post right across DH, if you're looking for a specialised news feed you need this link: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...ss2&forumid=21 the difference is the &forumid=21

We will be looking at having the RSS button integrated to provide a feed for the forum you're in very shortly. Sorry about the inconvienience.

Thanks

Craig

crlorentzen · Apr 23, 2008, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craig5320

Hi, the RSS feed link shows latest threads/post right across DH, if you're looking for a specialised news feed you need this link: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...ss2&forumid=21 the difference is the &forumid=21

We will be looking at having the RSS button integrated to provide a feed for the forum you're in very shortly. Sorry about the inconvienience.

Thanks

Craig

Okay, so the RSS limitation is known, my question then becomes, how did you build that rss link for news? Is there a button that a normal user would click, or do we just need to know how your php script works so that we give the appropriate input?

EDIT: and what link would I look at, for the specific forum id? Every forum link I see has a human readable name for the forum. Like news is 'http://www.driverheaven.net/news/' how do you convert that 'news' to 21?

***craig5320*** · Apr 23, 2008, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crlorentzen

Okay, so the RSS limitation is known, my question then becomes, how did you build that rss link for news? Is there a button that a normal user would click, or do we just need to know how your php script works so that we give the appropriate input?

EDIT: and what link would I look at, for the specific forum id? Every forum link I see has a human readable name for the forum. Like news is 'http://www.driverheaven.net/news/' how do you convert that 'news' to 21?

As you correctly said the links are friendly url's, on a standard vbulletin install you would see the id in the link to the forum, however you can find the forum id's at this link in the archive, they appear in the links displayed there: http://www.driverheaven.net/archive/index.php/

The rss feed comes from the External Data Provider which is a less well known part of vBulletin and as such there's no real documentation for the enduser it's more the admin's role to provide neccessary links.

If you alter the link to read &forumids= you can seperate multiple forum id's with a comma like so: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...orumids=131,21

This should display both news and gaming news in the same feed.

Hope this helps you.

Craig

CDsDontBurn · Apr 24, 2008, 02:23 AM

so, i'm sure this is a known issue has been posted before somewhere in this thread and i think i made a post on this already as well but i do not remember. well, basically at the top of each page on the quick links, some of them do not appear to work correctly. the "articles," "tools," and "network" (highlighted red) all have a drop down menu, however the remaining options "home," "reviews," "news," "games," and "forum" (highlighted green) do not have this drop down menu. these other links that do not have this drop down menu still has the last drop down showing up from the item that was last hovered over.

so, a friend of mine who lurks DH from time to time made a note of that and sent me the following code via email that he thinks would remedy that issue. below is the text cut-and-pasted as is straight from the email i received.

Quote:

The following code begins on line 126 of the current homepage code. I believe the following should fix it, but I have no way of testing it since I don't have the server at my disposal. if the '#default' code doesn't work, a plain old '#' might.

Hopefully this can remedy the ugly issue where sections not supposed to have submenu content pull the last valid submenu on rollover

<ul id="maintab" class="basictab">
<li rel="#default"><a href="http://www.driverheaven.net"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/home.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="reviews.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/reviews.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="articles"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/articles.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="news.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/news.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="tools"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/tools.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="http://gaming.driverheaven.net"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/games.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="forum.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/forum.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="network"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/network.gif" border="0" /></a></li>
</ul>

***craig5320*** · Apr 24, 2008, 03:28 AM

Hi CDs,

The menu is intentionally designed that way, so it's not an ugly issue, it's a hci design. The beta team voted for this over a menu which dissappears as you roll off the option as there is nothing more frustrating than a menu that resets if you sway 1 pixel from it.

So I'm afraid in this case, the menu won't be changing.

Thanks for your input tho, it's always welcome.

Craig